Welcome to "Surviving the Side Hustle," the ultimate podcast for balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with maintaining mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
Hosted by Coach Rob Tracz, an expert in helping driven professionals achieve 'personal development for professional success,' this show is more than just storytelling—it's a masterclass in thriving amidst the entrepreneurial grind. Each episode features candid conversations with leaders who are rewriting the rules of entrepreneurship, sharing their unique stories, the creative solutions they're offering, and the everyday challenges they’re overcoming.
Whether you’re a side hustler looking for your big break or an established entrepreneur seeking fresh perspectives, "Surviving the Side Hustle" provides valuable insights that resonate with the movers, the shakers, and everyone in between.
Feeling burnt out and sidelining your own health? This podcast empowers you to overcome stagnation, build resilience, and optimize your life and business. We dive deep into your goals, identify obstacles, and share strategies to boost your energy, improve your strength, and keep the entrepreneurial grind enjoyable.
Join us for inspiring stories, expert insights, and practical advice to help you look good, feel good, and do great things at every stage of your entrepreneurial journey. Let’s not just survive the side hustle—let's master it.
Welcome to "Surviving the Side Hustle," the ultimate podcast for balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with maintaining mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
Hosted by Coach Rob Tracz, an expert in helping driven professionals achieve 'personal development for professional success,' this show is more than just storytelling—it's a masterclass in thriving amidst the entrepreneurial grind. Each episode features candid conversations with leaders who are rewriting the rules of entrepreneurship, sharing their unique stories, the creative solutions they're offering, and the everyday challenges they’re overcoming.
Whether you’re a side hustler looking for your big break or an established entrepreneur seeking fresh perspectives, "Surviving the Side Hustle" provides valuable insights that resonate with the movers, the shakers, and everyone in between.
Feeling burnt out and sidelining your own health? This podcast empowers you to overcome stagnation, build resilience, and optimize your life and business. We dive deep into your goals, identify obstacles, and share strategies to boost your energy, improve your strength, and keep the entrepreneurial grind enjoyable.
Join us for inspiring stories, expert insights, and practical advice to help you look good, feel good, and do great things at every stage of your entrepreneurial journey. Let’s not just survive the side hustle—let's master it.

What if the biggest obstacle to love, success, or fulfillment isn’t the market, your manager, or your past—but the patterns you haven’t named yet? Today we unpack our conversation with transformational coach and TEDx speaker Christian De la Huerta and trace three clear pathways to change: sharpen self-awareness, relate to emotions as energy, and stop outsourcing power to anyone or anything outside you.
We start with the deceptively simple premise that you can’t change what you can’t see. By mapping recurring conflicts and triggers across relationships and work, you turn vague frustration into useful data. Christian’s approach in Conscious Love gives us practical tools to zoom out, notice loops that follow us from team meetings to dinner tables, and replace knee-jerk reactions with choices aligned to our values. From journaling prompts to quick pre-meeting check-ins, we show how small habits create enough space to pick a better next move.
Then we reframe emotions from weakness to signal. Suppressed sadness can flatten into depression, and bottled anger often ferments into rage. We walk through a simple sequence—feel fully, process safely, express responsibly—so feelings fuel growth instead of sabotaging it. Think grounding breaths, specific language that names needs without blame, and boundaries that protect connection rather than punish it. The result is emotional clarity you can use in high-stakes conversations at work and in delicate moments at home.
Finally, we reclaim personal power. Blame can feel comforting, but it keeps you stuck. By owning our responses—no matter what happens—we stay in the driver’s seat of our lives. That shift dissolves the false divide between personal and professional growth: the same skills that heal a tense partnership can stabilize a pressured project. We close with resources to go deeper, including Christian’s book, Conscious Love, and soulfulpower.com, plus a simple reflection you can try today to spot your most persistent pattern.
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