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Daniel Craig Johnson

Welcome to The Success Blueprint: Strategies for Building a Life and Business You Love with Daniel Craig Johnson. This is not just a podcast, this is a movement. A movement of people who are ready to take their life and business to the next level. A movement of people who are willing to learn from a master coach who has been there, done that, and helped people from all walks of life to do the same. 

Daniel Craig Johnson is the founder of Mindworx Coaching, a company that empowers people and organizations to transform their mindset and achieve their goals. In this podcast, you will hear amazing stories, powerful tips and incredible insights from Daniel and his guests on topics such as personal development, leadership, entrepreneurship, productivity, motivation and more. 

Whether you are looking to start or grow your own business, improve your personal or professional skills, or create a more fulfilling and balanced life, this podcast will give you the strategies and inspiration you need to make it happen. 

Don't miss this opportunity to join Daniel every week as he shares his wisdom and experience on The Success Blueprint: Strategies for Building a Life and Business You Love.

The Success Blueprint with Daniel Craig Johnson

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Burnout isn’t too much work, it’s too little payoff per unit of effort.

In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I challenge the outdated belief that burnout is fixed by rest alone. The real problem isn’t your workload, it’s the structure behind it. You’ll learn how to redesign your day around energy cycles instead of clock time, using neuroscience-backed strategies that help you perform better, recover faster, and feel fulfilled again.

I break down the 3R Loop: Reduce, Reassign, Remove, to help you eliminate friction and focus on high-value work. You’ll also discover how to build a visible Win Ledger to reconnect your brain to progress and prevent emotional depletion before it starts.

This isn’t about doing less. It’s about designing smarter, so your energy fuels growth instead of survival.

Key Takeaways

 • Why burnout stems from misaligned effort, not overwork.
 • How to map and use your natural energy cycles for peak output.
 • The 3R Loop to declutter work that drains your focus.
 • How to use a Visible Win Ledger to create proof of progress and motivation.
 • Advanced tools to align effort with meaning and protect long-term performance.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is powered by Doc Marty Mushrooms, precision-crafted blends for clarity, recovery, and sustainable energy. Just like your brain needs rhythm to perform, your body needs nourishment to sustain it. Marty’s devotion to people, health, and human potential mirrors the mission of 15 Minute Mondays: helping you thrive, not just survive. Visit www.docmarty.com
 and use code (Hidden In The Episode) for 25% off your first purchase.

👉 Listen now to learn how to rebuild your energy architecture and create a workday that fuels achievement instead of exhaustion.

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15 Minute Mondays - The Anti-Burnout Workday: How to Redesign Your Energy, Not Your Schedule

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Truth without care is cruelty. Care without truth is collusion.

Today I reveal, the science and psychology behind speaking hard truths without damaging trust. Most people avoid difficult conversations because they confuse kindness with silence. But silence doesn’t preserve peace, it breeds distance.

You’ll learn a clear framework to prepare, deliver, and debrief high-stakes conversations in a way that protects relationships while driving honest change. Whether you’re leading a team, resolving conflict, or confronting emotional tension, this episode will teach you how to master the art of candid empathy, honesty with humanity.

Key Takeaways

 • Why avoiding hard conversations damages trust and performance.
 • The Intention, Evidence, Invitation triad for preparation.
 • Language templates that balance truth and care for psychological safety.
 • How to perform a post-conversation “residue check” to prevent emotional hangover.
 • Advanced conversational strategies like the Micro-Truth Method and Physiological Regulation.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is brought to you by Doc Marty Mushrooms, precision blends that enhance focus, calm, and emotional balance. Just as great conversations need clarity and grounding, so does your nervous system. Marty’s passion for people and health reflects the same principle as this episode: sustained presence under pressure. 

Visit www.docmarty.com
 and use the code (HIDDEN IN THE EPISODE) for a 25% off your first order.

👉 Listen now to learn how to tell the truth without tearing the connection, and transform every hard conversation into a bridge, not a battle.

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15 Minute Mondays - Hard Conversations That Don’t Break Relationships: How to Tell the Truth Without Burning Bridges

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Winners don’t quit because it’s easy, they quit because it’s intelligent.
In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I dismantle one of the most dangerous cultural myths: that persistence always equals success. The truth? Sometimes grit keeps you stuck.

You’ll learn how to distinguish between healthy perseverance and self-sabotage, when to walk away from goals that no longer serve your growth, and how to reinvest your freed bandwidth into something that compounds instead of consumes. This isn’t about giving up, it’s about upgrading direction.

I will share a proven 5-step framework, the Truth, Traction, and Time Test.

Key Takeaways

 • Why quitting intelligently can accelerate success faster than blind persistence.
 • The 5-step framework: Truth, Traction, and Time Tests + Soft Landing + Bandwidth Reinvestment.
 • How to design an exit that protects credibility and relationships.
 • Why letting go is often the prerequisite for innovation and growth.
 • How to turn every ending into leverage for your next evolution.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is proudly supported by Doc Marty Mushrooms, precision-crafted blends for focus, clarity, and energy. Just as strategic quitting clears mental clutter, Doc Marty clears biological noise. Marty’s passion for health and performance mirrors this episode’s message: simplify, nourish, rebuild. Visit www.docmarty.com
 

Use code (Hidden In This Episode) for 25% off your first order.

👉 Listen now to learn how to quit strategically, reclaim bandwidth, and redirect your effort toward what truly moves the needle.

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15 Minute Mondays - The Art of Strategic Quitting: Why Winners Know When to Walk Away

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Designing Your Default Future: How Habits Decide Who You Become

Your habits are writing next year’s biography. In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I dismantle the myth that the future is built by big goals or sudden breakthroughs. The truth is simpler, your daily habits are silently deciding who you become. Every repeated behaviour, tolerated routine, and unchallenged excuse is forming your default future.

This episode reveals how to move from drift to design. You’ll learn how to reprogram identity, install forcing functions that make success automatic, and apply a quarterly “recode” ritual to prevent autopilot living. Because when you stop outsourcing your future to yesterday’s habits, you stop living reactively, and start living deliberately.

Key Takeaways

 • Why your 
default future • forms through routine, not intention.
 • The 5-step framework to move from drift to design.
 • How to use forcing functions to automate high-value behaviors.
 • The power of quarterly recoding to reset identity and momentum.
 • How to align daily choices with the person you’re becoming, not the person you’ve been.

Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is brought to you by Doc Marty Mushrooms, a brand built on clarity, discipline, and daily energy optimization. Just like you can’t design a future with a foggy mind, you can’t build high-performance habits without physical balance. Marty’s passion for people and health has created blends that support focus, recovery, and long-term brain health, the perfect foundation for intentional living. Visit www.docmarty.com and use code (Hidden In This Episode) for a 25% discount on your first purchase.

Listen now to learn how to design your default future, one small, intentional decision at a time.

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15 Minute Mondays - Designing Your Default Future: How Habits Decide Who You Become

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Life isn’t meant to be smooth sailing. It’s an emotional landscape filled with peaks, valleys, and everything in between. In this episode of 15 Minute Monday, I explore why the path to a truly good life isn’t found in chasing constant happiness but in embracing every emotion, the joy, the pain, the uncertainty, and the growth that follows.

We dive deep into the concept of Emodiversity, the science of emotional richness, and how allowing yourself to feel the full spectrum of emotions creates balance, resilience, and deeper fulfilment. Real well-being is not about avoiding hard feelings; it’s about learning from them and allowing them to shape you into someone wiser and stronger.

Key Takeaways:

 • Embrace emotional complexity by allowing yourself to experience the full range of human emotions, not only the pleasant ones.
 • Debunk the myth of constant happiness by recognizing that true fulfilment comes from emotional diversity and authenticity.
 • Build resilience through adversity by viewing hard emotions as training grounds for strength, adaptability, and wisdom.
 • Find meaning in the struggle by uncovering the lessons that challenges carry when you reflect instead of resist.
 • Prioritize emotional well-being through rest, self-care, connection, and intentional reflection.
 • Connect to a greater purpose by seeking meaning through service, creativity, and spiritual grounding that adds depth to life.
 • Practice self-compassion by treating yourself with kindness when things feel heavy and embracing vulnerability as strength.
 • Embrace impermanence by understanding that every emotion is temporary and gratitude for the moment creates lasting peace.

This episode will challenge how you think about happiness and emotional health. The good life is not about escaping the lows. It is about meeting them with courage, learning from them, and discovering who you become along the way.

🎙️ Listen now on The Success Blueprint Podcast, where growth meets real talk.

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15 Minute Mondays - Good Life, Tough Feelings Accepting the Ups and Downs

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You’re not calm, you’re disconnected.

In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I challenge one of the biggest misconceptions in modern life and leadership: that composure equals control. Many professionals mistake emotional shutdown for emotional mastery, wearing numbness like armour and calling it strength.

But here’s the truth, the armour that protects you also isolates you. This episode reveals how to recognize emotional armour, why it quietly kills creativity, empathy, and connection, and how to rebuild genuine emotional presence as the foundation of leadership, resilience, and power.

✨ Key Takeaways

 • Why emotional regulation is not the same as emotional suppression.
 • The 5-step framework for removing emotional armour and rebuilding authentic presence.
 • How to feel deeply without losing control, the art of anchored composure.
 • Advanced strategies like the Somatic Check-In Protocol and Emotional Differentiation Drill.
 • Why emotional connection, not numbness, is the ultimate leadership advantage.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is supported by Doc Marty Mushrooms. Emotional balance starts with physiological balance. Doc Marty’s passion for health and people has produced blends that promote clarity, focus, and resilience, the perfect support for those rebuilding from burnout and emotional exhaustion. Visit 
www.docmarty.com and use the code hidden in the episode for a 25% Discount on your first purchase.

Listen now and learn how to drop the armour, feel again, and lead with power that’s grounded in presence, not performance.

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15 Minute Mondays - Emotional Armour: Why We Mistake Numbness for Strength

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Most leaders drown in data and still hesitate. They miss subtle cues, stall while waiting for certainty, or dismiss their gut as “unreliable.” But here’s the disruptive truth: intuition is not guesswork, it’s a skill. When trained and tested, it becomes your fastest, sharpest strategic advantage.

In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I reveal how to cultivate intuition systematically, so you can read hidden patterns, balance instinct with evidence, and make sharper, more confident decisions when it matters most.

✨ Key Takeaways

 • Why intuition, when disciplined, outperforms over-analysis.
 • The 5-step framework for building and testing intuitive decision-making.
 • How to spot subtle signals - tone, micro-cues, dissonance, that others ignore.
 • Advanced strategies like Thin-Slice Drills, Noise Audits, and the Two-Clock Protocol.
 • Real-world examples of intuition saving opportunities, and the cost of ignoring it.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is brought to you by Doc Marty Mushrooms. Just like intuition thrives on clarity, your brain thrives on clean fuel. Marty’s passion for people and health has produced blends that boost focus, calm stress, and sharpen energy, exactly what you need to sense subtle signals without noise. Visit www.docmarty.com
 and use code (hidden in the episode) for 20% off your first purchase.

👉 Listen now and start training your intuition into a tool that wins strategy, not just feelings.

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15 Minute Mondays - Beyond Logic: Intuition as a Strategic Advantage

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In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I expose the empathy double standard and show why reciprocity is the missing ingredient in healthy, high-performing organizations. If empathy only flows downward, it isn’t empathy, it’s exploitation.

✨ Key Takeaways

 • Why one-sided empathy drains leaders and erodes trust.
 • The 5-step framework to build 
reciprocal empathy • in teams and organizations.
 • How transparency about leadership burdens creates deeper understanding.
 • Advanced strategies like Empathy Economics, Pre-Mortem Empathy, and neuroscience-backed trust building.
 • Why true organizational strength comes when empathy flows both ways.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is supported by Doc Marty Mushrooms. Just as real empathy nourishes both leader and staff, Doc Marty fuels resilience for both body and mind. Marty’s passion for health and people is about reciprocity: nature giving us clarity and vitality, and us choosing to live with it daily. Visit www.docmarty.com
 and use code - hidden in episode :-) - for 25% off on your first purchase.

👉 Listen now and challenge yourself: Are you practicing empathy, or are you only demanding it from others?

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15 Minute Mondays - The Empathy Double Standard: Why Leaders Bleed for Teams That Won’t Bleed Back

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Real authority isn’t about volume, theatrics, or pretending to have all the answers. It’s about speaking plainly, committing specifically, inviting dissent, and owning mistakes before anyone else points them out. In this episode of 15 Minute Mondays, I explain why the strongest leaders build trust through clarity under pressure, not through ego-driven performance.

If you’re a leader, business owner, or professional who wants to command respect without relying on noise, this episode will give you the blueprint for leading with credibility that lasts.

✨ Key Takeaways

 • Why ego-driven leadership collapses under pressure while humility builds trust.
 • The 5-step framework for practicing authority without theatrics.
 • How plain speech and specific commitments outperform jargon and volume.
 • Why inviting the strongest counterargument strengthens, not weakens, your authority.
 • Advanced strategies like the Ego Audit, the 80% Rule of Authority, and the neuroscience of humility.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is supported by Doc Marty Mushrooms. Just as true authority isn’t built on ego, true performance isn’t built on gimmicks. Marty’s passion for people, health, and resilience fuels the clarity and focus leaders need to make decisions that matter. Visit www.docmarty.com
 

and use code (In The Episode) for 20% off your first purchase.

👉 Listen now to discover how to practice Authority Without Ego—and why your team is waiting for it.

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15 Minute Mondays - Authority Without Ego: Leading With Clarity, Not Theatrics

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Your past is not your prison. Your choices are your escape. Whether you’re leading a team, building a business, or trying to change your personal habits, this framework will show you why excuses steal agency, and why radical responsibility is the only path to freedom, growth, and impact.

✨ Key Takeaways

 • Why excuses feel soothing but silently erode power and growth.
 • The 5-step Zero-Excuse Framework to identify, reframe, and eliminate excuse patterns.
 • How to build non-negotiables that make excuses impossible.
 • Advanced strategies like the Excuse Interruption Technique, Control vs. Concern Matrix, and Micro-Victories Principle.
 • Why ownership of even the unfair moments gives you leverage to lead and live free.

🍄 Sponsor: Doc Marty’s Mushrooms

This episode is powered by Doc Marty Mushrooms. Marty’s passion is resilience, helping people fuel their minds and bodies with clarity, focus, and longevity. Just as the Zero-Excuse Standard demands radical ownership, Doc Marty helps you own your health through natural tools that protect energy and performance. Visit www.docmarty.com
 and use code (hidden in the episode!) for a 20% discount on your first purchase.

👉 Listen now and commit to living by the Zero-Excuse Standard this week.

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15 Minute Mondays - The Zero-Excuse Standard: Why Responsibility Is the Only Way Out

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Today, we're going deep into the art of making a real impact at work beyond just ticking off tasks from a checklist.

Are you ready to elevate your contributions, transform your relationships, and leave a lasting imprint in your professional sphere? Join me as I explore the concept of impact zones, dissect practical strategies to enhance both individual and collective impact, and equip you with actionable tips to become a powerhouse in your workplace.
Key Takeaways:

Understanding Impact Zones: 1. Discover the distinction between individual and collective impact zones and how they shape your professional journey.
Developing Individual Impact: 2. Sharpen your skills, become a problem-solving pro, embrace efficiency, and focus on delivering tangible value in your core area of expertise.
Elevating Collective Impact: 3. Cultivate effective communication, embrace collaboration, become a bridge builder, navigate conflicts constructively, and celebrate the successes of your team members.
Shifting Mindset: 4. Think growth mindset, viewing challenges as opportunities for growth and setbacks as stepping stones to success.

My Call To Action For You:

 5. This week, take a moment to reflect on your current impact at work and choose one or two actionable strategies to implement. Remember, small changes can lead to significant results. Tune in to The Success Blueprint and come with me on a journey of self-improvement and professional growth like never before!

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15 Minute Mondays - Beyond the Checklist: Delivering Value and Making a Real Difference

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