The Unknown Path

The Unknown Path is about the quiet grit behind “overnight” success. Each week I sit down with founders, entrepreneurs, artists and change-makers to mine the moments that shaped them—doubts, detours, decisions, and the choice that changed everything. Come for the wins; stay for the wisdom. Build a fulfilled life that actually feels like you.

The Unknown Path is a society podcast hosted by Jem Fuller, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #24

  When Success no Longer Feels Like Success - Alena Uzhnyeva's Story

  Aug 17, 20261h 25mS1

  "You can't connect to your spirit through your mind. It's only through the heart, because the heart is the portal to the quantum, to the universe, to the higher self." In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Alena Uzhnyeva — entrepreneur, founder of the I Am Creation Retreats and Summits, and a woman who's built two entirely different lives on two different continents. Known as the "fish queen" of Ukraine and Estonia's seafood trade, Alena started at twenty, sending emails for her uncle's small import company because nobody else on the team spoke English. Ten years later she was running purchasing negotiations worth millions and leading a team, before she left it all to build her own trading business from Estonia — now turning over twenty million euros a year with a team of seventeen. Then, six and a half years ago she landed in Bali for a holiday with her two-year-old son and she never left. But what sits underneath that success isn't a straightforward story of rewarded ambition. It's a story about a body that had to break down before a life of alignment and fulfilment could be fully rebuilt. Alena grew up in a military household in small-town Ukraine, where achievement was an instruction — be first, be the best, don't ask questions. The messaging and childhood carried her into success in the corporate world where she out-worked everyone around her, until insomnia, gut issues and failing eyesight became her everyday reality. In hopes of finding a reset to keep moving forward, Alena attended a three-day retreat that cracked her wide open and led her to returning back into her office to resign with no plan moving forward. This week's conversation moves through what came after that leap — a new business built from nothing while raising her son alone, a fifteen-year silence with her father that she chose to end, a relationship that finally didn't repeat the old pattern, and the slightly chaotic decision to run Bali's first fully legal international summit with three months' notice and forty speakers flying in from around the world. It's a conversation about the difference between chasing significance and building a life you can actually feel present in, and about what happens when you finally stop treating your intuition as something to override and go all in. Alena’s story is one of inspiration that redefines success beyond the numbers, money and burnout. ⸻ In this conversation we go into: — The three-day retreat in Kyiv that ended a ten-year career in one weekend — Building a twenty-million-euro seafood business from Estonia while living in Bali — The message that reconnected her with her father after fifteen years of silence — Turning an idea into Bali's first legally licensed international summit, with forty speakers and 750 people, in three months — Why she makes major business decisions in seconds now, instead of hours of meetings About Alena Uzhnyeva: Alena is the founder of the I Am Creation Retreats and Summits in Bali, bringing together international speakers and hundreds of attendees each year for conscious gatherings and heart-led leadership work. She spent ten years building one of Ukraine's largest fish export companies before leaving corporate life after a single retreat, and now runs both the seafood trading business she built from Estonia and her growing summit and retreat brand from her home in Bali. Follow Alena: https://www.iamcreationretreat.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/padmini.devi_ We Are Creation Community: https://www.wearecreation.world/community ⸻ About The Unknown Path: The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller. ⸻ Follow the show: Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts theunknownpathpodcast.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jemfuller LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemfuller More from Jem: https://www.jemfuller.com If something in this conversation lands for you, share it with someone who might need it today. #TheUnknownPath #AlenaUzhnyeva #IAmCreationSummit

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  Episode #23

  Breaking Limiting Beliefs with Jack Canfield

  Aug 9, 20261h 11m

  "Stop being who you're not." In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Jack Canfield — Entrepreneur, co-creator of the billion-dollar ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’® series and author of the international bestseller ‘The Success Principles’. Jack’s conducted more than 2,500 workshops and trainings worldwide, sold over 500 million books in 43 languages, and spent five decades helping people close the gap between where they are and their highest vision of themselves. For decades, Jack's work has centred around the idea that most of what holds people back isn't a lack of ability, but a belief formed in childhood about who they are and what they deserve that holds the drivers seat of their life. He’s stood in boardrooms to stadiums filled with thousands of people transforming the lives of millions of people, but his impact started many years ago in a small classroom teaching self-esteem to teenagers who needed someone to believe in them. In this conversation, we go beyond the success into the journey in a way you haven’t heard before. Jack shares his story, as a scholarship kid at a West Virginia military school to the man behind one of publishing's most improbable success stories, and the mentors, chance encounters, and discipline that shaped the way there. We go through the early years, starting as a teacher earning $8,000 a year, to becoming a best selling author and deeply impactful entrepreneur by discovering and embodying the work that has changed the lives of so many people. If you know of Jacks work, you’ll know his impact on the world is big, but chances are you haven’t heard the man underneath the success in this way and I can’t wait for you to sit and listen and soak up all the wisdom. This weeks episode covers an incredible journey of self discovery, the mechanics of building something successful that lasts and the work of unbecoming what no longer serves you. It's a conversation about permission, persistence, and the difference between striving for significance and simply being who you are. ⸻ In this conversation we go into: — Cold email to Harvard scholarship, and the private school that changed everything — A mentor's challenge to set a goal twelve times his salary, and the visualization ritual he kept every morning for three years — Fourteen months of daily outreach before Chicken Soup for the Soul hit a single bestseller list — The ayahuasca journey that forced him to forgive Vladimir Putin — and what it revealed about his own need for significance — Why "discover" is the word he'd choose over "become" — His take on AI, job displacement, and why human connection becomes more valuable, not less — The free belief-change call he still runs twice a year for thousands of people, decades after he stopped needing to About Jack: For over 40 years, he has been teaching entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders, and people from all walks of life how to create the life they desire. As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the SoulⓇ series, he’s taught millions of individuals his modernised formulas for success, and has trained and certified over 2,700 students to teach his content and methodology in 107 countries around the world. Follow Jack: https://jackcanfield.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackcanfield_official ⸻ About The Unknown Path: The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller. ⸻ Follow the show: Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemfuller/ More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com #TheUnknownPath #JackCanfield #ChickenSoupForTheSoul

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  Episode #22

  Finding your Purpose, Curiosity & Building an Extraordinary Life with Brandon Fong

  Aug 6, 20261h 8m

  "I didn't give myself permission to be a visionary." In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Brandon Fong — founder of Curiosity Island, creator of the Find Your Four framework, and host of the podcast Beyond Curious. In this conversation, Brandon shares how a childhood shaped by financial insecurity, in one of the wealthiest school districts in his state, built the identity of someone who had to earn everything the hard way. Years later, that same drive led him into the business of building other people's visions, until a mentor ended their partnership without warning and left him with nowhere to go but inward. Brandon's story is one of reinvention, and one that will make you question what permission you're still waiting for to chase the things you desire. In this episode, we talk across a number of themes including the difference between learning and channeling, the cost of walking away from a version of success that isn't yours, and how the period of building for others became the foundation for Curiosity Island, and framework for finding the small percentage of actions that create the majority of impact. This conversation explores what it takes to stop chasing someone else's definition of success, and a real look at what it means to build a life, and a community, from complete alignment. You wont want to miss this one. ⸻ In this conversation we go into: — Cold calling at twelve, and the free lunch program in the wealthiest school district in the state — The single cold email that turned into running a mentor's marketing, adding 250,000 students to his courses, and a year spent living in Israel, Italy, and Thailand — The business partner who left without warning, and the question it forced: what do I actually want? — Why he still cringes at the old name of his own podcast, and why he wouldn't undo any of it — What changed when he stopped calling it effort and started calling it channeling — Dunbar's number, soul family, and why Curiosity Island will never grow past 54 people — The plan to send a piece of it into outer space About Brandon: Brandon is a husband to his high school sweetheart, Leah, father to their daughter Kaiya, and head world builder of Curiosity Island™, the invite-only community he founded to help visionary leaders solve their hardest problems and accelerate their biggest projects. He also hosts the top 1% globally ranked Beyond Curious® podcast, where he's interviewed everyone from Olympians and NYT bestselling authors to an FBI hostage negotiator and the man who invented the cell phone. His life purpose is to create a more deeply connected world. Follow Brandon: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsfong/ ▶️ YouTube: https://gobeyondcurious.com/podcast/ ⸻ About The Unknown Path: The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller. ⸻ Follow the show: Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemfuller/ More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com #TheUnknownPath #BrandonFong #CuriosityIsland

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  Episode #22

  Finding your Purpose, Curiosity & Building an Extraordinary Life with Brandon Fong

  Aug 3, 20261h 8m

  "I didn't give myself permission to be a visionary." In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Brandon Fong — founder of Curiosity Island, creator of the Find Your Four framework, and host of the podcast Beyond Curious. In this conversation, Brandon shares how a childhood shaped by financial insecurity, in one of the wealthiest school districts in his state, built the identity of someone who had to earn everything the hard way. Years later, that same drive led him into the business of building other people's visions, until a mentor ended their partnership without warning and left him with nowhere to go but inward. Brandon's story is one of reinvention, and one that will make you question what permission you're still waiting for to chase the things you desire. In this episode, we talk across a number of themes including the difference between learning and channeling, the cost of walking away from a version of success that isn't yours, and how the period of building for others became the foundation for Curiosity Island, and framework for finding the small percentage of actions that create the majority of impact. This conversation explores what it takes to stop chasing someone else's definition of success, and a real look at what it means to build a life, and a community, from complete alignment. You wont want to miss this one. ⸻ In this conversation we go into: — Cold calling at twelve, and the free lunch program in the wealthiest school district in the state — The single cold email that turned into running a mentor's marketing, adding 250,000 students to his courses, and a year spent living in Israel, Italy, and Thailand — The business partner who left without warning, and the question it forced: what do I actually want? — Why he still cringes at the old name of his own podcast, and why he wouldn't undo any of it — What changed when he stopped calling it effort and started calling it channeling — Dunbar's number, soul family, and why Curiosity Island will never grow past 54 people — The plan to send a piece of it into outer space Timestamps: Chapters 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:13 Brandon's World Right Now 00:03:00 What Is Curiosity Island? 00:07:00 Learning to Slow Down and Just Be Present 00:09:29 What His 10-Year-Old Self Would Think 00:10:43 Growing Up in an Entrepreneurial Household 00:14:24 Free Lunch Programs in the Wealthiest School District 00:16:05 Meeting His Mentor Jonathan and Genius Network 00:19:25 The Business Failure That Started Everything 00:20:13 Publishing a Book at 21 00:22:07 The Power of the Cold Email 00:23:30 What's the Worst That Can Happen? 00:24:54 Rebuilding From the Ground Up 00:28:03 Why "Seven Figure Millennials" Still Makes Him Cringe 00:30:05 Would He Undo That Chapter? 00:31:27 What It Feels Like to Be Fully Aligned 00:32:52 Consciousness, Telepathy, and Holding Beliefs Loosely 00:37:45 David Hawkins and the Levels of Consciousness 00:40:52 Mirrors, Not Mentors 00:44:08 What Curiosity Island Actually Is 00:45:46 Introducing Find Your Four 00:49:09 The 4% and the Exponentially Renewable Resource 00:51:00 The 4% Files Project 00:54:19 A World Record Sent Into Outer Space 00:57:30 Shortcutting a Friend's Dream: The Roderick Adventure Day Story 01:00:20 Founding the Center of Love Alliance 01:03:21 Dunbar's Number and the Future of Curiosity Island 01:05:12 Final Thoughts About Brandon: Brandon is a husband to his high school sweetheart, Leah, father to their daughter Kaiya, and head world builder of Curiosity Island™, the invite-only community he founded to help visionary leaders solve their hardest problems and accelerate their biggest projects. He also hosts the top 1% globally ranked Beyond Curious® podcast, where he's interviewed everyone from Olympians and NYT bestselling authors to an FBI hostage negotiator and the man who invented the cell phone. His life purpose is to create a more deeply connected world. Follow Brandon: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonsfong/ ▶️ YouTube: https://gobeyondcurious.com/podcast/ ⸻ About The Unknown Path: The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller. ⸻ Follow the show: Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemfuller/ More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com #TheUnknownPath #BrandonFong #CuriosityIsland

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  Episode #21

  Scars to Strength - The Catalina Magee Story

  Jul 26, 20261h 26m

  "Freedom without forgiveness is just relocation" In this episode of The Unknown Path, Jem Fuller sits down with Catalina Magee — former Miss Romania, Vogue Italia model, and founder of Trend Prive magazine, now a real estate investor, podcast host, and someone who volunteers her time with Las Vegas's homeless community. Catalina shares what it was like growing up under communism in Romania, the ultimatum she gave her mother at sixteen, and the night in Germany she stood in a car park screaming for help while her husband lay fighting for his life after a house fire. We talk about the years of abuse that shaped her childhood, the choice she made to forgive the man who caused it, and why she's landed on humility — not love — as the biggest lesson life has taught her. This conversation explores what it actually costs to build a life of gratitude out of a childhood built on scarcity and pain, and why the people we overlook are so often the ones who save us. ⸻ In this conversation we go into: — The ultimatum a sixteen-year-old Catalina gave her mother about her father, and the divorce it forced — A stranger's invitation to Capri, and the night Mariah Carey stood two feet away — The house fire in Germany that nearly took her husband's life, and the phone call that finally got him a hospital bed — Growing up under communism in Romania, where the family had one orange at Christmas and prayed in secret beneath the floor — Why homelessness isn't the choice people assume it is, and the questions Catalina asks instead of judging About Catalina Magee: Catalina Magee is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, actress and published author based in Las Vegas. She began her career as a model featured in Vogue Italia and the winner of Miss Romania, before founding Trend Prive magazine and going on to work across the U.S. Army, MWR, NCIS, the USDA and the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. She has since built and sold multiple businesses, and currently oversees a real estate portfolio, a wedding venture and a celebrity magazine, alongside ongoing volunteer work with Las Vegas's homeless community. Connect with Catalina: https://catalinamagee.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/officialcatalinamagee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalinamagee/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWGKSdXcO04gZV30EIM7tQ ⸻ About The Unknown Path: The Unknown Path is a podcast about the untold stories behind success — real conversations with extraordinary people about the parts of their journey nobody asks them about. Hosted by Jem Fuller. ⸻ Follow the show: Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Instagram: https://instagram.com/jemfuller LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jemfuller More from Jem: https://jemfuller.com If something in this conversation lands for you, share it with someone who might need it today. #TheUnknownPath #CatalinaMagee #Forgiveness

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