Wake Up The Sun

About Wake Up The Sun

A podcast devoted to the different ways in which inspiring and successful people build routine, ritual, and consistency in their lives.

Publisher

Matthew Williams

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

5 Aug 2019

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 197 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Helen Lipson: When the pain becomes great enough.....you walk through it

   Host [Host Name] interviews Helen Lipson, who shares her journey of early sobriety and navigating life's challenges with resilience.

2. 

   27 May 2026

   Rich Woodruff: On and Off the Court now embracing the biggest opponent of his life: Parkinsons

   I met Rich around 2015 when I left coaching group fitness and moved my book of business to Impact Sports Performance in Central Boca. At the time, he was the head of the facility and coach to many up-and-coming tennis superstars. Early on, we butted heads a bit as we were both early risers, and he was used to being one of the only people in the gym at that hour. What started as tension eventually turned into a genuine respect for each other’s work ethic, business mindset, and the effort it to...

3. 

   6 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Juliet Warner: To Hell and and Back. Sobriety, Motherhood and Leaning into Recovering out Loud

   I met Juliet years ago in the sober community. She’s always been a mix of sweet, feisty, and unapologetically blunt. We shared a lot of the same circles: mutual friends, events, weddings, fellowship halls, even the gym. Life kept unfolding, and over the years we’d cross paths here and there. Like many relationships, ours had its ups and downs. Misunderstandings eventually led to a break in communication. Still, whenever we ran into each other, it was always cordial. At the end of the day, the...

Inside a recent episode

Helen Lipson: When the pain becomes great enough.....you walk through it

Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So it was like 45 minutes, three times a week. She wrote it out for me. It was nothing like I'm very much about like smart goals. Right. Like, what is it like? I can't even remember. But I don't know if it's time bound, it's attainable, small, actionable. Hopefully. Yeah, no, of course. Measurable, that's what it was. Yeah, of course. I need, because I'm someone who I'm like, all right, I'm going to go to the gym for 18 hours every single day and I'll do that for a week and then I never go back. So I started like with those small little goals of going three times a week and I started to realize that actually the pain and discipline... of doing that was so much less of the pain of hating myself for not doing it. […]

Who has been a guest on Wake Up The Sun

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Helen Lipson
• Matt Bocchi
• Kevin Lanning
• Reverend David Taylor
• Jillian Kenney

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

71 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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