GIVE A HECK

Art Blanchford grew up inside a religious cult, then spent decades running operations worth billions of dollars at the top of global corporate leadership. Then his body shut down completely, and this episode is the story of what came after.

 IN THIS EPISODE

✅ Why children raised in acontrolling environment often become the most driven high achievers

✅ How years of ignoring his limitsended in a total physical collapse

✅ What it act...

For episode 300, Dwight Heck steps out of the guest chair for the first time to tell the whole story himself. He takes listeners back to Camrose, Alberta, where he grew up with no lessons about money, through raising five kids alone as a single dad, and into the 2002 decision that turned quiet desperation into a 24-year career in financial services.

He reflects on five years of guests who shaped the show, from a Holocaust survivor t...

What does AI actually threaten to take from you, and what does it have no power to touch? Derek Rydall returns for Part 2 with the answer hidden inside your core wound, your lived experience, and the life code that no algorithm can ever replicate.

Derek Rydall has lost a son, a fortune, a marriage, and his sense of self more than once, and came back each time with more clarity, not less. In this episode, he makes the full case for w...

YOU ARE NOT BROKEN, YOU ARE UNHEARD, WITH DR. FRED MOSS

What if healing without a diagnosis is not just possible, but the most natural thing in the world?

Dr. Fred Moss spent more than four decades inside the mental health system as a board-certified psychiatrist, treating over 30,000 patients. Then he asked a different question: not what is wrong with this person, but what actually heals a human being.

His answer challenges almost ev...

What is the difference between having money saved and actually having income you can depend on in retirement? For most people, nobody has ever answered that question clearly.

Mark Kollar has spent 35 years answering it. He started his career on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade watching first-hand how markets can be manipulated and how quickly a lifetime of savings can disappear when someone does not know what they do not know...

Jim Tracy grew up as the sixth of eight kids in rural South Dakota, where thirteen people waited at the dinner table until his father came home, and summers meant fishing and hunting at a cabin with no running water. He became a CEO, jet pilot, Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of the Amazon number one bestselling book Building Men: Character Lessons from Influencers. Not because of advantages. Becau...

Most people spend their entire lives trying to fix, change, and improve themselves into something better. Derek Rydall nearly died before he discovered the flaw in that approach. Everything you are looking for is already inside you. The only question is whether you are willing to let it emerge.

In this first of two conversations, Dwight Heck and bestselling author Derek Rydall explore the Law of Emergence, the principle behind Derek...

AI is not a technology problem. It is a human problem. And organizations rushing past that truth are already paying the price in burnout, disengagement, and talent they will never get back.

In Part 2, Dwight Heck and leadership strategist Sira Laurel go deep on what AI adoption is really doing to the people inside your organization. Stalled adoption, cultural fracture, and mass disengagement are not technology failures. They are hum...

Are you caught between supporting your adult kids and your aging parents while trying to fund your own retirement? You are not alone, and the math is real.

In this solo episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Dwight Heck unpacks the Canadian sandwich generation, one of the most pressing financial and emotional pressures facing Canadians in 2026. Drawing on more than 24 years in financial services and his own lived experience as a single...

Welcome to the Give A Heck Podcast with Dwight Heck—where real conversations challenge how you think, live, and lead.

In this episode, Sira Laurel explains why leadership burnout is rising among high performers and highly sensitive professionals. Drawing from over 15 years in HR and organizational development, she breaks down how traditional leadership systems are misaligned with human biology—and why the people pushing ...

Welcome to the Give A Heck Podcast with Dwight Heck—where real conversations meet real life change.

In Episode 291, Noah May shares his powerful journey through depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation starting at just 13 years old. What began as silent suffering turned into a defining moment when he chose to speak up. This episode dives into the realities of mental health, the impact of isolation, and how finding your voice...

What does it actually take to create permanent change in your life?

In this powerful episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Dwight Heck sits down with Stanley Bronstein, a man who transformed his life by losing over 200 pounds naturally without surgery or medication. But this conversation goes far beyond weight loss.

Stanley shares the defining moment that forced him to face the truth about his future and ask a simple but life changing ...

Chris Shurian shares powerful lessons on resilience, adversity, and personal growth shaped through real-life challenges and hard-earned experience.

In this episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Chris opens up about what it truly means to navigate difficult seasons, take personal responsibility, and continue moving forward when life does not go as planned.

This is not theory.

It is lived experience.

Through what he calls “bootstraps...

Most people have a moment that quietly shapes the direction of their life.

For Aaron Ryan, that moment happened in second grade.

A simple classroom assignment became the starting point for a lifelong journey that led to writing more than 40 books, building a creative career, and staying committed to a purpose-driven path.

In this episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Aaron shares what it really takes to turn an early spark into a sustai...

What if the things you believed were helping you… were actually leading you away from truth?

In this powerful episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Dwight Heck sits down with Dr. Laurette Willis to explore a deeply personal journey from addiction, emotional struggle, and New Age practices… to faith in Jesus Christ, healing, and purpose-driven living.

Dr. Laurette shares how early emotional pain led to unhealthy coping p...

What happens when life changes in a single moment, and everything you thought was possible disappears?

In this powerful episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Dwight Heck sits down with Ken Kunken, whose life changed forever during a football game at Cornell University when a devastating spinal cord injury left him paralyzed from the neck down as a quadriplegic.

Doctors believed his future would likely involve life in a nursing home. In...

What happens when you finally decide to write your story?

In this episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, Dwight Heck sits down with Michele DeFilippo, a publishing expert with over five decades of experience, to explore why so many people never document their life experiences—and what they lose when they don’t.

Michele shares how writing is more than just putting words on a page. It’s a powerful process that creates cl...

🎙 Give A Heck Podcast with Dwight Heck

What happens when the person teaching financial freedom realizes they are quietly living the opposite?

In this powerful solo episode, Dwight Heck shares a deeply personal reflection from a speech he delivered in November 2021. He explores how easy it is to appear successful on the outside while internally drifting away from purpose, alignment, and financial clarity.

Dwight explains how many peop...

Are you drifting through life without realizing it? In thissolo episode, I, Dwight Heck, break down how life drift quietly steals direction in your finances, career, relationships, health, and purpose, and I share the four-step clarity process to stop drifting and start livingintentionally.

🧭 Episode Overview

Have you ever felt busy but not fulfilled, stable but notaligned, or successful yet unsettled?

After more than 24 years workin...