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Welcome in. This is They Call Me Mista Yu, the place where we get honest about the things most people talk around. I'm Mista Yu, and today it's just you and me. No guest, no filter, no pretending. I'm going to bring you a real problem, tell you who it's costing and why that should matter to you, and then give you something to do about it, or at least something worth wrestling with. So get comfortable, and let's get into it.

We live in a culture that often treats busyness as evidence of importance. We celebrate being exhausted, call it “grinding,” and wear our lack of availability like a badge of honor.

But what happens when the life we’re so busy maintaining isn’t actually the life we want?

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

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Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Who can you call when life gets dark, urgent, and real and you cannot fix it alone? We sit with that question and use it as a mirror for your friendships, your support network, and the “loyalty” stories you’ve been taught to live by. Because a big contact list does not equal a dependable circle, and the gap between those two can quietly cost you your peace, your growth, and your purpose.

We talk about outgrowing connections and why so many of us refuse to admit it. Sometimes we stay close enough to look loyal but far enough to stay fake. We end up editing ourselves, dodging hard topics, and shrinking our goals just to keep someone comfortable. That comfort can become a ceiling, and over time it trains you to believe the smaller version of you is the real you. We also name the other side of the truth: someday you and I will be the one who gets outgrown, and how we handle change teaches the people watching us what “honor” looks like.

Then we get practical with three next steps for personal growth and healthy boundaries: honor the season you shared, have the honest conversation before bitterness sets in, and learn how to release people without endless explanations or chasing approval. You’ll leave with a clear assignment involving one person in your life and a decision to keep, adjust, or release the connection so loyalty to your past does not make you miss your future. If this hits home, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

Book your interview today: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/theycallmemistayu

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Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you!

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Success can be loud on the outside and brutal on the inside. If you’ve built the career, hit the numbers, and earned the “you made it” praise but still feel exhausted, anxious, or stuck in your own head, this conversation is for you.

We talk with high performance executive coach Steve Barton, creator of The Game of Ten, about the gap between external achievement and internal fulfillment. Steve challenges the idea that confidence and fear can peacefully coexist. When fear, guilt, shame, or self-doubt are driving the engine, you might look “fine” to everyone else while privately running on imposter syndrome, defensiveness, and nonstop pressure. We dig into what real success looks like when it’s grounded in happiness, clarity, and alignment, not just accolades.

Steve also shares why awareness is the foundation of leadership, entrepreneurship, and personal growth and how boundaries protect that awareness. We get practical about what it means to stop carrying other people’s projections, let go of limiting beliefs, and rebuild from a calmer, more intentional state of mind. The mirror-check question near the end hits hard: are you your thoughts, your labels, your emotions, or the silent observer behind all of it?

If you’re ready to stop “winning publicly and losing privately,” listen through to the close, then share this with a high achiever you care about. Subscribe for more conversations on purpose, leadership, and growth, and please leave a review if the message lands.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

Book your interview today: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/theycallmemistayu

Give the shows a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-call-me-mista-yu/id1535535535

Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you!

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

Book your interview today: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/theycallmemistayu

Give the shows a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-call-me-mista-yu/id1535535535

Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you!

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Our team thought it was a great idea to start rewinding previous (but timely) episodes of our show during the times that Mista Yu is away from the microphone. All of these beautiful Blasts from the Past were previously broadcast, but we are sharing them with you at a time when you might need them most. Hope you enjoy the review!

Tired of hearing “your better half” and feeling the subtle sting beneath the compliment? We peel back the phrase and rebuild marriage on a sturdier foundation: two whole people choosing oneness. From the opening minutes, we challenge the myth that a spouse completes you, pointing instead to personal development, faith, and responsibility that you bring into the covenant long before the wedding day.

We ground the conversation in scripture without turning it into a lecture. Mark’s “two become one” reframes identity; Proverbs 18:22 crowns a wife as treasure; Ephesians 5 recasts leadership as self-sacrificial love. We talk through what submission really means, why lording over a spouse misses the point, and how servant leadership looks Monday through Friday: patient listening, protection, humility, and putting your spouse’s needs above your preferences. Then we get honest about pressure-testing moments—9/11, losing a parent, and the shock of COVID—that forced us to communicate better, set firmer boundaries, and decide that no voice outranks the vows we made.

If you’ve ever wondered whether “helpmeet” sidelines women, the answer here is a clear no. We explore the original meaning—strength that rescues—and the practical implications: shared decision-making, generational influence, and a partnership where differences complement the mission. Along the way, we offer simple practices that build unity: dreaming together, naming priorities, revisiting goals, apologizing fast, and guarding your marriage from outside interference. The result isn’t a fairy tale; it’s a resilient, warm, and purposeful bond that can weather real life.

If this conversation challenged an old belief or gave you a new tool, tap follow, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a short review telling us the one habit that most helped your relationship. Your story might spark someone else’s breakthrough.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Have a question or thought for Mista Yu? Text or leave a voicemail for the show and he’ll answer it personally on the Inspiration Station or They Call Me Mista Yu. With your Permission, We'll even play your message live on the air!

Religion can inspire, but it can also wound. When people say they’re “done with religion,” they’re often reacting to hypocrisy, control, and the kind of church hurt that keeps recycling in their mind like smoke trapped in a sealed room. We get straight to the point on why that pain feels so personal, why words like “institution” and “practice” can trigger resistance, and why the lack of consistency in believers is one of the biggest reasons faith loses credibility in public.

We also slow down and define terms, because clarity matters for spiritual growth. If religion is supposed to describe a devoted way of life built on what you believe, what happens when someone’s lifestyle contradicts their message? That gap gets labeled hypocrisy, and it can push people away from Christianity, organized religion, and even their concept of God. But we don’t stop at blaming “them.” We turn the spotlight on all of us, the everyday contradictions we live with, and the uncomfortable truth that we love being the ones who decide who is “good.”

Then we step into the main event: religion versus relationship. We compare structure with chaos, talk through why community, accountability, and an environment for personal development can be a gift when done right, and why integrity looks like warning people when “the bridge is out.” Finally, we land the superhero metaphor: Superman had kryptonite, and for “super spiritual” people, pride can be the hidden weakness that kills what should live in your faith.

If this challenged you, share it with someone who has been burned by church culture and still wants something real. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us what part hit home for you.

Our team will choose random (but timely) episodes from our previous three seasons (which are our most popular ever!) to share with our listeners during the slower parts of a long podcast season. We think you will enjoy them! Thanks for listening!

Coffee aficionados and Health Conscious listeners, our show has some new sponsors and they’re offering you the best discounts their stores have. Links are below. Start saving now!

Quantum Squares: Support the show

Are you a guest with a message of hope and faith, overcome tragedy and addiction, creativity, invention, or you just have questions about society and culture? The “They Can Me Mista Yu” brand of podcasts is looking for guests!

Book your interview today: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/theycallmemistayu

Give the shows a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/they-call-me-mista-yu/id1535535535

Faith. Society & Culture. Your Inspirational Stories. Mental Health. Entrepreneurship. We talk about what matters to you!

Join Mista Yu across our shows:

🎙 Inspiration Station

🎙 They Call Me Mista Yu

🎙 One on One With Mista Yu

🎙 The Men’s Roundtable Series / MRTS Interview Spotlight

If you would like to support the show, here’s how you can do that: https://www.patreon.com/cw/theycallmemistayu and https://buymeacoffee.com/theycallmemistayu