Audra Phelps built her entire identity inside the LDS Church — raised faithful, married young, a stay-at-home mom following every rule. Then, after more than a decade of quiet internal wrestling, she left. What followed was the loneliest and most disorienting kind of freedom: the kind that comes without a map.

Cliff Beach built a career most people dream about — award-winning musician, radio host, beauty tech executive, published author. Beneath it all, he was quietly falling apart. What followed his wake-up call became the foundation for everything he now teaches about sobriety, discipline as self-respect, and what it actually looks like to rebuild a life from the inside out.

The Struggle Was Never the Strategy

Jillian Minter survived the pandemic with her Pilates and yoga studio intact — and arrived on the other side burnt out, miserable, and deep in a scarcity mindset she didn't yet have a name for. What changed everything wasn't a better business plan. It was a shift in identity.

Karen Freeland traded her personal dreams for a six-figure corporate salary, climbed to chief of staff — and woke up one day to find it wasn't enough. What she did next changed everything.

Amanda Lentz sits down with Troy Frostad to explore resilience beyond performance, identity after diagnosis, caregiving, faith, and what happens when life forces you to confront your own mortality.

Troy is a certified executive and performance coach, a U.S. Air Force veteran, founder of Pinnacle Leadership, and a man who, five years ago, heard the words stage four colon cancer.

What followed was not only a fight for survival, but a complete transformation in how he understood strength, leadership, vulnerability, purpose, and what it truly means to keep going when life no longer looks recognizable.

It Wasn't the End. It Was the Beginning of the Next Thing.

At 59½, James Logan was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer that had spread to his liver. The prognosis: six months to two years. Twenty-five months later, he has reached no evidence of disease twice, written a book, and is training for the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.

Rachael Paskvan spent years as one of the only women in executive protection — protecting public figures around the globe, then leading executive travel security and large-scale event logistics at one of the world's largest tech companies. She never waited for an invitation. She just walked in.

In this episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change, Amanda Lentz sits down with Jenny Blake to explore identity shifts, reinvention, grief, and what it truly means to rebuild when life no longer fits the version of yourself you once knew.

Together, they talk about the hidden grief that comes with change, the emotional cost of career pivots, and the deeply human experience of feeling untethered during seasons of transition. Jenny shares her journey from leaving college early to work at a startup, building a successful career at Google, becoming an entrepreneur, and ultimately navigating the uncertainty and loss that came during the pandemic.

This conversation is for anyone standing at the edge of change — especially those who feel caught between gratitude and restlessness, or who are quietly questioning whether the life they built still reflects who they are becoming.

Content note: This episode discusses sexual assault, coercive control, gaslighting, and the physical effects of trauma. Please take care of yourself as you read. If you are in a difficult situation right now, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233 or by texting START to 88788.

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The Body That Kept Receipts

Loren Galese spent years carrying something she didn't yet have words for. The manipulation, the distortion of her own reality, the slow unraveling in her body — none of it had a name yet. It does now. She has written all of it in her memoir, and she has become the therapist she needed then.