If you are broke, pissed, and still showing up, this episode is for you.

This is not an episode for people posting wins, screenshots, or fake momentum. This is for the builders in the middle. The ones doing everything they are told to do and still getting hit from every direction. The ones paying bills while trying to build a future that has not paid them back yet.

The middle is lonely. You have outgrown old circles but have not earned your place in the new ones yet. You are building things you have never built before, often with less money, more pressure, and more responsibility than you expected. The movie montage version of this phase skips the part where you are angry, exhausted, and quietly questioning whether any of this is working.

This episode walks through that reality without sugarcoating it.

We talk about why being broke again does not mean you are broken. Why information is not your problem but decision fatigue is. Why this is not burnout but constraint. Why the math not mathing does not mean the dream is dead, it means you are in the lag. Why momentum feels like a lie in the middle. Why anger is not the enemy but direction matters. Why mechanical discipline beats motivation every time. Why silence is strategic and goals should be private until they are done. Why progress always looks like a mess before it looks like anything at all.

Most importantly, we talk about responsibility. No one is coming to save you. No one is coming to give permission. That is not a curse, it is the point. When you own everything that impacts you, your life gets simpler, even if it does not get easier.

If you are tired of building but still building anyway, you are not alone. That may be the emotional state of 2026, but it is also where real leaders are forged.

If this episode hit you, share it with someone who needs to hear they are not crazy and they are not alone. If you want to connect with others walking this road, reach out. Personal relationships are becoming more valuable, not less, and this journey is lighter when you are not carrying it by yourself.

Everything you are doing matters, even if it does not feel like it yet.

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Most people don’t fail because they’re bad at sales.

They fail because they never start.

In this episode of Old Man Energy, Flint Anderson breaks down the real reason sales feels heavy, stressful, and overwhelming and it has nothing to do with scripts, confidence, or talent.

It’s the untouched prospects.

The unanswered questions.

The lists you keep avoiding.

Flint walks through the race analogy that exposes why people stay stuck, why preparation becomes procrastination, and why starting forces results most people are trying to avoid.

This episode is not just for sales professionals.

If you’ve ever avoided a hard conversation, delayed action, or waited to feel “ready,” this applies to you.

You’ll learn:

Why uncontacted leads create more stress than rejection

Why sales is not persuasion but qualification and sorting

Why call reluctance is really identity protection

How avoidance trains your nervous system to stay stuck

Why early feedback is a lie and volume creates clarity

How to mechanically remove stress by turning question marks into answers

In the second half of the episode, Flint gives a no-CRM, no-excuses execution framework you can start today.

Pen, paper, phone. That’s it.

He breaks down:

What “touching a prospect” actually means

The only outcomes that matter

How many calls to make daily

Why scripts fail and questions win

What to track so failure becomes data

How to burn your lead list instead of letting it own you

The dragon guarding the gate is not rejection.

It’s delay.

The gate has always been open.

The prize has never changed.

Only the time you waste avoiding the work stands in the way.

If revenue is stalled and growth feels impossible, this episode is your line in the sand.

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Most people don’t need more motivation. They need a mirror they can’t look away from.

In Episode 93 of the Old Man Energy Podcast, Flint Anderson breaks down why brutal honesty is a daily discipline, not a one-time breakthrough. If your results don’t match your story, the story is the lie. “I’m overwhelmed” usually means you haven’t decided. “I’m waiting on clarity” usually means you’re avoiding responsibility. And the longer you avoid it, the more it starts to feel inevitable.

Then we go into Part Two: audacity. Brutal honesty without audacity becomes self-flagellation. Audacity is the willingness to act before you feel ready, take up space without permission, price higher than your comfort level, and move while it’s still ugly. Confidence isn’t imagined. It’s built through action and feedback.

If you’ve been stuck in the same cycles, same money stress, same conversations, same promises you quietly break to yourself, this is your wake-up call.

Hit pause and do the one thing you already know you’ve been avoiding.

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