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What if all that work you're doing on yourself is missing the most important ingredient?Other people.We've turned wellness into an individual pursuit. But thriving alone is a myth.Dr. Raghu Appasani is a psychiatrist who has seen this from both sides of the couch. During his residency, while caring for people in crisis, he found himself in one of his own, and it was a single unexpected phone call that changed everything. That moment reframes everything else we get into.Why do we insist we’re fine when we’re not? How do other people reveal the parts of us we’d never find alone? And what happens when the person who always takes care of everyone else finally lets someone in?We get into identity, loneliness, emotional honesty, play, and the strange ache of being more connected than ever and still profoundly alone.Find Raghu Appasani:✔️ On the Web✔️ On InstaFull Wattage:✔️ Join the Full Wattage Mailing List✔️ Follow on Insta✔️ Follow the Full Wattage Show on your favorite streaming platform

Quick Charge: The Rules You’ve OutgrownWe collect rules about who we are, what we’re capable of, and how much space we’re allowed to take up. Most of them we never chose. We just kept carrying them.But what happens when you’ve outgrown them? When you’re still saying “I’m not the kind of person who,” still dimming yourself down, still making decisions as someone you used to be?This first Quick Charge is about noticing what you packed for a trip you’ve already taken, and having the courage to put it down.Your Quick Charge: What’s in your bag that you’re ready to unpack?I’m right there with you, unpacking mine.Follow on Insta @fullwattage.co

How close can you get to power without losing yourself?James Orsini has spent more than 40 years in rooms most people spend their careers trying to enter. Goldman Sachs. Saatchi & Saatchi. VaynerX, where he helped Gary Vaynerchuk turn an ambitious vision into a global powerhouse.Not bad for the son of a plumber from Newark, New Jersey.But James's story isn't really about climbing to the top. It's about knowing who you are, recognizing your value, and building extraordinary success without needing to be the biggest personality in the room.In this episode of Full Wattage, James and Courtney explore the power of the second seat, why being told he was "too nice" to become a CEO didn't change him, and the difference between adapting to your environment and losing yourself to fit in.James also shares how he's approaching his next chapter as Chairman of Factotum USA and co-founder of Vyve, still building businesses, but on his own terms.An unexpected perspective on ambition, identity, and what it really means to make it.Connect with James:Instagram: @jamesorsiniLinkedIn: James OrsiniX / TikTok: @jimmythepencilFactotum: factotum.comVyve: vyve.coFull Wattage:Join the Full Wattage Mailing ListFollow on InstaFollow the Full Wattage ShowFull Wattage. For people who refuse to live dialed down.

What do you do when life stops following the plan?This episode gets into the deeply human stuff: how we respond when certainty disappears, how perspective changes what we can see, and how much agency remains even when circumstances are out of our control.Expect a conversation about navigating fear without letting it run the show, the difference between knowledge and earned wisdom, why community matters more than ever, and what happens when identity gets too tightly tied to a role, title, or version of life that no longer fits.There is also a bigger question running underneath it all: as machines become more capable, what becomes more valuable about being human?Love. Perspective. Connection. Soul. Awe.Or, as Tina puts it:“Awe is data for the soul.”This is a conversation about choosing love over fear, finding humor in the middle of uncertainty, paying closer attention to what makes you feel alive, and becoming more awake to the life you are actually in.Find Tina Sharkey : On the WebOn InstaFull Wattage: Join the Full Wattage Mailing ListFollow on InstaFollow the Full Wattage Show

What if the biggest mistake we make about our potential is assuming we already know its limits?New York Times–bestselling author and one of the world’s leading experts on human performance, Steven Kotler has spent more than 30 years studying flow, peak performance, and what happens when people push beyond what they thought they were capable of. His conclusion: we consistently underestimate ourselves because capacity reveals itself in stages. You don’t get to see the next version of what’s possible until you’ve built the ability to reach it. In this conversation, Steven and Courtney unpack how flow expands performance, why identity often lags behind ability, and why the evidence of your own life may be a better predictor of your future than the story you currently tell about yourself.They also explore the role of challenge, curiosity, purpose, intuition, and attention in continuing to grow without forcing the outcome. And as AI takes on more of our thinking, Steven makes the case that the skills we once dismissed as “soft” - creativity, focus, discernment, meaning - are becoming some of the most important capacities we have to protect.This is a conversation about how human capacity actually expands, how we get in our own way, and why what feels impossible today may simply be beyond the edge of the evidence you have so far.Find Steven:Website: stevenkotler.comFlow Research Collective: flowresearchcollective.comLinkedIn: Steven Kotler on LinkedInFind Full Wattage:Instagram: @fullwattage.coWebsite: fullwattage.co