Media Collection
This page is a collection of media meant to help you grow.
Everything here (podcasts, books, videos, movies, and quotes) is focused on:
- Building better habits
- Having a stronger mindset
- Long-term self improvement
You don't need to consume it all. Use this page as a resource, not a checklist.
Explore what resonates with you, apply what's useful, and move forward at your own pace.
Podcasts
The Mindset Mentor - Rob Dial
This podcast is a self-development podcast that helps you change how you think so you can improve how you live. It focuses on practical mindset shifts, habits, and perspectives that support personal growth, emotional resilience, and long-term fulfillment. Each episode breaks down common mental roadblocks like fear, self-doubt, comparison, and overwhelm and offers clear, actionable ways to reframe them. You get tools for building confidence, managing stress, setting goals, improving discipline, and nurturing a healthier relationship with yourself. The podcast teaches that healing and improvement aren't about perfection but about consistent, intentional small steps that create lasting change. It supports you in taking responsibility for your inner world so your outer world becomes more aligned with your values and potential.
Books
Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering - Joseph Nguyen
This book is a practical guide that helps you understand how your thoughts shape your emotional experience and overall well-being. It teaches that the stories your mind creates are not objective truth, and that much of your suffering comes from unexamined thinking patterns rather than actual events. The book offers clear explanations of how thoughts influence emotions, behaviors, and habits, and it provides tools to notice, question, and change unhelpful thinking. By learning to separate your identity from your thoughts, you gain emotional clarity, reduce anxiety and self-criticism, and make room for healthier beliefs. This supports self-healing and improvement by encouraging mindful awareness, emotional regulation, and intentional reframing so you can respond to life with greater peace, perspective, and purpose.
Videos
It took me 3 years to beat overthinking. I'll tell you how to in 5 steps - Clark Kegley
This video is about breaking free from overthinking and finally taking action. It explains why thinking more doesn't solve the problem, and why doing something, even if it's small or imperfect, is what actually creates change. You'll learn how to slow your mind, stop putting pressure on yourself to be perfect, and build confidence by taking simple steps forward. If you feel stuck in your head, afraid to start, or overwhelmed by trying to do everything “right,” this video shows you how to move forward anyway.
The pain of becoming yourself - Alastair
In this video, Steve Jobs speaks directly to you through three brief stories about dropping out of college, losing and rediscovering his work, and confronting death. His message is clear: you cannot connect the dots looking forward, failure is often necessary, and remembering that your time is limited cuts through fear and expectation. The takeaway is simple—trust your intuition, pursue what you love, and do not settle for a life shaped by others.
Movies
The Pursuit Of Happyness - Gabriele Muccino
The Pursuit of Happyness is a grounded reminder that progress is built through persistence, not luck. It shows what happens when discipline replaces excuses and commitment outlasts comfort. The film challenges you to take responsibility under pressure, keep moving when results are invisible, and protect your belief in yourself even when circumstances offer no reassurance. It's not about shortcuts or motivation. It's about showing up every day, doing the work, and earning a better future step by step.
Beautiful Boy - Felix Van Groeningen
Beautiful Boy is a portrayal of addiction. The film focuses on the long, uneven reality of recovery, relapse, accountability, and the strain that addiction places on both the individual and the people who care about them. It does not romanticize suffering or promise quick healing. Instead, it reinforces a hard truth: improvement is possible, but it requires patience, honesty, and sustained effort over time. This is not a motivational film. It is a realistic one, meant to build awareness, responsibility, and respect for the work real change demands.
Triggers: drug addiction, relapse, family distress.
Cast Away - Robert Zemeckis
Cast Away is a study in endurance when motivation is gone and hope feels unjustified. Stripped of comfort, certainty, and control, the film focuses on one decision repeated daily: stay alive. Keep breathing. Leep moving. Let time do its work. You may not see a reason to hope, but life changes anyway. The tide brings things you cannot predict, and the sun rises whether you are ready or not. This film reinforces patience, acceptance of uncertainty, and the discipline to endure long enough for change to arrive.
“I know what I have to do now. I've got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
— Cast Away (2000)
Quotes
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
— Mark Twain