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Learn more about Adam:
https://adamjablin.com/

Connect with Adam:
https://instagram.com/adamjablin/

Listen to Adam's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hero-project-podcast/id1800764307

James Neilson-Watt sits down with Adam Jablin for a conversation on recovery, surrender, faith, entrepreneurship, purpose, parenting, AI, and trusting life's timing.

Adam shares how getting clean and sober forced him to let go of his old identity, and how the last five years challenged him to surrender deeper. He opens up about comparison, social media, losing trust, reconnecting with God, and learning not to rush the process but to trust it.

James and Adam explore how meaning shapes experience, why the outside world distracts us from inner work, and how purpose is found not only through pain, but through joy.

James and Adam discuss:

• Recovery and surrender
• Comparison, chase energy, and entrepreneurship
• Faith, trust, and divine timing
• Meaning, identity, and inner language
• Parenting, responsibility, and self-awareness
• The hero's journey and answering the call
• Purpose, mission, and service
• Joy in the solution
• Ideas, courage, and timing
• Distraction, social media, and lower needs
• Health, family, and future self
• AI, education, and capable kids
• Connection and presence
  

Chapters

00:00 Welcome to Protocol One
00:40 Adam reconnects
01:00 Surrender and sobriety
02:40 Noise, comparison, and chasing
04:10 Lessons repeated until learned
05:20 Knowing, doing, and staying open
06:30 Being wrong and changing your mind
07:20 Meaning, language, and stories
09:20 Creating space from old filters
10:30 Parenting, identity, and growth
13:50 Responsibility and accountability
14:40 Adam's upbringing
16:20 Outside validation
17:50 Alcohol, drugs, and what they fixed
18:40 Getting clean and inside work
19:20 Entrepreneurship and helping people
20:10 Tony Robbins and pressure
21:00 Surrendering Superman
21:50 Trust, God, and the process
24:20 Divine timing
26:40 Comparing paths and seasons
28:40 Mission vs. job energy
30:00 The cost of rushing goals
31:50 Goals and becoming
33:50 LearnSpark, impact, and kids
36:40 The hero's journey
38:00 Finding mission when stuck
39:40 Pain, joy, and the solution
41:10 Creativity and ideas
43:00 Ideas are in the field
44:40 Courage, timing, and ownership
47:10 Grab the idea and run
49:30 Struggle, stories, and experience
51:20 News cycles and distraction
52:40 Quieting noise to find purpose
54:00 Heart, state, and presence
55:20 Needs, movements, and contribution
56:40 Sports and identity
58:40 Future self and rocking chair test
1:01:20 Staying healthy and on mission
1:02:00 Longevity and what matters
1:05:00 AI education and future skills
1:07:00 Social skills and kids
1:09:00 Final reflections

Don't Settle

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Learn more about Matt:

https://mattscoletti.com/

Connect with Matt:

https://instagram.com/mattscoletti/

Listen to Matt's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/challenges-build-champions-with-matt-scoletti/id1486256327

In this episode, James Neilson-Watt sits down with Matt Scoletti for a conversation on sobriety, identity, discipline, endurance, speaking, AI, connection, and rebuilding yourself one choice at a time.

Matt shares how alcohol took hold of his life, the moment that forced him to face who he was becoming, and how one 15-minute commitment became 10 years of sobriety. He opens up about blame, accountability, health, running over 100 marathons, and celebrating the choices that shape identity.

Together, James and Matt explore how small wins reinforce identity and why human connection matters more in an AI-driven world.

James and Matt discuss:

• Sobriety, accountability, and change
• Identity through daily choices
• The 15-minute rule
• Staying the same vs. changing
• Celebrating small wins
• Resistance from old environments
• Health, wealth, time, and living fully
• Balancing contentment with drive
• Speaking, race MCing, YouTube, and value
• AI, curiosity, and education
• Parenting, social skills, and rapport

Chapters

00:00 Welcome to Protocol One
00:40 Matt's background: Pittsburgh, basketball, college, alcohol
02:00 The moment Matt had to change
02:40 Addiction, health, and ultra running
03:00 Addictive personalities
05:00 Blame, accountability, and truth
06:00 The future if nothing changes
07:20 Tony Robbins, energy, action, and change
08:40 The 15-minute rule
09:20 Identity, votes, and health
10:00 Why strategy fails without identity
13:20 Breaking change into small actions
15:20 Health, energy, and longevity
17:20 Taking pressure off achievement
18:00 Celebrating small wins
20:40 Love, fear, and reinforcement
22:00 15 minutes to nearly 10 years sober
23:00 Becoming your best is not selfish
24:00 Responsibility, values, and who relies on you
26:00 Encouragement and gratitude
30:00 Resistance when you change
31:20 Staying true to who you are becoming
33:00 Choosing identity before life chooses for you
34:20 Speaking goals and intentional living
36:00 Contentment and drive
40:00 Health, wealth, and time
43:20 Matt's fake gravestone reminder
45:20 Enjoying today while building tomorrow
48:20 Build it, love it, and value the journey
52:00 Two lives and the death calendar
55:20 Memories, AI, and documenting life
59:20 Speaking, race MCing, and YouTube
1:01:40 AI, creativity, and what to make
1:05:20 AI tutors, education, and interaction
1:07:20 Why real-world experiences matter
1:11:20 Curiosity and learning from everyone
1:12:40 Raising socially confident kids
1:15:20 Building rapport quickly
1:18:00 Matt's resources and Challenges Build Champions
1:19:00 Final reflections and Six Vector

Don't Settle.

Complete the Six Vector Diagnostic.
Visit: https://sixvectorassessment.com/

Join the Protocol One community.
Visit: https://www.skool.com/protocol-one

Learn more about John and Annie Meng at LoveJAAM.
Visit: https://lovejaam.com/events

In this episode, James Neilson-Watt sits down with John Meng for a deep conversation on relationships, responsibility, fatherhood, endurance, masculine leadership, and what it takes to build a love that lasts.

John shares how his background in engineering, motocross, tennis, and Ironman racing shaped his understanding of discipline, pressure, and emotional control. He opens up about the performance standards he grew up with, the relationship struggles that forced him to grow, and the path that led him into helping couples create stronger, more connected partnerships.

Together, James and John explore the difference between fault and responsibility, why relationships often break down when partners expect each other to meet unmet needs, and how commitment, compassion, and chemistry shape the seasons of a relationship.

In this episode, James and John discuss:

• Fatherhood, sons, daughters, and masculine development
• The pressure of high standards and performance-based identity
• Motocross, tennis, Ironman, and endurance as self-discovery
• The difference between fault and responsibility
• Why relationships break down when needs become expectations
• The four seasons of a relationship
• Commitment, compassion, chemistry, and lasting love
• The men’s tunnel, rites of passage, and masculine growth
• Mission, submission, admiration, and leadership in relationships

Chapters

00:00 Welcome to Protocol One with John Meng
00:40 John’s background: engineering, motocross, tennis, and family
01:40 Raising sons and daughters
04:40 Guiding boys’ energy and masculine development
05:50 Fatherhood, high standards, and performance pressure
08:40 From sports to relationships and Ironman
11:20 Marriage, divorce, and learning to lead in relationship
13:00 Tony Robbins, David Goggins, and the Ironman path
16:00 Fully committing to the Ironman journey
17:00 Heart-rate training, calm, and emotional stability
18:00 Responsibility vs. fault
22:40 Loving the spouse you have
23:00 Relationship needs and breakdown patterns
26:00 The four seasons of a relationship
27:20 Spring, commitment, and the power struggle
28:40 Summer, self-discovery, and compassion
30:00 Fall, partnership, and reigniting chemistry
31:20 Winter and the fully developed relationship
33:40 The men’s tunnel and rites of passage
39:20 Who am I really?
48:40 Compassion as the core relationship lesson
54:40 Mortality, health scares, and living fully
58:20 Making your relationship the top priority
1:05:00 Who do I need to be for my partner?
1:06:00 Mission, submission, and masculine leadership
1:10:40 John’s resources and LoveJAAM
1:12:20 Final reflections and the Six Vector Assessment

Don’t Settle.