THE ED MYLETT SHOW

Your past is part of your story—but it doesn’t have to write your next chapter.

In this Saturday Mashup with Ed Mylett, we explore how the stories you tell yourself, the meaning you attach to your experiences, and the perspective you bring to each day can shape the direction of your life. If you’ve been feeling stuck, replaying old setbacks, questioning your potential, or letting worry take over, this episode offers encouragement and practical ideas for moving forward. It’s a reminder that growth isn’t reserved for a certain age or stage of life. You can challenge an old belief, build a new pattern, and begin creating a different future.

Through personal reflections and conversations with Tom McCarthy, Dr. Caroline Leaf, and Dr. Ethan Kross—plus a featured clip of Tom Brady discussing his parents’ support—this mashup brings together lessons on identity, confidence, emotional awareness, and personal reinvention.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Recognize the narrative you’ve been living—and ask whether it still serves you.

• Explore how the meaning you give an experience can influence your response.

• Understand the role of encouragement in parenting, leadership, and self-belief.

• Hear Tom McCarthy discuss changing old patterns and rehearsing a new story.

• Explore Dr. Caroline Leaf’s approach to thinking, feeling, choosing, and self-regulation.

• Shift your perspective from past limitations toward future possibilities.

• Hear Dr. Ethan Kross explain expressive writing, inner chatter, and tools for managing emotions.

• Discover a different way to approach worry and “mental time travel.”

• Reflect on faith, resilience, and the choice to keep growing throughout your life.

You don’t have to pretend that difficult experiences never happened. The invitation is to consider what they mean for you now—and whether the story you carry forward leaves room for the person you want to become.

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When to lead is just as important as what to do. In this episode, we break down John C. Maxwell's 19th Irrefutable Law — The Law of Timing — and why it separates intelligent leaders from wise ones.

You can make the right decision, with the right people, for the right reasons, and still get the wrong result — simply because your timing was off. Timing is everything.

In this video, you'll learn:

• Why the right action at the wrong time equals resistance (not success)

• The four outcomes every leader faces: disaster, mistake, resistance, or success

• A historical case study: how timing brought Jimmy Carter into office — and took him out

• The 7 qualities timing requires: understanding, maturity, confidence, decisiveness, experience, intuitiveness, and preparation

• 7 indicators that tell you when it's time to make the big decision

• A practical weekly "rep" — 5 questions to evaluate your next major decision or conversation

This week's challenge: Pick one decision or conversation you know is coming. Ask yourself:

1 Is this action right?

2 Am I emotionally ready?

3 Are the people involved ready?

4 What happens if I move now?

5 What happens if I wait?

Then decide: Move, Prepare, or Wait — but put a date on it. Undefined waiting easily becomes avoidance.

Don't confuse impatience with courage, or procrastination with patience. What you do matters — but when you do it can change everything.

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Emmy Award-winning journalist, television personality, and two-time New York Times bestselling author Maria Menounos joins the show for a deeply personal conversation about healing, loss, and finding your true purpose. Maria opens up about the decade-long barrage of challenges she faced — a brain tumor, losing her mother, a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and Type 1 diabetes — and how each one redirected her toward the life she was meant to live. She and Ed discuss the identity crisis that comes with caregiving and loss, how to know when it's time to walk away from a career that no longer fits, and why a health crisis became her "get out of jail free card" to finally pursue her soul's calling.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- How to know when it's time to walk away from a career that looks perfect on paper but doesn't fit your soul
- The "wonder over worry" tool Maria used while facing pancreatic cancer during pregnancy — and how Ed is already applying it
- How to stop bracing for the next bad thing when life keeps hitting you with back-to-back hardships
- The one question to ask yourself before quitting anything: "Am I quitting because it's hard, or because it's not right?"
- Why Maria calls her brain tumor her "get out of jail free card" — and why you shouldn't wait for a crisis to pivot
- How to give yourself permission to rest as a high achiever without losing your momentum
- The lesson no one teaches achievers: when the next rung on the ladder isn't worth what you'd sacrifice to reach it
- Maria's real-time playbook for losing her biggest sponsor, reframing the fear, and quadrupling her YouTube views in 30 days
- A daily gratitude and "God talks" practice you can start in your car tomorrow
- The most important thing Ed and Maria agree you should do with your parents while you still can
- This is a conversation about healing, simplifying, and having the courage to redefine success on your own terms.

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What if the reason you're not wealthy yet has nothing to do with how much money you make — and everything to do with the habits you haven't built?

In this mashup episode, I'm bringing you one of the most eye-opening and practical conversations about money, wealth-building, and financial discipline I've ever had on the show. If you've ever wondered who actually becomes a millionaire, what it really takes to get there, and whether you're on track — this episode is for you. I'm breaking down the real statistics behind wealth in America, and the numbers will surprise you. Less than 0.1% of people make a million dollars a year five years in a row. The income gap between the top 1% and everyone else is widening at an accelerating rate. And yet, people making $500,000+ a year are four times more likely to file bankruptcy than the average person. Making money and keeping money are two completely different skills — and most people only have one of them, if that.

I share the financial mistakes I've made personally — cars repossessed, homes foreclosed on, power and water shut off — and how those painful experiences forced me to build the habits that eventually created wealth. Whether you make minimum wage or seven figures, the habits of a wealthy person must start where you are right now — not when you "make more." Because the truth is, if you don't save money when you're making very little, you won't save it when you're making a lot.

This mashup also dives deep into the number one skill every entrepreneur must develop: the ability to persuade and influence. I break down how to become evangelical about your mission, how to transfer energy, why repetition is the mother of skill, and why most people dramatically overestimate their ability to communicate. I sit down with Jen Gottlieb to talk about why building a personal brand is the greatest investment you can make right now — whether you're a stay-at-home mom, a CEO, or someone just starting out. And we get into the deeper question behind all of it: What would you do if you had all the time in the world? Because the ultimate goal of wealth isn't stuff — it's freedom. It's the ability to spend your life doing what fulfills you, serving people with your gifts, and never having to be anywhere you don't want to be.

Key Takeaways:

• Why less than 0.1% of people make a million dollars a year consistently
• The real income gap statistics and what they mean for your future
• Why people making $500K+ a year are 4x more likely to file bankruptcy
• How to calculate your Financial Independence Number (FIN)
• The three buckets you need: emergency fund, savings, and investments
• Why paying yourself first is the single most important financial habit
• How living below your means — and staying there as income grows — builds wealth
• Why most millionaires made their first million in ONE business before diversifying
• The myth of "multiple streams of income" and why focus beats diversification early on
• The #1 skill every entrepreneur must master: persuasion and influence
• How to become evangelical about your mission and transfer energy to others
• Why repetition and role play build the reflexes you need under pressure
• How to build a personal brand that opens doors — no matter your career
• Why owning your email and text list matters more than social media followers
• The difference between being happy and being fulfilled — and how wealth buys you the time to find both

You don't need to know how you're going to finish. You just need to start the habit. One decision to save, to budget, to build, to focus, can completely change the trajectory of your family's future. There is a version of you that is financially free, totally in control of your time, and living your calling. That version of you is waiting on the other side of discipline.

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Everybody wants the next level. Very few people ask what the next level costs. This week is about the Law of Sacrifice — the principle that growth is not just about what you add to your life, but what you are willing to release.

Law 18 in John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is the Law of Sacrifice, and John teaches it with one of the most demanding lines in the entire series: a leader must give up to go up. I open this episode by breaking down why greater leadership usually brings greater responsibility, not greater comfort, and why your willingness to sacrifice often has to grow with your influence.

I share the difference between early-career sacrifice and later-career sacrifice, because what got you to one level can become the very thing that keeps you from the next. Maybe being involved in every detail helped you build the company, but now it prevents the company from scaling. Maybe being the smartest person in the room made you feel safe, but now it keeps stronger people from wanting to work with you. Growth requires subtraction too.

I also explain why sacrifice is not the glorification of misery. It is alignment. Great leaders do not sacrifice randomly — they sacrifice intentionally, giving up lower priorities for higher ones, ego for mission, convenience for calling, and immediate gratification for long-term significance. And I walk you through what I call the sacrifice exchange: a two-column exercise to close the gap between what you say you want and what you are willing to pay for it.

Here is what you will gain from this episode:

Give up to go up: Why every new level of leadership requires you to build something and leave something behind.

Knowing vs. willingness: Why most people already know what they need to change — the real question is how badly they want the future compared to how badly they want the comfort.

Early vs. later sacrifice: How the nature of sacrifice shifts from working while others play to letting go of control, ego, and identity.

Growth requires subtraction: Why the biggest breakthroughs in your life may come from what you are willing to release, not what you are willing to add.

Sacrifice and value: How to tell what somebody truly values by looking at what they are willing to give up for it.

The sacrifice exchange: A two-column exercise — what I say I want on the left, what it requires on the right.

One intentional sacrifice: How to identify a single, meaningful sacrifice for the next seven days that is directly connected to your priority.

At the end of your life, nobody is going to give you an award for holding onto everything. Your next breakthrough may not be waiting on another opportunity — it may be waiting on your willingness to release something that no longer belongs in the future you are building. Decide what is worth paying for, and let go of the rest.

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