Quick Before You Forget

About Quick Before You Forget

Are you rebuilding your life and not sure where to start?  Wondering how to find yourself again after burnout, loss, or a major life change? Trying to move forward without a clear plan and feeling like “fine” just isn’t enough anymore? "Quick Before You Forget" is a self-improvement and personal development podcast for people rebuilding their lives in real time. Each episode offers a grounded place to land while you’re navigating life transitions, identity shifts, and emotional overwhelm. Through honest reflection and practical insight, this podcast helps you steady yourself, build emotional resilience, and take the next true step forward without pressure to have everything figured out. This show explores how to build an unreal life from the ground up using three deeply human tools: music to help you feel, remember, and process emotion, mindset to help you reframe, choose again, and reclaim agency, and movement to help you regulate your nervous system, release stuck energy, and keep going. Rather than quick fixes or hustle culture, "Quick Before You Forget" captures growth as it’s actually happening in real time, before the moment fades. These are lived practices, not theories. Reflections, not prescriptions. If you’re starting over, redefining who you are, or learning how to trust yourself again, this personal growth podcast is here to remind you: you don’t need the whole plan. You just need to take the next honest step. Subscribe and follow to build your unreal life, one song, one choice, and one step at a time.

Publisher

Ty

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

26 Jan 2026

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Creativity Protects You: Nick Nanton

   Twenty-four-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Nick Nanton has spent his career telling extraordinary stories, working with people like Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Post Malone, and Tony Robbins. But in this episode of Quick Before You Forget, Nick shares something he calls potentially the most important thing he'll say: “You are the sum of the stories you believe about your past, your present, and your future.” Here's where it gets personal. In my previous episode, Patient Zero, I explored those exact three things: my past, my present, and my future. The experiences that shaped me, the beliefs I'm learning to question, and the person I'm becoming. And then Nick sat down with me and, without realizing it, reflected so much of that journey right back at me. What followed was an unexpectedly emotional conversation about creativity, ADHD, overcoming self-doubt, finding purpose, redefining success, and building a life that actually feels meaningful. We explore why your perceived weaknesses might be your greatest gifts, why rejection doesn't always mean no, and why even the most accomplished people can spend their lives chasing a finish line that keeps moving. Nick shares lessons from his upcoming book Creativity Protects You, his work with extraordinary people, his songwriting experiences, and the personal boundaries that protect his family and relationships. And through it all, we return to one idea: You don't have to rewrite your past. But you can change how you understand it, what you believe about yourself today, and what becomes possible tomorrow. I lost count of how many of my own mantras, values, and beliefs were reflected back at me in this conversation. I finished this recording with Nick Nanton breathless. And speechless. Life happens ✨ for ✨ you, not to you. God is good. And the future is bright. 🕯️ Watch the full episode and tell me in the comments: What's one story about yourself you're ready to believe differently? Subscribe to Quick Before You Forget for meaningful conversations about courage, connection, creativity, purpose, and remembering who you are while becoming who you're meant to be. Meaningful Moments 00:00 The Stories You Believe Shape Who You Become 00:35 Meet Nick Nanton: Creativity, Hope & Opportunity 01:10 Creativity Protects You: Finding Your Superpower 06:40 Rewriting What You Believe About Yourself 08:05 Past, Present & Future: The Stories That Define You 09:00 Reprocessing Your Past and Giving Yourself Grace 10:40 How to Believe in a Brighter Future 13:00 One Adventure a Week: Creating a Life You Love 15:00 Why Serving Others Creates Opportunity 18:10 Courage Means Feeling the Fear Anyway 21:00 Roller Coasters, Taylor Swift & Choosing Excitement Over Fear 23:00 Creativity Is More Than Art: Turning Obstacles Into Options 24:40 When Rejection Becomes Redirection 29:50 What Most People Get Wrong About Success 30:45 Beautiful Hell: Why Making It Never Feels Like Enough 33:00 Stop Moving the Goalposts and Celebrate Your Wins 35:30 The Power of Music: Andrew McMahon & Max McNown 37:15 How Songwriting Teaches Us to Feel and Connect 41:40 Fight for the Best Song, Not Your Own Idea 43:00 The Secret to Meaningful Interviews and Conversations 45:00 When the Right Message Finds You at the Right Time 47:45 Your Message Matters More Than Your Ego 49:00 Protecting What Matters While Pursuing Success 51:05 What Makes Nick Nanton Feel Seen? 53:45 Nick's Message to the World: Life Happens for You 55:15 What's Next for Nick and Creativity Protects You 56:55 Final Thoughts & A Message to the Ground Crew Related Videos Ashley McBryde, Girl Goin' Nowhere Debut at Grand Ole Opry:...

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Patient Zero: Stop Waiting, Start Living

   When the hate starts rolling in, you know you're doing something right. This was a takeaway I was grateful to absorb just in time from my new friend Ann Marie Taepke, who we know and love as the Midwest Neighbor and for her work with The Holderness Family. In our recent episode of Quick Before You Forget, Ann Marie spoke about content creation in 2026, and some of the challenges associated with being a person who chooses to show up online. I received this information from her a matter of days before I got a direct message that would have broken a past version of me into a million tiny little pieces. Instead, I bolstered myself on the truth: the person who reached out clearly hasn't been paying attention. The person is responding to fragments of my story, glimpses of adventures and trips that have on the surface made it seem perhaps like I'm not also simultaneously in a season of struggle. Because I am not joking when I say I'm a living Alanis Morissette lyric right now: I'm broke buy I'm happy. Money stress is very real for a lot of us, and on the surface it may seem like so much of what I've been doing on my yellow brick road in 2026 may seem spendy and selfish. In reality, it looks like chaos but every move has a purpose. His purpose. God is working through these stories, through every conversation, and in every connection. He is providing in ways that feel like He's turning water into wine. Most of the experiences I've had this year have not cost me a dollar out of pocket, but have generously filled my life and my soul in ways that don't make sense. But isn't that so true of God's plan in our lives? It's not up to us to make sense of any of it. It's up to us to trust. To keep showing up. To keep walking in faith. And that's what I'm doing. Through Him. With Him. For Him. Any further questions? Related episodes Say the Weird Thing with Ann Marie Taepke: https://youtu.be/PHdtgKz7Umo?si=xqirh_xfZfW_-0x3 Fear vs. Excitement with Coach Doc: https://youtu.be/YLtCdC9oQ8g?si=4y29Q6fMHJ8Mngqf How to Stop Losing Yourself with Coach Doc: https://youtu.be/tBcgXngaxh0?si=Vk4aow_gBpU4wPIV

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Believe in Your Magic: Alice of Oz with Terence Sullivan and Ellen Baker

   Terence Sullivan had no business writing a book. His words, not mine. He has a degree in painting, didn't know the “rules” of writing (especially with commas), struggles with imposter syndrome, and wrote his first manuscript with his thumbs in the Notes app on his phone while sitting with his young children at 4 a.m. Then he met award-winning novelist and editor Ellen Baker and she saw the storyteller in him before he could always see it himself. Years later, a viral storytelling series has become Alice of Oz, an adult gothic portal fantasy and the first book in The Oz Multiverse, where Alice Liddell, Wendy Darling, and the characters of Oz collide in a story about identity, power, imagination, and learning to trust what you know to be true even when the world tells you otherwise. But this conversation became about so much more than a book. We talk about the people who carry belief for us when ours falters. Imposter syndrome. Grief transforming into creation. Why Alice stops looking in the mirror. Raising children who experience the world differently. Letting go of false narratives and doubt. Following the next brick when you can't see the whole yellow brick road. And then something happened none of us planned. We started talking about magic. Tears became laughter. Laughter became full-body chills. And three people who had never shared a room before realized that maybe this conversation was supposed to happen exactly when it did. For anyone who has ever believed in something no one else could see yet, this one is for you. Thank you for your magic.

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