Mighty Pursuit Podcast

Mighty Pursuit
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Most people are trying to piece their lives together in a hundred different places. A podcast for mental health. An app for fitness. A class for their soul. It’s too much—and not enough. Mighty Pursuit is where it all connects—mind, body, and spirit. We host conversations with scientists, celebrities, spiritual thinkers, and everyday people—exploring what it means to live well in a fragmented world. LINKS: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mightypursuit TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/

  1. Sex Psychologist: Why Women Stop Wanting Sex

    2d ago

    Sex Psychologist: Why Women Stop Wanting Sex

    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. As a woman, you may wonder why you no longer want something you used to enjoy, or whether something is wrong with you. As a man, it can feel like rejection from the person you most want to feel desired by. Few people understand this tension better than Dr. Lori Brotto. While many people claim expertise in sex, Dr. Brotto is one in the truest sense. She has spent decades studying women’s desire, published hundreds of scientific papers, and worked with thousands of patients. As both a psychologist and a sex therapist, she is undoubtedly one of the world’s leading experts in sex. So why is this all happening? We’re about to find out. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Doing The Grocery List During Sex 13:13 - 43% Of Women Have Low Desire 18:47 - Women Are Different Than Men 21:26 - Spontaneous vs. Responsive Desire 34:10 - Understanding Turn-Ons vs. Turn-Offs 48:28 - When Your Relationship Becomes Boring 1:07:24 - The Problem With How Long Sex Lasts 1:25:59 - Is Low Desire Actually An Issue? 1:30:47 - Addressing A Desire Mismatch 1:39:20 - Maybe You Should Stop Having Sex 1:46:19 - Sex Must Include Some Sort of Novelty 1:51:13 - The Power of Mindfulness in Sex 2:01:16 - When You Are No Longer Attracted To Your Partner 2:07:19 - How Often You Should Have Sex Join Our Newsletter (The Nine): https://mightypursuit.com/thenine Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Dr. Lori Brotto Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drloribrotto/ Google Scholar: https://shorturl.at/ZKh9w For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    2h 14m
  2. Harvard Trauma Therapist: Why The People You Love Hurt You The Most

    Jun 16

    Harvard Trauma Therapist: Why The People You Love Hurt You The Most

    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 and managing their emotions. Holding everything together. And to make it even more complicated, it wasn’t bad all the time. There were moments where it felt like love. Moments where things were okay. Just enough to make you question everything else. There’s a name for what this does to a person: relational trauma. More than half the population is carrying some version of it, even if they wouldn’t use that language to describe it. That’s why we sat down with Dr. Frank Anderson, one of the world’s leading trauma experts. He trained at Harvard, has spent more than thirty years sitting with people inside this exact reality, and has helped thousands understand what happened to them and why it still feels the way it does. What makes Frank rare is that this isn’t just something he’s studied. It’s something he’s lived. He grew up in a home where he was in constant physical danger, which allows him to speak about trauma with a level of clarity, precision, and compassion few people can. Because the truth is that relational trauma doesn’t end cleanly. Sometimes the person who hurt you is still in your life. Sometimes they’ve never acknowledged what happened. Never once apologized or taken responsibility. Which means you’re still carrying the damage while they keep living like nothing happened. Dr. Anderson doesn’t simplify that. He doesn’t offer easy forgiveness frameworks or tidy resolution arcs. He goes into all of it: the grief, the anger, the loyalty, the confusion, and the impossible complexity of loving someone who hurt you. That’s what makes this one of the most honest conversations we’ve ever had on this show. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 2:14 - “Don’t Let Him Hit The Face” 12:47 - What Relational Trauma Does to You 23:22 - The Pain of Unresolved Trauma 29:34 - Parents 1:15:30 - Siblings 1:26:04 - Romantic Partners 1:47:28 - Separating Past From Present 2:14:29 - When They Refuse To Acknowledge It 2:27:13 - Finding Purpose In Your Pain Related Episodes: https://youtu.be/fu2T1OXU1ss?si=jAB6DY6QChVMnEyt https://youtu.be/nm92_PMUwiA Join Our Newsletter (The Nine): https://mightypursuit.com/thenine Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Dr. Frank Anderson Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frank_andersonmd/ The Path To Healing Trauma Course: https://www.frankandersonmd.com/the-path-to-healing-trauma For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    2h 33m
  3. Dr. Matt Walker: Why Sleep Is The Foundation of Health & Longevity

    Jun 9

    Dr. Matt Walker: Why Sleep Is The Foundation of Health & Longevity

    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 sleep breaks down, the consequences can reach almost every system in the body. Your brain may be less able to clear the proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Your immune system may become less effective at identifying and destroying cancer cells. Your heart, blood sugar, stress response, mood, memory, and decision-making can all become compromised. Not just because of what you ate. Not just because of whether you exercised. But because of how you slept. And yet, we’ve built an entire culture that treats sleep like it’s optional. It becomes the first thing we cut when there aren’t enough hours in the day. There is even a kind of pride in it: the early mornings, the late nights, the badge of honor that comes from needing less rest than everyone else. But the science has arrived. And what it shows is that many of us have been making one of the most consequential mistakes of our lives every single night without realizing it. That’s why we sat down with Dr. Matthew Walker, neuroscientist, professor at UC Berkeley, and author of Why We Sleep. His book didn’t just become a bestseller. It became a cultural phenomenon, changing how millions of people understand the role of sleep in human health. It made doctors rethink their advice. It made leaders rethink their schedules. And it helped reveal something most of us were never taught: sleep isn’t just one pillar of health among many. It may be the foundation everything else depends on. How well you eat, how hard you train, how clearly you think, how emotionally steady you feel, and how long your body can keep repairing itself are all connected to how well you sleep. This is a conversation we’ve been working on for over a year. And it was worth the wait. Because when it comes to sleep, there are very few people in the world who understand the science at this level. What Dr. Walker lays out here has the potential to change how you think about your health entirely. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - The Mind-Blowing Benefits of Sleep 30:25 - The Four Things That Actually Determine Good Sleep 44:09 - Why We Wake Up At 3 A.M. 56:10 - Overcoming Anxiety Around Sleep 1:11:48 - How To Set The Conditions For Great Sleep 1:44:44 - When You Do Everything Right And Can’t Sleep Join Our Newsletter (The Nine): https://mightypursuit.com/thenine Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Dr. Matt Walker Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmattwalker/ X: https://x.com/sleepdiplomat Why We Sleep: https://amzn.to/4e9AfJM For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    1h 57m
  4. Your Dead Loved Ones Still Exist (Science Finally Proved It)

    Jun 2

    Your Dead Loved Ones Still Exist (Science Finally Proved It)

    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’s not built on sensational claims or stories you simply have to “believe.” Rather, we examine seven independent fields of study that collectively span 155 years of research. Inside each field are serious scientists, clinicians, and thinkers. Some researchers have connected the dots that we lay out. But to our knowledge, no one has stepped back and laid it out in one straight line. That’s what this episode attempts to do. And at the end, we’ll talk about what it means. Because if these fields are pointing where they appear to be pointing, the implications are substantial. Not just for what happens after death, but for grief, love, consciousness, and the possibility that the people we’ve lost may not be as gone as we were taught to believe. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - 7 Fields, 155 Years of Research 2:10 - How This Was Possible To Study 4:56 - Tier 1A Evidence 5:15 - Near Death Studies 16:36 - Hospice Care 25:00 - Tier 1B Evidence 25:27 - Attachment Science 28:51 - Grief Science 32:38 - Anthropology 38:11 - Tier 2 Evidence 38:38 - ADC 45:25 - AIR 52:29 - Interpretations This episode is a sequel, but you don’t need to have seen the first one to follow it. Both stand on their own. To watch the earlier episode on the afterlife, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/DbUlOAhrfB0 If you’re interested in Continuing Bonds and ADC, and would like to see a future episode on what these can look like practically in everyday life, sign up for our email list to be notified when it’s released: https://mightypursuit.com/thenine/ List of Resources & Research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZGcfXdgKHyRJ2v7DV-gaA4zyBl0ZwctATrdRJuiIwDc/edit?tab=t.0 Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    1h 4m
  5. A.I. Futurist: What Your Life Looks Like In 2028

    May 26

    A.I. Futurist: What Your Life Looks Like In 2028

    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 email or social media. Disruptive, yes. But not something that will replace you entirely. Most people are sitting in that uncertainty right now. Waiting. Watching. Trying to figure out what’s real. But history has a way of hiding the earliest cracks. Before the 2008 financial crisis, unemployment numbers didn’t collapse first. The warning signs showed up in places most people weren’t looking. So the real question isn’t whether AI has replaced jobs yet. It’s whether we’re watching the right indicators. Is this stability real? Or is this the calm before the storm? That’s why we sat down with Sinéad Bovell, one of the leading futurists working at the intersection of technology and society. She has spoken at the United Nations, been in rooms with the people building these systems, and hosts a global AI series with Microsoft. What makes her rare is that she doesn’t just understand the tools. She understands the social, economic, and human shifts they create. And she has built a career helping people see inflection points before the rest of the world fully feels them. If we’re misreading this moment, Sinéad is the person who can show us where the cracks actually are. This conversation takes you behind the scenes of what’s coming, what most people are missing, and the practical insights you’ll need to navigate this year and the age ahead. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 2:10 - The 2028 Timeline of Job Collapse 15:58 - The Warning Signs of Big Change 41:35 - Can This Technology Actually Replace Humans? 1:13:51 - Are We Actually Powerless? 1:24:32 - The Nine-To-Five Job Is Going Extinct 1:57:57 - Big Tech Companies Aren’t Even Safe Related Episodes: https://youtu.be/Rhcp7ZUiw3g Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Sinead Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sineadbovell/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@Sineadbovell⁩ For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    2h 3m
  6. Why Hospitality Is the Way Out of a World That Uses People

    May 19

    Why Hospitality Is the Way Out of a World That Uses People

    Think about the last time you felt invisible. Maybe it was at work. Or in a social setting. Or while you were doing something for someone who barely noticed you were there. For a lot of people, life starts to feel transactional. You’re treated well when you’re useful. Acknowledged when you’re needed. And quietly overlooked when you’re not. Maybe you’ve had the realization that many of your relationships feel like this — where being seen is conditional, and being ignored is the default. What if this isn’t just bad manners or people having a rough day? What if we’re living inside an unspoken hierarchy — where people are valued based on their role, their status, and what they’re there to do for us? Not a caste system written into law or religion, but one enforced through everyday behavior. Who gets celebrated. Who gets eye contact. Who gets respect. Nowhere is this more visible than in the service industry, where entire groups of people are treated as interchangeable, easy to ignore, and even easier to dehumanize. That’s why we sat down with Steve Fortunato. A pioneer in the hospitality world, Steve has spent years watching how people treat one another when power, money, and stress collide. He’s seen what this kind of invisibility does to individuals — and what it does to a culture that slowly learns to accept it as normal. At our best, we’re most alive when we live beyond ourselves. Spiritual traditions have said this for centuries, and science now backs it up. In this episode, Steve helps us see how unspoken hierarchies block that way of living — how they show up in our work, our relationships, and our institutions. But he doesn’t just name the problem. He shows us how it works. And then, he shows us a way out — one that restores dignity, presence, and freedom for both ourselves and the people around us. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:49 - The Social Hierarchy We Live In 23:54 - Why We Feel Trapped By The System 34:50 - Treating People As Tools or Threats 44:02 - The Entitlement of Wealth, Fame & Power 1:01:14 - How Powerful People Even Get Used 1:07:42 - Escaping the Caste System 1:26:46 - The Revolutionary Concept of Generativity 1:37:13 - Embodying A Host Mindset Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Steve Fortunato Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve_fortunato/ Book: https://amzn.to/3G0pXNY For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    1h 50m
  7. Yale Emotions Scientist: Why Your Emotions Decide Everything

    May 5

    Yale Emotions Scientist: Why Your Emotions Decide Everything

    You think you’re in control of your life. But most of the time, your emotions are making the decisions for you. You snap and immediately regret it. You shut down even though you wanted to say more. You feel overwhelmed, defensive, or numb — and don’t fully understand why. All throughout the day, you have moments where a feeling takes over before you can even think. And over time, those moments add up. The way you respond to frustration, fear, shame, or anger doesn’t just affect how you feel in the moment — it quietly shapes your relationships, your work, your health, and the direction your life takes. Without the tools to regulate what’s happening inside you, you become a passenger in your own life. Living with regret instead of intention. That’s why we sat down with Dr. Marc Brackett — the world’s leading expert on emotional intelligence. He’s the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and one of the most cited emotion researchers alive. In this episode, you’ll discover how to get back in the driver’s seat of your life. If you want to feel more in control of your reactions, more grounded in your decisions, and more aligned with the life you’re trying to live, this conversation is for you. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:51 - How We Became Emotional Infants 23:29 - Dysfunctional Ways To Deal With Emotions 33:13 - When Emotion Overtakes Us 49:00 - How Bad Moods Destroy Our Decision Making 57:41 - Emotions Are Not Your Identity 1:12:30 - Emotions Are Information & Data 1:32:26 - Every Emotion Requires A Different Response 1:55:44 - The Plane Incident Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit Dr. Marc Brackett Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marc.brackett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@marcbrackett Book (Permission to Feel): https://amzn.to/496bquG Book (Dealing with Feeling): https://amzn.to/496bquG App (How We Feel): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/how-we-feel/id1562706384 For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    2h 5m
  8. How Modern Politics Brainwash People (Scientifically)

    Apr 28

    How Modern Politics Brainwash People (Scientifically)

    In the entire existence of our company, we've never made a public statement about politics. Not because it wasn't relevant to what we do. We are a company focused on wellbeing — mentally, physically, and spiritually. And the way we engage with politics has a profound impact on all three. It shapes whether people live in fear or in hope. Whether they relate to each other through love or through hate. Whether society feels connected or like it's turning into tribal warfare. But our thinking has never mapped cleanly onto a single political framework. We've consistently found ourselves agreeing with certain things and strongly disagreeing with others — across both sides. And over time, the more tribal things became, the more alienated we felt from it. Until we started to wonder whether that was by design. So we started looking into it. And what we found changed how we see everything. Because the more we dug in, the more we realized that a lot of what we're seeing in modern politics follows very specific psychological patterns. Patterns that look surprisingly similar to the dynamics researchers use to describe high-control groups and cults. That's not a metaphor or an exaggeration. The people who study cults and the people who study politics are now citing each other's work. Because independently — across decades of research, across cultures, across countries — they've arrived at the same mechanisms. And those mechanisms are operating on all of us. Right now. Not just in the United States. You can see versions of this in France, the UK, Brazil, India. The specific issues change. The underlying playbook doesn't. This episode is what we found. A research-backed breakdown of the four phases of political brainwash, the seven psychological tactics being used at scale across every major democracy, and the nine signs that you've already been affected — whether you know it or not. This is not about telling you what to think. It's about showing you how thinking itself is being shaped. And once you see it, you won't be able to unsee it. Chapters: 0:00 - How We Got Here 4:33 - Phase 1 (Emotional) 5:08 - Find What You Care About 12:18 - Put On The Savior Complex 20:32 - Phase 2 (Social) 20:43 - Create Us Vs. Them 27:23 - Build The Shared Story 32:29 - Phase 3 (Cognitive) 32:46 - Create The Illusion of Progress 38:44 - Force The Narrative 40:58 - Phase 4 (Systemic) 41:45 - Accelerate The Brainwash 45:47 - Likelihood You’ve Been Brainwashed 56:45 - Taking Back Your Mind Sources & Citations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FY6nE2iyvS3Rcr-JFR6VZOND1JCYtNm1pcvR-ULiKI8/edit?tab=t.0 Pledge: https://form.typeform.com/to/utz3Wc3y Join Our Newsletter (The Nine): https://mightypursuit.com/thenine Mighty Pursuit Links: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/ X: https://x.com/MightyPursuit For business inquiries: hello@mightypursuit.com

    1h 16m
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Most people are trying to piece their lives together in a hundred different places. A podcast for mental health. An app for fitness. A class for their soul. It’s too much—and not enough. Mighty Pursuit is where it all connects—mind, body, and spirit. We host conversations with scientists, celebrities, spiritual thinkers, and everyday people—exploring what it means to live well in a fragmented world. LINKS: Website: https://www.mightypursuit.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mightypursuit/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mightypursuit TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mightypursuit/

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