The Recalibration
The Recalibration is a daily podcast for driven professionals who aren’t falling apart, but are quietly tired of holding everything together.
A space for nervous system informed identity recalibration before burnout forces the issue.
The Recalibration with Julie Holly is a daily podcast for high-performing professionals, leaders, and driven humans who are successful on paper, but feel worn down, disconnected, or quietly misaligned inside.
Often, this isn’t because something is wrong.
It’s because their nervous system has been carrying more than it was designed to hold.
This show is for people who:
Keep functioning at a high level, even when it costs them.
Feel tired of hacks, habits, and strategies that no longer work.
Aren’t in crisis, but know something isn’t sustainable.
Sense clarity slipping even though effort remains strong.
This isn’t mindset work.
It isn’t productivity advice or performance optimization.
The Recalibration introduces Identity-Level Recalibration, a psychology-backed, nervous-system-informed, faith-rooted pathway that realigns who you are at the root so your decisions, relationships, leadership, and energy begin to work again without pressure or self-erasure.
Hosted by Julie Holly, researcher, coach, and creator of the Identity-Level Recalibration Pathway, each episode blends psychology, nervous system science, leadership insight, philosophy, and faith-forward reflection.
The goal is simple and honest.
To help listeners understand why success can keep working while something inside feels off, and how to recalibrate before burnout, disconnection, or collapse force the issue.
What you will hear across the podcast:
The difference between burnout and identity misalignment.
Why nervous system fatigue disguises itself as motivation or discipline problems.
How pressure erodes clarity, even for capable leaders.
What aligned leadership, parenting, and relationships actually feel like.
How to move from effort to alignment without losing your edge.
How the podcast evolves by season:
Season 1, Episodes 1 through 86.
Foundations.
What Identity-Level Recalibration is, why performance eventually stops working, and how identity drives behavior.
Season 2, Episodes 87 through 170.
Integration into life.
Applying recalibration to relationships, boundaries, leadership, faith, and daily decision-making.
Season 3, Episodes 171 through 254.
For high performers.
Focused recalibration for driven professionals navigating pressure, exhaustion, and internal dissonance, even as success continues.
Season 4, Daily.
Practicing the recalibration.
A lived, embodied season walking through the recalibration process each week.
Recognition.
Release.
Reclamation.
Reinforcement.
Renewed momentum.
All applied to real relationships and real life.
If you are not falling apart, but you are quietly tired of holding everything together, this podcast is for you.
The previous 581 episodes are preserved as a living record, not of perfection, but of my own recalibration in real time as identity, faith, leadership, and nervous system alignment deepened over the years.
The Recalibration
Ep339 Building the Stoic Path to Successful Passive Investing with Travis Watts
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Travis Watts joins us today to discuss control, stoicism, and discipline in real estate investing. We’ll also touch on stock market investments and how to get started as a successful investor. Tune in and develop your mental skills to reach the lifestyle you've always wanted.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Effective ways to level up your investments
Real estate syndications vs. stock market investments
4 steps to achieving financial and time freedom
The power of stoicism in reaching your goals and eliminating stressors
Investing actively or passively: Which is right for you and ways to get started
RESOURCES/LINKS MENTIONED
Ashcroft Capital https://ashcroftcapital.com/
Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker | Paperback https://amzn.to/3hTfTdk and Hardcover https://amzn.to/3hTfTdk
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday https://amzn.to/3hJ9OzU
Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday https://amzn.to/3tIcKj0
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday https://amzn.to/3V179jK
ALL ABOUT TRAVIS WATTS
Travis Watts is a proven leader in the real estate industry, where he’s been investing since 2009 in multi-family, single-family, and vacation rentals. He began investing with Ashcroft Capital several years ago and has taken part in more than 30% of the Ashcroft opportunities. After experiencing above-average communication, reporting, deal volume, and performance, Travis expressed interest in joining the Ashcroft Investor Relations Team. Travis also has a background in traditional Wall Street investing and obtained a Series 7 and Series 63 license while working at a major brokerage firm with more than 400 billion in assets. He now dedicates his time to educating others in the world of investing and has made it his mission to share passive investment strategies to help others achieve and maintain wealth in real estate.
CONNECT WITH TRAVIS
Website: Ashcroft Capital https://info.ashcroftcapital.com/travis
Instagram: @passiveinvestortips https://www.instagram.com/passiveinvestortips/?hl=en
Facebook: Travis Watts
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