1573: Close the 18-Inch Gap and Follow Your Dreams with Edwin Soler

Sunday, May 3, 2026

From losing a 27-year career in a 90‑second conversation to becoming a “Dream Realization Partner,” Edwin Soler knows exactly what it feels like to have your identity, income, and future vanish overnight. If you’re stuck in a job you’ve outgrown, weighed down by debt and responsibilities, endlessly overthinking your next move, and quietly asking yourself, “Why am I still here when I know I’m meant for more?” this episode is your wake-up call. Edwin calls this tension the 18-inch gap between your head and your heart: the painful distance between the life your mind thinks is “safe” and the life your heart is begging you to live.

In this conversation, Edwin Soler shares how being fired just three months after publishing his book forced him into a complete reinvention, and how community, a podcast, and a business coach helped him rebuild his confidence, clarify his message, and step into his role as a life coach and guide for stuck dreamers. We unpack the critical difference between therapy and life coaching (healing the past vs. building the future), how overthinking, comparison, and fear quietly kill your dreams, and why Edwin Soler rejects the idea of “getting out of your comfort zone.” Instead, he explains how to expand your comfort zone so that courage, growth, and new opportunities become your new baseline instead of rare exceptions.

You’ll also hear specific tools from Edwin’s Soler “Closing the 18 Inch Gap” framework and his work as a coach: powerful questions like “What are you most afraid of?” that expose hidden fears, how to notice when you’ve handed authority for your life to other people, and how to reframe painful experiences as bricks on the path to your eventual success including the college chemistry exam where he scored a 4 and thought everything was ruined. We explore when you should see a therapist vs. hire a life coach, how to rebuild after a major career loss, and why you can’t simply “think” your way into your dreams; you have to live from the heart that imagined them. If you’re ready to stop playing small, close the gap between knowing and doing, and finally move toward the life you’re called to live, this episode will give you both the mindset and the first moves to get started.

Quotes:

"You can’t think your way into your dreams. You have to live from the heart that imagined them."

“Coaching is about awareness. The answers may already be in you—you just need the right questions to draw them out.”

"We do a lot of comparisons. We compare our backstage to someone’s front stage. People say, ‘I’m an overnight success’—but it took 15 years to get there."

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