Mike‘s Search For Meaning
 

Mike‘s Search For Meaning

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Mike‘s Search For Meaning is the intersection between philosophical and practical. How do leaders organize their inner world? What tools and tactics can we use to enhance our relationships and careers? Join host and life coach Mike Trugman as he seeks to unlock the keys to living a deeply fulfilling life.

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#68 - Sarah Tocker on Courage, Asking Hard Questions, and Creating Space at the Table for Everyone

Sunday Apr 16, 2023

Sunday Apr 16, 2023

Sarah’s bio is as follows:

I am Tangata Tiriti, with ancestry from Scotland and Cornwall, and I live in Kāpiti, just outside of Wellington, with my partner and three daughters. My children and partner whakapapa to

Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Manu.



I have been working as a coach and facilitator for sixteen years with a background in

leadership development, systems leadership, culture and change. I’m particularly interested

in helping people and organisations thrive in times of flux and adaptation, and in supporting

leaders to create lasting improvements, personally and organisationally.



I coach individuals and teams and am interested in important and challenging conversations.

I am known as a straight talker with an ability to see the core issues and enable groups and

individuals to work on these in a safe and meaningful way.



I have led teams across public, private, and not for profit sectors over the past 20 years,

from operations to People and Capability roles and make a point of taking on a contract

leadership role every few years to ensure that my understanding of leadership in action to

accurate and helpful to my clients.



A lot of the work I have done in recent years has drawn on an ongoing focus of connecting

leadership in place, and draws on key concepts of Te Aō Māori, including The Te Kore-Te Pō

– Te Wheiao – Te Ao Mārama as a frame for disruption and the phases we must work

through to lead effectively.



I have worked with leaders from very diverse backgrounds, serving a wide range of

stakeholder groups, and work with clients to make sense of their own culture within their

context and how this can be used to support them from a strengths-based perspective.

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Just Speak. Any and all donations make a difference!


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#66 - Aaron Finbloom on Asking 18,250 Questions, the Intersection of Philosophy and Healing, and Deep Play

Sunday Apr 02, 2023

Sunday Apr 02, 2023

Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue.  He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI).  His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play. 

With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and group sessions inspired by these practices.  Finbloom has presented works internationally at venues which include:  The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 151 (New York), Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei (Berlin), UNAM (Mexico City), and MainLine Theatre (Montreal).

He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities & Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and is currently teaching Philosophy at the City College of New York and The University of Portland. 

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called The Deep Play Institute. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#65 - Joel Monk on Unleashing Your Untapped Potential through Transformational Coaching

Sunday Mar 26, 2023

Sunday Mar 26, 2023

Joel Monk is the co-founder of Coaches Rising and is very passionate about the role coaches can play in our turbulent times. He is also a coach and has worked with hundreds of executives, entrepreneurs and CEO’s from many different countries around the world.

 

He takes a cross paradigmatic approach to his coaching and is influenced by – developmental theory, Steve March & Aletheia coaching, Thomas Hübl, Circling, Doug Silsbee, Purpose Guiding, Somatics, Focusing, AEDP, and more. 

 

He hosts the very popular Coaches Rising podcast where he interviews incredible people to explore how they work with others to facilitate transformation.

 

He lives in Amsterdam with his beautiful family.

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Red Cross. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#64 - Kat Norton (Miss Excel) on How Inner Work, Energetics, and Mindset Can Create the Life & Business of Your Dreams, and on Being a Blue Frog

Sunday Mar 19, 2023

Sunday Mar 19, 2023

Since launching Miss Excel in June of 2020, Kat Norton has grown a community of over 1 million people on TikTok & Instagram through viral Excel trick videos infused with creativity, music and dance. If you haven't seen her content before, picture freezing your Excel cells to "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice or creating a drop-down menu to "Drop it Like it's Hot" by Snoop Dogg. That is the type of energy she brings to her videos!

 

 

Kat was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP award and was named one of the Top 10 Social Media Influencers of 2021 by Forbes. Kat trains both individuals and companies in Microsoft Office and Google Products through fun On-Demand courses and live custom training sessions.

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Pencils of Promise. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#63 - Jess Crutchfield on Dropping “Shoulds” and Expanding in Abundance, Love and Success Every Day

Sunday Mar 12, 2023

Sunday Mar 12, 2023

Jess Crutchfield views health AS life and is dedicated to helping others achieve and sustain good health for a healthier human race and planet. She is a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness coach with functional medicine as a focus, Thai Bodywork instructor at Boulder Massage Therapy Institute and practitioner/teacher, Yoga & Breath facilitator, and Boulder Zouk High dance community organizer. Her belief is that we all innately have the capacity to heal ourselves if only given the chance, and accordingly she assists her clients and students in becoming more vital, embodied, and aware.

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Young Yokes. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#62 - Shelby Robbins on Teen Mental Health & The Healing Power of Nature

Sunday Mar 05, 2023

Sunday Mar 05, 2023

Shelby Robbins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Antelope Recovery, an online teen intensive outpatient program in Colorado. Shelby has put together a compassionate and fast growth team whose mission is redesigning teen mental healthcare to increase access and improve clinical quality of care. Her mission is to make behavioral healthcare healthier. Antelope Recovery is an organization that has a positive and transformative effect on the field of teen behavioral health and ultimately the entire healthcare ecosystem.

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called To Write Love On Her Arms. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#61 - Solo Episode: Mike Trugman on Fierce Self-Compassion, The Power of Practice, and the Power of Presence

Sunday Feb 26, 2023

Sunday Feb 26, 2023

By popular demand, I am back for another solo episode!

 

In this conversation, I discuss:

>What the most important lessons I’ve learned from podcasting are

>Misconceptions about self-compassion, and what it really means

>Why I want to fall in love with doing the dishes

>My relationship with my phone and technology

>....and more!



Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Internal Creations. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#60 - Jenn Reilly on Conscious Parenting, Raising Wholeness, & Navigating Childhood Wounds

Sunday Feb 19, 2023

Sunday Feb 19, 2023

Jenn Reilly is a mother, leadership development and parenting coach, facilitator, organizational designer, podcast host, artist, nature lover, and consciousness explorer. She is the founder of parenting education platform and community, Raising Wholeness, podcast host to Mystics Rising, and emergent visioning designer and consultant, and leadership development coach and associate with Bridge Partnerships. 

By weaving in her own experiences working with vertical development, emergence, mindfulness, divine feminine and masculine, shadow work, and leadership development, Jenn brings her passions to life to help restore and celebrate wholeness. She works with parents and leaders to navigate shadows, childhood wounds, and unhealthy belief structures to reconnect to their true essence in her coaching work, and facilitates transformational workshops and online classes to help her clients build more self-awareness, and step into more authentic leadership and parenting. 



Learn more about Jenn

 

https://www.jennreilly.com/

 

IG: @jennereilly 



Raising Wholeness is an online platform, community, and programs to help parents, aspiring parents, teachers, and caregivers to transform their childhood programming in service of stepping into a new way of nurturing wholeness children. They combine regulation, trauma education, executive functioning, vertical development, and healthy masculine and feminine into embodiment practices. 

 

https://www.raisingwholeness.org/

 

IG: @Raisingwholeness



Mystics Rising is a podcast dedicated to illuminating, celebrating, and sharing practices of wholeness.

 

https://www.mystics-rising.com/

 

IG: @mysticsrising

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Speak With Purpose. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#59 - Agnes Otzelberger on Social Justice, Money Work, and What it Means to Be a Good Person

Sunday Feb 12, 2023

Sunday Feb 12, 2023

Agnes is a therapist, trainer, and coach working with change-makers who feel overwhelmed, burned out or stuck to support them in finding their resilience and creative power. Coming from a background in the not-for-profit sector and international development, with a focus on climate change, gender and social inequality, she started the Good Jungle to connect the worlds of beyond-profit organisations and activism with the emerging meeting place between psychology, neuroscience and contemplative practice.

 

As a therapist Agnes works in private practice and organisational settings. She also works with groups and individuals on their relationship to money using Peter Koenig’s powerfully transformative ‘Money Work’, which draws on Jungian ideas on shadow and the unconscious.

 

Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, Agnes now lives in Brighton in the United Kingdom with her family. With roots all over Europe and experience living and working in various parts of the world, Agnes is very interested in intercultural and migratory life experiences and the questions of identity and belonging they bring.

 


Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called the Allsorts Youth Project. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#58 - Adam Parker on Manifestation, The Power of Positive Thinking, Having a Growth Mindset, and Spirituality

Sunday Feb 05, 2023

Sunday Feb 05, 2023

Adam Parker is an executive wellness & performance coach, speaker and host of the top rated ‘Ideal Day Podcast’, where he collaborates with the world’s most respected minds in health, wellness and personal growth.

 

Through his podcast and speaking events, he inspires people across the globe with his wisdom and knowledge on how to achieve sustainable wellness in today’s overstimulated world.

 

Adam has an incredible passion to educate and empower you towards sustainable wellness in your career, social and personal lives to help you succeed in what's important to you.

 

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Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Unstoppable Foundation. Any and all donations make a difference!



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