The Motivated Mind
Hey, my name is Scott, host of The Motivated Mind, a Spotify Top 100 Health & Fitness podcast with over 7 million downloads. I walked away from $1.7M in equity to chase my entrepreneurial dreams. Bold or stupid? Still TBD. Each week, I share practical ways to master your mindset, build better habits, and actually enjoy the process. No fluff, no guru nonsense, just philosophy, psychology, and a few jokes about dodging existential dread.
Episodes
January 5, 2026 • 9 mins
January 1st is loud. New goals. New habits. New versions of ourselves. But a few days later, the noise fades, and what’s left feels strangely uncomfortable. No big motivation. No clarity. Just a quiet sense that you should be doing more by now. This video is about that feeling, why it shows up after the hype disappears, and why it doesn’t mean you’re behind.
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December 29, 2025 • 8 mins
You understand the problem. The explanation makes sense. You even feel that brief moment of clarity. And yet, something still doesn’t settle. So you keep searching, not for information, but for relief. This is about that loop, why it’s so hard to stop looking for answers, and what might actually be missing when nothing seems to stick.
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December 22, 2025 • 8 mins
Most days, we’re not working nonstop; we’re just never fully stopping, and if we do, we pick up our phones and call it recovery, even though we end the day feeling more depleted than we started. And when our energy disappears, we assume something’s wrong with our discipline. This is the habit that’s quietly draining your willpower, and why real recovery looks very different than what we’ve been taught.
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December 15, 2025 • 11 mins
Self-help used to be simple: read a book, take a walk, call your mom. Now it feels like you need a 28-step morning routine, a cold plunge, 17 supplements, and a $90 notebook just to feel like a functioning human being. Somewhere along the way, “improving your life” turned into a performance. This video is about that shift and why so much of modern self-help leaves us feeling more overwhelmed than transformed.
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December 8, 2025 • 9 mins
We rush through our days like we’re trying to speedrun life, bouncing between half-finished thoughts, half-finished tasks, and half-brushed teeth. And somehow, even on the days when nothing is actually wrong… everything still feels off. This video is about that feeling, and why you always think you’re behind, even when you’re not.
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December 1, 2025 • 11 mins
We all think an easier life will make us happier. But somewhere along the way, comfort starts working against us. In this video, I explore how “comfort creep” quietly makes life feel harder, why small inconveniences start to break us, and what happens when we finally bring a little friction back into our lives.
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November 24, 2025 • 9 mins
We all have that moment where we swear we’re about to start and then somehow end up lying on the floor in full workout clothes, questioning every life choice. In this video, I break down a simple 10-minute rule that helped me stop avoiding everything that requires discipline and finally start the things I kept putting off.
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November 17, 2025 • 10 mins
Every time we’re bored, we reach for it. The glowing rectangle. The endless scroll. But what if our phones aren’t just killing our focus, they’re quietly erasing our memory? In this video, I explore how constant distraction rewires the way we think, why our brains are offloading more than we realize, and what happens when we finally start giving our attention a chance to remember again.
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November 10, 2025 • 9 mins
We talk about “finding ourselves” like our identity is hiding in a couch cushion somewhere. Like if we just travel enough or go on a silent retreat with an $84 ethically-sourced, emotionally-validated journal, the universe will finally reveal who we are. But what if you’re not lost at all? In this video, I share how the search for your “real self” can actually keep you from living and what happens when you stop trying to find yours...
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November 3, 2025 • 10 mins
The internet is overflowing with advice. Wake up earlier. Work harder. Cut out negativity. Manifest faster. But if all this advice actually worked, why are we still searching for more of it? In this video, I explore why so much “life-changing” advice doesn’t work, how it quietly keeps us stuck, and what happens when you finally stop listening to everyone else and start thinking for yourself.
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October 27, 2025 • 8 mins
I used to think productivity was the key to freedom. So I optimized everything, my routines, my habits, my workflows. But somewhere between the ice baths, color-coded calendars, and three dashboards tracking my “progress,” I started to wonder… who was I actually doing all this for? In this video, I explore how the pursuit of productivity can quietly become the biggest distraction of all, and what happens when you finally slow down ...
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October 20, 2025 • 9 mins
We all think we’re good listeners. We nod, we smile, we say “yeah, totally.” But most of the time, we’re not actually listening; we’re just waiting for our turn to talk. In this video, I explore why most of us are worse at listening than we realize, how modern life trains us to tune out, and what it actually takes to hear someone.
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October 13, 2025 • 10 mins
For years, I thought success was about working longer, faster, harder. But what if endurance only matters if you’re running in the right direction? In this video, I share why quitting might actually be the key to progress, and why, at first, it feels less like freedom and more like free fall.
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October 6, 2025 • 12 mins
We treat productivity like a competitive sport, measuring our worth in how many boxes we can tick before lunch. We pack our schedules, worship at the altar of busyness, and then wonder why we’re exhausted all the time. In this episode, I break down why our obsession with productivity might actually be making us worse at it.
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October 2, 2025 • 12 mins
Starting something new sounds simple… until you realize you’ve spent three weeks researching which $2,000 camera is absolutely essential before you can upload your first YouTube video. Or whether your side hustle needs a logo that looks like Apple designed it. In this episode, I unpack how chasing the “perfect start” keeps us stuck, why getting burned is actually part of the process, and why the fastest way forward is usually the m...
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September 29, 2025 • 12 mins
Remember when summer felt like it lasted forever and your biggest problem was deciding between riding your bike or eating a popsicle? Yeah… me neither. These days, time feels like it’s on fast-forward, and no matter how many productivity hacks or morning routines we try, the days keep flying by. In this episode, I dive into why our perception of time changes as we get older, and more importantly, what we can do to slow it down.
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September 25, 2025 • 15 mins
Do you wake up feeling like you got hit by a bus, drag through the day in a low-energy fog, and wonder why coffee doesn’t seem to help anymore? I’ve been there. After months of overthinking, self-experimentation, and blaming everything from gluten to the alignment of the stars, I finally realized the truth: I was skipping the basics. In this episode, I share my own journey of figuring out why I was always tired and the surprising s...
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September 22, 2025 • 12 mins
For years, I bought into the hustle culture lie: work harder, do more, and success will follow. But after cutting my schedule in half and focusing on fewer, higher-impact tasks, I discovered something surprising: slowing down actually amplified my creativity, focus, and results. In this episode, I unpack how lowering the bar, embracing slow productivity, and letting go of unnecessary expectations saved my sanity and helped me produ...
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September 18, 2025 • 9 mins
Most of us live as if we just plan hard enough, we’ll finally “figure it all out.” The perfect calendar, the flawless morning routine, the 5-year plan, detailed down to what socks we’ll wear on Thursdays. But life doesn’t work that way. I learned this seven hours and forty minutes into the hardest Spartan race in the world, after thirty obstacles, thousands of feet of elevation, and more burpees than any human should endure. In thi...
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September 15, 2025 • 11 mins
Most people ease into challenges. A 5K. Maybe a 10K. I skipped all that and went straight for the hardest Spartan race in the world: 21K, thirty obstacles, seven thousand feet of elevation, and a whole lot of burpees if I failed. In this episode, I break down six months of training, the gear I tested, and what this race taught me about discipline, minimalism, and saying “yes” before fear talks you out of it.
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