Get Yourself Optimized®

Are you using AI as a yes-man or as an interface to infinite intelligence?

In my latest solo episode of Get Yourself Optimized, I reveal why most people are getting mediocre results from ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI platforms—and how to transform your AI sessions into channels for genuine intuitive insights.

Here's what's costing you breakthrough ideas: 

❌ Treating AI as a conver...

Most people think manifestation comes AFTER desire. But what if you already have everything you want—just in a different realm?

In this episode of Get Yourself Optimized, my wife, Orion Talmay, and I discuss the Kabbalistic principle: The desire wouldn't exist in you if you hadn't already received its fulfillment in the upper worlds. You've already achieved it. Now it's just manifesting here.

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PayPal. A Fortune 500 company. 13 years. 8 different CMOs. One brand strategist.

How does a 25-person firm retain a client like that? Sasha Strauss says it comes down to one thing: treating every single touchpoint as a brand experience.

From the way his team answers emails to how they structure invoices, everything is intentional. Even for billion-dollar clients, they include language like "we...

Worried AI will replace your job? Alexander Zheltov thinks it's our chance to become more human.

As founder of Flylane, he's helped 10,000+ students across 35 countries through personalized learning. But his story began with one question at age 10: "Can I study at that UK boarding school?"

Everyone said it would cost a million dollars. He proved them wrong—and changed his future in 60 seconds.

✨ He Had Millions. A Platform. A Perfect Persona. Then One Molecule Blew It All Up.

After 14 years in ministry and building a top-tier marketing agency, Nicholas Kusmich walked away from it all—not for a bigger business, but for a deeper truth. One therapeutic psychedelic experience cracked open his identity, his faith, and his life's meaning. What followed was a complete unraveling… and the beginning of e...

What if your calendar could predict your mental health?

Meet Chris Dancy – once dubbed "The World's Most Connected Human" – who didn't just track his steps and calories. He tracked his soul. From mood mapping and ambient data to organizing his apps by values instead of function, Chris built a system to actually understand himself.

But here's the twist: it's not about more data. It's about bett...

What if the key to breakthrough business growth isn't working harder, but finding the right mentors at the right time?

Greg Merrilees went from a struggling t-shirt designer drowning in $100K debt to running a thriving AI-powered design agency - all because he learned to seek mentors and act on divine guidance. His bold move of creating a free logo for podcast hosts Ezra Firestone and James Schramko opened...

The entrepreneur who built a 9-year podcast interviewing spiritual luminaries started with ONE person in his living room.

Amrit Sandhu's journey from struggling engineering student to interviewing guests like Marianne Williamson and being personally coached by Eckhart Tolle proves that authentic growth compounds exponentially.

His secret? What he calls "sacred curiosities" - the genuine intere...

The CEO, who learned to read at the age of seven and earned his GED at 21, has just shared the spiritual practice that changed everything in this week's Get Yourself Optimized episode.

Calvin Bagley's journey from educational isolation to healthcare entrepreneur (serving 60,000+ clients) reveals how becoming "the observer" of your thoughts—rather than fighting them—unlocks both personal transformation and ...

Most entrepreneurs waste years trying to write "the perfect book." Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby (sold for $22M), has a better approach.

Instead of thinking book first, start with individual blog posts. One idea per post. After 50-80 posts, you've already written your book - just compile them.

His "Hell Yeah or No" decision-making framework helped him build and sell one of the most successf...

How do you write 2,000 words daily while managing 40 clients and a daily podcast? 

Mary DeMuth's productivity system is deceptively simple but devastatingly effective. She treats writing "like a muscle"—consistency builds strength, breaks destroy momentum. 

Her secret weapon: Self-imposed deadlines for a decade before getting published. When real deadlines arrived, she was already trained to d...

🎯 What if I told you that your internal compass for success isn't logic or strategy—it's JOY?

Hall of Fame speaker Patrick Combs just dropped some serious wisdom on the Get Yourself Optimized podcast. After speaking to over 1 million college students across 1,000+ campuses, he's discovered something profound: the leaders who thrive long-term aren't just chasing achievements—they're following their authent...

🚀 What if I told you that chasing external success—the money, the cars, the status—could leave you feeling completely empty?

My latest podcast guest, Mike Chabot, discovered this the hard way. Despite reaching millions in revenue and gaining over 1 million social media followers, he found himself depressed in the Maldives, questioning everything society had promised would make him happy.

His ...

Most high-achievers are secretly running on empty, managing time and attention while missing the real success factor: energy management and spiritual connection.

I just interviewed Ariya Lorenz, who bridges heaven and earth for leaders seeking their true purpose. Her unique expertise comes from profound personal loss—losing her first love, stepfather, grandfather, and mother by age 23—which opened extraord...

From watching her mother battle cancer to becoming a foundational medicine practitioner serving families for 30 years, Nichole Kuechle's story proves that our greatest challenges often become our greatest gifts.

What started as frustration with the medical system's "two ships passing in the night" approach led Nichole to develop extraordinary muscle testing abilities that help families: 

→ Ide...

🎯 The most successful leaders understand that business success and spiritual awareness aren't mutually exclusive—they're complementary.

Scott Allan's remarkable journey from funeral director to evidential medium demonstrates how embracing the unexplained can actually enhance practical decision-making and leadership intuition. After building a successful funeral business for over 35 years, Scott's spiritua...

💡 What if I told you that your financial reality starts in your mind, not your bank account?

My latest guest, Emily Williams, literally turned her car around instead of going to grad school, moved to London with four suitcases, and built an empire from a flat in the UK. She reveals how the law of vibration supersedes the law of attraction and why most people are unconsciously repelling money.

What if your biggest breakthrough came from your lowest moment?

I just had an incredible conversation with Will Polston, a bestselling author and performance coach who transformed his near-suicide attempt into a mission that has helped thousands unlock their potential.

Will's journey from financial obsession to nearly ending it all at a river, and then discovering his true North Star, is both ...