Burn Up

Adam Nugent
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I'm not here to sugarcoat anything—I'm a single father who survived divorce, extreme heartache, limiting beliefs, and the collapse of my successful company. I've battled my weight, peaking at nearly 350 pounds, and faced such darkness that I nearly ended my own life. But today, I'm a transformed man with purpose. This podcast is your wake-up call. Join me to get inspired and hear tales from warriors who've faced their fears and failures and overcame the impossible. If I can do it, you can do it. Freedom is in the fire. Welcome - to the Burn Up Podcast!

  1. 2d ago

    The Mormon Identity Crisis

    Episode 68 The Pentagon last week did not recognize the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) as a Christian religion. And the reaction from members, politicians, and leaders across Utah and beyond was immediate and intense. We are Christian. We are Christian. We are Christian. My first question was not about the Pentagon. It was about the reaction. Why does a government institution's opinion on your faith matter so much? If you truly believe what you believe, why does anyone else's opinion of it shake you this deeply? That question is the entire point of this episode. Here is where the irony lives. Between 2010 and 2018 the church spent a reported  $300 million on the "I'm a Mormon" campaign. Billboards. Buses. Documentaries. Members building personal profiles. The entire institution leaning into that identity with everything it had. Then in 2018 prophet Russell Nelson stood at General Conference and declared that using the word Mormon is a major victory for Satan. He called it a divine revelation. A command from the Lord. The choir was renamed. The campaign was dismantled overnight. Hundreds of millions of dollars and years of brand building were wiped out because the entire strategy had shifted. The goal was to be seen and accepted across mainstream Christianity. In 2026 the government said they are not Christian. After all of that. After all the money and the rebrand and the revelation and the campaign. The people they were trying to impress still said no. And this is not really a story about the Mormon church. This is a story about what happens when any person or institution changes who they are to gain approval from people who were never going to give it. I was raised Mormon. Served a mission in Argentina. Lived this world for almost 40 years. My parents are still devout members. I am not here to attack the church. I am here to ask the questions most people in this conversation are avoiding, including the most important one. Why does their approval matter so much to you? Your reaction says everything.   The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth.   Connect With Adam:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/adamnugent Website: https://burnup.com  Substack: https://substack.com/@adamenugent

    39 min

  2. Jun 3

    How Men Go From Chaos to King

    Episode 67 Most men coming out of divorce do the same thing. They start dating immediately. They chase validation. They fill the void with women, with distraction, with anything that makes them feel seen for five minutes. And they wonder why they still feel empty six months later. Aaron James Yager did something different. He went on a feminine fast. No dating. No flirting. No chasing. Just himself. And what he found in that silence was not emptiness. It was the man he had lost somewhere along the way. In this episode Aaron and Adam get into what it actually takes for a man to go from chaos to king. Not the surface level stuff. The real work. The feminine fast and why it is the most powerful thing a man can do after a relationship ends. The integrity cleanup list and why most men have no idea how far out of alignment they actually are. The difference between guilt and shame and why shame is the lowest frequency a man can carry. Why breathwork is the most underrated tool available to men right now. And why the void most men are trying to fill with external validation can only be filled from the inside. Aaron also challenges every man listening to ask himself three questions. Am I in integrity with myself? Am I in integrity with the people around me? Am I in integrity with the world? If there is a no anywhere in that list that is where the work starts. This is a conversation for the man who is done performing and ready to actually build something real. ABOUT AARON JAMES YAGER Aaron James Yager is an entrepreneur and transformational leader known for helping people change at the level where real breakthroughs happen: the unconscious mind, the nervous system, and identity itself. He is the founder of Noble Kings Collective, a men's leadership movement, and a partner in purpose-driven ventures including Audhumla.com, a luxury wholistic skincare brand. Through a unique blend of performance coaching, breathwork, hypnotherapy, and deep emotional work, Aaron helps leaders, founders, and high performers break self-sabotage, heal old patterns, and step into more aligned power. His work is practical, deeply human, and designed to create transformation people do not just understand intellectually, but feel in their body and live in their life. The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth.   Connect With Adam:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/adamnugent Website: https://burnup.com  Substack: https://substack.com/@adamenugent   Connect With Aaron James Yager: Instagram: https://instagram.com/aaronjamesyager 9D Breathwork: https://9dbreathwork.com/facilitators/aaron-james-yager/

    1 hr

  3. May 20

    This Is Not About Sex, It Is About Power

    Episode 66 In 1937 Napoleon Hill spent 25 years studying the most successful men alive and wrote an entire chapter about this. He called it transmuting sexual energy. His conclusion was simple. The men who built the most, created the most, and led the most were the ones who knew how to channel this energy rather than leak it. Most men are leaking it everywhere. And they do not even know where it is going. In this episode Adam gets into what leaky sexual energy actually is. Not just the obvious stuff. Not just pornography and affairs. The woman at work who lights him up. The DM. The social media scroll loading up with OnlyFans models. The fantasy he feeds instead of his marriage. The business collaboration that both people know is something else. Every one of those is a leak. And every leak is a symptom of a void that is not being addressed. Adam also gets personal in a way most men will not. He has participated in almost all of this himself. The leaks. The hiding. The shame cycle. The seasons of being completely out of alignment. He speaks from the inside of this, not from the outside looking in. And he talks about what it actually took to get to the other side of it and what changed when he did. The stats are not comfortable. 78% of men consume pornography. 84% say nobody is helping them. 50% say nobody even knows. 75% of Christian men. 67% of pastors. These are not fringe numbers. That is the man sitting across from you at the conference table. But the real problem is never the behavior. It is the secret. The hiding. The shame cycle that keeps men stuck and silent and leaking. This episode ends with a challenge and a promise. The truth is going to hurt. It is worth it.   The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth.   Connect With Adam:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/adamnugent Website: https://burnup.com  Substack: https://substack.com/@adamenugent

    39 min

  4. May 13

    Most Men Who Say "God Is First" Are Lying

    Episode 65 Something interesting is happening right now. Jesus is everywhere. More than ever. Social media feeds full of scriptures. Cross tattoos. Public declarations of faith. Men who built entire brands around hustle and performance have suddenly pivoted to God and Jesus as their new message. And yet the men closest to these same people will tell you a completely different story. That gap is what this episode is about. Most men are not lying on purpose when they say God is first. They genuinely believe it. They show up on Sunday. They check every box the institution asks them to check. But then they go home and disconnect from their wife. They hide things they will not say out loud. They perform one way for one group and show up completely differently everywhere else. That is not putting God first. That is putting the performance first. In this episode Adam gets into what it actually means to put God first. Not the Sunday version. The 3 am version. The version that shows up the same way at church, at the office, and when nobody is watching. He talks about why Jesus had no harsh words for sinners and reserved his sharpest language for the performers. Why integrity is not a religious concept but a personal one. And why the man who is hiding something small is more out of alignment than he realizes. The question is not whether you believe in God. The question is whether your life proves it.   The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth.   Connect With Adam:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/adamnugent Website: https://burnup.com  Substack: https://substack.com/@adamenugent

    31 min

  5. Apr 29

    He Cheated Death 11 Times

    Episode 64 He has almost died 11 times. Not metaphorically. Eleven times something should have ended him. And he is still here, 68 years old, in the best shape of his life, building something that helps other people survive their own version of impossible.3 Adam first met Bob over 10 years ago. In this episode, Bob walks through two of his eleven close calls, including a head-on collision in Wind River Canyon where he was ejected from the car, flew horizontally through the air, and stood up on the road while a highway patrolman said he had never seen anything like it in 26 years. Bob now hosts, A Close Call with Death, a podcast where he interviews people who survived the unsurvivable. In this conversation, he shares what he has found runs through every single one of those people. No regrets. A gratitude for life that was not there before. And a deep desire to serve others that the experience created. Adam and Bob also go deep on what it takes to stay in the fight long enough for the miracle to arrive. Why surrender is sometimes the only move. How to stop living in resistance to what already happened. What earning a physical transformation actually takes. And why the people who have lost limbs consistently say they would not trade the experience for anything. Bob is 68, has logged 1,600 Orange Theory workouts, and wakes up every day grateful he is alive. That gratitude is not accidental. This episode is about how you build it, and what it costs. The best version of your life is waiting on the other side of what you are still avoiding.   Resources: Follow Adam Nugent on Instagram for more motivational content and insights Follow Bob Howard's Podcast, A Close Call with Death, here. Learn about Adam Nugent's work and podcast at Burn Up Podcast. For listeners seeking inspiration and a path to authenticity, dive into this episode of the Burn Up Podcast. Stay tuned for more enlightening conversations that explore personal growth, resilience, and finding your true self amid life's fires.

    1 hr

  6. Apr 15

    What's The Story You're Telling Yourself?

    Episode 63 There is a story running in the background of everything you do. You did not write it. But you have been living it your entire life. Adam was in his late thirties before anyone ever asked him if he felt worthy of love. He had no answer. That silence is where this episode begins. In this episode, Adam goes alone into the one belief that sits underneath almost every ceiling a man hits, every marriage that goes cold, every addiction that takes hold. He talks about where the story of not enough comes from, how it gets passed down without anyone realizing it, and what it actually takes to rewrite it. He also talks about his 18-year-old son Kingston, who this week said out loud that he lacks self-worth and what that moment meant. The formula is simple. The work is not. But Adam has done it, and he has watched men do it at 18 and at 50, and he will tell you exactly what it costs and what it returns. The freedom you are searching for is in what you are avoiding. The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth. CONNECT WITH ADAM:  Instagram: https://instagram.com/adamnugent Website: https://burnup.com Substack: https://substack.com/@adamenugent

    43 min

  7. Apr 1

    Prison Set Him Free. Success Was the Real Sentence.

    Episode 62 Jared Deveraux had the house, the trucks, the company logos blazed across everything. On paper, he was building something. Inside, he was performing. And the performance was costing him more than he knew. Then the money ran out. The choices caught up. And a man who spent years tying his worth to what others could see went to prison for five years on a 20-year sentence. In this episode, Jared doesn't sanitize it. He talks about what actually drove the fraud — not greed, but people pleasing. The chameleon. The inability to say no. A lifetime of micro-decisions that add up to a moment you can't walk back from. He also talks about what came after. A private prison in Eagle Pass, Texas. A chain of coincidences so unlikely they can only be called something else. Walking out the gate with nothing — and two people standing there ready to give him a life back. His closing advice? Be Evel Knievel. The man didn't become a legend because he always landed. He became a legend because he always got back up. This conversation will find you exactly when you need it. The Burn Up Podcast is built for men who have lived something real — or are living it right now. Every conversation pulls back the curtain on what it actually costs to build something, lose it, and come back stronger. No highlight reel. No performance. Just the truth.   Resources: Follow Adam Nugent on Instagram for more motivational content and insights Follow Jared Devereaux on Instagram  Learn about Adam Nugent's work and podcast at Burn Up Podcast. For listeners seeking inspiration and a path to authenticity, dive into this episode of the Burn Up Podcast. Stay tuned for more enlightening conversations that explore personal growth, resilience, and finding your true self amid life's fires.

    1h 2m

  8. Mar 25

    (Ep. 61) The Reckoning Is Coming

    In this episode, host Adam Nugent delivers a wake-up call about the uncertainty, chaos, and "reckoning" he believes is unfolding globally—from war and economic instability to misinformation and rapid technological disruption. Rather than focusing on external fear, Adam brings the conversation inward, challenging men to examine their identity, integrity, and daily habits under pressure. He exposes how most people cope through numbing behaviors—food, porn, substances, distraction—and why those patterns will only intensify in uncertain times. He introduces a practical framework for breaking addictive cycles through awareness, non-judgment, and emotional regulation, while emphasizing radical honesty as the foundation for navigating chaos. This episode is a call to become disciplined, adaptable, and grounded—because in a world you can't control, who you are is everything.   Key Takeaways: You cannot control the world—only how you show up. Chaos creates opportunity for those who are prepared. Most people cope with stress through numbing behaviors. Addiction is often emotional avoidance in disguise. Awareness is the first step to breaking destructive patterns. You must recognize when you're using something to avoid feeling. Radical honesty is the foundation of personal freedom. The truth will always catch up—delay only increases pain. Your business problems often reflect internal misalignment. Discipline matters most during uncertain and stressful seasons. Physical health directly impacts emotional resilience. Identity tied to external systems creates instability. Adaptability is required in a rapidly changing world. AI and disruption will reward those willing to evolve. You must create new emotional baselines without dopamine crutches. Growth requires facing discomfort instead of escaping it.   Resources: Follow Adam Nugent on Instagram for more motivational content and insights  Learn about Adam Nugent's work at the Burn Up Website. For listeners seeking inspiration and a path to authenticity, dive into this episode of the Burnup Podcast. Stay tuned for more enlightening conversations that explore personal growth, resilience, and finding your true self amid life's fires.

    44 min
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I'm not here to sugarcoat anything—I'm a single father who survived divorce, extreme heartache, limiting beliefs, and the collapse of my successful company. I've battled my weight, peaking at nearly 350 pounds, and faced such darkness that I nearly ended my own life. But today, I'm a transformed man with purpose. This podcast is your wake-up call. Join me to get inspired and hear tales from warriors who've faced their fears and failures and overcame the impossible. If I can do it, you can do it. Freedom is in the fire. Welcome - to the Burn Up Podcast!

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  • Creator
    Adam Nugent
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024
  • Show Website
    Burn Up

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