The Empowered Life with Dustin Vaughn Warncke Podcast

The Empowered Life with Dustin Vaughn Warncke Podcast

The Empowered Life podcast with Dustin Vaughn Warncke is your guide to unlocking your life’s greatest potential. Through inspiring conversations and practical advice, Dustin explores the interconnectedness of personal growth, professional success, and a life filled with love and light. Discover how to cultivate a mindset of empowerment, achieve your goals, and create a meaningful impact on the world. We do this living with purpose, meaning, and significance Join Dustin as your guide to learning about unlocking your life’s ULTIMATE potential. Through inspiring conversations with special guests and proven wisdom, Dustin explores the interconnected values of personal growth, professional success, and a wholesome life filled with love and light. A show is based on tactical and practical concepts for life’s greatest successes and achieving your goals, as well as full of inspiration to help you live your best life right now. Discover how to cultivate a mindset of empowerment, achieve success, and create a meaningful impact on the world, all while nurturing genuine connections and living with purpose, meaning, and significance...

Episodes

August 31, 2025 45 mins

What really matters in the meaning and purpose of this life experience and embodiment? 

What happens when a flood comes through your area and people who you know lose everything?

We talk about the summer floods here in Central Texas and the meaning of life when disasters like this, manmade or natural, happen in our world.

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In this powerful episode of The Empowered Life with Dustin Vaughn Warncke, Dustin sits down with Steve Itzkowitz, the author of From Diseased to Destiny. Steve shares his remarkable journey of transformation—from battling illness and hardship to discovering renewed purpose, faith, and destiny.

Listeners will be inspired as Steve unpacks the lessons behind his book, offering hope, resilience, and a reminder that even in life’s darke...

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Dustin and Lori go way back to their middle and high school years and even both attended the same college, Texas Lutheran University in nearby Seguin, Texas. 

In this heartfelt and eye-opening conversation, Dustin Vaughn Warncke sits down with Lori, a compassionate professional in hospice and end-of-life care. Together, they shed light on one of life’s most tender and often misunderstood seasons—supporting individuals and families ...

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Outdoor TV, Radio, Podcast, Book, and Magazine outdoor celebrity Larry Weishuhn joins Dustin to talk about some deep  subjects about our roots, life lessons, and leaving a legacy to our children's children.

 

About Larry Weishuhn

Larry Weishuhun is a professional wildlife biologist, outdoor writer, book author, artist, after-dinner speaker, podcaster, outdoor television and radio show host and life-long hunter/wildlife conservation...

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Let's Face It, Most of us have "too much stuff". On this episode, Dustin talks about his journey of minimizing all of the clutter and storage unit expenses by letting go of things he owned, LOTS of extra "stuff", that was holding him back and giving away and selling things that didn't add value to his life any more.

 

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Dustin rides solo on this podcast and teaches some humorous ways to tackle challenges, and adversities that we all face in life using "Double Negative Statements" and adding other perspectives that engage our gratitude for the things that are going right in our lives. 

 

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Dustin talks about how to experience God's "voice", how to understand how and when the Divine communicates with us in Spirit. Focusing on calmness helps us find peace. Let's have a GREAT DAY and AWESOME LIFE!

The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your success in living an intentional optimized life with empowering resilience. 

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Dustin shares some solo thoughts on what TRULY Matters in Life with some world view perspective. This show is all about helping you have a better day and AWESOME LIFE!

The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your success in living an intentional optimized life with empowering resilience. 

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Dustin features some motivational and inspirational personal development ideas and features a compilation of some of his video content from social media channels. All to help you have a better day and AWESOME LIFE!

The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your success in living an intentional optimized life with empowering resilience. 

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Dustin discusses some perspective-changing points about gratitude and many other growth areas which can help us to see life in a more meaningful way. 

The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your success in living an intentional optimized life with empowering resilience. 

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Dustin shares an interview with Rev. Dr. Lee Witting on NDE RADIO WITH LEE WITTING, a weekly podcast. This show features Dustin talking about his own NDE (Near Death Experience) and STE's (Spiritually Transformative Experience) how how they effected him and what he has learned from the lessons taught from other experiences and his own.

The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your suc...

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Dustin covers a name his clients give him when he is called in to handle situations when they go sideways, which can sometimes happen in business and personal relationships. Based on the movie OCEANS 11, the term "Greaseman" refers to the person or people who get a job done from the inside and, in the case of tactical empathy, the "Cooler" that comes in an diffuses conflict, effectively smoothing things over in a give situation. Du...

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The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your success in living an intentional optimized life with empowering resilience. 

Sponsored by EVER HOPE Inspirational Cuff Bracelets at https://Ever-Hope.com.

Learn more about Dustin Vaughn Warncke and connect with him the following ways.

Email Dustin: Dustin@BusinesswithDustin.com

https://BusinesswithDustin.com (Full-Stack Consulting, Marke...

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Dustin shares a recent business situation that went "sideways" and how he handles it with tactical emotional intelligence response instead of getting overheated and "reacting" as is usually default mode in our human wiring and modern world.

The goal of this podcast is to help you adjust your expectations and adapt your goals to your success in living an intentional optimized life with empowering resilience. 

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We are never going to rid of our problems we face during this lifetime. Living in peace means dealing with adversity head on and "Taking the Bull by the Horns", so to speak. There is always hope and if you are listening to this and the world has beat you up, it's time to OVERCOME. Let's do this together!

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We sometimes face adversity and miss the blessings in the lessons life is trying to teach us. Understanding that we will either in coming into a crisis, going through the middle of a crisis, or coming out of a crisis, in our lives is part of our growth process. Learn the lessons in your journey and always know that there is hope.

 

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Dustin shares a recording of one of his most-renowned spiritual devotionals, which was recorded in front of an audience of soldiers stationed at Fort Hood/(now known as Fort Cavazos) at a bi-annual Cross Water Outfitters Fishing Ministry event. This devotion covers the challenges we all face in life and how we can overcome and adapt to the changes and “curveballs” that life throws at us. Change is the only thing that stays the same...

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The rain falls on all of us. We never fully get rid of all of our problems, change is inevitable, and there always seems to be a "fire to put out". Dustin explores some perspective for when life throws you a "curveball".

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Dustin interviews his son Jackson on this special episode and asks him some questions about pas, present, and the future of his life and worldview. Jackson is 15 years old and has some great insights of what it means to be a young man facing a brave new world of fast-paced change as he blazes a trail into his future.

 

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In this show, Dustin Vaughn Warncke explores the Vietnam War story of Steve Guardipee and Steve Story who were shot down in a scout helicopter (LOACH) while on a reconnaissance/recover mission in 1972.

They crashed in an enemy base camp and had Steve Story heroically saved Steve Gardipee and wouldn't leave him behind. What happened in the meantime was Gardipee's amazing experience with our Heavenly Father, the Source of all creatio...

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