What if entrepreneurship isn’t just a profession—it’s part of your DNA?
In this powerful episode of Experience Over Expectation, Mary McCorvey sits down with Sid Mohasseb, globally respected entrepreneur, author, investor, and founder of Anabasis Academy—often called the Entrepreneur Philosopher. From curing his own genetic disorder at age 7 to moving to America alone at 16, Sid’s life story is proof that building a meaningful life is less about fearlessness and more about mindful navigation of risk and change.
Together, we explore:
- Why entrepreneurship is encoded in our DNA
- The real definition of risk (and how entrepreneurs navigate it daily)
- Why “fail fast” is the wrong goal—and what to chase instead
- What Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa teach us about value exchange
- Why fear is an alarm system—not something to silence
- How even building a backyard deck is an entrepreneurial act
- And why change is your greatest friend—not your enemy
This episode will completely shift the way you think about failure, success, and what it means to build something valuable—whether it’s a company, a career, or a life you actually want.
🎧 Listen now and discover why you were born to build.
Sid also introduces his $1 forever-access learning platform: AnabasisAcademy.org, designed to provoke, engage, and awaken your next best self.
Mary McCorvey is a veteran of the Gulf War, founder of 7 companies, TV producer, author, radio host, and playwright whose life reads like a memoir—because it is one. From being implicated in a murder at 17 to surviving sarin gas exposure in Kuwait, Mary’s story is defined by resilience, reinvention, and one core question: What do you do… when life keeps rewriting the script?
After being diagnosed with terminal pulmonary fibrosis and told she had two years to live, Mary defied the odds. She rebuilt her life after betrayal, launched a mission to send students’ work to the Moon, and most recently, opened a locked box she’d carried for 35 years—unleashing a memoir-in-motion about love, memory, and healing.
Now the host of the podcast and author of the book, Experience Over Expectation, Mary brings wit, warmth, and depth to conversations about identity, aging, forgiveness, and second chances. She’s equally at home discussing trauma and tenacity as she is laughing through the absurdities of life.
Mary lives—and thrives—in Pennsylvania, with a story to tell and a mic in hand.
