Mighty Pursuit Podcast

A story about someone being healed by prayer is one thing. Medical records documenting an extraordinary recovery are another.

Dr. Joshua Brown, a neuroscientist at Indiana University, has spent years investigating what happens when those two things meet. His team has examined medical records, consulted specialists, and published cases o...

Most of us flush without looking.

But your poop is one of the few health signals your body gives you every single day. Changes in its color, shape, consistency, frequency, or the presence of blood can offer clues about everything from your liver and gallbladder to inflammation, digestive disease, and colorectal cancer.

And some of the warning signs are not as obvious as people think. Blood is not always red. White stool can signal ...

For most of modern history, the afterlife was treated as something you could believe in, but never prove.

Then near-death research produced one finding that changed the entire conversation.

Millions of people have reported leaving their bodies during near-death experiences. And here’s the fascinating part: some came back with specific information about the physical world that could be verified by doctors, nurses, witnesses, a...

Sex has never been more visible.

And yet, we have become the least sexual generation in modern history.

Pornography is instantly available. Dating apps offer billions of swipes. Sexual norms are more permissive than ever. But partnered sex is falling, younger generations are dating less, and many people young report having had no sex in the previous year.

Dr. Debra Soh is a neuroscientist who has spent years studying human sexualit...

Parents have never had more information about how to raise emotionally healthy children.

We know more about anxiety, trauma, validation and how profoundly childhood can shape the person someone becomes.

And yet, something strange is happening at the same time.

Young people are increasingly afraid of ordinary milestones. An increasing number don't move out of their childhood home until after age 30. Therapists are seeing children de...

For most of modern history, UFOs were treated as a cultural punchline. 

Until something massive changed.

The Pentagon released military footage. NASA launched an investigation. Harvard began building instruments to study the phenomenon. And scientists with prestigious reputations started publicly asking a question that could once have ended a career:

Could some of these objects actually be non-human?

This episode does not argu...

Marriage has never come with more advice, more therapy, or more language for what healthy relationships are supposed to look like.

And yet nearly half of marriages still end.

So what are we missing about how relationships actually fall apart?

Divorce lawyer James Sexton has spent more than two decades inside thousands of divorces, giving him a view of marriage most relationship experts never get to see: the ending.

To investigate w...

Bryan Johnson has become the most famous human experiment on Earth. He tracks thousands of biomarkers and follows one of the most intensive longevity protocols ever made public. 

When he claimed to be the healthiest person on the planet, he published the data to support it. On one measure of biological aging, his body was aging so slowly that he joked he only had a birthday every 19 months.

Whatever you think of his methods, t...

Exercise is one of the few things nearly everyone agrees we should do. And yet, most people still hate or dislike doing it.

We usually interpret that resistance as a personal failure. If you do not want to wake up early, drive to a gym, and lift heavy objects under bright lights, you must be lazy, undisciplined, or insufficiently committed to your health.

Dr. Daniel Lieberman believes we have the problem completely backward.

For mo...

Something strange happens in the weeks before death.

Patients often begin seeing loved ones who have already died. They say someone is in the room. They describe being visited. And again and again, they repeat some version of the same phrase:

“I’m going home.”

This is not just anecdotal. In one Hospice Buffalo study, 88.1% of dying patients reported a deathbed vision. That finding echoes research from nearly fifty...

141 million.

That’s how many people have watched an extraordinary story unfold in Utah over the last six months.

Two friends, Chandler and Josh, met a homeless man named Trevor. Then they did something almost no one else would do: they invited him to live in their home. A home without locks on the bedroom doors.

When we first came across the story, we had a lot of questions. In an age where almost everything is documented onl...

We’re living through a strange reversal.

Ten years ago, the body positivity movement was everywhere. The message was simple: your appearance is not the center of who you are. Stop objectifying women. Stop treating beauty as their greatest value. Celebrate bodies instead of ranking them.

And yet, somehow, the conversation has completely flipped.

Beauty is no longer just something to possess. It has become something to leverage...

Something massive has changed.

Over the last two decades, billions of people stopped praying.

The numbers reflect it from every angle. Religious affiliation has fallen. Daily prayer has declined. And for the first time in recent history, an entire generation is coming of age without inheriting a ritual human beings have carried across cultures for thousands of years.

This episode investigates what happens when one of humanity's old...

On January 18, 2003, Vinney Tolman was found dead in the bathroom of a restaurant.

By the time medics discovered him, he had likely been there for close to an hour. And here's the most interesting part: they placed him in a body bag.

As they were taking him away, a rookie medic decided to check him one more time. Against all odds, Vinney came back to life.

But the real story isn’t just that he died. It’s what he says ha...

We’re living through a boredom epidemic. Sexual boredom, that is.

More women are reporting low sexual desire than ever before. Many Gen Z women are stepping away from sex altogether, and in long-term relationships, the number of women who want frequent sex often declines with each passing year.

If you’re living inside this dynamic, it can be deeply frustrating on both sides. A...

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...