The Unbreakable Advantage
Most people are taught to overcome their past. We’re here to prove it was never your weakness to begin with. The Unbreakable Advantage is a leadership and performance podcast for those who have walked through adversity and came out sharper, not smaller. This is where lived experience becomes strategy. Where resilience becomes revenue. Where the parts of your story you were told to hide become the very thing that sets you apart. Hosted by Misty Carson, this show is a raw, grounded look at what it actually takes to lead, sell, build, and rise when you’ve been forged under pressure. Through solo episodes and real conversations, we unpack the patterns most people miss, the beliefs that quietly sabotage growth, and the unseen strengths that trauma-forged individuals carry into every room. This is not about motivation. It’s about recognition. What you’ve been through didn’t set you back. It set you apart. Your past may have shaped you, but it doesn’t get to define you. Your strength is yours to claim. What you do with it is yours to decide.
Episodes
None of us gets where we're going completely alone.
In this solo episode of The Unbreakable Advantage, Misty Carson shares the stories of two people who changed the trajectory of her life: her grandmother and a high school guidance counselor who fought for her when she was a pregnant, emancipated teenager trying to survive on her own.
Misty explores how support systems can change lives, why asking for hel...
What if the hardest parts of your story didn’t just hurt you? What if they built something in you?
In this episode of The Unbreakable Advantage, Misty Carson sits down with author, entrepreneur, speaker, and Light Up Your Life podcast host Samantha Peters for a powerful conversation about childhood trauma, breaking generational cycles, self-worth, limiting beliefs, and turning adversity into purpose. ...
What happens when someone tries to take your life—but instead reveals the strength that was inside you all along?
Some stories are difficult to hear.
Others are impossible to forget.
In this powerful episode of The Unbreakable Advantage Podcast, Misty Carson sits down with Heidi Damon to share a story of unimaginable violence, extraordinary courage, and the decision that changed everything. ...
We’ve all felt it.
That quiet whisper telling us there’s more. More purpose. More impact. More life waiting for us.
Yet somehow the alarms of fear, security, expectations, and self-doubt become so loud that we stop listening.
In this deeply personal solo episode, Misty Carson shares the biggest leap of her life—walking away from a successful corporate career to build The Unbreakable ...
What if the hardest chapter of your life wasn’t the end of your story—but the beginning of your purpose?
Trauma changes us.
Loss changes us.
Grief changes us.
The question is whether those experiences will become the weight that keeps us down or the fuel that helps us rise.
In this deeply personal episode of The Unbreakable Advantage Podcast, Misty Carson sits down with Tonya Rub...
A note before you listen. This conversation touches on childhood trauma, abuse, destructive relationships, and grief. Please take care of yourself as you listen, and if any of it hits close to home, know that you are not alone and support is available.
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Ben Oofana spent his mid twenties caught in a series of destructive relationships before he understood that he was reenacting the trauma...
A note before you listen. This conversation includes honest discussion of childhood sexual abuse, addiction, and recovery. Please take care of yourself as you listen, and if any of it hits close to home, know that you are not alone and support is available.
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Sims Tillerson has spent more than a decade inside the world of employee benefits, from the smallest startups to the Fortune 500. B...
There is a kind of hard nobody prepares you for. Not the hard of the work or the sacrifice or the starting over. Those are clean. You can see them coming. The hard in this episode is the one that comes from the people who love you. The ones who sat at your table and knew your name before you knew your own worth. And who, without ever meaning to, put a ceiling on what they believe is possible for you, because it is t...
David Bybee is the head coach for Team USA Olympic Kickboxing, a world champion, and the author of the forthcoming book The Warrior Bloodline. He is also, in his own words, two people: the champion the world sees, and the quiet kid who was told daily he should have died.
In this conversation, David and Misty trade stories that line up almost beat for beat. A collision at age five that killed his stepfather and ...
Content warning: This episode includes frank discussion of childhood sexual abuse, trafficking, addiction, and complex PTSD. Please take care while listening.
Chasity grew up in a tiny Louisiana town with one red light, no hospital, and a childhood she genuinely loved. Then at twenty seven, her own mind began returning memories she did not know she was carrying. What she found did not just change her past. It r...
New relationship. New job. New city. New chapter. So why does it keep ending the same way?
In this episode Misty Carson opens up one of the most humbling things she has ever had to see in herself: the way we wrap the same core pattern in new packaging and expect a different result. A different bow on the same box. She walks through how that one hidden pattern quietly shapes our relationships, our friendships, our par...
What happens when a man who once slept in his car and on park benches spends 37 years quietly
dismantling the industry that was supposed to serve people and ends up rebuilding it around the
human instead?
In this episode, Misty sits down with Taylor Ranker, founder of Questmont and author of Dead Cats
and Wealth Advisors: Exposing the Myths and Lies of the Wealth Management Industry. Taylor is not,
in his own words, a fi...
Guest: Maria Jackson
For seven years, Maria Jackson did everything right and still kept getting knocked down. Three rounds of IVF. Loans taken out, paid off, and taken out again. A patient in her chair telling her she was too late to ever be a mother while she held it together until she reached her car. And one morning, a day after her birthday, she woke up certain she had lost the baby, and her first thought w...
Some threats announce themselves. The most dangerous ones never do.
In the first guest episode of The Unbreakable Advantage, Misty Carson sits down with Tami Fitzpatrick, Founder and CEO of Entropy Technology Design, whose proprietary low frequency magnetic field detection sees storms forming 3,000 miles out and catches the weaponized drones that slip in under the radar. Her work protects people who have no idea it e...
At 16, pregnant, emancipated, and on her own, Misty Carson had no home, no safety net, and no degree. What she had was a whisper that said there is more for you than this, and a roomful of louder voices telling her to stay exactly where she was.
This is the origin story of The Unbreakable Advantage, told in two parts in one sitting.
In Part 1, The Eagle in the Chicken Coop, Misty traces the pattern she was born into. ...
Guest: Deborah Livingston, CEO & Founder of ReEmployAbility
What if the way we’ve been taught to lead is actually limiting performance?
In this episode, I sit down with Deborah Livingston, CEO and founder of ReEmployAbility, to talk about what it really looks like to lead people well, especially the ones who are holding your business together every day.
We get into the reality that empathy is not a “nic...
Before we relaunch, we need to talk about where this is going. This podcast started with a focus on business, insurance, and leadership decisions. But underneath all of that, there’s something bigger that’s been driving every conversation:
People.
The ones carrying pressure.
The ones navigating uncertainty.
The ones who have lived through more than most people will ever see.
What we often call adversity didn&...
Most leaders treat turnover as a human resources problem. What they don't realize is that it’s actually a massive risk signal that quietly bleeds into every line of insurance they buy.
In this solo episode, Misty Carson breaks down the "Zero-BS" reality of how high turnover levels are driving up your workers’ comp, health insurance, and liability costs. Insurance is a lagging indicator; by the time ...
Most organizations invest heavily in technology, equipment, and insurance, yet they expect leadership capability to develop on its own. In this solo episode, Misty Carson explains why that assumption is one of the most expensive mistakes a business can make.
Leadership isn't just about culture—it's about control. When leaders are unequipped, they avoid conflict, give vague feedback, and tolerate problems ...
How do you transition from running a successful business to building a multimillion-dollar enterprise that spans healthcare, insurance, and community infrastructure? You stop being a manager and start becoming an architect of systems.
This week, Misty sits down with Gary T. Hartfield, a serial entrepreneur, two-time author, and 2025 Titan 100 Honoree.Gary is the Founder and CEO of Serenity Village Insurance &am...
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