An Unusual Experiment

This week, Michael shares an unusual experiment that will not only help you to enjoy your life more and more of the time, it will bring to light the h...

The Metaphorical Nanobots of Wellbeing

Have you ever wondered why our stickiest moods and problems seem to resolve themselves the minute we stop trying to fix them? Join Michael as he share...

Why Would I Be Scared?

Today's exploration of the learned, habitual nature of fear will give you a new way of understanding and being with what for so many of us can be a cr...

Two Questions to Wake Yourself Up to Life

If you'd like to have the experience of presence and aliveness "on demand", the two simple questions in this week's episode will help you access and r...

Innocent Inquiry

Have you ever wondered what someone is actually thinking about the things they're talking with you about? Today's episode provides some simple guideli...

A Simple Metaphor for Meditation

Do you ever struggle to meditate and/or find the space of gentle quiet inside you? This week's simple metaphor will make both the practice and experie...

An Unexpected Key to Effective Leadership

So much of leadership, management, and parenting is built along trying to guide people's behaviors or align them with your goals, vision, or mission....

The Space Where Miracles Happen

Would you be open to a miracle happening to you while listening to this episode? Join Michael on a light-hearted deep dive into the nature of miracles...

500 Episodes Later…

Welcome to the 500th (!) episode of Caffeine for the Soul! Today, Michael shares how his understanding of the inside-out understanding has evolved ove...

On Clocks and Clouds

Have you ever driven yourself a little bit nuts trying to figure out why something happened to you or why someone behaves the way that they do? This w...

Is there a Better Way to Live?

What if "a better way to live" was nothing to do with what you do and everything to do with the space you're coming from while you do it? Listen in as...

Mary Poppins and the Power of Thought

Listen in this week as Michael explains what Mary Poppins and the physicist David Bohm have to do with understanding the nature and power of the princ...

A Whole New Way of Thinking about Positivity

If you've ever been frustrated by the Pollyanna positivity of a well-meaning but apparently naive friend or colleague, join Michael for a different wa...

The Victim Olympics

Have you ever tried to win "the victim Olympics", competing against your friends for who's been dealt the worst hand in life? This week, Michael share...

Being vs. Doing

Have you ever wished that someone would just tell you what to do in order to be happy, healthy, and successful so that you could just get on and do it...

Experience Without a Story

One of the things that sets human beings apart from the rest of the natural world is our ability to make meaning and create stories based around our e...

The Only OTHER Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever

Michael's book, The Inside-Out Revolution, was originally subtitled "The two things you need to know to change your life forever." Listen in this week...

The Realm of Possibility

Have you ever wondered why sometimes life seems a bit hopeless and at other times it seems filled with possibility? Join Michael this week and learn h...

What's On Your Mind?

If you want to experience more peace of mind, insight, and guidance, this week's episode will show you how emptying your mind allows you to fill up on...

The Infinite Well

When we stop chasing answers and let life come to us on its own terms, it's amazing how much cool stuff will come our way. Listen in as Michael shares...

Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys

Ever feel like you're stuck in somebody else's movie of life? Join Michael to explore how not taking part in other people's dramas frees you up to tru...

Ballgown or Dog[sh]it?*

*Adult Language*
Is it ever truly helpful to face the world with fear in your heart? This week, Michael shares a simple ever-present alternative...

Presencing Spirit

Carl Jung's favorite quote translates from the Latin as "Invoked, or not invoked, God is present." Listen in as Michael offers some "pointing out inst...

Skill Acquisition for Dummies

*Adult Language*
What if you could teach yourself a new skill with the same ease, curiosity, and playfulness that you had as a child? In this we...

Where There's a Way, There's a Will

Ever wonder why some of the things you want to do or create come easily and others feel like slogging through the rain, snow, sleet, and hail? Join Mi...

Your Life, Your Way

*Adult Language*
How would you live if it was really (no, really!) up to you? This week, Michael shares some insights into what's on offer when...

The Benevolent Universe Game

In Supercoach, Michael wrote "The world is what you think it is, but there's a world beyond your thinking". This week, listen in for an invitation to...

Being Here

In this week's episode, Michael shares his experience of living in higher states of consciousness and a simple shift in understanding that allows us t...

Knowing Where to Look

Which would be more helpful - reading every book about life ever written or knowing where to look for exactly the information you need at the exact mo...

A Whole New Way of Thinking about Self-Realization

Self-realization is often talked about in spiritual circles as something that is only available to a few very special human beings every century or so...

This is Your Life

Have you ever wondered if it would be possible to truly love your life even when your circumstances and relationships feel like they belong in a soap...

How to Change the World without Really Trying

What if there was a way to change the world for the better without having to change careers, abandon your dreams, or leave your family and friends to...

Unreasonable Happiness

Want to be really happy and love your life? In this week's episode, you'll learn about why happiness is often an unreasonable yet completely natural a...

Who Before How

Most of the questions people bring to coaching begin with the words "How do I…?" In this week's episode, Michael points out how much easier things get...

Trusting the Wisdom Within

What if there was an app you could completely trust to tell you what to do in real time, regardless of the number of variables involved. Listen in as...

Fear without Consequences

What if feeling afraid didn't have to be a factor in the way you live your life? Listen in as Michael shares an understanding that can guide you from...

The Metaphor of Trauma

Is psychological trauma the same as physical trauma, or is it a metaphor to help people cope with experiences and emotions they find difficult to be w...

Accept, Embrace, and Enjoy

The spiritual teacher Byron Katie wrote "When I argue with reality I lose - but only always." If you're ready to stop arguing with life and begin enjo...

The Three Types of Truth

The Genius and the A**hole