Power Movers

Welcome to Power Movers, where we dive deep into the systems, strategies, and secrets that help entrepreneurs and business owners achieve clarity, confidence, and success. Join me as we explore: Business Operating Systems (BOS): Master the frameworks that drive success. AI for Entrepreneurs: Practical tools to save time and work smarter. Wellness for Entrepreneurs: Breathing techniques, mindfulness, and routines for peak performance. Big Ideas & Conversations: Stories, insights, and lessons from the cutting edge of business and life. Whether you're scaling your business, exploring AI, or finding balance in your life, this podcast will inspire and equip you for the journey. New episodes every week! https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycastleman/ https://allthepower.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/roy.castleman

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  Episode #86

  Bryan Blackmon: How He Clawed Out of Rock Bottom (And What It Teaches Trapped Business Owners)

  Aug 11, 202639 minS1

  EPISODE OVERVIEW Duration: Approximately 45 minutes Best For: Trapped entrepreneurs who feel like the business they built to give them freedom has quietly become the thing running them Key Outcome: A simpler way to look at your day, your thoughts and your environment, so you stop carrying weight that was never yours to carry He rebuilt everything from a car, a tent and a borrowed roof. The turnaround did not come from doing more. It came from taking things away. THE BOTTOM LINE You built this thing from nothing, and somewhere along the way it started running you. Bryan Blackmon knows that feeling in a different form. He lost everything, then rebuilt from absolute zero. The thing is, his story is not really about addiction or homelessness. It is about who holds the controls in your life. Bryan and Roy get into why you can only control your own mind, why adding more (the raise, the new car, the extra hours) rarely settles the noise, and why taking things away is where the real change lives. For a business owner working 55 to 80 hours a week, that idea lands hard. You have spent years adding. This is a conversation about what happens when you stop. WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS TO YOU You feel guilty resting and guilty working. Bryan and Roy explain why that comes from an internal voice you can actually change, and what happens to your whole day once you do. If everything runs through you, the chaos in your head is part of the problem. This episode shows how clearing that noise creates room to think, so the business stops feeling like a cage. Bryan makes the case for subtraction over addition. For an owner drowning in tasks, that is the first honest step toward stepping back. The cost of ignoring this is another eighteen months of reaching for your phone before your feet hit the floor, and another eighteen months of your business owning you instead of the other way round. KEY INSIGHTS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY Taking responsibility for your environment gives you power, not blame. The moment Roy accepted he controlled how he walked into a room, the weight shifted. For a trapped owner, that means the bottleneck is not a life sentence, it is a decision. Growth often comes from removing people, places and things, not adding them. You keep adding staff, tools and hours hoping for peace. Bryan found the opposite worked. Less noise, more clarity. Accept the worst case and the weight lifts. When Roy sat with losing everything, the fear that had frozen him loosened. Once you can face the worst, you can ask the smaller question, what can I do to make it a little better today. Look at where you were two months ago, not just where you think you should be. Grab a pen and paper. Momentum is easier to see backwards, and seeing it makes the next step lighter. Protect your first 30 minutes. Bryan does not touch his phone for half an hour after waking. For an owner whose day is hijacked by everyone else's needs, that first half hour is the one bit of the day you can actually own. GOLDEN QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING "I can only control my mind and my feelings." Bryan Blackmon "When I took responsibility, okay, I am in control of every single thing in my environment. Realising the power that gave me, that power was really something." Roy Castleman "You can look at your past, just don't stare at it." Bryan Blackmon "You can control your sail, you cannot control the storm." Bryan Blackmon "You can't start anything if you don't know what you want." Bryan Blackmon QUICK NAVIGATION FOR BUSY LEADERS 00:00 - Introduction: Roy's morning of meditation, ice bath and breath work, and why how you start the day sets everything after it 03:30 - Bryan's story: From Fort Worth to sleeping in a car in California, and the moment 942 days ago that changed direction 09:00 - Taking responsibility for your environment: Why control starts with your own mind, not the outside world 13:30 - Subtraction over addition: The counterintuitive lesson that removing things, not adding them, created real change 18:00 - Accepting the worst case: How facing losing everything lifted the weight and freed up the next step 23:00 - Momentum and compound interest: Small daily disciplines and why looking backwards shows you further than you think 30:00 - The voice in your head: How you talk to yourself, celebrating small wins, and the meditation that clears the noise 38:00 - Morning and evening routines: Protecting your peace, your energy and your time, and building the Crab Transformation Experience 43:00 - Conclusion: Bryan's one piece of advice, get clear on what you actually want before you try to change anything GUEST SPOTLIGHT Name: Bryan Blackmon Bio: Bryan Blackmon is the founder and operator of Crab Crew Life, a high-accountability transformation platform designed to force real-world behavioral consistency. After successfully rebuilding his own life from absolute zero following years of severe adversity, addiction, and homelessness, Bryan bypassed generic motivational tropes to engineer a structured, daily execution methodology. He now leads a global digital community focused on dismantling "survival-mode" psychology, building authentic peer-to-peer accountability, and redefining what real, resilient leadership looks like in practice. Connect with Bryan: Website: www.crabcrewlife.com LinkedIn: https://linktr.ee/bryanandelaine YOUR NEXT ACTIONS This Week: Do not touch your phone for the first 30 minutes after you wake. Notice how the rest of the day feels when you own the start of it instead of the inbox owning you. This Month: Grab a pen and paper and list the people, places and things that add noise to your week. Pick one to remove. Then look back at where you were two months ago and mark what has actually moved. This Quarter: Get honest about what you actually want from this business. Write it down without editing. That answer decides which parts of the day-to-day you keep running and which parts you finally hand over. EPISODE RESOURCES Crab Crew Life and the Crab Transformation Experience, Bryan's daily discipline methodology, at www.crabcrewlife.com The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, referenced by Roy Dr Joe Dispenza's meditation work, referenced by Roy The Wim Hof Method breath work, which Roy teaches as a certified instructor ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READY TO ESCAPE THE TRAP? Take the Freedom Score Quiz: https://scoreapp.atpbos.com/freedom Discover how trapped you are in your business and get your personalised roadmap to freedom in under 5 minutes. Book a Free Strategy Session: https://www.allthepower.co.uk/contact Let's discuss how to build a business that works WITHOUT you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH YOUR HOST, ROY CASTLEMAN Roy is the founder of All The Power Limited and creator of The Owner's Thrive Method, a business coaching system for entrepreneurs ready to grow without burnout. As a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor and the UK's first certified BOS UP coach, Roy combines AI as a thinking methodology, wellness practices, and business operating systems to help trapped entrepreneurs reclaim their freedom. Website: www.allthepower.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycastleman/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@allthepowerltd

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  Episode #85

  Jannik Claudi: The Subconscious Crew Rowing Your Business Backwards

  Jul 28, 202643 minS1

  EPISODE OVERVIEW Duration: Approximately 42 minutes Best For: Trapped entrepreneurs who set a bigger target, start strong, then find themselves quietly drifting back to the level that feels safe Key Outcome: You will understand why growth stalls even when you know exactly what to do, and how small consistent steps beat trying to change everything at once You set the course for a bigger year. Weeks later you are back where you started, and you cannot explain how. THE BOTTOM LINE Jannik Claudi runs a business he built to be himself, not to fit someone else's mould. In this conversation he shares a picture that will stick with you. Imagine your business is a ship and you are the captain. You set a new course for a bigger goal. The thing is, most of your crew is below deck where you cannot see them, and some of them do not want to go where you are pointing. One is quietly planning to row back to the level that felt safe. That is not weakness. That is you, the trapped entrepreneur, running into the part of yourself that was built to keep you comfortable. Jannik works with owners to find what that hidden crew actually wants, then feed it the right way so it starts rowing with you instead of against you. One client sold his business and wanted to do ten things at once. He was doing none. They started with one gym session a week. By week eight or ten he was training four times, reading, walking hours a day, trading, all of it. That is the compounding effect of doing it the natural way, one step at a time. WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS TO YOU You keep setting bigger goals and keep sliding back, and you blame discipline. This episode shows you the real reason, and it is not laziness. If everything runs through you, part of the problem lives in your head, not your diary. Understanding that changes how you approach every plan you make from here. Jannik's client went from doing nothing to a full, consistent routine by starting with one action a week. That is the escape from the all-or-nothing trap that keeps you frozen. Keep pushing through change by sheer will and you will keep burning out at the same ceiling. This gives you a gentler way through. KEY INSIGHTS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY The all-at-once approach is why your new plans collapse. Jannik makes clients do one small step a week on purpose, because a plan with a near-zero failure rate builds the momentum that a giant to-do list destroys. When you set a bigger goal and everything suddenly goes sideways, that is your subconscious rowing back to safe. Name what the safe version of you is protecting and you can work with it instead of fighting it. AI only gives you rubbish when you give it rubbish. Roy talks about doing 172 hours of his old work in a day, not by handing everything over, but by teaching the AI to think critically and working with it together, one small project at a time. You are judging today's attempt on who you were a year ago. You are not that person now. Try the thing that failed before with the skills you have since gained and the output changes. Everything that triggers you, the driver who cuts you off, the client who frustrates you, is a notification pointing inward. That is where the work is, and doing it makes you steadier as the person running everything. GOLDEN QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING "Even if he's a dickhead, why do you let him change your reality?" - Jannik Claudi "A trigger always leads inside." - Jannik Claudi "If you pour love inside the right way, what comes out is love." - Jannik Claudi "I live for every failure, because every failure is an opportunity for me to learn something." - Roy Castleman "Follow your own inner voice. And if you don't have it, the one best thing to do is do nothing." - Jannik Claudi QUICK NAVIGATION FOR BUSY LEADERS 00:00 - Introduction: Meeting Jannik and the shared Wim Hof work that connected them 03:15 - Leaving the safe path: Why Jannik walked away from mainstream psychology to be himself 08:30 - AI as a thinking partner: How to work with it instead of letting it make you lazy 14:00 - Finding your voice: Roy on authoring a book by talking his stories out 19:20 - The mirror principle: Everything you put out comes back, and why that is your responsibility 24:40 - Level one and the driver who cuts you off: Learning the natural way, without shame 30:10 - The ship and the hidden crew: The subconscious model behind why growth stalls 36:00 - One step a week: The client who did nothing, then everything, by starting small 40:30 - Conclusion: Follow your inner voice, and when you cannot hear it, do nothing GUEST SPOTLIGHT Name: Jannik Claudi Bio: Jannik Claudi is a business coach and founder of The Keys to Balance. He studied psychology in Amsterdam, trained as a Wim Hof Method instructor and a qigong instructor, and now helps business owners find clarity, inner calm and focus by working with the subconscious patterns that quietly steer their results. His approach is about growing the natural way, one small consistent step at a time. Connect with Jannik: Website: https://thekeystobalance.de/wp-content/index.html LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannik-claudi-8a2a9a297/ YOUR NEXT ACTIONS This Week: Pick one goal you keep failing to stick to. Shrink it to a single action you can do once this week. One gym session. One page. One call. Do only that. This Month: Notice every time a new plan makes something go sideways. Write down what the safe version of you is trying to protect. That pattern is your ceiling. This Quarter: Take one project you would normally do alone and work through it with AI in small steps, teaching it your voice and your standards as you go, rather than expecting it to read your mind. EPISODE RESOURCES The Keys to Balance (Jannik's company): https://thekeystobalance.de/wp-content/index.html Wim Hof Method breathing and cold exposure work Notion, used alongside AI to hold your own structure rather than living inside the large language model Teal Swan, referenced as the source of the ship and crew subconscious model No additional links were mentioned for these resources in the episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READY TO ESCAPE THE TRAP? Take the Freedom Score Quiz: https://scoreapp.atpbos.com/freedom Discover how trapped you are in your business and get your personalised roadmap to freedom in under 5 minutes. Book a Free Strategy Session: https://www.allthepower.co.uk/contact Let's discuss how to build a business that works WITHOUT you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH YOUR HOST, ROY CASTLEMAN Roy is the founder of All The Power Limited and creator of The Owner's Thrive Method, a business coaching system for entrepreneurs ready to grow without burnout. As a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor and the UK's first certified BOS UP coach, Roy combines AI as a thinking methodology, wellness practices, and business operating systems to help trapped entrepreneurs reclaim their freedom. Website: www.allthepower.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycastleman/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@allthepowerltd

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  Episode #84

  Bart Merrell: The Money Already Sitting in Your Own Backyard

  Jul 16, 202635 minS1

  EPISODE OVERVIEW Duration: Approximately 38 minutes Best For: Trapped entrepreneurs who wait for permission, a qualification, or the "right time" before acting on what they already know how to do Key Outcome: You will start seeing the skills, stories, and setbacks already inside your business as income and freedom, instead of waiting for something you do not have yet You have been sitting on the thing that sets you free, and you sold it for scrap. THE BOTTOM LINE Bart Merrell has never had a job in the way you would recognise one. He took the first commercial bungee jump to Japan, helped launch thrill rides, got disqualified from the FBI, and when he lost his lower left leg in 2024, he turned even that into a way to help other people. Running through all of it is one habit. Whatever crosses his path, good, bad or ugly, he asks how he can monetise it. That matters to you because you already carry more value than you charge for. You built this thing from nothing, and somewhere along the way you started treating the things you are best at as ordinary. Bart's story of his father, a pig farmer who sold the farm and died still searching for his next big thing while the new owner found a fortune buried in the ground, is a mirror. The freedom you are chasing is often already sitting in your own backyard. You just stopped looking at it. WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS TO YOU You keep telling yourself you need a qualification, a certificate, or someone's blessing before you act. That belief is one of the quiet reasons you feel stuck. Bart became a bungee jump master in Japan and imported vehicles he had never imported before, all by saying yes and learning as he went. If you are the bottleneck because everything runs through your head, the fix is not always more delegation. Sometimes it is recognising that what feels effortless to you is exactly what other people would pay for. That reframe is what opens up new income without adding more hours. The things you do because you have to, the hard experiences, the setbacks, often carry the most value. Bart turned his amputation into a business helping others through limb loss. What you have lived through is something AI can never take from you. The cost of ignoring this is quiet and expensive. You keep grinding on the low value work while the real opportunity sits untouched, the way pig poop worth a dollar a pound sat under a farm for years. KEY INSIGHTS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY Say yes, then figure it out. Roy sent out a CV with his brother's name typed over, walked into interviews for jobs he barely knew, and phoned for help from client bathrooms for two and a half months. He bought that company in 2017. Confidence to learn beats waiting to feel ready. Sell it before you build it. Roy's client David got asked if he could do a Barry Manilow tribute act. He said yes, made a leaflet, and turned it into around £400,000 in bookings across theatres, Vegas, and cruise ships within a year. He committed first, then delivered. Knowledge used to be the bottleneck. It is not anymore. Bart rebuilt his own website for £25 in credits rather than paying £1,500. The gap now is not knowing, it is being willing to do. That said, you have to put the work in. The seven prompts that replace a team are noise. Value what feels ordinary to you. Roy's partner reads astrology for free at parties and calls herself unqualified, while people with less knowledge charge happily online. You are probably doing the same thing with something in your own business right now. Look at the light, not the shadow. So much fear surrounds AI. The better question is which parts of your week drain you, and how you free yourself and your team to do more of the work that feels human. GOLDEN QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING "You do not need the qualifications, you just need to know a little bit more than the next person in the room." - Roy Castleman "When someone comes to you with a good opportunity and you don't know how to do it, say yes and figure it out." - Bart Merrell, quoting Richard Branson "Knowledge used to be the bottleneck. Now it's not. You just got to be willing to learn it and do it." - Bart Merrell "We're paying way more attention to the shadow that's being cast than the light that's being created." - Bart Merrell "Don't be like my dad and overlook the things that are right there within your reach, right in your own backyard. They might even look like a pile of pig poop." - Bart Merrell QUICK NAVIGATION FOR BUSY LEADERS 00:00 - Introduction: Why every idea dies if you cannot answer one question, how will you monetise it 03:15 - The bungee jump in Japan: what a little brilliant and a little crazy teaches you about running a business 08:30 - You do not need the qualification: Roy's story of walking into jobs he had never done and learning on the phone 14:00 - Say yes then figure it out: David's Barry Manilow act and £400,000 in a year 19:20 - Knowledge is now £20 a month: rebuilding a website for £25 and why doing beats knowing 25:10 - Monetise Your Mindset: turning what you like, what you need to do, and even an amputation into income 31:40 - Valuing yourself: why you devalue the things you are best at, and how to stop 35:00 - Conclusion: Acres of pig poop and the fortune buried in your own backyard GUEST SPOTLIGHT Name: Bart Merrell Bio: Bart Merrell has never had a job in the ordinary sense and does not believe you need one either. He teaches people to build financial security by monetising what they already know and do, an approach he calls the Monetised Mindset. From a pig farm in New Mexico to launching thrill rides in Japan, and turning the loss of his lower left leg in 2024 into a business helping others, Bart shows trapped entrepreneurs how to find income and purpose in what is already right in front of them. Connect with Bart: Website: TheSideHustleSamurai.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-merrell-2440148/ YOUR NEXT ACTIONS This Week: Write down three things you do for free or barely think about, the skills people always ask you for. Pick one and put a price next to it. That is the value you have been giving away. This Month: Take one idea you have been sitting on because you do not feel qualified, and say yes to a first small version of it. Sell it before you build it, then learn your way through, the way Roy did on the phone. This Quarter: Look at your week honestly. Find the low value work that drains you and start moving it off your plate, using AI or your team, so you free up hours for the work only you can do. EPISODE RESOURCES Monetize Your Mindset by Bart Merrell, a how to think book about turning what you like, need, and already do into income Identify Your Ideal Side Hustle, Bart's signature workshop Who Not How, the book Roy references on valuing yourself and your time Acres of Diamonds, the classic story Bart retells at the close Lovable, the tool Bart used to rebuild his website Suno, ElevenLabs, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, the AI tools discussed for creating music, voice, and content ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READY TO ESCAPE THE TRAP? Take the Freedom Score Quiz: https://scoreapp.atpbos.com/freedom Discover how trapped you are in your business and get your personalised roadmap to freedom in under 5 minutes. Book a Free Strategy Session: https://www.allthepower.co.uk/contact Let's discuss how to build a business that works WITHOUT you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH YOUR HOST, ROY CASTLEMAN Roy is the founder of All The Power Limited and creator of The Owner's Thrive Method, a business coaching system for entrepreneurs ready to grow without burnout. As a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor and the UK's first certified BOS UP coach, Roy combines AI as a thinking methodology, wellness practices, and business operating systems to help trapped entrepreneurs reclaim their freedom. Website: www.allthepower.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycastleman/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@allthepowerltd

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  Episode #83

  LaKisha Mosley: She Built a Successful Business, Then She Couldn't Get Out of Bed

  Jul 14, 202640 minS1

  EPISODE OVERVIEW Duration: Approximately 42 minutes Best For: Trapped entrepreneurs who keep saying yes when every part of them is screaming no Key Outcome: A clear sense of what your own success actually looks like, and permission to step back before your body forces you to She was running mental wellness events. Advocating for mental health. Then she sat in her bedroom wondering if she should carry on living. THE BOTTOM LINE LaKisha Mosley had a successful business. That was the problem. Her events sold out, she was on stages and tours, the money came in, and one night in November it all stopped working. A twenty minute breakdown that felt like a panic attack mixed with a heart attack. She did not crash because the business failed. She crashed because she was saying yes when she should have said no, never resting, never listening to the quiet voice telling her to sit down. If you have ever felt physically present at your kid's show while your mind was somewhere else entirely, this conversation is a mirror. LaKisha took 60 days off and the business held. Out of that recovery came Soft Simple CEO, a way of running a company that does not tax your sanity. The reflection running through it all is simple and uncomfortable. What if success never required you to abandon yourself in the first place. WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS TO YOU You built this thing for freedom and somewhere along the way it became the prison. LaKisha names exactly how that happens, and what it costs when you ignore the warning signs your body keeps sending. Most owners chase a number because everyone else is chasing it. LaKisha hit six figures during the pandemic with no plan to hold it, and that pursuit is what damaged her health the most. Listening to this could stop you repeating the same mistake. The guilt of stepping away keeps you chained to the desk. Roy and LaKisha take that guilt apart. When the corporate CEO took a holiday, nobody fell apart. Your business will not either. If you keep waiting for permission to rest, the cost is your longevity. The statistics on how long leaders live are not kind, and pretending you are the exception is the most expensive bet you can make. KEY INSIGHTS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY Regulation before strategy. LaKisha does not touch email until 10 or 11am. Devotion, journaling, a morning walk. None of your productivity apps work if the person running them is depleted and in survival mode. Stepping away does not mean the business collapses. LaKisha took 60 days off during recovery and client events still ran. The fear of letting go is rarely matched by what actually happens when you do. Know what fills your cup, then book it. Roy's trick: see something that calls to you, book a flight or put a deposit down before the moment passes. LaKisha now does the same when she feels the depression coming. A staycation, room service, her journal. No guilt. Redefine success on your own terms. Roy had a million pounds and was miserable working 14 hour days, seven days a week. LaKisha decided she does not need to be a millionaire, she needs a life that takes care of her family and leaves a legacy. Decide what enough looks like before the number runs you. Stop self abandoning. LaKisha's one piece of advice. We lose who we are inside the roles we play for everyone else. Getting back to your own inner voice is where your best self shows up, in business and in life. GOLDEN QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING "Success for you can look like a rest day. It can look like taking three months off and knowing that your business will not fall apart." - LaKisha Mosley "The first big mistake that entrepreneurs make is their freedom ship becomes their prison." - Roy Castleman "My business was very successful. The thing is, I was doing too much and what I was doing wasn't sustainable. I had betrayed myself and my body by not listening." - LaKisha Mosley "I felt regret for the things I hadn't done. I didn't regret any single one thing that I had done." - Roy Castleman "We have to stop self abandoning ourselves. Get back to who you are." - LaKisha Mosley QUICK NAVIGATION FOR BUSY LEADERS 00:00 - Introduction: Meeting LaKisha and going back 20 years to a scary time of marriage, divorce and growth 04:30 - Failure as a redirect: Why owning every decision gives you the power to fix it 08:15 - The accidental entrepreneur: How a layoff and a severance cheque started a 13 year business 13:00 - Your business is your baby: The teenage years where so many owners get stuck 17:40 - The breakdown: A successful business and a night in the bedroom wondering whether to carry on 24:30 - Freedom becomes prison, and the loneliness nobody warns you about 30:00 - You cannot pour from an empty cup: Regulation, morning walks and not opening email till 11 35:00 - Redefining success: Why you do not need to be a millionaire to win 39:00 - Guilt, white line moments and booking the trip before the regret builds 41:30 - Conclusion: Stop self abandoning and get back to who you are GUEST SPOTLIGHT Name: LaKisha Mosley Bio: LaKisha Mosley is a mental wellness led leadership strategist and the founder of Soft Simple CEO, a philosophy and operating system centered on clarity before complexity, regulation before strategy, and calm execution as a core leadership skill. Connect with LaKisha: Website: https://lakishamosley.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakishammosley/ YOUR NEXT ACTIONS This Week: Notice the moment your phone hits your hand in the morning. Hold off on email for one hour and do one thing that regulates you instead. A walk, a journal, your breath. See what changes in how you make decisions that day. This Month: Take one thing off your plate that you have been saying yes to out of habit. Write down what you fear will happen if you stop. Then watch whether it actually does. This Quarter: Decide what enough actually looks like for you, in a real number and a real lifestyle. Build the plan to reach it and hold it, rather than chasing a figure because everyone else is. EPISODE RESOURCES Soft Simple CEO, LaKisha's leadership philosophy and operating system, available through https://lakishamosley.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READY TO ESCAPE THE TRAP? Take the Freedom Score Quiz: https://scoreapp.atpbos.com/freedom Discover how trapped you are in your business and get your personalised roadmap to freedom in under 5 minutes. Book a Free Strategy Session: https://www.allthepower.co.uk/contact Let's discuss how to build a business that works WITHOUT you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH YOUR HOST, ROY CASTLEMAN Roy is the founder of All The Power Limited and creator of The Owner's Thrive Method, a business coaching system for entrepreneurs ready to grow without burnout. As a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor and the UK's first certified BOS UP coach, Roy combines AI as a thinking methodology, wellness practices, and business operating systems to help trapped entrepreneurs reclaim their freedom. Website: www.allthepower.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycastleman/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@allthepowerltd

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  Episode #82

  Amanda Knarr: The Business You Built For Freedom Became Your Prison

  Jul 9, 202634 minS1

  EPISODE OVERVIEW Duration: Approximately 42 minutes Best For: Trapped entrepreneurs who carry every decision, every worry, and every sleepless night alone, and have nobody to say it to Key Outcome: You will see why the loneliness is not a weakness in you, and how to bring the human back to the surface while AI handles the rest You started this for freedom. Somewhere along the way it became the thing you cannot put down. THE BOTTOM LINE You are the public face. Positive, tenacious, glass half full, because you have to be. Underneath that, you are carrying things you cannot say out loud. You cannot tell your staff payroll feels tight this month, because they will worry. You cannot tell your family, because you are trying to protect them. So you hold it. All of it. Amanda Knarr has spent her career sitting across from people exactly like you, and she names the part nobody says: the business you built for freedom can become your biggest prison. In this conversation she explains why that loneliness forms, why it is dangerous, and what actually shifts it. Roy shares the moment his own stress took him to the top of a 130 foot tower. The thing is, this episode is not about pain. It is about what happens when you stop carrying it alone, and how the human side of you becomes the thing that no machine can copy. WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS TO YOU You will understand why you feel lonely even surrounded by people. Your team is passionate. They did not put their mortgage on the line. That gap is real, and naming it is the start of carrying less. You will hear what happens when entrepreneurs stay silent too long. Amanda explains that the loneliest founders become the most vulnerable to people who do not have their best interest at heart. Knowing this protects you. You will see how to use AI as a 60% tool, not a 90% one. The owners who lean on it for everything will produce work that feels hollow. The ones who stay the architect will raise the human and pull ahead. If you keep holding everything yourself, the cost is not just the business. It is your sleep, your health, and your sense of who you are underneath the public face. KEY INSIGHTS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY The loneliness is not a personal failing. It is structural. You made the sacrifices nobody else made, so the weight sits with you. Once you accept that, you can go looking for the right room instead of pretending you do not need one. A strong co founding team or a small group of people who genuinely get it shares the load that one set of shoulders was never built to carry. Amanda is careful not to prescribe one fix. She is clear that an outlet matters. AI does not replace human connection, it raises the value of it. Treat it like a junior staff member. You stay the architect. You bring the heart. Throw something thin at it and you get something thin back. Showing up unpolished is good psychology and good business. Amanda's strongest advice: stop hiding the mess. When you are disconnected from yourself, you drift toward burnout without noticing. Bringing the real you to the surface is the healthiest practice she knows. Roy's own example shows the way through. He could not type, never could. Talk to text plus AI gave him his voice and his book. The effort was substantial, 20 years of knowledge bookended at the start, the middle, and the end. The tool did not do it for him. It massaged what he already had closer to what he meant. GOLDEN QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING "This thing that you started for freedom becomes your biggest prison." - Roy Castleman "They didn't put their mortgage on the line. They didn't make the sacrifices that you have as an entrepreneur. So it is extremely lonely." - Amanda Knarr "It's not getting it to do it for you, it's getting it to massage what you have to be closer to what you're trying to put out there." - Roy Castleman "Show up in the mess, in how it's working, and not be too afraid of being unpolished." - Amanda Knarr "I don't think that there's going to be anything that replaces human connection." - Amanda Knarr QUICK NAVIGATION FOR BUSY LEADERS 00:00 - Introduction: Why the emotional side of business is the part nobody talks about 03:30 - Amanda leaves corporate: the moment the systems no longer fit and she went deeper into the human side 07:00 - Honouring the entrepreneur: less than 2% ever start a business, and the underbelly of doing it all yourself 10:30 - The loneliness nobody admits: why your team can be passionate and you still feel alone 15:00 - The badge of honour problem: when running on no sleep gets celebrated, and where it nearly took Roy 20:00 - Vulnerability and manipulation: why the loneliest founders are the easiest to take advantage of 24:00 - AI overwhelm is real: the list that keeps growing instead of getting fixed 29:00 - The 60% tool: staying the architect and raising the human instead of replacing it 34:00 - Roy's book and finding his voice: how talk to text and AI unlocked a lifelong dream 39:00 - Conclusion: show up authentically, in the mess, and stop pushing for something other than what is GUEST SPOTLIGHT Name: Amanda Knarr Bio: Amanda Knarr is a Senior Consultant at Slalom, where she helps organisations navigate transformation, change, and organisational effectiveness. With more than a decade of experience advising Fortune 500 leaders, she has worked with executives and teams on leadership, performance, resilience, and the human side of change. Amanda is founder of the Modern Finishing School, having completed her M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Kentucky, and she helps high achieving professionals build sustainable success without sacrificing their well-being. Her work sits at the meeting point of behavioural psychology, leadership development, and workplace performance, with a particular interest in burnout, perfectionism, and the challenges facing women in demanding careers. Connect with Amanda: Website: https://www.themodernfinishingschool.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaknarr/ YOUR NEXT ACTIONS This Week: Name one thing you have been holding alone, the payroll worry, the decision keeping you up, and say it out loud to one person who genuinely understands. Not your team. Not your family. Someone who gets it. This Month: Find your room. A small group, a co founder relationship, a therapeutic outlet, whatever fits you. The point is you stop being the only set of shoulders. This Quarter: Pick one task you have been forcing yourself to do badly and hand 60% of it to AI while you stay the architect. Reclaim those hours for the human work only you can do. EPISODE RESOURCES Thinking Outside Your Brain with AI by Roy Castleman, available on Amazon. The Modern Finishing School: https://www.themodernfinishingschool.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READY TO ESCAPE THE TRAP? Take the Freedom Score Quiz: https://scoreapp.atpbos.com/freedom Discover how trapped you are in your business and get your personalised roadmap to freedom in under 5 minutes. Book a Free Strategy Session: https://www.allthepower.co.uk/contact Let's discuss how to build a business that works WITHOUT you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH YOUR HOST, ROY CASTLEMAN Roy is the founder of All The Power Limited and creator of The Owner's Thrive Method, a business coaching system for entrepreneurs ready to grow without burnout. As a certified Wim Hof Method Instructor and the UK's first certified BOS UP coach, Roy combines AI as a thinking methodology, wellness practices, and business operating systems to help trapped entrepreneurs reclaim their freedom. Website: www.allthepower.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roycastleman/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@allthepowerltd

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