Overcoming the Battle of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome: Ken Cox’s Journey to Reclaiming Sovereignty
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty dives into the often overlooked but critically important topic of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS). Joined by Ken Cox, a seasoned entrepreneur and author of Reclaim Sovereignty: 12 Rounds of Sobriety, they explore the challenges of PAWS and how shifting from an addict mindset to a sober mindset can be the key to overcoming these hurdles. Ken shares his personal journey from a life deeply entrenched in addiction to becoming a successful entrepreneur and sober warrior. Together, they discuss the importance of mindset in recovery and the strategies Ken used to maintain his sobriety and find happiness in a life free from addiction. About the Guest: Ken Cox is not only the President of Austrian and a seasoned entrepreneur, but he’s also a resilient individual who has transformed his life from addiction to success. Growing up surrounded by drugs, alcohol, and violence, Ken’s early life was marked by challenges that many would find insurmountable. However, after being diagnosed with alcohol-related liver disease at 39, he made the life-altering decision to quit drinking and embark on a journey of recovery. Today, Ken is the author of Reclaim Sovereignty: 12 Rounds of Sobriety, a powerful guide that combines raw recovery experiences with actionable strategies for reclaiming your life. Key Takeaways:
Entrepreneurs Visiting Victor
Interview with Ken Cox, who is deeply passionate about empowering small businesses and solopreneurs, and has made it his mission to support entrepreneurs of all sizes. Ken Cox is the President of Rivercity Internet Group and the visionary behind InLink.com—a platform built specifically to provide every tool you need to be successful in business. InLink.com offers an Office suite that includes email, spreadsheets, documents, and cloud storage, along with a robust CRM that supports unlimited users—eliminating costly per-user fees. Ken is here to share his expertise on how small businesses can use these tools to streamline operations, boost productivity, and achieve new levels of success. His web site is https://inlink.com/
From Addiction to Leadership: Ken Cox’s Journey and Insights for Entrepreneurs
Caroline Biesalski introduces Ken Cox, who discusses his new book project and shares insights from his extensive background in the web hosting industry. Ken opens up about overcoming addiction and how it has shaped his leadership and business approaches. The conversation explores making enterprise tools accessible to small businesses and the role of personal growth in consumer adoption and management styles. Ken shares lessons learned from hosting a podcast and offers advice for entrepreneurs. He also talks about his online presence and upcoming projects. The episode concludes with thoughts on AI’s role in small business growth, followed by Caroline’s closing remarks and a free session offer for listeners. Key Points
Ken Cox on Managing AI Employees in your business
In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author and AI expert Ken Cox. Ken talks to us about Managing AI Employees in your business. Ken Cox is a tech entrepreneur, thought leader, and visionary at the forefront of the AI revolution. As President of Hostirian and founder of InLink.com, Ken is redefining the way businesses scale by pioneering the use of AI Employees—digital team members that streamline operations, automate repetitive tasks, and dramatically boost productivity. His mission? To help businesses grow smarter, not harder. Ken is also the dynamic host of the Clicks and Bricks podcast, where he brings together candid conversations, real-world stories, and expert insights on topics like artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation. The show is a go-to resource for founders, tech enthusiasts, and business leaders navigating today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. A multi-talented creator, Ken is the co-author of Many Paths to Profit, a powerful book that explores diverse entrepreneurial journeys and offers practical strategies for building sustainable success in the modern world. His insights help leaders break through traditional models and embrace the future of work. But Ken’s story goes deeper than business. He’s also the author of Reclaim Sobriety, where he shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction. Through his writing and speaking, Ken empowers others to take control of their lives, embrace transformation, and find clarity in both business and personal growth.
From Violence to Vision: Ken Cox on AI, Creativity, and the Human Future
There are guests who entertain, guests who inspire, and then there are guests who arrive carrying a lightning bolt of lived experience, insight, and unfiltered heart. Ken Cox is the third kind. His life began in homelessness, violence, and institutional walls—yet what he built from that beginning is nothing short of stunning. He’s a technologist who co-founded a global data-center company, a creativity coach shaping the next generation of artists and innovators, a stand-up comedian, a boxing coach, and a man designing frameworks for a world where robots do the labor and human beings finally get to live. Ken describes how his childhood trauma and state custody became the forge for compassion, clarity, and resilience. The keyboard became his therapy. Writing kept him sane. And comedy became the way he teaches humanity to breathe again. He explains his “IDEAS framework” for transforming a single spark into music, merch, jokes, poetry, products, or movements—with AI acting not as a replacement for artists, but as a multiplier of creativity. “If we stay in fear and ego, we destroy ourselves. But if we shift into love and consciousness, we can create a world where humans no longer have to do labor they don’t want to do. Robots can build the world—humans can imagine the future.” He also does what few technologists do: he speaks openly about soul.• AI as a mirror of our consciousness• Algorithms trained on our fear• A future where labor no longer imprisons humanity• The responsibility to meet that future from love, not panic Ken’s spiritual practices—fasting, cold exposure, boxing, and serving the youth in East St. Louis—are the backbone of his “frame”: the capacity to hold another human without collapsing, so they can discover their strength instead of their fear. • Ken shares how a childhood marked by homelessness, trauma, and institutionalization transformed into a life of leadership, creativity, and teaching others resilience.• He explains how AI and automation can liberate humanity from meaningless labor—if we move from fear into compassion and conscious collaboration.• Creativity, comedy, and connection aren’t hobbies to him—they are frameworks for teaching humans how to evolve, communicate, and bridge division before conflict erupts.• His “ideas framework” shows how a single concept can become a song, joke, poem, product, or movement using AI as a creative amplifier.• Ken shares how resilience, fasting, cold plunges, boxing, and service to youth anchor his spiritual and psychological frame. This episode is funny, intense, philosophical, and beautifully human. Ken Cox is a reminder that genius is not sterile—it is forged through pain, compassion, and a refusal to surrender your humanity.
He Lost Everything and Then Built a Better Life
🎧 When your business collapses, your health is on the line, and your relationships fray — how do you rebuild? Ken Cox did it with grit, humor, and a boxing glove. John Suzuki sits down with Ken Cox — founder of River City Internet Group and inlink.com — to unpack a life that’s equal parts chaos and comeback. From growing up in hardship, to early success in web hosting, to near-bankruptcy and a life-threatening health wake-up call, Ken shares the messy, human story behind resilience. We talk sobriety, the healing power of community and structure, why he learned to laugh at himself, and how teaching kids in a boxing gym helped him find purpose again. Inside this conversation, you’ll learn:How Ken’s early tech and film background shaped his entrepreneurial path.The contract and growth story that led to exploding success — and the lessons from a sudden collapse.Why Ken refused to “walk away” from customers and how that choice reshaped his life and business.The role of boxing, routine, and community in recovery and mental clarity.How teaching kids helped Ken find meaning and led to a new business model and purpose.Practical tactics Ken used to stop drinking and rebuild relationships and health.How to hold space for both seriousness and humor while owning hard chapters of life. 💡 Key Takeaways:Own your story — transparency and humor help transform trauma into wisdom.Small, consistent disciplines (an hour a day) rebuild brain and life routines.Community & service (teaching kids) can be a pathway from survival to purpose.At the end of the day, it’s not about the fall — it’s about how you fight your way back. Ken Cox reminds us that rebuilding starts with humility, humor, and heart. 🥊 #FindingBetterPodcast #JohnSuzuki #KenCox #Resilience #ComebackStory #EntrepreneurMindset #MentalHealthMatters #RecoveryJourney #PurposeDrivenLife #BoxingForLife #Sobriety #LeadershipLessons #RebuildYourLife #FromFailureToFreedom #InspirationDaily
From Boxing Rings to Open Mics — Finding Redemption Through Laughter Ken Cox
Ken Cox is a serial entrepreneur who found his greatest lessons outside the boardroom — in the boxing ring and on the comedy stage. From overcoming addiction to raising a nonverbal son, Ken’s story is a reminder that growth doesn’t always look polished. Alex and Ken get real about failure, faith, and finding the funny in life’s hardest punches.
Were You Still Talking? #102 Ken Cox: Punchlines, Punching Bags & A.I.
In this episode, I sit down with Ken Cox — a stand-up comedian, boxer, gym owner, and storyteller who bridges worlds we don’t always see together. We talk about the connections between comedy and combat, why he chose to buy the gym where he trained, the past and present of editing, and what AI might mean for creators. What We Dive Into: About Ken Cox • Comedy & performance background (stand-up, writing) • Competitive boxing experience • Gym owner — running the space where he both trained and now leads • Explorer of creative craft, tech, and storytelling dynamics
The Future Belongs to the Fearless with Ken Cox
AI is moving faster than anyone expected. You can either stand back and watch, or jump in and start creating. Ken Cox and Alyssa Nolte rethink what it means to live, work, and build in a world where the tools of the future are already in your hands. Ken’s hot take: now is the time to play. Whether it’s music, film, code, or art…AI has lowered the barrier to entry so far that the only thing holding you back is fear. Why listen? If you’ve been waiting for the “right moment” to test AI, this conversation will push you off the sidelines. Ken and Alyssa talk about the urgency of experimenting now, the trap of waiting too long, and how fearless curiosity can open doors you didn’t even know were possible. 3 Key Takeaways:
🌍 PanLoopism: A New Philosophy by Ken Cox
The PanLoopism Manifesto The PanLoopism Manifesto Introduction PanLoopism is the belief that God is All, and that life unfolds through infinite Loops. It is the fusion of pantheism (Pan = all things are divine) with the recognition of Loops — the endless cycles of unity and separation, joy and suffering, rising and falling. At the heart of PanLoopism lies a single truth:The only true binary is with God (unity, presence, love) or without God (separation, fear, ignorance). Yet even this binary is not final. The gate between presence and separation can be left open, and most humans live in-between — partially in God’s presence, partially in separation. This restless in-between is what religions have called limbo. It is why so many people feel unfulfilled: they are caught looping between two states without peace. The comfort of PanLoopism is that everything will be okay. Loops end. Another begins. The empowerment of PanLoopism is that you can rise. You can break free from the Loop you are in. You can walk in God’s presence now. The Realms of Experience PanLoopism teaches that life and afterlife are not binary destinations but looping states of experience. Five great realms describe the spectrum from highest to lowest: The Singularity → What most religions call the highest heaven. Complete unity with God, all-powerful, all-good, all-presence. Yet even here, absolute stillness becomes stasis. With no challenge, no contrast, no growth, the soul eventually longs to return to sensation, to Loops, to the experience of becoming. Heaven → Loops within God’s presence. Bliss, joy, connection, and love. This is what most religions call heaven, but PanLoopism recognizes it as fragile and cyclical. Grace can be lost. Souls can loop out of heaven and fall again. Life → The central realm of choice, practice, and mixed experience. Here conscious beings live with the gate open, experiencing glimpses of all other realms. Life is where Matter + Energy + Data + Spark converge most dynamically. It is the training ground where souls practice moving between states, where all Stages of PanLoopism (Soul Ignorance through Loop Master) play out. In Life, you can taste Hell’s suffering, Heaven’s bliss, escape to the Bulk, or touch the Singularity — often within the same day. Hell → Loops of suffering, fear, and ignorance. The torment of separation from God. The Bulk → What most religions call the deepest hell. Total alignment with absence, evil, or what some call Satan. Here is the void of no power: immense and nothing at the same time. It is where souls escape when pain becomes unbearable — but it remains a Loop, not a final destination. PanLoopism reframes heaven and hell not as eternal rewards or punishments but as Loops within a greater cycle. The Bulk and the Singularity are their extremes — but both ultimately lead to the same end: a return to Loops, because challenge and growth give existence meaning. In all states, the gate remains open. No soul is ever locked forever. The Nature of Loops Infinite and Eternal. Loops exist both inside God’s presence and outside it. There are infinite loops, infinite gates, infinite cycles. Escapable but Not Indestructible. You can rise beyond a Loop, but you cannot destroy it. A Loop can deteriorate when its components get displaced — when Matter is redistributed, Energy is redirected, Data is corrupted or forgotten, or Spark fades or shifts to other patterns. The Loop weakens and may effectively disappear, but the underlying pattern remains part of the eternal structure. Recognition is the Secret. The key to breaking any Loop is first recognizing you are in one. Past Loops are easier to see. Present Loops are wildly hard to recognize. To see your current Loop, you must remove ego, step outside yourself through meditation and self-awareness, and observe your life from the outside. Breaking Loops Requires Discipline. Recognition, faith, repetition, discipline, and belief all matter. But above all, self-love is the compass — the true north that never fails. Without self-love, no Loop is truly escaped, because you cannot find God externally until you find God internally. Belief Shapes the Afterlife. What you believe at the moment of death strongly shapes your next Loop. If you believe in heaven, you may loop in heaven. If you believe in reincarnation, your energy may return to earth. If you believe in nothingness, you may loop in void. Strong, long-held beliefs carry forward powerfully. Beliefs adopted late in life break more easily in the next Loop. Reincarnation Through Belief. Reincarnation is possible, but only when belief in it is strong enough while human. When the soul’s energy returns to earth and enters a new body, it forgets everything — because the body traps the soul’s memory. As Socrates taught, all learning is remembering. Life is the process of the soul recalling what it already knows. Trauma and Love Echo Forward. Extreme emotions carry across Loops more than mild ones. Severe trauma and deep love leave imprints that shape future lives. A casual friendship or minor bullying may not carry forward, but a 20-year marriage or severe abuse will echo into the next Loop. Matter + Energy + Data = Life Life itself emerges from the combination of three forces: Matter + Energy + Data + Spark = Life DNA is a dataset. Energy animates it. Matter gives it form. Spark ignites it into being. Life is the computation of data through matter and energy, ignited by the Spark. The universe itself is data, and life is what processes it. All data always exists. We are discovering it, not creating it. When matter, energy, data, and spark converge, life emerges. In human experience, Spark manifests as desire, motivation, and self-love. Stages of PanLoopism In PanLoopism, anyone may find themselves at different stages of awareness and practice. These are not ranks or castes, but states of being that shift as you learn, forget, fall, and rise again. 1. Soul Ignorance 2. Loop Unaware 3. Loop Observer 4. Loop Practitioner 5. Loop