In this episode of the Make Life Less Taxing Podcast, Daniel Hanzelka continues the foundational Keep What Is Yours & Break Free series by exploring the deeper operating system beneath every habit, breakthrough, and burnout: identity. Not the identity the industry assigns you. Not the one you perform for clients. But the one shaped long before your career began often in childhood, in pressure, in wounds, or in moments you didn’t yet have language for.

Daniel shares the defining story from his own nine-year-old world, a moment of abandonment that installed a “red world identity” built on survival, self-protection, and carrying everything alone. And he explains why so many high-achieving advisors live with that same unseen operating system driving them to overwork, isolation, exhaustion, and quiet burnout.