What if the real struggle in business and life isn’t strategy, motivation, or even circumstances but the identity quietly steering every decision you make?

In this episode of the Make Life Less Taxing Podcast, Daniel Hanzelka continues the foundational Keep What Is Yours & Break Free series by exploring the deeper operating system beneath every habit, breakthrough, and burnout: identity. Not the identity the industry assigns you. Not the one you perform for clients. But the one shaped long before your career began often in childhood, in pressure, in wounds, or in moments you didn’t yet have language for.

Daniel shares the defining story from his own nine-year-old world, a moment of abandonment that installed a “red world identity” built on survival, self-protection, and carrying everything alone. And he explains why so many high-achieving advisors live with that same unseen operating system driving them to overwork, isolation, exhaustion, and quiet burnout.

This episode invites you into a different way of being: the steward identity. An identity rooted in truth, calling, and God-given purpose one that leads to clarity, peace, and sustainable success.

If you’ve ever felt pressure to perform, carry it all yourself, or grind your way to worthiness, this conversation will meet you right where you are.

Make Life Less Taxing exists to help you build freedom, clarity, and purpose not through hype or products, but through grounded conversations that help you live with intention.

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