Live your best life by overcoming the negative emotions and limiting beliefs that will lead to overcoming and killing low self esteem.
Chad Bentley is an Ultra Distance Endurance Athlete that transformed his life from a 250 pound fast food eating, alcohol drinking, low self esteem ridden, pack a day smoker, to an accomplished endurance athlete, business leader, breakthrough coach and family man.
Years of low self esteem and feelings of not being worthy pushed Chad into years of living a life of depression, following a path often described by Chad as living in the dark. Unhealthy, self destructive habits were leading Chad to a life of below average results; that would have lead to below average outcomes.
Years of self help, spiritual discovery , new tribes and ultimately physical fitness through endurance athletics, allowed Chad to see the light and move life away from negative emotions and limiting beliefs into a life of elevated self esteem and joy.
Forged Through Adversity: How Hardship Evolves Men
In this episode of Faceplants to Finish Lines, Chad explores how adversity shapes men and why controlled hardship is one of the greatest catalysts for growth and transformation.
This isn't theory. It's lived experience.
Chad reflects on the adversity he witnessed growing up and how those experiences shaped his understanding of resilience, masculinity, and evolution. He explains why many men today are struggling not because they are weak, but because modern life has removed the challenges that build emotional strength, discipline, and self trust.
Using the framework of values levels and nervous system adaptation, Chad breaks down how hardship reveals character, rewires identity, and helps men evolve into grounded, capable leaders.
This episode explores adversity not as punishment, but as a necessary part of becoming stronger, calmer, more disciplined, and more integrated as a man.
What You'll Learn in This Episode
· Why adversity reveals character more than it builds it
· The difference between destructive stress and growth-oriented "eustress"
· How values levels shape masculine development and emotional maturity
· Why true confidence is built through evidence, not positive thinking
You do not become resilient by avoiding pressure. You become resilient by learning you can survive it.
7 May 2026
Fatherhood & Masculinity: What Raising Girls Teaches Men
In this episode of Faceplants to Finish Lines, Chad breaks down how fatherhood, specifically raising daughters, forces men to evolve in ways most never expected.
This isn't about parenting tactics. It's about identity.
Chad shares his personal experience growing up in a high-energy, competitive environment and contrasts it with what it takes to raise daughters in today's world. He unpacks a critical shift. Raising boys is about direction, but raising girls is about presence, and most men were never taught how to lead in that way.
This episode reframes common struggles in fatherhood such as disconnection, control, emotional distance, or passivity not as personal failures, but as signs of unfinished development.
What You'll Learn in This Episode
· Why masculinity must evolve to meet the demands of fatherhood
· The key difference between raising sons (direction) and daughters (presence)
· How different values levels show up in fatherhood and where they break down
· What it means to lead as an integrated man who is strong, grounded, and emotionally present
Fatherhood isn't just raising a child. It's evolving into the man she needs you to be.
2 Apr 2026
Navigating Values Levels in Business
In this episode of Faceplants to Finish Lines, Chad breaks down how values levels can shape leadership, team dynamics, and organizational growth.
This isn't theory. It's lived experience.
Chad walks through each stage of business evolution: from the early, survival-driven hustle of a startup to structured operations, performance-driven growth, and eventually integration within a large corporate system. Along the way, he reveals a critical insight: organizations don't evolve evenly and neither do people.
This episode reframes common workplace challenges such as turnover, resistance, misalignment, and culture breakdown, not as failures in strategy, but as mismatches in developmental stages.
More importantly, Chad outlines what it takes to lead through that complexity and evolve into a leader who can operate across all levels.
What You'll Learn in This Episode
· What values levels (Spiral Dynamics) are and how they apply inside organizations
· Why teams and organizations don't evolve at the same pace and how that creates friction
· How leadership styles must adapt at each stage of business growth
· How to recognize values-level mismatches inside your team or organization
· What it means to lead as an integrated, adaptive leader across multiple levels
You can't force people into higher levels of thinking but you can lead in a way that supports their evolution.
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