Mike‘s Search For Meaning

For more than a decade, Valerie Livesay, Ph. D. has been thinking about and inquiring into the phenomenon of fallback — when despite our optimal developmental capacities, what we often refer to as our developmental center-of-gravity, we make meaning, feel, and act from a smaller, less complex, less capable form of mind. Following a career in higher education in both administration and faculty role...

Leslie Schrock is an author and angel investor working at the convergence of health and technology. Her breakout hit, Bumpin’: The Modern Guide to Pregnancy mixes the latest clinical research with practical advice for working families. Her second book, Fertility Rules , (Simon Element, Spring 2023) was published on June 6 and addresses male and female fertility. Leslie is an investor in Caribou, R...

Ingrid Edstrom is the Chief Empowerment Officer at the award winning consulting firm, Priestess Of Profits, LLC . She is a Woodard Certified Business Coach, a certified Positive Intelligence Mental Fitness Coach, and a certified Offers and Needs Market Facilitator. She has been recognized as one of the accounting profession's Top 40 Under 40, Most Powerful Women in Accounting, a Top 100 ProAdvisor...

Danny Miranda is the host of the popular podcast, The Danny Miranda Podcast , where he interviews the happiest, healthiest, and wisest people in the world (entrepreneurs, creators, and thinkers). Danny is an absolute force in the world of podcasting and personal development, having amassed a large following on multiple platforms and releasing 371 podcast episodes, to date. He has interviewed Gary...

Janet spent her career as a highly accomplished human resources executive with over 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Her passion for empowering creative individuals to reach their full potential both personally and professionally has been a driving force throughout her career. Throughout her tenure, Janet has held a variety of leadership roles, including corporate training, ex...

Ben Bergon (he/him) is deeply passionate about helping others. He is currently a Sr. Manager of Learning & Development at Chobani, where he focuses on providing challenging and fulfilling career journeys through an employee driven, robust career growth and development framework. He spent the first chapter of his own career as a Certified Public Accountant working at KPMG and then at Chobani helpin...

Justin Scott Campbell (he/him) is an ICF-certified ACC executive coach and diversity consultant & facilitator based in Los Angeles, CA. His work seeks to bring healing practices to organizations so that the people who work there can daily experience Love, Safety, Kindness, and Belonging, unfettered by bias and prejudice.  He helps his clients see problems in new ways, offering solutions they may n...

Mike Slavin is a magician and poet telling tales from the intersection of attention, deception, and wonder. He has been a close-up magician for more than half of his life, so he understands much about how the mind works, and how easily it can be manipulated and deceived. He is a core team member at HighExistence.com where he imagines strategy and builds community. He also writes the newsletter Dow...

Mike Smith is the founder of Huddle Advisory , a firm that guides leaders and teams to peak performance. When organizations maximize the potential of their "Leadership Athletes", they consistently deliver better results. Having been both a CHRO and CFO, Mike has a special lens to align business and talent strategy. He guides leaders and teams through skilled inquiry, objective data analysis, and p...

Meet Julie Peláez, the intuitive, heart-centered master coach behind Just Jules Nutrition . As a Board-Certified Holistic Health Coach and certified yoga instructor, Jules has spent the past several decades guiding her clients towards vibrant health and wellbeing. She co-founded the Conscious Cleanse, a 14-day clean eating program that has helped thousands of people break free from lifelong food s...

Marietta Vis is a leadership coach, embodied change expert and team development facilitator. It has been her passion for more than 25 years to help individuals, leaders, teams and organizations who want to reconnect to their purpose and to what really matters to them. The most effective way to find that real, lasting change is to work with the whole person - integrating mind and body so that we ca...

For the past twenty-eight years, sleep coach, consultant, speaker and author, Susan D’Addario, CSW, has been transforming the lives of thousands.   Susan has worked as a licensed psychotherapist for twenty-four years supporting people in her private practice to work through challenging issues to bring about their positive change and growth.   Four years ago, Susan pivoted and became a Certified Sl...

Jon Martin is a dear friend of mine who shares a similar life’s journey to mine. He began his career in corporate accounting, and after several years, realized he was lacking fulfillment and aliveness in his life. After following a very traditional path, he began to explore what the life he truly wanted was. In this conversation, we explore the pain of misalignment, but also the beauty of finding...

Sarah’s bio is as follows: I am Tangata Tiriti, with ancestry from Scotland and Cornwall, and I live in Kāpiti, just outside of Wellington, with my partner and three daughters. My children and partner whakapapa to Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Manu. I have been working as a coach and facilitator for sixteen years with a background in leadership development, systems leadership, culture and change. I’m parti...

Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue.  He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI) .  His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play.  With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and g...

Joel Monk is the co-founder of Coaches Rising and is very passionate about the role coaches can play in our turbulent times. He is also a coach and has worked with hundreds of executives, entrepreneurs and CEO’s from many different countries around the world.   He takes a cross paradigmatic approach to his coaching and is influenced by – developmental theory, Steve March & Aletheia coaching, Thoma...

Since launching Miss Excel in June of 2020, Kat Norton has grown a community of over 1 million people on TikTok & Instagram through viral Excel trick videos infused with creativity, music and dance. If you haven't seen her content before, picture freezing your Excel cells to "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice or creating a drop-down menu to "Drop it Like it's Hot" by Snoop Dogg. That is the type of ene...

Jess Crutchfield views health AS life and is dedicated to helping others achieve and sustain good health for a healthier human race and planet. She is a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness coach with functional medicine as a focus, Thai Bodywork instructor at Boulder Massage Therapy Institute and practitioner/teacher, Yoga & Breath facilitator, and Boulder Zouk High dance community organize...

Shelby Robbins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Antelope Recovery , an online teen intensive outpatient program in Colorado. Shelby has put together a compassionate and fast growth team whose mission is redesigning teen mental healthcare to increase access and improve clinical quality of care. Her mission is to make behavioral healthcare healthier. Antelope Recovery is an organization that has a posit...

By popular demand, I am back for another solo episode!   In this conversation, I discuss: >What the most important lessons I’ve learned from podcasting are >Misconceptions about self-compassion, and what it really means >Why I want to fall in love with doing the dishes >My relationship with my phone and technology >....and more! Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the chari...

Jenn Reilly is a mother, leadership development and parenting coach, facilitator, organizational designer, podcast host, artist, nature lover, and consciousness explorer. She is the founder of parenting education platform and community, Raising Wholeness, podcast host to Mystics Rising, and emergent visioning designer and consultant, and leadership development coach and associate with Bridge Partn...

Agnes is a therapist, trainer, and coach working with change-makers who feel overwhelmed, burned out or stuck to support them in finding their resilience and creative power. Coming from a background in the not-for-profit sector and international development, with a focus on climate change, gender and social inequality, she started the Good Jungle to connect the worlds of beyond-profit organisation...

Adam Parker is an executive wellness & performance coach, speaker and host of the top rated ‘Ideal Day Podcast’ , where he collaborates with the world’s most respected minds in health, wellness and personal growth.   Through his podcast and speaking events, he inspires people across the globe with his wisdom and knowledge on how to achieve sustainable wellness in today’s overstimulated world.   Ad...

Amy Elizabeth Fox is a senior leadership strategist with two decades of experience consulting to Fortune 500 companies on issues of human capital, organizational health and leadership development. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Mobius Executive Leadership , a premier leadership development firm with offices in Boston and London. Since 2005, Ms. Fox has served as one of the lead designers an...

Beth Burns, a Chicago native, moved to Portland in 1997 for its vast beauty. She worked at Sisters of the Road Café before serving as the director of the Greenhouse Learning Center, a GED based alternative school. In 2002, she and her 2 colleagues founded p:ear , a program for homeless youth. She serves as a co-founder and Executive Director of p:ear and is incredibly grateful to spend her days wi...