Rise From The Ashes

What would happen if you forgave the person who hurt you most?

Most of us think forgiveness means letting them off the hook. We think it makes us weak, that we're giving up our right to be angry. But what if forgiveness isn't about them at all? What if it's the secret weapon that unlocks everything you're meant to build?

April Wyett thought forgiveness was impossible until her journey into energy healing work free...

What childhood obsession did you bury that's still calling your name?

Most of us silence that voice. We call it 'being realistic.' We tell ourselves we're too old, too late, too far gone. But what if that buried obsession isn't dead what if it's your empire waiting to be built?

Sarah Pousho thought the same thing. At 10, she was obsessed with space staring at the stars, dreaming of rockets, devouring Car...

Most people bury their childhood dreams. Sarah Pousho built a company on hers. In this intimate episode, she shares how a life steeped in wonder fueled by Carl Sagan, failure, and fire led to founding SpaceBridge Partners in her fifties.

If you’ve ever thought it was too late, too crazy, or too far out of reach to start again, this conversation will shake you loose.

“Six people can go to space whenever we want. Right now....

She mastered English in 3 months. She was diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s. What she discovered in between could change how you see your own potential.

Dr. CJ Leland isn’t your typical comeback story she’s a disruptor of timelines and a destroyer of expectations. In this raw, 20-minute interview, Baz Porter dives deep into the journey of a Filipina girl who arrived in the U.S. with zero English, learned through cassette tapes and Arch...

What if everything you thought made you "behind" was actually your greatest gift?

In this riveting episode of Rise From The Ashes, Dr. Constance Leland known as CJ shares a soul-piercing story that will shift how you see adversity forever. Born in the Philippines and separated from her mother until age 7, CJ arrived in America at 13 and mastered three years of English in just three months. Her academic brilliance masked a ...

The breakdown wasn't the end it was Nicole's beginning.

In part two of Nicole Borgi's story, she reveals how losing everything during COVID became the catalyst for building something extraordinary. When Vegas shut down, her security career vanished. Her law enforcement relationship crumbled. Family rifts cost her connection with her daughter.

Most people would have stayed down. Nicole got strategic.

She shares the raw t...

Nicole Borgi's voice wasn't always this strong. In today's Rise from the Ashes episode, she reveals how domestic violence survivors and women afraid to be seen are finding their power through avatar technology.

Her story hits hard. COVID lockdowns destroyed her Vegas security career. Her relationship with a law enforcement partner shattered. Family rifts cost her connection with her daughter. Rock bottom became her st...

Your grandmother's dying words are still controlling your life. In this explosive Part 2, Michelle Ward reveals how childhood promises and deathbed commitments create invisible emotional prisons that have been sabotaging your happiness for decades.

Discover the shocking connection between trapped emotions stored in your body and chronic pain, anxiety, and relationship struggles that traditional medicine can't heal. Michell...

Discover how trapped emotions and subconscious programming create self-sabotage patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of burnout, relationship chaos, and financial blocks. Michelle Ward, certified emotion code practitioner and self-sabotage coach, reveals the breakthrough method for identifying which of the five self-sabotage archetypes controls your life and how to reprogram your subconscious mind for lasting transformation.

Throu...

What if everything you've been desperately chasing success, validation, worthiness was already yours by birthright? This mind-bending revelation emerges as the central breakthrough in part two of my conversation with Brian Muka, a former Navy bomb disposal tech turned Freedom Sherpa who spent years trying to outrun his fears through extreme challenges.

Brian's story reads like a cautionary tale for every high-achiever trap...

Former Navy bomb disposal technician Brian Muka reveals the shocking truth about executive burnout, nervous system dysregulation, and trauma recovery that's sabotaging high-performing leaders worldwide.

After experiencing what he calls "the avalanche" losing his military career trajectory in Iraq Brian discovered why leadership burnout, chronic stress, and emotional exhaustion have nothing to do with workload and ever...

In this powerful follow-up episode, celebrity hypnotist and executive coach Tim Shurr breaks down his One Belief Away™ method a 3-step system that’s helped thousands release fear, rewire self-sabotage, and create lasting breakthroughs.

“Therapy trims the weed. Medication covers it. But real transformation pulls it from the root.”

Through the steps of awakening, releasing, and shifting, Tim helps high per...

What if everything holding you back came down to one belief?

Celebrity hypnotist and executive coach Tim Shurr joins Rising from the Ashes to share the transformational truth behind anxiety, self-doubt, and chronic worry and why you don’t need years of therapy to heal it.

From an unexpected hypnosis demo in college to over 16,000 sessions with high performers, Tim reveals the real root of suffering:

“Most people are ...

Ever feel like you’re barking up the wrong tree in business?
In this no-fluff conversation, The Redneck Connector Mike Ashburner breaks down how chasing clients (aka “dog-catching”) is burning out entrepreneurs and what to do instead. 

From his $5K positioning strategy to his Four C’s framework (Clarity, Connection, Community, Conversation), Mike unpacks how to build a business that attracts instead of performs.

The biggest mic-...

Tired of cold DMs, fake funnels, and forced connections?
Mike Ashburner aka The Redneck Connector went from nearly homeless during COVID to building Hounds of Business, a trust-first community flipping the script on traditional sales. In this raw, real conversation, we unpack why spray-and-pray marketing burns out high achievers (like you), and how a single mindset shift “who over how” can transform your business in 20 minutes...

After surviving trauma that shattered her identity, Eleni Anastos faced a choice: collapse… or reinvent.
 She chose power.

In this moving episode, Eleni shares her blueprint for rebuilding after life knocks you down at any age.
 From creating your "badass list" of hidden talents to rewriting what success means, Eleni proves it's never too late to begin again.

💥 How forgiveness helped her take back her power

What happens when your entire identity is ripped away in one violent moment?

After surviving a brutal school assault and the gut-punch betrayal of a system that denied it ever happened Eleni Anastos lost everything she'd built over 30 years. But what she gained? Was far more powerful.

In this raw and riveting episode, Eleni shares her fall and rise.

From rocking in trauma to rising as a force for truth, she reveals how she t...

What do you do when life rips everything from you and then comes back for what’s left?

Michelle Collins didn’t just face one tragedy.
She faced three. Back to back. And each one tried to end her.

First, she lost her mother to leukemia.
Then a brutal divorce.
Then Glenn her Navy SEAL husband died by suicide.
Michelle was the one who found him.

What followed? PTSD. Dissociation. Substance use. Rage. Despair.
She coul...

Michelle Collins lost her husband to suicide. Then her mother.

That kind of grief doesn’t just hurt it shatters you.
But instead of staying broken, Michelle turned her pain into power—and now helps others walk out of the dark.

This episode isn’t about healing in theory.
 It’s about how to survive when your life has exploded and you’re still expected to function.

Inside this episode of Rising From the Ashes, Michelle strips it...