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by Michael OBrien | Mindfulness & Resilience Coach
Discover how to create a meaningful life on your way to who you are becoming. Whole Again: Mindfulness and Resilience Through Kintsugi Wisdom provides the support you need to heal, develop a growth mindset, and embrace who you are becoming. Inspired by the Japanese art of “Golden Repair,” Kintsugi teaches us that even when life breaks us, we can rebuild—stronger, wiser, and more beautiful than before. Listen to discover weekly growth-mindset tips, build emotional resilience and manage stress through microdose meditations, and ways to live a meaningful life and the person you are becoming. And as America turns 250, tune in to hear your neighbors share their reflections on our Perfectly Imperfect Union and on ways we can come together to end the divisions that prevent us from realizing our collective potential. I’m Michael O’Brien—husband, Girl Dadx2, son, friend, animal lover, endurance cyclist, and survivor. After a near-death cycling accident—what I call My Last Bad Day—the metaphor of Kintsugi helped me see that I could be whole again. Today, as a Mindset & Resilience Leadership coach, Corporate Speaker, Meditation Teacher, and founder of The Pause Breathe Reflect Method, I'm here to support you as you create a meaningful life and become the person you are becoming.
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- 2 days ago6 min
Mono No Aware: Growth Mindset Tip for A Meaningful Life
Have you ever wanted a beautiful moment to last forever?I feel that way every fall. The reds, oranges, and yellows, sweater weather, fire pit season. When I lived in Washington, D.C., I felt it during cherry blossom season too, when the streets turned pink and I never wanted it to end.In this walk-and-talk episode of Whole Again, I take you through our nature center to share mono no aware, a Japanese philosophy about the impermanence of life. It speaks to the tenderness and bittersweetness of one season ending so another can begin. We push against the hard moments and cling to the ones we love, but every moment is fleeting. The tough ones pass, and so do the great ones.When we stop clinging and simply appreciate what’s in front of us, that beauty intensifies. So this week, get outside, soak up the fall colors, and practice mono no aware with me. And if you catch yourself clinging anyway, congratulations, you are officially human.Before you go, I have a question for you:What moment are you savoring this fall?Drop your answer in the comments, and share this episode with someone you’d love to take a fall walk with.Until next time, celebrate your scars as golden symbols of your strength and resilience, and have fun storming the castle.You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 4 days ago7 min
You Are Worthy: A Key for Mindfulness and Resilience
Have you ever measured your worth by whether someone picked you?For me, it started in gym class. Getting picked first made me feel like I was on top of the world. Getting picked last crushed me. That need to be chosen followed me for years, into the right university, the right job, the right promotion, all to prove I was valuable.In this walk-and-talk episode of Whole Again, I share what that need really cost me: my agency. Every time I waited to be picked, I handed someone else the power to decide my worth. It took my Last Bad Day to learn I could pick myself.Your post doesn’t need to go viral. Your work only needs to reach the smallest viable audience, and even if that audience is one, you are still worthy. Because the conversation you have with yourself changes every other conversation you’ll have.Before you go, I have a question for you:When was the last time you picked yourself?Drop your answer in the comments, and share this episode with someone who needs the reminder that they are already worthy.Until next time, celebrate your scars as golden symbols of your strength and resilience, and have fun storming the castle.You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 5 days ago41 min
A Perfectly Imperfect Union: Reflections on America 250 a Wrap Up
Tired of the noise and division, but not ready to give up on us?In 2022, a table of strangers at a small coffee shop in Rushville, Indiana, called over Michael mid-ride across America, peppered him with questions, and sent him off with “God bless you.” That moment frames this recap of A Perfectly Imperfect Union, released on Election Day after 79 conversations with everyday Americans from every corner of the country.Michael shares what landed on him most: we don’t need more like-mindedness. We need more like-heartedness, the kind that leads with curiosity, kindness, and the humility to admit we might be wrong.Along the way, he calls back to guests like Jeff Gold, who reminded us that everyone has a story, Demetria and her radical empathy, and Grace, who got a Democrat and a Republican baking America’s 250th birthday cake together. The election won’t heal us. But the way we show up for each other on day one after it just might.The series isn’t ending. A Perfectly Imperfect Union continues as its own podcast after Election Day.You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 6 days ago4 min
Setting Your Intentions: A Microdose Meditation for Mindfulness and Resilience
The best way to start your day is by setting your intentions.How do you wish to show up?What ripples do you want to create?What values do you wish to honor?You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 1 weeks ago35 min
A Perfectly Imperfect Union: Reflections on America 250 with Fatima Shahid
In the latest episode of A Perfectly Imperfect Union, we end in Mount Rushmore State and connect with Fatima Shahid.Fatima is a sophomore studying neuroscience at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, and an international student from Pakistan. She’s also the final conversation in A Perfectly Imperfect Union, and the perfect person to close out 79 conversations across the country.When Fatima thinks of America, the first word that comes to mind is opportunity. But living here has shown her something more: a place where people from completely different cultures and faiths can share who they are with neighbors who genuinely want to learn.Her hope for America is simple. Listen more, judge less, and remember that we rarely know what someone else is carrying.You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 1 weeks ago5 min
Stop Saying “Let Me Know If You Need Anything”: How to Truly Support Someone Mindfulness and Resilience
What do you say when someone you care about is going through something hard?If your first instinct is “Let me know if you need anything,” you’re not alone. I’ve said it. And after my Last Bad Day, I heard it more times than I can count. It comes from a good place. But when you’re already buried under a pile of problems to solve, that well-meaning offer quietly hands you one more.In this walk-and-talk, Tip #43 in my year-long series celebrating the 25th anniversary of my Last Bad Day, I share two simple shifts that can help your support land when it matters most.The first is to get specific. Instead of a general offer, ask a question the other person can answer with a simple yes or no. Can I mow your lawn? Can I pick up your groceries? Better yet, if you already know what they need, just do it.The second is to keep showing up. Support pours in during the first few weeks, and then it fades. But healing doesn’t follow that timeline. It took me about a year to feel like myself again. A text, a phone call, a simple “I’m thinking about you, how are you doing today?” can mean everything months after everyone else has moved on.And when they answer, let them be. Tears, anger, small celebrations. All of it is welcome.You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 1 weeks ago36 min
A Perfectly Imperfect Union: Reflections on America 250 with Rodger Ruge
In the latest episode of A Perfectly Imperfect Union, I travel to South Dakota to connect with Rodger Ruge.Can you have the strength to win a fight and the peace to never throw a punch?Rodger believes we’ve contracted into echo chambers where a different opinion feels like a threat rather than a possibility. His way forward is simple and hard at the same time. Before you decide about someone, walk in their shoes. You don’t have to agree. You just have to understand.And then there’s the story that changed his life. A 250-pound prison guard challenged Roger’s 135-pound martial arts teacher to a fight. For 90 seconds, his teacher only blocked. When the bigger man collapsed from exhaustion, his teacher helped him up, dusted him off, and thanked him. That moment sent Rodger to his first meditation group, and it might just change how you think about strength.And his question for you and our next guest is:What is one action step you can take tomorrow to help repair this country?You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
- 1 weeks ago6 min
The Mini Peanut Butter Cup Problem: How to Mindfully Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Are you using AI, or is it slowly using you?With Halloween coming up, I’m taking you on a walk-and-talk to share a theory I first floated with fellow podcasters: AI is like a bowl of mini peanut butter cups.One or two seem harmless. They’re small. Hardly any calories, right? But grab a couple off a coworker’s desk in the morning, a few more after lunch, and a few more before you head home, and suddenly you’ve eaten two full packs. Double the sugar. Double the guilt.I don’t believe AI will destroy us with a big bang. I think it’s more likely to wear us down one little handoff at a time -- the email we didn’t write, the plan we didn’t think through, the map we never looked at -- until the things that make us human start to fade. Our ability to write in our own voice. To think. To find our way. Even our compassion and empathy.That doesn’t mean swearing off the candy bowl. For deep research, AI can be a remarkable tool. The difference comes down to one foundation of mindfulness: intention. Knowing what you’re reaching for, and why.My advice for the season? Be intentional about how you use AI. And be just as intentional about how you sneak candy from your kids’ Halloween bags.You can now download my Pause Breathe Reflect App with Microdose EQ for FREE on Apple’s App Store or Google Play. Discover how to spend less time on your phone and more time on things that bring you joy. Also, find the support you need to navigate today’s uncertainty with more calm and grace.Receive a FREE copy of my book: “My Last Bad Day Shift.”We can also connect on LinkedIn. Subscribe to be sure you don’t miss any of the micro-meditations, wellness tips, and guidance that I publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:11 am.
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About Whole Again: Mindfulness and Resilience Through Kintsugi Wisdom
Discover how to create a meaningful life on your way to who you are becoming. Whole Again: Mindfulness and Resilience Through Kintsugi Wisdom provides the support you need to heal, develop a growth mindset, and embrace who you are becoming. Inspired by the Japanese art of “Golden Repair,” Kintsugi teaches us that even when life breaks us, we can rebuild—stronger, wiser, and more beautiful than before. Listen to discover weekly growth-mindset tips, build emotional resilience and manage stress through microdose meditations, and ways to live a meaningful life and the person you are becoming. And as America turns 250, tune in to hear your neighbors share their reflections on our Perfectly Imperfect Union and on ways we can come together to end the divisions that prevent us from realizing our collective potential. I’m Michael O’Brien—husband, Girl Dadx2, son, friend, animal lover, endurance cyclist, and survivor. After a near-death cycling accident—what I call My Last Bad Day—the metaphor of Kintsugi helped me see that I could be whole again. Today, as a Mindset & Resilience Leadership coach, Corporate Speaker, Meditation Teacher, and founder of The Pause Breathe Reflect Method, I'm here to support you as you create a meaningful life and become the person you are becoming.
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