That F on your childhood test is still controlling your adult decisions. Big G shares raw moments from being homeless at high school graduation, conversations with young people who call themselves failures, and why hesitation kills more dreams than actual failure ever could. Scott breaks down how childhood punishment creates adult paralysis—and how to rewire beliefs that aren't even yours.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team. Big G lost everything and graduated alone. The difference? They understood failure isn't a period—it's a comma in your story.

Episode 20 taught you alignment (Randy Bishop: "You're not broken, you're becoming"). Episode 21 transforms every setback into character-building fuel. Because the leaders who win aren't the ones who never fail—they're the ones who get back up every single time.

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Randy Bishop woke up Easter morning at 4 AM with a burning question: "Is this all there is?" He'd spent decades becoming who everyone expected—his parents, his school, his church, society—but Randy had disappeared. Operating out of alignment causes everything to go out of whack, and most leaders are drowning not from lack of effort, but from living someone else's values entirely.

In this episode, Randy introduces The RE Method—a simple framework to reflect on beliefs that don't serve you anymore, reframe limiting perspectives, and restore alignment with who you actually are. We discuss forgiving parents who were "kids raising kids," the danger of self-improvement overwhelm, and why living authentically will cost you some relationships (and why that's not a bug, it's a feature).

You're not broken, you're becoming. But you can't become yourself while living everyone else's life.

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Cancer + COVID = Rock Bottom. Brandon Barber shares the "worry window" technique that saved him, why he borrowed his wife's faith, and how shifting from achievement to contribution transformed everything. Big G knows: no one survives devastating loss alone.

Learn: Worry window practice | Worthy opponent mindset | Calming instinctive brain | Faith when you have none

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