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Stuck in Business or Life? Here’s What’s Really Happening

with Matthew Strunk
8 min ยท September 10, 2026
Stuck in Business or Life? Here’s What’s Really Happening
About This Episode

Most people treat being stuck as a tactical failure: the wrong plan, the wrong hire, not enough discipline. Matthew argues it is almost never that.

Stuck is information. It usually means the goal you are still executing against belongs to an older version of you, and some part of you has already stopped agreeing to it.

Topics Discussed
  • Why more effort rarely unsticks anything
  • The difference between a strategy problem and an alignment problem
  • What being stuck is actually telling you
About the guest
Matthew Strunk
Filmmaker and founder of illumiShift

Matthew is a filmmaker and entrepreneur whose search for meaning after conventional success became the starting point for illumiShift.

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