Harder Than Life

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

You Don’t Have to Hit Rock Bottom w/ Amber Hollingsworth

February 24, 2026 • 58 mins
Addiction doesn’t start with a substance. It starts with pain. In this episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel sits down with addiction expert Amber Hollingsworth to explore the real roots of addiction, enabling, and family systems. This conversation breaks down why enabling feels like love, how trauma fuels addictive behavior, and why recovery requires boundaries, accountability, and radical honesty. If you’ve ever loved s...
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Every Complaint Is Surrender—Here's Why

February 23, 2026 • 4 mins
Complaining feels normal. But it costs you power. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down how venting without action slowly trains you to see yourself as a victim instead of a creator. This episode explores radical accountability, the mirror principle, and how ownership shifts your energy, confidence, and results. If you’ve been complaining about things you secretly created—this conversation is your wake-up call....
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Breaking the Pattern That's Been Destroying You

February 19, 2026 • 17 mins
Failure isn’t an accident. It’s a pattern. In this solo episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel shares hard-earned lessons about betrayal, self-abandonment, alcohol, boundaries, and why we often repeat the same wounds in different environments. This episode explores shame versus identity, how no boundaries equal no respect, and why sobriety exposes what numbing hides. If you keep meeting the same villain, this episode ex...
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Fake Entrepreneurs vs Real Ones | Accountability Separates Them

February 17, 2026 • 64 mins
Winning doesn’t start with talent. It starts with ownership. In this episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel sits down with Dan Sachkowski for a real conversation about leadership, discipline, and taking responsibility for your outcomes. Dan shares lessons from navigating adversity, building standards that don’t fluctuate, and why most people stay stuck blaming circumstances instead of owning results. This episode explor...
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That Feeling Of Being Stuck Has A Reason

February 16, 2026 • 4 mins
Being good enough is dangerous—because it doesn’t look like a problem. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down how comfort can quietly hold you back from greatness. When life feels fine but growth has stopped, stagnation becomes the real threat. This episode explores comfort zones, friction, risk-taking, and why most people miss their potential by avoiding discomfort. Key Takeaways 🟥 Comfort disguises stagna...
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Discipline Isn't About Pushing Harder—It's About This

February 12, 2026 • 18 mins
Most people think self-discipline means doing more. Grinding harder. Pushing longer. In this solo episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel breaks down why real discipline isn’t intensity—it’s regulation and self-respect. Kelly shares how hustle culture confuses motion with progress, why overcommitment is fear in disguise, and how stillness is one of the most advanced discipline skills you can build. This episode explores ...
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Your Voice Doesn't Disappear | It Gets Silenced

February 10, 2026 • 62 mins
Your voice doesn’t disappear overnight. It gets trained to stay quiet. In this episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel sits down with Charlotte Dobre for a raw conversation about voice, identity, people-pleasing, and reclaiming authenticity. Charlotte shares how fear of judgment, online criticism, and performance culture can mute self-expression — and how confidence is rebuilt through self-trust. This episode explores au...
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You're Not Ready Yet | Here's Why That's a Lie

February 9, 2026 • 4 mins
Learning isn’t the problem. Hiding behind it is. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down how endless learning can become a socially acceptable way to avoid action. Kelly shares personal realizations about using preparation as a hiding place and why most breakthroughs don’t come from new information—they come from finally using what you already know. This episode explores the illusion of progress, the fear behi...
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You Already Lost When You Stopped Asking

February 5, 2026 • 19 mins
If you don’t ask, you’ve already lost. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down how not asking for help isn’t strength—it’s stagnation. Kelly shares personal stories of growing up hyper-independent, surviving alone, and how those same patterns later limited his leadership, growth, and peace. This episode explores why control feels safer than collaboration, how hyper-independence is a trauma response, and why real...
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Your Voice Gets Stolen by Survival, Not Talent | Benny Salas

February 3, 2026 • 62 mins
Your voice isn’t missing. It’s been muted by survival. In this powerful episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel sits down with Benny Salas for a raw conversation about trauma, voice, identity, and what it really takes to step into your purpose. Benny shares deeply personal stories of childhood abuse, shame, addiction, and silence—and how reclaiming his voice became the foundation for healing, leadership, and legacy. Toge...
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When You Lose Trust With Yourself, Others Notice

February 2, 2026 • 4 mins
The most important relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down why confidence without self-respect always collapses. Kelly shares personal stories of living misaligned, breaking promises to himself, and confusing performance with integrity and how rebuilding self-trust changed everything. This episode explores why self-respect is built through disci...
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Doing Everything Right But Still Broken? Here's Why

January 29, 2026 • 20 mins
We’ve been sold a lie about “having it all.” More money. More status. More freedom. But before Kelly Siegel ever understood success, he understood damage. And this episode reframes “having it all” from the inside out. In this powerful solo episode, Kelly breaks down the five pillars most people chase without understanding: health, family, money, purpose, peace, and seasons and how each one is completely misunderstood when you...
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Adaptability Over IQ | The CEO Skill Everyone's Missing

January 27, 2026 • 57 mins
What happens when a fighter pilot’s discipline collides with Silicon Valley ambition? In this powerful episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel sits down with Illana Golan—former F-16 fighter pilot, tech executive, and founder of Leap Academy—to unpack reinvention, adaptability, and fearless leadership. Illana shares her journey from military service to Silicon Valley, the failure that reshaped her identity, and why adaptabilit...
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The Pattern Most People Won't Admit About Their Chaos

January 26, 2026 • 3 mins
Some of you aren’t addicted to success. You’re addicted to chaos. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down why many people live in constant crisis mode not because life demands it, but because peace feels unfamiliar. Kelly shares personal stories of chaos in relationships, finances, and mindset, and explains how survival mode becomes mistaken for strength. This episode explores trauma responses, sabotaging calm, and...
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Trauma Bonding vs Real Love | What's the Difference?

January 22, 2026 • 18 mins
Love doesn’t always feel exciting. Sometimes, it feels calm. Sometimes, it feels safe. And sometimes… love means leaving. In this deeply personal solo episode, Kelly Siegel redefines love through the lens of childhood chaos, trauma, and healing. For those who grew up in violence, unpredictability, or emotional neglect, love doesn’t feel like fireworks, it feels like not getting hurt. Kelly walks through the hard truths most p...
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The Real Reason Alcohol Addiction is Harder to Treat

January 20, 2026 • 58 mins
What if healing didn’t start with pills… but with music? In this powerful episode of Harder Than Life, Kelly Siegel sits down with Andrew Sossin, co-founder & CEO of Recovery Unplugged, the groundbreaking treatment network that uses music as medicine to heal addiction, trauma, anxiety, and depression. Andrew has helped over 20,000 people reclaim their lives, not by following a cookie-cutter recovery model but by breaking it c...
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Success Tastes Like Failure When You're Alone at the Top

January 19, 2026 • 4 mins
Winning means nothing if you can’t sleep at night. We live in a world obsessed with success, money, titles, followers, and recognition. And for a moment, those things feel good. But in this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down a truth most people don’t realize until it’s too late: Success without peace is failure. Kelly shares hard-earned lessons from chasing and achieving external success, only to realize that none o...
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Your 'I'm Fine' Is Killing You | The Misalignment Trap

January 15, 2026 • 13 mins
You can have a good life on paper… and still feel disconnected inside. In this raw and honest solo episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down one of the most dangerous places a person can live: “I’m fine.” Not broken. Not failing. Just quietly misaligned. Kelly unpacks why high performers often ignore the warning signs like exhaustion, numbness, loss of joy and how staying comfortable slowly erodes your truth, your peace, and your identit...
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The Pattern You Can't Explain | Trauma Bonds Decoded

January 13, 2026 • 63 mins
If you’ve ever chased chaos and called it love… This conversation will change you. In this deeply raw and transformative episode, Kelly Siegel sits down with Esin Pinarli, holistic therapist and founder of Eternal Wellness Counseling, for one of the most honest conversations ever recorded on Harder Than Life. Esin doesn’t just teach trauma healing; she’s lived it. From addiction and anxiety to nervous system collapse, Esin share...
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The Most Dangerous Place to Live Isn't Failure

January 12, 2026 • 4 mins
The most dangerous place to live isn’t failure. It’s being almost successful. In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down the comfort trap. That quiet, sneaky place where life is “fine,” bills are paid, routines are set, and progress is just enough to silence the voice inside that knows you’re capable of more. You’re not stuck. You’re comfortable. And comfort is far more dangerous than struggle. Kelly explain...
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