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
January 8, 2026 • 15 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, and loss of joy and how staying comfortable slowly erodes your truth, your peace, and your ide...
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January 6, 2026 • 53 mins
It’s been one hell of a year.
This episode is the best of the best. The moments, lessons, and conversations that didn’t just inspire me… they changed me.
In this special Best of 2025 episode, Kelly Siegel looks back on the most impactful clips from conversations with Garrett J. White, Jordan Montgomery, Jon Acuff, Brian Covey, Larry Hagner, and Klaus Kleinfeld.
These aren’t highlight reels for ego. They’re lessons forged in adv...
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January 5, 2026 • 6 mins
This episode isn’t exciting.
It’s not flashy.
It won’t trend.
But it will change your life.
In this Hard Reset, Kelly Siegel breaks down the uncomfortable truth most people don’t want to hear:
Boring consistency beats flashy intensity every single time.
Motivation spikes fade.
Adrenaline crashes.
Big promises disappear.
But quiet, daily follow-through compounds into real results.
Kelly calls out the cycle we’ve all lived....
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January 1, 2026 • 18 mins
You don’t need a new job.
You don’t start winning fitness goals on January 1st.
You start today when it’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, and real.
In this high-energy solo episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down the 5 secrets to absolutely crush your 2026 fitness goals, starting right now. No hype. No shortcuts. No waiting for motivation. Just discipline, identity, and systems that work in real life.
With over 500 workouts completed th...
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December 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Your relationships don’t fail because of bad luck.
They fail because of unhealed patterns, poor emotional intelligence, and misaligned expectations.
In this Best Of Harder Than Life mashup, Kelly Siegel brings together some of the most powerful voices on love, trauma, communication, healing, masculinity, femininity, and self-worth to expose what’s really breaking modern relationships and how to rebuild them from the inside out.
F...
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December 29, 2025 • 4 mins
Not deciding is still a decision, and it’s usually the most expensive one.
In this Hard Reset episode, Kelly Siegel breaks down how indecision quietly destroys momentum, confidence, and opportunity. While you’re waiting for clarity, comfort, or the “perfect time,” someone else is already taking the shot you were afraid to take.
Indecision bleeds time. It drains energy. And it keeps you stuck in limbo.
Kelly explains why progre...
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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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