Mike Needs a Plan

Mandi is down 100+ pounds...but she's not keeping track. In fact, when I asked her to introduce herself, she didn't even mention it. Mandi is a dear friend of mine and a coach in our Skool community, helping others every day to build lives where weight loss is, like, the 15th most impressive or exciting thing that comes to mind when they think about all of the incredible things they've...

Is it a secret ingredient that the doctors don't want you to know about? Is it a magic nutrient that acts as a "natural" ozempic in your blender? ...no. None of that stuff exists. Otherwise we'd all know about it and be eating it, and obesity wouldn't be a thing. Let's talk about the semi-controversial "magic smoothie" that has gotten half a million views in the...

If you knew you were only 100 rejections away from your dream, how quickly would you burn through the finite amount of failures? "But I don't want to fail!" Of course you don't WANT to...but everything worth having is on the other side of it. Today we'll talk about the importance of failure on your weight loss journey, how to survive it, and how to cultivate more of it. There...

Does weight loss improve your dating life? How do you get back on track after a long break? What's the best way to overcome body dysmorphia? I took your questions from the Discord group and the Instagram broadcast channel and gave them my blind answers (I don't read the questions in advance!) ____________________________________ Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show...

Anything you want to be true at the end of your journey needs to be true at the beginning...even if it's a half-baked version of the thing. Waiting ruined everything for me. Waiting for confidence, waiting for ability, waiting for permission. I didn't realize I needed to actively build those things to have them. Weight loss alone wasn't going to give it to me. This past week, I was giv...

I have been a weight loss coach for several years now and have been lucky enough to be involved in about 100 weight loss journeys. Today, I'm speaking to Bailey Joseph, who is a long time client of mine. She's down 65 pounds, beat fatty liver disease, lives an active lifestyle she could have never dreamed of before, has been dubbed the "Bicep Queen" by our coaching community, and is just about to...

It's been a while since I've made a podcast. I didn't decide to leave -- it just happened. I don't love that. It reminds me of the many times I slowed down & stopped on my 110lb weight loss journey, without really deciding to do so. After a certain amount of time, I just would realize...huh...I haven't been working on me in a while. Today, I'll be reflecting on getting...

It's tough, isn't it? But it's vital if you want to lose the weight and keep it off. You can't focus on the negatives and expect to start seeing positives. In this episode, we'll talk all about how do start shifting your mindset to one of success. ---------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit ques...

I went to the Cheesecake Factory last night. To some of you, that reads as something bad. To me, it was a wonderful time. However...I woke up with some less-than-constructive thoughts this morning. In today's slightly vulnerable episode, I'll walk you through how I'm getting rid of unnecessary guilt, as I'm doing it, in real time. ---------------- Have a question or comment you wan...

Do you have to hate your body to change it? Do you have to be angry at yourself to lose weight? Do you need to speak negatively to yourself to get it to stick? On the second anniversary of my video where I took my shirt off at the boardwalk for the first time, we're going to talk about all of the reasons the self-hate approach hasn't worked for you yet, and what to do instead. It gets pret...

Are you stuck in a plateau? In this episode, I work with Matt on how to start moving forward again after an incredible 102 pound weight loss. For Q&A episodes, I do not read any of the questions before answering them! This way, you get something more valuable than just the answer -- you get the process of how I arrived at it. That way, you can begin to solve your own problems more effectively...

I took a break! From a lot of things! Let's talk about the best way go get started again after some time off to ensure that we continue to create sustainable success. ---------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.com/invite/xM...

Throughout my life, I didn't do enough for myself. Any time I faced resistance in pursuit of self care or wish fulfillment, I'd take it as a sign that the thing I wanted wasn't meant for me. "No hopes", I'd repeat to myself, reasoning that it was better to not have hopes at all than to have them and see them crushed. This past weekend, I pushed past it all to do something good for myself. To prove...

Happy new year! It's resolution season, and a lot of you are thinking about tracking calories, but don't know where to start. There are a lot of programs and plans out there, and many of them are just fine. But what's better than signing up for a calorie tracking program? Getting it for free. Join me today as I give away everything they're going to teach you in those programs, but from a perspecti...

I'm in a measured calorie deficit for the first time in a while. IT'S HARD. But I'm not hungry all the time. In fact, I hardly ever am, and I'm losing weight. Today I'll talk about how, and also talk about why it's still difficult anyway. This is how you can get past all the same obstacles to get the same results. --------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the fr...

I overthought the intro of my own show, and it sent me into a self doubt spiral. A show I do every week! I should know how to start it. But I thought about it too much, and psyched myself out. I literally convinced myself I couldn't intro my own show. --------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on...

Can you name ONE person that truly deserves the kind of self hatred that you impose upon yourself? In this episode, we discuss how to work through self hatred by proving -- with indisputable logic -- that it doesn't actually make any sense at all. Today's questions: -Can I name one person who deserves to feel the way I do about myself? -What is truly similar between me and that person? -What is di...

Thanksgiving, and all holidays, should be a time without stress. Unfortunately I'm stressed today. Let's talk about how to deal with some of the common, uncommon, and hard to handle stressors of the holidays. --------------------------------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next epi...

I'm about to starve my cat. The vet said she's too fat, so we have to put her on a special diet and bring her out to exercise and whatnot. But that sounds complicated and expensive so I think I'm just going to stop feeding her. If you're a normal person, that paragraph upset you. And yet, you've looked in the mirror and said the same thing to yourself. Why wouldn't you starve a cat, but you'd star...

No question asked nor answer received is ever too late, but it can't hurt to get ahead. Here are 9 important things I learned about weight loss, growth, self respect, perspective, and life, as I reflect upon my recent 31st birthday. --------------------------- ⁠Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on...

These common myths about weight loss & aging might be the reason you're gaining weight & getting old...but does it have to be that way? Here's the simple way to start to fix it today. ---------------------------------------- ⁠Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next episode!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

A good plan is a series of steps. A GREAT plan is a series of decisions. In this episode, I'll coach you through 7 decisions you can make right now, wherever you are, that will help you start making great progress toward your goals today. ---------------------------------------- ⁠Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit question...

A Q&A episode from the members of my Instagram Broadcast channel. Insight on a bunch of great topics, like how to achieve your fitness goals with a busy life, how to make tracking less stressful, strategies and mindsets to work on negative self talk, and more. ---------------------------------------- ⁠Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss comm...

1. Are your goals attractive? 2. Are your methods attractive? 3. Is your maintenance plan attractive? ------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next episode! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.com/invite/xMFxjY9FYS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Confidently lose your weight & keep it off forever: ⁠ht...

I'll never be overweight again. I'm very confident in that. You aren't just yet. That's ok! Let's talk about how to get you confident, too. ---------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next episode! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠discord.com/invite/xMFxjY9FYS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Confidently lose your...