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Dwight Heck
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In the last 20 years, I have lived a life like many, by accident, going to work, go home get paid than the next day starting all over again, living on a proverbial hamster wheel. I can tell you though through coaching and mentorship, I learned that living a life on purpose is less stressful and ensures I am happy more days than not. My goal is to introduce you to guests, ideas, and thoughts that can help you learn that you to can “LIVE YOUR LIFE ON PURPOSE, NOT BY ACCIDENT”.

  1. 3d ago

    They Predicted My Breaking Point. Here's What Happened

    At fourteen, doctors and well-meaning adults told Dwight Heck what his body would never let him do. Decades later, an injured Achilles tendon couldn't stop him from hiking Zion's Narrows. In this solo episode, Dwight tells a story he has never shared on the podcast before: severe, uncontrolled asthma as a child, a scoliosis diagnosis at 13, and choosing a caged steel body brace over spinal surgery at 14, worn twenty-three hours a day for almost three years. He explains why tenacity is a superpower, how a paper route at 12 proved it, and why an injury three weeks before a planned hike through The Narrows in Zion National Park was never going to stop him from going. This is Part 1 of a new three-part solo arc, Not by Accident: Three Decisions. In this episode you'll hear: ✅ Why severe asthma before rescue inhalers existed shaped a childhood ✅ How a scoliosis diagnosis at 13 led to a three-year choice between surgery and a brace ✅ What wearing a caged body brace twenty-three hours a day actually involved ✅ Why well-meaning caution from adults can do as much damage as a diagnosis ✅ How a paper route at 12 became proof that tenacity is a superpower ✅ Why an injured Achilles tendon didn't stop a hike through Zion's Narrows ✅ What to do with your own version of a ceiling someone else handed you Full show notes: [EPISODE URL ON GIVEAHECK.COM, PENDING PUBLISH] Connect with Dwight Heck Give A Heck Website: https://www.giveaheck.com Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck Contact / Be a Guest: https://giveaheck.com/contact-us/ Enjoyed this episode? Leave a review or rating right here in Spotify, or at ratethispodcast.com/giveaheck About Dwight Heck: Dwight Heck is a financial and life coach licensed in Alberta and British Columbia, host of the Give A Heck Podcast, and the Amazon bestselling author of Give A Heck: How to Live Life on Purpose and Not by Accident. After living paycheck to paycheck as a single father of five, he built a career and a show around helping people live intentionally instead of by accident.

    They Predicted My Breaking Point. Here's What Happened

  2. Jul 14

    She Froze in Her Interview: Janylène Turcotte on the Subconscious Mind

    Your subconscious mind is running your decisions, and most people have no idea. Janylène Turcotte spent 25 years as a senior HR executive, the last eight as National Talent Director at Deloitte. She coached hundreds of people through high-stakes interviews. Then her corporate career ended on someone else’s terms, and three days later she sat down for a VP interview at a bank and could not answer a single question. That frozen moment cracked open the gap between knowing and doing, and launched her into a second career as a clinical hypnotherapist trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy under Marisa Peer. JT has now completed over 1,500 sessions with entrepreneurs and senior leaders. Her method, Peel Back, Rewire, Rise, is built on the conviction that you cannot rewire what you have not first peeled back. The Peel Back step, accessing the unconscious stories driving your behaviour, is the step most coaches skip. What you will learn: Why knowing is not the same as doing and what actually lives in the gap What a frozen interview reveals about the unconscious beliefs running your life How nine years of sobriety taught JT more about the mind than any certification Why the Peel Back step is the one most coaches skip and why that matters Why she lost more friends when she stopped fawning than when she stopped drinking The two fears that block most transformations: fear of being alone and fear of judgement Connect with Janylène Turcotte (JT): Website: https://www.hypnocoach.ca Podcast: https://www.hypnocoach.ca/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzF3eyJFsJgDIIlE5Ow-D1g LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/janylene Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hypnocoach_janylene_aka_jt/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janylene.turcotte.2025/ Book a free 30-minute strategy call: https://www.hypnocoach.ca/workwithme Connect with Dwight Heck: Website: https://www.giveaheck.com Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck Work With Me / Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

    She Froze in Her Interview: Janylène Turcotte on the Subconscious Mind

  3. Jul 7

    HE LED A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, THEN HIS BODY SHUT DOWN | ART BLANCHFORD

    Art Blanchford grew up inside a religious cult, then spent decades running operations worth billions of dollars at the top of global corporate leadership. Then his body shut down completely, and this episode is the story of what came after.  IN THIS EPISODE ✅ Why children raised in acontrolling environment often become the most driven high achievers ✅ How years of ignoring his limitsended in a total physical collapse ✅ What it actually takes torebuild a marriage and a sense of self after everything falls apart ✅ Why the collapse period matters,and why so many high performers refuse to allow it ✅ The difference betweenperforming your worth and knowing it ✅ Why Art founded the MidlifeTransition Mastery Community   WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/VEXwNrwH7kY CONNECT WITH ART BLANCHFORD Website: artblanchford.com Podcast:lifeintransitionpodcast.com Community: lifeintransition.online Facebook:facebook.com/people/Life-In-Transition/100095280279752 YouTube:youtube.com/@LifeInTransitionPodcast Instagram:instagram.com/lifeintransitionpodcast LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/art-blanchford-7790135   CONNECT WITH DWIGHT HECK Website: giveaheck.com Podcast Page:giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube: youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram:instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150 TikTok: tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter/X: twitter.com/give_a_heck Work With Me:giveaheck.com/work-with-me   RATE THE SHOW ratethispodcast.com/giveaheck   Live life on purpose & not byaccident.

    HE LED A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, THEN HIS BODY SHUT DOWN | ART BLANCHFORD

  4. Jun 30

    300 Conversations Later, Dwight Heck on Regret, Money and Purpose

    For episode 300, Dwight Heck steps out of the guest chair for the first time to tell the whole story himself. He takes listeners back to Camrose, Alberta, where he grew up with no lessons about money, through raising five kids alone as a single dad, and into the 2002 decision that turned quiet desperation into a 24-year career in financial services. He reflects on five years of guests who shaped the show, from a Holocaust survivor to people who worked alongside Robin Williams, and shares the three hardest lessons 300 conversations have taught him about money: most people are living somebody else’s financial plan, money problems are usually emotional ones wearing a financial costume, and regret is the most expensive thing anyone will ever buy. What you will learn: Why most people are living somebody else’s financial plan What money monsters are and why naming them matters Why regret is the most expensive thing you will ever buy How a 2001 health scare led Dwight into financial services Connect with Dwight Heck: Website: https://www.giveaheck.com Podcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck Work With Me / Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

    300 Conversations Later, Dwight Heck on Regret, Money and Purpose

  5. Jun 23

    Find Your Purpose Before AI Finds Your Job, Derek Rydall on Human Potential

    What does AI actually threaten to take from you, and what does it have no power to touch? Derek Rydall returns for Part 2 with the answer hidden inside your core wound, your lived experience, and the life code that no algorithm can ever replicate. Derek Rydall has lost a son, a fortune, a marriage, and his sense of self more than once, and came back each time with more clarity, not less. In this episode, he makes the full case for why AI is not simply a technology story. It is a meaning and identity crisis unlike anything humanity has faced before. He breaks down why the very disruption you fear may be the initiation you were made for, explains the core wound as the gateway to your greatest purpose, and shares what writing A Whole New Human truly cost him on a soul level. Dwight opens with a deeply personal reflection on grief and the perennial plant that dies in the fall and returns stronger in spring. Together they explore service as the master pattern of awakening, the monastery story, and why the goal you are not yet capable of achieving is exactly the right goal. What you will learn in this episode:Why the real danger of AI is not job loss but the loss of human meaning and purposeWhat your life code is and why AI can never replicate itHow the core wound functions as a core initiation into your truest purposeWhy self-improvement is an oxymoron and what to do insteadWhat Derek's attempt to live as a monk revealed about who he was meant to beWhy the goal you are not yet capable of achieving is the right goalWhat writing A Whole New Human cracked open that Derek did not expect Connect with Derek Rydall:Website: https://derekrydall.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DerekRydall-YourLegendaryLifeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekrydallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerekRydall/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drydall/Twitter / X: https://x.com/derekrydall Connect with Dwight Heck and the Give A Heck Podcast:Website: https://www.giveaheck.comPodcast Page: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheckFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heckInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heckLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheckTwitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heckWork With Me / Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

    Find Your Purpose Before AI Finds Your Job, Derek Rydall on Human Potential

  6. Jun 16

    You Are Not Broken, You Are Unheard, with Dr. Fred Moss

    YOU ARE NOT BROKEN, YOU ARE UNHEARD, WITH DR. FRED MOSS What if healing without a diagnosis is not just possible, but the most natural thing in the world? Dr. Fred Moss spent more than four decades inside the mental health system as a board-certified psychiatrist, treating over 30,000 patients. Then he asked a different question: not what is wrong with this person, but what actually heals a human being. His answer challenges almost everything the mental health system is built on. The real problem is not a chemical imbalance. It is not a diagnosis. It is disconnection. When someone is not being heard, not being seen for who they truly are, no medication in the world addresses that. But genuine human connection does. Every single time. In 2006, Dr. Moss began taking low-risk patients off their medications with their permission. Almost all of them healed profoundly, often losing the very diagnosis that had justified the medication in the first place. That experience changed everything. In this conversation, you will hear: - Why healing without medication is possible for far more people than the system admits - How psychiatric diagnosis is fundamentally different from every other medical field - What Dr. Moss discovered when he took patients off their medications - Why men block emotional expression rather than feel things more deeply - What healthy reinvention looks like when AI is reshaping entire industries - Why gratitude practiced out loud every morning changes everything Dr. Moss is the author of Creative Eight: Healing Through Creativity and Self-Expression, Find Your True Voice, and his forthcoming memoir Welcome to Humanity: A Psychiatrist's Case Against the Mental Health System, arriving July 2026. He is the creator of the Welcome to Humanity movement and is known to many simply as the indoctor. CONNECT WITH DR. FRED MOSS Website: https://welcometohumanity.net/ eSpeakers: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/52547/preview Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfredmossmd Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/drfredmoss YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drfredmoss Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfredmoss/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss/ September Retreat: https://welcometohumanity.net/ CONNECT WITH DWIGHT HECK Website: https://www.giveaheck.com Podcast: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

    You Are Not Broken, You Are Unheard, with Dr. Fred Moss

  7. Jun 9

    How to Build Income That Actually Lasts, with Mark Kollar

    What is the difference between having money saved and actually having income you can depend on in retirement? For most people, nobody has ever answered that question clearly. Mark Kollar has spent 35 years answering it. He started his career on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade watching first-hand how markets can be manipulated and how quickly a lifetime of savings can disappear when someone does not know what they do not know. The experience that drove all of it started much earlier, in second grade, when he watched bad advice, failed estate planning, and a devastating health event strip his father of everything he had built. In this episode, Mark and Dwight cover: - Why accumulation and income distribution are completely different retirement disciplines - The red money versus green money framework and how to think about risk at different life stages - The four tax baskets and why how you draw down your savings is as important as how much you saved - Black swan events, excess fees, ego, and the emotional decisions that quietly derail well-funded retirements - What a fiduciary standard means versus a suitability standard, and why it matters who you choose - Why the wealthiest clients Mark works with all share one habit: multiple advisors Mark is the owner of Kollar Wealth Advisors, a registered investment advisory firm, a certified senior advisor, a certified estate planning professional, and the author of The Retirement Navigator. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, the Washington Post, and Fox Business. Get his free Seven Retirement Mistakes Report: https://sevenmistakes.subscribepage.io/ Connect with Mark Kollar: Website: https://www.kollarinsuranceservices.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkKollarRetirementExpert LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markakollar/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kollarinsuranceservices Connect with Dwight Heck and the Give A Heck Podcast: Website: https://www.giveaheck.com Podcast: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me

    How to Build Income That Actually Lasts, with Mark Kollar

  8. Jun 2

    Small Town Kid, Big Life | Jim Tracy on Building Men of Character

    Jim Tracy grew up as the sixth of eight kids in rural South Dakota, where thirteen people waited at the dinner table until his father came home, and summers meant fishing and hunting at a cabin with no running water. He became a CEO, jet pilot, Wireless History Foundation Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of the Amazon number one bestselling book Building Men: Character Lessons from Influencers. Not because of advantages. Because of the people who poured into him and refused to let him quit. In this conversation with Dwight Heck, Jim traces the full arc of a life built on character. From a grandfather who took chickens as payment during the Depression, to starting a telecom company from a garage with his son. Burning through his entire 401k on the first bid, to learning to fly jets at 62. To top it all, he wrote a book where every chapter is named after a person rather than a principle. IN THIS EPISODE: ✅ How rural roots and a grandfather's unwavering character built the foundation of everything ✅ How Jim started Legacy Telecommunications in a garage and burned his 401k on the first bid ✅ What the Culture Revival Blueprint is and why every business needs one ✅ Why handwritten birthday cards were the most important thing Jim did as a CEO ✅ What it took to learn to fly jets at 62 ✅ How tenacity is a superpower that only comes from muscle memory ✅ What building men of character actually requires WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/858oP35jTyo CONNECT WITH JIM TRACY: Website: https://thegrampion.com/ Website: https://thejimtracy.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jimtracygrampion LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jim-tracy-istowerjim/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGrampion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/towerjim/ Twitter / X: https://x.com/Towerjim Speaking: https://www.espeakers.com/marketplace/profile/48319/jim-tracy CONNECT WITH DWIGHT HECK: Website: https://www.giveaheck.com Podcast: https://www.giveaheck.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@giveaheck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwight.heck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/give.a.heck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-heck-65a90150/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@giveaheck Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/give_a_heck Be a Guest: https://www.giveaheck.com/work-with-me RATE THE SHOW: https://ratethispodcast.com/giveaheck Give A Heck | Helping People Live Life on Purpose and Not by Accident

    Small Town Kid, Big Life | Jim Tracy on Building Men of Character
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In the last 20 years, I have lived a life like many, by accident, going to work, go home get paid than the next day starting all over again, living on a proverbial hamster wheel. I can tell you though through coaching and mentorship, I learned that living a life on purpose is less stressful and ensures I am happy more days than not. My goal is to introduce you to guests, ideas, and thoughts that can help you learn that you to can “LIVE YOUR LIFE ON PURPOSE, NOT BY ACCIDENT”.

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  • Creator
    Dwight Heck
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    305
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Dwight Heck
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