What if the most important resource you'll ever have isn't taught in school?

When Maurice was invited to speak at his son's middle school Career Day, he didn't show up to talk about careers. Instead, he shared a powerful lesson about imagination. The invisible force behind every meaningful chapter of his life. From military service and law enforcement to real estate investing, international living, and entrepreneurship, every achievement began as an idea long before it became reality.

In this episode, Maurice explores why imagination deserves just as much attention as education, skills, and discipline. He reflects on the question that stopped the room: "What was your biggest obstacle?" His answer wasn't failure, lack of opportunity, or money. It was often the fears and limitations projected by other people.

In this episode:

• Why every meaningful achievement is created twice—first mentally, then physically
• How adult peer pressure sounds different from childhood peer pressure
• The surprising lesson Maurice wanted students (and teachers) to hear
• Why imagination may be the most underdeveloped skill in modern life
• How to give yourself permission to dream beyond what others think is realistic
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If you've ever felt called toward something bigger, this conversation will remind you where every journey begins.

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In this deeply personal episode, recorded from the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon, Maurice shares a moment of unexpected recognition.

Over the course of 24 hours, four separate reflections arrived from very different people—a fellow podcaster, a community member, a former client, and a close friend. Each reflection pointed to the same realization: the TLO mission had not changed, but he had evolved.

For years, Maurice has spoken about designing a life of freedom through intentional choices, financial independence, geographic flexibility, meaningful relationships, and purpose-driven work. But as he reflects on the journey from where he started to where he is today, he recognizes that freedom was never the destination. It was the runway.

In this episode, he explores deeper questions that emerged once the noise began to fade:

• Why freedom is a path, not a destination

• How removing static creates space for deeper awareness

• The difference between optimizing your life and harmonizing it

• What it means to build coherence instead of simply building more

• Why success may be less about becoming someone new and more about remembering who you’ve always been

This conversation is both a reflection and an invitation—an honest look at what happens after many of the goals you’ve worked toward begin to materialize, and the focus shifts from creating a life to inhabiting it.

As Maurice puts it:

“The runway still matters. I’m just talking more about the flight.”

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What if the life you’re living is being shaped by thoughts that were never truly yours?

In this deeply reflective solo episode, host Maurice Philogene breaks down the concept of the “mental diet”: the information, conversations, environments, and narratives we unconsciously consume every day and how they directly influence our emotions, actions, and ultimately, our reality. From social media and mainstream news to inherited family beliefs and subconscious conditioning, Maurice explores how repetitive messaging quietly programs the way we think and live.

Drawing from his own journey through military service, corporate life, real estate investing, and global travel, Maurice shares how intentionally curating his mindset became the foundation for achieving financial, geographic, purpose-driven, and relationship freedom.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Thoughts shape emotions, emotions drive actions, and actions create reality
• How social media subtly shapes identity and self-worth
• The difference between inspiration and comparison
• Why your environment matters more than motivation
• How conscious mental inputs can completely change your life trajectory

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, stuck, distracted, or disconnected from your purpose, this conversation will challenge you to rethink what you allow into your inner world and reclaim the power to consciously design your life.

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What if the life you worked so hard to build is the very thing disconnecting you from yourself?

In this deeply honest conversation, host Maurice Philogene sits down with transformational coach and former psychotherapist Carla Royal to unpack the hidden “override” patterns driving high performers, founders, and entrepreneurs toward burnout, disconnection, and emotional numbness. Together, they explore how society conditions us to chase success while ignoring the wisdom of our own nervous systems, intuition, and inner voice.

Carla shares powerful insights on unconscious scripts, emotional regulation, masculinity, nervous system awareness, and the true cost of living in constant grind mode. Maurice opens up about his own journey of stepping away from endless achievement to finally inhabit the life he already created.

In This Episode:

• Why so many successful people only enjoy “10%” of the life they built
• The hidden scripts driving founders and executives
• How hustle culture disconnects us from ourselves
• The “Golden Buddha” analogy that will change how you see healing
• Why ambition doesn’t have to come at the expense of your humanity
• How nature, stillness, and inner work help recalibrate your life

If you’ve ever felt exhausted by chasing the next milestone, this episode is your reminder that fulfillment is not found in more — it’s found in reconnecting with who you already are.

Connect with Carla

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlaroyalcoach/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlaroyal/

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One phone call can completely reorganize your life.

In this deeply personal episode, host Maurice Philogene opens up about the emotional reality of stepping into the role of caregiver for his parents while still intentionally designing a life rooted in freedom, purpose, and connection. Through raw voice-note conversations with a close friend facing the same transition, Maurice explores the shock, identity shift, and unexpected growth that comes with caring for aging parents.

Instead of viewing caregiving as a setback, Maurice shares how he reframed it as a new season of intentional living — one built around systems, community, family, and presence.

In this episode:

• How to support aging parents without losing your own identity
• Why caregiving feels like a “shock to the system”
• The mindset shift from reacting to intentionally designing your life
• How automation, community, and systems can reduce overwhelm
• Why this chapter can deepen your relationships instead of shrinking your freedom

If you’ve ever felt the pressure of balancing family responsibility with the life you’re trying to build, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.

Because you’re not retreating....you’re reorganizing.

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What happens when a 16-year-old stops waiting for permission and starts building the life she actually wants?

In this episode, host Maurice Philogene sits down with filmmaker, artist, and chess player Bianca Mitchell-Avila to unpack the mindset that transformed a small documentary idea into an internationally recognized project connected to names like Keanu Reeves, Carla Berkowitz, Michael Simkin & Zach Zamboni.

Bianca shares how she started reaching out to productions at 13, launched her own business as a teenager, faced criticism from peers, and ultimately created Mad Woman’s Game — a documentary highlighting women in the world of chess. More than a conversation about filmmaking, this episode explores identity, courage, creativity, and what becomes possible when you stop waiting to feel “ready.”

In this episode:

• ​Why movement beats perfection every time
• ​How to “create the space” for the life you want
• ​The mindset shift that changed Bianca’s future at 13
• ​Facing fear, rejection, and criticism head-on
• ​Building genuine relationships in creative industries

If you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to start — this conversation might be the sign you needed.

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Becoming who you’re meant to be isn’t clean. It isn’t linear. And it definitely isn’t comfortable.

In this episode, I sit down with Meghann Dawson to talk about what happens when your outer life looks successful, but your inner world starts breaking down.

Meghann did everything “right.”
She built a 20+ year career, rose through the ranks, earned respect, and checked every box society told her to chase. But underneath it all, something wasn’t aligned. Her voice was being silenced. Her health was declining. And the life she built no longer reflected who she was becoming.

This conversation goes beyond career transitions. It’s about the moment you stop performing and start telling yourself the truth.

We talk about what it really looks like to listen to that inner voice — especially when it asks you to walk away from everything that “makes sense.” Meghann shares how she reached her breaking point, found the courage to speak up without attachment to the outcome, and ultimately stepped into a completely new chapter rooted in authenticity, healing, and service.

We also go deep into the inner work most people avoid — understanding the difference between your inner voice and your inner critic, healing from past wounds, regulating your nervous system, and learning how to operate from wholeness instead of survival.

Because the truth is: most people don’t change until they break.
But maybe they don’t have to.

If you’ve been feeling the tension between who you are and who you’ve been… this conversation will meet you there.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why success on paper can still feel empty
• The cost of ignoring your inner voice
• How to speak your truth without needing a specific outcome
• The difference between survival mode and true alignment
• Healing trauma, identity shifts, and self-worth
• Why authenticity is a higher frequency than perfection
• Building a life from the inside out

About Meghann
Meghann Dawson is the creator of Becoming Is Messy and founder of the Unperfect Life Collective. After leaving a long corporate career, she now helps people navigate burnout, trauma, and reinvention by guiding them back to wholeness — so they can build lives rooted in truth, not performance.

This is not parenting by default. This is parenting by design. Most parents raise their kids inside a script they never questioned.

School. Safety. Conformity. Status. Follow the path. Hope it works.

In this rare and deeply personal episode of Try Life On, Maurice Philogene and Jeff Hitner open up about fatherhood, co-parenting, raising two sons across cultures, and why exposing children to the world matters more than protecting them from it.

From sending kids overseas, teaching financial literacy early, encouraging independent thought, and building resilience through real experiences, they share the same unapologetic mindset used to build their own lives and how it shaped the way they raise family.

In this episode:

* Why parents follow unconscious conditioning

* How real-world exposure expand identity

* Teaching kids freedom, confidence, resilience

* Why money skills matter early

* Co-parenting with intention instead of ego

* Leading kids w/o forcing them into your script

* Why success is not the same as fulfillment

If you’ve ever wondered how to raise kids while building an ambitious life, or how to give them more options, this episode is for you.

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