LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

Insecurities are usually a part of ourselves that we want to hide. But in this powerful, vulnerable conversation, Joel and Walt turn that idea on its head and show how insecurity can become a doorway to growth, authenticity, and even freedom.
Early in the conversation, Walt asks a deceptively simple question: “How is it that we have a number of different institutions where there’s a crumbling effect going on, and one of the essential pieces is insecurity?”
That question launches a deep exploration of how insecurity shows up in childhood, in social groups, in religion, in politics, in money, in aging, and even in our most personal love relationships.
Joel shares how he used to be paralyzed by insecurity - missing opportunities because he was afraid of embarrassment or not feeling “worthy.” A turning point came when a mentor suggested a bold strategy: whenever someone asked for a volunteer, be the first one to raise your hand. Joel explains that he often “screwed it up,” but that was the point. By choosing to step forward, he refused to let insecurity make his decisions for him.
He gives a painful but illuminating childhood memory: as a boy, he loved to sing loudly in the church choir. Then one day, the choir director told him in front of everyone, “Joel, just move your lips.”
That single shaming moment created a lifelong story: “I can’t sing.” It’s a vivid example of how quickly a confident child can become an insecure adult.
Walt pushes on the definition of insecurity by bringing up his cat’s decline and his fear of losing him. He wonders aloud if that fear is insecurity or just love. Joel gently reframes it, saying it’s not insecurity but pre-grief - the natural pain of loving someone deeply and facing the reality of loss.
Another powerful thread is Joel’s distinction that insecurity is often comparison-based:
“I don’t have as much money as they do.”
“I’m not as attractive.”
“I’m not as smart.”
He describes working with wildly successful people - famous actors, NFL players, top nuclear scientists - who, despite their achievements, quietly confess things like: “I don’t think I’m as smart as everybody thinks I am.”
Walt then highlights the moment of choice we rarely recognize. He recalls his first public talk, standing at the podium, feeling like an imposter but also knowing he truly understood his subject. He realizes he could have chosen to crumble into insecurity or to lean into what he did know and speak anyway. He chose the latter, and it went well. Only in hindsight did he see that it had always been a choice.
Joel sums up the heart of the conversation with one word: perspective. Your perspective determines whether insecurity imprisons you or propels you forward. He notes that his own story can be told in two ways:
“I’m the biggest failure in the world,” or
“I have one of the greatest comeback stories of all time.”
The facts are the same. The perspective and, therefore the life experience is completely different.
In the end, Joel offers an invitation: embrace your insecurities as part of your story, not as a verdict on your worth. When you change the way you see them, you change what they mean and what you’re capable of next.
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What happens when your world feels like it’s cracking - your beloved pet is struggling, the future of work looks terrifying, and even your spiritual path feels off track?
In this deeply vulnerable and expansive conversation, Walt, Anne Marie, and David walk right into those questions and let the answers unfold in real time.
From the very start, Walt is honest about needing a “friend conversation” instead of a confrontational one. His cat Joy is not doing well, and he’s feeling it: “My cat and I are really close, it really challenges you to your core when you go through stuff like this.”
That emotional honesty sets the tone for everything that follows: this isn’t a polished spiritual talk. It’s real life, in real time, with real feelings.
David shares how, after rebuilding his home and successfully publishing his book, he threw himself into building Taya Academy. He stopped trance channeling the Stream and went “all in” on marketing, tech, and scaling a coaching program: “I created a full-on spin out for myself, I still created this prolonged low vibrational struggling period for myself.”
Even with all his spiritual tools, David found himself deeply spun out - meditation dropped, the Stream receded, and the business model stopped working. That collapse forced a brutal but liberating clarity: “I don’t want to coach anymore. All I need to do is share these transmissions from the Stream.”
The big takeaway? Even a spiritual teacher can get lost in ego, and that’s not failure; it’s part of the path.
Walt then turns to one of the most charged questions of our time: What happens to humanity when AI wipes out jobs and reshapes the economy?
The Stream comes through David and answers with nuance not doom, not denial. They acknowledge that AI will “unemploy everyone at some point” in many roles, and that leaders are already contemplating basic human income: “There are going to be fear-inducing events, designed to draw all of you, more and more, back into the matrix and get you back under control.”
But Walt challenges the narrative that AI automatically lowers human value, suggesting instead that it could elevate everyone: “Why should we believe that just because AI is coming along, therefore everybody is lower? To me, it seems like everybody’s higher.”
The Stream responds by emphasizing what AI cannot touch: true human creativity and source-guided consciousness: “That spark of ‘has never been before in this form’ is only available to human beings.”
The deepest reassurance comes here: “You’re nowhere near creating your own demise. How you experience what’s next is completely up to your reaction to it.”
Later, David shares a powerful inner practice he calls “fire walking” - not with coals, but with your worst fears. When he felt triggered by anti‑gay symbolism and the echo of Nazi imagery, he didn’t suppress it. He sat down and mentally walked through the absolute worst‑case scenario until the charge released: “You’re going to walk into the fire of your greatest fear and experience it mentally, so you can clear it.”
Walt realizes he’s been doing his own version of this with his cat Joy - mentally rehearsing the loss, feeling it, and finding some peace inside it.
Anne Marie distills the whole episode into one piercing truth: “It only has the power that you give to it.”
That’s the through line: with pets, with AI, with politics, with death itself - we don’t control what happens, but we absolutely control how much power we give it.
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What if losing everything was the moment you finally met who you really are?
That’s the thread that runs through Walt’s powerful conversation with productivity life coach Emily Guerra. This story begins with job loss, fear, and uncertainty, and evolves into purpose, balance, and deep self-kindness.
At the start of COVID, Emily was an event planner. Within three weeks, both of her event jobs disappeared. “Within like three weeks, I had no income, I could no longer afford rent, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, and I kind of freaked out,” Emily admits.
She moved out of Los Angeles to the Chicago suburbs to live with her brother’s family. First, she sulked - as she says, she got “in my feels.” Then came the turning point question: “How am I going to navigate through COVID and figure out a way to not only have income, but actually enjoy what I do?”
Influenced by a family full of entrepreneurs, Emily began asking herself, What if I worked for myself? That curiosity led her into freelancing social media services, getting certified, and quickly booking 4–5 clients. But what really changed everything was what she noticed in those clients:
They were exhausted.
They were trying to get as much done in as little time as possible.
They were quietly burning out.
Emily started naturally coaching them without calling it coaching on mindset, energy, and sustainable productivity. “You really helped me a lot. I hired you for social media, not for productivity or life coaching,” clients told her. “You should really turn this into a coaching business.”
So she did. Emily got certified as a productivity life coach and founded The Productivity Flow in 2022. Now she runs a coaching practice, blogs, offers free resources, speaking engagements, and has a free Facebook community where she goes live weekly to support entrepreneurs and freelancers.
But the heart of this conversation isn’t just about productivity. It’s about self-kindness.
Walt shares his own journey from IT burnout and financial collapse in 2008 to discovering that being kind to himself changed everything, even how he felt about his work. A mirror-work practice inspired by Jack Canfield helped him quiet his “monkey mind”: “By day 30, the voice was down to a wisp, by around day 40, the voice was completely gone. And the most amazing part? It never came back.”
Emily connects this to the brain’s negativity bias and our evolutionary wiring. We’re built to scan for danger, but in modern life, that becomes constant self-criticism. The antidote is intentional practice, not perfection.
She asks Walt a key question every listener can ask themselves: “What were the kind of steps did you take to be a little bit kinder to yourself?”
Throughout the conversation, both Walt and Emily circle back to a few essential, emotionally charged truths:
You don’t have to destroy yourself to be successful.
1% shifts matter more than dramatic overhauls.
Rest is productive.
Your relationship with yourself shapes how you show up for everyone else.
Success without self-kindness is just a different kind of burnout.
Emily closes with a simple mission: “If I can just help at least one person see there is a more sustainable approach, then I have done my job.” Maybe that one person is you.
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What if the key to your mental health wasn’t fixing other people, but finally accepting what you can’t control and pouring your energy into what you can?
That’s the emotional core of this powerful conversation between Walt and Joel about Stoicism in mental health and how it literally helped Joel rebuild his life from nothing.
Early in the discussion, Walt asks the central question: “Why is stoicism such an important mindset to adopt when it comes to developing your own mental health?”
Joel’s answer is both practical and deeply human. He explains that modern cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is rooted in Stoic philosophy. The core idea? “You have zero control over what happens. You have 100% control over your perspective of what happens.”
From heartbreak to addiction, from losing a job to losing a child, Joel keeps coming back to this truth: your power lies in your response, not in the event.
When Walt recalls his own breakup, he remembers how hard it was to accept Joel’s Stoic reminder: “What do you mean I’m never going to get the answers I want?”
Joel didn’t sugarcoat it. Rumination wasn’t going to fix anything. The only real path forward was acceptance and choosing a new response.
The conversation gets especially raw when Joel talks about the death of his son: “When my son passed away, it isn’t that I was unemotional about it. But when I started living again, I understood my mission was to find the areas in my control. How can I honor him?”
This is Stoicism at its most human, not cold, not detached, but heartbroken and still moving forward.
Walt notices something profound: Stoicism isn’t just about coping—it’s about reclaiming ownership of your mental health, instead of depending on a therapist, a partner, or anyone else to fix you. He highlights the irony that: “When we adopt an attitude of taking responsibility for what we can control, we influence what other people do. We can’t control them, but we influence them.”
And that influence can be life-changing. Joel shares the story of a wealthy woman desperate to fix her alcoholic son. He refuses to chase the son. Instead, he focuses on her: “You fix you, and his response to you will be different.”
When she stopped rescuing him, his recovery finally began. Not because she controlled him but because she changed herself.
Throughout the conversation, Walt presses into the deeper implications:
What happens when we cling to the illusion of controlling others?
What if our obsession with getting a specific person or outcome is exactly what keeps us stuck?
How does life change when, like Joel, we wake up asking: “What is in my control today?”
Joel’s own story is proof. Homeless, buried in debt, a convicted felon, he had every reason to give up. Instead, he chose one Stoic step at a time: “There was really only one option. Day one, my power was: go find a job.”
That one option led to another and another and eventually to a life filled with purpose, passion, and helping others heal.
In the end, Stoicism and the Law of Attraction meet in the same place: Focus your mind. Own your choices. Love the life you’re actually living—starting today.
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What if the moment you realize you’re slowly killing yourself becomes the moment you’re reborn?
That’s exactly what happened for Stanley, a former 367-pound attorney and CPA who transformed his life through walking, plant-based eating, emotional healing, and uncompromising self-honesty.
In this powerful conversation on LOA Today with Walt and Anne Marie, Stanley shares how he turned decades of pain, obesity, and grief into a system he now calls The Way of Excellence.
The story starts with trauma. At just eight years old, Stanley’s mother died. He described walking home from school, suddenly knowing she was gone. He didn’t cry for days. At the funeral, he demanded the casket be opened so he could see her. The grief froze inside him and later showed up on his body: “We both literally ate ourselves to oblivion.”
Years later, at his aunt’s funeral, Stanley saw two young boys, one sobbing, one frozen and expressionless. That younger boy became a mirror: “I looked at him, and I said, That’s me.”
He walked over, introduced himself, and said, “I know exactly how you feel.” Then he hugged the boy and told him it was okay to cry and didn’t let go until he did. In that moment, Stanley didn’t just comfort a child. He held, healed, and defended his own inner child.
Walt pressed into the emotional side of this transformation, asking about responsibility and self-kindness. Stanley’s answer was radical in its simplicity: “It wasn’t my mother’s fault. It wasn’t my father’s fault. And it wasn’t my fault either. Blame is irrelevant.”
Instead of blame, Stanley chose responsibility. At 320 pounds, 54 months before his 50th birthday, he asked himself a brutal question: “Where am I going to be in five years if I keep doing what I’m doing?” The answer: “Dead.” And he did not want to be dead.
So he changed that day. He poured his last bottle of scotch down the toilet. He dumped his diet soda. He cut out red meat. Then he began walking - first a few blocks, then hours in a pool, then miles on the road. Over 17 years, he has walked about 72,000 miles, nearly three times around the Earth.
But this wasn’t just about weight. It was about identity.“I am a person who walks.” “I am 100% committed that only healthy foods can enter my mouth.”
Anne Marie, a vegetarian herself, resonated deeply with the journey of changing how you eat, but she also highlighted the emotional wisdom in Stanley’s story: “Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.” “Embrace your good enoughness. You don’t have to be perfect.”
Stanley’s core message is disarmingly human: you are more powerful than you ever imagined, and that power grows when you stop chasing perfection and start committing to better than yesterday.
His parting challenge is simple and profound: “Your goal is simple: beat yesterday. And sometimes, just not falling apart is beating yesterday.”
In a world that sells quick fixes and punishes imperfection, this conversation is a reminder that permanent transformation is built on willingness, kindness to self, long-term thinking and small daily acts of courage.
You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be willing.
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