Do Your Part, Then Surrender — Jay Setchell on Living Between Grit and Grace

Where does your strength come from when life has taken almost everything? Jay Setchell is a farm kid, a US Marine, and a serial entrepreneur who's built ventures from nothing to eight figures. He's also survived multiple near-death experiences, more than seventy surgeries, and lives today mostly paralysed and in chronic pain — and at 76, he still gets up before dawn every day, raising young twins with his wife and building a business that's gone international. He's the author of The Strength Within You: It's Always Too Soon to Quit. In this episode: The ten two-letter words that have carried him through everything: "if it is to be, it is up to me" How full personal responsibility and "only here by the grace of God" live together, not in opposition The difference between what's inside you and what's within you — and where real strength comes from Dream big, take small steps: the marble-stones lesson in resilience "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care" — service as the heart of selling Why he thanks God for his pain every single morning The one belief he holds with total certainty about what comes next Plus — Shaun on where grit ends and surrender begins, and a message from an 88-year-old reader that will stay with you. Content note: this episode includes discussion of war, near-death experiences, grief, and chronic illness. Find Jay: his book The Strength Within You: It's Always Too Soon to Quit, and more at neverquittrying.com. Go deeper: If today's conversation stirred something in you, grab my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep