If you missed today’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Jason Wilson, the replay is live and this one went places I did not expect.

Jason is a Morehouse College graduate, full time podcast producer, founder of Circle of Friends Club, CEO of Spirit Linc, and a 24 year expat building a global ecosystem from Bogotá, Colombia. We brought him on during Men’s Mental Health Month because he is not just talking about mental health. He is living it, building around it, and dedicating his life’s work to it.

The Man Behind the Mission

Most people know Jason as the podcast producer who handles everything so his clients just show up. But today we learned where the real motivation comes from.

His mother was his best friend. He watched her transform from a happy, gregarious woman into someone who spent most of her days in bed, battling bipolar depression and suicidal ideation. He flew home from Colombia four and five times to show up for her. He never stopped trying. She passed in 2014.

From that moment Jason made a decision: everything he builds from here on out would be dedicated to her memory and centered on mental health.

That is not a brand strategy. That is a son honoring his mother the only way he knows how.

The Loneliness Epidemic Nobody Is Talking About Enough

One of the most important things Jason said today was simple and urgent.

There is a loneliness epidemic. And it is getting worse.

That is the motivation behind Spirit Linc, his faith-based dating and connection platform for entrepreneurs, athletes, leaders, and entertainers who are ready for meaningful relationships. Not just romance. Real connection rooted in shared values.

When high-performing people build everything around their careers and arrive at the top alone, that is not success. That is the loneliness epidemic in a suit. Spirit Linc was built for that person.

Circle of Friends Club and What Men Experience Inside It

Jason built Circle of Friends Club as a mental wellness community that holds space for the conversations men benefit from learning how to start. Depression. Anxiety. PTSD. The things that do not come up in the locker room or the boardroom.

Men are statistically the least likely demographic to seek mental health support. Jason built a community specifically designed to change that, quietly, consistently, and with the kind of warmth that makes people feel safe enough to show up.

His Advice for Aspiring Podcasters

One of the audience questions gave us one of the best pieces of practical wisdom of the entire show.

Jason started his first podcast on a laptop with no microphone, no green screen, and no camera. The image was grainy. He posted it anyway.

His advice: figure out what you are passionate about and just start. Do not wait for the perfect setup. Resilience and perseverance build audiences. Equipment comes later.

Twenty four years of building in a country where most people were afraid to visit taught him that waiting for perfect conditions is how you never begin.

Go Watch the Replay and Connect With Jason

The replay is live now across all platforms. Watch it, share it, and then go find Jason Wilson where he is building.

* 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jwthewingman

* 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/jasonwilson008

* 🌐 Spirit Linc: spiritlinc.com

* 🌐 Circle of Friends Club: circleoffriendsclub.com

* 📸 Instagram: @circleoffriendsclub

* ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@circlebacktoyoupodcast

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There is a moment in this week’s episode of Carrie Connects that will stay with you.

Mark Brezzell, former Cardiovascular Perfusionist, Johns Hopkins graduate, Type 1 Diabetes Advocate, and Corporate Wellness Consultant, was talking about what happens when high stress professionals ignore the warning signs their body is sending. And then he said this:

Who is missing you the most? Is it the empty chair at your family table or the empty desk at your corporation? Because if you fall over with a heart attack today, that job is posted within a week or two. But that table setting is going to sit there a long time.

That is a fact from a man who spent 10 years in cardiac surgery and watched the consequences up close.

This Was Round Two

Mark first joined Carrie Connects on May 9th. That conversation covered the biology of stress, what 30 years in cardiovascular medicine taught him, and why resilience is built through awareness, not willpower. He came back June 7th because one conversation was not enough.

This time, we went deeper. Here is what the room heard.

Stress Does Not Appear on the Death Certificate

One of the most important things Mark said is that stress does not get listed as a cause of death. What gets listed are the things stress caused: heart attack, stroke, peripheral arterial disease. He described stress as the trigger and the accelerator.

He broke down what high stress actually does to the body over time. Judgment gets impaired. Cognitive function drops. Sleep breaks down. Metabolism shifts. Blood pressure rises. And when those things compound, the body starts sending signals that most people ignore.

The warning signs he named: frequent headaches, increased irritability, sleeplessness, a racing mind that will not quiet down, and then the physiological escalation into chest pain, elevated blood pressure, and the kind of symptoms that require a doctor visit, not a push through.

Men treat pushing through like a badge of honor. But pushing through is setting you up for a serious setback.

He was clear about what the endgame of that badge looks like. Heart attacks. Strokes. Widow makers, which is what they call the left main stem blockage, a specific kind of arterial blockage named for what it does to the person left behind.

The Blood Conservation Story and What It Taught Him About Adaptability

One of the most remarkable moments in the conversation came when Coach Carrie asked Mark about the blood conservation technology he introduced at Toledo Hospital, including techniques that allowed Jehovah’s Witness patients to undergo open heart surgery without receiving blood transfusions.

His mentor, who he calls the godfather of blood conservation, was the first to demonstrate that over-transfusing blood is almost like giving an organ transplant. The body treats foreign blood as a foreign substance. His work was about finding smarter ways to work with the body instead of overwhelming it.

For Jehovah’s Witness patients who could not accept any blood product, the surgical team managed fluid levels precisely, controlled blood pressure pharmacologically, and kept patients in a tight window throughout the procedure. Mark said he does not remember a single patient from those 10 years who needed a transfusion using those techniques. Their recovery was consistently excellent.

It was very labor intensive. But these people came out with excellent levels. It just goes to show you how adaptable the body is when you work with it instead of against it.

He carries that lesson into his wellness work. The body is more capable than we give it credit for. The goal is to stop working against it.

Diabetes Is a Global Crisis and Most People Do Not Know It

Mark does international diabetes advocacy work in Africa and India. He made something very clear: diabetes is not a lifestyle disease that only affects certain types of people in certain types of bodies. It is a global crisis touching communities with wildly different resources.

In many African nations, access to continuous glucose monitoring equipment is only just arriving. Insulin pumps remain out of reach for many. Legislative battles over open access to therapies are ongoing. People are managing serious conditions with limited tools.

He also cleared up a myth that comes up constantly. You do not have to be overweight to have diabetes. You can weigh 110 pounds and have it. Diabetes is about whether the pancreas is functioning properly and whether the body is absorbing insulin correctly. Weight can influence inflammation, which can contribute to Type 2, but thinness is not protection.

And for anyone who thinks cutting out cookies will keep them safe: highly processed foods, ketchup, sauces, hot dogs, foods with high fructose corn syrup all spike blood sugar in ways the pancreas has to work to compensate for. Over time, that wears the system down. The issue is not just dessert. It is the full picture of what we eat.

The American Diabetes Association Call

The president-elect of the American Diabetes Association personally called Mark after he applied for a board role. The message was direct: your background is valuable, but you need more local advocacy experience first.

Mark did not hear that as a rejection. He heard it as a roadmap. He connected with TD1 Michigan, a Type 1 diabetes advocacy group in his state. He began reaching out to regional and national organizations, offering expertise, guidance, and the one thing no textbook can give: lived experience. His brother also has Type 1 diabetes. He knows the condition from the inside.

You can read a ton of books all you want. But there is something about living with it that takes it to a whole other level.

What Corporate Wellness Actually Looks Like

When stress has been running the culture of a law firm or finance team for years, here is what Mark says you start to see: productivity drops, absenteeism rises, turnover increases, and then the acute events start. Someone collapses. Someone has a cardiac event. Someone does not come back.

The resistance he runs into most when he brings a wellness program into an organization is the fear that wellness will distract from productivity. His response: the best productivity is availability. If your people are burning out, calling in sick, working through illness while performing at 60 percent, or leaving entirely, that costs far more than investing in their health.

He is expanding his focus beyond legal and financial professionals. Healthcare workers are next. The people who take care of everyone else are among the most stressed people in any system. He has 30 years of surgical experience to speak to them from.

Building a Business With Family

Mark runs his platform with a family based team that includes his nieces. He said what he values most about that structure is the trust that already exists. You do not have to build it from scratch. You grow together. And the people around you become examples to others in the family who are watching.

He calls it each one reach one. The model is not just about building a business. It is about building a standard that younger people in the family can see and reach toward.

Three Things You Can Do This Week

Mark closed the show with three specific actions he asked everyone in the room to try before next Saturday. No gym membership required. No major lifestyle overhaul.

Sleep. Go to bed an hour earlier or sleep an hour later. Add something to your routine that helps you wind down. Your body recovers during rest. Without it, the machinery starts to fail.

Move. Walk around the block. Walk up and down your stairs. Movement is one of the most effective tools for managing blood sugar, supporting cardiovascular health, improving sleep, and reducing stress. Start small.

Hydrate. Drink more water. You do not have to hit a number all at once. Carry a bottle and sip throughout the day. That steady hydration supports every system in your body.

Those three things in and of itself, you will start noticing a profound change in just how you feel.

Watch the Full Episode

This article is a summary. The full conversation covers more ground than any recap can hold. Mark goes deeper into the biology of stress, the connection between cardiovascular health and the head, heart, and legs, what to tell teenagers about monitoring their bodies, and what exercise does to insulin resistance.

Watch the full episode on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Substack, and Instagram. Search Carrie Connects or find the replay on all platforms @ gr8finances where the show airs live every Saturday at 2 PM CST.

Connect with Mark Brezzell at linktr.ee/mdbliveconnextllc.

If someone in your life needs to hear this, share it with them. That table setting matters.

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June 1, 2026 | Coach Carrie Willis

Tonight I had the pleasure of joining Dr. Tania Farran live on P2P Presents for a conversation every parent with kids at home this summer needed to hear.

Dr. Tania Farran is the author of Raising the Well-Adjusted Child, A Parent’s Manual and the host of Parent2Parent. She is also someone I connected with a few months ago over a coffee chat and we hit it off immediately. So when she invited me to come on and talk about keeping kids engaged and responsible in the summer, I said yes without hesitation.

Here is what we talked about.

STRUCTURE DOES NOT TAKE A VACATION

The first question Dr. Farran asked me was how I handle summer with my son. My answer was simple.

Structure does not take a vacation just because school does.

In my house, the routine changes but the expectations do not. Free time is earned, not assumed. And one of the things I love most about our summers is that we plan them together. My son has input. We agree on the plan. And then we hold each other accountable to what we said we would do.

When kids have a say in the plan, they show up differently for it. That is what I have seen firsthand.

RESPONSIBILITY IS A PRACTICE, NOT A LECTURE

We talked about how responsibility gets built in a home. My answer was that it is not built through conversations. It is built through doing.

In my house, everyone has a role. Real contributions and not just busy work. My son makes his bed. He does laundry. He takes out the trash. And now that he is older, he has time in the kitchen too. He tells me what is on the menu and I step aside.

When a child sees that the household runs because of their effort, they internalize something important: their actions matter.

THE MOST POWERFUL PARENTING TOOL YOU HAVE

Dr. Farran ended our time together by asking for one tip for parents. Here is what I said.

Make the expectation clear and make it theirs.

Sit down with your kids before summer starts. Ask them what kind of summer they want to have. Help them build the plan. When they own the goal, they show up for it differently.

And then hold the line. Love them enough to mean what you say. Because consistency is the most powerful parenting tool we have.

CHILDREN REMEMBER TIME, NOT MONEY

We also talked about fun. And this was one of my favorite parts of the conversation. The best memories my son and I have are not the expensive ones. They are the ones we did not plan.

One morning we decided at 10am we were done sitting at home. We filled up the tank, grabbed some snacks, and drove to Atlanta. Just like that. No agenda. Just us.

Children remember the time you give them. Not the money you spent.

IF YOUR KID IS GOING TO WORK THIS SUMMER, READ THIS FIRST

Dr. Farran referenced an article I recently published on Substack about work from home opportunities and financial moves for teens. If you have a teen who wants to earn money this summer, that article covers the real income streams available to teens 16 and older, the scams to watch out for, and the one financial move most families never make but absolutely should.

You can read the full article here: Worthy Wednesday: Your Teen Wants to Work From Home This Summer

The short version: any teen with documented earned income this summer is eligible to open a custodial Roth IRA. One summer of work. Decades of compounding. That is the conversation most families are not having and it is the one that changes everything. I can open these accounts for you.

WE ARE COMING BACK

At the close of the show, Dr. Farran said something I am holding onto.

We need to talk about money and kids. We need to have you back.

And we will. The next conversation will go deeper into financial strategies for families and what parents can do right now to set their kids up before the window closes. Stay tuned for that date.

In the meantime, follow Dr. Tania Farran and Parent2Parent on YouTube, Spotify, and TikTok. She is doing real work for parents and the community she has built around it is worth being a part of.

If tonight’s conversation sparked something for your family and you want to talk about what your next financial move looks like, I have time for you. Book a Confidential Financial Clarity Session at calendly.com/gr8finances/clarity. Both spouses or financial partners need to be present. No cost. No obligation. Just clarity.

Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

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Some conversations end when the time runs out. This one did not.

When Sensei Fred Jordan joined me on Carrie Connects™ on March 28th we ran almost 15 minutes over time and he still had more to say. So he came back. On Saturday May 30th Sensei Fred returned for Part Two and what happened in that room was exactly what I knew it would be. Deeper, more practical, and more personal than the first time.

If you missed it, this article is your invitation to watch it. If you were there, this is your reminder of what you heard and your invitation to share it with someone who needs it.

What This Episode Was Actually About

We went straight into Whole Self-Alignment™.

Sensei Fred Jordan is a United States Marine, Professor of Martial Arts Science, world record holder, doctoral degree holder, licensed investment advisor and founder of the International Martial Arts Science Association. A man who has served over 4,000 people across 300 plus schools, corporations and communities in 23 years. But none of that is what Saturday was about.

Saturday was about the framework he built from all of it. And what it can do for you.

The Tricycle You Are Riding on One Wheel

One of the most clarifying moments in the episode came when I asked Sensei Fred what happens when someone only works on one dimension of themselves; the physical, the mental or the emotional and ignores the other two.

He said it simply: you are not riding a unicycle. You are riding a tricycle with one wheel aligned and two going in different directions. You might be moving. You might even think you are making progress. But the drag is real, the time cost is real and the wear on your nervous system is real.

That landed differently for me than I expected. Because I have been that person. Pouring everything into one lane while the other two pull me sideways without me even realizing it.

The Blue Ford Tempo Moment

There was a moment in this episode that I will be talking about for a long time.

I shared something personal about driving my old blue Ford Tempo down the South Side of Chicago with bad wheel alignment and no power steering fluid. Every block took more effort than it should have. I knew where I wanted to go. I was pointed in the right direction. But I was fighting the wheel the whole way there.

Sensei Fred picked that up immediately and added something that stopped the room.

Misalignment does not just slow you down. It puts wear and tear on your nervous system.

You can feel it in your body when you are out of alignment. Most of us have just learned to call it stress and keep driving.

The First Step Out of Chaos

I asked him what the real first step is for someone who has been living inside chaos so long they do not even know what peace feels like anymore.

He said: you just have to want to.

Not in the way we usually mean it. Not the kind of want that buys a book and never opens it. The kind of want that makes you stop and ask yourself why do I want to do this? What do I actually believe? And then start there. With your breathing. With awareness. Not deep breathing techniques. Just noticing that you are breathing and what it does to your body when you pay attention to it.

That is where the alignment begins - in a breath.

What Buries the Knowing

He revisited something he said in March that this community has not stopped talking about: the baby stands up on two feet without anyone teaching it how. That knowing never leaves. It just gets buried.

On Saturday he told us what buries it.

Circumstances shape the mind. Environment, influence and what we are told about ourselves begins to quiet the internal voice that already knows. We do not lose it. We just stop hearing it because other voices get louder. And eventually we begin to define ourselves by how other people define us without even realizing that is what we are doing.

The work of Whole Self-Alignment™ is learning to hear your own voice again. Not performing alignment for the world. Feeling good about yourself because of what you know about yourself.

What Sensei Fred Knew at Eight Years Old

In the Q & A one of our audience members asked what inspired him to become a Sensei.

He said he knew at eight years old. Not in words. Not with a plan. But he knew that at some point he was going to be teaching a perspective of humanity. Martial arts gave him the platform. The framework came later. But the knowing was always there.

He said his family thought he was weird.

He said it with a smile that told you everything about what it means to trust the thing inside you that other people cannot see yet.

If You Missed It

Watch it. The full episode is available now across YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and Substack.

This is not a highlight reel kind of conversation. It is the kind that asks something of you while you are watching it. It asks you to look at which wheel you have been neglecting. It asks you to notice what you are feeling in your nervous system right now. It asks you to remember something about yourself that the noise has been covering up.

Come back to it more than once. Different things will land at different times.

If You Were There

Thank you for being in the room. Share this with one person this week who is riding that tricycle on one wheel and does not know it yet. You might be the reason they finally stop fighting the wheel.

And yes. Part Three is coming.

Connect With Sensei Fred Jordan

💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/senseifredjordan 📝 Substack: substack.com/@senseifredjordan 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/senseifredjordan 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/senseifredjordan 🎵 TikTok: tiktok.com/@senseifredjordan ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@senseifredjordan 🌐 IMASA: imasa.world

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Carrie Connects™ | Blue and White Edition Recap | May 24, 2026

If you missed tonight’s special Blue and White Edition of Carrie Connects™ with Antoinne Duane Jones, the replay is live and this one deserves your full attention.

Antoinne is a traveling photographer with 21 years of experience, founder of Majority Greek Magazine, member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. for 27 years, co-host of The Opinionated Podcast with Cocoa Brown, and one of the most honest voices on Black men’s mental health I have ever had the privilege of sitting across from.

As a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., this Blue and White Edition in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month was personal for me. And Antoinne showed up for every second of it.

Men Do Not Need a Safe Place. They Need a Sacred One.

The line that stopped the entire conversation came when Antoinne shared something a therapist said at a men’s mental health event he had just attended.

Men do not need a safe place. They need a sacred one.

The difference matters. Safe implies protection from judgment. Sacred implies that what you bring into that space is treated as something holy, something that will not be minimized, mocked, or used against you. That is the environment Antoinne has spent years trying to build for Black men through his Brothers Do Brunch events, his fatherhood programming, and his willingness to stand on stage and say out loud that he has struggled with depression.

When he does that, he said, the light bulbs go off like fireworks in the room. Men who have never said those words out loud suddenly realize they are not alone.

We Are in Civil Rights 2.0

Antoinne did not shy away from the urgency of this moment. When asked why civic education and Black history preservation feel more pressing than ever, he said something that landed hard.

If you close your eyes and think about the political environment, the racial environment, the work environment right now and ask yourself what year it feels like, most people would not say 2026. They would say somewhere around 1970. We are in Civil Rights 2.0. And if we go any further back we are in pre-voting rights territory.

That context is why his political education series bringing elected officials into real conversations with Black communities is not just programming. It is infrastructure.

Being a Full-Time Entrepreneur Is Like Being a Hunter

One of the most relatable moments of the night came when Antoinne talked about the mental health challenges of entrepreneurship itself.

Being a full-time entrepreneur, he said, is like being a hunter. You do not eat if you do not kill. Not everyone is built for that. And the beginning of this year was hard because when people are worried about gas prices and paying bills, how many photos are they booking?

He said it plainly: sometimes people tell him to just go get a job. And he said he would probably get fired in ten minutes. As soon as they told him he clocked in at 8:01 instead of 8:00 he would be done.

The audience laughed. But the honesty underneath it was real. Entrepreneurship is a mental health conversation that does not get had enough.

The Pillars of the Black Community

Antoinne closed with a tribute to Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. that gave the Blue and White Edition its full meaning.

He said that if you peel away the layers and look at the pillars of the Black community, you will find members of these organizations. Councilmen. Representatives. Senators. Mayors. Doctors. Judges. Lawyers. The infrastructure of Black leadership has always had Greek letter organizations at its foundation.

Twenty seven years a Sigma. And still diving deeper.

Go Watch the Replay and Connect With Antoinne

The replay is live across all platforms. Watch it, share it, and then go find Antoinne Duane Jones on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, and Substack. Support his photography business at ADJ Media. Listen to The Opinionated Podcast with Cocoa Brown. And follow Majority Greek Magazine.

He is doing beautiful work. Bold work. And he proved it on this stage.

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Carrie Connects™ | Sameerah Jones Show Recap | May 23, 2026

If you missed today’s episode of Carrie Connects™ with Sameerah Jones, the replay is live and it is one of the most personal conversations this show has ever had.

Sameerah is the founder of Island Rose Essentials LLC, a handmade natural body care line built on one standard: she only sells what she would put on her own skin. She is also my childhood friend. Our mothers were close. We grew up close. And today she brought all of that history, all of that honesty, and all of that heart to this stage.

The Four Chambers of Her Heart

When I asked Sameerah about her family she said something that stopped the room.

She called her four children the four chambers of her heart.

A wife of nearly 30 years. A mother of four. And now a grandmother to baby Legend, a grandson she is raising full time because she refuses to let him spend his early years in daycare. At almost 52 she is chasing a toddler every day and loving every exhausting minute of it.

That is who Sameerah Jones is before you ever get to the business.

The Products Her Kids Test First

Sameerah’s children are not just her inspiration. They are her quality control team.

Every new formula goes to them first. If a soap dries the skin they tell her. If a scent does not work they say so. They are her biggest supporters and her most honest critics, which is exactly the kind of feedback that builds a product line worth trusting.

Her full range includes handmade soaps, body butters, candles, castile soap, and bath soaps, all formulated with organic and natural ingredients she personally researches and vets before they ever touch a product. Simple formulations. Transparent ingredients. Made by hand with intention.

Breaking the Generational Cycle for Legend

One of the most powerful moments of today’s conversation came at the very end when Sameerah talked about what she wants for her grandson.

Legend already has a life insurance policy. His bank account is coming. Stocks and bonds are on the way. By the time Legend is old enough to need that money Sameerah wants it waiting for him, a down payment, a foundation, a head start that her own children had to build without.

Her children got it out of the mud. Legend will not have to.

That is not just a financial goal. That is a grandmother’s love expressed as a generational decision.

What Is Coming From Island Rose Essentials

Sameerah is building and she is not slowing down. Here is what is on the horizon:

Her website islandroseessential.com is launching within the next 30 days. Shop, click, and she ships it out.

Candle making classes and shirt making classes are coming, developed in partnership with her craft collaborator Itisha Felder. And the next class already in promotion is a perfume making class featuring handmade roll-on perfumes. Date and time are being finalized now so stay connected.

Go Watch the Replay and Support Sameerah

The replay is live now. Watch it, share it, and then go find Sameerah on Facebook at Sameerah Jones and on her business page Island Rose Essentials LLC.

Shop her products. Watch for the website launch. And sign up for a class when the dates drop.

She is building something real and she deserves a community behind her.

Coming Up Tomorrow on Carrie Connects™

Tomorrow Sunday May 24th at 6:30 PM CST and 7:30 PM EST Carrie Connects™ presents a special Blue and White Edition in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. My guest is photographer, community builder, and member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Antoinne Duane Jones. As a Zeta I cannot wait for this one. Come be in the room.

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Leah is a financial strategist, life insurance & health professional, and third degree black belt in Shotokan Karate whose conversation today went far deeper than any LinkedIn profile could have prepared us for. What started as a conversation about authentic engagement turned into one of the most honest hours we have had on this show.

The Black Belt Story Nobody Saw Coming

Leah started training karate at 35 years old. Not because she wanted a black belt. Not because she was athletic. Because she had been in a car accident, was carrying 220 pounds, could not sit or walk for any length of time without excruciating pain, and had already tried everything else.

A girlfriend suggested karate. She showed up. She saw the mirrors. She almost left.

But the white belts trained on the side without mirrors. So she stayed.

She never trained for the belt. She trained to heal, to strengthen, to refine herself in mind, body, and spirit. Nearly three years later the black belt came as a byproduct of all of that work.

That is not just a fitness story. That is a blueprint for how Leah Garcia approaches everything she does.

Closed Mouths Do Not Get Fed

The heart of today’s conversation was authentic engagement and what it actually costs people to keep showing up generously in online communities without expecting anything in return.

Leah made a point that landed hard: the no pitch coffee chat is one of the most controversial things she talks about. Not her financial strategies. Not her investment philosophy. The idea that you can sit down with someone, give generously, and walk away without asking for anything.

People resist it because of scarcity. They worry about giving too much. They calculate their time against the return. And in doing so they close the very doors they are trying to open.

Her challenge to every professional in the audience was direct: it is 2026, get in the mix. Leave a comment. Share someone’s content. Have the coffee chat. Because closed mouths do not get fed and it is not that things are too expensive, it is that most people are not making enough money to make the expense irrelevant.

The way to change that is not to hoard what you know. It is to show up so generously that the right doors cannot help but open.

What She Wants You to Do Starting This Week

Leah’s closing message was simple and specific. If you watched the show and did not leave a comment, did not share it with someone, did not give someone a shout out, that is your starting point. Do that. This week. Not someday.

Connection is the currency. Engagement is how you spend it wisely.

Go Watch the Replay and Connect With Leah

The replay is available now across all platforms. Watch it, share it, and then go find her. She also hosts Wealthy Wednesdays on YouTube at Dynasty Builder 93940 every Wednesday at 10:00 AM Pacific.

Go show up for someone who showed up for all of us today.

Connect with Leah Garcia:

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahgarciaceo/

📹 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDynastyBuilder93940

Coming Up Next on Carrie Connects™

Next Saturday’s show is moving to Sunday May 24th at 6:30 PM CST and 7:30 PM EST for a very special Blue and White Edition in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. My guest is photographer, community builder, and member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Antoinne Duane Jones. As a Zeta, I cannot wait for this one.

Stay tuned.

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Mark is a Johns Hopkins trained cardiovascular perfusionist, health and wellness strategist, Type 1 Diabetes advocate, and author who spent over 30 years inside operating rooms and medical affairs before leaving it all to build something the medical system was missing: a focus on the whole human being, not just the body part in crisis.

What he brought to this conversation was not theory. It was 30 years of watching what chronic stress does to the human body from the inside out. And he did not hold back.

What He Said That Stopped the Room

Mark made one thing crystal clear before the hour was up:

Your health is your greatest asset. Every goal, every dream, every aspiration you are working toward will be jeopardized if your health is not where it needs to be. You can pour time, effort, and energy into everything around you, but if you are not capable of showing up for the milestones you set for yourself, all of it goes up in smoke.

That is not a wellness platitude. That is a clinical observation from a man who has seen what happens when people ignore the warning signs long enough.

The Insight That Changed How I See the Body

One of the most powerful moments in the conversation came when Mark talked about what those 2,000 surgeries actually taught him.

Survival, he said, is more than biology. The body is not a collection of disconnected parts. Everything is interconnected. And chronic stress combined with lifestyle patterns is shaping people’s trajectories in ways they cannot yet see but will absolutely feel later.

Internal aging happens before the external signs appear. By the time most people notice something is wrong, the body has been sending signals for years.

The Work He Is Doing Right Now

Mark left his clinical career eight months ago to build a wellness platform serving lawyers, executives, and high stress professionals, the people who are burning both ends of the candle and calling it success.

He shared that the American Bar Association now has a wellness pledge that law firms are actively signing onto. Law schools are beginning to weave wellness into their curriculum. The conversation is shifting and Mark is already in those rooms helping lead it.

His message for every high performer in our audience: take care of yourself first. Everything else depends on it.

Go Watch the Replay

This conversation is one you will want to watch more than once. Mark has a way of making clinical knowledge feel personal and urgent without ever being alarmist.

The replay is available now across all platforms. Find it, watch it, and share it with every high achiever in your network who is performing at the top of their game while quietly running on empty.

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For me, that moment came near the end of my conversation with LaChelle Adkins, America’s SuperMom, when she looked into the camera and said this:

You already are enough. Where you are today is the product of the journey and the things you have overcome.

The room felt it. The comments said so. And I am still sitting with it now.

The Woman Behind the Title

LaChelle Adkins is the mother of 15 children. She is a confidence coach, mental health strategist, TV producer, podcast host, speaker and founder of the Reel Connections Mastermind. She carries the title America’s SuperMom not as a brand gimmick but as a lived reality earned through some of the hardest years a person can walk through.

She spent 13 years navigating depression including three hospitalizations. She kept showing up for her family through all of it. And when she came out the other side she did not just move on. She built something from it.

That is who sat across from me on Carrie Connects™ this Saturday. And that is who the audience showed up for.

What She Said About Enough

One of the most powerful threads running through our entire conversation was the idea of enoughness. Not the motivational poster version. The real version.

LaChelle talked about how high-achieving women often look completely fine on the outside while running on empty on the inside. They are performing. They are producing. They are showing up for everyone around them. And underneath all of it they are quietly asking whether any of it is actually working.

Her answer to that question is the same answer she had to find for herself: you do not need to be more. You need to recognize what you already are.

That recognition became the foundation of her F.R.E.S.H Start coaching program, built in 2016 from her own lived experience and designed to help women move from burnout back into clarity and purpose.

The Television Door

One of the things that surprised our audience most was learning about LaChelle’s work as a TV producer on the Zondra TV Network. She was among the first twelve producers selected for Zondra’s incubator program and she helps content creators move their work from YouTube and Facebook to television, reaching audiences on Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV.

She manages up to 12 show hosts and 24 episodes at a time. She opens doors to sponsorships and monetization that most creators never reach.

She mentioned two upcoming projects during the show. A new podcast called Glow Your Influence recorded with a collaborator out of Pennsylvania that is set to air soon. And a show called Meet Me in the Boardroom launching in August built around honest conversations at the table where business and values meet.

She is also running a May coaching series through F.R.E.S.H Start, doing the work even in the middle of one of the busiest months of her personal life. A college graduate. A high school graduate. An eighth grade graduate. All in the same month.

That is America’s SuperMom.

What She Left the Audience With

As we wrapped up I asked LaChelle what she wanted every person in the audience to walk away believing about themselves and their own story.

She said: remember the person who you were yesterday, or last week, or last year. Share your story for them. Because many people get stuck where you were and they believe they cannot get past it. If we do not share about our ability to move through hard things no one will even think it is possible.

Then she said something that landed quietly and stayed loud.

We have so many gifts we do not even realize.

She is right. And she is proof.

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There was no dress rehearsal for any of it.

The obituary landed in my lap. So did the mortgage on the house we were living in. I bought it so my dad and my five younger siblings would still have a place to call home. The homeowner was a family friend and they gave me the rent money that was paid to help with the down payment. The community center moved me from volunteer to employee so I could have an income.

That is what showing up for your family looked like at 19.

I sat down with Dr. Marquita on Emerging With Grace and told the rest of the story.

We covered:

* The phone call that changed every plan I had for my life

* Why I record weekly videos for my 16-year-old son, and what binge watching an old TV show had to do with it

* The mentor who sent me a list of books and told me to do book reports as a grown woman

* Color personalities and which one is running the show in your money decisions

* Why I left a 20-year teaching career to partner with school districts

* Why every one of my financial coaching sessions is free

Money Matters Are Mindset Matters. Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

What you do at the age of 19 with no script in front of you is the same muscle you use at the age of 49+ to build real wealth. You bring the decision. I’ll bring the clarity.

Press play. Share it with someone who needs the reminder.

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Years later, I was married. We had and the same cycle repeated itself. Because I was living in worry and not making the best financial decisions, the pattern that I spent years trying to avoid showed up unapologetically in my own life. When my son’s father passed away, we got $0.

That is what worry does. It feels like responsibility. It feels like you are being thorough. It feels productive. And while you are sitting there evaluating, researching, preparing for scenarios that may never arrive, the cost of not starting keeps running.

Worry doesn’t have a license. It doesn’t have an SIE. It doesn’t have a Series 6, a Series 63, or a Series 65. Worry is unlicensed and uneducated. And we let it drive our financial decisions anyway.

I also told the room tonight that I canceled my own life insurance policy because I was worried about the premium. The thing I was afraid of never happened. But later I needed surgery. Three body parts removed. I got the policy back in time. That was not a guarantee. That was grace.

The cure for worry is Commitment. Not certainty, you don’t have to be sure. Commitment comes first. Certainty is what grows on the other side of it.

Are you a worrier or are you a warrior? Because worry doesn’t get to sit in the driver’s seat of your financial life.

Commitment inside a financial plan looks like calling your licensed financial professional before you move money during a market dip. Keeping the policy in place even when the premium feels slightly overwhelming. Starting the plan before you feel 100% ready. And both of you showing up to the session together because a half-committed plan is a half-built plan.

Commitment is the first of the 3 Cs framework. Everything we build in the back half of this season starts with this one decision.

Next Sunday is Episode 5: Over-Caution. May 3 at 5 PM CST/ 6 PM EST. The cure is Combination. We are going to show you what financial over-caution is actually costing you and what happens when the right financial vehicles work together the way they were designed to.

If you missed tonight the replay is available on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, and right here on Substack.

A Confidential Financial Clarity Session is where your financial GPS gets built. Both spouses or financial partners must be present.

Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

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Here is something I said in Episode 3.

“Eighty dollars is better than zero. Don’t that sound smart? But when it comes to financial clarity, that’s not always the best decision.”

That is what doubt sounds like. Reasonable. Responsible. Like you are protecting yourself. And that is exactly what makes it the most expensive symptom of the fear of poverty because by the time you realize it was doubt and not wisdom, the cost is usually to expensive to recover.

Episode 3 of Clarity From The Heart™ went deep into doubt. What it looks like. What it has been costing. And the only cure that actually works.

Four moments from this episode that you need to hear for yourself.

Moment 1

I talked about a client who called me after getting a diagnosis. They wanted to know if I could help them get life insurance. I had to tell them the truth. The window had closed. That conversation is in the recording and it is not easy to hear. It is not supposed to be. Sometimes the truth hurts.

Moment 2

I shared something personal. A spouse sitting across from me after a partner passed, trying to find the accounts. Trying to find the policies. Not knowing where anything was. I have been in that room. That story is in the episode and it changes how you think about a financial plan being a two-person conversation.

Moment 3

I asked the room one question and then allowed time to process. “What has doubt talked you out of in the last 12 months?” Press pause and sit with it. The answer most people will come up with will not be small. Watch the episode and sit with it for yourself.

Moment 4

I re-introduced the financial GPS. If you cannot see your financial future you cannot have faith in it. The GPS is how we make the future visible. That section of the episode is where the Real Talk Moment lands and it is worth staying for.

The cure for doubt is Consistency. Many people mistakenly think it is confidence. Consistency comes first. You show up for the plan during the uncertainty. You stay in the account regardless of the market ups and downs. Confidence grows from doing those things over and over again.

Three episodes in. Over three hundred combined comments from people who showed up knowing their financial life deserves to be improved. Episode 4 will be recorded LIVE on all platforms.

Watch the full Episode 3 recording now. Then come back for Episode 4: Worry.

Ready to find out what your financial picture actually looks like?

Both spouses or financial partners must be present.

Episode 4: Worry

Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

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Licensed Financial Coach · Certified Clarity CoachGr8Finances · @gr8finances · gr8finances.comClarity From The Heart™ is a Gr8Finances production.

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By 21 she was running a school. By 23 she was leading sales teams. And today she stood in front of this community and delivered every single thing I knew she would.

Dr. Donna Smith Bellinger joined me live on Carrie Connects™ today and the room showed up. 200+ comments and growing. That is this community doing what it does best.

We talked about the difference between being herded and being led. We talked about what a process problem actually looks like inside a business that keeps wondering why the revenue is not matching the effort. We talked about the teams that threatened to quit when she left because nobody else would ever do for them what she had done.

And she said something I have not stopped thinking about since the moment it left her mouth.

Information gathered but not acted upon is just a souvenir.

Full episode is up now. #TeamLive you were incredible. #TeamReplay come join us in the comments and tell us what resonated.

Then go find Dr. Donna Smith Bellinger at askdsb.com and tell her Coach Carrie sent you.

Real Conversations. Real Connections.

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Coach Carrie WillisApril 12, 2026 · Gr8Finances

Episode 2, Indecision

Two Sundays in. Two rooms full of people who came ready to do something different with their financial lives.

Tonight the topic was Indecision. Napoleon Hill identified it as the seedling of fear. The thing that starts small and quiet in the corner of your financial life, and grows into doubt, and then into the kind of fear that keeps people from booking appointments and having conversations and moving on the things they already know need to move.

The room brought it tonight. Real questions. Real situations. Real financial decisions that had been sitting on to-do lists for months and in some cases years. And tonight a lot of those decisions got named out loud for the first time.

That is what this show does. It gives people the language. And once you have the language you cannot unsee what you are looking at.

What we covered

The cure for financial indecision is Implementation. One decision. One appointment. One yes that moves everything from the undecided column to the in-motion column.

We broke down five specific places indecision shows up in dollar terms. The compounding gap. The coverage window. The employer match sitting uncaptured every pay period. The business running without a retirement plan. And the financial partner who is not in the room when decisions get made.

Every one of those costs is real. Every one of them has a number attached to it. And every one of them closes the moment you make one decision to find out what your actual financial picture looks like.

Tonight a lot of people answered that question differently than they did last Sunday.

If you missed tonight

The replay is available now. Watch it before next Sunday. The season builds week by week and each episode sets up the next one. You do not want to walk into Doubt having skipped Indecision.

Share this with one person who keeps saying next month. Who knows something needs to change but has not been able to start. The replay is the starting point. This newsletter is the room they did not know they needed to be in.

Hill said indecision crystallizes into doubt. That is next Sunday. We are going to name what doubt looks like in a financial plan and introduce the cure: Consistency. Showing up for the plan regardless of what the market is doing, what your neighbor says, or what the voice in your own head is trying to tell you.

Be there. And bring someone who needs to hear it.

A Confidential Financial Clarity Session is where your numbers become visible for the first time. Both spouses or financial partners must be present.

Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

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She does not control the wind. She harnesses it. And today this community felt every bit of that.

Full episode is up now. #TeamLive you were incredible. #TeamReplay come join us in the comments and tell us what resonated. 💗

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Coach Carrie WillisApril 5, 2026 · Gr8Finances

Season 2 is live. And the room showed up.

Over 200 comments. Real questions. Real people ready to do something different with their financial future. If you missed the live show, here is everything we covered in Episode 1.

This season is built on a framework Napoleon Hill introduced in Think and Grow Rich. He identified six symptoms of the fear of poverty. He named the problem clearly. What he never wrote was the financial cure. That is the work of Season 2. That is the work of Clarity From The Heart™.

Episode 1 opens with the first symptom: Indifference.

Indifference does not feel like a financial decision. It feels like waiting. It feels like later. It feels like I need to look into that. But every month of financial indifference has a price tag, and most people do not find out what it is until the cost has already been paid.

What Indifference Is Actually Costing You

On Sunday we broke down five specific costs that show up when indifference runs your financial life.

Cost 1

The wrong interest rate. If your savings account is earning less than one percent while the bank or credit union lends that same money out at 20 percent or more, your money is working. Just not for you. The gap between what you earn and what the financial institution earns on your balance is not a coincidence. It is a model. Knowing your numbers is the first step to changing the math.

Cost 2

The wrong life insurance. The policy your employer provides may end the day your employment does. For many families, that group policy is the only coverage in place. The day it is needed most is often the day it is already gone. A personal policy stays with you regardless of what happens at work.

Cost 3

Not knowing your Financial Independence Number. Your FIN is the amount your assets need to generate so that work becomes a choice rather than a requirement. If you do not know that number, you cannot plan toward it. This is not a number you guess. It comes from a Comprehensive Financial Needs Analysis with a licensed financial professional.

Cost 4

The 40-40-40 trap. Forty hours a week for forty years to retire on forty percent of what was never enough. Most people did not choose this plan. They inherited it by default. It was never designed to build wealth. It was designed to maintain a workforce.

Cost 5

No retirement plan at all. A collection plate is not a retirement strategy. The gap between where most people are and where they need to be does not close without a plan, a licensed professional, and a decision to start.

Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

— Coach Carrie Willis

Money doesn’t go away. It just goes to somebody else. That is the principle the entire episode rests on. Every dollar in the wrong account, the wrong policy, or no plan at all is still moving. The question is whose financial future it is building.

The full Episode 1 replay is available now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and right here on Substack.

Coming Up Next Sunday: Indecision

Napoleon Hill described indecision as the seedling of fear. Left alone, it crystallizes into doubt. The two blend and become fear itself.

Episode 2 is where we name that pattern and show you what implementation actually looks like. You came to the Financial Clarity Review. You got the numbers. Now what do you do with them? That is the conversation next Sunday, April 12, 2026, at 5 PM CST/6 PM EST.

A Financial Clarity Review with a licensed financial coach is complimentary and available now. This is where your numbers, your plan, and your future come into the same conversation for the first time.

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Laila Belabbas brought her whole self and this community received every bit of it.

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That is what happens when you put the right person in front of the right audience at the right time.

I am still fired up.

Today on Carrie Connects, Sensei Fred Jordan showed up and showed OUT. We talked whole self alignment, financial clarity, breaking world records and what it truly means to become the head and not the tail. And this community made it very clear that this message was exactly what they needed to hear.

This is why I built this show. To take the conversations I was having privately and bring them to the world. And today the world responded.

If you were in the room live, you already know. If you missed it, the full episode is available now and I need you to watch every single minute of it. Then send it to someone who needs to hear it, because somebody in your network is waiting for exactly this message.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, dropped a comment, asked a question and kept that energy going throughout the entire conversation. You are exactly why I do this.

And Sensei Fred Jordan, thank you for bringing your whole self to my platform. This will not be the last time. 💗

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Tonight we talked about the one number most people have never calculated.

Your Financial Independence Number.

The actual number that tells you how much money you need so that work becomes a choice and not a requirement.

If you missed it live, the replay is up and #TeamReplay is always welcome. This is one of those episodes you will want to watch with something to write with because we did the math together in real time.

Here is what we covered tonight:

What retirement readiness actually means and why age has nothing to do with it. What your life cost really includes when you are planning honestly. How the 4 Bucket System connects to your FIN and why Bucket 3 is the one that funds your independence. And the three step exercise that gives you your guestimated Financial Independence Number

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The comments were on fire. Over 250 of them. That tells me this conversation is one a lot of people needed to have.

Season 2 of Clarity From The Heart™ launches Sunday March 29th and it picks up right where tonight left off. Every Sunday at 5 PM CST we are going deeper into what the fear of poverty is actually costing you financially. Twelve weeks. All new. Free and live.

If you are not subscribed yet, now is the time. Subscribe so you never miss a Sunday and so this conversation lands in your inbox every week.

And if tonight gave you something to think about, book a Clarity Session. That is where we take your guestimated FIN and turn it into your actual number with a real plan behind it.

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No pitch. No pressure. Just your number.

Confusion is expensive. Clarity pays for life.

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My latest episode of Carrie Connects is now available to watch.We talked about leadership, identity, purpose, and what it really takes to grow without losing yourself in the process.

Grateful for this powerful conversation with Causha A Spellman-Timmons, MSW .Replay is available now. I would love to hear what stood out most. Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.

If you have ever felt like you were doing everything right and still could not figure out why the money was not adding up, or why you keep showing up but nobody seems to notice, you are not alone. And it is not a strategy problem.

It is a clarity problem.

I am Coach Carrie Willis, licensed financial coach, retirement specialist, and keynote speaker. I created Clarity From The Heart™ because the conversations that change people’s financial lives and professional trajectories do not always happen inside a boardroom or a bank. Sometimes they happen when someone finally tells you the truth in plain language.

That is what this show is.

Every episode we go deep on money, mindset, and visibility. No watered down advice. No one size fits all plans. Just real talk designed to move you forward.

This show is for school district employees who deserve a retirement strategy built around their actual life. It is for entrepreneurs and franchisees building something real and needing financial clarity to match. And it is for anyone who is visible but not converting, working hard but not breaking through.

Confusion is expensive. But clarity pays you back for the rest of your life.

Subscribe now and share this first episode with someone who needs it.

Find me everywhere at @gr8finances and let’s get to work.

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