Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
happens when you sit down with your 8-year-old self? 🎧
In this deeply personal episode, I revisit an old cassette tape from 1996—a recording of me as a kid growing up in a fundamentalist Mormon family with one dad, four moms, and 44 siblings.
I sing along with my 8-year-old self for the first time in nearly 30 years… and what unfolds is part time capsule, part therapy session, and part revelation about authenticity, curiosity, and becoming who we really are.
I explore childhood innocence, trauma, creativity, religion, money, freedom, and even the Israel-Palestine conflict—because all of it connects back to one question:
👉 How do we return home to who we really are?
If you’ve ever felt like life made you lose yourself somewhere along the way…this one’s for you.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Meeting my 8-year-old self 🎧
02:20 The return to childhood 👦
06:00 The life of a fundamentalist kid 🏡
09:00 What my childhood song revealed 💭
10:30 When I saw my dad hit my mom 💔
12:00 The “A++” lesson that changed my life 🧠
15:00 Finding of adventure 🌲
17:00 Climbing trees & earwig horror 🪳
19:00 My first crush… on my dad’s new wife’s sister 😳
22:00 Pretending to be asleep 😴
27:00 Would 8-year-old me approve of life now? 👀
30:00 Returning to authenticity 🧩
34:30 The ordinary can become extraordinary 🌟
36:00 Why being yourself feels risky 😬
38:00 Are humans really “born broken”? 🤔
40:00 Aligning values = finding God 🔥
44:00 Why I chose New York over safety 🗽
48:00 The story that changed my view on money forever 😱
52:00 The event that changed my life forever 🚀
55:00 Don’t believe anything that disempowers you ⚡
56:30 The win-win mindset 🔄
58:00 Trusting the unknown 🌌
59:30 Israel-Palestine reflections ✡️☪️
1:01:00 Can humanity finally get along? 🌏
1:02:00 Coming home to my real self 🕊️
happens when you sit down with your 8-year-old self? 🎧
In this deeply personal episode, I revisit an old cassette tape from 1996—a recording of me as a kid growing up in a fundamentalist Mormon family with one dad, four moms, and 44 siblings.
I sing along with my 8-year-old self for the first time in nearly 30 years… and what unfolds is part time capsule, part therapy session, and part revelation about authenticity, curiosity, and becoming who we really are.
I explore childhood innocence, trauma, creativity, religion, money, freedom, and even the Israel-Palestine conflict—because all of it connects back to one question:
👉 How do we return home to who we really are?
If you’ve ever felt like life made you lose yourself somewhere along the way…this one’s for you.
Follow me on IG: @calvinwayman
Follow me on TikTok: calvinwayman
Hire me to speak! calvin@calvinwayman.com
Time Stamps:
00:00 Meeting my 8-year-old self 🎧
02:20 The return to childhood 👦
06:00 The life of a fundamentalist kid 🏡
09:00 What my childhood song revealed 💭
10:30 When I saw my dad hit my mom 💔
12:00 The “A++” lesson that changed my life 🧠
15:00 Finding of adventure 🌲
17:00 Climbing trees & earwig horror 🪳
19:00 My first crush… on my dad’s new wife’s sister 😳
22:00 Pretending to be asleep 😴
27:00 Would 8-year-old me approve of life now? 👀
30:00 Returning to authenticity 🧩
34:30 The ordinary can become extraordinary 🌟
36:00 Why being yourself feels risky 😬
38:00 Are humans really “born broken”? 🤔
40:00 Aligning values = finding God 🔥
44:00 Why I chose New York over safety 🗽
48:00 The story that changed my view on money forever 😱
52:00 The event that changed my life forever 🚀
55:00 Don’t believe anything that disempowers you ⚡
56:30 The win-win mindset 🔄
58:00 Trusting the unknown 🌌
59:30 Israel-Palestine reflections ✡️☪️
1:01:00 Can humanity finally get along? 🌏
1:02:00 Coming home to my real self 🕊️
