Mo Nelson
21 episodes listed below
Real stories against self-sabotage.
P.A.S.S. pairs motivational conversation with vulnerable life stories from guests who have faced grief, doubt, reinvention, and pressure. Mo Nelson keeps the tone direct and supportive, pushing each story toward a practical lesson about growth.
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P.A.S.S. is a self-improvement interview show with a strong belief in testimony. It is direct, warm, and urgent. Mo Nelson brings guests into conversations about the habits, pain points, and turning points that shape a person’s ability to keep going. The show’s recurring question is simple: what has to change inside someone before life changes outside them? Some episodes are built around heavy personal loss. Raheel’s conversation centers on grief, back injuries, discipline, and the image of breaking through walls instead of running from them. Other episodes lean toward leadership and identity. Torie Smith talks about emotional gaps, high performance teams, belief systems, spiritual awareness, and the process of seeing an older version of the self. Dean Greiss brings imposter syndrome down to earth through public speaking, leadership, family boundaries, confidence, and emotional intelligence. Will Ricker adds a creative lane, describing authorship, history, culture, speculative fiction, patience, and the discipline needed to keep building. Katie Logan’s episode moves through real estate, military service, modeling, self-presentation, and refusing to shrink under other people’s perceptions. Rabu Gary’s appearance brings wealth, labels, financial ambition, and personal reinvention into the same motivational frame. Devin Paladino’s story turns toward anger, abuse, separation from siblings, forgiveness, and the choice not to let the past decide the future. Dani Ferreira’s episode opens through heritage, healing, mindset, discipline, and identity. Across the series, the show favors emotionally charged conversation over polished distance. It repeats key ideas until they land. It validates pain, then asks what action comes next. The result is a supportive, high-energy space for listeners drawn to resilience stories, personal accountability, emotional intelligence, spiritual awareness, and blunt encouragement.
Made for: For listeners who like motivational interviews rooted in lived experience, emotional intelligence, discipline, spiritual awareness, and personal rebuilding. It best suits people who want encouragement that feels direct, human, and practical.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its mix of vulnerable guest testimony and Mo Nelson’s reactive, affirming interview style. It treats success, healing, leadership, and self-discipline as connected parts of the same inner fight.
A weekly conversation designed for high achievers who want to break free from the patterns holding them back. Each episode features crucial and vulnerable conversations, sharing practical wisdom and real-life strategies to help you navigate life’s challenges more efficiently. Together, we’ll uncover the tools, mindsets, and habits that empower you to rise above self-sabotage and thrive in every area of your life.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mo Nelson turns candid accounts of loss, doubt, leadership, and creative struggle into practical conversations about agency and emotional awareness.
Mo Nelson builds candid guest conversations around the point where hardship becomes a decision. P.A.S.S. (PREVAIL AGAINST SELF SABOTAGE) moves between grief, childhood abuse, imposter syndrome, family priorities, spiritual awareness, and the frustrations of independent…
Mo Nelson turns brick walls into interview prompts, then asks what you will do on the other side.
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A hard rebuild story where grief, discipline, and persistence stay in the same room.
This episode leans on a plain, heavy idea: change does not begin until something gives way. The host keeps circling the moments that made that belief stick, from the warning about dying by 40 and the 400-pound mark to the 200-pound loss, the father’s death the next day, and the…
A reflective self-sabotage conversation that puts Smith's own language at the center of the episode.
Mo Nelson shapes the conversation around self-sabotage, then gives Tori Smith room to unpack her own language: empathic gangster, galactic attunement, and the idea that a brand can birth itself.
A humane leadership conversation about imposter syndrome, self-trust, and the small language shifts that help a team move together.
Dean and Mo treat imposter syndrome as something familiar rather than dramatic: the awkward pressure of being in front of people, stepping into leadership, or trying to sound certain when you do not feel it. The advice stays plain and usable. Do not copy someone else's style.
An author talk about doubt, discipline, and keeping the work moving.
Will Ricker's turn on P.A.S.S. keeps the focus on what it takes to keep an author's work moving when doubt, writer's block, and impatience start to slow the process.
Forgiveness and self-respect are treated as practical work in a conversation shaped by anger and growth.
The episode treats self-sabotage as something lodged in the body and memory, not just a bad habit. It links anger to abuse, separation from siblings, absent parents, and the feeling of lacking the support other kids had, then keeps pressing on what it takes to move beyond that…
Where the setbacks become the whole conversation.
Forgiveness practice, one sentence at a time.
He opens by laying out a life that came close to breaking him.
Mo Nelson opens with Tori Smith and the phrase she calls 'empathic gangster'.
Dean Griss joins Mo Nelson to talk about the voice that says you do not belong.
On the Past Podcast, Mo Nelson opens with a message for anybody that has a dream.
Katie Logan discusses her multifaceted career as a real estate agent, military veteran, and model, emphasizing class and perception.
Rabu Gary discusses raising his financial thermostat to achieve million-dollar months and days, sharing his journey from foreclosure to wealth.
Mo Nelson frames the show around beating self-sabotage.
Mo Nelson interviews Dani Ferreira about her Portuguese heritage and her work in empowerment and mindset shifting.
Mo Nelson interviews Colleen Gigante, a licensed mental health therapist known as the Lady of Light, about transforming pain into power and trauma into growth.
Host Mo Nelson interviews licensed mental health therapist Colleen, known as The Lady Light, about transforming pain into power and trauma into growth.