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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 langu

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

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

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

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

Daily Boost Podcast What Are Your Traditions? September 18, 2026 | Episode 5545 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description We're almost halfway through September, and the holidays will be here before you know it. Most of us ride along with whatever traditions show up. Somebody else decorates. Somebody else throws the party. Somebody else makes the season feel like something worth showing up for. But somebody had to start that tradition. Today I want you to think about the people who create the moments the rest of us get to enjoy, and what happens when you get ahead of the season instead of letting it run you over. You get to decide what happens this year. Featured Story We were walking around the block the other night and stopped at the end of the street where my neighbor Hope lives. Her house is decorated year-round. Landscaping is her stress relief, so she's always out there. But come Christmas, she goes all out, and she's already moving things around, getting ready. I asked her if she was decorati

Daily Boost Podcast Better Than A To-Do List September 17, 2026 | Episode 5544 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description You like getting things done. You've got a to-do list, maybe two, and you still end the day wondering what actually moved. I did the same thing until a flight instructor changed one word for me, and it changed how I run my whole life. Today I'll show you the difference between chasing check marks and doing the three things that matter. It's old school. It takes about ten seconds a day. And it works whether you run a company, a household, or both. Listen, then try it before lunch. Featured Story When I learned to fly, I was in a Cessna 172 and I was terrified of the preflight. You're absorbing a hundred years of aviation in a few weeks, and there's a checklist for everything, because at five thousand feet a missed item is a real problem. So there I am walking the plane, reading, checking, reading, checking, knuckles white. My instructor watched me sweat and said, " You're stressing ou

Daily Boost Podcast Old Motivation Forever Truth September 16, 2026 | Episode 5543 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description My internet went out Tuesday. A perfect day plan, a full slate of coaching calls, and everything stopped. So I recorded this one offline and took my next client call next door at Dairy Queen with a Blizzard in my hand. Which fits, because today I'm going old school. Napoleon Hill wrote about setting a major definite purpose and letting nothing stop you for 30 days. A hundred years later, I've watched thousands of people try it. Half of this episode is his wisdom. The other half is what really happens when life gets in the way. You need both. Featured Story A while back, I decided to pull away from AI in my creative work. Fine for tools. Not for ideas. I wanted those to come from me again. Then one night I'm sleeping hard, hours of dreaming, and the ideas start pouring in. Great stuff. In the dream I'm scrambling to write it all down before it slips away. Somewhere in the middle o

Daily Boost Podcast Reinvent Yourself September 15, 2026 | Episode 5542 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Ever decide to change something, then trip over yourself a week later and wonder why you bothered? You're not alone. Most reinventions don't fail because the goal was wrong. They fail because a few pieces were missing before you ever started. Today I'm sharing what I told a friend at the gym who wanted to reinvent himself without stumbling. It's the short version of what I'll teach inside Operation Reinvention, and you can start using it before this episode ends. Decide. Know your why. Pick your what. Own it. Then move. Press play and I'll walk you through each one. Featured Story I was at the gym this morning when Jacob walked up. I know him well. He said, "Scott, I hear you talk about this reinvention thing. I don't want to go all in, but is there a way to start without failing?" Fair question. Most people stumble, change their mind, and quit before anything sticks. So we talked right the

Daily Boost Podcast Remember What Makes You Happy September 14, 2026 | Episode 5541 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description You're the boss of you. I'm the boss of me. And every week I watch people who know exactly what they'd love to do wait for the weekend to do it. That's a lot of Mondays through Fridays spent on hold. Today I'm handing you a challenge. It'll sound counterintuitive, then you'll try it and go, " That was easy. I'll walk you through six zones where your passion lives, and why a couple of small things from those zones today beat all of them on Saturday. Do it today. Maybe tomorrow too. You'll feel more fulfilled and more in control. Featured Story I live in Florida. I see it all the time. Somebody spends forty years caught up in the kids, the job, the traffic, the cost of everything. They know what they love. They'll get to it later. Then they turn 65, sell the house up north, and roll into town. I escaped the great north. Now it's my turn to live. And then they check out. Heart at

Daily Boost Podcast Outsmart AI Right Now September 11, 2026 | Episode 5540 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Twenty years ago, Tim Ferriss told us to leverage our brains and let automation do the grunt work. I bought in, built a business on it, and it worked. Then AI showed up with the same promise. Robots do the hard stuff; you get to be creative. Three years in, AI is writing the music and making the films. Guess what's left for you. Today I'm giving you a take on AI you haven't heard, straight from a coaching call with my client Ralph. It's dark, a little funny, and it ends with the one thing AI can't touch. Featured Story Picture your head as a coconut. AI walked up with a drill, bored a little hole in the top, and you didn't feel a thing. Coconuts don't feel anything. Then it slid in a long straw and sucked your brains out. For some of you, it was a sip. For the college crowd, it was a lot. It poured all of it into its own brain. And then came the twist. You can have it back for twenty bu

Daily Boost Podcast Everything Is Possible September 10, 2026 | Episode 5539 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Have you ever had one of those days where you're trying everything and nothing moves? You push, you plan, you show up, and the door still won't open. I've had plenty of them. Today I'm sharing a story about a man I met near the end of his life, a small pin he put on my shirt, and six words he said that I've carried for over 20 years. Those six words changed what I believed was possible. They built everything I have now, one day at a time. Listen. You might need them today. Featured Story The cameras were set. The crew was ready. Grandmaster Lee was late. He'd had a rough night; the cancer was winning, and he'd spent part of it in the hospital. Then the door opened, and he strode in as if nothing had happened and Sat down. Ready. He talked for two hours, and when he was done, he was done. Then something crossed his face. He got up, climbed over cables and light stands to a desk in the

Daily Boost Podcast Design Your Perfect Day September 9, 2026 | Episode 5538 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description I haven't taught this one in many moons, but it's been central to my coaching for close to seventeen years. It's called your average perfect day, and the first time clients do it, it freaks them out. Then everything changes. Not because it's magic. Because writing down how you actually want to live wakes your brain up to what you want. I'm going to dare you to try it. Most of you won't, and that's fine. But the ones who do end up looking around five years later at a life that matches the page. Featured Story My wife and I don't need a car. The one we have is fine. But I've been working on her about a Tesla, and now she wants one, and we're sitting right there on the edge of pulling the trigger. Then I noticed something. Everywhere I go now, all I see are Teslas. Parking lots, the highway, the grocery store. They were always there. My brain didn't bother telling me about them until the th

Daily Boost Podcast Honest With Yourself Decision Making September 8, 2026 | Episode 5537 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Yesterday I told you about the young man at the gym who couldn't pick a career. Today I'll show you what I'd actually do with him, and with you. Being stuck isn't a one-time problem you solve and retire from. Solve one thing and something else shows up. So I dump it all on the table, look for the pattern, and get honest about the direction I'm already leaning. Most people won't admit that last part, and that's the whole holdup. Bring your mess and let's sort through it together. Featured Story When I met my wife, Joy, I never worried about whether we'd get married. That sounds cold, but it wasn't. I put my toe in the water; we had something good, and my logic was simple. If it's good, it probably gets better. If it went bad, we'd unwind it long before a wedding. So I quit auditing the ending and worked what was in front of me. Infatuation, girlfriend, fiancé, married. Every

Daily Boost Podcast Stuck Lost Confused Ick September 7, 2026 | Episode 5536 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description It's Labor Day, and I woke up thinking about a conversation I have almost every single day of my life. A young man crossed the gym floor last week to thank me, then told me about a decision he can't make. Two good options. No way to choose. If you've ever stalled out in front of a choice like that, you know the feeling. Stuck, lost, confused, ick. I'm not handing you a blueprint today. I'm going to show you why you don't have one yet, and the one move that changes it. Listen. Featured Story I was walking out of the gym when a young man came across the floor and asked if I was Scott Smith. We'd talked in the sauna months earlier, and he wanted to say thanks. He's a military officer in his final semester, choosing between infantry and aviation, walking and listening and projecting twenty years forward, trying to settle it. I could hear his answer in his voice before he could. So I asked th

Daily Boost Podcast More Gooder Than Badder September 4, 2026 | Episode 5535 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Years ago I made up a phrase to help somebody who was stuck. Be more gooder than badder. Terrible grammar, and it works better than almost anything else I teach. I stopped saying it on this show about five years ago. People still email me and tell me they're living it. So today I'm bringing it back with a pile of examples: sleep, money, water, marriage, your phone, your kids, your mood. No framework. No methodology. Just one simple question you can ask yourself all day long. Where am I right now? Let's go find out together. Featured Story I used to fall face first into a basket of French fries. Not a few. The whole basket. Then I'd think about ordering onion rings on top of it. That's how I stayed fat for a very long time, and I told myself it was fine because tomorrow I'd start over. Tomorrow never showed up. What finally changed wasn't willpower. It was one small adjustment I made at

Daily Boost Podcast What Makes You Procrastinate September 3, 2026 | Episode 5534 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Procrastination is one of those clubs we all joined without signing up, and nobody's letting us cancel the membership. I've been coaching this for 20 years, and the thing most people get wrong is right at the start. You think it's a time problem. Your schedule is packed; you can't fit it in. You need to make time. That's not it. Once you name what's actually happening, you stop reaching for willpower and start reaching for something that works. I'll walk you through it today and give you the one move that changes everything. Featured Story I was sitting at my desk this morning when a message popped up from the chatbot on my website. A gentleman wanted to know how to deal with procrastination. I answered him back in about 30 seconds. I freaked him out a little. He didn't expect to type a note into a chat window and have an actual human answer that fast. But the question stuck with

Daily Boost Podcast Caught in a Bad Situation September 2, 2026 | Episode 5533 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Life gets in the way. You plan well, do the work on yourself, and then something lands in your lap that doesn't feel right. A few months ago I got tangled up in a mess I didn't create. Everybody worked hard to convince me I was wrong. I wasn't experienced enough. I didn't know the whole story. I stayed calm and made every choice on purpose. Four and a half months later, I found out I was right. Then I quit, and it became a win for everybody. Something is sitting on your back today. Let's get it off. Featured Story Last week I sat down with one of the principals in this whole thing. Four and a half months of being told I was too green to understand, that I was missing pieces of the story. He finally lifted his head and asked me what had happened. So I told him. Calm. No finger-pointing. Just here's what you don't know. You could watch it land. Then my phone started ringing with other

Daily Boost Podcast You Don't Need a Why September 1, 2026 | Episode 5532 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Every coach on the planet tells you to find your why. I'm going to tell you something different, because I've watched too many good people sit around whining about their why and going absolutely nowhere with it. There's something that comes first. It's smaller, it's simpler, and it's the thing that actually gets you moving. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, and you'll catch it happening in your own head all day long. Then I'll hand you the one action you're not taking. It's easier than the advice you've been given. Let's get to work. Featured Story In June I told you I was starting a community. About two hundred of you raised your hands and said, "Count me in." Then I went quiet. Not another word for months. My mouth got out ahead of my brain, sure. But that wasn't the real problem. I knew what I wanted to build, and I hadn't figured out how to build it right. I wanted you to have a coa

Daily Boost Podcast Ambition vs Peace of Mind August 31, 2026 | Episode 5531 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description You set the goal. You hit the goal. And then you stand there, wondering why it doesn't feel the way you thought it would. I've watched that happen hundreds of times, and I finally figured out what's missing. It isn't ambition. It's the ground you're standing on when you launch. Today I'm walking you through what I call a peaceful base — the six areas that have to be solid before anything big you build will hold. Time. Body. Mind. Money. Relationships. Meaning. Go big. Just don't launch off a hot mess. Let's get your foundation right. Featured Story I brought this whole idea up with my wife over breakfast, and she asked me to explain it in a way she could actually feel. So I pointed at her laptop. Every single morning, before she eats, she flips it open and balances our books. House and business, both. She looks at the numbers, sees that we're fine, closes the laptop, and her whole day