"People want to be where I am, but they don't want to do what I've done." One of the truest things I've ever heard at a dinner table. People see the results. They don't see the borrowed rent money. The repossessed car. The nothing-to-my-name, living-off-ramen-noodles season. Success has a price.…
If someone tells you their business worked from day one, don't trust them. Before the $100K months and million-dollar years, there were times I borrowed money from my girlfriend just to pay our rent. Here's the truth: business is not an idea game. It's not a dream game. It's not…
He needed $3,500 a month to live. Within the year he had $4,000 to $5,000 a month coming in from investments and business streams. He handed off the work, kept the referrals coming, and was living the four-hour work week before the book even existed. 28 years old. Able to…
By 2008 he was on food stamps. On welfare. Over a million dollars in debt. And people kept telling him, "I'd love to know what you know, I just don't have the money." Instead of walking away, he asked one question: "If I can help you find the money, would…
What do you do when life keeps testing how much you want it? In this episode, Michael Anthony talks with his friend Chris Miles, founder of Money Ripples. Chris has built wealth, lost it, and rebuilt it more than once. He went from picking up loose change at drive-thrus at…
What do you do when life keeps testing how much you want it? In this episode, Michael Anthony talks with his friend Chris Miles, founder of Money Ripples. Chris has built wealth, lost it, and rebuilt it more than once. He went from picking up loose change at drive-thrus at…
The pit in my stomach, the panic attacks, the random skin breakouts. My body was sending me signals the whole time, and I kept ignoring them. It wasn't until I got into recovery from drugs and alcohol that I learned to sit with the discomfort and actually listen to what…
In rehab after the Mexico incident, I started journaling about what I went through. Then it clicked: I'm going to do something with this one day. I didn't know what yet. The shift was from "this happened to me" to "this happened for me." That changed everything. What's one hard…
"I got it. I'm strong enough. I don't need anyone's help." That might be the biggest trap there is. I took care of my brothers and the house, and sometimes I hustled to pay bills. I never really had a childhood. A lot of people listening had the same experience.…
Content note: childhood trauma, parental alcoholism, dissociation. I was six and my sister was four. A huge thunderstorm was hitting, and our dad was passed out drunk upstairs. We tried to wake him and couldn't. That's when I learned I could leave my body so I didn't have to feel…
Mom's drunk. Stepdad's drunk. Nobody's taking care of you, and you don't know when you'll eat next. So you learn to be someone else just to get through the day. Then one day you realize it doesn't serve you anymore, and the truth finally comes out. This is who I…
You may know the Japanese bowls that are broken and then put back together with gold. They don't go back to how they were. They become something new, and often more beautiful. That's what being unbroken means. Your life can be in a million pieces and still be put back…
How many times will you get punched in the face before you stop walking through the same door? It could be a relationship, a job, or a habit that's hurting you. Every time, you have two choices: take the hit again, or walk through a different door. For me it…
Content note: kidnapping, drugging, dissociation. Ten years ago in San Diego, I was drugged by someone I knew, went into psychosis, and was kidnapped in Tijuana. For three days, my brain built a whole separate identity to get me through it. I even gave her a new name. That's an…
Real change takes brutal honesty with yourself, about the good, the bad, and everything in between. "You're the most honest person I know." That's because lying to myself makes me hate myself. I still slip sometimes, and when I do, I own it and apologize. That's the journey. Performing is…
A major trauma happened 10 years ago. Years later, one book on complex PTSD described my life almost word for word: the inner critic, the outer critic, the way I saw the world. For the first time, it all made sense. Trauma is often the root. The label doesn't heal…
Why do you keep making the same choices even when you know better? In this episode, Michael Unbroken sits down with Carrie Davidson, a registered nurse, trauma coach, and author, to talk about complex PTSD (CPTSD), childhood trauma, and why so many survivors stay stuck in the same patterns. Carrie…
Why do you keep making the same choices even when you know better? In this episode, Michael Unbroken sits down with Carrie Davidson, a registered nurse, trauma coach, and author, to talk about complex PTSD (CPTSD), childhood trauma, and why so many survivors stay stuck in the same patterns. Carrie…
She looked him in the eye on the first date and told him exactly what she wanted. 👀 "I don't do casual. If you want to see me again, it's because we're building something." His response? He thought it was the most attractive thing ever. Because she was more afraid…
Have you ever looked in the mirror and asked, "Why am I like this?" Why does the same relationship, the same breakup, or the same painful pattern keep showing up in your life? In this episode, Michael Anthony sits down with relationship coach, podcast host, and author Sabrina Zohar to…
Have you ever looked in the mirror and asked, "Why am I like this?" Why does the same relationship, the same breakup, or the same painful pattern keep showing up in your life? In this episode, Michael Anthony sits down with relationship coach, podcast host, and author Sabrina Zohar to…
Break the body down to form and function and it is a machine. Input in, output out. Fully programmable. But it does not run on its own. It needs the spirit, the psyche, the mind, the soul. Whatever you want to call it. And yes, sometimes the machine breaks down.…
How do you actually make a decision when you feel completely stuck? Before you decide anything, pull back. Like drawing back a bow, or stepping back before a big jump. You need the backward motion to get the forward power. And stepping back means asking one question. Why do I…
Homeless kid from the hood. Raised in the Mormon church. Drug addict and alcoholic parents. A learning disability. And still, every step of that path came down to decisions I had to make. The divorce. Leaving the career. Walking away from safety. Here is the truth. Unless a decision leads…