Craig Smith has spent fifteen years selling to millions on live TV, but the real story is everything he had to unlearn about success to get there. From the golden handcuffs of a sales career to an awards ceremony that changed his direction, to the phone calls after his father’s death that revealed a man he never fully knew, Craig makes the case that the pivots are the whole point. His through line: build a message, and a life, that is clear, real, and repeatable.

Xerxes Nabong has been a wealth advisor since 2005. Then his dad died at 58, and the why behind the work changed. In this episode of Success, Rewritten, he talks about what it means to plan for the life, not just the retirement, and how that shift reshaped the way he runs his firm and his family.