A Docuseries in Development
An intimate docuseries following real people through the moment they finally see — and begin to change — the pattern that has been shaping their life. All within one intensive 10-hour experience.
Over the course of 10 hours, participants work through the beliefs, emotional patterns, identity conflicts, and decisions that have kept them stuck — sometimes for years.
This is not performance. It is not a makeover. It is not a quick-fix transformation story.
It is the real work of seeing what has been operating beneath the surface, understanding where it came from, and deciding what comes next.
TV series currently in development
A breakthrough is not a moment of motivation.
It is the point where something you have known intellectually finally becomes impossible to ignore emotionally and behaviorally.
It is when the pattern becomes visible.
The fear.
The avoidance.
The over-functioning.
The need for control.
The relationship dynamic.
The financial behavior.
The identity you have outgrown.
The decision you keep circling.
Most people do not struggle because they lack information.
They struggle because knowing what to do and being able to do it are not the same thing.
A breakthrough creates enough clarity to see the difference.
Because meaningful change rarely fits neatly into a 50-minute conversation.
Ten hours creates space to go beyond the presenting problem.
We can slow down enough to understand the pattern, follow it to its origin, challenge the meaning attached to it, work through what is still unresolved, and then translate that insight into a different way of operating.
The goal is not to manufacture an emotional moment.
The goal is to create enough time and depth for something real to move.
"The problem you are trying to solve may not actually be the problem."
The stories are different. The underlying questions are often remarkably similar.
Why do I keep repeating this?
Why do I know better and still do the same thing?
Why does success in one area not translate into another?
Why do I keep avoiding the decision I know I need to make?
Why does money create so much emotion?
Why do I keep choosing relationships, businesses, or circumstances that recreate the same dynamic?
What part of me is still making decisions from an earlier chapter of my life?
The series looks at the intersection of:
Because none of these things live in isolation.
Adults get busy.
They build careers.
Raise families.
Make money.
Lose money.
Get married.
Get divorced.
Start businesses.
Achieve things.
But the younger version of us can still be quietly making decisions.
A child does not choose the circumstances they grow up in.
They do, however, make meaning out of those circumstances.
And that meaning can become a belief.
That belief can become a strategy.
That strategy can become a pattern.
And years later, the adult may be living inside a decision they do not even remember making.
10 Hour Breakthrough makes those invisible decisions visible.
The people who enter this work are often capable, intelligent, successful, and highly functional.
That is precisely why some patterns can remain hidden for so long.
You can build an impressive life and still have one area where your old operating system keeps showing up.
A breakthrough is not about becoming someone else.
It is about seeing clearly enough to stop allowing an old pattern to make new decisions.
"You can build an impressive life and still be operating from an old decision."
Every experience is different, but the work may include:
Identifying recurring patterns and emotional triggers
Exploring early beliefs and experiences that shaped them
Examining the meaning attached to money, achievement, relationships, safety, control, success, or failure
Challenging unconscious assumptions
Separating present-day reality from old emotional responses
Working through unresolved decisions or identity conflicts
Creating a clearer internal framework for the choices ahead
The work is intensive, personal, and highly individualized.
Because this is a documentary project, selected participants must also be willing to allow the process to be captured honestly.
Because most transformation is shown after the fact.
We hear the polished story once the person has already changed.
This series is interested in the part we usually do not see.
Behind the scenes of 10 Hour Breakthrough with Lisa Chastain
The resistance.
The realization.
The contradiction.
The uncomfortable truth.
The moment someone recognizes that the problem they have been trying to solve may not actually be the problem.
And the decision that follows.
That is the story.
We are currently considering individuals for future filmed breakthrough experiences.
You do not need to have everything figured out.
You do need to be willing to look closely at the area of your life where you know something needs to change.
You may be a fit if you are navigating:
Selected participants may be invited to complete an intensive filmed breakthrough experience for the docuseries.
Tell us what is happening, what you have already tried, and what you believe needs to change.
This may be for you if:
You are successful in many areas of your life but keep repeating the same pattern in one.
You understand the issue intellectually but have not been able to change it.
You keep circling the same decision.
You know something needs to change but are not sure what is actually driving the problem.
You are willing to be honest.
You are willing to be uncomfortable.
You are willing to stop performing certainty and actually examine what is happening.
This is not about being broken.
It is about being willing to see clearly.
Lisa Chastain is a money coach, author, speaker, podcast host, and Certified NLP Trainer whose work focuses on Financial Emotional Intelligence—the emotional, behavioral, relational, and practical factors that influence financial decisions.
With more than 25 years of coaching and mentoring experience, Lisa has taught thousands through programs, workshops, live events, speaking, and education. Earlier in her career, she worked as a financial advisor serving high-net-worth clients before transitioning out of licensed financial advising in 2016.
Her work and perspective have been featured in:
Through 10 Hour Breakthrough, Lisa brings that work into a more intimate format — documenting what becomes possible when people are willing to stop circling the issue and look directly at the pattern.
As Seen In
Money is often the lens.
But the work is rarely only about money.
Financial behavior can reveal fear, identity, family conditioning, self-worth, control, avoidance, independence, ambition, and belonging.
Lisa's work sits at the intersection of practical financial decision-making and human behavior.
That means looking at:
What happened.
What you made it mean.
What you started believing.
How that belief shaped your behavior.
And whether that belief still deserves to make decisions for you today.
Insight matters.
But insight without action changes very little.
The work ultimately comes down to decisions.
What do you now see that you could not see before?
What are you willing to stop repeating?
What decision becomes available once the old pattern is no longer in charge?
What support will you need to live differently?
Action is where the transformation becomes real.
The Final Question
Most people do.
The conversation they keep avoiding.
The decision they keep postponing.
The behavior they keep explaining.
The financial reality they do not want to look at.
The relationship pattern they cannot seem to change.
The next chapter they know they want but have not allowed themselves to choose.
The question is not always:
What should I do?
Sometimes the better question is:
What has been stopping me from doing what I already know?
That is where the breakthrough begins.
TV series currently in development. Selected applicants may be considered for future filmed breakthrough experiences.