How to Stop Chasing More: Self-Awareness, Peace, and the Power of Subtraction

What if the thing keeping you stuck… is everything you keep trying to add?

In this powerful conversation, Rachel sits down with author, inventor, Ironman athlete, military veteran, and storyteller Scott Lackey to unpack what it really means to wake up to your life instead of slowly giving pieces of yourself away.

This conversation goes deep into self-awareness, identity, resilience, failure, personal reinvention, and the uncomfortable truth that sometimes peace comes through subtraction—not addition.

Scott shares the story behind his upcoming book Wake Up to Die Again, including the lightning strike moments that changed his life forever—from business success and devastating loss to discovering the difference between ownership vs stewardship, surrender vs control, and external achievement vs internal peace.

Together, Rachel and Scott explore:

✨ Why authenticity is becoming a survival skill
✨ The danger of constantly chasing “the next thing”
✨ How failure teaches what success never can
✨ The question that changed Scott’s life: What are you willing to sacrifice?
✨ Stewardship vs ownership in business, parenting, relationships, and identity
✨ The two voices in your head—and which one wins
✨ How self-awareness requires radical honesty
✨ Why subtraction may be the fastest path to peace
✨ What it means to “wake up to die again” vs waking up fully alive

This is one of those conversations that will likely stop you in your tracks and make you ask yourself harder questions.

And honestly? That’s the point.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, chasing, disconnected, over-performing, or quietly craving something more aligned… this one’s for you.

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