Episode Details

If you have ever built something successful and still felt like something was off, this conversation is for you. Joe Polish sits down with Omani Carson, the founder and chairman of Carson Group (a national wealth platform managing over 50 billion dollars in assets), the founder of Omya, and the co-founder of the Dreamweaver Foundation.

What makes this episode different is not what Omani has built. It is what he has been willing to question.

Here's what you're about to discover in this conversation:

• Why Omani says he was "spiritually bankrupt" while everyone else thought he had the most amazing life on the planet.
• The exact moment he realized no number in his bank account was ever going to make him feel safe, and the moment he finally stopped sprinting toward the next one.
• The eleven-year-ago turning point that finally cracked open the only operating system he had ever known.
• The three-year separation from his wife Jeannie that nearly ended a 44 year marriage, and the work they each did to come back together.
• Why the medicine is never the medicine, and the post-experience work that most people skip and then complain that nothing changed.
• The bag of ingredients practice Omani uses to decide what he carries forward in life and what he gives grace to and leaves behind.
• Why he says joy is now a baseline, not a peak experience, and what that has actually done for his ability to run a multi-billion-dollar firm.
• Why the last 60 days of business at Carson Group produced more than the first 30 years of the company combined, and what that has to do with frequency.
• The Bert Weiss trick that has saved Omani thousands of yes decisions he would have later regretted (PLUS: the f*** yes or f*** no filter he and Jeannie run on everything).
• The Six Most Vital Ones discipline and the 30 year goal blueprint that gives you the ability to act when motivation is not present.
• The Dreamweaver Foundation, the 1.6 million seniors it has already served, and why end-of-life dreams might be the highest-leverage charity work there is.
• Wu Wei, the Tao Te Ching idea of flow not force, and what it actually looks like to run a multi-billion-dollar operation on it.

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Show Notes

Becoming Tate Omani (The Name Change Behind the Conversation)

• Ron Carson, now Omani Carson, took the Lakota name Tate Omani from indigenous chiefs he hosted at his Nebraska healing ranch. The translation is "walking into a stiff wind."
• The part he was afraid he would lose by killing off the old identity was his drive. What he discovered is that the drive moderated, but did not disappear, and a whole new world opened up on the other side of it.
• Omani now lives in what he calls "creator mode," outside the savior-victim-perpetrator drama triangle, and treats every choice as an ingredient he decides whether or not to carry forward.

The Money Treadmill: $10,000 to $100,000 to $1,000,000 to Nothing

• Omani grew up on a Nebraska farm during the farm crisis. He watched his father cry for the only time in his life when the family went broke. He decided on the spot he was never going to be poor.
• First it was 10,000 dollars in the bank. He got there. He felt the same. Then 100,000 (he still remembers the e