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October 21, 2026Episode 31943 min

#319 Taniyaa Bakshhi: From Clinical Care to Creating Health Impact at Scale

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Dr. Taniyaa Bakshhi to explore what happens when clinical knowledge, personal loss, and unexpected leadership collide. Taniyaa shares how her Green Pill moment came when she realized that being clinically correct was not enough to create meaningful impact. Helping one patient at a time mattered, but if she wanted to reach thousands, she needed to understand product development, systems, regulation, communication, and most importantly, leadership. Her journey into leadership began early. At 19, she founded a youth mental health initiative and began learning how to lead teams, build systems, and take responsibility without having a clear roadmap. Then, while still in medical school, a profound family loss forced her to step into the operational and emotional responsibility of her family's business. Taniyaa reflects candidly on grief, resilience, and the difficult reality of continuing to show up even when you are struggling internally. The conversation also explores what it means to be the youngest person in the room, why asking questions became one of Taniyaa's greatest leadership tools, and how she learned to replace arguments with evidence. She discusses modernizing herbal wellness, making traditional ingredients easier for today's consumers to use, and challenging an industry that often equates more products with better results. Her philosophy is refreshingly simple: effective wellness does not need to be complicated. At its core, this episode is about stepping into responsibility before you feel ready. Taniyaa's story shows how curiosity, resilience, simplicity, and the courage to keep asking questions can turn uncertainty into leadership and personal experience into impact at scale. About The Guest Dr. Taniyaa Bakshhi is a Gold Medalist & Managing Director, Bakson Group | Brand Lead, Sunny Herbals Middle East. Her work spans clinical homeopathy, herbal wellness, clean beauty, product development, and integrative care, with a strong focus on making effective wellness products simple, accessible, and relevant to modern consumers. Her leadership journey began at 19 when she founded a youth mental health initiative and later studied leadership at Oxford Summer School. At 21, she unexpectedly stepped into significant responsibility within her family's legacy business while continuing her medical education. Today, she combines her clinical background with business leadership, product innovation, and consumer insight, including her work with Sunny Herbals Middle East in the UAE. Her approach is built around curiosity, constant learning, evidence, simplicity, and the belief that healthcare and business can work together to create impact far beyond the consultation room. Quotes 2:45 When I stepped in as a leader, that's what took me from being a doctor who treatedpatients regularly in the clinic to someone now building systems, healthcare products and amazing skincare and wellness products that work, and clinics and brands that could help reach people that I may never really meet in real life. 5:00 I became responsible very young and I learned how to take on responsibility as a leader in that interim. 7:11 If there's anything I was taught about resilience, it was them. It was about turning up and showing up even when you were suffering inside. It was about turning up and showing up when you couldn't do much to change the scenario. It was just about turning up when you could and showing up when you could. 10:43 Age gives us experience, and that is the biggest strength that age does give you. It gives you experience that you can't take away. 22:52 The future belongs to people who can bridge disciplines and not just stay confined to one. 23:10 Don't be afraid to learn new things. 34:16 Don't have harmful ingredients. Be clean, be simple in your routine, and be super effective in your results. 35:00 Movement is key. Move when you can. 40:32 My biggest wellness hack is to learn how to be kind to myself. Useful Links Website: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtaniyaabakshhi/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drtaniyaabakshhi/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-taniyaa-bakshhi/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

October 14, 2026Episode 31840 min

#318 Marms Hope: From Survival Mode to Operational Success

About This Episode In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Marlene “Marms” Hope to explore resilience, operational clarity, and what happens when life forces you to rebuild from the ground up. Marms shares how leaving South Africa, living across multiple countries, and later experiencing the collapse of a startup while both she and her husband went unpaid pushed her into one of the most uncertain periods of her life. Those experiences strengthened a belief she carries today: even when the path ahead is unclear, there is always a way forward. The conversation also explores how Marms’ difficult childhood shaped her independence, problem-solving ability, and instinct to create order from chaos. She reflects on how survival mode can become a strength, but also why extreme independence and constantly being the strong one can eventually carry an emotional cost. That understanding now influences how she leads, works with founders, and approaches her own personal growth. Marms breaks down the hidden cost of hustle culture and explains why founders often become the biggest bottleneck in their own businesses. She shares practical strategies including buying back time through delegation, blocking Mondays and Fridays to work on rather than inside her business, protecting team culture, and even firing clients when a relationship compromises operational integrity. At its core, this episode is about building resilience through experience, learning when to ask for help, and creating enough structure and support to move from constant reaction into intentional execution. About The Guest Marlene “Marms” Hope is a Dubai-based founder and private operations expert who specializes in bringing structure, clarity, and execution to complex environments. Her career has taken her across South Africa, the UK, Singapore, and the UAE, progressing from an entry-level operations role to becoming a COO by the age of 35. Her professional journey has included startups, nonprofits, small businesses, and private operational environments where she developed a reputation for turning complicated situations into organized, executable systems. Today, she is the founder of Marmalade , an execution and business support agency helping founders and small businesses access marketing, design, content, workflows, and operational support without building large internal teams. She also operates Marms Hope , her private operations practice providing discreet, bespoke support to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Across both ventures, her work is centered on removing bottlenecks, protecting founders’ time, and creating the structure that allows people and businesses to operate at their best. Quotes 2:12 - When you step out of those comfort zones and step out of that world and into something bigger and greater, it changes you. It shakes you a little bit. It brings a different kind of reality back to you that you never knew existed. 6:15 - When I made the decision to move out of the house, that shaped me to become something that I never ever thought I would be able to become. I think I've always been in survival mode my whole life, and I've always had to just take care of me. 8:37 - I learned to be better and I got joy out of being better and becoming better and being able to look after myself and be independent. 11:17 - When you're in a situation like that, someone has to keep it together. I've been through enough in my life that looking at that situation at face value when I was in it, that was nothing for me. That was just one more thing on the list that I had to just push through because I knew that the outcome of that was going to be good. 11:46 - I've navigated through enough in my life to know that no matter what, you just have to push through it because it gives you growth. You're learning something through that, and everything will be okay on the other side. What that okay looks like, no one knows. But there will be okay on the other side. 12:36 - You do have a choice. Everything that you do and everything that you shape in the future is based off that choice that you make. And the choices that I made back then by blocking stuff out and all of that were good choices, as unhealthy as it was, because it helped not just only me get through stuff, but it helps someone else, my husband, get through something that he has never ever experienced a level of trauma. 13:06 - I pulled myself together to be and pretend to be okay, so that I could help someone else be okay. That's the joy there. 22:00 - If you are not in control of what's happening inside of you, you cannot build success on the outside. 23:41 - If you buy time, you have to spend the money to buy that time. And time is the most valuable asset that you will ever, ever have in your life. Because that is where ideas come from. That is where growth comes from. That is where love comes from. That is where anything in the world is based off time. Money can buy that for you. And my that's what I mean by that is like if you have people or support or someone that you can rely on to do that for you, that gives you the time to not burn out. That gives you the time to focus on things that you are actually truly good at. 31:22 - I know the level and the caliber of person that I want to be part of our ecosystem. 33:35 - Setting time for yourself and just slowing down makes you move faster. Useful Links Website: https://marmshope.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marmshopeofficial/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marmshope/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

October 7, 2026Episode 31738 min

#317 Dr. Hatem Goucha: Finding Purpose Beyond Corporate Success

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Dr. Hatem Goucha to explore what happens when success, identity, and leadership collide. After more than 26 years in demanding corporate environments and managing multi-billion-dollar projects across multiple regions, Hatem reached a point where he began questioning who he was beyond the title, the company, and the external markers of achievement. He shares how leaving corporate America and moving to the UAE became a gradual transformation rather than one dramatic turning point. The conversation explores self-awareness, imposter syndrome, emotional regulation, psychological safety, and how leaders can make better decisions when operating under pressure and uncertainty. Hatem also explains why the meaning we assign to difficult situations can directly influence our emotions, behavior, and ability to think clearly. The episode also gets practical, covering meditation, reframing stressful events, building human-to-human relationships, and making life-changing decisions with the help of mentors, coaches, and trusted advisors. At its core, the conversation is about aligning inner truth with outer success and recognizing that sustainable leadership begins with self-awareness, emotional control, and putting people first. About The Guest Dr. Hatem Goucha is an executive coach, high-performance team expert, and author of Become Who You Are Meant to Be . Before moving into coaching, he spent more than 26 years in senior corporate leadership, working across the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa and managing complex, multi-billion-dollar projects in high-pressure environments. In 2021, he made the decision to leave a successful corporate career and move from the United States to the UAE to focus on executive coaching and personal transformation. Today, his work helps leaders strengthen self-awareness, regulate emotions, navigate uncertainty, make better decisions, and build high-performing teams rooted in psychological safety and human connection. Through his coaching, writing, and psychoeducation, Hatem encourages leaders to move beyond titles and external achievement and build lives and careers aligned with purpose, health, family, and authentic fulfillment. Quotes 2:03 - My green pill moment, my moment of choosing purpose and health and family was precisely when I decided to leave corporate America almost five years ago now and start my own business of executive coaching. 4:06 - Self-awareness raised my perception of the things that are going on around me. And then I started seeing things with a different meaning, a multitude of things, you know, sometimes four or five things would happen that take you closer and closer to your decision, in this case, life-changing decision. 7:56 - I learned the good way that I was networking correctly because people would say things to me like, we're so happy to see you back. 14:24 - You can inspire people by saying, I'm gonna do my best as a CEO to protect this initiative. 15:25 - Leadership needs to know that their actions drive the psychological safety or lack thereof in the organization. 23:50 - If you learn to have the most optimum meaning to what's happening and not jump to the most easily identified meaning, that's what makes a good leader. 26:46 - As leaders in organizations, we can affect the course of operations of the success of a company, of a startup, whatever it is, by having the right emotional mindset and understanding how most events are perceived by people and try to change that perception by leading by example. 32:50 - I also had the duty of honoring what my person and my soul required, which is to really give it a shot and go after my dream. 33:22 - Don't take it lightly, seek expert advice and have mentors who've been there and done that, and also ideally hire a coach that will let you see the things that you have blind spots for. 35:00 - People are everything. 36:17 - I remind the leaders that I coach sometime that it's important to recognize effort because humans are humans, and sometimes the result is outside of their control. So, in that case, it's important to recognize their effort. And that does not mean you are condoning lack of results. Useful Links Website: https://drhatemgoucha.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hatemgoucha/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Dr-Hatem-Goucha-Executive-Coach-61565670059020/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hatemgoucha/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

September 30, 2026Episode 31653 min

#316 Tim Thomas: How Better Sleep Can Rebuild Your Life

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Tim Thomas to explore why burnout is often less about motivation and more about exhaustion, recovery, and the state we are operating from. Drawing on his experiences in extreme environments, including military service in Afghanistan, Tim shares how confronting regret, fear, and his own physical limits fundamentally changed the way he thinks about resilience. The conversation explores why rest and recovery form the foundation of sustainable performance, how prolonged pain can turn into isolation, and why simply pushing harder can make burnout worse. Tim explains how his own struggle with severe fatigue led him to experiment with breathing practices, eventually inspiring Breathwork in Bed and his work supporting veterans, first responders, and others struggling with stress and exhaustion. A standout theme is Tim's belief that "sleep is the soil from which everything grows." Rather than treating recovery as something that happens after the important work is done, he encourages people to see it as the foundation that allows their energy, relationships, performance, and unique abilities to flourish. His message is simple: sometimes progress doesn't begin by doing more. It begins by creating the conditions to recover. About The Guest Tim Thomas is the founder of Breathwork in Bed , a platform designed to help people use guided breathing practices around sleep and recovery. A former special forces candidate with wartime experience in Afghanistan, Tim has dedicated much of his later work to supporting veterans and helping people better understand exhaustion, stress, connection, and resilience. His work grew from his own experiences with extreme fatigue and recovery and later expanded into veteran support programs that used unconventional approaches, including ocean-based experiences, to help participants reconnect with themselves. Tim has also raised more than $1.3 million for veteran medical research and continues to advocate for practical approaches to improving sleep, restoring energy, and helping people bring more of their potential into the world. Quotes 3:42 - You can live with people not thinking much of you, you can live without not a lot of money, but you cannot live with regret. 11:30 - I don't want to die with any ideas, hopes, and dreams still stuck in my head. 14:12 - You don't get more by doing more when it comes to your own state of burnout. You actually get more by doing less. 24:42 - Desperate decisions often lead to poor sleep, and poor sleep often leads to desperate decisions. They feed off each other. 32:23 - No one's gonna make you realize your body is the most incredible regenerative thing we own. 35:56 - Your breath is gonna be your best life partner. It's gonna be your best friend going to sleep, your best friend waking up. That it's gonna be that person that's gonna be there for you at 2 a.m. when you can't get back to sleep. It's literally like waking up a the most amazing relationship you've ever had from inside your own body. 46:53 - The body knows how to charge up, but it can't do that until you allow it to feel safe. 49:43 - Don't expect from others. The answer's not in alcohol, it's actually underneath your own skin. So, if I was to put that in understandable language, for me, I still take too long to realize the answer's underneath my own skin. Useful Links Website: https://breathworkinbed.com.au Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breathworkinbed/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breathworkinbed Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettersleepbetterworld/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

September 23, 2026Episode 31534 min

#315 Elsa Sarkis: Why Confidence Comes From Competence

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Elsa Sarkis to explore why highly competent professionals can suddenly lose their confidence, clarity, and authority when the pressure rises, particularly when communicating in a second or third language. Drawing from her own experience with burnout and perfectionism, Elsa reveals how communication challenges often go much deeper than vocabulary or public speaking technique. The conversation explores the hidden cost of translating in your head, why rehearsed communication can weaken authenticity, and how stress can affect the way we speak and connect with an audience. Elsa explains why confidence comes from competence and why professionals need to build strong foundations rather than rely on scripts, polished delivery, or surface-level confidence techniques. Elsa also shares how an injury forced her to slow down and rethink the way she was living and working. From leaving corporate life to protecting her freedom and values, she reflects on building a career that aligns with who she is. At its core, this episode is about finding your authentic voice, developing real competence, and learning to remain connected to yourself when the pressure is highest. About The Guest Elsa Sarkis is a Dubai-based trilingual conference interpreter and communication coach working across English, Arabic, and French. With more than 12 years of experience in high-pressure communication environments, her career has included major international platforms such as the World Government Summit, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and the World Urban Forum. Today, Elsa helps multilingual founders, executives, and professionals communicate with greater clarity, authority, and presence, particularly in English-speaking environments. Combining her interpreting experience with communication coaching and an understanding of identity and performance under pressure, she helps people move beyond overthinking, perfectionism, and self-silencing so their expertise can come through naturally and authentically. Quotes 2:28 - Be very careful about money mindset and money education, but also growing your connections. 4:40 - Helping others is actually one of the best things that I love about doing my job. And I know that this makes an impact and that changes lives, and that's the biggest reward that I might get in my life, and this is how I could handle the psychological toll of it. 6:35 - It was so eye-opening, and I actually had no choice but to face it head-on because there was no other way. It's like I couldn't. And so, I know that when we are faced with a challenge, our first instinct is to push through because we are programmed to do that. 7:09 - A personality is not something set in stone, it changes a lot, and identity changes a lot as well, and it has to change if you want it to succeed. And this happens when you face your demons head-on. 12:16 - There are ways to speak about the same topic from your own baggage, from your own culture. You don't have to translate into in your head so that you can express that in the other language. It doesn't work. It just doesn't. 19:29 - Confidence comes from competence. 31:14- I'm the type of person who basically works in silence, does all the things hidden. Useful Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarkiselsa/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elsa.sarkis/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsa-sarkis-esvitallc/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

September 16, 202633 min

#314 Shelley Bosworth: When a Successful Career No Longer Feels Right

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Shelley Bosworth to explore what happens when a successful career looks perfect from the outside but no longer feels right on the inside. After 25 years in senior corporate leadership, Shelley shares how profound personal loss forced her to question the life she had built and finally confront what she truly wanted. The conversation explores why high-performing leaders lose trust in their own judgment, how overthinking can disguise fear and why confidence is the result of action rather than something we need before taking the first step. Shelley also shares her five-step Courageous Mindset Formula: catch, challenge, change, commit and celebrate, offering a practical framework for recognizing self-sabotaging thoughts and responding differently. Shelley opens up about redefining success beyond money and titles, navigating difficult conversations, overcoming feelings of being an impostor and leaving corporate life without knowing whether entrepreneurship would work. At its core, this episode is about developing the courage to question what is no longer working, trust yourself through uncertainty and build a life that genuinely feels like your own. About The Guest Shelley Bosworth is an executive coach and leadership mentor who helps successful founders and senior leaders break through the invisible barriers holding them back. Before becoming a coach, she spent 25 years in corporate leadership, holding senior roles across major global brands including KFC, Harrods, Tesco and Starbucks, where she managed complex operations, large teams and significant commercial responsibilities. Now based in Dubai, Shelley uses her Courageous Mindset Formula to help leaders strengthen self-trust, challenge limiting thought patterns and take meaningful action before they feel completely ready. Her approach combines practical leadership experience with coaching, helping people navigate uncertainty, difficult decisions and personal growth with greater courage and self-awareness. Quotes 6:00 - I wanted to help people who were in the exact situation that I was in, stuck and worried they didn't do something, they were going to wake up in a year, five years, ten years, and still be in the same place. 9:06 - Success now is me being happy with me. 11:48 - Leadership isn't knowing everything and doing everything, it's actually being able to make the best decision you can with what you know and to utilize the people around you and trust that they can bring what you need them to bring in order to trust yourself. 17:35 - Look for the facts that contradict the story you are currently telling yourself. That is how you disconnect the internal feeling of the impostor and strengthen the external achievement feeling. 22:37 - One of my other mantras is awareness is the first step of change. We cannot address something that we don't have any awareness of. So, the courageous mindset formula is five steps. And really simply it is catch, challenge, change, commit, and celebrate. Useful Links Website: https://shelleybosworthofficial.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shelleybosworth.official/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelleybosworthcoaching/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelley-bosworth/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

September 9, 202628 min

#313 Sergei Kukharev: Building Fintech That Solves Real Problems for SMEs

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Sergei Kukharev to explore how technology can reduce stress instead of creating it. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in fintech and payments, Sergei explains why the future of AI isn't about replacing people, but helping business owners make better decisions with greater confidence. The conversation explores the shift that transformed his career, moving from building payment infrastructure to understanding the people behind every transaction. After spending time with small business owners, Sergei realized that merchants don't care about complex technology. They care about saving time, reducing operational stress, and running their businesses more effectively. That insight reshaped how he approaches product development, leading him to prioritize simplicity, empathy, and practical outcomes over flashy features. A defining moment in the episode is Sergei's Green Pill realization that successful products are built by solving human problems, not technical ones. He shares valuable lessons from products that failed, why emotional friction often prevents adoption more than technical limitations, and how involving engineers directly with customers creates better solutions. He also discusses AI's growing role as a trusted assistant that helps small businesses gain clarity without replacing human judgment. At its core, this episode is about empathy, thoughtful innovation, and building technology that genuinely improves people's lives. Sergei's journey is a reminder that the best products aren't the ones with the most features, but the ones that quietly remove complexity so people can focus on what matters most. About The Guest Sergei Kukharev is the Chief Product Officer at Fortis, where he leads the development of AI-powered payment and commerce solutions that help small and medium-sized businesses simplify operations and make smarter decisions. With over 15 years of experience in fintech, digital payments, and product leadership, he has built solutions focused on improving merchant experiences across the GCC. Throughout his career, Sergei has championed a human-centered approach to product development, believing that the most successful technology is measured not by its complexity but by the confidence and clarity it gives its users. By combining data, artificial intelligence, and customer empathy, he continues to create practical solutions that help businesses reduce operational stress, improve efficiency, and grow with confidence Quotes 4:17 - Designing for stress reduction means designing for clarity, simplicity, and confidence in daily operations. 10:24 - Spend more time absorbing real user behavior and less time building based on someone’s assumptions. 12:42 - The most interesting future is not AI creating some noise, but helping small business owners and business owners actually feel more in control. 13:26 - AI cannot replace judgment, for example. Yeah, its the human thing, and only we can judge the decisions, what AI, for example, suggesting to us. 22:22 - We decided to stay focused on the merchants we could serve better. And I think it was an important to us an important reminder that long-term trust matters more than chasing scale too early. 24:25 - Empathy is vital to actually thrive and be successful. Useful Links Website: https://www.wefortis.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortis.uae/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ser-kukharev/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

September 2, 2026Episode 31225 min

#312 Keila Doyle on Reinventing Success Through AI, Golf, and Human Connection

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Keila Doyle to explore what happens after entrepreneurial success and why sometimes the biggest opportunity begins with stepping away instead of rushing into the next venture. Following the successful exit of her first tech company, Keila shares how taking time to reset led her to discover an unexpected passion for golf and an overlooked problem that would become the foundation of her next business. The conversation explores how personal frustration can become the seed of innovation. Keila explains how the lack of meaningful performance tracking in golf inspired , an AI-powered platform that transforms traditional paper scorecards into personalized insights, helping players measure progress and improve their game. Beyond the technology, she reveals why community, belonging, and human connection became even more important than the data itself, proving that great technology should strengthen relationships rather than replace them. A defining moment in the episode is Keila's Green Pill realization that everyday frustrations often hide extraordinary business opportunities. Rather than searching for the next big idea, she learned to pay attention to the problems she experienced firsthand and build solutions around them. She also shares how golf fundamentally changed her mindset, teaching her to stop dwelling on past mistakes, stay focused on the next shot, and embrace steady progress instead of perfection. At its core, this episode is about reinvention, resilience, and building businesses that solve real human problems. Keila's journey is a reminder that success isn't about constantly chasing the next milestone. Sometimes the greatest breakthroughs happen when you slow down, stay curious, and turn your own challenges into opportunities that can improve the lives of others. About The Guest Keila Doyle is the founder and CEO of Golf Hero, an AI-powered golf platform designed to help players track their progress, analyze their performance, and build stronger connections within the golfing community. Combining her background in technology with her passion for innovation, she is redefining how golfers use data to improve their game while making the sport more accessible and welcoming for beginners. Before launching Golf Hero Keila built and successfully exited a technology company in London, gaining extensive experience in digital product development, entrepreneurship, and scaling businesses. Today, she focuses on creating technology that solves practical problems without losing the human element, helping golfers measure meaningful progress, connect with others, and enjoy the game with greater confidence and purpose. Quotes 2:27 - I realize that everything, that in everything that you do, can have like a possibility and an opportunity to change. 8:12 - I always recommend people to play golf because it teaches you so much about discipline, about focus. 8:51 - You just get a rejection or you make a bad decision, but you can move forward. That's the same as life. So, it's so good for you to have that mental training. 17:33 - My number one advice to anyone, any entrepreneur, is focus on your peace needs to be first place. 23:06 - I realized that everybody needs to start somewhere. We all need to learn something. So, we just need to be more gentle with ourselves. And I need to be more gentle with myself that progress takes time. Useful Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keiladoyle/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

August 26, 2026Episode 31138 min

#311 Dagmara Asbreuk: The Hidden Mindset Blocking Executive Success

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with Dagmara Asbreuk to explore why so many successful leaders reach a point where working harder no longer delivers better results. After spending 15 years in corporate leadership, Dagmara shares how stress, self-doubt, micromanagement, and the pressure to constantly prove herself became the catalyst for a profound inner transformation that ultimately changed both her career and her life. The conversation dives into the hidden architecture that shapes every leader's decisions. Dagmara explains how our identity, subconscious beliefs, emotional patterns, and nervous system are largely formed during childhood and continue to influence leadership long into adulthood. She reveals why external success often masks internal misalignment, and why many executives unknowingly lead from outdated patterns rather than genuine confidence and inner authority. A defining moment in the episode is Dagmara's Green Pill experience, when she realized the gap between the leader she wanted to become and the reality she was living could not be solved with more effort. Instead, it required looking inward, challenging deeply rooted beliefs, and rebuilding her leadership from the inside out. That realization eventually led her to leave the corporate world and create Extraordinary Leadership, where she now helps CEOs and senior executives unlock their highest potential. At its core, this episode is about transforming leadership from the inside out. Dagmara's story reminds us that true leadership isn't built through titles, performance, or external validation. It begins by upgrading the inner operating system that drives every thought, decision, relationship, and result. About The Guest Dagmara Asbreuk is the founder of Extraordinary Leadership and the creator of the Human Evolving Leadership methodology. As an executive coach and leadership transformation expert, she helps CEOs, founders, and senior executives shift from pressure-driven leadership to authentic, purpose-led performance by upgrading their inner leadership architecture. Before launching her own business, Dagmara spent more than 15 years in global automotive corporations, leading procurement teams, driving organizational transformation, and navigating complex international leadership environments. Today, she combines executive coaching, neuroscience, mindset transformation, somatic practices, and leadership development to help leaders build greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, high-performing teams, and cultures where both people and business can thrive. Her work focuses on creating sustainable leadership by aligning inner transformation with measurable business impact. Quotes 17:58 - Gap is not external, it's internal. 27:52 - Life is a growth journey. Every next step is working on a deeper level of our layers inside of ourselves, and they are always gifts for us. 33:08 - True inner authority is to feel trusting yourself at ease, relaxed, and knowing your worth without needing to prove yourself. 33:36 - The more aligned you are, the more your team will be aligned as well. 34:27 - Follow your vision and never compromise on it because that's what will bring you to your alignment and to becoming the leader that you are meant to be. 37:11 - There is so much more within yourself that you don't even know today. Useful Links Website: https://www.theextraordinaryleadership.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dagmaraasbreuk/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagmara-asbreuk/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review

August 19, 2026Episode 31051 min

#310 David Awad Reveals the Mindset Behind Success, Investing, and Life by Design

In this episode, Hilmarie sits down with David Awad to explore how small, intentional decisions compound into extraordinary outcomes over time. From being fired from several early jobs to building a career that spans software engineering, venture capital, and law, David shares why success is rarely about a single breakthrough and almost always about consistent choices made over years. The conversation challenges conventional thinking about careers, money, and achievement. David explains why saying "yes" to opportunities creates luck, why understanding how the world and financial systems work leads to better decisions, and why defining your own version of success is far more important than chasing society's expectations. He also shares how failure, when viewed through the right lens, becomes valuable feedback rather than something to fear. A standout moment is David's perspective on desire and happiness. He argues that many people spend their lives pursuing money as a proxy for experiences they could already have through different paths. By identifying what you truly want, rather than what you think you're supposed to want, you gain the freedom to design a life around purpose instead of comparison. David also reflects on unconventional career choices, including pursuing a law degree after becoming a software engineer, and how combining seemingly unrelated disciplines created opportunities few people could have predicted. His insights into AI, investing, continuous learning, and personal knowledge systems reveal how curiosity can become a long-term competitive advantage. At its core, this episode is about ownership, intentionality, and the power of compounded decisions. David's story is a reminder that your starting point never defines your destination, and that lasting success comes from making thoughtful choices, embracing failure, and continuously investing in the person you're becoming. About The Guest David Awad is a software engineer, venture capitalist, attorney, and technology advisor working at the intersection of software, investing, and emerging technologies. His career combines deep technical expertise with legal and financial insight, allowing him to advise startups, investors, and founders on software development, AI regulation, intellectual property, venture investing, and technical due diligence. He also serves as a fractional CTO and works closely with venture capital firms evaluating technology companies and high-growth startups. Known for his unconventional career path, David has built a reputation for challenging traditional ideas about success, education, and decision-making. After early career setbacks, he intentionally combined software engineering with legal training, creating a unique skill set that bridges technology, business, and law. Today, he shares practical insights on investing, AI, personal growth, and designing a life driven by curiosity, freedom, and long-term thinking. Quotes 7:15 - The art of investing is understanding what has value. 11:19 - Always produced better outcomes for the people who believe that they can make the changes versus not believing so, even if it wasn't true. It would at least empirically appear that believing that it was the case, that you could change your outcomes, does produce vastly more positive outcomes. 22:30 - Calm mind, fit body, and a house full of love. Those things are not easy, and they're very, very important. 27:20 - The only other thing that's helpful on top of that is just read a lot of excellent books. There is so much value in just sitting down and reading, not random books. 31:12 - The most useful thing about success is that you get to decide what it is. You get to decide when you're successful at the end of the day. You set the mark for yourself, you aim for it, and if you hit it, that's all that's required. 34:33 - I've learned simply to desire less things, to focus more on just making sure that more options are available than anything else. Not having handcuffs is a very wonderful thing. And lots of lots of people should have be able to experience that. 47:04 - Freedom is having as many choices as possible. Ideally, the number of choices should increase with time. Useful Links Website: https://davidaw.ad/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaawad/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realdavidawad/ X: https://x.com/realdavidawad/ The Matrix Green Pill Podcast: https://thematrixgreenpill.com/ Please review us: https://g.page/r/CS8IW35GvlraEAI/review