What To Do When Your Plan Completely Collapses with Lori Harder
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
If this year felt like everything you built started falling apart, you're not alone and you're not failing. In this episode, Lori and I talk about why so many people are coming out of 2025 feeling disoriented, frustrated, or like the plan they worked so hard for suddenly disappeared. We share the glass-blower analogy that has guided us through every major transition in our lives, including the complete collapse of my banking career in 2008 and the identity I had to melt down with it. Get ready to stop calling it a setback and start understanding what this phase is actually preparing you for.
HIGHLIGHTS
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The glassblower metaphor that explains every major life reset.
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What really happened for us during the 2008–2009 career and identity collapse.
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How long real reinvention actually takes.
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Why resisting change creates more pain.
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Entire industries and income streams are melting down right now.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My identity at the time was, what's your next promotion at this world's biggest bank and how many |
| 0:05.9 | people work underneath you and what do you drive in and what neighborhood are you moving into next? |
| 0:10.5 | I had to melt down what I thought were my dreams. I had to melt down what I thought was the |
| 0:15.3 | vision that I thought we were going to ride off into the sunset with, even though I was like, |
| 0:19.2 | what, 29 or 8 or whatever that it was at the time, had I stayed with that bank and worked my way up to the very top, we still |
| 0:26.4 | wouldn't have made near what we were able to make in this new expanded form after the inferno. |
| 0:43.5 | Welcome everybody to the Chris Harder Show, where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success, knowing that when good people like you make good money, they can then do |
| 0:47.8 | great things. My name is Chris Harder and several times per week. I will bring you epic guests, |
| 0:53.2 | solo episodes, and every single |
| 0:54.6 | tool, trick and skill set you need to grow your business, grow your money mindset, and to |
| 0:59.2 | grow your wealth to levels that you have never reached before. I've ended up in a unique |
| 1:03.4 | place in life where I've got the experience, the connections, and all of the secrets that |
| 1:07.3 | it takes to be successful. And I'm lifting the curtain to reveal it all to you |
| 1:11.8 | in an effort to help put you in a position of abundance so great that you can then be as |
| 1:16.9 | generous as possible. So let's lock arms and let's get started. And we're back. |
| 1:25.5 | With another episode of He Said She Said. We are right back where we started this time last year where everybody is transferring |
| 1:31.3 | into a new year and new goals and new situations. |
| 1:35.2 | And some of you are coming off a great year. |
| 1:37.8 | And a lot of you, I'm hearing, are coming off a really tough year where it almost like, |
| 1:43.4 | I don't know, like've, like all your plans |
| 1:45.5 | collapsed around you, all of your goals collapsed around you, all of the things that you |
| 1:50.2 | thought held true in your life all of a sudden changed for you this past year. |
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