Live Into Your Brilliance is about how we come to live the lives we live, and what becomes possible when we see ourselves and our lives differently.
Best mates Al Kenny and Mark Bilos have honest, curious and often funny conversations with people they genuinely want to understand, exploring what has shaped them, the choices they’ve made, the consequences of those choices, and what they’re still figuring out.
Underneath it all is a question: how do we become more conscious authors of our own lives, knowing that we never control what happens next?
You might leave seeing the guest differently. You might see yourself and your own life differently. You might recognise a possibility you hadn’t seen before.
What you do with that is yours.
2.5 Years of Podcasting: What We've Learned And What Comes Next
Two and a half years ago, this podcast began as a simple experiment. Two friends, a microphone, and a shared curiosity about what it really means to be human.
In this episode, Al and Bilos pause to reflect on that journey. The conversations that changed them. The guests who challenged them. The insights that quietly reshaped how they live, work, and listen.
But this is not a retrospective. It is a moment of renewal.
As the year turns, so does the direction of the podcast. What has emerged is a deeper invitation. To slow down. To go beyond broad conversations and into richer, more focused explorations. To approach each guest and each topic with beginner’s mind and deeper listening.
This conversation is about letting go of what has worked in order to discover what is waiting to emerge. About recognising that growth often comes with discomfort. And about trusting that the more you see, the more there is left to discover.
If you have ever felt the quiet nudge that it is time for a new chapter, this episode will meet you right there.
🔥 Topics We Explore
What two and a half years of deep conversation really changes
Why renewal often comes from letting go rather than adding more
The guests and moments that left a lasting mark
How curiosity deepens when certainty fades
Why not knowing is the doorway to wisdom
The responsibility of deep listening
What it means to grow the craft of conversation
Why staying awake matters more than having answers
Stay tuned for chapter 2...
Produced in partnership with http://www.podlad.com
23 Dec 2025
Where Inner Work Meets Family Life | Chris and Megan Hutchins
Inner work is not a retreat.
It is not a breakthrough moment.
And it is definitely not about fixing yourself.
Al and Bilos are joined by Chris and Megan Hutchins, a married couple and parents to a young daughter, for an honest conversation about what inner work actually looks like in daily life. Not in theory, but in the middle of work deadlines, parenting stress, relationship tension, and the constant pull of responsibility.
They explore how inner work shows up in the smallest moments. Choosing grace instead of perfection. Letting go of guilt. Slowing down enough to be curious about each other. Finding joy in ordinary evenings, simple routines, and being present rather than productive.
This is a conversation about practice, not ideals. About learning to listen to yourself and each other. About how inner work is less about changing your life and more about meeting the life you already have with clarity, compassion, and honesty.
If you have ever wondered what all this work actually looks like once you have kids, a partner, a career, and very little spare time, this episode will feel like a deep exhale.
Topics We Explore
Why you cannot be perfect in every role at once
Letting go of guilt around time, energy, and choice
How inner work shows up inside marriage and parenting
The shift from pressure to grace in daily life
Choosing curiosity over assumptions in relationships
Why self care is not selfish but stabilising
How simple practices prevent emotional overload
Finding joy without needing something new or different
Produced in partnership with http://www.podlad.com
17 Dec 2025
The Invisible Bottleneck in High Performance Culture
High performance culture promises results. Better systems. Better habits. Better output. Yet so many people and organisations hit their goals and still feel exhausted, disconnected, or quietly unfulfilled.
In this episode, Al and Bilos explore the invisible bottleneck most high performance thinking never addresses. It is not a lack of discipline. It is not poor strategy. It is not effort.
The bottleneck is awareness.
They unpack how performance cultures often focus on mechanics while ignoring the inner state people are operating from. When leaders and teams take their thinking too seriously, react to results, and live in constant fear of falling short, performance actually slows down. The harder people push, the more constrained they become.
Through examples from business, leadership, sport, and lived experience, this conversation reveals why being awake to how we are wired is not a luxury. It is the foundation that allows systems, skills, and effort to actually work.
If you have ever wondered why high performers burn out, why great strategies collapse under pressure, or why success can still feel empty, this episode will help you see what has been missing all along.
🔥 Topics We Explore
• Why high performance cultures often hit an unseen ceiling
• The difference between effort driven performance and awareness led performance
• How fear and reactivity quietly sabotage results
• Why discipline without presence creates suffering
• The role of connection, purpose, and human wiring in sustainable success
• What elite teams get right that most organisations miss
• Why true performance accelerates when people slow down internally
• The space between stimulus and response as the real performance advantage
💭 Reflective Prompt
Where in your work or life are you trying to push harder when what is really needed is clarity, presence, or a pause?
🧠 Quote to Remember
“You already possess the performance elixir you have been searching for.”
🌐 Produced in partnership with http://www.podlad.com
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[…] And we live in what I call our behavioral comfort zone. And we're living each day to say, to stay safe. We're living each day to stay secure or stable. And that locks us in, right? And that keeps us in our behavioral comfort zone. And we don't, we don't get to test our beliefs, our assumptions, you know, our preconceived notions, our preconceived notions are what lead to the self -limiting behaviors, right? We have all these preconceived notions. They're kind of walking around wherever they, wherever we go, they go. It's not like I have to get up in the morning and say, oh, did I pack my preconceived notions? […]
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