The LAB with Bryce Prescott

Bryce Prescott
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Most of us are trying to figure life out as we go. What works. What doesn’t. What’s actually worth the effort. The LAB is where I test those questions out loud. It’s honest conversation, sharp observation, and humor about what happens when you stop acting like you have it all together and start paying attention to how you actually live, work, think, and behave. Some weeks it’s just me.  Breaking down patterns I’m noticing. Decisions I’ve made. Mistakes I’ve learned from. Things I’m still wrestling with. Other weeks it’s a conversation with someone who’s thoughtful, honest, and worth listening to. We talk about the things that matter. Self-mastery. Business and money.  Spirutality.   Relationships. Creativity. Not as theories, but as lived experiences. There’s humor because life is absurd. There’s honesty because anything else is a waste of time. You won’t find a formula, a sermon, or a highlight reel version of life here. You’ll find perspective that helps your own choices make a little more sense. New episodes weekly.

  1. 13h ago

    Hyper-Independence Isn't Healing, It's Fear With Better Branding

    He was backstage at a sold-out comedy show, surrounded by people and energy, and couldn't stop thinking about one question: am I hard to love? In this episode, Bryce records from inside one of his most personally vulnerable seasons — sitting with the silence between relationships, auditing his own needs, and trying to separate what's actually his from what the internet has told him he's allowed to want. Through a quote that jumped off his whiteboard, a late-night text to someone he trusts, and a sharp reframe of the hyper-independence messaging flooding social media, he delivers a three-question framework for anyone who has ever wondered whether they need too much — and spent years shrinking themselves trying to find out. Listen in! Takeaways: Auditing your own needs the moment you have them — asking "is this too much, am I being needy?" — is one of the most damaging habits in relationships, and most people don't know they're doing it.Your partner isn't responsible for your self-worth or your inner peace. That part is true. But affection, reassurance, companionship, emotional support, and being chosen out loud — you're supposed to need those things from each other. That's the point.A healthy relationship isn't two people proving how little they need each other. It's two people capable of standing on their own, who willingly lean on each other anyway.Hyper-independence is being called healing. It isn't. It's fear with better branding — a way to never be hurt again because nobody is ever close enough to actually fail you.Loneliness with somebody sleeping next to you is not intimacy. It's the outcome of two people who've been told that needing each other is a character flaw.Therapy speak online isn't helping people navigate relationships. It's giving them a sophisticated vocabulary for not giving each other what they need — and feeling righteous about it.The right question is not how much are you allowed to need. The right question is: what's mine and what isn't?If a close friend told you they wanted the same thing you want from your relationship, and you respected the ask — it's a sound need. Full stop. Stop apologizing for it.You cannot shrink your way into being loved the way you need to be loved. It makes you smaller, quieter, and eventually someone you don't recognize.You haven't asked for your needs yet if you've only hinted, sulked, or made tests out of them. You've been disappointed in private — and that's not the same thing as being honest.People craft entire conversations in their head about what they think someone would say, use that imagined answer to justify never asking the question, and then spiral into disconnection that didn't have to happen.Someone can love you deeply and still not be able to give you what you need. That doesn't make them a villain. It makes the relationship a mismatch — and it makes the answer clear.If your needs are sound, you've stated them plainly, and the person in front of you is not able and willing to meet them — the problem was never that you needed too much. You just kept handing a fair need to someone who couldn't hold it.Holding the line in relationship by needing less, saying less, and making yourself smaller is not discipline. It is the blueprint for resentment, quiet dishonesty, and the worst version of yourself.Your relationship should make it easier to be happy — not be the source of your happiness, but a multiplier of it. That's the honest model. That's the goal. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

    Hyper-Independence Isn't Healing, It's Fear With Better Branding

  2. Sep 8

    The 3 Questions That Change Everything

    Knowing that a negative emotion is a signal was never the whole answer. In this episode, Bryce closes the gap he's been aware of for some time — teaching you not just to receive the signal, but to know what to do once it arrives. Through a single, clean three-part framework — Hold the Line, Shift the Focus, Let Go — he walks through each response in detail with two personal stories: letting go of an elite skiing career to be present as a father, and redirecting a business revenue goal when the model couldn't carry the weight of the target. The framework is simple. Knowing which of the three you're actually in is the hardest part. And the self-development world's habit of dressing up quitting as wisdom makes it even harder. Listen in! Takeaways: Knowing that a negative emotion is a signal was the diagnosis. Knowing what to do with it is the treatment. This episode is the treatment.Once you've received the signal, there are only three honest responses: hold the line, shift the focus, or let go. Confusing them is how people quit too early or grind too long on something that was never going to work.Hold the line is for when the discomfort is the wobble — the inherent instability of building a skill or capacity you don't yet have. The wobble isn't evidence the goal is wrong. It's proof the process is working.A bicycle doesn't teach balance without wobbling. A nervous system doesn't expand capacity without instability. The discomfort of growth and the discomfort of being on the wrong path feel similar. They are not the same thing.Holding the line doesn't mean gritting your teeth and pretending it doesn't hurt. It means staying on the bike long enough to let the skill actually get built.Shift the focus is for when the goal is still right but the mechanism can't carry it. Working harder at a broken model isn't discipline — it's exhaustion in service of a strategy that was never going to produce the result.Retiring an approach is not the same as abandoning the goal. You can walk away from a road completely and still be exactly the right person to reach the destination — you just needed a different route.Let go is for values collisions — when two real, legitimate things are in direct competition and choosing one genuinely requires setting the other down. That's the only version of letting go that's honest.The self-development world is full of language that makes quitting sound like wisdom. "This isn't in alignment anymore." "The universe is redirecting me." Sometimes that's real. Sometimes it's a well-dressed excuse.If you can't name a clear, competing value with the same weight as the goal you're considering releasing, you're probably not in a let go moment. You're just tired. And tired is a hold the line signal, not a let go one.The question that cuts right to it: is this discomfort about the path, or is it about whether this is even the right mountain anymore? Answer that honestly and the framework tells you exactly what to do.The goal itself can be right and the mechanism broken at the same time. Those are two separate diagnoses requiring two completely different responses.Letting go of the skiing career wasn't failure — it was updating the goal to match the man who was actually holding it. The person who set that goal was no longer the person standing in front of it.Sometimes the goals we set are at the very edge of our own vision. As we move toward them, the light expands — and we can see past them to something greater than we imagined when we started.The true purpose of life is expansion. This framework exists to accelerate it — to collapse the time between where you are and what you've chosen to become. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

    The 3 Questions That Change Everything

  3. Sep 2

    The Rest Of The Secret: Shinia Powell Returns

    In this follow-up interview, Bryce sits down again with Shinia Powell, cast member of The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, for the conversation nobody expected her to agree to a second time. Since their last talk, Shinia has stepped into a public relationship with Dakota Mortensen, found herself the middle person in a co-parenting dynamic the internet has strong opinions about, and finally addressed the affair that ended her closest friendship — on the record, without excuses. She talks candidly about where her mental health actually sits right now, what it’s costing her to launch a podcast called Unedited when perfectionism has been her lifelong coping mechanism, and why she’d rather be misunderstood in real time than wait until she’s fully healed to tell the truth. Takeaways: Public perception and private reality rarely match — Shinia’s relationship with Dakota looks nothing like the narrative online.She takes full, unqualified responsibility for the affair that ended her closest friendship — no excuses, no deflection.The double standard is real: the other man involved faced almost none of the backlash Shinia did for the same choice.Avoidant and anxious attachment styles share the same root — inconsistent love early in life — they just express in opposite directions.Attachment patterns are not identities. You don’t have to be an avoidant — you can simply experience avoidant tendencies.Real inner work isn’t a feeling, it’s a practice: asking “is this working for me?” instead of spiraling into “why did this happen.”Shinia rates her current mental health a 6 out of 10 — and says that’s genuinely okay, because “day by day” is a practice, not a slogan.Building a relationship inside someone else’s public legal situation requires boundaries most couples never have to set this early.Launching a podcast called “Unedited” has forced her to confront her own perfectionism head-on — she has to release control the moment it airs.Time is a great equalizer. Consistent, private action eventually reveals the truth, regardless of the current narrative.People-pleasing and avoidance are close cousins — both often disguise themselves as “keeping the peace.”Follow Shinia’s Instagram HERE: Follow Shinia’s TikTok HERE:  Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

    The Rest Of The Secret: Shinia Powell Returns

  4. Sep 1

    Why Self-Development Isn’t Working for You (And What To Do About It)

    What if the problem isn’t religion, politics, biohacking, or mindset… What if the problem is you never actually committed to anything? In this episode, Bryce gives you an encore presentation of his wrestle with a question that most high performers avoid: Which system is actually true? From Mormonism to pagan symbolism, from Law of Attraction to nihilism, from grind culture to nervous system regulation — Bryce walks through the tension of wanting certainty in a world full of competing frameworks. But instead of landing on a “correct” answer, he lands somewhere far more confronting. It’s not about being right. It’s about being aligned. If you’ve been bouncing between belief systems, doubting everything, over-intellectualizing your growth, or secretly frustrated that nothing seems to “work”… This one will hit. You don’t need a new system.You need conviction. Takeaways: • You are always operating inside a belief system — whether you admit it or not. • Most people don’t fail because the system is broken. They fail because their belief is fractured. • Confusion is often disguised fear of commitment. • It’s not about finding the “right” framework — it’s about fully aligning with one. • Belief isn’t mystical. It’s neurological, behavioral, and embodied. • Your identity governs your values. Your values govern your beliefs. Your beliefs govern your behavior. • Stop getting cute. Start being aligned. • You are the operator. The system amplifies whatever you bring to it. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

  5. Aug 25

    Your Trauma Is Not Your Personality. Stop Wearing It Like One.

    We are the most psychologically literate generation in history — and some of us are using that literacy to avoid healing faster than any generation before us. In this episode, Bryce delivers his most direct and urgent message of the series: a plea. Not to stop learning the language of trauma and attachment. To stop letting the diagnosis become the identity. Through the lens of his own separation and a pattern of meanness and revisionism he didn't expect, Bryce names the cost of mistaking naming the wound for treating it — not just to yourself, but to every person close enough to catch the runoff. The people who get hurt most by your unhealed wounds are the ones who stayed closest. That's not dramatic. That's just what happens when you confuse step one with the finish line. Listen in! Takeaways: There is a critical difference between naming your wound and living inside it. Naming it is step one. Living inside it is where most people stop — and call it healing.Psychological language was built as a diagnostic tool — a map that tells you where you are so you can figure out which direction to move. It was never designed to be a destination.Internet culture has turned diagnosis into identity. "I have anxious attachment" became "I am anxiously attached" — a permanent explanation instead of a temporary description. Once it's your identity, you stop trying to change it. Changing it would mean changing who you are.The comments under every attachment style video say "this is so me" and "I feel so seen" — not "here's what I'm doing to shift this." Being seen has become the finish line instead of the starting line.Nobody makes the follow-up video about the six months of unglamorous work it took to actually change the pattern. That video gets no views. So the model never gets shown — and people don't know it's supposed to exist.Naming your wound without treating it might actually be worse than not knowing at all. Now you have the language to sound like you've done the work when all you've done is get better at describing it.Your unhealed wounds don't stay contained. They spread to whoever is closest. The people who get hurt most by your unresolved patterns are the people who loved you enough to stay near you.The cruel irony: the closer someone is, the more they love you, the more surface area they have for your unresolved nonsense to land on.When two people carry unhealed wounds into long-term proximity with each other, eventually you can't tell whose blood is on the floor. The mess is shared, but the origin has been lost — and nobody knows how to fix it because nobody knows where to start.If you keep treating your wound as your identity instead of your diagnosis, you will keep having the same fights with different people — and keep believing it's a compatibility problem when you are the common variable.People slowly learn to manage you instead of love you when your unhealed patterns are consistent and costly. They stop bringing up certain topics. They pre-edit what they say. That's not closeness. That's liability management.What happened to you that created the wound isn't your fault. Nobody chooses their childhood. Nobody chooses the wiring. The choice to fix it — that part is entirely yours.Taking responsibility for your healing means noticing the pattern while it's happening, not just explaining it afterward. The difference between intervention before and insight after the damage is everything.Using your diagnosis to explain your impact on someone else is not the same as taking accountability. The three-part framework still applies: acknowledge the act, acknowledge the impact, don't repeat it. The attachment style is not a character in that story.Ask yourself one question in every moment you reach for psychological language: am I using this insight to change my behavior, or am I using it as an excuse? Those two things can sound identical out loud and be worlds apart in practice. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

  6. Aug 18

    The Trance That Runs Your Life And How To Snap Out Of It

    Bryce gives you an encore presentation of his discussion on the idea that most people are living inside a psychological trance — a set of beliefs and stories about their life they’ve stopped questioning. He explains how routines, identity, and perception quietly become automated, creating familiarity even when life no longer works. He introduces a powerful reframe: stop moralizing your experience and start asking a simpler question — does this work for me? From spirituality to identity to personal growth, he shows how ending the trance allows new choices, new identity, and new results to emerge. Transformation isn’t about fixing yourself — it’s about consciously choosing a new operating system that actually supports who you’re becoming. Listen in! Takeaways:A trance is a belief system you stopped questioningNormal can be the most dangerous stateFamiliarity is not the same as alignmentMoralizing experience freezes change“Does this work for me?” bypasses shameIdentity governs values, beliefs, and behaviorYou cannot outwork your identityAwareness is not the same as integrationTranscendence is the ending of a tranceSimple does not mean easyDiscomfort can signal misalignmentYou are the author of your operating systemEnvironment doesn’t override identityHigh performers over-intellectualize changeReal shifts come from identity, not tacticsYou can consciously choose a new tranceGrowth requires honest self-questioning Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

  7. Aug 11

    Don't Let Your Last Relationship Dictate Your Next One

    Far too many people let their last relationship dictate their next one. In this episode, Bryce Prescott pulls on a matchmaker's TikTok line that stopped him cold and uses it to unpack one of the most common and least examined patterns in dating, relationships, and life: the difference between knowing what you don't want and knowing what you actually do. Through two members of his Lab coaching group and his own current season of living alone, Bryce makes the case that your real preferences can't be heard when every hour is filled with someone else's energy — and that the fix isn't a better dating app. It's a solo dinner, a cigar by yourself, and the willingness to sit in the noise long enough to hear what's underneath it. Listen in! Takeaways: Far too many people let their last relationship dictate their next one. When your criteria for a partner is built entirely from what didn't work last time, you're still being steered by the last person — not by your own desire.Knowing what you don't want and knowing what you do want are two completely different questions. A list of what went wrong is not a picture of what you want. It's just a snapshot of the last thing that hurt you.Your criteria being downstream of your pain instead of upstream of your desire is the whole problem. Most people never separate those two things — they think they've done the work because they know what hurt them.You cannot hear your own preferences while every hour is filled with someone else's presence, someone else's needs, someone else's rhythm. The bandwidth isn't there.Preference, like emotion, is a signal — and signals need quiet to be heard. Your own wants are quiet. They show up in small, specific moments, not in grand declarations.If you never give yourself the silence to notice them, you'll keep defaulting to whoever is in front of you, whoever is available, whoever would fix the loneliness the fastest.Solitude is a trainable skill. The noise you feel the first time you sit alone in a restaurant isn't a problem — it's a signal that you're working through it. Sit in it until it fades.The goal of a solo dinner, a solo movie, a solo trip is not to become a monk who eats alone well. The goal is to get quiet enough that your real preferences can surface and be heard again.Once you've done enough solo reps, something comes back: your sensitivity returns. You start actually feeling what you want instead of scanning everyone around you to find out what they want first.The man or woman who can be fully alone — and actually enjoys it — is the person who can properly discern whether the next person who shows up is actually right for them, or just filling a gap.Most of the time, we describe what we don't want rather than what we do want. These are completely different forms of communication — and the world responds to them completely differently.Certainty is a superpower. People who speak from a clear, specific place about what they want and where they're going are magnetically attractive — not because of their confidence, but because clarity itself is rare and magnetic.The phone is a security blanket. Scrolling TikTok or Instagram to fill the quiet of solitude is just noise management — and it costs you the exact sensitivity you're trying to recover.This isn't about being alone forever. Solitude is the training environment. The prize is showing up to relationships, friendships, and decisions from a place of settled self-knowledge instead of desperate need.Self-awareness is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself — because it shows you every place you're sabotaging the actual connection and happiness you want, mostly from yourself. Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

    Don't Let Your Last Relationship Dictate Your Next One

  8. Aug 4

    Stolen Valor Is Killing Real Success: Know The Difference

    Bryce gives you an encore presentation of his discussion on the concept of psychological stolen valor — the danger of borrowing identity, authority, or credibility through proximity, environment, or appearance without earning it. Using real-world cases of stolen military valor and personal experiences with wealth, environment, and perception, Bryce exposes how upgraded surroundings can quietly replace real foundation if unchecked. He explains why symbols of success can erode motivation, distort self-trust, and create internal misalignment when they arrive before the work is done. The episode offers a clear framework for self-auditing authenticity, rebuilding true authority, and using environment as a tool — not a credential — reinforcing the core truth that sustainable success is built, not staged Listen in! Takeaways: Stolen valor isn’t always criminal — it can be psychologicalBorrowed authority creates fragile identityProximity to success is not proof of successEnvironment can support growth or replace itSymbols without substance erode motivationAuthentic authority is earned through actionAppearance can short-circuit internal disciplineSuccess that isn’t earned creates anxietyIdentity must be built before it’s displayedSocial media amplifies psychological stolen valorInternal alignment cannot be fakedTrue confidence removes the need to explain yourselfPrivate behavior reveals real foundationDiscomfort is data, not failureReal growth is quiet, boring, and lonelyFoundations are built before recognition arrivesUpgrade foundation before upgrading environment Thanks for listening to this episode of The LAB Podcast! Your story is waiting to be told, and we're here to help you tell it better. If you’d like to join The Lab, our weekly group coaching experience please visit BrycePrescott.com/thelabgroup and follow the prompts. We’re ready to give you the right information, guidance and community needed for your next level of success! Please visit BrycePrescott.com to learn more about how to work with us relating to your podcast production, creation or consulting needs. Please follow our host on Instagram @bryceprescott

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Most of us are trying to figure life out as we go. What works. What doesn’t. What’s actually worth the effort. The LAB is where I test those questions out loud. It’s honest conversation, sharp observation, and humor about what happens when you stop acting like you have it all together and start paying attention to how you actually live, work, think, and behave. Some weeks it’s just me.  Breaking down patterns I’m noticing. Decisions I’ve made. Mistakes I’ve learned from. Things I’m still wrestling with. Other weeks it’s a conversation with someone who’s thoughtful, honest, and worth listening to. We talk about the things that matter. Self-mastery. Business and money.  Spirutality.   Relationships. Creativity. Not as theories, but as lived experiences. There’s humor because life is absurd. There’s honesty because anything else is a waste of time. You won’t find a formula, a sermon, or a highlight reel version of life here. You’ll find perspective that helps your own choices make a little more sense. New episodes weekly.

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  • Creator
    Bryce Prescott
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Explicit
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