Todd Bertsch on Finding Gifts in Crisis: The Positive Intelligence Approach to Resilience

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5.0 • 132 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Todd Bertsch's journey from troubled youth to successful entrepreneur exemplifies how pivotal moments reshape entire trajectories. A traumatic encounter during his twenties—being beaten at a house he was renting—forced him to confront the reality of his substance-fueled existence. Returning home bruised and ashamed, he discovered old sketchbooks in his father's closet that reignited a creative spark long dormant within him. This fork in the road moment became the catalyst that set him on a path toward meaningful achievement, ultimately leading him to pursue a BFA in graphic design and launch his own digital marketing agency.

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0:00.0	unconditional love for yourself. Unconditional. And what that does is it allows you to remove
0:05.7	perfectionism, which is really dangerous. I know because I live that way for so long, and I led
0:13.2	that way, which didn't allow my team to grow because there's no way they could ever reach that
0:18.8	bar that was set so high. I couldn't reach that bar.
0:21.6	But then I'm not releasing things. I'm holding on. And if you want to get into podcasting,
0:27.9	you're just going to have to be okay with things not being absolutely perfect. And that's,
0:32.4	that's okay. But perfectionism, oh my gosh, it's a barrier. It is a barrier to growth and success.
0:40.5	Step into the world of success with your brand amplified, the ultimate podcast designed to
0:46.3	unravel the intricacies of thriving businesses. I'm your host, Onica Jackson, and I'm on a mission
0:52.1	to uncover the stories, strategies, and secrets that
0:55.6	have propelled entrepreneurs and business leaders to success.
1:01.4	I am thrilled to have somebody who, from what I know of you, Todd Burch, is cut from the
1:07.6	same cloth. I think there are probably a lot of similarities, maybe not everything
1:12.9	the same, but in our backstories and how we got to our approaches and marketing, podcasting,
1:17.7	and also mindset. So thank you for being on your brand amplified today. Yes, thanks for having
1:23.7	me. I'm excited. Wonderful. You are a 16-year veteran CEO, keynote speaker,
1:30.3	PUQ Mental Fitness Coach. And you also hosts the Bolt podcast. So I'm really excited to bring
1:36.4	all these things together today. So I want to start with a little bit of, you know, I know
1:42.2	you've talked about your backstory or origin story on many
1:45.3	other podcasts, but for my audience, we talk about that life-altering moment in your 20s that
1:51.2	change your trajectory.
1:54.0	Yeah, and that's what it was.
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