Carlos Vasquez
95 episodes listed below
Hard lives, hard lessons, changed direction.
How To Battle Podcast is a measured conversation series about people turning hardship into responsibility, service, and self-knowledge. Its recent episodes move between prison, addiction, loss, business, faith, relationships, and the daily discipline of becoming different.
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How To Battle Podcast is a warm, interview-centered show about what people do after life has stripped away comfort, certainty, or control. It gives hardship room to breathe. Recent episodes include conversations about prison, gang life, addiction, sobriety, murdered parents, emotional neglect, identity, faith, purpose, business, leadership, and love. The show’s center of gravity is not shock, even when the material is heavy. It is the question of what a person becomes next. In the Carlos Unfiltered episodes, the same concern turns inward and practical, moving from prison and confinement into workplace purpose, team leadership, relationship balance, fear, happiness, and the discipline of starting with very little. The style is plainspoken and reflective. Ideas often circle back on themselves until a principle becomes clear: failure can become information, purpose can exist inside difficult circumstances, and self-work has to show up in daily choices. Guest-led episodes widen the frame with personal stories of bereavement, alcohol dependence, sexuality, religion, and recovery. The show is comfortable with pain, but it keeps looking for responsibility inside it. That gives the conversations a distinct moral texture. They are not just confessionals. They are attempts to turn lived experience into guidance for someone trying to make a different decision. The tone can become spiritual, especially around happiness, authenticity, service, and the belief that people can be connected even when institutions or judgments divide them. It can also be blunt about harm. Prison is treated as real, some people are described as needing to remain there, and redemption is discussed without pretending that every story is simple. Business conversations sit beside deeply personal ones, which gives the show an unusual range: a thought about love between partners can lead into how partners work together, while a reflection on confinement can become a lesson about leading teams. The result is a show for listeners who prefer long, earnest conversations over polished self-help slogans. Its appeal comes from the sense that the lessons have been lived before they are stated.
Made for: For listeners drawn to recovery stories, second chances, justice-system experience, spiritual reflection, and practical self-leadership. It suits people who prefer earnest long-form conversations about change rather than polished motivational shortcuts.
What sets it apart: The show connects hard lived experience to everyday leadership choices, moving naturally from prison and addiction to business, relationships, work, and purpose. Its strength is the way it treats transformation as a daily practice, not a finished success story.
In this space, we explore two distinct yet interconnected facets of personal growth.HTB Podcast: Join me as I sit down with remarkable individuals who have faced life’s toughest battles. These conversations highlight their journeys through adversity, showcasing the resilience and purpose that have driven them to create meaningful change in their lives and communities. Each story is meant to inspire you and encourage you to embrace your own challenges and cultivate self-leadership.Carlos Unfiltered Series: Here, I share my insights and reflections on a variety of thought-provoking topics. This is a space for deep diving into ideas, wisdom, an...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal accounts of addiction, prison and work become practical conversations about recovery, responsibility and the repeated choices behind change.
How To Battle Podcast keeps pulling broad ideas about self-leadership down to the level of lived decisions. Conversations move through sobriety, prison, work, relationships and purpose, with the host asking how change happens after fear, dependency or confinement has narrowed…
This is the pep talk that puts prison, sobriety, and manifestation behind your next move.
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A steady conversation about love, work, and the trust that keeps both moving.
At its core, the episode stays with a simple idea: love, work, and momentum all need room. The speaker treats partnership as shared ground, where each person can lead when the moment calls for it and step back without making that feel like failure.
Purpose is treated as something lived, not something reached.
How To Battle Podcast treats Carlos' story as a clear argument for purpose as something lived, not something reached. It keeps circling prison, work, confinement, and service, and the effect is plain: meaning can hold in routine as much as in change.
A plainspoken recovery piece that links survival, identity, and responsibility.
This piece treats a severe drinking story with a steady, unsentimental hand. The clearest moments are the practical ones: waking up unable to function without alcohol, calling a brother, landing in the ER, and finally asking for help.
A blunt, steady case for turning fear and setback into usable momentum.
Carlos Unfiltered treats hardship as a starting point, not a verdict. Carlos pushes a foundation mindset built to cut through fear, limiting beliefs, and conditioning, and the plainest parts land best: stay consistent, do the work, keep moving when things are not going your way.
Pain, fear, and manifestation are framed as forces that can change how a person lives.
This episode treats pain as something with a use, not just a mistake to be endured. It keeps circling back to humility, to the limits of what anyone really knows, and to the idea that discomfort can push a person toward change instead of keeping them stuck.
Outback lives, told close to the dust.
Rural motherhood, told with grit and care.
The How To Battle Podcast guest defines love as “energy” and describes it as a peak human experience.
The episode focuses on a relationship where work and life are treated as one shared balance.
The speaker reflects on their journey of personal transformation, from a troubled past involving incarceration and conflict to finding purpose in helping others through self-improvement and resilience.
Adisa Fatiu shares his journey from a troubled past involving fights, prison, and gangs to finding purpose through personal transformation and helping others.
Shaun Collins shares his journey of surviving the murders of both parents in childhood, discussing emotional neglect, resilience, and finding gratitude despite trauma.
This episode explores where true happiness resides, contrasting external pursuits with internal fulfillment through a leader's perspective on business goals and personal values.
Carlos opens with a hard-edged view of prison and redemption.
The guest talks through the point where drinking stopped being a habit and became a daily way of getting through the day.
Carlos centers the foundation mindset.
Pain is treated as part of being human, not random damage.
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Bryson McCalley discusses how growing up in a violent environment shaped his worldview and led to his incarceration, exploring themes of breaking cycles through personal narrative and creativity.
Two individuals share personal stories about strained relationships with their fathers, discussing topics like divorce, alcoholism, anger, forgiveness, and the impact on their lives, including one's descent into drugs and crime.
This solo episode explores how to rebuild trust after success and potential setbacks, using personal reflections on self-worth beyond external achievements and a Hemingway quote about trusting others.
A conversation with Jabarri Pangelinan about his 14-year prison experience, mental challenges, personal evolution, and his approach to rebuilding life through volunteering and self-belief.