Asking for What You Want: Adam Wardel on Balance, Service, and Living Intentionally

🌟 “If you want to live a happy life, don’t focus on finding your own happiness—focus on serving others, and you’ll wake up one day and realize you’re happy.” 🌟

This week on the Bountifull Podcast, we’re joined by Adam Wardel, a lawyer, leader, father, and self-described work-in-progress who lives (quite literally) in Bountiful, Utah. In this refreshingly practical conversation, Adam talks about the value of asking for what you want, balancing life’s many demands, and choosing service over self-focus. As we kick off the new year, this episode offers a timely reminder to show up intentionally and take small steps toward a more meaningful, bountiful life.

Episode Highlights

🌟 The Power of Asking: Adam shares how asking for what you want—whether at work or in life—can lead to unexpected opportunities.

🛠️ Balancing It All: Insights on managing career, marriage, parenting, and personal growth without dropping the ball.

🌱 Organized Chaos: Adam’s perspective on embracing life’s struggles and why joy often comes from showing up intentionally, even when it’s hard.

💡 Service Over Self-Focus: Why prioritizing the happiness of others ultimately leads to your own fulfillment.

🏡 Breaking Roles and Expectations: A practical look at redefining family roles and making decisions that serve the household as a whole.

✨ Living a Bountiful Life: How Adam integrates purpose, patience, and faith into his daily choices.

Detailed Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction to Adam Wardel and his take on a bountiful life.
03:45 – Adam’s upbringing, career as a lawyer, and shift to in-house roles.
08:07 – Living in Bountiful, Utah, and the role of service in finding happiness.
16:17 – Adam’s views on pushing his kids to embrace independence and uncertainty.
20:45 – The power of asking for what you want—and saying yes to opportunities.
25:12 – Practical tips for remote work and creating flexibility in a demanding career.
37:12 – Balancing family and career: setting expectations and calendaring life.
42:13 – Redefining family roles: transparency, honesty, and doing what works for your household.
47:19 – Final reflections: faith, service, and being intentional about happiness.

Guest Bio

Adam Wardel is a Fractional General Counsel, Board Member and World traveller. He's held senior legal roles in numerous businesses across the United States often building the legal team from the ground up, he has also led multiple acquisitions. With over a decade of experience across law, technology, and banking, Adam has become a trusted advisor to businesses navigating growth and risk. Beyond his impressive career, Adam’s greatest joy comes from his family and serving others. He splits his time between Bountiful, Utah, and Paris, France, embracing a life of intentionality, adventure, and “organized chaos.”

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwardel/

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