Mindset Is Everything with Shadrach Feild

Mindset Is Everything with Shadrach Feild

What makes a recovery story truly inspiring? This conversation with cowboy, pilot and entrepreneur Shadrach Feild is aimed straight at anyone who’s ever wondered if their mindset really does make a difference.

The chat kicks off with Shadrach’s upbringing in a high-achieving rodeo family, where the phrase “I can’t” was basically banned and his mum drilled in that “mindset is everything.” That early message becomes the backbone of the whole episode, as he later faces a trial most people hope they’ll never see. Shadrach walks through the August 2020 plane crash that left him initially paralysed from the waist down.

He explains calmly losing engine power over a remote Utah lake, making split-second choices to protect his passengers, and waking up in the wreckage thinking, “we’re going to burn.” The physical details are raw, but the emotional weight hits even harder as he talks about responsibility, survivor’s guilt and the quiet horror of being told no one knows if he’ll walk again.

You’ll hear how he fought back: from standing with support just hours after back surgery, to walking with a walker, then crutches, then into his six‑month check-up with nothing at all. Through it all, he keeps returning to one theme: “There’s two ways to look at every situation in life… I want to take things head-on and let them form me into a better me.” For people in addiction recovery, his ideas around fear and pain will feel very familiar.

He links fear to anxiety, calls it “Satan’s biggest tool,” and urges catching fearful thoughts early and “intercepting them quickly with some positive.” On pain, he says he hates it, lives with it daily, but chooses to see it as something that can “build character” if he lets it. Whether someone’s facing cravings, grief, or a total life reset, this episode asks a simple question: what would change if you treated mindset as your number one recovery tool?