The Ambitious Generation

The Ambitious Generation with Jack Wagoner Episode 161 Owen Fitzpatrick has spent close to thirty years studying how belief forms, in boardrooms at Google and Coca-Cola, in Olympic training camps, and in NorthKorea, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. He has coached billionaires and world-class athletes. When I asked him what separates them, he did not say ambition. He said ambition is not the variable. What the elite have is ambition that holds its shape across years. He also said something I had not heard anyone say out loud: a lot of the best performers in the world are running on pain. 00:12 What is the voice inside my head 02:18 Where the inner dictator comes from 05:18 Am I my inner voice, or separate from it 08:01 Your brain is a double agent 11:26 Beliefs are functional, not factual 14:49 Hangry, depression, and why feelings feel like facts 16:59 Your brain runs an echo chamber 19:29 How to actually get out of it 25:06 The incentive to question what you already believe 28:58 Picking a school with your gut, justifying it later 31:04 The three gates: feeling, identity, logic 36:17 Rigging your own pros and cons list 41:02 What billionaires and Olympians have in their heads 45:50 Ambition is not the variable 49:01 Procrastinating presence 49:50 Inner Propaganda Owen Fitzpatrick Links: Inner Propaganda Book: https://innerpropaganda.com/ Website: owenfitzpatrick.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/owenfitzp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/owenf23/?hl=en📺 Listen on your favorite platform:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-grateful-podcast-with-jack-wagoner/id1725776061Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EsTEpQAjU4BxUrDoFyZ6b🧠 InnerVue — a complete self-awareness tool:→ https://yourinnervue.comUse code GRATEFUL20 for 20% off a Tier 1 InnerVue, plus a complimentary coach-led debrief of your report.🧠 More from Jack:► Website: https://jackwagoner.co► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_wagoner_/► 1:1 Coaching: [email protected]📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jack_Wagoner⸻🎙️ About Jack:I moved to France alone at 16, started my first business at 17, and launched this podcast because I kept meeting people who had the answers to questions I didn't even know I was asking. My philosophy: you can set massive goals while being deeply fulfilled right now. That's the duality of gratitude and ambition.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.Stay grateful, stay hungry.

The Ambitious Generation with Jack Wagoner Episode 160 with Trey Roth, founder of Yaystack Most people treat optimism like a personality trait you either got or you didn't. Trey Roth treats it like a decision with a cost attached. He's the founder and CEO of Yaystack, a platinum-selling songwriter and music producer, and a father of four who spent a decade being told his company was a failure before anyone called it anything else. In this conversation he does something almost nobody does: he admits that pessimists are right more often, and then explains exactly why he refuses to be one. We go deep on the line he's used for years to catch his own blessings before they pass, why he gets visibly excited when something goes wrong, the identity sentence a 15-year-old handed him at lunch that he couldn't stop repeating, and the difference between faith and fear that comes down to one word: action. If you've ever been right about something going badly and realized that being right didn't help you at all, this one's for you. Timestamps: 00:00 The question that started it 00:26 "Dad, this is one of those moments" 01:26 The line he uses to catch his own blessings 03:17 The thing on the side of your head 04:12 A bench on the Cape and my mom's hand 05:37 What a 15-year-old said after her first time on stage 07:10 "You get so much wrong on the way to getting it all right" 10:36 Why he gets excited when something goes wrong 12:38 You can be a pessimist and be right more often Connect with Trey Roth:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treyroth/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/treyroth/Yaystack: https://www.yaystack.co/📺 Listen on your favorite platform:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-grateful-podcast-with-jack-wagoner/id1725776061Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EsTEpQAjU4BxUrDoFyZ6b🧠 InnerVue — a complete self-awareness tool:→ https://yourinnervue.comUse code GRATEFUL20 for 20% off a Tier 1 InnerVue, plus a complimentary coach-led debrief of your report.🧠 More from Jack:► Website: https://jackwagoner.co► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_wagoner_/► 1:1 Coaching: [email protected]📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jack_Wagoner⸻🎙️ About Jack:I moved to France alone at 16, started my first business at 17, and launched this podcast because I kept meeting people who had the answers to questions I didn't even know I was asking. My philosophy: you can set massive goals while being deeply fulfilled right now. That's the duality of gratitude and ambition.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.Stay grateful, stay hungry.

The Ambitious Generation with Jack Wagoner Episode 159I researched Evan Carmichael for two days before this conversation. What I didn't plan for was walking in with the age parallel, him at 19, me at 19 now, and having him turn the interview around on me. This one isn't really about him. It's about the question I've been avoiding answering myself.We get into:0:00 — Cold open 2:16 — The pinnacle of his life happened at the exact age I am right now 4:11 — "Universities train you to get a job, basically" 11:47 — "I never get asked what university I went to. People care, zero." 13:36 — He challenges me to challenge him back, live 16:37 — "So what am I actually building this for?" 23:22 — How he met his wife, and the 90-day, 23-city tour that nearly broke them both 24:27 — He broke his neck mid-tour and finished the tour anyway 38:04 — The year everything actually changed for him: marriage, and getting a coach 45:10 — What ownership really means, and why belief comes first 48:36 — His Big Y, Little Y framework for surviving ambition without losing gratitude 53:35 — The insecurity he still carries about not hitting 1,000 followers 56:37 — "Ask the questions you most need to hear," and why that changed how I interviewIf you've ever wondered whether the safe path is quietly costing you the real one, this one's for you.🔗 Evan's LinksWebsite: https://believe.evancarmichael.com/homepageYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmkpoEqg1sOMGEiIysP8TwInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/evancarmichael/?hl=enLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evancarmichael/?isSelfProfile=false📺 Listen on your favorite platform:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-grateful-podcast-with-jack-wagoner/id1725776061Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EsTEpQAjU4BxUrDoFyZ6b🧠 InnerVue — a complete self-awareness tool:→ https://yourinnervue.comUse code GRATEFUL20 for 20% off a Tier 1 InnerVue, plus a complimentary coach-led debrief of your report.🧠 More from Jack:► Website: https://jackwagoner.co► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_wagoner_/► 1:1 Coaching: [email protected]📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jack_Wagoner⸻🎙️ About Jack:I moved to France alone at 16, started my first business at 17, and launched this podcast because I kept meeting people who had the answers to questions I didn't even know I was asking. My philosophy: you can set massive goals while being deeply fulfilled right now. That's the duality of gratitude and ambition.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.

The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 158 Guesting Suneet Bhatt, Author of Making Sense of Purpose Suneet Bhatt has spent twenty five years helping people answer one question: why am I here. He teaches purpose at Rutgers, he wrote the USA Today Bestselling book Making Sense of Purpose, and he has had the conversation thousands of times. So I asked him something nobody has asked him before. Not what a person with purpose does. What they never do.He stopped. He said he had never been asked that. Then he gave an answer that reframed the entire conversation: people with purpose do not carry guilt. This one is about what you are holding that is keeping you stuck. 0:00 — The three things every definition of purpose agrees on0:56 — "Who is a person with purpose?"2:22 — The question he has never been asked3:13 — Why people with purpose refuse to carry guilt3:35 — Community, religion, and the third arrow4:44 — Rock bottom, and the two immigrant parents who said no5:36 — Four years, two years, one year6:26 — "It was never about the job. It was the work."6:35 — He had everything and opened with "I don't know why I'm here"8:33 — Shopping for purpose while you're starving9:59 — Satiated is not sustained11:48 — The 700% problem12:41 — Why ikigai starts on step two14:37 — Happiness is a precursor, not a result16:36 — Be grateful on purpose18:11 — Where to find Suneet 🔗 Suneet's Links: Book: makingsenseofpurpose.com Website: myauthenticstory.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/suneetbhatt/📺 Listen on your favorite platform:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-grateful-podcast-with-jack-wagoner/id1725776061Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EsTEpQAjU4BxUrDoFyZ6b🧠 InnerVue — a complete self-awareness tool:→ https://yourinnervue.comUse code GRATEFUL20 for 20% off a Tier 1 InnerVue, plus a complimentary coach-led debrief of your report.🧠 More from Jack:► Website: https://jackwagoner.co► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_wagoner_/► 1:1 Coaching: [email protected]📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jack_Wagoner⸻🎙️ About Jack:I moved to France alone at 16, started my first business at 17, and launched this podcast because I kept meeting people who had the answers to questions I didn't even know I was asking. My philosophy: you can set massive goals while being deeply fulfilled right now. That's the duality of gratitude and ambition.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.Stay grateful, stay hungry.

The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 157 with Michael McLeodMichael McLeod thinks nobody should own a phone before 18. Not 16, not 14. Eighteen, the same way we handle alcohol and driving.He has worked with kids and teens since 2005 and watched valedictorians, athletes, and artists lose interest in everything inside a year of getting one. He also thinks history will look back on the last fifteen years of school and call it the great mistake.Later in the conversation he explains why employers are already skipping people in their early twenties, and what it has to do with a skill nobody ever taught you.I was in the first class handed a Chromebook in elementary school. So this one was personal.Michael's links:Website: https://www.grownowadhd.com/about/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grownowadhd/?hl=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@grownowadhd📺 Listen on your favorite platform:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-grateful-podcast-with-jack-wagoner/id1725776061Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EsTEpQAjU4BxUrDoFyZ6b🧠 InnerVue — a complete self-awareness tool:→ https://yourinnervue.comUse code GRATEFUL20 for 20% off a Tier 1 InnerVue, plus a complimentary coach-led debrief of your report.🧠 More from Jack:► Website: https://jackwagoner.co► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jack_wagoner_/► 1:1 Coaching: [email protected]📺 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jack_Wagoner⸻🎙️ About Jack:I moved to France alone at 16, started my first business at 17, and launched this podcast because I kept meeting people who had the answers to questions I didn't even know I was asking. My philosophy: you can set massive goals while being deeply fulfilled right now. That's the duality of gratitude and ambition.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.Stay grateful, stay hungry.1898/5000