Full Wattage

Quick Charge: The Rules You’ve Outgrown

We collect rules about who we are, what we’re capable of, and how much space we’re allowed to take up. Most of them we never chose. We just kept carrying them.

But what happens when you’ve outgrown them? When you’re still saying “I’m not the kind of person who,” still dimming yourself down, still making decisions as someone you used to be?

This fir...

How close can you get to power without losing yourself?

James Orsini has spent more than 40 years in rooms most people spend their careers trying to enter. Goldman Sachs. Saatchi & Saatchi. VaynerX, where he helped Gary Vaynerchuk turn an ambitious vision into a global powerhouse.

Not bad for the son of a plumber from Newark, New Jersey.

But James's story isn't really about climbing to the top. It's about knowing who you are, reco...

What do you do when life stops following the plan?

This episode gets into the deeply human stuff: how we respond when certainty disappears, how perspective changes what we can see, and how much agency remains even when circumstances are out of our control.

Expect a conversation about navigating fear without letting it run the show, the difference between knowledge and earned wisdom, why community matters more than ever, and what ...

What if the biggest mistake we make about our potential is assuming we already know its limits?

New York Times–bestselling author and one of the world’s leading experts on human performance, Steven Kotler has spent more than 30 years studying flow, peak performance, and what happens when people push beyond what they thought they were capable of. His conclusion: we consistently underestimate ourselves b...

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t knowing what we want.

It’s letting ourselves keep moving once we start getting it.

Tom Giles has spent more than 30 years asking consequential questions and listening for the moment people go off script. In this conversation, the lens turns inward.

We explore the scuba certification he put off for decades, the pull between individual desire and responsibility, how easily we shape-shift arou...

Most people think confidence comes first.

That once they feel certain, qualified, or ready enough, they’ll finally say what they want and move toward it.

Stephanie Barbour has spent more than 15,000 hours coaching leaders, and she has seen the opposite. Confidence is built after we begin. We name the thing. We claim it. We take one awkward step. Then another. Eventually, action becomes evidence.

In this conversation, Stephanie a...

Most of us think we're qualified for one version of ourselves.

We become the title on our business card. The industry we've always worked in. The story we've repeated for years.

But what if your greatest strengths have nothing to do with the role you're currently playing?

Former Goldman Sachs Partner Lisa Shalett built an extraordinary career by saying yes to opportunities that made no sense on paper. Moving from revenue into complian...

What if the person you're trying to become doesn't exist yet?

If you've ever felt stuck between who you've been and who you're becoming, this conversation is for you.

David Kidder has built and sold companies, written New York Times bestselling books, advised Fortune 500 leaders, and spent decades helping entrepreneurs navigate uncertainty. But this conversation isn't about exits or success.

It's about what happens when everyt...

What story have you accepted about your life that was never actually yours?

At sixteen, Halim Flowers was sentenced to two life sentences. The world handed him an ending before his life had even begun.

He never claimed it.

In this episode of Full Wattage, Halim shares how he built freedom in his mind long before he was physically released. From 22 years behind bars to becoming an artist, author, entrepreneur, and cultural engineer, hi...

Most of us think the thing standing between us and our best performance is more skill.

More practice.
Better technique.
A different strategy.

But what if that's not the problem?

Dr. Rick Sessinghaus has spent decades coaching elite golfers, including two-time major PGA champion Collin Morikawa, through the highest-pressure moments in sport.

What he's learned is that the obstacle is rarely talent.

It's the interference.

The doubt.

Most of us are really good at answering that question for everyone else. Our jobs, our families, our obligations. But for ourselves? We go quiet.

Bonnie Wan spent 30 years as a strategist helping the world's biggest brands get clear on who they are and what they stand for. Then she asked herself why we never do that for our own lives, and built a framework to change it.

In this conversation, we get into the questions we avoid, the sc...