369. Your Ego Is Making You Miserable with Cy Wakeman [Encore Edition]

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Business, Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

What if your suffering isn't coming from your circumstances, but from your stories? In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, workplace drama expert, leadership consultant, and best-selling author Cy Wakeman unpacks the inner chaos that holds high performers back. Through personal stories and hard-won lessons, she reveals how the ego fuels self-imposed suffering, how gratitude can evolve your perspective, and why true leadership begins with self-reflection. Alongside Jessica Mogill, Cy shares the practices and mindset shifts that can help you stop resisting reality and start showing up with clarity, calm, and compassion. Here's what you'll learn: Why most suffering is self-inflicted — and how your ego is the culprit How to use three simple questions to break free from stress and overwhelm What it takes to live a life you don't need a vacation from Your peace begins where your ego ends — and this episode shows you the way. ---- Show Notes: 00:00 – Introduction 01:56 – Writing Through the Chaos: How the Pandemic Shaped Cy's New Book 02:08 – Self-Imposed Suffering: How Ego Hijacks the Present Moment 06:04 – Reclaiming Perspective: The Three Questions That Set You Free 10:06 – Gratitude Reimagined: Counting Everything as a Blessing 23:05 – Stop Naming Things Too Soon: Embracing Curiosity Over Control 25:07 – The Power of “And”: Rejecting Either/Or Thinking 29:41 – Overgiving, Boundaries, and the Illusion of Control 32:42 – Self-Soothing vs. Self-Care: The Difference That Changes Everything ---- Links & Resources: Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace and Life's Messy, Live Happy by Cy Wakeman Ted x Talk: “Ditch the Drama” by Cy Wakeman ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O'Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 110. Leading Ladies: Four Leaders in Business 132. Summit Spectacular: Part 1 214. Dream Team: How to Hire & Keep High-Performing Talent

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0:00.0	There's always a call to greatness with anything in my life that starts out as stress.
0:08.1	I can have the external circumstances traumatize me or evolve me.
0:13.5	That's Cy Wakeman, drama researcher, leadership consultant, and New York Times bestselling author.
0:19.1	And the more evolved you are, the more you can walk through the world's unaffected.
0:23.4	You can walk through the world with love and no reaction to unloving things.
0:34.8	I'm Michael Logel, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth company.
0:39.6	I've built my business through practice, not theory.
0:42.4	Crisp started with just $500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,
0:47.7	earning a spot on the Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
0:52.1	Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth
0:55.5	within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed law
0:59.2	from owners do the same for theirs.
1:01.0	In each episode of this podcast, I sit down with innovative market leaders from the legal
1:04.9	industry and beyond to learn from those who thrive in the face of adversity, challenge
1:09.2	the status quo, and define what it means
1:11.2	to be a true game changer.
1:13.3	This is Jessica, head of coaching strategy at Chris, and today we're revisiting one of our most
1:17.8	popular episodes from the podcast, where I sat down with Cy Wakeman to discuss the difference
1:22.3	between self-soothing and self-care, why overgiving can sometimes cause more harm than good,
1:27.4	and how to evolve the way
1:28.8	we practice gratitude. We are so quick to name things that happen externally. Good, bad. We name people,
1:36.5	idiots, jerks, geniuses if they think like us. We are so good at trying to name things. So what I tell
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