optYOUmize
Hosted by Brett Ingram · Brett Ingram
5.0from 16 ratings
- 659
- Episodes
- 203
- Transcribed
- 16
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 39K
- YouTube views
About optYOUmize
Most self-improvement tells you that a better life is a more productive life — more output, more achievement, more optimized routines in service of bigger goals. optYOUmize begins from a different premise. You are not a machine to be tuned. You are a whole person — with competing needs, deep relationships, finite time, and an interior life that deserves as much care as your calendar. The optYOUmize podcast, hosted by entrepreneur, coach, and speaker Brett Ingram, is built around one question: what does a genuinely good life actually look like for you? Not the generic answer. Not the socially acceptable one. The honest one. Every episode — whether a guest conversation or a solo exploration — is organized around the seven pillars of a well-lived life: Mind & Inner Life, Body & Vitality, Purpose & Meaningful Work, Relationships & Connection, Money & Financial Wellbeing, Time, Rhythm & Rest, and Growth & Self-Becoming. These aren't isolated categories. They're domains of a whole life, always in conversation with each other. This show is for the person who is doing the work, hitting the goals, and still feels like something is missing. For the thoughtful professional who suspects the ladder might be leaning against the wrong wall. For anyone tired of self-improvement content that just trades one form of striving for another — and who is ready for something more honest and fulfilling. What you'll find here: real conversations about the hard questions, frameworks you can actually use, and a point of view that treats you as an intelligent adult rather than a productivity problem to be solved. Brett Ingram spent 20 years in digital entrepreneurship — building businesses, winning awards, optimizing productivity, and earning recognition — before asking the question that changed everything: is this actually creating the genuine good life I want to live? optYOUmize is the path to the answer. Because optimization without intentional life architecture just makes you better at someone else's blueprint. This is where you build your own.
- Publisher
- Brett Ingram
- Category
- education · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 May 2021
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
203 of 659 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Can't I Celebrate My Own Wins?
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Do I Stay Up Late When I'm Exhausted?
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Don't I Feel Wonder Anymore?
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Why Can't I Celebrate My Own Wins?
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Give the other side of the ledger a vote. Now, it's not about becoming someone who brags, it's about becoming someone who can look at their own life and honestly say, that was good, and I did it, without immediately flinching toward the next thing. That's it. A done list, and now and then three questions. Five minutes a week, not another project to optimize, a small deliberate act of letting your own life count. Now, let me push back on myself, because I don't want you to hear something I'm not saying. First, this is not about resting on your laurels. I know the fear. If I stop and savor this, I'm going to get soft. […]
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- 38,607
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
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- 99
- Social presence
- 90
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 60
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Who hosts optYOUmize?
Brett Ingram host the show. Published by Brett Ingram.
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