PrecisionCycle
The elevate.epo Podcast
Psychology, Precision, Power.
Welcome to the elevate.epo podcast—where therapy ends and transformation begins. Hosted by Enrique Arteaga, MSc., this series breaks the mold of traditional mental health discourse. No DSM checklists. No passive listening. Just sharp, unfiltered insight into what it really takes to recalibrate your identity, optimize your emotional system, and move through the world with embodied leadership.
Each episode explores the mechanics of EPO (Executive Performance Optimization) and EROS (Embodied Relational Optimization System), drawing from real-world client breakthroughs, cultural analysis, and deep psychological pattern recognition. From founders to creatives, high-performers to seekers—this is where you come to decode your internal operating system and rewire it with precision.
You're not broken. You're underutilized.
Welcome to the upgrade.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2025
I’m on Warm Milk and Laxatives / Cherry-Flavored Antacids: How Modern Mental Health Keeps You Trapped in Pathology
In this scorched-earth episode of PrecisionCycle, Enrique pulls no punches as he recounts a recent therapy session that left him confronting the hollow mechanics of modern mental health…
Memorial Day Standup: Why Therapy’s Broken and Boundaries Are the Answer
On this special Memorial Day edition of PrecisionCycle by elevate.epo, Enrique records straight from the Pasadena office with a message that’s part tribute, part takedown. He honors tho…
Built Different: Why Boundaries, Not Therapy, Are the True Antidote to Narcissism, Perimenopause, and Emotional Collapse
This special Friday episode of PrecisionCycle is not for the faint-hearted. Enrique delivers a raw, grounded, and methodically explosive breakdown of why boundaries—not therapy—are the …
Boundary Culture: What the Dutch Teach Us About Recalibration, Containment, and Respect
After Monday’s episode on Nancy McWilliams and perimenopause, I got a flood of messages—mostly asking the same thing: What does actual support look like?
This episode answers that. But n…
Perimenopause as Personality Collapse: A Psychoanalytic Deep Dive with McWilliams
Most people treat perimenopause like it's just hot flashes and hormones. But through the lens of Nancy McWilliams’ psychoanalytic theory, we see something far more structural: a full-bl…
The Night Jane Broke the Frame: Borderline Collapse and the Origins of elevate.epo
It started as an after-work drink—until it became a clinical rupture.
In this raw, field-based episode, Enrique walks us through the night “Jane” spiraled into a live narcissistic attack…
Tennis Court: Why You're Playing a Borderline Personality Game You Never Signed Up For
You didn’t choose this match—but you’re in it.
In this episode, Enrique breaks down how Peter Fonagy’s groundbreaking model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) explains the emotiona…
Cap’n Crunch with Water: Fonagy, Kendrick, and the Collapse of Pretend Theory
What do a British psychoanalyst, a Pulitzer-winning rapper, and a soggy bowl of Cap’n Crunch have in common? Everything—if you’ve lived it. In this episode, Enrique breaks down Peter Fo…
The Scaffolding of Return: How Your Trash Squat Is a Sign of a Fatherless Nervous System
Your back hurts. Your knees ache. You can’t squat 225 or pull 315 without breaking form—and it’s not because you skipped leg day. It’s because your dad never taught you how to hold tens…
The Gambler: Daddy Issues in the Age of DraftKings
What do you get when you raise a boy in a house full of books, Nobel prizes, and emotional abandonment?
You get Dave—a startup founder turned gambling mule, now flying to Texas to place …
Challenging Theories of Consciousness: Breaking the Loop
In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique kicks off “Daddy Issues Week” by sharing the powerful story of Jane, his first private client — a woman shaped by a father who couldn’t protect h…
Dan's Test: How PrecisionCycle Fixed a Broken Heart
In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique shares the story of Dan, a client working through the pain of a broken heart after a tough relationship at work. Using the PrecisionCycle method,…
The Berkeley Shark: Recalibrating the Field with PrecisionCycle
What if the problem isn’t that you’re misunderstood—but that you’re miscalibrated to an underdeveloped field? In this episode, Enrique introduces PrecisionCycle, elevate.epo’s groundbre…
Field Week: How Reverse Causality Destroys Relationships
In this Field Week kickoff, Enrique from elevate.epo breaks down one of the most overlooked yet devastating dynamics in modern relationships: Reverse Causality. Rooted in primitive psyc…
The Escape from Sedation: How Real Clinical Work Threatens Broken Systems in Eating Disorder Treatment
When a borderline patient at an eating disorder residential spiraled into distorted thinking, Enrique used Lacanian principles to recalibrate her reality—in real time. Instead of being …
Two Energies: The Survival Fields of Restrictors and Binge-Purgers
Not all eating disorders are the same — not just clinically, but energetically. In this episode, Enrique breaks open the hidden divide inside the EDO world: Restrictors and Binge-Purger…
The Reality Behind Eating Disorder Treatment: Why Containment Fails and Collapse Happens
In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique exposes the hidden fractures inside residential eating disorder treatment. From the raw realities of nervous system collapse to the institutional…
Integration Week: Friday Address – This System Is Built Under Pressure
You don’t build a new system by sitting in circles and processing your feelings. You build it by moving under pressure. In this special Friday edition, I break down what Integration Wee…
Billing or Healing: Why Modern Mental Health Failed — and How We Take It Back
The mental health industry isn’t broken — it’s executing a billing-first model by design. In this episode, we expose how compliance replaced healing, why insurance dependency destroyed …
I Was 310: The Body Isn’t Broken. It’s Holding the Line.
In this opening episode of the Week of Integration series, Ash and Danni break down a paper by Enrique—founder of elevate.epo— that unpacks what it really means to lose weight without c…