You're Not Lazy or Broken, Your Just Wired for Survival | MJ Gordon
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Release Date: 04/22/2026
Stop Rebuilding Your Life (Do This Instead) | Tanya C. Oliver
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
You can have the house, the car, the trophies and the stage, and still be stuck asking, "And then what?" Performance coach Tanya C. Oliver hit that question at rock bottom, and her answer wasn't to rebuild her old life. It was to build something completely new. Tanya is a performance coach for Kingdom entrepreneurs with more than 20 years teaching high achievers emotional intelligence, high-performance habits and leadership. She's also the author of Building the New. In this conversation, she and Stephen get honest about why successful people keep repeating the same patterns, how to stop...
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You Can't Scale Dysfunction (Why Most Founders Aren't Ready to Go Viral) | Remy Davenport
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Remy Davenport has generated 850 million views for his clients, and he still turns founders away. His reason: a platform only amplifies what's already inside you, and he won't put a megaphone on dysfunction. Stephen Scoggins sits down with Remy, a content strategist who builds platforms for faith-led founders, to explore one of the hardest questions in leadership: when are you ready to be seen, and when is God still building you in the hidden season? Remy opens up about shutting down two businesses at the same time with no income, no savings, and a baby on the way. He also shares the...
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Your Heroes Aren't Who You Think They Are | Rhonda Klch on Trust, Mentorship & Real Success
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Rhonda Kich has spent 20 years in the rooms where deals get done, and she's met heroes who weren't who they claimed to be. Stephen Scoggins and Rhonda talk about finding mentors you can actually trust in a world full of performers. Rhonda is a dealmaker, strategic advisor, host of the Unfiltered podcast, and president of Mentor Box 2.0. She has helped founders, fund managers, athletes, and entertainers get funded, get visible, and get into the right rooms. Now she's rebuilding Mentor Box as a trust platform where every mentor is vetted, peer reviewed, and expected to own their failures. In...
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5 Failed Rehabs, Then He Made a Deal With God | Bernard Quisumbing
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Bernard Quisumbing's story of addiction recovery, faith, and grief: five failed rehabs, 14 years on meth, and the prayer that set him free. Twenty years later, he's walking through the one loss he can't outwork. Stephen Scoggins sits down with Bernard, former hip-hop artist, former top-performing car salesman, and fitness and wellness thought leader with the Don't Quit Legacy Foundation, for one of the most honest conversations ever on One Part Lion, One Part Lamb. Bernard opens up about the deal he made with God after jail and five rehabs, how his marriage came back from the brink while he...
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What's Yours to Carry? The Question That Ends Excuses | Dan Sachkowsky
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
He had the mansion, the exotic cars, and every marker of "made it" by age 24 — and none of it was real. It took a heart attack to show him why. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Dan Sachkowsky — performance coach, founder of Big D Coaching, and author of the upcoming book Following Your Way Uphill — for a conversation about what happens when strength becomes the very thing that's holding you back. Dan built his first business at 17 with no idea what he was doing, chased every marker of success he could get his hands on, and lost it all more than once before he understood why. He...
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Paralyzed. Suicidal. Then He Surrendered, And EVERYTHING Shifted | Marcus Aurelius Anderson
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
At 40, Marcus Aurelius Anderson was paralyzed from the neck down and, in his own words, suicidal. What finally moved him wasn't willpower, it was surrender. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Marcus Aurelius Anderson — Army veteran, author, speaker, and CEO of Catalyst International — to talk about the four months he spent fighting his own paralysis before he finally stopped resisting it. They dig into why adversity only shows its "gift" in hindsight, the difference between patience and hesitation, and why most leaders are the actual bottleneck in their own business. Marcus also...
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Why You Snap At People You Love, The ALIGN Method, & Why ADHD Isn't A Disorder | Sara Hartley
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Your body knows if a room is safe before your brain even understands why. If you don't know what to do with that signal, it doesn't just disappear, it gets handed to the people who love you most. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Sara Hartley, ADHD and nervous system regulation coach and children's book author, to unpack the hidden physical sequence that happens in your body in the seconds before you snap, and the exact tool she built to interrupt it in under 60 seconds. It's the Lion and Lamb methodology in real time: the strength to lead and perform at a high level, paired with the...
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The Car Crash That Changed Everything | Dana Flanagan
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Most people are chasing visibility while their credibility quietly runs out, and that gap once cost Dana Flanagan's entire team their paycheck. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Dana Flanagan, a real estate authority turned media strategist and founder of The Authority Architects, to unpack the real difference between being seen and being trusted. Dana shares the business partner whose visibility hid the fact he had no money, and the near-fatal car accident that later collapsed her timeline on everything else. It's the Lion and Lamb methodology in action, the conviction to walk away from...
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Why This CEO Slept In His Car For His Team | Joel Puthoff
One Part Lion - One Part Lamb with Stephen Scoggins
Leaders who do deep soul-level work outperform everyone else by 20 to 1, and Joel Puthoff found his way into that number the hard way: sleeping in his car for a week just to make payroll. In this episode, Stephen sits down with Joel Puthoff, CEO and co-founder of Linxy and author of Capability Fuel, to talk about what actually separates leaders who build lasting capacity from those who just borrow it. Joel shares the season he nearly broke himself trying to keep his team paid, the reframe that got him through it, and the philosophy he's built out of it since: choose your hard, or hard will...
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The Study That Should Scare EVERY Leader | Lucas Sherraden
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95% of people believe they're completely self-aware. Only 10% actually are, and that gap nearly cost this week's guest his business, his family, and his sanity. On this episode of One Part Lion, One Part Lamb, Stephen sits down with Lucas Sherraden, pastor turned real estate leader turned author of The Uncaged Leader, to unpack the hidden programming running underneath every decision we make. Lucas shares the moment his eighth-grade daughter's question exposed what was really driving his near-collapse in 2008, and the framework he now teaches leaders to help them see what they can't see in...
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MJ Gordon is a world-class strategist and performance coach who has worked with Super Bowls, Adidas, and elite executives worldwide. After nearly losing her marriage, burning out her adrenals, and discovering she was autistic and ADHD, she found the missing piece that no one in the high-performance space was talking about: your nervous system runs the show, not your mindset.
Today, she helps high performers, business owners, and leaders finally regulate their physiology so they can access real flow, presence, and fulfillment. without blowing up their health or relationships in the process.
If you're winning on paper but losing on the inside, this one is going to change the game for you.
🧠 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE:
✅ Why nervous system dysregulation, not lack of discipline, is the real reason high achievers hit the wall
✅ The difference between rest and recovery, and why scrolling your phone is not either
✅ How neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, OCD) shows up in entrepreneurs, and why it's actually a superpower with the right system
✅ What adrenal fatigue actually does to your cortisol, drive, and relationships
✅ How MJ and her husband nearly divorced, and the physiological system that saved their marriage
✅ Why your sympathetic nervous system is destroying your vision and blocking your flow state
✅ The "progressive flow" framework: how to structure your day around brainwave cycles instead of willpower
✅ How to separate your identity from your performance, and finally feel safe in your own skin
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0:00 – Intro: What happens when success feels hollow
2:00 – MJ's story: Beachfront Hawaii, high achievement, and a husband who said "I want a divorce"
6:00 – Why high performers' nervous systems are completely dysregulated
11:00 – Parasympathetic vs. sympathetic: the science of presence practices
15:00 – Neurodivergence explained: why entrepreneurs aren't neurotypical
18:00 – Physiology over mindset: when positive thinking stops working
22:00 – Homeostasis, identity, and why chaos feels "safe"
25:00 – Breathwork and the brain: how to stop a survival spiral in real time
29:00 – MJ's burnout story: zero cortisol, ADHD diagnosis, and getting her life back
36:00 – The Level Up System: biomarker testing, progressive flows, and recovery strategy
40:00 – Rest vs. recovery: why your phone is wrecking your nervous system
44:00 – Flow state, dopamine loops, and the entrepreneur's "busy work" trap
48:00 – Marriage, forgiveness, and using ClickUp for relationship guardrails
53:00 – The 5 constraints: arrogance, ignorance, fear, impatience, insecurity
56:00 – MJ's app, free audit, and who the Level Up System is built for
58:00 – What the world needs to hear about caregivers and first responders
1:02:00 – The oxygen mask principle: you can't pour from an empty tank
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