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10/14/2026

What happens to the rest of your relationships when you neglect your relationship with yourself?

Comment “THEMA” to receive the full episode with Dr. Thema Bryant, a clinical psychologist, tenured professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, director of the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory, and former president of the American Psychological Association. She hosts The Homecoming Podcast and wrote Matters of the Heart: Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love.

This conversation is also for the person doing well by every external measure who sees no reason to do any of this work. Thema says it’s not that you need to. It’s that you deserve to.

Asked how we would lead if we knew what she knows, Thema’s answer was that you would not leave yourself behind.

10/12/2026

You don’t have time. You have excuses.

When people say they don’t have time for breathing and meditation because they’re too busy, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says: it’s like saying, I’m so hungry, but I have no time to eat.

Having no time is only an excuse.

If you see the benefit, you’ll find time. If you know what you invest is going to pay much more than you could imagine, why would you not invest?

Time isn’t the issue. Priority is.

10/12/2026

You don’t need the tune-up. You need time and movement.

Studies on ultrasound show the machine on or off, you get the same results.

Yet some clinicians use this to keep you coming back week after week.

This creates treatment dependency.

Business owners profit from you staying dependent.

Convince you that the intervention is what fixes you. Skip a week? You’ll get worse. So you keep paying.

Most musculoskeletal conditions get better with time and movement/exercise. That’s what has the best evidence.

Not the weekly tune-up. Clinicians just take credit for what time does.

Self-efficacy wins. Dependency loses.

10/08/2026

A violence-free world starts with you.

Let’s all get together with one message: a world free of violence.

Make each one of us feel part of a global human family.

To create a violence-free society, it starts from you.

First you must be non-violent with yourself, with your own thoughts.

Whatever is inside is what comes out.

Here’s what you can do: Get rid of stress, meditate, and free yourself from internal violence first.

That’s how you become part of the solution.

You can’t create peace externally without creating it internally.

10/08/2026

A lot of people say you need a dopamine detox.

The evidence for this is really, really flaky. It’s not like dopamine is building up in your brain and you need to release it.

There’s a circuit linking the basal ganglia to the frontal lobes.

When damaged, it leads to loss of motivation and apathy.

This same circuit is hijacked by almost every drug of addiction—nicotine, alcohol, co***ne, he**in, amphetamines.

Those drugs over-stimulate dopamine production. That’s addiction, but normal dopamine doesn’t work that way.

You can’t “detox” from dopamine the way you detox from drugs.

Stop chasing the dopamine detox trend. Understand the actual science instead.

10/07/2026

“…the stories that we tell ourselves and other people become our lives.” — IN-Q.

Comment “STORY” to receive the latest Finding Mastery episode with IN-Q, a spoken word artist, two-time Emmy-nominated lyricist, multi-platinum songwriter, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of Inquire Within. He has written songs with Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and Aloe Blacc, and he was one of the original members of Da Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles, the open mic he calls church without religion.

‘Change your story, change your life’ is how he puts it.

He also tells you exactly where to start.

10/06/2026

You will never appreciate stress-free-ness if you’ve never experienced stress, but that’s not your natural state.

Too much stress destroys your nervous system and you go completely crazy.

Here’s the balance I would recommend:

- Stress should be like salt in food, a little helps, more than that is unconsumable.

- Embrace good stress, the pressure of a deadline or exam. That pressure makes you act and perform.

-Stay away from bad stress, which is the day after day. You become a nervous wreck.

Today we’ve taken in too much stress and don’t know how to get rid of it.

It’s taken a big toll on our mental health and social behavior.

09/30/2026

What if the calmest person in the room isn’t avoiding pressure, but experiencing it differently?

Comment “CALM” to receive the latest episode of Finding Mastery why Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of the world’s most recognized spiritual teachers and humanitarian leaders.

Gurudev and Mike get into why he defines success as exhibiting your limitation, why he thinks failure is worth being proud of, and why authority over your own mind is the only authority there really is. Mike asks him when his body last went into fight or flight. He says it never has.

This one is for people who are working hard and running warm. What Gurudev points back to is small and repeatable, breathing and meditation, and he says the first sitting is enough to feel the difference.

We have another exciting AMA coming up on Finding Mastery with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power...
09/28/2026

We have another exciting AMA coming up on Finding Mastery with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The Law of the Sublime.

The theme of the AMA will be “how to live a better life”, something Dr. Michael Gervais and Robert have both thought deeply about.

And that means... we’d love to get some questions from YOU for this conversation!

So please, comment down below with any questions you have for them ⬇️

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