Episode 70

"I only had twenty percent to give." No. You were at one hundred. I'm at one hundred. We are always at one hundred percent capacity. So if you want more in your life, you cannot pile more on top. You have to let something go first.

The real reason you are stuck has nothing to do with how hard you work. It is the belief running underneath. The quiet story that you are not enough. That you are not worthy. That your worth lives in your bank account and in how other people see you. That story runs most men their entire lives.

Here is why letting go is so painful. Your identity is propped up by the very things keeping you stuck. The belief. The story. The person. Let it go, and the question becomes terrifying. Who am I without it?

In this solo episode Adam gets personal and raw, in the middle of letting something go in his own life right now, because he will not call a man into a fire he is not standing in himself. He goes at the wound that says you are not worthy until you check every box, and calls it what it is. A lie. You are worthy. No fine print. He talks about the power of plant medicine in the right setting as an accelerant for letting go. He talks about why most men live as performers, and what it costs to keep the mask on.

What if the worst thing that ever happened to you was the thing that set you free? You would not have chosen it. You could not have seen it coming. Then you come out the other side and realize it was a gift. Adam shares the phone call from a man he had not talked to in ten years who asked the question that flipped everything. How cool is it that you get to start over?

This one is about letting go. The story. The fear. The secret. The version of you that has to die so the next one can show up. So here is the invitation. Look at where you feel stuck, and ask yourself what you are really holding onto. Find one thing. Just one. Let it go.

The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth.

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