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START AGAIN WITHOUT STARTING OVER
Starting again can feel like regression, but if your foundation remains, you are not back at zero. This issue of The Grip reframes resets as a return to ground level, where growth is faster because you’re building with experience, depth, and clarity. It’s a leadership reminder that when in a season of rebuilding, you’re further along than your circumstances suggest.
THE HARD BREAK
This issue of The Grip shows why your nervous system, not your calendar, is the real bottleneck on your growth as a founder. Using Aaron Edelheit’s “hard break” story, it lays out how one protected weekly rest day becomes strategic infrastructure that restores health, clarity, and creativity so you can scale without coming apart.
THE MASTER’S RESET
This issue of The Grip explores why your best ideas are “screaming” for a day off and how weekly rest becomes a strategic advantage for visionary leaders. You will learn how a 24 hour reset restores your nervous system, reignites creativity, and upgrades your decision making so you lead with more clarity, courage, and ease.
TPL YEAR IN REVIEW
This issue of The Grip is a guided Year-In-Review for mission-driven founders and leaders. Using the seven disciplines of The Plenteous Life, it helps you examine language, identity, integrity, and nervous system capacity so you stop repeating the same results. You’ll leave with concrete decisions that align who you are with the outcomes you want in 2026.
LOVE
Love isn’t a “soft skill.” It’s the ultimate renewable resource for mission-driven leaders. In this issue of The Grip, discover how leading from love fuels resilience, creativity, and results that endure without the grind.
SURVIVAL IS SELFISH…WHEN YOU’RE MADE TO MULTIPLY
Leaders aren’t meant to scrape by—they’re meant to multiply. This issue of The Grip reveals how to move from survival mode to intentional overflow that sustains your mission and empowers others to thrive.
THE BILLION-DOLLAR UPSIDE OF BEING HAPPY
Happiness isn’t fluff—it’s a high-performance strategy for visionary leaders. Learn how joy drives growth, innovation, and longevity in both business and life, and why happy leaders outperform those stuck in the grind.
WHY ‘BETTER’ KEEPS YOU FEELING BROKEN
Many high-achievers unknowingly chase self-improvement from the belief that they’re broken. This issue of The Grip reveals how true transformation begins—not with fixing yourself—but by remembering you’re already enough.
YOUR BRAIN’S TEMPER TANTRUM PT. 3
Discomfort isn’t danger—it’s a sign that you’re growing. Learn to retrain your survival brain so discomfort no longer signals “stop,” but becomes the starting point for scale, leadership, and lasting impact.
YOUR BRAIN’S TEMPER TANTRUM PT. 2
Being wrong isn’t dangerous—it’s a survival brain reflex wired from childhood. This issue of The Grip reveals how clinging to being right is costing you growth, leadership, and joy—and shows how to reframe mistakes as fuel for transformation.
YOUR BRAIN’S TEMPER TANTRUM PT. 1
Your survival brain reacts to rejection like it’s a life-or-death threat, hijacking your clarity and confidence. But rejection isn’t fatal—it’s a perception error.
Learn how to reframe social disapproval, override outdated survival instincts, and take action without fear holding you back.
INTENTIONAL RENEWAL:
We want growth, but we resist the pruning. We crave reinvention, but we hesitate at what must die.
Renewal isn’t just an idea; it’s a lived process, and if you’re in it right now, it might feel more like destruction than transformation.
But there’s a way to move through it with mastery—one that requires embracing its paradoxes instead of fighting them.
MASTER THE HIDDEN STORIES CONTROLLING YOUR RESULTS
Your mind is a master storyteller, constantly interpreting events and shaping how you experience leadership, relationships, and even your own identity. But here’s the thing: not all these stories are true. And the ones that aren’t? They could be limiting you more than you realize.
BLINDED BY STORY:
The second my vision went dark, my brain didn’t wait. It handed me one story: You’re in danger. It was instant, automatic, and utterly wrong—but I almost turned into the Tasmanian Devil because of it.
My experience in that moment is a picture of the challenge we all face in getting a handle on our default stories. Default stories are automatic and in turn, drive behavior. You always behave in a manner consistent with the story you’re telling. And the trickiest part is default stories are almost impossible to identify, unless you know where to look.
ONCE UPON A STORY THAT STUCK
The single biggest influence on your quality of life in any given moment is what you say about it—your story. This capacity is powerful, and how you use it makes all the difference in creating benefit or harm; both for yourself and others. Getting conscious of and intentional with your story will fundamentally transform your life.
STAGNATION: THE STEALTHY THREAT YOU NEVER SEE COMING
Stagnation is a state or condition marked by lack of flow, movement, or development. It is a death knoll for the human mind & body, relationships, businesses, economies, and countries.
Particularly for The Innovator Leader, one thing is clear: stagnation is agony. It consistently ranks in the top 10 struggles reported by entrepreneurs, founders, business owners, and creatives.
SELF-MASTERY
The stoic philosopher, Epictetus put it this way, "No man is free who is not master of himself."
At The Grip, our mission is to simplify and de-mystify this critical skill so you actually enjoy doing what it takes to master yourself—you’re much more likely to excel at it when you do.
In this week’s issue we’ve curated 10 of the most powerful books on self-mastery—each one a masterclass in building focus, clarity, and discipline.
Whether you’re leading a team, building a business, or creating a life of impact, these books are tools to create the life you know you’re capable of.
AWE:
Every conscious soul is designed to be amazed—astounded, gobsmacked, captivated, bewildered; to stand in awe.
Awe is the emotion we feel when we experience vast mysteries. What does that have to do with life mastery? Experiencing more awe is a little-known game-changer for how you move through life—it directly shapes how you create and lead.
MASTERING INSPIRATION
When cultivated, inspiration is a force for making miracles in your life—it will accelerate your growth and impact. To experience more of it, you’ve got to get a handle on what makes inspiration thrive and what snuffs it out.
Discover how mastering inspiration is key to actualizing the fullness of life you’re designed for.
TODAY: WHY IT’S THE ONLY DAY THAT MATTERS
Mel Fisher’s relentless spirit embodies The Innovator Leader’s mindset—a commitment to keep creating in the face of uncertainty and adversity while working to bring the vision to life. And it is a powerful demonstration that our only access to impacting tomorrow is by acting today.
Read on to discover why!