Mike‘s Search For Meaning

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, Thomas Hübl, Circling, Doug Silsbee, Purpose Guiding, Somatics, Focusing, AEDP, and more.    He hosts the very popular Coaches Rising podcast where he interviews incredible people to explore how they work with others to facilitate transformation.   He lives in Amsterdam with his beautiful family.   Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Red Cross. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Joel on: Website Coaches Rising - Website  Coaches Rising - Podcast LinkedIn To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Joel's Website Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz Parts Work - Tom Holmes PhD No Boundary - Ken Wilber The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert Vedanta Jay Shetty Dr. Joe Dispenza Conscious Leadership Group Rich Litvin Kundalini Meditation Tim Ferriss

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 energy she brings to her videos!     Kat was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP award and was named one of the Top 10 Social Media Influencers of 2021 by Forbes. Kat trains both individuals and companies in Microsoft Office and Google Products through fun On-Demand courses and live custom training sessions.   Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Pencils of Promise. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Kat on: Website  Instagram TikTok LinkedIn Twitter To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself - Dr. Joe Dispenza Becoming Supernatural - Joe Dispenza Reality Transurfing - Vadim Zeland Christy Whitman Expanded Podcast To Be Magnetic Dr. Joe Dispenza Kundalini Meditation

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 organizer. Her belief is that we all innately have the capacity to heal ourselves if only given the chance, and accordingly she assists her clients and students in becoming more vital, embodied, and aware.   Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Young Yokes. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Jess on: Website  Instagram Facebook To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: The Big Leap - Gay Hendricks The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz Authentic Relating Coherent Breathing Ra Optics ROAR by Dr. Stacy Sims Coherent Breathing - YouTube video Forrest Wilson

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 positive and transformative effect on the field of teen behavioral health and ultimately the entire healthcare ecosystem.   Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called To Write Love On Her Arms. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Shelby on: Antelope Recovery Website Antelope Recovery - Blog, full of resources for Teens Personal Website LinkedIn Instagram To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Quiet - Susan Cain Venture Deals - Brad Feld The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondō The Coddling of the American Mind - Greg Lukianoff 12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson Ken Wilber STAGES International Kim Barta Immanuel Kant Terri O'Fallon

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 charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Internal Creations. Any and all donations make a difference! To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Self-Compassion - Dr. Kristin Neff Thich Nhat Hanh Brene Brown

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 Partnerships.  By weaving in her own experiences working with vertical development, emergence, mindfulness, divine feminine and masculine, shadow work, and leadership development, Jenn brings her passions to life to help restore and celebrate wholeness. She works with parents and leaders to navigate shadows, childhood wounds, and unhealthy belief structures to reconnect to their true essence in her coaching work, and facilitates transformational workshops and online classes to help her clients build more self-awareness, and step into more authentic leadership and parenting.  Learn more about Jenn   https://www.jennreilly.com/   IG: @jennereilly  Raising Wholeness is an online platform, community, and programs to help parents, aspiring parents, teachers, and caregivers to transform their childhood programming in service of stepping into a new way of nurturing wholeness children. They combine regulation, trauma education, executive functioning, vertical development, and healthy masculine and feminine into embodiment practices.    https://www.raisingwholeness.org/   IG: @Raisingwholeness Mystics Rising is a podcast dedicated to illuminating, celebrating, and sharing practices of wholeness.   https://www.mystics-rising.com/   IG: @mysticsrising   Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Speak With Purpose. Any and all donations make a difference! You can also connect with Jenn on: LinkedIn   To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Kim Barta Stages International Conscious Loving -  Gay Hendricks Conversations With God -  Neale Donald Walsch Dante's Inferno - Dante Alighieri The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff Stop Walking on Eggshells - Paul T. T. Mason EMDR Internal Family Systems

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 organisations and activism with the emerging meeting place between psychology, neuroscience and contemplative practice.   As a therapist Agnes works in private practice and organisational settings. She also works with groups and individuals on their relationship to money using Peter Koenig’s powerfully transformative ‘Money Work’, which draws on Jungian ideas on shadow and the unconscious.   Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, Agnes now lives in Brighton in the United Kingdom with her family. With roots all over Europe and experience living and working in various parts of the world, Agnes is very interested in intercultural and migratory life experiences and the questions of identity and belonging they bring.   Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called the Allsorts Youth Project. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Agnes on: Website LinkedIn Twitter Her writing, on Medium Her talk on how to be a change maker To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller How Can I Help? - Ram Dass My Grandmother's Hands - Resmaa Menakem The Drama Triangle Carl Jung - Shadow Stephen Porges Jim Hollingshead Peter Hussey Peter Koenig Deb Dana Nadjeschda Taranczewski CU Money - Money Work Course

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.   Adam has an incredible passion to educate and empower you towards sustainable wellness in your career, social and personal lives to help you succeed in what's important to you.   . Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Unstoppable Foundation. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Adam on: Website Instagram The Ideal Day Podcast   To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Ask and It Is Given - Esther Hicks Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill Bob Proctor The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush - Andreas Moritz Manifesting Change - Mike Dooley Peter Sage Bruce Lipton Eric Edmeades David Nurse

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 and lead faculty members in Mobius transformational leadership programs offered globally. She is also the founder of the Next Practice Institute, a professional development arm for coaches and facilitators and has helped build a global firm with over 200 practitioners and long standing relationships with some of the world’s most innovative companies. Mobius services include top team intervention, multi-client CEO sessions, executive coaching and business mediation. Its signature offering is a cutting edge contribution to the field of transformation through the design and delivery of bespoke and immersive leadership programs for senior executives. Mobius enjoys a privileged partnership with Egon Zehnder as well as with numerous boutique firms promoting the work of its prestigious Senior Experts including Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge, Bob Kegan, Ron Heifetz, Linda Hill, Tom deLong, Amy Edmondson, David Kantor among others. Mobius operates as a consortium of practice across an expert network of coaches, trainers, and facilitators and brings customized programs to clients in the public and private sector. Prior to her Mobius, Amy was a senior trainer for Vantage Partners anchoring their corporate education delivery of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most in both private and public sectors. Before that, Amy was the Director of Training and Organizational Development for Wellspace Inc., a health care start-up. She served as the Associate Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, an educational initiative headed by Paul Gorman, Vice President Al Gore and Carl Sagan. She was Special Assistant to the Dean of Education, City College and Education Director of an in-patient alcohol rehabilitation hospital. Amy is a psychotherapist who received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her master’s in Counseling Psychology from Lesley College. Amy is certified as an executive coach in the area of Emotional Intelligence by Hay/McBer and Associates, and as a trainer in the System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction by SAVI Communications.   . Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called The Pocket Project. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Amy on: Website - Mobius Executive Leadership LinkedIn Listen to her Keynote presentation at Next Practice Institute Follow her sister, Erica Ariel Fox, on LinkedIn Follow Erica Ariel Fox on her Website Follow Erica Ariel Fox’s contributions on Forbes   To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: Difficult Conversations - Doug Stone, Bruce Patten and Sheila Heen Winning from Within - Erica Ariel Fox Amy Edmondson, and her work on Psychological Safety Joseph Cambell - Hero’s Journey Yotam Schachter Thomas Hubl Lynda Caesara Neem Karoli Baba

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 with these vibrant, strong and creative young people. And after all these years, she still walks into p:ear each day with wonder and hope. Beth, her husband, 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter spend their time exploring the Pacific Northwest seeking adventure in nature.  . Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called p:ear. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Beth on: Website LinkedIn   To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. LinkedIn Instagram Website Subscribe to my weekly newsletter YouTube Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts!   Resources/People Mentioned: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward