What If Your Past Trauma Isn’t Even Real? | Ep. 086

What if the biggest obstacle in your life isn’t the trauma itself—but the story you keep telling yourself about it?

In this no-holds-barred conversation, Ethan and Justin dismantle the sacred cow of “trauma equals destiny.”

Borrowing insights from Adlerian psychology—and their own gut-punch life moments—they argue that pain is optional, meaning is everything, and you might be staging your own tragedy just to stay comfortable.

What you will learn in this episode

• How to spot the hidden agenda sabotaging your goals
• How to reframe any painful memory into fuel for action
• How to use gut instinct as a real-time compass for decision-making
• How to flip “failure” into an unfair advantage—fast

Questions answered

• Are you secretly scripting the villains in your life?
• Can a single mental reframe rewrite your future?
• Why do two people walk away from the same disaster with opposite realities?

Ready to shred the excuses and rewrite your story? Listen now—then subscribe and drop a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.