This episode features a conversation originally recorded on Scott Barker’s Wake Up Call podcast. It explores Chris Walker’s personal journey, the origins of ENCODED, and the frameworks behind frequency training, transformation, and the six-tier model of human development.

The discussion begins with Chris breaking down his life into three distinct chapters. In 2015, he was living an average life while following society’s expectations — work schedules, office rules, alcohol norms, and a definition of success that didn’t feel meaningful. In 2019, after being fired from a startup job, he launched a consulting business with $3,000 to his name. The company later scaled to $21M ARR, but the success came with burnout, anxiety, and a persistent feeling that something was off. Today, he lives and works in a completely different way, prioritizing how he feels, limiting meetings, choosing aligned relationships, and designing life around intentional energy rather than external pressure.

From this lived experience came ENCODED — a system built on frequency training, the process of upgrading identity, beliefs, emotions, and intentions instead of relying on motivation or willpower. Chris explains how societal programming creates “default” beliefs that shape our lives until we consciously examine them.

Chris also walks through the five stages of transformation — awareness, belief and identity upgrades, interruption, integration, and embodiment — and explains why most people get stuck by skipping the identity stage and going straight to behavior change. He outlines how ENCODED uses frequency chains to help people rewire identity and belief patterns, which then naturally shift emotions, intentions, actions, and results over a 30–90 day period.

The conversation extends into how these frameworks can transform leadership, parenting, relationships, decision-making, and daily emotional patterns. Chris and Scott explore how education could evolve beyond memorization toward intuition, presence, self-trust, and emotional regulation — capacities that become increasingly valuable in a world shaped by AI.

This episode offers a clear, grounded look at the principles underlying ENCODED and how they formed through Chris’s own transformation. It’s an honest, practical discussion about upgrading internal architecture rather than relying on force, pressure, or suffering to change your life.

Learn more at: encoded.ai

🎵 Intro music: “Saturday Luv” by Zone+Used with permission. All rights reserved to the artist.

This episode introduces the Human Arc of Transformation, a five-stage process that explains how real, sustainable change happens. It coincides with the official launch of the ENCODED Frequency Training System, now available at encoded.ai.

Transformation isn’t random—it follows a predictable structure that can be applied to any area of life. Most people try to change through motivation, discipline, or willpower alone, but lasting transformation follows a universal five-stage process:

1. Awareness – Seeing what isn’t working and defining what you want instead.

2. Belief and Identity Upgrades – Shifting internal stories about who you are and what’s possible.

3. Interruption – Breaking old patterns and taking different actions.

4. Integration – Repeating new behaviors until they become familiar and consistent.

5. Embodiment – When the new behaviors become automatic—simply who you are.

The episode uses clear, real-world examples—from fitness and leadership to lifestyle change—to show how this process plays out in daily life. It explains why most transformation efforts fail when identity and belief shifts are skipped and why upgrading those elements first makes new actions feel natural and effortless.

Listeners learn how to recognize this arc in their own past successes—like learning to drive, changing careers, or developing new habits—and how to consciously apply it to future goals.

What You’ll Learn:

• The five stages every sustainable transformation follows.

• Why relying on willpower and discipline alone doesn’t work long term.

• How internal identity and belief shifts create effortless behavior change.

• Real-world examples of the process in health, leadership, and lifestyle.

• How to recognize where you are in the arc and move to the next stage.

• The difference between temporary motivation and lasting embodiment.

• How to apply this framework to any goal—from personal growth to business leadership.

Learn more at: encoded.ai

🎵 Intro music: “Saturday Luv” by Zone+

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This episode introduces frequency training, the structured, repeatable process at the core of the ENCODED system. It explains how lasting transformation happens by upgrading identity, beliefs, emotions, and intentions—the internal architecture that shapes every result in life.

The episode outlines how frequency training provides a measurable and sustainable alternative to surface-level change. Instead of focusing on action or motivation alone, it focuses on the invisible patterns that create consistent behavior and results.

Listeners learn the five phases of frequency training:

1. Mapping – gaining awareness of current patterns and defining desired outcomes.

2. Imprinting – rewriting limiting beliefs and strengthening new ones through an intentional process.

3. Anchoring – aligning daily actions with the new frequency.

4. Stabilization – maintaining alignment through challenges and stress.

5. Expansion – allowing growth and opportunity to unfold naturally.

The episode highlights how this process produces both internal and external benefits—greater calm, clarity, confidence, improved relationships, and more aligned opportunities. Frequency training turns personal growth into a measurable skill rather than a one-time realization, helping individuals build a stable foundation for lasting transformation.

What You’ll Learn:

• The purpose and design of the ENCODED frequency training system.

• Why transformation through action alone is short-lived.

• The five phases of frequency training and how each one builds on the next.

• How mapping and imprinting reveal and rewrite deep identity and belief patterns.

• Why stabilization is key to preventing burnout and sustaining momentum.

• How expansion happens naturally once alignment is established.

• The measurable benefits of consistent frequency training across all areas of life.

Learn more at: encoded.ai

🎵 Intro music: “Saturday Luv” by Zone+
Used with permission. All rights reserved to the artist.