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Daily Boost Podcast

Be Honest with Yourself

September 25, 2026 | Episode 5550

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Burying the lead is a journalism term. It means you know the important part, and you keep talking about everything else first.

I got called into my boss's office over it when I was nineteen years old. I have been catching myself at it ever since, and I catch other people doing it every single day.

It costs you more than you think. You say you cannot focus. You say you cannot get moving. You say you do not have enough money. Every one of those is a buried lead, and today we go dig it up.

Featured Story

I was on a call with a client, and she was very good at the wander. More time to find, more to learn, more advice to get. Even cleaning the garage had somehow climbed the list.

So I stopped her and asked why she was avoiding the one thing that mattered most to her.

The tears came fast. This was not the first time either. Smart people, accomplished people, and I watch their body language just crash.

Then she said something I have not been able to shake. She told me she thought she had been talking about what was important.

Important Points

* When you say you cannot focus, you are focusing. You are just pointing it at the wrong thing, and you know it.

* Changing how you communicate to keep everybody else comfortable is the fastest way never to get what you want.

* Ask yourself how you want to feel, not how you are supposed to feel. The answer shows up faster than you expect.

Memorable Quotes

* I am just telling myself a story that is comforting and sounds good in my mind. We all do that—every one of us.

* Do not hurt anybody's feelings, but do not worry about stepping on their toes if they put them under your foot.

* They just needed permission. I did not invent that. I had enough time in the seat to realize that is all it was.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Sit down when this show is over and ask yourself one simple question out loud. How do I want to feel this week?

* Write that answer down in your own handwriting, then name the thing you have been talking around instead of chasing.

* Say that thing first in your very next conversation, before the setup and before the story, and watch what shifts.

Chapters

0:15 - Burying the lead and why it wrecks your whole week

2:20 - The homework question I used to give out on Fridays

4:00 - My boss calls me in and asks what I am hiding

6:36 - I ask a client why she is avoiding what matters

7:26 - Her answer came with tears, and I have seen it before

10:28 - The permission slip that nobody ever hands you

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Daily Boost Podcast

Being Intentional Makes Life Interesting

September 24, 2026 | Episode 5549

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Be intentional. People throw that phrase around like everybody already knows what it means. Most of us do not.

There is the automatic kind. Get out of bed, walk the dogs, answer the email. That is fine, and it is not what I am talking about. I mean the kind that wakes you up at three in the morning.

Twenty years ago I set one of those. It changed everything about how my life looks today, and it started with a question somebody asked me across a dinner table. I will tell you exactly what I said back.

Featured Story

Little French restaurant out in Mount Dora, Florida. It is a gourmet pizza place now, and we went back a couple of months ago and decided the pizza beats the French stuff anyway.

That was the first day I held her hand. Right there at the table, she looked at me and said, " So, Mr. Smith, what are your intentions exactly?

I did not miss a beat. I told her I was going to do everything I could to get her to fall in love with me, marry me, and spend the rest of our lives together.

Her jaw dropped. She smiled. She took a sip of wine.

Important Points

* Automatic intention gets you out of bed and through the day. Real intention wakes you at three in the morning.

* Good intentions are rarely enough on their own. They have to become a goal, a timeline, and something you say out loud.

* You and your dream do not live on some island. Tell the people involved what is on your mind, or you will stay stuck.

Memorable Quotes

* You will never be happier than when you are on a mission, have a purpose, and do it intentionally.

* My intentions were simple. I was going to do everything I could to get her to fall in love with me and marry me.

* I was so intentional and 100% certain. It was already done in my mind, so why wait?

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Name the one intention that actually matters to you right now, in a single sentence you could say to a stranger.

* Turn that sentence into a goal with a real date attached, so it stops being a feeling and becomes an actual plan.

* Say it out loud to the person it affects the most, and then let their reaction pull you straight into the work.

Chapters

0:14 - Everybody says be intentional, and nobody explains it

2:37 - The difference between automatic and real intention

4:34 - What I decided in the months after meeting Joy

5:57 - She asked my intentions, and I did not miss a beat

8:25 - The electric slide I danced alone at the Ocean Deck

9:20 - A paper straw ring and the answer I was hoping for

Intention is more than a plan. The dinner table question my wife asked me and the answer that set up the next twenty years.

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Daily Boost Podcast

How to Silence the World

September 23, 2026 | Episode 5548

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

You listen to podcasts. You listen to your people. You listen to AI and to whoever is loudest in your feed. When was the last time you listened to yourself?

I grew up talking. My mouth got me in trouble, and my mouth got me out of trouble, so the old advice about listening twice as much as you speak took me a while to swallow. Then I took it somewhere almost nobody expects.

Today I hand you a four-letter word that will change how your whole week feels. People yell at me when I say it. It works anyway.

Featured Story

I went dark this week. Not all the way. I was buzzing in my Face Your Passion group, chatting with people, loving every minute of it. Then I slipped away and just sat with my own brain for a few days.

You can hear it if you listen closely to this week's shows. Those are my thoughts, nobody else's.

Then my buddy at the gym came looking for me. He had not seen me in about a week because I was there at different hours. Man, I have not heard from you. We ended up having one of the best conversations we have had in months.

Important Points

* You are not short on information. You are short on time alone with your own brain, and that is a different problem.

* Going dark is not going cold. You keep caring, and you keep showing up; you stop asking for permission first.

* Use every tool you want to figure the thing out. Then close the laptop and make the call yourself, out loud, alone.

Memorable Quotes

* Going dark makes life brighter. Your creative mind flourishes; you feel more present; you find more meaning in life.

* We have lost permission to think for ourselves. We cannot move forward without social approval from those around us.

* Songs used to be written by somebody who sat down and wrote a song. It came out of them, not out of fifteen people.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Pick one decision you have been crowdsourcing and stop asking about it—no calls, no posts, no chat window open.

* Block a quiet stretch this week, sit down with that decision, and write whatever your own brain hands you first.

* Come back out and act on that decision before anybody else weighs in, then notice who comes looking for you afterward.

Chapters

0:17 - The question I ask coaching clients most often

2:10 - My mouth got me in trouble and out of it too

3:17 - Attention spans are gone, and nobody noticed

4:31 - The four-letter word people yell at me about

6:45 - What happens when you stop asking everybody else

8:18 - Why people come looking for you when you vanish

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Daily Boost Podcast

Making Change Easier

September 22, 2026 | Episode 5547

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Change is constant. You already know that. What most people miss is why change feels so hard even when you want it.

I had a long conversation with a friend about this, somebody who takes chances for a living, and she handed me the answer before I could finish my own thought. It came down to one sentence about what you're willing to risk.

Today I walk you through three things that make change easier. The mindset you need, the one thing you must never give up, and what to do about the fear that shows up every time.

Featured Story

Over at Skydive DeLand, I decided to jump out of an airplane by myself. No tandem instructor strapped to my back this time: just me and a parachute.

It took a whole day of ground school before they would let me near the door. Somewhere in that classroom I did the math in my head. I am stretching my comfort zone here, but mostly this is safe. Most people do not die jumping out of an airplane. Believe it or not, they do not.

So I went up, and I jumped. And when I landed, I figured out something about myself that nobody ever warns you about.

Important Points

* A growth mindset does not mean you can do anything. It means you are willing to expand, and willingness is enough.

* Your peaceful base is not the thing holding you back. It is the exact reason you want to go after something more.

* Fear shows up every time you want change. Knowledge helps some. Wisdom from someone who already did it helps more.

Memorable Quotes

* Everybody gets scared and freezes. I push through the fear and go as long as I'm mostly sure I won't lose what I built.

* Your foundation must remain while you expand. The very thing that makes you comfortable is what makes you restless.

* If AI told me how to pack a parachute, I would not jump out of that airplane. What I want is wisdom and experience.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Name the base you refuse to risk- the money and the home and the people- and write down what keeps it standing.

* Pick one expansion that leaves that base completely untouched, small enough that losing it would cost you nothing real.

* Borrow some wisdom from somebody who already did it, then take that leap before the fear talks you out of it.

Chapters

0:15 - Change never stops, so why does it still rattle us

1:52 - April, the animal trainer, asks me a hard question

3:46 - Why people freeze instead of taking the leap

5:30 - Growth mindset, minus the you-can-do-anything lie

5:56 - My solo skydive and the math that made me jump

7:16 - Why wisdom beats knowledge when the fear shows up

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Daily Boost Podcast

Power Of Transitional Identity

September 21, 2026 | Episode 5546

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

You're stuck somewhere between who you've been and who you want to become. That gap is where most people quit.

17 years ago, I built something to close it, and my clients now call it one of the most important pieces of Face Your Passion. It's called a transitional identity. It gives you an honest name for yourself while you're still building, so you don't have to fake anything.

No pretending. No waiting for the scale or the bank account to permit you to feel good. Just the truth about who you are today, pointed at where you're headed.

Featured Story

When I started Motivation to Move, I taught kickboxing in a gym, so most people came to me about their bodies. Every fall, the same conversation. A Christmas party on the calendar, a dress she wanted to wear, sixty pounds she wanted gone by December.

I knew the math. Nobody drops sixty pounds in twelve weeks. But I also knew that if I could get her moving, the person on the inside would start changing long before the scale did.

So I quit talking about December. I handed her five words to say instead, and the whole thing turned around.

Important Points

* A transitional identity lets you stop being who you were without pretending to be someone you have not become yet.

* Fake it till you make it keeps failing you because, deep down, you're still second-guessing every bit of it.

* Name what you already own today- determination and resilience- then point it at the person you want to become.

Memorable Quotes

* A transitional identity is a way not to be the person you are today and not pretend to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

* It doesn't happen until it happens. Take the thing that actually works, grounded in reality, and say that's who we are.

* I don't care what identity you put on yourself. Make it honest. Look in the mirror and say, I'm still working on it.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Write down who you are right now in plain, honest words, including the strengths you already carry into this change.

* Add where you're headed, then say the whole thing out loud as a journey you're on instead of a finish line you hit.

* Wear that line every single day for a month, then swap it out once it fits too easily and pulls you nowhere new.

Chapters

0:15 - The framework I built for confused clients

2:41 - Why a quantum change always starts with disruption

3:56 - The kickboxing gym and a woman with a deadline

5:48 - Little black dress in progress, and why it works

8:26 - Living inside the identity before you earn it

9:37 - Change your line next month and climb again

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