Part 1 of 2: Why Meaning Comes Before Courage | Dr. Benjamin Hardy | 10X Yourself

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What if the reason you're afraid to step into your future self has nothing to do with confidence, and everything to do with meaning?

In this deeply unexpected and profoundly honest conversation, Dov Baron sits down with Dr. Benjamin Hardy for a dialogue that goes far beyond performance psychology and into the foundations of courage, faith, and identity.

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For the first time publicly, Dr. Hardy shares his personal origin story, including his beliefs about God, purpose, and why he sees life itself as an educational journey rather than a test to pass or fail. What unfolds is not a debate about religion, but a powerful exploration of how meaning shapes courage, entrepreneurship, and the willingness to let go of who you used to be.

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Together, Dov and Ben examine why so many high performers feel deflated even after achieving everything they were told would make them happy, and why clinging to a past identity quietly poisons the future you're trying to build.

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This episode challenges the glossy image of entrepreneurship, confronts ego-driven success, and reframes leadership as an act of service rooted in dignity, not status.

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If you've ever felt torn between who you've been and who you sense you're meant to become, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.

• Why achievement without meaning often leads to emptiness, not fulfillment

• Dr. Hardy's rarely shared beliefs about God, origin, and human potential

• How deep meaning fuels courage and psychological freedom

• The hidden cost of dragging your past identity into your future

• Why entrepreneurship, at its best, is a vehicle for service, not ego

• The difference between living for status and living with dignity

• How your view of your future self quietly shapes every decision you make today

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author whose work focuses on courage, transformational leadership, and exponential growth. His research explores how future identity, meaning, and commitment drive extraordinary personal and professional change. He is the author of Willpower Doesn't Work and Personality Isn't Permanent, and a sought-after speaker for entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 leaders.

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Website

https://benjaminhardy.com

https://FutureSelf.com

Social Media

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminhardy88

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https://twitter.com/BenjaminPHardy

https://www.instagram.com/benjamin_hardy_phd

If your future self no longer needs the identity that once kept you safe, what are you still holding onto, and why?

In the next episode, Dov and Dr. Hardy go deeper into the psychology of the future self, the illusion of being "finished," and how most people unknowingly sabotage their next evolution by confusing familiarity with truth.

If this conversation challenged the way you think about success, courage, or identity, share it with a leader who's questioning what comes next.

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🎙️ "Stop Forcing Outcomes: Trevor Blake on Energy, Intention, and Creating Results Without Struggle."

🔥 What if struggle isn't noble, and the only reason your goals feel hard is that your energy is working against the future you're trying to build?

…According to the physics of intention, most people are not failing.
They are interfering.

⭐ DESCRIPTION

In this second part of Dov Baron's conversation with Trevor Blake, we step past productivity, burnout, and brain performance into the deeper operating system that determines all success: energy, coherence, and intention.

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Trevor explains why trying too hard actually collapses possibility, why the emotional field predicts outcomes before strategy does, and why most entrepreneurs unconsciously sabotage their breakthroughs by reverting to what feels familiar instead of what feels aligned.
He reveals how childhood patterns shape the meaning we assign to effort, why the mind becomes addicted to struggle as an identity, and how to reset that pattern so creativity opens up again.

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Together, Dov and Trevor dismantle the myth that success must be linear, logical, or earned through sacrifice. Instead, they explore how the future is created internally long before it appears externally, and how intention becomes a force multiplier when it's not polluted by fear, doubt, or overthinking.

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If Part 1 rewired how you see burnout, Part 2 rewires how you see reality itself.

⭐ IN THIS EPISODE

• Why struggle becomes a psychological addiction
• The physics of "intention fields" and why they outperform strategy
• How emotional incoherence collapses creative potential
• Why logical people often block their own breakthroughs
• How childhood meaning-making shapes adult ambition
• Why trying harder limits what's available to you
• The difference between force, effort, and aligned energy
• Trevor's process for "winning internally" before taking action

👤 ABOUT TREVOR BLAKE

Physicist, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Three Simple Steps, Trevor Blake has built multiple nine-figure companies using principles rooted in creativity, neuroscience, and intention. His work challenges the myth that success requires stress, sacrifice, or struggle.

🔗 CONNECT WITH TREVOR BLAKE

Website + resources: https://TrevorGBlake.com
Twitter/X https://x.com/TrevorGBlake
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/trevorg.blake/

⭐ 💥 LISTEN IF YOU'VE EVER…

• Tried harder but made no progress
• Felt like your ambition and energy were misaligned
• Achieved success but felt empty afterward
• Wanted to create instead of chase
• Suspected your childhood shaped your work patterns
• Wondered why your breakthroughs come when you stop trying

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🔥 CALL TO ACTION

If this episode challenged the way you think about effort and success, hit subscribe now. Please share this with a leader still trapped in force so they can step into creation.

⭐ HASHTAGS

#TrevorBlake #TheDovBaronShow #Intention #EnergyField #NonLinearSuccess #ThreeSimpleSteps #LeadershipRewired #EmotionalSourceCode #EliteThinkers #QuantumMindset #PurposeDrivenLeadership

🎙️ "Why Burnout Isn't Success: Trevor Blake on Rewiring Your Brain to Build Without Stress."

👊 What if everything you've been taught about hard work, ambition, and so-called 'success' is nothing more than a socially accepted nervous system collapse?

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Because, according to neuroscience, and to today's guest, most leaders are not "driven." They're dysregulated.

We glamorize exhaustion as ambition. We praise burnout as courage. We wear overwhelm like a badge of honor.
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But biology says something very different. Chronic stress shrinks your hippocampus, throttles creativity, hijacks the nervous system, and turns leaders into threat-scanning machines instead of vision creators.
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Dr. Trevor G. Blake:

In this powerful first part of Dov Baron's conversation with Trevor Blake, the entrepreneur who built multiple nine-figure companies without employees, offices, or burnout, we dismantle the fantasy that suffering equals progress.

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Trevor reveals how he used the science of coherence, the physics of energy, and a five-hour workday structure rooted in military and NASA brain research to build massive success without sacrificing health, relationships, or meaning.
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This episode exposes why leaders become addicted to grind culture, how the dopamine loop masquerades as discipline, and the identity traps that pull entrepreneurs into endless cortisol cycles. It's a direct challenge to every belief you were taught about ambition.

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If you want to lead from brilliance instead of biological chaos, this conversation is a reset button for your entire operating system.

🔥 IN THIS EPISODE

• Why burnout is "biochemical chaos," not ambition
• How NASA, the military, and neuroscience prove the brain only performs in short cycles
• Why grind culture becomes a dopamine addiction
• How Trevor built multiple nine-figure companies with no employees and no burnout
• Why entrepreneurs mistake anxiety for productivity
• The truth about multitasking, context shifting, and cognitive decline
• How identity gets fused with hustle, and how to break that pattern
• Why slowing down increases output and innovation

👤 ABOUT TREVOR BLAKE

Trevor Blake is a physicist, entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author of Three Simple Steps, and the creator of multiple nine-figure exits. He built companies on coherence, alignment, and brain optimization instead of hustle. His ideas challenge everything the entrepreneurial world worships.

🔗 CONNECT WITH TREVOR BLAKE

Website + resources: https://TrevorGBlake.com
Twitter/X https://x.com/TrevorGBlake
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/trevorg.blake/

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💥 LISTEN IF YOU'VE EVER…

• Felt guilty slowing down
• Achieved success but felt fried inside
• Thought creativity should come from pressure
• Wondered why your smartest decisions happen away from the desk
• Wanted proof that you don't need burnout to build something meaningful

🔥 CALL TO ACTION

If this episode challenged the way you think about ambition, subscribe right now. Share this with the one leader in your circle who still believes burnout is a strategy. Your curiosity is your edge—protect it.

Hashtags

#TrevorBlake #TheDovBaronShow #BurnoutMyth #NeuroscienceOfSuccess #FiveHourWorkday #LeadershipRewired #EmotionalSourceCode #EliteThinkers #Coherence #BrainPerformance #PurposeDrivenLeadership

PART 2 of 2

🎙️ "The Lies We Tell Ourselves: Susan Ibitz on Truth, Trauma, and the Patterns You Can't Hide"

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Guest: Susan Ibitz, Former Political Influence Consultant, Profiler, and Civilian Hostage Negotiator

🔥 What if the most dangerous lies in your life are the ones you tell yourself about your past, your identity, and the person you insist you have already become?

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This episode will push you to confront the truth you avoid, the story you hide, and the patterns that still drive you even when you swear they no longer matter.

Episode Summary

In part two of my conversation with Susan Ibitz, we go deeper into the psychology of human behavior, deception, survival, and the hidden emotional coding that shapes every decision, every relationship, and every leader. Susan has lived more lives than most people can imagine. From surviving a chaotic childhood in Buenos Aires to running political influence operations across the globe to being trained by Paul Ekman to profiling criminals and CEOs alike, she brings a level of experiential insight that punches through the nonsense fast.

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This is a masterclass in human truth.

We dismantle the myths of body language, the false confidence of pop psychology, and the ways people use oversimplified ideas to avoid confronting the deeper emotional facts of their own history. We discuss survival patterns, childhood adaptation, and how leaders unknowingly repeat unresolved trauma in the boardroom.

Susan walks you through her own story, including the brutal honesty of being a dyslexic child misunderstood by her family, leaving home at seventeen with a backpack, being mentored by broken people who recognized her brilliance, running political campaigns on multiple continents, and building a career behind the scenes shaping powerful figures.

She reveals how survivors read micro-signals before a mood becomes a word, the difference between real threat and imagined danger, and why most people misread others because they have never learned to read themselves.

Prepare to be changed.

What You Will Learn

• Why most body-language advice is wrong, and how real profilers actually decode behavior
• How childhood survival strategies become adult leadership blind spots
• Why nuance and context matter more than any "tell" or gesture
• How dangerous people actually choose their victims, and why your posture, tone, and energy decide everything
• Why forgiveness has nothing to do with allowing people back into your life
• How unresolved emotional history shows up in your leadership identity
• The truth about political influence operations and the people behind the people
• Why real strength is the courage to confront the story you keep avoiding

👤 About Susan Ibitz

Susan Ibitz is a former political influence consultant, profiler, and civilian hostage negotiator. She is the author and researcher behind Irrational Humans and the founder of the Human Behavior Lab. Her specialty is decoding deception, patterns, and human behavior in high-pressure environments from sales to politics to crisis negotiation.

🔗 Connect with Susan Ibitz

Website: https://susanibitz.com
YouTube: Human Behavior Lab
Blog: Irrational Humans
LinkedIn: Susan Ibitz

#SusanIbitz #TheDovBaronShow #HumanBehavior #EmotionalSourceCode #LeadershipPsychology #TraumaPatterns #BehavioralScience #SelfAwareness #EliteThinkers #PatternRecognition #IdentityWork #PsychologicalSafety #HighPerformanceLeadership #DecisionMaking #ReadingPeople #InfluenceWithoutManipulation

🎙️ "The Human Behavior Hacker: Susan Ibitz on Pattern Recognition, Hidden Agendas, and the Truth We Don't Want Seen"

🔥 What if someone could see the parts of you that you've spent years polishing, managing, or hiding… in less than 30 seconds?

📘 Description

Most leaders believe they can read a room.
Most believe their success sharpened their instincts.
Most believe they can spot the liar, the manipulator, or the hidden agenda.
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That confidence is often the most dangerous delusion in the room.

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Today's guest doesn't just read people, she sees through them.

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Susan Ibitz, known globally as "The Human Behavior Hacker," is a former political influence consultant, profiler, and civilian hostage negotiator. She is the author of Irrational Humans and founder of the Human Behavior Lab, where she teaches others to decode patterns most people will never notice.

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But what makes her truly unsettling to leaders is this:
She didn't learn to read humans from textbooks. She learned to survive.

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Her dyslexia and Asperger's didn't hold her back; they rewired her into a world-class pattern recognizer who can see emotional seams and identity fractures long before her clients feel them.

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In this gripping conversation, Susan and Dov tear down the myths of communication, curiosity, and "reading people." They expose why most leaders are blind to their own filters, how first impressions have nothing to do with you, and why ambivalent people are the most dangerous ones in the room.

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And somewhere in the middle of this… you'll hear something you've never heard on a leadership podcast:

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A master profiler explaining why she genuinely doesn't like people…(well a certain kind of people)

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This episode will rewire the way you see communication, power, and the emotional logic driving every room you walk into.

🔥 In This Episode

• Why leaders massively overestimate their ability to read people

• The number one mistake everyone makes about human behavior

• Why communication fails even when you think you're being clear

• The danger of ambivalent people and hidden agendas

• How dyslexia and Asperger's became a superpower in Susan's work

• Why first impressions aren't personal and never were

• How curiosity, not technique, reveals the emotional truth

• What trauma teaches you about morphing and mirroring

• Why most "experts" don't know what they're talking about

• How to ask questions that evoke genuine emotion instead of rehearsed answers

👤 About Susan Ibitz

Susan Ibitz is a former political influence consultant, profiler, and civilian hostage negotiator. She is the author and researcher behind Irrational Humans and founder of the Human Behavior Lab. Her specialty is decoding deception, patterns, and human behavior in high-pressure environments from sales to politics to crisis negotiation.

💥 Listen If You've Ever…

• Felt like you're missing the hidden dynamics in the rooms you lead

• Wanted to improve your communication but didn't know where to start

• Suspected people weren't telling you the truth, including yourself

• Wanted a deeper understanding of how irrational humans really are

• Been told you're "too intense," "too perceptive," or "too much"

• Wondered why certain people trigger you instantly

• Wanted the real tools—not the myths—to read people accurately

🔗 Connect with Susan Ibitz

Website: https://susanibitz.com
YouTube: Human Behavior Lab
Blog: Irrational Humans
LinkedIn: Susan Ibitz

💭 Before You Hit Play

Ask yourself:
What part of my identity am I protecting so fiercely that I can't see the truth right in front of me?

#SusanIbitz #TheDovBaronShow #HumanBehavior #EmotionalSourceCode #LeadershipPsychology #TraumaPatterns #BehavioralScience #SelfAwareness #EliteThinkers #PatternRecognition #IdentityWork #PsychologicalSafety #HighPerformanceLeadership #DecisionMaking #ReadingPeople #InfluenceWithoutManipulation

🎙️Part 2 of 2: Jeff Burningham The Future of Human Wisdom

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What part of you must die for humanity to survive the age of artificial intelligence?

Description:

In this gripping second half of the conversation, Jeff Burningham and Dov Baron go deeper into the crisis and opportunity of our time. AI is reshaping economics, politics, leadership, and identity, but Jeff argues the real transformation begins inside each of us.

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Drawing on his experience as an entrepreneur, investor, bishop, political candidate, and now author of The Last Book Written by a Human, Jeff lays out what he believes are the four stages of human and technological evolution: disruption, reflection, transformation, and evolution.

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He warns that AI will accelerate everything we have not resolved within ourselves. Division, greed, and power games are already cresting. If we do not evolve, we collapse. But Jeff is not a pessimist. He sees a doorway into a new kind of leader, a new kind of human, and a possible renaissance in human consciousness.

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This is not a discussion about machines. It is a discussion about the soul, responsibility, ego death, and the courage to change the story before the story changes us.

🔥 In This Episode

• Why Jeff titled his book The Last Book Written by a Human
• How AI mirrors the heroic journey of disruption, reflection, transformation, and evolution
• The spiritual trap of turning technology into a new god
• The three escalating risks: disinformation, unemployment, and manipulated violence
• Why men aged 18 to 40 are the demographic most vulnerable to unrest
• Jeff's fear: that society will double down on division, greed, and power
• Jeff's hope: a renaissance in human consciousness
• Why systems must evolve from the inside out
• What leaders must sacrifice for their people
• Why a leader's courage determines whether AI becomes a tool for unity or destruction
• How to stay human in a digital world through nature, silence, presence, and relationship
• The practical steps Jeff uses to stay grounded in his own life

👊 About Jeff Burningham

Entrepreneur, investor, and author of The Last Book Written by a Human, Jeff Burningham blends business success with deep spiritual inquiry. He has founded companies, run for governor, served as a bishop, and now writes about what technology cannot replace: wisdom, faith, responsibility, and human connection. Every insight shared here is grounded directly in his words from the conversation.

🔗 Connect with Jeff Burningham

Website: https://jeffburningham.com
Social: @JeffBurningham
Book: The Last Book Written by a Human

💭 Reflection Challenge

What part of your identity is resisting the transformation you know you need to make?

#TheDovBaronShow #JeffBurningham #TheLastBookWrittenByAHuman #ArtificialIntelligence #Humanity #Identity #Faith #Awakening #PurposeDrivenLeadership #EmotionalIntelligence #SpiritualLeadership #FutureOfHumanity #SelfAwareness #ConsciousnessRenaissance #AIandEthics

🎙️What AI Can't Give You: Jeff Burningham on Faith, Identity, and the Human Problem

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What if the real crisis of artificial intelligence is not technological at all, but spiritual?

Description:

Artificial intelligence is accelerating faster than any technology in human history. But according to Jeff Burningham, the real threat is not that machines will outperform us. The real threat is that we will forget what it means to be human.

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In this intimate and often surprising conversation, Jeff recounts the collapse of the life he built. The pressure of building companies, chasing success, running for Governor, and tying his identity to constant doing finally broke him apart. What followed was not a business pivot but a spiritual reckoning that reshaped how he sees himself, his faith, and his place in a world racing toward automation.

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Together, Jeff Burningham and Dov Baron explore why the future belongs to people who cultivate wisdom, humility, and soul. AI will not destroy humanity. It will reveal the parts of ourselves we have avoided: our longing, our fear, our beliefs, and our inability to sit quietly in our own presence.

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This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered who they would be without their achievements, their title, or their constant motion.

🔥 In This Episode

• Why Jeff believes AI is a mirror rather than a replacement
• How losing his sense of identity forced a complete spiritual reset
• The hidden burnout of high performers who never stop doing
• Why the soul, not the mind, is the key to the next era of leadership
• How faith, doubt, and awakening shaped Jeff's view of the future
• Why success can become an emotional hiding place
• What it means to raise AI responsibly
• The danger of confusing constant achievement with meaning

👊 About Jeff Burningham

Entrepreneur, investor, gubernatorial candidate, and author of The Last Book Written by a Human, Jeff Burningham spent decades building companies and chasing momentum until the weight of it forced him to examine the deeper questions he had been outrunning. His work now focuses on what technology cannot replace: soul, wisdom, responsibility, and the courage to be fully human.

💥 Listen If You Have Ever

• Wondered who you are without your achievements
• Felt something inside you break under the pressure to perform
• Questioned the role of faith or spirituality in modern leadership
• Feared being replaced or forgotten in a rapidly changing world
• Wanted to stop running and start listening to your life

💭 Reflection Challenge

If AI only reflects what is already inside you, what is it showing you right now?

🔗 Connect with Jeff Burningham

Website: https://jeffburningham.com
Social: @JeffBurningham
Book: The Last Book Written by a Human

🧠 Apple Podcast Keywords and Discovery Tags

#TheDovBaronShow #JeffBurningham #TheLastBookWrittenByAHuman #ArtificialIntelligence #Humanity #Identity #Faith #Awakening #PurposeDrivenLeadership #SpiritualLeadership #SelfAwareness #EmotionalIntelligence #TechnologyAndSoul #FutureOfHumanity