#70 - The Dark Side of Success: The Mental Struggle Behind Entrepreneurship
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this raw and revealing episode of The Choose Hard Podcast, Cody McBroom sits down with Tailored Coaching Method’s Director of Coaching, Arielle DeYampert, who knows him better than most people in his life, for a live, unfiltered studio conversation that pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build a business, lead a team, and stay emotionally grounded through it all.
Arielle flips the script—asking Cody the deep, uncomfortable questions most CEOs won’t talk about. Together, they dive into the emotional weight of leadership, navigating relationships while chasing massive goals, and the behind-the-scenes sacrifices nobody sees but everyone feels.
In this episode, Cody shares:
- The hardest parts of being a CEO most entrepreneurs never talk about
- How to compartmentalize emotions without becoming emotionally numb
- The biggest failures on his journey—and what they taught him
- What he’s most proud of that has nothing to do with numbers or titles
- How to maintain balance between success and personal relationships
- The mindset it takes to lead a company without losing yourself in the process
This episode is for entrepreneurs, leaders, and high achievers who want more than surface-level advice. If you’re building something meaningful and want to do it without burning out, this one’s for you.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of the Choose Hard podcast, I have tailored coaching methods director of coaching |
| 0:04.7 | Ariel Deampert in the studio with me to talk shop. She was here on a work retreat. We had the |
| 0:10.5 | whole staff come to the tailored coaching headquarters. And she asked me the hard questions that |
| 0:15.8 | nobody else is really willing to ask. And many entrepreneurs aren't willing to publicly answer. |
| 0:21.8 | But I think it's very vital for anybody who is chasing their dream, building a business, |
| 0:26.4 | running a staff, is managing a team or anything around leadership and entrepreneurship and business. |
| 0:31.2 | I think it's really important for them to hear this because this is going to shed light on the good, |
| 0:35.4 | the bad, and the ugly. |
| 0:36.8 | And although you might hear a lot of pain in my voice for some of the answers you are going to listen to, |
| 0:42.9 | you are also going to learn why purpose in your life might not be possible without experiencing some pain. |
| 0:49.5 | Because through that pain is a path that does lead to your purpose and success for what you're chasing. |
| 0:55.0 | I really, really enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:56.6 | And as always, Ariel Deampert, she brings amazing questions and amazing conversation and just an |
| 1:02.5 | amazing human being to have a conversation with. |
| 1:04.6 | Some of the episodes I've done with her in the past have been the most downloaded and |
| 1:08.3 | most popular episodes on this podcast, which says a lot. |
| 1:11.8 | So I think you're going to enjoy this one with the one and only Ariel Deampert. |
| 1:17.1 | The greatest things in life all start with a challenge. |
| 1:21.0 | You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy. |
| 1:24.7 | Everything you want in life begins with a hard path. |
| 1:28.8 | Ariel is back on the podcast, |
| 1:31.0 | which, |
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