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James sits down with Laurence Tham, his original mentor from chiropractic college, for a conversation about why business success can leave you feeling lost, how comparison turns other people's goals into your own, and what it takes to build a life that fits you. From identity after a business exit to the pressure to keep up with AI, they ask a question that another milestone cannot answer: what do you actually want?

Laurence is a chiropractor, practice coach and founder of Drive Your Practice. He reflects on working with entrepreneurs after major business exits, choosing family over scaling, and how his priorities changed through his 30s, 40s and 50s. James shares how he built speaking confidence through repetition and how a health scare sharpened his sense of what matters. This is not about giving up ambition. It is about deciding what your ambition is for, what you are willing to sacrifice, and which moments you cannot get back.

James and Laurence discuss:

• Why fulfilment comes from impact, not just the next result
• The identity gap after selling the business you built your life around
• Expectation creep and forgetting that you once dreamed of this life
• Why admiring someone's success does not mean wanting their whole life
• Information overload, AI FOMO and making room for your own thoughts
• Recognising the strengths you dismiss because they feel easy
• Building confidence when a skill does not come naturally
• Letting your purpose change instead of finding one lifelong passion
• Fatherhood, changing priorities and creating memories while you can

Chapters

• 00:00 Protocol One: success and fulfilment
• 00:10 James's first mentor
• 02:19 Defining success through impact
• 06:56 When growth pulls you away from purpose
• 07:44 The identity gap after a business exit
• 10:16 Expectation creep
• 13:22 Contentment without giving up growth
• 17:15 What do you actually want?
• 21:16 Do we need this in the first place?
• 22:12 The sacrifices behind success
• 23:55 Information overload and losing time to think
• 29:28 Slowing down in the AI race
• 31:47 Comparison and the life you really want
• 35:55 Recognising your natural strengths
• 40:26 Building speaking confidence through practice
• 44:22 Changing priorities in your 30s, 40s and 50s
• 47:19 Finding excitement and allowing reinvention
• 50:47 James's health scare and what matters
• 51:39 Fatherhood, university and making memories
• 55:18 Where to connect with Laurence

Don't Settle.