The Real Shinia Powell: What Secret Lives Never Showed You

Lost Your Identity In A Relationship? Here’s What Comes Next.

Who were you performing for — and what's left when the audience is gone? In this episode, Bryce delivers one of the most searching and unexpectedly hopeful episodes in the series. Still inside the quiet of his separation, he confronts the fear that he spent everything on a life that didn't work and has nothing left to build with. Then he dismantles it. Drawing on the buffer, the sponsoring thought framework, and a powerful chapter metaphor, Bryce reframes what this kind of transition actually is: not an emptying, but an excavation. Not a blank page to fear — but the only place in the story where everything is still possible. Listen in! Takeaways: * The identities we build inside relationships, roles, and structures are real — we actually become them. The question nobody asks until they have to is what's left when the structure is gone. * Grief is not depression. Grief is what happens when love has nowhere to go — and if you've loved fully, you will feel it fully. * The fear that you've spent everything — that your emotional tank is empty — is one of the most common and least talked about fears for people who went all in and had it not work out. * You feel that fear precisely because you didn't hold back. People who held back never feel it. * Fear is the worst narrator in your life. It's not objective, not accurate — it's scared, small, and a liar. * Every hard thing you survived, every time you loved fully even when it cost you everything — that didn't drain the tank. That is what the tank is made of. You built capacity, not debt. * The identity underneath all your roles — the one that existed before the structure, the title, the relationship — doesn't disappear. It just gets buried. Transition strips everything back so you can meet that person again. * That isn't loss. That's an archaeological excavation. * Nobody warns you about the chapter after the climax — the resolution. The tension has resolved, the weight is still there, and you're just turning heavy pages through a part of the story where nothing appears to be happening. * That quiet isn't emptiness. That's the story exhaling. * You'll know when the chapter ends — not with a dramatic moment, but with something embarrassingly small. A morning where you didn't think about the loss. A laugh that came from somewhere deep and just appeared. * White space — the blank page — feels like being behind. It isn't. It's the only place in the entire story where anything is still possible. * You are not empty. You are unwritten. That is not a problem to solve — it is the most powerful place a person can stand. * The best thing a leader can do is tell the truth while still inside the experience. Not after. While. * Don't rush the first sentence of the next chapter. Just make sure you write it. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup [https://bryceprescott.com/thelabgroup] and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com [http://BrycePrescott.com] to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott [https://www.instagram.com/bryceprescott]

Emotional Homelessness: The Space Between The Old Life And The New One

There's no lesson here. No framework. No triumphant ending. Just the truth of what it actually feels like to be between lives. In this episode, Bryce Prescott records from inside the quiet of his first month of separation — not from a place of clarity, but from inside the disorientation. He speaks about emotional homelessness, the fear that it's too late, the unconscious walls he can feel himself building in real time, and the strange experience of being a leader whose life is visibly unfinished. And underneath all of it — beneath the grief and the uncertainty — a single thread of faith that hasn't broken yet.  Listen in! Takeaways:  * Grief after a major life transition is quieter than expected — and that quiet has its own weight, its own rhythm, its own way of catching you off guard. * An old life often ends long before you're willing to consciously admit it. The grief you feel now is often for something that was already gone. * What's hardest about losing a long relationship isn't just the person — it's losing the witness. Losing the unconscious rhythm of someone else being present to your life. * Identity is more attached to structure than we realize. When the structure dissolves, parts of yourself you couldn't see suddenly have nowhere to hide. * Emotional homelessness is the part nobody talks about — the space between where you no longer belong in your old life, but don't recognize the new one yet. * The fear in a major transition isn't just sadness. It's tangible, nervous-system-level fear: that it's too late, that you've used up your emotional energy, that you're not equipped for what you say you want. * Nighttime strips away momentum and routine — it's where the unaddressed things live, waiting. * You can feel genuinely relieved and genuinely devastated in the same breath. That contradiction is real. It doesn't mean something is wrong with you. * Slowly becoming guarded isn't a dramatic decision — it's the compound result of small disappointments, subtle disrespect, and loneliness that never gets healed. * Leadership doesn't mean arriving somewhere emotionally before you speak. It might just mean being willing to tell the truth while still inside the experience. * The temptation to make meaning too quickly is its own form of avoidance. Some experiences aren't wisdom yet — and forcing them to be robs you of the actual learning. * Faith is not the same as certainty. It's continuing to walk anyway — without the full picture, without knowing the how. * The lobster sheds its shell because the old one became too tight to grow. This season stripping things away isn't destruction. It's the requirement of the next size of life. * You are less alone in this than you think. The isolating quiet of transition is one of the most common human experiences that almost no one talks about honestly. * If you can tell the truth to yourself about it, keep getting up, and stay grateful for the life you have — your new chapter eventually shows up. That's where it starts. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup [https://bryceprescott.com/thelabgroup] and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com [http://BrycePrescott.com] to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott [https://www.instagram.com/bryceprescott]

The Real Shinia Powell: What Secret Lives Never Showed You

She was memed, dragged, and misunderstood — and none of it was close to the real story. In this episode, Bryce sits down with Shinia Powell, cast member of The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, to have the conversation the show never gave her. What unfolds is something far more significant than reality TV drama. Shinia opens up about losing three brothers to suicide in seven and a half years, her own breaking point, and why she believes the mental health crisis is really an honesty crisis. Her story is one of compounding grief, avoidance, and a hard-won turn toward healing — told with clarity, courage, and zero performance.  Listen in! Takeaways: * Reality television builds characters, not portraits — who you see on the screen and who the person actually is are almost never the same thing. * Shinia Powell is not the woman the show made her out to be. The real story is more interesting, more painful, and far more worth knowing. * Sales taught Shinia more about confidence, rejection, and resilience than almost any other experience — door-to-door, getting rejected a hundred times a day, builds a kind of self-trust that carries into every area of life. * Losing three brothers to suicide in seven and a half years is not something you simply process. It compounds — and if you don't address it honestly, it will eventually break you from the inside out. * When Shinia reached her own breaking point, she discovered firsthand why her brothers didn't reach out — in that moment, you aren't thinking about anyone else. That understanding changed how she held their memory. * You cannot stay alive for other people. You have to find the reason within yourself. That's not selfish — it's the only thing that actually works. * The mental health crisis is not primarily a chemical crisis. It is an honesty crisis — people aren't telling the truth about where they are, what they need, or how they're actually doing. * Sedating grief — through drinking, numbing, avoiding — doesn't make the pain disappear. It just finds different ways to leak out into your life. * Emotions are signals. They aren't problems to suppress. They are transmissions — and the only productive response is curiosity, not judgment. * Adopting a permanent identity of being someone who struggles is different from actually struggling. One explains behavior; the other excuses it. * The avoidant knows they're avoiding. That self-awareness, when owned honestly, is the beginning of the way out. * You are the only one who can do the heavy lifting of your own healing — but you don't have to do it alone. Environment and support matter. * Shinia's mission going forward is clear: show women that they have more power over their own lives than they've been told, and give them the map to use it. * Her upcoming podcast, Unedited, is not the edited version — it's her, her story, and the tools she wishes she'd had before things got dark. * Purpose is one of the most powerful forces in recovery. When you believe your experience can help someone else get out faster, it changes what you're willing to go through. Follow Shinia's Instagram here: Shinia's IG [https://www.instagram.com/shinia_24/] Follow Shinia's TikTok here: Shinia's Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/discover/shinia-powell] Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup [https://bryceprescott.com/thelabgroup] and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com [http://BrycePrescott.com] to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott [https://www.instagram.com/bryceprescott]

Make A G*d*mn Decision Already

You don't lack tools, awareness, or access. You lack a standard. In this episode, Bryce delivers one of the most direct and unflinching conversations in the series — speaking from fresh inside his own reckoning after 20 years. The argument is simple and uncomfortable: most people don't actually want a better life. They want a better excuse for why they don't have one. Using the NLP captain-and-crew metaphor, he breaks down exactly how self-deception erodes self-trust, why avoidance reinforces an identity of untrustworthiness, and what it actually costs when you keep choosing the better excuse over the better standard. Listen in! Takeaways: * You don't lack information, awareness, or tools. You lack a standard — and your current behavior is still acceptable to you. * Some people don't actually want a better life. They want a better excuse for why they don't have one. * Information isn't the problem. Allowance is. You have given yourself permission to stay exactly where you are. * If your behavior were truly unacceptable to you, you wouldn't keep doing it. The fact that you are is the entire answer. * Waiting for clarity isn't a strategy. It's a delay tactic with a respectable-sounding name. * There is a reckoning coming for every area of your life where you've been avoiding the truth. You can choose it now or have it forced on you. * Every day you avoid the thing you know needs to change, you reinforce an identity that you cannot be trusted. * Your subconscious mind — the crew — stops executing for a captain who lies. The breakdown in results is a breakdown in self-trust. * When the captain has integrity, alignment, and honesty, the crew executes with precision. When the captain is a liar, it's mutiny. * You're not waiting for the right moment or the right coach. You're waiting for the pain of staying the same to exceed the pain of changing. * Jumping from coach to coach doesn't fix anything when the real problem is inside of you, not in the direction you're receiving. * Avoidance isn't neutral — it actively compounds. The longer you wait, the deeper the cost to your identity and self-trust. * Authorship means knowing every micro and macro detail of what you want across every domain of your life. That's the work. * When you get clear on what you actually want, every part of you that isn't ready for it will surface. That discomfort is the signal — not the problem. * The question is simple: where are you choosing a better excuse instead of a better standard? Handle that. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup [https://bryceprescott.com/thelabgroup] and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com [http://BrycePrescott.com] to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott [https://www.instagram.com/bryceprescott]

Your Mess Is Your Messenger: Accepting The Invitation To Move On

Nobody starts a new chapter because they feel ready. They start because staying the same finally hurts too much to ignore. In this episode, Bryce speaks from the middle of the messiest season of his life — separated, transitioning businesses, physically transformed, and rebuilding from the ground up. Through that raw, unpolished lens, he delivers one of the most honest conversations in the series about what it actually means to write your own story — before life forces you to rewrite it for you. The mess isn't the problem. It's proof the old story is already breaking apart. Listen in! Takeaways: * Your next level doesn't start when you feel ready. It starts when where you are becomes too painful to stay. * The pain of staying the same has to exceed the pain of the effort required to change. That's the equation. * Something is always writing your story. If you're not doing it consciously, your fears, habits, and avoidance will do it for you. * Familiarity is one of the most overlooked human needs — and one of the most dangerous traps. It can rob you of the best parts of yourself. * Internal resistance to change you already know you need is the most exhausting thing you can do to yourself. * You are not broken. The life you've been living just doesn't work for you anymore. * If you don't address the parts of your life that need to change, life will eventually force you to — and it will be far more painful that way. * The crossroads of your life aren't dramatic moments. They're quiet exit ramps you keep passing because change feels too scary. * Most people only look down at the crossroads — how bad it could go. Very few ask what happens if it all goes right. * The mess in your life right now is not failure. It's proof the old story is breaking apart and something new is being built. * You don't need every answer today. You just need one honest conclusion, one decision, one act of courage. * Parts of you cannot come with you into the life you actually want. That's not loss — that's the requirement. * You don't have to let go of the good things. You just have to be willing to — in exchange for what's best. * The muscle doesn't get stronger in the lifting. It gets stronger in the recovery. The mess is the recovery. * The goal is to hold the pen — to be the conscious author of your own story before life writes it for you. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup [https://bryceprescott.com/thelabgroup] and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com [http://BrycePrescott.com] to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott [https://www.instagram.com/bryceprescott]