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The LAB with Bryce Prescott

The LAB with Bryce Prescott

By: 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.

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Episodes
  • "Waiting" Is The Most Dangerous Choice You’re Making

    "Waiting" Is The Most Dangerous Choice You’re Making
    Jun 30 2026
    Bryce gives you an encore presentation of his discussion on the impact of decision-making on personal well-being. He emphasizes that indecision leads to "decision fatigue," draining energy and motivation. He explains that the brain dislikes open loops, constantly processing unresolved issues. He also argues that making a decision, even a wrong one, is more beneficial than delaying. He concludes that agency and taking action are crucial for regaining power and self-trust.

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    Takeaways:
    • Indecision is not passive; it actively drains psychological and emotional energy
    • Open loops keep the brain working in the background, exhausting your system
    • What feels like depression is often stagnation, not sadness
    • The nervous system equates ambiguity with powerlessness
    • Waiting does not preserve energy — it consumes it
    • Motivation does not precede action; it follows it
    • Decision → ownership → movement → energy → motivation
    • You don’t need certainty to choose — only agency
    • Guidance often comes after the decision, not before
    • Wanting guarantees is a refusal to take responsibility
    • Movement stabilizes the psyche, even when outcomes are unknown
    • A wrong decision owned beats a perfect decision delayed
    • Your body knows the truth before your mind admits it
    • Emotional numbness is a signal, not a flaw
    • Faith is embodied through action, not contemplation
    • Indecision protects comfort, not alignment
    • Choosing restores self-trust, not certainty

    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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    28 mins
  • Gossip And The Downfall Of Relabeling Your Own Behavior

    Gossip And The Downfall Of Relabeling Your Own Behavior
    Jun 23 2026
    Emotional intelligence tells you what's driving you. Honesty lets you admit it. Accountability makes you own it. None of that explains why the behavior keeps happening anyway. In this episode, Bryce introduces incentive as the missing fourth piece — the actual current reason a behavior is still worth repeating, separate from its backstory. Using a small, unflattering moment of his own — catching himself enjoying a bit of gossip and refusing to let his friend relabel it as commentary — Bryce walks through why most self-awareness still avoids the real reason, and uses The Dark Knight's Joker to explain why unnamed incentives make a behavior impossible to change.

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    Takeaways:
    • Every behavior, belief, and identity a person holds onto comes from an incentive — and that incentive isn't always financial. Sometimes it's safety, being seen as right, or simply avoiding feeling worse.
    • Almost nobody is honest about their actual, current incentive for a specific behavior. People explain their behavior, their beliefs, even their flaws — but the real reason it's still there stays hidden, often even from themselves.
    • Emotional intelligence, honesty, and accountability have gotten plenty of airtime in therapy and coaching culture. Incentive sits underneath all three, and none of them go looking for it.
    • You can have full emotional intelligence, total honesty, and complete accountability about a behavior — and still repeat it next week, because none of those things asked what the behavior is doing for you right now.
    • The blind spot isn't dishonesty. It's closer to ignorance — not knowing to look in that specific direction.
    • We automatically relabel behavior that doesn't match our self-image into something more acceptable: gossip becomes commentary, avoidance becomes a boundary, pettiness becomes discernment. Same behavior, nicer name.
    • Relabeling lets everyone in the conversation keep their self-image intact without acknowledging what's actually happening.
    • The harder skill isn't knowing why you do something — most self-aware people already know. The harder skill is saying the unflattering version out loud, with no spin.
    • Most conversations about personal patterns get the explanation but never get the receipt — the actual, current, specific reason: "I do this because of what it gives me, and I know it's not flattering."
    • The Joker in The Dark Knight is terrifying not because of his actions, but because his incentive is unnamed and untradeable — you can't negotiate with someone when you don't know what they actually want.
    • Parts of yourself operate the same way. You lose the negotiation against your own behavior when you're bargaining with a part of yourself whose actual incentive hasn't been found yet.
    • Insight alone often fails because the textbook explanation — childhood attachment, trauma history, whatever the framework — is the backstory, not the reason the behavior is still happening today.
    • The real personal superpower is the combination: the emotional intelligence to locate the specific current incentive, plus the honesty to say it plainly without relabeling it into something more comfortable.
    • You don't owe anyone a redemption arc for naming an unflattering truth about yourself. You owe yourself the receipt, not the explanation.
    • The doorway to your best understanding of yourself is acknowledging that the petty, gossipy, sarcastic, or hurtful version of you exists — and naming what's actually driving it in real time.

    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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    20 mins
  • Men’s Mental Health And The Prison Built By Sensible Decisions

    Men’s Mental Health And The Prison Built By Sensible Decisions
    Jun 16 2026
    The message men keep hearing is reach out when you're struggling. The problem is it assumes the infrastructure is already there. In this episode, recorded during Men's Mental Health Month, Bryce makes the case that the male loneliness epidemic isn't a crisis response problem — it's a maintenance problem. He traces the exact path from getting focused and protecting your time to waking up one day with nobody to call, names the specific reflex inside entrepreneur culture that keeps it in place, and offers a challenge as simple as it is overdue: build the friendship before you need it. Send the text with no agenda. Let somebody actually know how you're doing.

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    Takeaways:
    • Nobody decides to isolate themselves. It's a slow drift — one sensible, justifiable decision at a time — until you look up and nobody is there.
    • The entrepreneur's audit of relationships asks who adds value, who pushes you forward, who's aligned with where you're going. It never asks what about the friend who has no function except that you actually like each other.
    • No-agenda friendship doesn't fit neatly into any productivity framework — so it gets quietly eliminated. There's no funeral. Just gradual drift.
    • When protecting your time becomes your default, you stop believing people just want to talk to you. Every incoming connection gets run through a filter for hidden motives. That's not discernment — that's a symptom.
    • The men most conditioned to assume everyone wants something from them are the same men dying inside for someone to reach out with no agenda.
    • You've trained people to stop reaching out. Now you're lonely. Those two things feel like a contradiction but they're the same thing.
    • The message "reach out when you're struggling" assumes the relationship is already built and maintained and just waiting to be activated. For most men, that infrastructure isn't there.
    • You can't call someone you haven't talked to in 18 months and go straight to "I'm not okay." That's not a friendship at that point. That's a crisis call — and men don't make crisis calls until things are completely off the rails.
    • Men aren't struggling because nobody will pick up at 2am. They're struggling because nobody has been close enough, consistently enough, to notice three weeks before the 2am call happens.
    • The goal can't just be better crisis response. The goal has to be don't get into crisis — and that requires regular, boring, no-agenda contact.
    • What most men are actually missing is a witness. Not an emergency responder. Someone who's been paying close enough attention to notice when something is off before you've named it yourself.
    • Male friendship is load-bearing. It holds things up that you won't notice it's holding until it's gone — and then you wonder why everything feels unstable when objectively everything looks fine.
    • The prison you're sitting in was built by you, brick by brick, with sensible decisions. Nobody else built it for you. Which means you're also the one who can open it.
    • The fix is not dramatic. Text somebody today. No agenda. "Thinking about you, man. How's it going?" And mean it.
    • Build it before you need it. The ordinary moments, the no-stakes check-ins, the hangout with no purpose — that's not wasted time. That's the whole thing. That's load-bearing.

    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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    29 mins
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