{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beyond the Gray","title":"25 Hard Truths I Learned the Hard Way | No Frameworks. Just Honesty. | Ep. 25","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1608,"description":"No frameworks today. No five-step method. No guest. Just 25 hard truths in 25 minutes from almost 10 years of living alcohol-free and thousands of coaching conversations. At least one of these is going to follow you around for the rest of the week.\nIn Episode 25 of Beyond the Gray, Kari Schwear does something completely different. She drops 25 truths she's learned the hard way, one per minute, covering everything from drinking and identity to faith, marriage, loneliness, and why the most successful people are often the most empty. Some of these will make you uncomfortable. Some might make you laugh. All of them are honest.\nThe 25 Truths:\n1. You're not hiding it as well as you think\n2. You don't have a drinking problem, you have a peace problem\n3. Healing starts with honesty, not confidence\n4. Information has never changed your life, decisions have\n5. Comparison is the cheapest excuse for staying stuck\n6. The strongest people I know are willing to cry\n7. Most men over 50 haven't had an honest conversation in years\n8. Success doesn't solve misalignment\n9. The day I stopped waiting for someone else to change my life is when my life changed\n10. The best decision I ever made was the scariest one\n11. Alcohol wasn't the hardest thing I gave up, identity was\n12. If your morning routine takes two hours, you might be avoiding your life\n13. You spend more on your car than your health\n14. Prayer is the most underused resource in my life\n15. People misrepresent God\n16. Your calendar tells the truth about your priorities\n17. The people who need help most are the best at hiding it\n18. No client has ever regretted making a courageous change\n19. Action creates clarity, waiting creates doubt\n20. Your kids are still watching, even if they're grown\n21. You can be grateful and still want more\n22. You can't heal the life you're still hiding\n23. Peace begins where pretending ends\n24. God invited me to become who He created me to be\n25. There is life beyond the gray\nBonus #26: You don't...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/o3QgvEYD_EzW-1N7UZfNYTN4qL2oafyqZIw1SF69BYo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYjNl/NjgxZTdjNDY2YjIw/NjdlNjBlYTUyMjgw/OTZjMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}