From leadership and healthcare to money and meaning, this show is about understanding the human condition—how we think, what we fear, and why we act. In a world defined by complexity, we look beneath the surface of psychology and ask: what forces are really driving our choices?

Few forces are more psychological than money.

In this episode, I sit down with Eric Semler, Chairman of Semler Scientific. You’ve may have heard of MicroStrategy. But you may not know that Semler Scientific quietly became the second U.S. public company to adopt a Bitcoin treasury strategy.

This wasn’t a marketing move. It was a high-conviction shift—rooted in discipline, personal history, and the belief that a broken monetary system undermines everything, including healthcare.

Eric’s path—from journalism to finance to leading a medical device company—gives him a unique lens. We unpack how he moved the company into Bitcoin, the influence of Michael Saylor, and how he thinks about capital not just as dollars, but as a tool for human flourishing.

🎧 Subscribe for conversations that challenge conventional thinking in health, money, and leadership.

Any port in the storm.

That’s what they say, right? But some storms, you don’t just ride out. Some storms are meant to break you open, strip away the old wood, and leave you staring at what’s left—raw, honest, real.

It’s been two years since my last episode. In that time, I recorded several conversations but never released them. I got caught in the cycle of overthinking, chasing perfection, and losing sight of why I started this podcast in the first place.

Funny how the mind works. It builds its own labyrinth, and before you know it, you’re pacing the same damn hallways, touching the same cold walls, thinking maybe if you run the pattern long enough, you’ll find a way out.

But that’s not how it works. Not in life. You don’t think your way out of it. You walk. You fight. You let yourself be seen. You lean on the ones who’ve been there before, the ones who don’t flinch at the weight of your story because they’ve carried their own.

The kind who have walked through fire and came out carrying something worth sharing.

Today I’m joined by three men who've been there before. Good men. Not perfect men—real ones. John Trapp, Ryan Collins, and Cody Lakevold—serial entrepreneurs, business owners, and family men who are now the founders of Longship. Longship is a space where men can come together, drop the masks, and hold each other accountable in their growth—mentally, physically, and spiritually.

What draws me to their work is its realness. It’s not about self-improvement as a buzzword. It’s about showing up, doing the work, and creating a community where men can support each other in becoming better versions of themselves.

I’m grateful to be back. Let’s dive in.

For those interested in learning more about Longship you can visit www.longshipmen.com

“System problems with the type of magnitude the world is dealing with cannot be fixed by the system creating the problem. A different way of thinking is required.” - Jeff Booth

I have spent the past decade trying to understand why the mental health crisis worsens while stigma reduction efforts and funding for mental health services are on the rise. I used to think the problem was a lack of money, but what if the problem was the monetary system itself?

With inflation wreaking havoc across the globe and adding incredible stress and anxiety to millions of families, I thought it would be worth re-sharing my conversation with Jeff Booth from April of this year. Jeff and I discuss various themes from his recent book The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future, and how money, as it is currently structured, is serving to fragment our collective well-being.

Jeff’s key arguments:

• Our Economic System is Sick. Our debt-dependent economic growth has created an economic system that is not fit for purpose. As technological advancement accelerates into unprecedented territory, our need for inflation to support this system is being confronted by the natural force of deflation. We need to urgently rethink our approach.
• Technology is an Unstoppable Deflationary Force. The emergence of new technologies, such as self-driving cars, virtual reality, and additive manufacturing, will soon create unstoppable deflationary pressure on this system. Coupled with innovation in renewable energy and artificial intelligence, this deflationary pressure cannot be stopped through our model of currency debasement and debt.
• The Dangers and Possible Solutions. Our current approach is widening inequality and will inevitably lead to the discontent that sows the seeds for totalitarianism. While history tells us that policymakers will probably turn to further money printing and universal basic income as responses, a fuller reset is inevitable. We need to decentralize and fix our monetary system, and we need to confront the deflationary reality now rather than later.

  Jeff has become a passionate advocate for Bitcoin as a tool to move us towards a fairer system based on truth and a free market of ideas, a system that moves us from scarcity to abundance. Fix the money, fix the world? Mark