In this episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim Oliver sits down with leadership coach Adrian Koehler—a former pastor and prison leadership trainer who now coaches founders and "type A dickheads" who feel the weight of responsibility and the loneliness at the top.

Adrian and Jim dig into why "not having a vision" isn't an accident, it's a strategy. They unpack how confusion is actually a chosen vision, why high-performers secretly love being "stuck," and how most leaders waste energy being frustrated that others aren't like them instead of learning to translate their own genius.

What You'll Learn

• Confusion Is a Vision: Why "I don't know what I want" isn't a neutral statement—it's a chosen vision of confusion with payoffs and prices.

• The Real Work of High Performers: How founders create the loneliness at the top—and what shifts when you actually want truth more than comfort.

• Vision as a Future Worth Having: How Adrian reframes faith, calling, and vision—away from protectivism and toward adventure.

Action Steps

1. Expose Your "Confusion Strategy"
Write out: "Why do I love being confused about my vision?" List every payoff and every price. Awareness kills the racket.

2. Translate Your Genius for Your Team
Take one intuitive thing you do well and break down the principles behind it. That's how you scale your thinking.

3. Re-Anchor Money to Mission
Ask: "If I had a billion dollars today, where would it go this week?" Compare that to your current spending and adjust.

Adrian Koehler's Powerful Word
"Everybody has a vision—every second of their life. If you're 'stuck' or 'confused,' that's still a vision. If we don't get to now, we can't get to next."

Connect with Adrian Koehler:
Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC3c7kMcC7nah-QdxffV2NXA

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/adriankoehler

Instagram: www.instagram.com/adrian.k/?hl=en

In this solo episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim Oliver dismantles one of the biggest lies in finance: that income equals wealth. He shares hard-earned lessons from his early career in financial planning, where assets measured success under management—not freedom. Jim reveals how even six-, seven-, and eight-figure earners often remain financially enslaved.

If your wealth disappears when your income stops, you don't own your wealth; you lease it. Jim explains how to reclaim ownership by shifting your focus from income to control, and how he applies this mindset in building companies, creating equity for others, and multiplying freedom.

• The Big Lie: Why "making more money" doesn't make you free.

• Control Over Income: How to stop leasing your wealth and start owning it.

• The Paycheck Trap: Your paycheck isn't your ticket to success, or freedom.

• Freedom Through Ownership: How to structure your business so you—and your team—win.

• The Wealth Game Plan: How to design assets that serve your life, not consume it.

1. Audit Your Wealth
Ask: If my income stopped today, what part of my wealth would still work for me?

2. Redefine Your Scoreboard
Measure success by control and freedom, not income or net worth.

3. Build Equity for Others
Give your team ownership opportunities—shared growth creates shared freedom.

"Freedom isn't about how much you make—it's about how much you own and control. If your wealth disappears when your income stops, you don't have wealth. You have a job with a logo."

In this episode of Breakaway Wealth, Jim Oliver sits down with Dr. Erin Wilson, a powerhouse in leadership development and the creator of the "NAP Framework" for strategic rest. Together, they unpack relationship intelligence—the "million-dollar skill" that separates effective leaders from forgettable ones—and why rest is not a reward, but a strategy.

Dr. Wilson shares how leaders can use relationship intelligence to connect, communicate, and collaborate at a higher level by understanding what truly motivates people. She also discusses her framework for strategic rest, how to use it to unlock creativity and performance, and why most of us get motivation wrong.

What You'll Learn:

1. Rest is a performance tool. The NAP Framework turns rest into a scheduled advantage that improves clarity, creativity, and leadership capacity.

2. RI vs. EI: Emotional intelligence is internal awareness. Relationship intelligence operationalizes it so you actually get results with people.

3. SDI in practice: People are primarily motivated by People, Process, or Performance (usually a blend). Speak to their driver and watch resistance drop.

4. Common leadership mistakes:

   • Assuming others are motivated like you.

   • Confusing silence with agreement.

   • Forcing everyone to play by your rulebook.

5. Manager playbook: Hire experts → clear roadblocks → tailor comms → measure results.

1. Map motives: List your top 5 direct reports; tag their likely primary driver (People / Process / Performance).

2. Schedule rest as strategy: Book two 30-minute regeneration blocks (think sauna, walk, prayer, meditation). Protect them.

3. Adopt the NAP Framework: Nurture, Assess, Prioritize rest as a leadership advantage—not an afterthought.

Dr. Erin's Powerful words:
"Rest isn't what takes you out of the game—it's what makes you play smarter." — Dr. Erin Wilson

Connect with Dr. Erin Wilson:

Instagram: @dr.erinwilson

Youtube: www.youtube.com/@PowerNAPLive

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drerinwilson/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrErinW

Design Ideal Consulting: www.designidealconsulting.com/

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