About this episode

Joe Polish and Omani Carson discuss the journey from feeling spiritually bankrupt to finding joy as a baseline in life and business.

If you have ever built something successful and still felt like something was off, this conversation is for you. Joe Polish sits down with Omani Carson, the founder and chairman of Carson Group (a national wealth platform managing over 50 billion dollars in assets), the founder of Omya, and the co-founder of the Dreamweaver Foundation. What makes this episode different is not what Omani has built. It is what he has been willing to question. Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation: Why Omani says he was "spiritually bankrupt" while everyone else thought he had the most amazing life on the planet. The exact moment he realized no number in his bank account was ever going to make him feel safe, and the moment he finally stopped sprinting toward the next one. The eleven-year-ago turning point that finally cracked open the only operating system he had ever known. The three-year separation from his wife Jeannie that nearly ended a 44 year marriage, and the work they each did to come back together. Why the medicine is never the medicine, and the post-experience work that most people skip and then complain that nothing changed. The bag of ingredients practice Omani uses…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Polish

Guest: Omani Carson

Topics covered

• spirituality
• personal growth
• business success
• marriage
• wealth management
• mental health

Keywords

• spiritual bankruptcy
• wealth management
• personal transformation
• marriage challenges
• joy
• business success

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carson Group, Omya, Dreamweaver Foundation

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