🎙️ Rewired Experience Podcast – The Hot Wash Series
“You think you’re protecting yourself by pulling away—but you’re actually cutting yourself off from the lifeline.”
In this episode of The Hot Wash, Kyle Stoy, a retired SWAT team member, combat veteran, and 7-figure entrepreneur, opens up about the insidious trap of isolation—how it nearly derailed his life after a devastating injury, and how it continued to echo through his law enforcement career and entrepreneurial journey.
Kyle shares the real cost of trying to “handle it alone,” including a raw story he began unpacking in the Shame episode: recovering from a traumatic injury, developing a pharmaceutical dependency, and hiding behind leadership status while emotionally drowning. He then breaks down how isolation showed up in uniform—struggling to relate to civilians after seeing the worst parts of humanity—and how it later resurfaced as a business owner trying to carry the weight of a mission no one else could fully understand.
You’ll learn how isolation compounds the effects of other psychological obstacles like shame, denial, and comfort—and how recognizing that cycle is the first step in breaking free.
If you’ve ever felt like no one could possibly relate to what you’re going through… this episode is for you.
🔑 In this episode:
The hidden link between shame and isolation
Why first responders, veterans, and entrepreneurs are especially vulnerable
How comfort and denial kickstart a cycle that ends in emotional exile
Why high performers often suffer in silence
The practical systems Kyle uses to reconnect—with his mission, his family, and his team
🧠 Listener Takeaways:
Isolation doesn’t start with silence. It starts with pain that feels too heavy to share.
You’re not weak for needing connection. You’re human.
Reconnection starts with removing friction—making it easy to show up, open up, and plug back in.
🎧 This episode is part of The Hot Wash, an exclusive audio series where Kyle breaks down 15 spiritual and psychological obstacles—originally inspired by asking ChatGPT: If you were the devil, how would you keep people stuck?
💥 The first 3 obstacles—Comfort, Denial, and Fear—are available in full video on Kyle’s YouTube channel. But the rest of the series is audio-only.
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