Discover how to stop chasing the "how" and surrender to the intelligence that beats your heart in this profound conversation with Cortney McDermott, exploring quantum physics, the Dao teaching of non-doing, and aligning to your future self in 2026.

Learn why relaxation and surrender are more powerful than forced action, how to navigate the back-and-forth between old identity and new nervous system, and the four ways to get ice cream as a framework for understanding forced versus effortless action.

Cortney reveals the white fire of purification process, probability amplitude alignment, and why you must be willing to blow up your phoenix to be reborn.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction: Tech Gremlins & Honoring the First Conversation

6:45 - Stop Chasing the How: Trusting Inner Intelligence

11:20 - "I Have No Idea How You're Figuring This Out"

16:30 - The Back & Forth: Old Identity vs. New Nervous System

24:20 - Four Ways to Get Ice Cream: Force vs. Flow Framework

30:00 - The Tantrum State: Recognizing Nervous System Dysregulation

36:00 - Currency = Flow: Understanding Money as Relationship

44:15 - Collapsing Particles: How Attention Creates Reality

56:15 - Step 1 for 2026: Align to New Probability

58:00 - Step 2: Give Up Who You've Been (William Blake Quote)

1:02:45 - Step 3: Relax Around How It's Happening

1:05:00 - Closing: Let's Make Thriving Our New Normal

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Discover how to break free from confusion and find clarity in this transformative episode featuring David Prosper, a clarity coach who helps entrepreneurs escape mental prisons and live life by design.

Learn why 88% of entrepreneurs report mental health struggles and 12% cite no purpose or direction, and discover David's powerful C5 Method for moving from the messy middle to breakthrough clarity.

David shares his journey from Haiti's slums to the projects of Fort Lauderdale, revealing how resiliency, resourcefulness, and resolve became his blueprint for helping entrepreneurs, executives, and individuals in transition design lives of authentic purpose.

Perfect for purpose-driven entrepreneurs, coaches, business owners stuck in default mode, and anyone ready to stop accumulating more and start removing what's blocking their breakthrough.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction: The Clarity Crisis in Entrepreneurship

4:30 - Reflective Question: What Truth Took Years to Accept?

10:45 - The Immigrant Story: From Haiti to Fort Lauderdale Projects

17:30 - The Obsession: Why Smart People Stay Stuck in Mental Prisons

23:15 - The Statistics: 88% Mental Health Struggles Among Entrepreneurs

26:30 - Why Accumulating More Keeps You Stuck

32:15 - Discomfort as Growth: Seeds, Caterpillars, and Baby Eagles

35:45 - The C5 Method: David's Framework for Breakthrough Clarity

44:00 - Why Intelligent People Live in Mental Prisons

53:45 - First Step to Clarity: OQP - Only Quality People

56:00 - The 3-Step Framework: Exposure, Education, Embodiment

58:30 - Getting Grounded: Moving Out of Survival Brain

1:02:45 - Final Wisdom: Make Progress & Find Clarity Every Day

🔗 Connect with David on LinkedIn

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🔗 Check out - https://theclaritybrand.ai/ by David

🔗 Get Empowered & Aligned for yourself

https://bit.ly/AlignmentReset

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Be a guest on The Thrivewell Journey Podcast?

Send L. Michael Burt a message on #PodMatch, https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/thethrivewelljourney

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In this episode of Friday Night Live, host L. Michael Burt continues the Alignment Reset series with a grounded conversation about entrepreneurial leadership, sustainable business success, and life after disruption.

This episode focuses on the challenging phase of identity transformation many entrepreneurs and leaders experience when an old way of operating no longer fits, but a new identity has not fully taken shape. L. Michael explores the in-between as a crucial space where familiar identities dissolve and new ways of leading, creating, and living begin to form.

Rather than framing this transitional period as confusion or failure, the conversation reframes it as an essential incubation period for creativity, self discovery, and deeper awareness. Listeners will hear why rushing clarity, forcing outcomes, or defaulting to familiar patterns often blocks growth, and how alignment and coherence create space for natural momentum, opportunities, and partnerships.

L. Michael shares personal insight from his own ThriveWell Journey, including the evolution of FAYEWAY Media, named in honor of his mother, as an example of leadership rooted in alignment rather than resistance. His experience highlights how sustainable business success emerges when awareness replaces control and coherence replaces force.

This episode is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders, and creatives navigating transformation, reinvention, and purposeful shifts in 2026 who want to grow without burning out or losing themselves in the process.

Listeners are invited to reflect on their own alignment journey, engage with the growing community, and continue exploring this work through The Empowered Path workbook and future Friday Night Live conversations.

00:00 Introduction to Friday Night Live

04:00 Understanding the Alignment Reset

08:51 The In-Between: An Incubation Space

12:24 Creativity and Coherence in Transformation

16:32 Inviting Community Engagement and Awareness

If this conversation resonates and you want structured support while navigating the in-between, you are invited to explore The Empowered Path, a companion workbook designed to support clarity, alignment, and awareness during identity transitions.

Access the first chapter here:👉 https://bit.ly/TheEmpoweredPath1stchapter