Mighty Pursuit Podcast

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 than a halluc...

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 encountered it. Maybe you’ve read i...

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 have u...

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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’s drifting before it q...

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. Another rigid ...

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, chronic disease has ...

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 shifts. The male gaze does...

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. Different details. Same tension. Differe...

There are a small number of people in the world who could flip a switch tomorrow and affect billions of lives.

They sit at the very top of their fields. The people many of us look at and think, if only I could have a sliver of their success.

And when those people need help, they don’t go further into the spotlight. They go to one individual quietly working behind the scenes.

Which raises a simple question: what does someone at that...

In 1999, the CEOs of America’s 11 largest food companies gathered for a private meeting. Coca-Cola. Kraft. Nabisco. General Mills. Direct competitors, sitting at the same table.

They weren’t there to talk profits or market share. They were there to confront the growing evidence that their products were making people sick — fueling addiction and chronic disease on a scale comparable to cigarettes.

By the end of that meeting, they ma...

Maybe you’ve heard people talk about hearing God’s voice or feeling a higher presence — and your first reaction is to roll your eyes. Or maybe you’ve had a moment like that yourself but never known what to make of it. You’re skeptical, but curious.

The truth is, this topic makes people uncomfortable. It’s loaded with religious baggage and often framed as anti-intellectual. But what if — scientifically — it’s real?

That’s why we sat...

Thousands of voices are telling you how to do modern dating and relationships.

Scroll through your feed and anyone with charisma and a microphone can become a relationship expert. Maybe you’ve grown disillusioned with those voices. You’ve tried to follow the advice, but still struggled in your own relationship — or wondered what, if anything, you can actually trust.

And the opportunity to speak into this moment is massive. Because ...

Penn Badgley has spent most of his life being watched — the star of two of the more successful TV shows in recent history: Gossip Girl and You.

And in these last five years, You became a cultural phenomenon. People fell in love with Joe Goldberg, and before that, Dan Humphrey. But what few knew what was happening in Penn’s real life while all of this was going on.

Behind the scenes, he was going through an existential crisis that f...

You’ll spend roughly a third of your life asleep — more than 200,000 hours in another world. The dream world.

Every night, your body lies still while your mind builds entire realities: places, people, and moments that feel as real as waking life. And yet, most of us forget almost everything we experience there.

Maybe you shrug off dreams as random noise. Maybe they terrify you — the nightmares, the paralysis, the strange symbols th...

Nothing is quite as soul-sucking as spending 40+ hours a week doing something you don’t like.

Maybe that’s your story. 

You feel like you’re trading your life for a paycheck just to get by. You’re not even sure how you’d get out or what else you’d even do.

What’s even more concerning is that this has become normal. The latest research shows only 31% of people feel engaged at work. That means nearly 7 out of 10 are just going throug...

How did we get to a point where stay-at-home moms became enemies of the feminist movement? Where the work of raising children is seen as less valuable than climbing the corporate ladder?

You know the moment. You’re at a social gathering and someone asks, “So… what do you do?” You say you’re home with your kids. And the room goes quiet. Blank stares. Maybe even judgment, especially from other women.

If that’s you, it can feel like y...

Weird, isn’t it?

We have more therapy than ever. More medications than ever. More awareness than ever. We’ve broken free from the stigma of the past — and yet, mental health struggles of every kind are still rising. In some ways, you could argue we’re worse off than before the so-called mental health revolution even started.

Maybe this is your story, or someone close to you. You’ve done all the right things, and yet somehow, it’s s...

Everywhere you turn right now, it’s about AI. Every headline. Every news segment. It feels like the story of the decade and nobody can escape it.

So of course you’d feel threatened. Is your job safe? Will your industry even exist? What does this mean for your kids, your future, your place in the world?

Everyone’s asking the same questions. But the louder the noise gets, the harder it is to know who to trust. Is this real or just on...

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably wrestled with the question: am I really cut out for this?

The fear of being the one who “messes your kid up” can feel overwhelming. In desperation, you search online, scroll through endless videos and land on posts stamped with the words evidence-based. It reassures you — until you realize most of that advice is built on the wrong goal.

Because a child who behaves on the outside but feels unseen ...