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Daily Boost Podcast What Was I Thinking? Why Smart People Say Yes to the Wrong Goals October 16, 2026 | Episode 5565 Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description You're six months into something. It's 2 a.m. You're staring at the ceiling thinking, what was I thinking? Nobody forced you. You said yes. Sometimes you even saw it coming and did it anyway. Today we're digging into what I call the what-was-I-thinking goal. Why smart people say yes to the wrong things, why we stay too long once we start, and the simple checks you can run before your next yes. Feel the middle, not the finish. Set your exit point before you begin. Your future self will thank you. Featured Story For years, people have asked me what kind of clients I work with. I tell them, let's talk about the ones who need help staying married. They look at me funny. Wait, I thought you did business coaching. I do. But so many of the business owners I work with are trading their relations

Daily Boost Podcast Wisdom of the Wife: 10 Things She’s Been Right About for 20 Years October 15, 2026 | Episode 5564 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description My wife has been right about a lot of things for 20 years. Annoying, isn’t it? Today I’m sharing the best advice I’ve collected from her, with my man explanation of what each one teaches about business and life. Some of it’s about skimming instead of seeing. Some of it’s about listening instead of fixing. And some of it’s about going to bed instead of answering that 11:30 p.m. email. Husbands, listen closely. Wives, you have more power than you think, because believe it or not, we’re listening. This one might keep you married. Featured Story Last week my insurance company sent me a Cologuard kit. If you’re young and don’t know what that is, lucky you. I didn’t want to. Nobody wants to do it. So I did what guys do. I put it off for about a week. My wife doesn’t negotia

Daily Boost Podcast 10 Questions That Get Your Head Straight About Work and Life October 14, 2026 | Episode 5563 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Some weeks you need a pep talk. Other weeks you need better questions. Today I'm giving you 10 of them. Use them as journal prompts, talk them over with your spouse, or sit with them on your drive. They cover the work you want to be doing a year from now, what to hand off, who you want to serve, what you want to be known for, and the money numbers you've kept vague. I'm in this category too. I spend a lot of time keeping my own head straight. Grab a pen. Your answers might surprise you. Featured Story Twenty years ago, my wife Cheryl was sick with cancer. Even then, she had all these plans. Little things she wanted to do. She kept saying, I'm going to do that before I die. Then one day she got dehydrated. Her energy just disappeared. From that day forward, she was mostly in

Daily Boost Podcast Your Life Gets Calmer When Everyone Knows What to Expect October 13, 2026 | Episode 5562 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Most of the friction in your life isn't random. It usually comes from an expectation nobody said out loud. When work, your marriage, or your health doesn't turn out the way you counted on, it wigs you out. You feel stuck. You're not broken. You're in the gap between an old expectation and what's real right now. Today I'm breaking expectations into three kinds: what you expect of yourself, what you expect of others, and what others expect of you. Get clear on all three, say them out loud, and watch how much calmer life gets. Featured Story A couple of days ago somebody told me, "Scott, you can always expect me to show up authentically, unapologetically myself." I didn't say anything. But I thought, well, damn, you might want to work on that. That line wasn't working for them. T

Daily Boost Podcast Why Your Biggest Breakthrough Comes Right After Your Hardest Season October 12, 2026 | Episode 5561 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Have you ever come through a brutal stretch of life and found yourself thinking differently about everything on the other side? That's not luck. Today we're talking about quantum change. Not the woo-woo kind. The kind researchers have studied for years, with a pattern so consistent they can name it. I'm walking you through the four marks of a real before-and-after moment, and the one thing that almost always comes first. If life feels shaken right now and you can't seem to move, this one's for you. You might be closer to lift-off than you think. Featured Story Twenty years ago, my first wife passed away. Nothing about that season was easy. Something shifted in me then. It was vivid. I didn't plan it or schedule it. It showed up uninvited, and it stuck. I refuse to g

Daily Boost Podcast How to Stay Focused on Your Vision October 9, 2026 | Episode 5560 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description You built something good. You're making money, people count on you, and you're proud of it. But life keeps getting in the way. So when do you finally get to do what you started all this for? Today we're talking about your founder's vision. What it is, why busy never goes away, and how to protect it from every detour on your path. I'm giving you one simple question to ask before you say yes to anything new. Know your vision. Defend it. Live it. Let's go. Featured Story Years ago, I sat in a Tony Robbins event, Date with Destiny. We did what everybody does. Write down your values. Honesty, integrity, love, the big list. After doing this work professionally for a long time, I noticed something. Every value people write down either moves them away from what they don't like or toward what they want. Nobo

Daily Boost Podcast Why Your Team Isn't Motivated October 8, 2026 | Episode 5559 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Everybody wants that feeling. You get out of bed, you feel great, and you can't wait to get going. Your team wants it too. Most leaders try to motivate people with a mission statement on the wall. It doesn't land. People need a mission that fires them up personally, not just the company. Today I'm breaking down my acronym, BAM—a big, awesome, motivating mission. We'll talk about what it is, why it scares you a little, and how giving one to the people around you changes everything. Listen in and find yours. Featured Story I've spent my whole life in radio, so I listen hard. I hear between the lines, the breath, the pause before someone answers. Years ago I noticed something in person, and now I see it on Zoom calls all the time. I'll be an hour into a conversation with a sharp, successful client. Maybe a P

Daily Boost Podcast How to Avoid Burnout When You Own the Business October 7, 2026 | Episode 5558 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Some days you can't tell if you're burnt out or just excited. But when it's real burnout, you know. When you own the business, the work never stops. There's always one more email, one more call, one more thing. Today I'm sharing tools I've taught for about 20 years and just taught my inner circle again this week. Default behaviors that take the thinking out of your day. Rock-solid boundaries that cut the drama. And one shift that changed how I run my whole business. Listen in and get your energy back. Featured Story Years ago, I did morning radio. I'd get to the station around 5:15, go on the air at six, and be off at ten. Four hours on. Seven hours in the building, tops. When I walked out, I turned it off. I was done. Then I became an entrepreneur and did what everybody does. I worked f

Daily Boost Podcast The Best Businesses Are Boring October 6, 2026 | Episode 5557 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Most of us chase the shiny thing. A new idea every morning, a new plan every week, and somehow the chaos never stops. Today I'm making the case for boring. The best businesses run on three things: leads, a clear offer, and fulfillment that works like clockwork. Your customers don't care what you think they need. They care about the outcome they came for. I'm walking you through the points I shared with my group this week, from money as the scorecard to letting passion drive while the math decides. Press play, then build something gloriously boring. Featured Story My wife picked out a Tesla Model Y, and suddenly I'm deep in a whole new world. Charging, kilowatt-hours, calling electricians, trying to figure out who even does this stuff. Finally, I stopped and went looking for a company that only installs T

Daily Boost Podcast Be the Change October 5, 2026 | Episode 5556 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Maybe you want to change your job, your relationship, or your whole life. Maybe you want to change the world. One truth sits under all of it. You have to change before anything else does. Today is a purely motivational show, with Gandhi, Tolstoy, Einstein, Rumi, and Churchill along for the ride. I'll also get practical, because inspiration alone won't move you. You'll hear why I'll risk getting fired to tell a client what they don't want to hear, and why the thing you grip tightest is holding you back. Let it go and start today. Featured Story When I started as a disc jockey, I was a shock jock. Listen to me back then and you'd notice something. I sounded the same as I do now. Same energy, same delivery. What was different was my content, my goal, and my mission. And back then, it didn't work that well. I got in trouble all the time. I didn't have to become a different person. I had to change

Daily Boost Podcast Are You a Rock Star October 3, 2026 | Episode 5555 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Everybody wants to be a rock star. Or do they? Some people only sing lead. Others are happy playing bass in the back and stepping up when somebody hands them the mic. When my son was in his twenties, he was sure he'd be the rock star. I asked him one question that stopped him cold. Today I share that question and why I ask every client some version of it by the second or third call. There's no wrong answer here. The only mistake is not being honest with yourself about which one you really are. Featured Story When my son Austin was in his early twenties, he was bound and determined to be a rock star. He headed to Los Angeles, played guitar, sang, cut CDs, and worked the open mic nights at the Whisky a Go Go. He was good. He just wasn't that good. So I asked him, what happens when you become a member of the band instead? He didn't know what to do with that. Playing any other role had never

Daily Boost Podcast Making Decisions October 1, 2026 | Episode 5554 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description You're making a decision right now. Stay and listen, or move on? That tiny choice shows up all day, every day, and a lot of us are stuck. Smart people with MBAs and PhDs come to me confused. Too many options, too much information, and too many hours arguing with a chatbot that can't decide for them. Today I'll share a formula the Stoics talked about around 300 BC. Emotion plus logic equals your outcome. Learn how both sides work together, and you'll make your next big call faster and with a lot more confidence. Featured Story A few years ago, I picked out a house right on the beach in Daytona. Beachfront. I was ready to go. Then I found out my wife wanted to raise alpacas. Within a second, emotion took over, and we bought a 12-acre ranch about 15 miles from the ocean. I learned to drive a tractor, clear fields, and put up fences. Four years later, she said, I made an emotional decision that

Daily Boost Podcast You Are in Charge September 30, 2026 | Episode 5553 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Change happens every day, whether you like it or not. Sometimes it happens to you. Sometimes you make it happen. And sometimes you change for the worse before you change for the better. After 20 years of coaching, I've noticed people change when they finally wear themselves out. They hit the that's-it moment. I'm done. I'm out of here. Then comes frustration, and it turns out frustration is your friend. It pushes you toward the one answer nobody else can hand you. You're the boss of you. Stand up, take a step, and repeat. Featured Story Brittany told me something last week that made me laugh. She said, " You did your job too good, man. And then she fired me. I'm proud of her, so I'll use her name. When we started, she was waiting for someone else to hand her the answer, me included. We worked through the frustration together, the days she wanted to quit and the days she was mad at me. T

Daily Boost Podcast Practice Doesn't Make Perfect September 29, 2026 | Episode 5552 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description My band teacher handed me a tenor sax in sixth grade and said, " Go home and practice. Practice makes perfect, right? I believed that for years. Then I noticed something else. Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Whatever you repeat every day becomes who you are, and that goes for the good stuff and the ugly stuff. Today we look at stinking thinking, bad manners, sloppy relationship habits, and the gym. Then we flip it. Choose what you practice on purpose, and the life you want starts to stick. Start paying attention today. Featured Story My client Dave came to me wanting to start a podcast, and he wanted it to be great. He put in the work on Outside the Walls, too. But if you'd heard those first couple of episodes, you would have laughed. I did. So did Dave. He wasn't lazy. He practiced hard. He didn't know what to practice, and you can't practice perfect

Daily Boost Podcast Expanding Your Comfort Zone September 28, 2026 | Episode 5551 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Get out of your comfort zone. People say it like it is gospel, and most of the time I think they are flat wrong. I like my comfort zone. You probably like yours too. The real question is not how to escape it. It is how to stretch it just far enough that you are standing on the edge instead of hiding in the middle. A listener wrote me from a place a lot of you are sitting in right now. Her email changed the way I talk about this, and I read the whole thing on today's show. Featured Story An email showed up, and I read it out loud slowly, exactly as she wrote it, because I didn't want to change a single word. She said all she had ever wanted was to experience a little comfort zone. She'd had success these last few years, and it cost her. Actions she didn't want to take. Digging deep when all she wanted was to bury her head in the sand. Bad marriage out of her life. Big burdensom

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