Mighty Pursuit Podcast

What if the source of your greatest pain is also someone close to you?

A parent. A sibling. A partner. Someone you didn’t just love, but needed.

Maybe the pain was obvious. Yelling. Fear. A house where your body knew something was about to happen before anything even started.

Or maybe it was harder to name. No screaming or violence. Just the suffocating pressure to become who someone else needed you to be. Reading the room an...

Every night, there is something happening inside your body that is either quietly protecting you or quietly working against you.

And the hardest part is that you may not feel the difference right away. You wake up. You go through your day. You might even think you’re fine. But underneath the surface, your brain, immune system, heart, metabolism, and emotional regulation are all being shaped by the quality of your sleep.

When ...

Let's get this out of the way: we’re not here to play with your emotions.

If you clicked because you’ve lost someone, we know what this topic carries. And if you clicked because you don’t trust the title, good. A claim this personal should never be accepted at face value.

To be as clear as possible: this episode is not built on religion. Not Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhis,. Not any holy book. And it&rsqu...

After a full year of being told AI was going to wipe out jobs, the collapse hasn’t happened.

At least not yet.

Unemployment hasn’t spiked. Most people still have their roles. On the surface, the economy looks familiar.

And that creates a strange tension. You’ve heard the warnings. You’ve felt the fear. But now you may be wondering if this is just another cycle of exaggerated tech panic. Maybe AI is like emai...

Think about the last time you felt invisible.

Maybe it was at work. Or in a social setting. Or while you were doing something for someone who barely noticed you were there.

For a lot of people, life starts to feel transactional. You’re treated well when you’re useful. Acknowledged when you’re needed. And quietly overlooked when you’re not. Maybe you’ve had the realization that many of your relationship...

You think you’re in control of your life. But most of the time, your emotions are making the decisions for you. You snap and immediately regret it. You shut down even though you wanted to say more. You feel overwhelmed, defensive, or numb — and don’t fully understand why.

All throughout the day, you have moments where a feeling takes over before you can even think. And over time, those moments add up. The way you ...

In the entire existence of our company, we've never made a public statement about politics.

Not because it wasn't relevant to what we do. We are a company focused on wellbeing — mentally, physically, and spiritually. And the way we engage with politics has a profound impact on all three. 

It shapes whether people live in fear or in hope.  Whether they relate to each other through love or through hate.&...

Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer — a parent, a friend, a colleague. Maybe it's even you. And for most of us, the story we've inherited about cancer is this: it's an older person's disease, something that happens to people who didn't take care of themselves, something that — if you do the right things — you can largely avoid.

But that story is fracturing.

In November 2024, James Van Der Beek an...

We're living in the era of sexual freedom or at least, that's the story we were told. Have sex whenever you want, with whoever you want, as much as you want. As long as there's consent, you're fine. That became the new moral baseline, and many of us embraced it. We swiped, experimented and called it empowerment. 

But privately, the results haven't always matched the promise.

If you're a woman, you may have felt that tension mo...

Masculinity has become radioactive.

It’s one of the most polarizing forces in modern culture. Families fracture over it, politics feeds on it and entire online ecosystems monetize it. And no one seems to agree on what it is anymore.

If you’re a woman, you may feel fatigue from patterns that don’t seem to change. And if you’re a man, you may feel disoriented. Pulled between two extremes. Told you’re dan...

Everywhere you turned in 2025, it was the same headline.

AI will replace 50% of jobs. 70% of jobs. White-collar work won’t survive the decade. If not now, then soon.

You were told your industry might disappear. Your skillset might expire. Your role might be automated. Even if you tried to brush it off, it still created a quiet kind of fear. Is my job safe? Is this overblown? Am I about to become irrelevant?

So now you wait an...

For the last sixty years, psychedelics have been in exile. After the cultural fallout of the 1960s, serious research shut down. Funding evaporated, careers were quietly derailed and what had once been a legitimate scientific inquiry was pushed to the margins. 

Labeled reckless, irresponsible, even dangerous.

And most of us inherited that conclusion without ever examining it. Psychedelics were party drugs— nothing more th...

The Body Keeps the Score.

The book was published twelve years ago. And yet here we are — it’s 2026, and it’s still sitting on bestseller lists week after week. Not just in psychology. Across all categories.

It has become one of the bestselling books of the modern era. And it didn’t just contribute to the trauma conversation — it defined how an entire generation understands it.

Chances are, you’ve...

What you’re about to watch has taken eight years to make. Research began in 2018, as we started studying disciplines that almost never speak to each other.

Today, we’ll walk through eleven separate scientific fields. Collectively, they span 134 years of modern research — though the roots of their findings stretch back thousands of years. Within each field are serious scientists who hav...

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The Nine is how we help you stay oriented week to week. 

It brings together the nine core areas of life that actually matter — across mind, body, and spirit — and keeps them in view at the same time.

In a world that constantly pulls your attention everywhere at once, The Nine acts as a weekly lifeline — a way to pause, re-center, and notice what...

Everywhere online, you see the extremes.

On one side is the trad-wife trend, painting a flawless picture of family life: dad works, mom stays home, everything is harmonious. A supposed return to how things “always were.” But that picture was a myth. It never truly existed.

In reaction came the backlash. The rise of the girlboss. Women told their value is measured only in ambition, career, and relentless independence. An...

76.4% of Americans are living with at least one chronic disease.

Cancer. Heart disease. Diabetes. Autoimmune disorders. The list goes on. And if you’re living with one of these, you know how devastating it can be — the fatigue, the pain, the emotional toll. Chronic illness reshapes the quality of life in ways most people never see.

What’s hard to ignore is how rapidly this has escalated. Over the last 60 years, ch...

Aging women are worthless. That’s the message culture keeps sending.

Of course, no one says it outright. 

That would be too crude. Too impolite. So instead, it’s communicated through all the little social cues — who gets attention, who gets opportunities, who gets centered, and who gets quietly passed over.

And over time, you start to feel it in your own life. The compliments come less often. The interest shi...

You know the moment. A conversation starts small, almost harmless. And suddenly it’s spiraling. Your reaction feels bigger than the moment. Your partner’s response feels completely disproportionate. And somewhere in the middle of it, you’re wondering: How did we get here again?

Because this isn’t the first time. You’ve had this fight before — maybe with this partner, maybe with someone else. Diff...