The Burn Podcast by Ben Newman
Nov 2, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
What truly defines a life well lived? Is it the success YOU achieve, the businesses YOU build, or the impact YOU leave behind? In this special throwback episode of The Burn Podcast, Ben Newman sits…
We got to know each other fast from the moment that we were first introduced and the bond continues to get stronger.
Me losing my mom, you losing your daughter, far different, both far incredibly painful.
I'm like, how does this guy do all this with all these businesses? It's just amazing how you've leaned
into the
I actually never heard it the way that you just shared it to say that you actually lived the death over and over.
There's mornings I wake up, I cry as if my mom just passed away yesterday and it's been darn near 40 years ago.
I've never heard it expressed that way, but I just think for everybody listening, these are the real conversations.
When times are really hard, this is why you become intentional in your life so you can be where you want to be, do what you want to do.
The number of times I would call you or text you to check on Nina, I mean, over the course of that year, you were with her more than you were almost doing anything else.
You worked hard in business to make sure that you could always be where you wanted to be when you wanted to be.
What can you share about that for people who get so caught up in the small things that are meaningless rather than working really hard to know that you have your freedom when it really matters?
Should I start my own business because I want the freedom to do what I want?
Well,
you're better off taking your money, go buy Alcatraz, lock yourself in that prison and be the warden, the prisoner and the gatekeeper of your, because there is no freedom in the beginning.
And for most guys and girls, women, men, they don't experience freedom because nobody can do it better than me.
We got to know each other fast from the moment that we were first introduced and the bond continues to get stronger.
Me losing my mom, you losing your daughter, far different, both far incredibly painful.
I'm like, how does this guy do all this with all these businesses? It's just amazing how you've leaned
into the
I actually never heard it the way that you just shared it to say that you actually lived the death over and over.
There's mornings I wake up, I cry as if my mom just passed away yesterday and it's been darn near 40 years ago.
I've never heard it expressed that way, but I just think for everybody listening, these are the real conversations.
When times are really hard, this is why you become intentional in your life so you can be where you want to be, do what you want to do.
The number of times I would call you or text you to check on Nina, I mean, over the course of that year, you were with her more than you were almost doing anything else.
You worked hard in business to make sure that you could always be where you wanted to be when you wanted to be.
What can you share about that for people who get so caught up in the small things that are meaningless rather than working really hard to know that you have your freedom when it really matters?
Should I start my own business because I want the freedom to do what I want?
Well,
you're better off taking your money, go buy Alcatraz, lock yourself in that prison and be the warden, the prisoner and the gatekeeper of your, because there is no freedom in the beginning.
And for most guys and girls, women, men, they don't experience freedom because nobody can do it better than me.
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