You're Not God: Scott Silverman on Asking for Help & Finding Hope

You're Not God: Scott Silverman on Asking for Help & Finding Hope

💛 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: Scott Silverman on asking for help, recovery, and the hope that's always there. Crisis coach Scott Silverman has spent more than forty years in recovery and in the work of helping others, and his message is simple: you're not God, and that's good news. We talk about why the three hardest words to say are I need help, what he calls funeral avoidance, why addiction is a disease and not a moral failing, and the long view from someone who has walked people from their lowest point back to hope. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The one thing we're never meant to control 01:33 Meet Scott Silverman: crisis coach and founder of Confidential Recovery 01:54 Long-term recovery since 1984 and the three hardest words: I need help 04:38 Staying in the work without burning out 07:09 The twelve-inch trip from your head to your heart 08:00 Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing 09:36 It's okay not to be okay, and the family navigator role 11:48 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: what the book frees us to do 17:45 Compassion on the front lines and the people no one reaches 23:36 Tough love that works: dignity and "Would you hire you?" 30:00 The homeless industry and why housing first failed 34:40 Self-reflection, self-love, and learning to look in the mirror 36:15 Closing: there's always hope and help WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🕊 Why the three hardest words, I need help, may be the bravest ones you say 🧠 Why addiction is a disease, not a moral failing, and what the diabetes comparison makes clear 🪞 The mirror moment behind Tell Me No, I Dare You: "Would you hire you?" 💛 Why it's okay not to be okay, and just as okay to be okay 🛞 A clear look at homelessness, the "homeless industry," and why intervention has to come first ABOUT SCOTT SILVERMAN Scott Silverman is a crisis coach, family navigator, and the founder and CEO of Confidential Recovery, an intensive outpatient program in San Diego. In long-term recovery since 1984, he has spent more than forty years helping individuals and families move from crisis back to recovery, and he founded Second Chance and the Veterans Navigation Center along the way. He is the author of You're Not God, That Job Is Taken and Tell Me No, I Dare You. http://yourcrisiscoach.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthsilverman/ 🛞 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #YoureNotGod #ScottSilverman #Recovery #HopeAndHelp #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Mental Wellness Lab: Charley Johnson on Consciousness & Scalar Waves

🎙 Mental Wellness Lab: Charley Johnson on consciousness, scalar waves, and the shift happening on the planet. What if better leadership starts with better awareness? Charley Johnson, President of Mental Wellness Lab, joins April Chavez to talk consciousness, frequency, and why clarity matters more than ever. ▶ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 Better leadership begins with better awareness 01:56 From a neutral upbringing to running a company at twenty-two 03:59 The fear of flying that redirected everything 05:30 A sauna, a past life, and the dam that broke open 06:32 "Truth Has No Sides" and refusing to pick a side 08:35 What Mental Wellness Lab actually is 09:37 Tesla, scalar waves, and the potency of frequencies 11:09 How remote support reaches you without a device 15:18 The conditioning we have lived inside 21:24 Human evolution and the shift on the planet 23:24 The ripple effect, one shift changes everyone around you 27:59 The rawness, the fumbling, and giving yourself grace 32:06 The Wi-Fi metaphor that makes quantum click 36:12 Where to find Charley and what excites him now WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🌀 Why awareness and clarity may matter more for steady leadership than any tactic 🔆 How Charley sees Tesla's old ideas, frequency, and scalar waves showing up in wellness today 🌍 The ripple effect Charley describes, where one person's shift changes the people around them 🤍 A real, unpolished moment about giving yourself grace when your mind or body is not cooperating ✨ Why Charley believes quantum has left the fringe, and what "everything is connected" means to him ABOUT CHARLEY JOHNSON Charley Johnson is the President of Mental Wellness Lab and its Chief Consciousness Officer, and the author of "Truth Has No Sides." After years in business and a decade traveling the world with the Pay It Forward Foundation, a single conversation turned him toward consciousness, meditation, and the science of frequency. His work centers on awareness, emotional balance, and a simpler way to support mental wellbeing. https://mentalwellnesslab.com 🌎 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter for fresh episode alerts and SIP-aligned reflections: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective community: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #MentalWellnessLab #CharleyJohnson #Consciousness #DrivenLivin #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Last Human Signal: Yuly Grosman on Reading People & Staying Human

🌸 The Last Human Signal: Yuly Grosman on reading people and staying human. Situational intelligence expert Yuly Grosman on why people are signals, why real safety is prevention, and the love story whose signs were there years before he met her. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtu.be/dt0JMnylwKo ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The signal no screen can show you 02:00 The most beautiful and the most dangerous business 03:15 Why people are signals 04:30 The hospital, and his first signal 06:00 The flight attendant, the flowers, and the mug 09:00 What you learn when families come to the retreat 11:10 What safety really means 13:00 The love story whose signals were already there 17:15 Why he wrote the book 19:50 Situational intelligence in business 20:50 The elevator, and why titles mean nothing 22:40 The hardest conversation with his daughter 25:20 Staying human in a world of AI 28:00 Creativity, and the Mao Flowers story 31:00 Stay human WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🌸 Why people are signals, and the one human skill no algorithm has automated 🌸 How body language, tone, and the room itself change the outcome (the flight attendant, the mug, the elevator) 🌸 Why real safety is prevention and awareness, not fear or self-defense 🌸 A love story that crossed years and a single city, where the signs were there long before the meeting 🌸 What his daughter taught him about critical thinking and staying human in the age of AI ABOUT YULY GROSMAN Yuly Grosman is an executive advisor, author, and situational intelligence expert. Born in the USSR and shaped by seven years in Kenya, he spent half his life in the most beautiful business (roses) and half in the most dangerous (security), reading the human signals that quietly decide outcomes across five continents. He has trained leaders and students from Nairobi to Harvard, and his book, The Most Beautiful and Dangerous Business, carries both the methodology and the very human story behind it. https://www.yulygrosman.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuly-grosman/ 🛞 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter: https://drivenlivin.com/newsletter-sign-up Join The Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz. https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements. #TheLastHumanSignal #YulyGrosman #SituationalIntelligence #StayHuman #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Unbeatable Mind: Mark Divine on meditation, Kokoro, and the inner path to becoming whole.

What does it take to stay steady when life, leadership, or the mission gets intense? Mark Divine, retired Navy SEAL Commander and founder of SEALFIT, shares the meditation practice, the Zen teaching, and the future-self visualization work that took him from a question — who am I? — all the way to becoming the warrior he was meant to be. 🎥 Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 [https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1]  ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 — The question: what does it take to stay steady when pressure rises? 01:30 — Meet Mark Divine: Navy SEAL Commander, founder of SEALFIT and Unbeatable Mind 06:00 — Martial arts, a Zen master, and the meditation practice that changed everything 09:30 — Asking who am I and discovering the warrior path 10:30 — How visualization and intention led Mark to the Navy SEALs 12:30 — Identity, slowing down, and what shifts as we evolve 19:30 — Box breathing, meditation, and training calm under real pressure 21:30 — Working with fear, self-sabotage, and the emerging future self 25:00 — The Fifth Mountain: Kokoro and becoming a whole, integrated person 27:00 — Future-self visualization: creating a memory of who you're becoming 31:30 — Life wants to live: the Zen teaching at the heart of Mark's work 35:30 — Light in the dark: how trauma became resilience 39:00 — Forgiveness, acceptance, and asking the deeper questions 41:15 — Closing reflections and where to find Mark WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY 🧘 Why meditation cracks open the question of who am I (and what to do with what you find) 🔥 How Mark visualized himself into becoming a Navy SEAL years before he applied 🗻 The Fifth Mountain — Kokoro — and what it means to become a whole, integrated human 🌅 Future-self visualization: creating a memory of who you're becoming 🛡 How trauma can become the source of resilience, when met with awareness ABOUT MARK DIVINE Mark Divine is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL Commander, bestselling author, and founder of SEALFIT and Unbeatable Mind. He holds a PhD in Global Leadership and Change, and his work bridges ancient wisdom and modern science for high performance and human growth. 🌐 markdivine.com 🛡 unbeatablemind.com 📩 STAY CONNECTED Get the newsletter for fresh episode alerts and SIP-aligned reflections: [Insert newsletter link] Join The Drive Collective community: https://drivenlivin.com/community [https://drivenlivin.com/community] Visit Driven Livin': https://drivenlivin.com [https://drivenlivin.com] PRODUCTION CREDITS Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez — https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/] Video production by Manlee J. Chavez — https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/] Music by Steve Stuntz — https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 [https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303] The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements [https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements]. #UnbeatableMind #MarkDivine #Kokoro #Meditation #TWDLS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Space Dreams to Reality: Diallo Wallace on Youth & STEM

Driven Livin’: https://drivenlivin.com Join the Drive Collective: https://drivenlivin.com/community What happens when a childhood dream of space becomes a mission to help young people believe their dreams belong to them, too? On The Wellness Driven Life Show, April Chavez welcomes Diallo Wallace, naval aviator, aerospace engineer, educator, analog astronaut, and founder of TESSA, a program that opens real doors for high school students in aerospace, engineering, aviation, and space careers. Diallo shares the story behind his own path into aviation and space, from the Space Shuttle Columbia launch that sparked his imagination to the mentors, failures, and hard-won lessons that shaped his journey. He also explains why the real work in STEM is not only technical, but human: helping young people see themselves as capable, supported, and ready to contribute. In this episode, we explore: ⚡ How one childhood spark can become a lifelong mission. ⚡ Why grit, failure, and support are part of real growth. ⚡ The importance of youth mentorship in aerospace and STEM. ⚡ Why the future of space depends on the human factor as much as the technology. ⚡ How to quiet outside noise and listen to the inner voice that says, "Yes, you can." From analog missions in the Arctic to credit-bearing aerospace courses for students, Diallo's work is about widening the path so the next generation can rise with confidence. Learn more about TESA: https://tesa4space.org Watch Diallo's Space Camp Hall of Fame clip: https://youtu.be/2kWsBIcomXI Hosted and executive produced by April Chavez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilmchavez/ Video production by Manlee J. Chavez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manleejchavez/ Music by Steve Stuntz: https://www.youtube.com/@stevestuntz9303 The views expressed by guests on The Wellness Driven Life Show do not always reflect those of April Chavez or The Wellness Driven Life Show. For more details and a disclaimer, visit https://drivenlivin.com/guest-agreements #TWDLS #DrivenLivin #DialloWallace #TESSA #STEMEducation #SpaceEducation #YouthMentorship #AerospaceCareers #Leadership #SIPLifeSlowly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]