Why I Don't Talk about Beliefs

Is it really any harder to change a belief than to have a new thought? Join Michael for an eye-opening look into the world beyond beliefs!

A Simple Experiment in Living a Guided Life

At the heart of Michael's teaching is the realization that human beings are made to thrive. Listen in to take part in a self-guided experiment that wi...

Seeking Unemployment

When it comes to living a happy life, less is inevitably more. Join Michael to learn how little is required for the best you have within you to emerge...

Living in the Now

Do you have to heal the past to create a better future? Listen in as Michael shares some thoughts from his own teacher, Syd Banks, on the freedom that...

Effortless Impact

Want to make more of a difference without trying so hard? In today's episode, Michael offers a few pointers on how to make a little bit of interaction...

The Problem with Problems

Listen in to this week's episode as Michael shares the possibility of living a very real but problem-free life!

Presence

What does it really mean to be yourself? Join Michael for this experiential exploration of your true nature!

Understanding Signal Strength

This week, Michael revisits one of his favorite metaphors for the inside-out understanding and what he's been seeing new and fresh about our connectio...

Getting Older

Do you ever worry about getting older? This week, Michael shares his own experience of aging and how it's becoming less of a problem the older he gets...

The Fastest Way to Get Better at Pretty Much Anything

In this week's episode, Michael shares a simple way to accelerate your learning curve by focusing more on what works and less on what doesn't!

There's No Such Thing as Resilience

Would you like to be more discouragement proof? Join Michael for this exploration of a whole new way of thinking about resilience that will help you c...

Next!

What if taking on life's challenges could start to feel fun instead of problematic or overwhelming? This week, Michael shares a simple metaphor for fi...

As You Are

Listen in as Michael shares the unexpected secret to being at your best without really trying. (If you've noticed a shift in Michael's work in recent...

The Mojo Formula

The Unexpected Key to Transformation

What if the key that unlocked transformation was the realization that there's nothing wrong with us in the first place - nothing broken, never lacking...

The Relative Impotence of Thought

You've probably heard about "the power of thought", but thought without your consciousness is like a tea bag without hot water - it has no power of it...

The Happiness/Success Connection

What if you didn't have to choose between happiness and success? Join Michael for this gentle guide to how to experience more of both in your life and...

Falling in Love with Humans

Want to make a difference in the world? In this week's episode, Michael shares how he found his way past his judgmental thinking and started to make a...

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...