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A year after everything burned, the pain hasn’t softened.
It’s still back-breaking.
Still soul-stealing.
And there’s a piece of me that will never come back.

This episode is not about moving on.
It’s a one-year-later reflection on loss, identity, and what leadership looks like when nothing is restored—only revealed.

In this solo episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, I share what the last year has asked of me—personally, professionally, and spiritually.

After losing my home, my office, and everything I owned in the Palisades Fire, I was forced to sit with questions I could no longer avoid. Not just about grief, but about identity. About what it really costs to build a life and a business inside systems that reward performance while quietly draining the person doing the work.

This episode explores what happens when external success continues to function, but internal alignment begins to fail. When burnout, health issues, and fractured relationships become the real price of “making it.”

I speak openly about surrender, identity shifts, and why spirituality isn’t separate from strategy—it shapes what survives. I share why redesigning your life is different from repeating the damage, and why alignment has to show up in practice, not just intention.

This episode is for you if you:

• Feel successful on the outside but disconnected on the inside
• Are questioning the cost of the life you’ve built
• Sense the old way of doing business no longer fits
• Are in a transition you didn’t choose—but can’t ignore
• Know something has to change, even if you don’t yet know what
  
  

If you’re standing in that in-between space—between who you were and who you’re becoming—this episode doesn’t offer answers. It offers honesty.

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What do you do when the life you built disappears overnight?

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, Michele Novack shares the moment her career—and identity—came to a full stop.

After 30 years in the same industry, and now in her 50s, Michelle received the call no one is prepared for. The kind that ends a career in minutes and quietly dismantles the story you’ve been telling yourself about your value, your security, and your future.

Michelle didn’t have a backup plan.

What she had was fear, grief, and a question she could no longer avoid: Who am I without this?

This conversation explores what happens when your identity collapses and certainty is stripped away. Michelle’s story is not the pushed-harder-and-now -I-am-back story. Rather it’s the brutal honesty about surrender, confronting subconscious patterns, and choosing self-trust when there are no guarantees.

This episode is for anyone who is asking themselves - what now?

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SUICIDE WARNING - TRIGGER WARNING

What do you do when you’ve tried everything—and nothing worked?

A note for listeners: this episode includes an honest reflection on a period of deep emotional and spiritual distress, including a moment of asking God to take one’s life. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of The Business Growth Architect Show: Founders of the Future, John Stewart Hill shares the moment his life came to a full stop. At 42, divorced three times, financially depleted, and convinced he had failed, John reached a place of complete surrender. He didn’t have a plan. He didn’t have answers. He only had a question that changed everything as he dealt with a massive heart attack:

Do you want to stay or do you want to go?

This conversation explores how purpose is often revealed after identity collapses—not through striving, but through letting go. John’s story is a powerful reminder that purpose isn’t tied to credentials, success, or certainty. It begins the moment you stop trying to become someone else and allow meaning to meet you where you are.

If you’re questioning your direction, your worth, or why you’re still here—this episode is for you.

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