The Lesser Journey of a Road Travelled

We often believe change begins with motivation — a moment where everything finally clicks and moving forward feels natural. But most growth doesn’t happen on those days. It happens on the quiet ones. The days where nothing feels rewarding. The days where doubt is louder than progress. The days where continuing feels meaningless… and you continue anyway. In this episode, Mikki explores how real res...

Some struggles don’t leave bruises you can point to. They live in memory, in silence, in the constant calculation of how to exist safely in a world that never quite felt built for you. In this deeply personal episode, I reflect on a lifetime of carrying something unseen — from childhood moments of being told who I was allowed to be, to years spent hiding, masking, and trying to outrun myself. What...

We all carry something. Some of it is visible — responsibilities, deadlines, expectations. But some of it lives beneath the surface — trauma, shame, misgendering, grief, rejection, addiction, exhaustion. In this episode of The Lesser Journey of a Road Travelled, I speak openly about the weight no one sees. The quiet battles. The emotional labour. The pressure of holding it together while everythin...

What happens after the motivation fades? After the plans are made. After the push. After the noise. This episode explores the quiet space that follows effort — the moment when the external encouragement disappears and we are left alone with ourselves. For many, this silence feels like failure. Like nothing is happening. Like we’ve lost our way. But what if the quiet isn’t a setback at all? In When...

Everybody has their breaking point. This episode begins at mine. In this deeply personal reflection, I speak honestly about reaching rock bottom after a lifetime shaped by deprivation, poverty, exclusion, and harsh judgment. I explore how repeated misgendering, societal rejection, and long-term survival pressure slowly eroded my sense of worth — not just internally, but visibly, in my personal upk...

There comes a point in every personal journey where walking away feels justified, logical — even deserved. In this episode, we explore the quiet, unseen strength it takes to remain committed when motivation fades, progress feels slow, and doubt grows louder than hope. This conversation is not about dramatic breakthroughs; it is about the internal battles that happen in silence — the moments where...