Above & Beyond Podcast Season SIX
David Phillips | Author / Coach
Host Jän Simon interviews David Phillips—writer, speaker, coach, and author of “Surfing the Invisible Wave”—about helping people who appear successful outwardly but feel numb, adrift, or misaligned inside. Phillips explains his belief that people aren’t broken, just chasing the wrong scripts, and shares his path from growing up in Saskatchewan, studying architecture in Winnipeg, and moving to Arizona through marriage, to working in architectural project management, running a bed and breakfast in Jerome, and later entering vocational ministry in Colorado.
He recounts raising his son Julian through severe congenital kidney issues, a NICU stay, immune suppression, homeschooling, an autism diagnosis, and two kidney transplants (both 40 days after starting the process, the second during the 2020 pandemic). The conversation centers on meaning as the variable between despair and passion, the “freaking basics” of self-care, incremental life course-corrections, and his Midlife Reset Bracket at, with his book released on August 4, 2026.
David Phillips | Author / Coach "Surfing the Invisible Wave"
Luke Gilbert | Entrepreneur / AI Systems Builder
COMING SOON
Luke Gilbert is a real estate entrepreneur, AI systems builder, and founder based in Idaho. He went from digging ditches and bartending in San Francisco to reading his way out of the electricians' union, then rebuilt his life in Boise on a $220,000 house and a real estate license he earned in two weeks. He closed 37 transactions and cleared a million dollars in a single year — including $471,000 flipping entitlements on a subdivision his partner walked away from — and later won top volume-producing solo agent at his brokerage in a flat market. Today he runs a 100-door property management company and builds AI software through SMRT Agent AI, Thought Partner, and Superhuman Systems.
Luke Gilbert | Entrepreneur / AI Systems Builder