Harder Than Life
I’m Kelly Siegel, and this is Harder than Life. A podcast about self-love, self-awareness, business, and health. We tell outrageous stories and boil everything down to simple, practical advice you can start using today. Let’s get living!
Episodes
December 25, 2025 • 17 mins
You don’t need a new job.
You don’t need a raise.
You don’t need motivation.
You need a reset. The kind that recalibrates your mind, body, systems, identity, and execution.
In this powerful episode, Kelly Siegel lays out a 5-Day Career Reset designed to completely rewrite your 2026. Not a vacation. Not a break. A full recalibration of how you think, work, show up, and lead.
Most careers don’t collapse overnight. They erode qui...
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December 23, 2025 • 40 mins
Mindset creates the ceiling. Influence determines how far you go.
In this powerful Best Of Mindset and Influence mashup, Kelly Siegel brings together elite performers, innovators, and thought leaders to break down what it really takes to master your mind, define your identity, and influence the world around you without losing yourself in the process.
From Olympic champion Justin Gatlin on mental warfare and identity after sport…
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December 22, 2025 • 3 mins
If your confidence rises and falls with praise, paychecks, or likes, you’re outsourcing your worth.
In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel calls out one of the most dangerous traps in modern life: letting jobs, bosses, numbers, relationships, and social media decide how valuable you feel.
Kelly gets personal about growing up chasing approval, tying self-worth to performance, and riding the emotional rollercoaster of external va...
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December 18, 2025 • 13 mins
F.O.C.U.S. = Follow One Course Until Success.
It’s the simplest habit you’ll ever learn and the most life-changing one you’ll ever master.
In this episode, Kelly Siegel delivers the single business habit that will transform your results in 2026: relentless, disciplined focus. Not chasing shiny objects. Not trying 10 strategies at once. Not quitting when it gets hard.
Kelly breaks down why people fail (it’s NOT laziness), why you...
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December 16, 2025 • 45 mins
Every one of us has lived through something that could’ve broken us.
This episode is about the people who refused to stay broken.
In this Harder Than Life Best Of mashup, you’ll hear powerful moments from Darren McCarty, Ezra Frech, Forbes Riley, and Dana Grant — four humans who took their pain, their trauma, their disabilities, their failures, their rock bottoms, and turned them into fuel.
These stories prove one thing: Pain do...
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December 15, 2025 • 4 mins
Nobody warns you about the crash that comes after the big win.
You grind for months, hit the goal… and instead of fulfillment, you feel flat, empty, or even depressed. That’s the Success Hangover and it’s way more common than people admit.
In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel explains why achievement often leads to an emotional dip, why the high disappears so fast, and how to avoid getting stuck in the “Now what?” spiral. F...
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December 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Your phone isn’t the problem, your dependence on it is.
In this solo episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down the truth about digital addiction, dopamine hijacking, and why your attention is the most valuable currency you have heading into 2026.
You’ll learn how constant scrolling destroys your focus, sleep, clarity, and emotional health and the simple Digital Warrior Protocol that helps you reclaim your mind, your peace, and your powe...
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December 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Discipline is the foundation of everything.
You don’t get transformation without it.
In this powerful Best Of Harder Than Life episode, we break down the truth about what real change actually takes. Not hacks, not shortcuts, not motivation quotes… but self-mastery, consistency, and the willingness to keep going when it stops being exciting.
Featuring hard-hitting moments from Grant Cardone, Coach Micheal Burt, Craig Ballantyne,...
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December 8, 2025 • 4 mins
Happiness is a feeling. It comes and goes like the weather.
You can’t build a meaningful life on something that changes by the hour.
In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down the truth most people never hear: Chasing happiness is a trap. Happiness is momentary. Fulfillment is earned.
Kelly reveals why fulfillment, not happiness, is the real metric of a powerful life. He dives into purpose, discipline, integrity, ser...
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December 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Alignment creates transformation. Discipline sustains it.
If you want to dominate 2026 with strength, clarity, peace, and purpose, it starts with four daily rituals that rewire your mind, your habits, and your identity.
In this powerful episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down the exact four habits that took him from burnout and chaos to clarity, confidence, and emotional freedom. These aren’t hacks or shortcuts, they’re the foundation ...
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December 2, 2025 • 53 mins
Brands aren’t selling to your brain, they’re selling to your biases.
In this eye-opening episode, Kelly Siegel sits down with behavioral science strategist and author MichaelAaron Flicker to break down how billion-dollar brands influence your choices without you even realizing it.
From why expensive products “feel” better… to why Spotify Wrapped is viral crack… to how Red Bull, Starbucks, Apple, and Kraft hack your psychology, t...
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December 1, 2025 • 3 mins
Identity lag is real and it’s one of the hardest parts of growth.
It’s that uncomfortable space where you’ve outgrown who you were, but the world still treats you like your old self.
In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down why identity lag happens, why it feels so damn frustrating, and how to keep leveling up even when people don’t believe in (or understand) the new you yet.
If you’re evolving, healing, getting dis...
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November 27, 2025 • 17 mins
You don’t have a money problem. You have a mindset problem.
Your bank account isn’t criticizing you… it’s mirroring you.
In this episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down how your relationship with money is shaped by discipline, identity, self-worth, and the emotional patterns you’ve carried since childhood. This isn’t about investing tips or get-rich hacks; it’s about the mindset and habits that create real financial freedom.
Kelly sha...
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November 25, 2025 • 46 mins
Thanksgiving isn’t about the perfect meal, the perfect family, or the perfect year. It's about perspective.
In this special Harder Than Life Thanksgiving episode, Kelly Siegel brings together some of the most powerful moments from past conversations. Stories of resilience, forgiveness, faith, healing, love, loss, and choosing gratitude even when life gets heavy.
These clips remind us that gratitude isn’t about what’s easy. It’s ...
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November 24, 2025 • 4 mins
Everyone celebrates the win, the promotion, the after-photo…
But nobody celebrates the grind that made it possible.
In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel pulls back the curtain on the invisible work, the late nights, early mornings, discipline, and consistency that never make it to Instagram but build every success story you’ve ever admired.
If you’re putting in work that nobody sees and wondering if it matters… this episode ...
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November 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Most people start their week behind, stressed, and already reacting to chaos. You don’t have a motivation problem; you have a structure problem.
In this episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down The Sunday Blueprint, his personal system for winning every single week before it starts.
From planning your week to protecting your mornings, setting boundaries, and staying consistent, Kelly reveals the exact six-step process he uses to create ...
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November 18, 2025 • 50 mins
You might know him from Scream, Malibu’s Most Wanted, or The Jamie Kennedy Experiment.
But today, Jamie Kennedy isn’t joking. He’s fighting back.
In this explosive episode, Kelly Siegel sits down with actor, comedian, and truth-teller Jamie Kennedy for a raw conversation about the government-created crisis that’s about to hit every American home: the HVAC refrigerant mandate.
Jamie exposes how new policies are creating a $25 bi...
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November 17, 2025 • 4 mins
Everyone feels motivated on day one. Everyone feels excited when they start. But week three? That’s where dreams die.
The moment when excitement fades, discipline is tested, and most people quit. Whether it’s fitness, business, journaling, meditation, sobriety, or any new habit, The Dip shows up like clockwork.
Kelly reveals why this slump is actually proof you’re on the right path, and how to push through it with systems, discip...
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November 13, 2025 • 23 mins
You’re not waiting to be chosen. You’re waiting to decide.
In this raw and motivating solo episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down the truth about success, confidence, and visibility: being somebody isn’t a gift you’re given, it’s a decision you make and repeat.
Kelly shares his own story of waiting to be “discovered” and what finally shifted everything the day he stopped waiting for permission and started showing up like he belonged.
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November 11, 2025 • 52 mins
You can reinvent yourself at any age. You can rebuild, rebrand, and rise again..
In this inspiring episode, Kelly Siegel sits down with Brande Roderick, actress, model, entrepreneur, and mom, to talk about resilience, confidence, and creating a life that’s Harder Than Life...
From Baywatch to The Apprentice to building businesses and raising two sons, Brande shares how she turned setbacks into lessons, stayed grounded through f...
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