Healing For Heros With David Vox
https://operationselfreset.com/david-vox/
In this episode, Jake welcomes David Vox — at the time, founder of Goaly.com — a platform created to connect people with coaches who offer real lived experience, not theoretical advice.
David speaks openly about growing up in a small village in Norway and navigating a childhood marked by instability, violence, and repeated displacement. He spent years moving through different foster homes, each with its own challenges. Survival shaped him early. So did the constant pressure to adapt, read the room, and find safety where there was none.
One of the turning points came when he finally landed in a foster home that showed him steadiness and care — but by then, the nervous system patterns were already carved in. David talks about learning to understand that fear, anger, and anxiety were not personal failures but natural responses to trauma. And he talks about the long path from that environment to becoming someone who could lead, serve, and help others navigate their own inner terrain.
Instead of carrying his childhood as a lifelong sentence, David chose a different orientation. He learned to work with perspective — the ability to hold pain without letting it define the future. He refused to let the past become a fixed identity. That choice guided every step of his adult life.
As an adult, David returned to something he intuitively understood as a child: people don’t change because someone gives them advice. They change because someone helps them bridge change — slowly, steadily, safely.
That became the seed for Goaly.com: a platform designed to connect people with coaches who have actually lived the work they teach.
In the conversation, David and Jake explore:
how perspective shapes resilience
why real coaching requires lived experience
the difference between “strategies for doing” and actual transformation
learning to trust life without abandoning responsibility
and the role of steady relational support in creating long-term change
David’s journey is not inspirational in the performative sense. It’s grounded. It’s lived. And it shows how inner work, mentorship, and perspective can create a completely different trajectory than the one you were handed.
