The Game Plan for Life: Aligning Identity, Purpose & Performance with Gary Chupik

The Game Plan for Life: Aligning Identity, Purpose & Performance with Gary Chupik

June 23, 2026 · 46 min · Episode 25

About this episode

Kris Ashley interviews mental performance coach Gary Chupik about creating an identity-based Game Plan for Life.

What if the most effective plan for your future isn’t based on ambition, but on who you truly are? In this episode, Kris Ashley speaks with mental performance coach Gary Chupik about creating an identity-based Game Plan for Life. Gary shares how his experience as a pastor, hospital chaplain, sports chaplain, leadership coach, and mental performance specialist shaped his approach to helping people find clarity, purpose, and meaningful progress. Gary explains the difference between what we want in the moment and what we really want from our lives. He walks through the five essential stages of his Game Plan for Life: understanding who you are, recognizing where you are now, deciding where you want to go, creating a path forward, and identifying what you will need to succeed. Kris and Gary also discuss personal archetypes, leadership blind spots, self-perception, and Gary’s Perspectives Tool for identifying what feels right, wrong, confusing, missing, or overwhelming. This conversation is an invitation to stop measuring your life only by achievements and start building around identity, purpose, relationships, and progress. You’ll discover why small actions create momentum, why you…

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