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In today's episode, I interview the brilliant Jason Moss, an entrepreneur, a very impactful business coach and someone who has done the deep work to truly know himself.

Jason believes that our businesses are a mirror reflecting ourselves. Whatever is unresolved on the inside will show up in how we build, market, and lead. The inner work is not separate from the business work — it is the work.

Getting out of our own way is a practice, not a destination. Fear of people's opinions, the need to look impressive, the urge to make an impact — these are all forms of self-consciousness that create a wall between us and the people we're trying to serve.

Strategy matters, but strategy that's disconnected from our genuine strengths and natural way of showing up will eventually run dry. Jason believes that we need to build ourselves around who we actually are.

In this episode he shares that Many of our fears around visibility, feedback, and being seen trace back to early experiences we haven't fully processed. Meeting those parts of ourselves with curiosity and care — rather than trying to override them — is where lasting transformation lives.

There are many gems that I hope you take away from this conversation. As well, I hope you connect with Jason on social media and his YouTube channel to learn more about him and his work.

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In today’s episode, we’re going to sit with something that every one of us will face in our lives, but most of us struggle to talk about openly: grief.

My guests are author and educator Frank Stepnowski and his daughter, Sam Welch. Together, they’ve created a beautiful and deeply moving picture book called Where Did Cain Go? A Family’s Walk Through Loss—a book that grew out of the death of Frank’s son and Sam’s brother, Cain, who died at just 13 days old from a congenital heart defect.

This conversation is not about neat answers or tidy closure. It’s about what it actually feels like to live with loss over years and decades. You’ll hear Frank talk about what it meant to carry his infant son’s coffin, to try to stay strong when everyone else went silent not knowing what to say or how to act around Frank and his wife Dawn after their profound loss. You’ll hear Sam share what it was like to grow up sensing a grief she couldn’t fully understand, and how later losses—of her uncle, her grandparents, and a pregnancy—reshaped her understanding of her parents’ pain and her own.

We explore how grief and love mirror each other, how gratitude can slowly change the way we carry our pain, and how art, story, and honest conversation can help families—especially children—talk about death in a more compassionate and grounded way.

We also get into ideas from positive psychology, the power of journaling, and the Japanese art of Kintsugi as a metaphor for putting ourselves back together with gold after we’ve been broken.

My hope is that as you listen, you don’t just think about loss in an abstract way, but gently reflect on the people you’ve loved and lost, and on the legacy they continue to have in your life.

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Where to purchase their book: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

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My guest today is Matthew Hoffman, the artist and creative force behind the global “You Are Beautiful” campaign. If you’ve ever seen those three simple words on a sticker, a mural, or an installation somewhere in the world and felt even a small lift in your day, there’s a good chance Matthew’s work has already touched your life.

Matthew started this project in a very humble way: with 100 paper stickers he printed as a kind of “public intervention” in Chicago. He didn’t set out to build a brand or become known. In fact, he stayed anonymous for almost a decade, because he wanted the focus to be on the message rather than the person behind it. Over time, though, this quiet act of kindness grew into a global movement.

Today, more than 10 million “You Are Beautiful” stickers have been shared around the world, translated into over 100 languages, and expanded into public installations, murals, and sculptures across the United States and beyond. His work has been featured by Oprah, mentioned by Seth Godin, and sustained by a worldwide community of people who take these words and pass them forward.

What I love about this discussion is that we don’t just talk about the project—we talk about the person and the philosophy behind it.

In this conversation, Matthew and I explore:

• Purpose and calling – Using an Oprah quote as our starting point, we talk about how Matthew found his way from a high school graphic arts class to a life devoted to spreading a simple but profound message.
• Perspective and empathy – How constantly moving as a kid, feeling like a chameleon and an outsider, gave him deep empathy and shaped his desire to create work that is open and accessible to everyone.
• Creative courage – The importance of getting ideas out of your head and into the world quickly, even when they’re imperfect, and how to move through the fear of other people’s opinions.
• Anonymity, humility, and identity – Why he called himself a “custodian” rather than the creator, what it was like to be “outed” by Seth Godin and later invited by Oprah to reveal himself publicly, and how that became a kind of returning home to his true self.
• Mental health and impact – Including a powerful story about a sticker placed on a bridge where someone had died by suicide, and how that moment shifted Matthew’s understanding of the weight and responsibility of his work.
• Sustaining motivation – How he navigates the highs and lows of creativity, deals with self-doubt, and anchors himself in his values so he can keep doing work that matters—while also being a dad and modeling purpose for his son.

This is a conversation about art, yes—but more than that, it’s about belonging, worthiness, and essence. It’s about the quiet, consistent ways we can remind ourselves and others that there is nothing we need to do and no one we need to become to be “enough.”

If you’ve ever struggled with perfectionism, fear of judgment, creative blocks, or just feeling like you’re not quite enough, this episode is for you.

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