If you are broke, pissed, and still showing up, this episode is for you.

This is not an episode for people posting wins, screenshots, or fake momentum. This is for the builders in the middle. The ones doing everything they are told to do and still getting hit from every direction. The ones paying bills while trying to build a future that has not paid them back yet.

The middle is lonely. You have outgrown old circles but have not earned your place in the new ones yet. You are building things you have never built before, often with less money, more pressure, and more responsibility than you expected. The movie montage version of this phase skips the part where you are angry, exhausted, and quietly questioning whether any of this is working.

This episode walks through that reality without sugarcoating it.

We talk about why being broke again does not mean you are broken. Why information is not your problem but decision fatigue is. Why this is not burnout but constraint. Why the math not mathing does not mean the dream is dead, it means you are in the lag. Why momentum feels like a lie in the middle. Why anger is not the enemy but direction matters. Why mechanical discipline beats motivation every time. Why silence is strategic and goals should be private until they are done. Why progress always looks like a mess before it looks like anything at all.

Most importantly, we talk about responsibility. No one is coming to save you. No one is coming to give permission. That is not a curse, it is the point. When you own everything that impacts you, your life gets simpler, even if it does not get easier.

If you are tired of building but still building anyway, you are not alone. That may be the emotional state of 2026, but it is also where real leaders are forged.

If this episode hit you, share it with someone who needs to hear they are not crazy and they are not alone. If you want to connect with others walking this road, reach out. Personal relationships are becoming more valuable, not less, and this journey is lighter when you are not carrying it by yourself.

Everything you are doing matters, even if it does not feel like it yet.

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Most people don’t fail because they’re bad at sales.

They fail because they never start.

In this episode of Old Man Energy, Flint Anderson breaks down the real reason sales feels heavy, stressful, and overwhelming and it has nothing to do with scripts, confidence, or talent.

It’s the untouched prospects.

The unanswered questions.

The lists you keep avoiding.

Flint walks through the race analogy that exposes why people stay stuck, why preparation becomes procrastination, and why starting forces results most people are trying to avoid.

This episode is not just for sales professionals.

If you’ve ever avoided a hard conversation, delayed action, or waited to feel “ready,” this applies to you.

You’ll learn:

Why uncontacted leads create more stress than rejection

Why sales is not persuasion but qualification and sorting

Why call reluctance is really identity protection

How avoidance trains your nervous system to stay stuck

Why early feedback is a lie and volume creates clarity

How to mechanically remove stress by turning question marks into answers

In the second half of the episode, Flint gives a no-CRM, no-excuses execution framework you can start today.

Pen, paper, phone. That’s it.

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What “touching a prospect” actually means

The only outcomes that matter

How many calls to make daily

Why scripts fail and questions win

What to track so failure becomes data

How to burn your lead list instead of letting it own you

The dragon guarding the gate is not rejection.

It’s delay.

The gate has always been open.

The prize has never changed.

Only the time you waste avoiding the work stands in the way.

If revenue is stalled and growth feels impossible, this episode is your line in the sand.

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Most people don’t need more motivation. They need a mirror they can’t look away from.

In Episode 93 of the Old Man Energy Podcast, Flint Anderson breaks down why brutal honesty is a daily discipline, not a one-time breakthrough. If your results don’t match your story, the story is the lie. “I’m overwhelmed” usually means you haven’t decided. “I’m waiting on clarity” usually means you’re avoiding responsibility. And the longer you avoid it, the more it starts to feel inevitable.

Then we go into Part Two: audacity. Brutal honesty without audacity becomes self-flagellation. Audacity is the willingness to act before you feel ready, take up space without permission, price higher than your comfort level, and move while it’s still ugly. Confidence isn’t imagined. It’s built through action and feedback.

If you’ve been stuck in the same cycles, same money stress, same conversations, same promises you quietly break to yourself, this is your wake-up call.

Hit pause and do the one thing you already know you’ve been avoiding.

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Most men never fail because they lack talent.

They stall because nobody ever taught them how to talk to themselves, how to anticipate the hard, or how to stay accountable when motivation dies.

In this episode of Old Man Energy, Flint Anderson sits down with Anthony “Ant” Nelson Jr. for a real conversation about growth, pressure, leadership, and why most men stay stuck even when they know better.

Ant shares what changed for him over the last year, how accountability forced action, why pressure is not a punishment but a signal, and how leadership is not a title but a skill that can be grown at any age. From fatherhood and coaching to speaking, discipline, and cutting distractions, this episode hits the reality most men avoid.

If you feel busy but unproductive, called to something but procrastinating, or surrounded by people who never tell you the truth, this conversation will hit close to home.

Listen through the end if you care about legacy, leadership, and becoming the man your family needs next year, not someday.

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Most people don’t fail their New Year’s goals because they lack discipline.They fail because they keep trying to power their life with motivation.In this Christmas Day episode of Old Man Energy, Flint Anderson starts with what actually matters: family, presence, gratitude, and the memories we never get back. Then he shifts into the real work.January guilt. Broken resolutions. Motivation that burns hot for two weeks and dies.This episode introduces Mechanical Discipline, a system for deciding once, removing daily negotiation, and executing without emotion. Not to become a different person, but to build a structure your current self can actually run.Flint breaks down why discipline is not a personality trait, why willpower always fails under real life pressure, and how to install simple daily systems that survive stress, sickness, holidays, and bad days.This is not hype. This is structure.In this episode:Why Christmas presence matters more than presentsThe January guilt cycle that sabotages most people every yearWhy motivation is unreliable and discipline is misunderstoodWhat Mechanical Discipline actually isHow to stop renegotiating with yourself dailyWhy missing one day is not failureHow systems quietly change your identity over timeA free Mechanical Discipline checklist to install one real change👇 Ready to stop drifting and start building?I laid out the first steps in Any Idiot With a Hammer. Download it now, link’s below.What you can do to stay connected:👉 Like, Subscribe, and Share if this helped shift your mindset📥 Check the description for OMEMurch + new programs📲 Follow Flint on all platforms for daily mindset content Also check out two of my books for free!https://www.anyidiotwithahammer.flintanderson.com/https://www.momentummatters.flintanderson.com/Old Man Energy's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/theoldmanenergyEntreprenual growth | https://750kmastermind.comFlint's Website | https://flintanderson.com/Flint's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/phlintrock/Flint's Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/PhlintRock/Flint's Tiktok | https://www.tiktok.com/@phlint_rockFlint's Twitter | https://twitter.com/PhlintRockOfficial Merchandise | https://shop.flintanderson.com/

Most people don’t fail because they aim too high.They fail because they never start.In this episode, Flint Anderson dismantles the lie of perfect timing and exposes why overthinking quietly kills dreams. Drawing from Peter Thiel’s Zero to One, Jordan Peterson’s work on competence and readiness, and Isaiah 6:8, this is a direct confrontation with your Impossible Task.The thing you know you are called to do.The thing you keep delaying.The thing that starts ugly.This is about action before clarity, courage before confidence, and movement before competence.Key takeaways:Why a bad plan executed beats a perfect plan never startedHow waiting to feel ready guarantees stagnationWhy high performers are not smarter, they just implement fasterThe quiet danger of pretending to startHow regret follows you when potential stays unusedWhy scheduling will never be easy and timing will never be rightThe paradox of growth: once you do more, you know you can do moreNobody is coming to give you permission.Here am I. Send me.What about you?👇 Ready to stop drifting and start building?I laid out the first steps in Any Idiot With a Hammer. Download it now. Link’s below.What you can do to stay connected:👉 Like, Subscribe, and Share if this helped shift your mindset💬 Drop a comment: What’s your impossible task?📥 Check the description for OMEMurch + new programs📲 Follow Flint on all platforms for daily mindset content Also check out two of my books for free!https://www.anyidiotwithahammer.flintanderson.com/https://www.momentummatters.flintanderson.com/Old Man Energy's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/theoldmanenergyEntreprenual growth | https://750kmastermind.comFlint's Website | https://flintanderson.com/Flint's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/phlintrock/Flint's Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/PhlintRock/Flint's Tiktok | https://www.tiktok.com/@phlint_rockFlint's Twitter | https://twitter.com/PhlintRockOfficial Merchandise | https://shop.flintanderson.com/

This is not a parenting tips episode.This is an indictment.The average teenager is on screens close to 9 hours a day.Most kids see hardcore porn by 12. Some by 10. A few by 8.They are anxious, overstimulated, sexually confused, and emotionally numb.And no, they did not do this to themselves.Parents did.Parents glued to their own phones.Parents using screens as digital benzos to sedate their kids.Parents handing a glowing rectangle to a child and calling it “bonding” or “quiet time.”In this episode of Old Man Energy, I am not talking about abstract culture.I am talking about you, your house, your habits, and your kids.We go straight at:How “lazy parenting” hides behind busyness, exhaustion, and distractionWhy handing your kid a screen is no different than handing them a sedativeThe porn exposure nobody wants to talk about, and what it does to a developing brainHow you are training your kid to leave you the hell aloneWhy your child trusts strangers on the internet more than they trust youThe exact ways your phone is stealing your authority as a parentWhat happens when your “good kid” is just a quiet kid who gave up on youThis is not comfortable. It is not gentle.It is necessary.You will hear:Why your child is more connected to algorithms than to youHow addiction patterns in kids mirror your own scrolling and gamingWhat disassociation looks like when a whole family sits in one room and mentally disappearsWhy banning all tech is not the answer, and how that approach failed in my own houseHow to start clawing your family back from the digital pit, one decision at a timeIf you feel attacked, good.That means you still care.You are the adult. That means this is your responsibility.This episode is a line in the sand:Stop sedating your kids.Stop outsourcing their identity to strangers.Stand up. Step in. Raise your children on purpose.If this punches you in the gut, share it with someone who needs the wake-up call.👇 Grab the “Be The Father You Needed” shirt before it is retired.It is a reminder of the standard, not the excuse.Official Merchandise | https://shop.flintanderson.com/👇 Want the first steps to rebuilding your own standards so you can lead better at home and in your work?Your starting point is Any Idiot With A Hammer.I wrote it so you have no excuse left. Link is in the comments.https://www.anyidiotwithahammer.flintanderson.com/What you can do to stay connected:👉 Like, Subscribe, and Share if this helped shift your mindset📥 Check the description for OMEMurch + new programs📲 Follow Flint on all platforms for daily mindset content After you finish with AIWAH, go here:https://www.momentummatters.flintanderson.com/Old Man Energy's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/theoldmanenergyEntreprenual growth | https://750kmastermind.comFlint's Website | https://flintanderson.com/Flint's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/phlintrock/Flint's Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/PhlintRock/Flint's Tiktok | https://www.tiktok.com/@phlint_rockFlint's Twitter | https://twitter.com/PhlintRock

When adults go to war, children take the hits.

In this episode of Old Man Energy, Flint Anderson pulls apart the emotional injuries kids carry when parents choose anger, ego, and avoidance over maturity.

This is not a gender war.

It is a war on children, and most adults don’t even realize they’re causing the damage.

Inside this episode, Flint opens up raw stories from his own childhood and from raising seven children in a blended, foster, and adoptive family.

This conversation hits everything so many parents avoid:• Why deadbeat behavior is not gendered•

How emotional abandonment impacts a child instantly•

What “defensive child reflex” really is•

Why kids protect the parent who hurts them•

How keeping a child from the other parent backfires•

The invisible trauma created by adult conflict•

The real cost of weaponizing kids in a breakup•

How to provide emotional safety, stability, and truth•

Why some parents need guardrails and how to set them•

How children rewrite reality to survive their parents•

Why protecting them often turns you into the villain

Flint also shares painful stories he’s never told publicly:

Growing up without a father, the erector set moment, the mother who showed up high, the father who never showed up at visitation, and the abduction of two of their children for eight months.

This episode is blunt, emotional, and necessary.

It will challenge you to examine your own behavior, your wounds, and the way you show up for your children.

If this message pisses you off, it might be about you.

Sit with it, then fix it.

Your kids deserve better than the war you inherited.

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