PROJECT 24 - The Table

Dominic Michael
  • 5.0 (27)
  • Self-Improvement

Project 24 | The Table is where real conversations happen. Hosted by Dominic Michael, a military veteran and former federal leader, this podcast challenges you to stop surviving and start living intentionally. We tackle identity, relationships, discipline, accountability, confidence, healing, purpose, and rebuilding your life through honest, direct conversations. No fluff. No filters. Just truth, growth, and the courage to become who you're meant to be. Pull up a chair. The conversation starts here.

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  1. 3d ago • Subscribers Only

    CONNECTED YET ALONE

    We can know what someone posted, where they went, and what their schedule looks like—and still have no idea how they’re actually doing. We can exchange messages all day without having a conversation that makes either person feel understood. Being able to reach each other is not the same as knowing each other. In this premium conversation, Dominic Michael explores the difference between digital access and genuine connection—in our relationships, friendships, and everyday lives. We talk about sharing a home without feeling close, keeping up with someone’s updates without knowing what they’re carrying, and the attention we keep dividing between the person in front of us and everyone reaching us through a screen. The conversation also explores the difference between information and understanding, why curiosity matters even after years together, and how constant texting can create a sense of closeness before we’ve had time to truly know someone. This is not about making technology the enemy or expecting anyone to be available every minute. We can respect privacy, need time to ourselves, and still make room for dependable, meaningful relationships. Sometimes connection doesn’t need a perfect answer or an important reason to call. It needs someone willing to listen, ask another question, and stay long enough to hear the answer. We don’t just want people who can reach us. We want people who actually know us. Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

    CONNECTED YET ALONE

  2. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    WE BUILT A LIFE. WHEN DO WE GET TO ENJOY IT?

    We work. We provide. We pay for things. We take care of people. Then we wake up one day and realize we’ve become damn good at maintaining a life we barely have time to enjoy. In this premium conversation, Dominic Michael explores what happens when “more” becomes the automatic answer—more money, more possessions, more responsibility, more things to maintain—while time with the people we love keeps getting pushed to later. Inspired in part by Alan Watts’ idea of life being more like music than a race to the finish, Dominic asks a simple question: When do we actually get to enjoy what we’ve worked so hard to build? Dominic also shares his own decision to walk away from a six-figure federal career—not because another six-figure income magically replaced it, but because he deliberately created a life that no longer required that salary. The conversation looks at work, possessions, relationships, time, nature, family, and the pressure to keep upgrading a life we may already be too exhausted to experience. This is not about quitting our jobs, throwing away everything we own, or pretending money doesn’t matter. It’s about asking whether the things we keep chasing are making our life better—or simply requiring more of our life to maintain them. Because a beautiful home cannot replace time together. A bigger paycheck cannot have the conversation for us. And the person we love may not need another thing. They may just miss us. We can plan for tomorrow without sacrificing every good part of today. We built a life. We’re still here in it. Maybe it’s time we actually enjoy some of it. Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

    WE BUILT A LIFE. WHEN DO WE GET TO ENJOY IT?

  3. 5d ago

    SOMETHING CHANGED IN US

    Something feels different about the way we interact with each other. Those of us who remember life before smartphones, social media, and constant connection have watched that change happen in real time. We have more ways to reach each other than ever before, yet sometimes it feels like we acknowledge each other less. In this episode, I talk about what I’ve noticed after more than 50 years of living—the judgment, the comparison, the disappearing conversations, and how quickly we decide who somebody is without knowing anything about what they’ve lived through. But I don’t want to spend the rest of my life complaining about what society has become. I want to decide what I’m going to contribute to it. Kindness. Service. Politeness. Respect. Curiosity instead of judgment. And that connects directly to the next chapter of my own life. For the second time in a year, I’m downsizing—but this time I’m going much further. Less stuff. Fewer things tying me down. A Transit or Sprinter, my girls beside me, and an open road without knowing exactly where I’ll eventually end up. I’m becoming less interested in accumulating more things and much more interested in accumulating more life. More conversations. More places. More people. More experiences. And maybe a better understanding of whether the human connection so many of us feel we've lost is actually still out there waiting to be found. We don't know nearly as much about people as we think we do. We don't have to live a life that makes sense to everybody else. Less stuff. More life. And an open road in front of me. 🎙️ Project 24: The Table — available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

  4. Sep 28 • Subscribers Only

    WE WANT SOMEONE BESIDE US. WE DON’T WANT TO DISAPPEAR AGAIN.

    We still want love. We want affection, good conversation, and someone we look forward to seeing. We want to feel wanted. We just don’t want being in a relationship to mean there’s no room left for us. Some of us know what it feels like to keep making adjustments until our friendships, interests, and preferences barely show up in our own life anymore. We were trying to be considerate. But consideration was supposed to go both ways. In this premium conversation, Dominic Michael talks about wanting someone beside us without having to become smaller to keep them. We explore the difference between sharing our plans and asking permission, making changes for someone we love and being the only person expected to change, and enjoying closeness without losing our independence. The conversation also makes room for what we still want: tenderness, attraction, companionship, and someone who takes an interest in the person we are—not only what we do for them. Whether we’re getting to know someone new or trying to feel more like ourselves in an existing relationship, we’re allowed to have preferences. We’re allowed to grow. We’re allowed to want care before we reach the point of exhaustion. This isn’t about refusing to consider another person. It’s about wanting both people to be considered. We don’t need identical interests or a perfect partner. We want a relationship where we can tell the truth, enjoy being together, and still recognize ourselves. We want to be able to mean both of these things: “I’m glad we found each other.” “And I’m still glad to be me.” Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

    WE WANT SOMEONE BESIDE US. WE DON’T WANT TO DISAPPEAR AGAIN.

  5. Sep 28

    THEY GET TO CHOOSE. SO DO WE.

    We can love someone and still have an answer of our own. We can listen when they say their plans have changed. We can respect that they want something different. But understanding their choice does not mean we have to keep setting aside what matters to us. Love shouldn’t mean we’re the only person who isn’t allowed to change our mind. In this free Sunday conversation, Dominic Michael brings together the week’s discussion about love, honesty, changing plans, and the choices both people deserve to make. We talk about respecting someone’s direction without hiding our own disappointment, facing uncertainty together, and being honest about whether the promises we’re making still reflect what we want today. Some conversations are uncomfortable because the answers matter. Avoiding them does not make the uncertainty disappear. We may need time to think. We may not know exactly what comes next. That does not mean our questions—or our place in the conversation—matter any less. “I need time to think” is a sentence we get to use too. We can care about someone without pretending every change works for us. We can respect their answer without hiding ours. They get to choose. So do we. Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

  6. Sep 25 • Subscribers Only

    IF NOTHING CHANGES, CAN WE LIVE WITH THIS?

    Good memories don’t automatically make today good. We know what they promised. We remember who they used to be. We’ve seen the good days that kept us believing things could become different. But what are we actually living with now? If nothing changes, can we live with this? Not if they finally understand. Not if life gets easier. Not if the next apology becomes the change we’ve been waiting for. The person beside us today. The way we speak to each other. What happens when life gets difficult. The relationship as it actually is. In this premium conversation, Dominic Michael asks us to look honestly at the difference between loving someone and being able to keep living the life we share with them. We talk about the good memories that make the present harder to question, the hope that keeps us waiting, and the exhaustion of hearing the same promises without seeing lasting change. We also explore why love does not automatically resolve distrust, loneliness, or the feeling that we cannot speak honestly without another argument. This is not about demanding perfection or telling everyone to leave. Some of us may look at our relationship and recognize something imperfect but genuinely worth choosing. Others may realize we have been accepting today only because we keep expecting a completely different tomorrow. Both answers deserve honesty. We can recognize real change when it happens. We can appreciate the years that mattered. And we can admit that loving someone does not mean every version of life with them works for us. We’re not being asked whether they could become different. We’re being asked whether we can live with what is here now. Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

    IF NOTHING CHANGES, CAN WE LIVE WITH THIS?

  7. Sep 24

    WE KEPT WAITING FOR THEM TO BECOME WHO THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO BE

    We weren’t waiting for a stranger to change. We were waiting for somebody we loved. Somebody we had history with. Somebody who sometimes showed us exactly why we kept believing things could become different. There were good days. There were conversations that gave us hope. There were moments when we thought, “There you are. That’s the person I’ve been waiting for.” Then we found ourselves having the same conversation again. In this free episode, Dominic Michael talks about what it feels like to keep waiting for someone to become the person they say they’re going to be—and why love, history, and hope make that waiting harder to walk away from. We explore the difference between what someone could become and how they are treating us now. We also talk about recognizing genuine change: not only the apology or the effort that follows a difficult conversation, but what continues on the ordinary days afterward. This isn’t about expecting perfection or dismissing someone who is genuinely trying. It’s about being honest about what we’re actually living with, rather than continually planning our future around what might happen. We can appreciate the good memories without using them to explain away the present. We can recognize real progress when it happens—and admit when we’re still hearing the same promises. We weren’t stupid for believing somebody could change. We just don’t have to spend the rest of our life waiting for them to become who they keep telling us they’re going to be. Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

  8. Sep 23 • Subscribers Only

    THEY CHANGED THEIR MIND. WE’RE ALLOWED TO CHANGE OUR PLANS.

    We talked about a future together. We took their words seriously. We made decisions around what both of us said we wanted. Now they want something different—but somehow we’re expected to keep adjusting, keep waiting, and keep calling it support. They’re allowed to change their mind. We’re allowed to decide whether we still want the life they’re choosing. In this premium conversation, Dominic Michael talks about the disappointment of watching shared plans change—and being made to feel difficult for acknowledging what that change means for us. We discuss why the choices we already made deserve acknowledgment, how to speak honestly about what we want now, and why loving someone does not mean following every new direction they choose. Sometimes there is another way forward together. Sometimes we need time to think. And sometimes we discover that we still love someone but no longer want the same life. We don’t have to turn them into a villain. We also don’t have to pretend we’re comfortable just to keep the relationship. Their answer matters. So does ours. We weren’t foolish for believing the plans we made together. We’re not disloyal for reconsidering our own plans when those plans change. Project 24 — The Table · Spotify and Apple Podcasts Pull up a chair.

    THEY CHANGED THEIR MIND. WE’RE ALLOWED TO CHANGE OUR PLANS.
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Project 24 | The Table is where real conversations happen. Hosted by Dominic Michael, a military veteran and former federal leader, this podcast challenges you to stop surviving and start living intentionally. We tackle identity, relationships, discipline, accountability, confidence, healing, purpose, and rebuilding your life through honest, direct conversations. No fluff. No filters. Just truth, growth, and the courage to become who you're meant to be. Pull up a chair. The conversation starts here.

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  • Creator
    Dominic Michael
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    84
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Dominic Michael
  • Show Website
    PROJECT 24 - The Table
  • Provider
    Dominic Michael Group

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