- 53 minutes 28 secondsHow to ACTUALLY Avoid Burnout with Marie-Hélène Pelletier
You already know resilience matters. But what if everything you think about it is incomplete?
In this episode, Kwame Christian sits down with Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier — psychologist, executive coach, and author of The Resilience Plan — to break down why resilience isn't just a trait you either have or don't, and it's not just a muscle you build through grit alone. It's a strategy. One you can actually sit down and plan.
Marie-Hélène opens with a harrowing story from an 8-day mountain traverse in the Canadian Rockies — a river crossing gone wrong that nearly swept her away — and uses it to unpack a truth most high performers miss: we're great on "day one," when we're fresh and energized. The real risk shows up on "day eight," when we're depleted, still making decisions like we're at full strength.
If you're someone chasing big goals and refusing to slow down, this episode will change how you think about what's sustainable — and give you a real framework to build on.
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24 September 2026, 9:00 am - 52 minutes 13 secondsHeather Monahan: Fire the Villains in Your Life and Build Unshakable Confidence
Fired at 43 with an 18-month non-compete, Heather Monahan had to rebuild her career from scratch — and it led her to her real purpose. In this episode, she and Kwame break down why confidence is a learnable skill, why "done" beats "perfect," and why firing the "energy vampires" in your life can change everything.
You'll learn:
- Why arrogance is actually rooted in insecurity
- How to turn goals into deadlines that stick
- A simple therapy trick for silencing your inner critic
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21 September 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutesKwame Christian and Codie Sanchez on The Big Deal Podcast - 1 Hour Straight of Negotiation Gold
Learn how to take control, reclaim your freedom, and build a business that works without you.
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17 September 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 8 minutesThe Saboteur: There's a Voice in Your Head That's Been Lying to You for Years | With Shirzad Chamine
You've been listening to the wrong voice in your head for years — and it's cost you more than you realize.
Shirzad Chamine spent the first 30 years of his life in clinical depression — despite building a venture-backed company, attracting Silicon Valley's top investors, and landing Hewlett-Packard as his first customer. Then, at the height of his success, his own leadership team staged a coup and demoted him as CEO of the company he founded.
That devastating moment forced him to ask a question most high achievers never stop to consider: if I'm this successful and this miserable, who am I really — and what's actually running my mind?
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14 September 2026, 9:00 am - 55 minutes 40 secondsHow Leaders Regulate Their Emotions in High-Stakes Moments — with Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks
Great leaders don't avoid pressure — they know how to think clearly inside it. In this episode, Kwame Christian sits down with Dr. Tracey Marks, a board-certified psychiatrist and one of the most trusted mental health educators on YouTube (with over 2 million followers), to break down what's actually happening in a leader's brain during a high-stakes conversation — and how to stay in control of it.
Dr. Marks explains why our brains treat criticism, tension, or a tough deadline the same way they'd treat a physical threat, shutting down the prefrontal cortex — the part responsible for rational thinking — right when leaders need it most. She and Kwame walk through concrete tools for reclaiming that control in the moment, including the "micro-pause," affect labeling ("name it to tame it"), and how mirror neurons and emotional contagion can either escalate or defuse a tense exchange.
The conversation also covers the broader landscape leaders are navigating today: how to tell credible mental health information apart from social media sensationalism, what's really behind the ADHD self-diagnosis trend, and a candid, mixed-feelings take on AI chatbots as substitutes for real therapeutic support.
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10 September 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 19 minutesBefore You Ask AI for Relationship Advice, Listen to This:
Right now, someone is telling a chatbot about the guy she went on a third date with — and it's giving her a pretty good answer. That should worry you.
Stefanos Sifandos has spent 25 years coaching people through relationships face-to-face, in the room. In this episode, he explains why AI can make you feel self-aware without ever making you change — and why that satiation is quietly keeping people stuck.
We get into:
- Why AI relationship advice feels helpful but isn't the same as real growth
- Why the avoidant partner always leaves first, and the anxious one won't stop chasing
- How to tell if you're doing "the work" or just talking yourself into feeling better
- What actually separates self-awareness from real change
- Whether sunk cost is ever a good reason to stay in a relationship
- What makes a marriage last when love alone isn't enough
If you're in a relationship, thinking about leaving one, or trying to figure out why you keep repeating the same patterns — this conversation is for you.
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8 September 2026, 9:00 am - 53 minutes 36 secondsHow to Turn Fear of the Unknown Into Your Biggest Growth Superpower with Scott Stirrett
Scott Stirrett left a prestigious career at Goldman Sachs to build something from nothing — and it changed everything he understood about growth.
In this episode, Scott (founder of Venture for Canada, author of The Uncertainty Advantage) breaks down why comfort is actually the biggest threat to your growth, and how uncertainty — the thing most of us run from — is a skill you can systematically build.
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3 September 2026, 9:00 am - 39 minutes 33 secondsHow to Control Your Hormones Before They Control You — with David JP Phillips
David JP Phillips reveals how to hack your internal chemistry—on demand—to show up with confidence, presence, and power when it matters most. Drawing from his best-selling book High on Life, David breaks down the six key neurochemicals that control your behavior (dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, endorphin, testosterone, and cortisol), and shows you how to intentionally trigger the right “emotional cocktail” before a high-stakes conversation.
You’ll learn how to:
• Boost testosterone without acting aggressive
• Use oxytocin to build trust—without going soft
• Prime your brain for creativity, calm, and clarity
• Change your state and even influence theirs
If you've ever felt anxious, frozen, or off your game in tough conversations, this episode is your playbook for taking back control—physiologically and psychologically.
Stick around for the end—we even talk about how to prep the other person’s mindset without them noticing.
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31 August 2026, 9:00 am - 57 minutes 24 secondsLearn to Read Anyone, with Sabine Charles
What if reading people wasn't a gift, but a skill you could actually learn?
Dr. Sabine Charles has one of the most unusual resumes you'll hear on this show — she's a former chief audit executive and fraud investigator turned hypnotherapist, and the founder of a leadership framework called MeQ (Mindset, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership Qualities). As an auditor, her job was to walk into a room and convince skeptical executives to change their minds. As a fraud investigator, people would confess things to her in minutes that they'd hidden from everyone else for hours. Her colleagues started asking: what is she doing differently?
If you've ever walked away from a conversation feeling like you just couldn't get through to someone, this episode will change how you think about that problem — and give you a real place to start.
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27 August 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 11 minutesSelena Rezvani: Stop Trying to Prove You Belong—Be Yourself, and Go for It
What if the biggest thing standing between you and your next opportunity is the decision to reject yourself before anyone else can?
Leadership expert and bestselling author Selena Rezvani joins Kwame Christian to explore what it really takes to advocate for yourself, take bigger swings, and keep moving when fear, perfectionism, or self-doubt tells you to play it safe. Selena shares the bold ask that changed the course of her college years, the career rejection she turned into an unexpected opportunity, and why high achievers need to stop tying their worth to their accomplishments. They also unpack the power of a “win or learn” mindset, giving yourself permission to be a beginner, leading with vulnerability, building psychological safety, handling criticism, and showing up as your authentic self.
If you’ve been waiting until you feel confident, qualified, or completely ready to make your move, this conversation is your reminder: take the shot anyway.
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Click here to buy your copy of Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life!24 August 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 14 minutesThe Guy Who Took ChatGPT to Market is now Warning Us About It.: Zack Kass
Everybody knows ChatGPT. Almost no one knows the person who took it to market. In this episode of Big Swings Only, Kwame Christian sits down with Zack Kass, who spent over a decade at the center of the AI industry and led go-to-market strategy at OpenAI — bringing the technology to hundreds of millions of professionals worldwide.
Zack walked away from that career at its peak, driven by a hard truth: technology promised to make life more affordable and instead made housing, healthcare, and education far more expensive, while making distraction and dopamine dirt cheap. In this conversation, he makes the case that people don't actually hate AI — they hate what the last 30 years of screens have done to them — and argues that AI, paired with the right policy choices, could finally deliver on technology's oldest promise: driving down the cost of a good life for everyone, not just the wealthy.
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