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Redefining Success: Why You Don’t Feel Successful (Even If You Are)
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🎙️ Episode 5 – Redefining Success: Why You Don’t Feel Successful (Even If You Are)
In this episode of The Lion Counseling Podcast, Mark Odland (Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist) and Zack Carter (Counselor & Coach for Men) go deep into a topic that hits home for many men: success—how we define it, why it feels so elusive, and what really holds us back from experiencing it.
Whether you’re crushing it at work but feel like a failure at home, or you’ve achieved what others call “success” but still feel like you’re not enough—this episode is for you.
🔍 In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- How to define success based on your core values, not just culture or comparison
- Why success is a process, not a destination—and how moving the goalposts leads to burnout
- The truth about mindset, and how your beliefs directly shape your behaviors
- How cognitive distortions like all-or-nothing thinking, labeling, and comparison keep men stuck
- The difference between fixed mindset and growth mindset, and how to shift your thinking
- How early life experiences and lies we believed as kids can sabotage adult confidence
- Why guys who look successful on paper often still feel like failures—and what to do about it
- How CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and EMDR can help retrain your brain
- Practical steps for building success through daily habits and small wins
- The power of choosing your pain: passive suffering vs. purposeful struggle for growth
💬 Mark and Zack don’t just talk about success in abstract terms—they break it down with real stories, clinical insight, and a no-nonsense approach that respects your intelligence and calls you to action.
About the Show:
The Lion Counseling Podcast helps men escape the cages that hold them back and become the lions they were created to be. Hosted by the team at Lion Counseling, we explore meaningful topics like masculinity, mental health, relationships, business, faith, trauma recovery, and personal growth—all with a bold and grounded Christian worldview.
👉 Want to define and feel success on your terms? Visit www.escapethecagenow.com to book counseling or coachingwith Mark or Zack.
📲 If this episode spoke to you, subscribe, like, and leave a comment—what’s one lie you’ve told yourself that’s held you back?
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