This episode features a conversation originally recorded on Scott Barker’s Wake Up Call podcast. It explores Chris Walker’s personal journey, the origins of ENCODED, and the frameworks behind frequency training, transformation, and the six-tier model of human development.
The discussion begins with Chris breaking down his life into three distinct chapters. In 2015, he was living an average life while following society’s expectations — work schedules, office rules, alcohol norms, and a definition of success that didn’t feel meaningful. In 2019, after being fired from a startup job, he launched a consulting business with $3,000 to his name. The company later scaled to $21M ARR, but the success came with burnout, anxiety, and a persistent feeling that something was off. Today, he lives and works in a completely different way, prioritizing how he feels, limiting meetings, choosing aligned relationships, and designing life around intentional energy rather than external pressure.
From this lived experience came ENCODED — a system built on frequency training, the process of upgrading identity, beliefs, emotions, and intentions instead of relying on motivation or willpower. Chris explains how societal programming creates “default” beliefs that shape our lives until we consciously examine them.
Chris also walks through the five stages of transformation — awareness, belief and identity upgrades, interruption, integration, and embodiment — and explains why most people get stuck by skipping the identity stage and going straight to behavior change. He outlines how ENCODED uses frequency chains to help people rewire identity and belief patterns, which then naturally shift emotions, intentions, actions, and results over a 30–90 day period.
The conversation extends into how these frameworks can transform leadership, parenting, relationships, decision-making, and daily emotional patterns. Chris and Scott explore how education could evolve beyond memorization toward intuition, presence, self-trust, and emotional regulation — capacities that become increasingly valuable in a world shaped by AI.
This episode offers a clear, grounded look at the principles underlying ENCODED and how they formed through Chris’s own transformation. It’s an honest, practical discussion about upgrading internal architecture rather than relying on force, pressure, or suffering to change your life.
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🎵 Intro music: “Saturday Luv” by Zone+Used with permission. All rights reserved to the artist.