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Finding Mastery coach Kaya Turski took the stage at the Microsoft MOS National Championship on Monday.
06/17/2026

Finding Mastery coach Kaya Turski took the stage at the Microsoft MOS National Championship on Monday.

06/17/2026

What does it take to build a team that trusts each other enough to go through hard things together... not around them?

Comment “SEAHAWKS” and receive the full conversation between Mike Macdonald, Head Coach of the Seattle Seahawks and one of the youngest head coaches in modern NFL history to win a Super Bowl, and Dr. Michael Gervais

In this episode, you’ll learn:

-Why “through, not around” is the foundation of a Super Bowl culture
-How confidence and self-efficacy can be trained like any other skill
-Why clarity from leadership builds trust under pressure
-How to lead a team through adversity without playing the blame game
-What players always know about their coaches and organizations
-How fear of failure quietly constricts potential
-What imposter syndrome looks like at the highest level of sport
-How honest relationships change what support looks like after a costly mistake
-Great teams aren’t built around hard things. They’re built through them

06/16/2026

We all live with the fantasy that our partner can read our mind.

The solution is simple”

1. Ask and tell - Ask and tell instead of expecting them to figure it out.

2. Listen actively - This is really hard to do. If you do it well, you’ll be exhausted at the end of it.

Are you asking or expecting people to read your mind? 👇🏼

06/16/2026

Dr. Suniya Luthar started working with kids in poverty as a control group.

She went to highly resourced communities on the coasts—outside New York, outside of San Francisco.

To her shock, she found higher rates of depression, inner pain, addiction, and even suicidality in highly resourced high schools than in the inner city.

What explains it?

The national spirituality rate: the national rate at which a high school student says, yes, my spirituality is highly important to me, is about 70%.

In highly resourced communities - 15%. Less than a quarter of the national rate.

Resources don’t equal wellbeing. Spirituality matters.

06/11/2026

The best lesson I’ve learned Jesse Cole Cole learned from Walt Disney: Disneyland is a living, breathing thing. It’ll never be complete. We will continue to plus the show.

What he did:

1. Always asking - Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always asking, what’s wrong with this thing and how can it be improved?

2. Taking action - He used to time going on the Jungle Cruise. He went on it once and it was only two minutes. It was supposed to be four and a half. His team heard about it. By the time he came on that afternoon, it was fixed because he knew what the perfect time had to be.

3. The principle - You had to feel the whole experience. We will always plus the experience.

Who is one person you look up to and what lesson you’ve learned from them? 👇🏼

06/11/2026

Spirituality is 80% protective against addiction says Lisa Miller

A strong, high personal spirituality, with or without religion, turned out to be 80% protective against addiction.

82% protective against completed su***de.

Knowing in our heart if spirituality is important to us is associated with recovery from trauma.

What happens:

1. Post-traumatic spiritual growth - Associated with real struggle. Some people call it dark night of the soul—the tough times that just beset us out of nowhere.

2. The pattern - Yesterday, everything was fine. Same family, same job. Suddenly today, I feel this lurking existential dread, developmental depression.

3. The awakening - Which often then we are so designed to give way to an awakening.

How important do you think spirituality is? 👇🏼

06/10/2026

What if the reason so many of us are struggling right now isn’t a lack of success… but a lack of connection to something deeper?

Comment “CONNECT” and we’ll send you the full episode with Dr. Lisa Miller (.lisamiller) clinical psychologist, professor at Columbia University, and author of The Awakened Brain, with Dr. Michael Gervais.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
-Why spirituality is an inborn capacity, not a belief
-The research finding that reframes mental health and resilience
-The three neural circuits behind feeling loved, guided, and never alone
-How sustained spiritual practice physically strengthens the brain
-The difference between achieving awareness and awakened awareness
-How parents can support a child’s natural spiritual awareness
-Why most leaders make their biggest decisions through awakened knowing
-How to recover your connection after spiritual injury

Dr. Miller’s research points to a capacity every one of us is born with. This conversation is an invitation to use it.

06/09/2026

We live in a metrics obsessed world says

We’ve become so metrics obsessed that we’ve actually missed the point.

Some scientist was able to discern how many seconds you’re supposed to do this, or how many times you’re supposed to express gratitude, or people who become close friends spend at least 50 hours a week.

These numbers are largely irrelevant.

What can’t be measured:

1. The unmeasurable - There’s no metric for how in love you are. There’s no metric for a parent’s love. There’s no metric for trust or belief, but we all know when it’s there and we all know when it’s not.

2. The irony - In our metrics obsessed world, there’s now data to show that being obsessed with the metrics is worse for you.

The obsession with sleep metrics and gratitude metrics is worse for you than just missing a couple of days or having a bad night’s sleep.

So the question is: What are you measuring that doesn’t matter? 👇🏼

06/08/2026

Turn towards what you want to run away from.

1. You can’t carry the burden alone - You can’t carry the burden of human suffering by yourself. We need a community.

2. We’ve fragmented - It turns out the community is all of humanity, but we have to reclaim that sense of community. We’ve othered ourselves so much that now we’re nation states competing.

3. Every man for himself - This is not a formula for health and well-being of any kind in any realm.

What are you running away from? 👇🏼

06/05/2026

If you ask a little of people, the most you’re going to get is the little you ask.

If you ask a lot of people, first of all, they see that you believe that they are capable of that.

We love to be asked and seen as people who are capable of doing more than what we think we’re capable of.

What the world’s best do:

1. Make a fundamental commitment - Apply yourself at your edge. Do this as often as you possibly can.
2. Organize around the standard - They’ve got a team of coaches and teammates that hold the standard. One more breath, one more rep, stay in it just a little bit longer. Can you have more fun on the edge?
3. Frontload training - Physical, technical, and mental training. Don’t leave one of those up to chance.
4. Get to the messy edge - That’s where the unlocks, learnings, and insights take place. That’s where capacity building happens.
5. Test with equals - Test themselves with other people that are equally as committed.

Before you know it, we’re changing the way we understand what people are capable of.

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