Ep 51: What if the ceiling on your business isn't a strategy problem—it's a belief problem?

Jake Kauffman is an international high-performance coach and transformational advisor to purpose-driven, visionary men. With nearly a decade leading men's retreats in the wilderness, co-founding a healthcare tech company that scaled to $4M+ in 18 months, and coaching CEOs to breakthroughs that have moved clients from $50K months to $1.3 million months—Jake operates from a simple but radical premise: your external results are a mirror reflection of your internal world.

In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Jake opens up about surviving childhood sexual abuse and how confronting that experience in his mid-twenties became the catalyst for everything—his career pivot, his philosophy on masculinity, and his mission to help men answer the one question that drives his entire life: What was I born to do?

This isn't a conversation about hustle or hacks. It's about the beliefs that are quietly running the show—and what happens when you finally take back control.

In this episode, you'll discover:

✔️ Why the pattern reveals the problem—and how to read your results like a roadmap to your limiting beliefs

✔️ The real reason over 90% of coaching clients revert to their old behaviors (and what actually creates sustainable change)

✔️ How Jake flipped the traditional business funnel upside down to build a practice with a 90% client success rate and 18-month average retention

✔️ What "upper limit" thinking is costing your business—and how one client broke through hers to go from $50K to $1.3M per month in 90 days

✔️ Why Jake believes masculinity is under attack—and what real initiation into manhood actually looks like

✔️ The difference between first-half-of-life ambition and second-half-of-life purpose (and why you can't stay in the first forever)

If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right but still hitting the same wall, this episode will show you exactly where to look.

Connect with Jake Kauffman:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjakekauffman

• Book: Let Love In - https://a.co/d/09ObE5Kd

Books Mentioned:

• The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer: https://a.co/d/06Y3V3A1

• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks: https://a.co/d/06sWbzKi

Connect with Sarah:

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