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Stress Less Live MoreFrom Vegas to A&E The Day Everything ChangedThis deeply personal episode reveals what happened when life suddenly forced “the strong one” — Baz — into a vulnerable place. One week after celebrating their 20-year anniversary in Las Vegas, Barry was rushed into emergency surgery for a severely infected appendix. Loz and Baz walk listeners through the story from both sides: the physical and emotional shock for Baz, and the fear, surrender, and practical crisis-management that Loz navigated.The episode unpacks themes of control, surrender, resilience, faith, and the reality of running a business as a husband-and-wife team when one half is suddenly incapacitated. Through humour, honesty, and raw vulnerab...
2025-12-0229 min
Rise From The Ashes20-Minute Errand, Lifetime of Grief: A Mother's Fight Against Mental Illness🎧 Listen now: https://risefromtheashespodcast.com/home - Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and iHeartRadioWhat happens when a 20-minute errand becomes a lifetime of grief? Carol Hodges thought she was picking up her daughter from acting class. She came home to find Corinne hanging outside the kitchen window.This isn't just another mental illness story. It's a mother's brutal journey through gaslighting, failed systems, and the devastating reality that "tough love" doesn't work when suicide is real."I didn't think she'd do that. I thought she was too selfish." ...
2025-10-1337 min
Rise From The AshesThe Mom Building the Largest Youth Mental Health Summit in US HistoryChanda Spates went from needing a babysitter for her suicidal son to building the largest youth mental health summit in US history.Every 11 minutes, someone dies by suicide in America. One in four are children.Chanda's solution? Do something every 11 minutes to save them.Her Olympic Stadium event on May 23rd-24th will be streamed globally on gaming and music platforms—meeting kids exactly where they are.This is how one mom's crisis became America's mental health revolution.Send us a textSupport the show...
2025-10-0818 min
Rise From The AshesThe School System Failed Her Son So She Built Her Own SolutionChanda Spates needed a babysitter for her 17-year-old son.Not because he was immature because severe bullying had led to a suicide attempt and she was terrified to leave him alone.Her desperate Facebook post asking for help went viral and revealed a shocking truth: she wasn't alone.Today, Chanda's Flourish Foundation Project is revolutionizing suicide prevention by meeting kids where they actually are—spending 7-8 hours a day on social media and music platforms.This is how one mom's crisis became a movement that's saving lives.Send us a...
2025-10-0531 min
Rise From The AshesThis Social Impact Model Actually Works (And It's Disrupting Everything)Steven Clarke's mother died broke.But before she left, she whispered something that would dismantle billion-dollar industries: "Always give first."Impossible advice from a woman who had nothing to give.Today, that death-bed wisdom is feeding millions, housing the homeless, and proving that the most revolutionary business models don't come from Harvard MBA programs they come from the brutal classroom of poverty.Steven isn't building another charity. He's not launching another "social good" startup that sounds nice but changes nothing.He's weaponizing his mother's final lesson into the first...
2025-09-2422 min
Rise From The AshesFour DEAD children later, she discovered why she was still aliveWhat happens when the universe takes everything from you, not once, but four times? Vickie Menendez thought losing her first child - a full-term stillborn at 20 - was the worst pain imaginable. She was wrong.In 2017, she found her son dead from a drug overdose. Decomposed. Alone. A sight you don't unsee.A year later, she lost her father the exact moment her husband was having heart attacks.But the universe wasn't finished with her yet.Then came the ultimate test: losing two children just 12 days apart. After 48 days in the...
2025-09-0722 min
Rise From The AshesBullied for being holy, moved before making friends, never safe anywhereWhat happens when you spend your entire childhood learning that nowhere is safe and no one stays? Janice Debo was the preacher's kid who got picked on for being "different" - bullied for being holy in a world that punished goodness.But just when she'd start to find her place, just when she might make a friend, her family would move again. Six different schools. Always the new kid. Always the preacher's daughter. Always the target."I think I went to six different schools growing up," Janice remembers. "I was always having to make new...
2025-09-0318 min
Rise From The AshesShe announced she was a coach, but had no idea what that meantWhat happens when you announce you're an expert in something you know absolutely nothing about? Janice Debo had built multiple businesses - transportation, nightgowns, event planning, nonprofit work - but never found her true calling. Then someone told her she should become a coach.There was just one problem: Janice had no idea what coaching actually was."I announced that I was gonna become a coach. And at that point I didn't know exactly what that meant," she admits. But she'd already put it out there. Already told her networking groups. Already committed publicly to...
2025-08-3124 min
Rise From The AshesThe woman who carries 1000 traumas while the system keeps failingWhat happens when you survive your own hell, only to become everyone else's lifeline while the same broken system keeps destroying lives? Garcia thought the hardest part was over after surviving her double attempted homicide and building Confronting Domestic Violence.She was wrong.Now she carries the weight of thousands of other survivors' traumas. Every day, her phone rings with stories that mirror her own nightmare. Women with nowhere to go. Families with no resources. Children in danger. All turning to her because the system that failed her is still failing them."I...
2025-08-2718 min
Rise From The AshesShe had 45 days to save two lives and nobody to help her do itWhat happens when you're facing the impossible and there's literally no one coming to save you? Garcia was 8 months pregnant, 1,000 miles from home, with an 8-year-old daughter by her side. No family. No friends. No support system.Then came the double attempted homicide that changed everything.Choked and beaten while 8 months pregnant, Garcia escaped with her daughter to a neighbor's house at 11:30 PM, barefoot in pajamas. The police gave her a piece of paper with 1-800 numbers and said "do your thing."She had exactly 45 days until her due date to figure out...
2025-08-2422 min
Rise From The AshesSuccess felt like failure - when winning meant everyone lost connectionWhat happens when you achieve everything you set out to accomplish, but it feels like you've failed at what really matters? Phil Herrington built exactly what he envisioned - a thriving network, 300 members, successful connections happening daily. By every metric, he was winning.But something was devastatingly wrong."I noticed no one's connecting," Phil realized. "Why are they not connecting?" He'd created the perfect system, followed all the rules, hit all his targets. Yet the very people he'd brought together to build relationships were still sitting alone, isolated, unable to truly connect with each other.
2025-08-2020 min
Rise From The Ashes33 years trampling hearts for sales. Then his own heart got trampledWhat happens when the very tactics that make you successful in business destroy everything that matters at home? Phil Herrington spent 33 years perfecting the art of aggressive sales - cold calling, door-to-door, trampling over objections and people alike. He called himself "a rhino" because he bulldozed through relationships for quick wins."30 calls a day keeps poverty away" was his mantra. He made millions by treating every interaction as a transaction, every person as a target, every relationship as disposable.Then his marriage became the casualty.The divorce hit him like a freight train...
2025-08-1726 min
Talk Of The TrinityTalk of the Trinity - Baz’s Quick Season ThoughtsTalk of the Trinity - Baz’s Quick Season ThoughtsBaz talks us through his quick thoughts for the season aheadRTs appreciated.#AVFC #Villa #UTV
2025-08-1323 min
Rise From The AshesWhat if the permission you've been desperately seeking was always yours to give?In Part 2, Rachael Resk reveals the brutal truth most people never realize: we spend our entire lives waiting for someone else to give us permission to be authentic , when we've been holding that power all along.Through her revolutionary "Reclaim" framework, Rachael shows why successful people with good jobs, relationships, and homes still feel stuck they're seeking approval from everyone except the one person who matters most: themselves.Her game-changing revelation: "You are the permission slip. Nobody else."If you've been waiting for the "right time" or...
2025-07-2713 min
Rise From The AshesWhile actors fear AI, she discovered what robots can't replicateWhat if the thing that makes you most human is your greatest weapon against AI?While actors everywhere panic about artificial intelligence taking their jobs, Cloe Xhauflaire discovered something that stopped her cold: robots can replicate technique, but they can never replicate a broken heart.In Part 2, Cloe reveals why the acting industry's AI crisis isn't about better technology it's about human authenticity becoming the ultimate competitive advantage.Her game-changing insight: "You're gonna compete with machines, you're gonna compete with robots that are gonna do...
2025-07-2722 min
Rise From The AshesLost everything in real estate - then discovered her biggest assetRachael Resk thought she had it figured out. After a childhood of raising herself and her brothers, she built a real estate empire to finally feel secure. Then the market crashed. Every property. Every safety net. Gone.But in that devastating moment of financial loss recovery , Rachael discovered something that changed everything: "I realized I am my biggest asset."This raw conversation takes you through her journey from financial setback to unshakeable inner strength. If you've lost everything and need hope for starting over financially , Rachael's story...
2025-07-2325 min
Rise From The AshesYou Were Meant to Touch the StarsMost people bury their childhood dreams. Sarah Pousho built a company on hers. In this intimate episode, she shares how a life steeped in wonder fueled by Carl Sagan, failure, and fire led to founding SpaceBridge Partners in her fifties.If you’ve ever thought it was too late, too crazy, or too far out of reach to start again, this conversation will shake you loose.“Six people can go to space whenever we want. Right now.”This isn’t about rockets. It’s about resilience. About rising. About remembering who you were before the world told...
2025-07-0614 min
Rise From The AshesDiagnosed at 40, Fluent in 3 Months Dr. CJ Leland Breaks the MoldShe mastered English in 3 months. She was diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s. What she discovered in between could change how you see your own potential.Dr. CJ Leland isn’t your typical comeback story she’s a disruptor of timelines and a destroyer of expectations. In this raw, 20-minute interview, Baz Porter dives deep into the journey of a Filipina girl who arrived in the U.S. with zero English, learned through cassette tapes and Archie comics, and ended up a professor, dean, and business owner.But it’s what happened after the de...
2025-07-0222 min
Rise From The AshesHow Nicole built a business from her darkest breakdownThe breakdown wasn't the end it was Nicole's beginning.In part two of Nicole Borgi's story, she reveals how losing everything during COVID became the catalyst for building something extraordinary. When Vegas shut down, her security career vanished. Her law enforcement relationship crumbled. Family rifts cost her connection with her daughter.Most people would have stayed down. Nicole got strategic.She shares the raw truth about rebuilding from nothing how she turned her "huge mess" into a mission that's now changing lives. From avatar technology platforms to the Pain Point Podcast, Nicole proves...
2025-06-2519 min
Rise From The AshesThe avatar secret that's healing trauma survivorsNicole Borgi's voice wasn't always this strong. In today's Rise from the Ashes episode, she reveals how domestic violence survivors and women afraid to be seen are finding their power through avatar technology.Her story hits hard. COVID lockdowns destroyed her Vegas security career. Her relationship with a law enforcement partner shattered. Family rifts cost her connection with her daughter. Rock bottom became her starting point.But Nicole didn't disappear. She built something revolutionary—a virtual healing space where avatars let trauma survivors practice presence without fear. No cameras. No judgment. Just safe space to re...
2025-06-2215 min
Rise From The AshesYour grandmother's dying words are still controlling your lifeYour grandmother's dying words are still controlling your life. In this explosive Part 2, Michelle Ward reveals how childhood promises and deathbed commitments create invisible emotional prisons that have been sabotaging your happiness for decades.Discover the shocking connection between trapped emotions stored in your body and chronic pain, anxiety, and relationship struggles that traditional medicine can't heal. Michelle's revolutionary emotional code healing approach uses muscle testing therapy and vital force energy techniques to release emotional energy blocks that manifest as physical ailments.Through her vulnerable story about her grandmother's instruction to "keep the family together"...
2025-06-1817 min
Rise From The AshesImagine waking up tomorrow without the weight of self-sabotage crushing your dreams.Discover how trapped emotions and subconscious programming create self-sabotage patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of burnout, relationship chaos, and financial blocks. Michelle Ward, certified emotion code practitioner and self-sabotage coach, reveals the breakthrough method for identifying which of the five self-sabotage archetypes controls your life and how to reprogram your subconscious mind for lasting transformation.Through her proven emotion code techniques, Michelle helps you understand how childhood programming from birth to age seven creates limiting beliefs that sabotage your adult success. Whether you're the Adult Child archetype staying small to feel safe, the Fire Starter...
2025-06-1515 min
Rise From The AshesYou Already Are What You Seek (And Always Were)What if everything you've been desperately chasing success, validation, worthiness was already yours by birthright? This mind-bending revelation emerges as the central breakthrough in part two of my conversation with Brian Muka, a former Navy bomb disposal tech turned Freedom Sherpa who spent years trying to outrun his fears through extreme challenges.Brian's story reads like a cautionary tale for every high-achiever trapped in the validation hamster wheel. "I was trying to prove I wasn't a coward by surfing 10-foot waves, jumping out of airplanes, doing half Ironman races, CrossFit, special operations all of it," he confesses...
2025-06-1119 min
Rise From The AshesWhat if everything you know about burnout is wrong... and your nervous system is the real hijacker?Former Navy bomb disposal technician Brian Muka reveals the shocking truth about executive burnout, nervous system dysregulation, and trauma recovery that's sabotaging high-performing leaders worldwide.After experiencing what he calls "the avalanche" losing his military career trajectory in Iraq Brian discovered why leadership burnout, chronic stress, and emotional exhaustion have nothing to do with workload and everything to do with nervous system hijacking .This episode covers:• Burnout recovery strategies for overwhelmed executives and entrepreneurs• PTSD healing techniques including Wim Hof breathwork and...
2025-06-0816 min
MindNotes de Raúl BazTrailer: MindNotes por Raúl BazMindNotes es un podcast breve y poderoso sobre comunicación, psicología y periodismo aplicado a la vida real. Soy Raúl Baz, y en cada episodio —de apenas 3 minutos— comparto ideas que conectan, estrategias que perduran y herramientas para influir con propósito.Aquí encontrarás desde cómo construir una marca personal auténtica, hasta cómo diseñar campañas políticas, manejar crisis de reputación o comunicar bajo presión.Este no es un espacio de teoría. Es una guía para quienes comunican, lideran y toman decisiones en un mundo donde todo se percibe… y todo se i...
2025-06-0301 min
MindNotes de Raúl BazTrailer: MindNotes por Raúl BazMindNotes es un podcast breve y poderoso sobre comunicación, psicología y periodismo aplicado a la vida real. Soy Raúl Baz, y en cada episodio —de apenas 3 minutos— comparto ideas que conectan, estrategias que perduran y herramientas para influir con propósito.Aquí encontrarás desde cómo construir una marca personal auténtica, hasta cómo diseñar campañas políticas, manejar crisis de reputación o comunicar bajo presión.Este no es un espacio de teoría. Es una guía para quienes comunican, lideran y toman decisiones en un mundo donde todo se percibe… y todo s...
2025-06-0301 min
Rise From The AshesWhy Therapy Didn't Work And What Finally DidWhat if everything holding you back came down to one belief? Celebrity hypnotist and executive coach Tim Shurr joins Rising from the Ashes to share the transformational truth behind anxiety, self-doubt, and chronic worry and why you don’t need years of therapy to heal it.From an unexpected hypnosis demo in college to over 16,000 sessions with high performers, Tim reveals the real root of suffering:“Most people are trapped in one belief I’m not good enough.”This episode cuts through surface-level fixes and goes straight to the subc...
2025-06-0116 min
Rise From The AshesThe 4 C’s of Connection: A No-BS Framework for Sustainable SuccessEver feel like you’re barking up the wrong tree in business? In this no-fluff conversation, The Redneck Connector Mike Ashburner breaks down how chasing clients (aka “dog-catching”) is burning out entrepreneurs and what to do instead. From his $5K positioning strategy to his Four C’s framework (Clarity, Connection, Community, Conversation), Mike unpacks how to build a business that attracts instead of performs.The biggest mic-drop? Rejection isn’t failure it’s self-selection. The right people opt in when you stop pretending.🎯 What you’ll learn:Why your nervous...
2025-05-2825 min