Fred Auzenne

Fred Auzenne is a former U.S. Army counterintelligence officer turned performance facilitator who has spent more than 25 years studying one fascinating question: why do capable, intelligent people get in their own way — and how do they finally stop?

Here's what makes Fred rare — he's someone who studied how people get manipulated, professionally, in the intelligence world, and now uses exactly that knowledge to set people free instead. His answer to what holds us back isn't willpower, and it isn't shame. Drawing on more than 30 peer-reviewed studies in neuroscience and behavior, Fred built a program called Clear Edge 90 — a 90-day system that helps high achievers eliminate alcohol as a performance barrier, not through deprivation or recovery, but through design.

His whole philosophy nearly fits on a bumper sticker: you're not broken — you're running someone else's programming, and you can rewrite it. The patterns holding us back were quietly installed by our environment, which means they were never really us to begin with. And once we can see them, we can re-engineer them.

There's something else worth knowing about Fred: he made a decision at 22 that he's held for more than 40 years — and everything he's built since, from companies to a career in intelligence, came after it, and without alcohol. As the founder of the Clear Edge Institute, he's helped executives, physicians, and everyday high performers reclaim their sharpness, their sleep, and their sense of being fully in control of their own lives. He's a rare guest who blends real science with real hope — and today, he's here to show us how anyone can take back the controls. Please welcome Fred Auzenne.