Second Peak with Mitchel Schwindt, M.D.

Mitchel Schwindt, M.D. | author | coaching | consulting

You built a career that worked. Now it does not fit. Second Peak is for professionals in the middle of that gap. Physicians, executives, founders, and operators who hit the target and found the target was the wrong one. Dr. Mitchel Schwindt spent two decades in emergency medicine and helicopter flight medicine, where bad decisions have immediate consequences. He now builds systems for reinvention. Time leverage. AI. Human performance. Stoic practice applied to actual problems instead of quoted on a poster. No motivation. No affirmations. Frameworks you can run this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 6d ago

    Your Marriage Is Not Broken

    Ready to build the optimal version of the second half? Join us on the climb. https://www.skool.com/second-peak-4753/about Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. Oct 13

    You Were Never Bad at Friendship. You Just Lost the Machine That Ran It.

    Men in their 50s and 60s don’t have a friendship problem. They have an infrastructure problem. Nobody has told them that, which is why they read their shrinking social circle as a personal failure. Friendship was never something they built. It was a byproduct of the environments and systems they stood inside: the workplace, the team, the sideline of a kid’s game, the gym at the same hour every week, or the neighbor whose schedule overlapped theirs for eleven years. Pull a man out of those systems, whether by retiring, selling the business, going semi-retired, or simply outliving the phase where his kids organized his weekends, and the friendships fade. Not because he failed. Because the machine that produced them was switched off. The standard advice (”put yourself out there,” “reach out to old friends,” “join a club”) assumes he has a skill he never needed to develop. He doesn’t. He has a gap where a system used to be. Most of what gets written about this treats it as an emotional problem with emotional solutions. Be vulnerable. Open up. Tell your friends you love them. Schedule the call. That framing makes the man both the problem and the fix. I think it’s an engineering problem. If friendships were produced by repeated, low-stakes, side-by-side contact with the same people, the fix isn’t courage. The fix is one recurring container, attended long enough that the container does the work for you. join us on the climb. It's free: https://www.skool.com/second-peak-4753/about Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    You Were Never Bad at Friendship. You Just Lost the Machine That Ran It.

  3. Oct 6

    Your Afternoon Workout Is a Sleeping Pill.

    Most people trying to improve sleep reach for pills, gummies, supplements, or another glass of wine. They may be overlooking one of the most powerful tools they already have: exercise. But there’s a catch. When you exercise may matter almost as much as whether you exercise at all. In this episode, I break down the surprising connection between workout timing, body temperature, deep sleep, growth hormone, and overnight brain recovery. We’ll cover: • Why deep sleep declines as we age • How exercise changes your core body temperature • Why afternoon training may create a better setup for sleep • The mistake of training too close to bedtime • How late-day caffeine can sabotage the whole thing • What the research actually shows, without the influencer hype • A simple experiment you can try for the next three weeks The effect isn’t magical. It’s small, repeatable, and potentially powerful over decades. You may not need another sleep supplement. You may just need to move your workout. Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Sep 29

    Layers

    It's time to take them off. Join us on the climb. https://www.skool.com/second-peak-4753/about Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Sep 15

    Eating on the Road With No Kitchen: The Three Things That Actually Matter

    Eating on the Road With No Kitchen: The Three Things That Actually Matter. Join us at Second Peak: https://www.skool.com/second-peak-4753/about Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. Sep 1

    Gain And Loss Are The Same Thing.

    Gain And Loss Are The Same Thing. Most People Never Figure This Out. Everybody wants the gain. Nobody wants the bill. Gain and loss are not opposites. They are the same substance at different temperatures, and once you stop treating loss as punishment, it becomes the most useful data you own. In this video, I break down the audit I use after every loss. Two categories, three questions, twenty minutes with a legal pad. It is the difference between correcting your course and hitting the same wall again in eighteen months wearing a different suit. → Join Second Peak: https://www.skool.com/second-peak-4753 Second Peak is where professionals in their forties, fifties and sixties rebuild on purpose. No motivational quotes. No hand-holding. We run audits like this one and talk about the thing you are not telling anyone. Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Aug 21

    Welcome to Second Peak

    New format intro Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Welcome to Second Peak

  8. Aug 4

    The Second Slap

    If you listen carefully, the universe will conspire to help you. Ignore it at your own peril. Fortunately, the universal force will reach back out and hit you a second time to fully wake you up.  Welcome to ReCharge, the show where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Each episode delivers practical, high-impact tools you can use immediately. This is your place to reset, reframe, and rebuild a life with more clarity, energy, and purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You built a career that worked. Now it does not fit. Second Peak is for professionals in the middle of that gap. Physicians, executives, founders, and operators who hit the target and found the target was the wrong one. Dr. Mitchel Schwindt spent two decades in emergency medicine and helicopter flight medicine, where bad decisions have immediate consequences. He now builds systems for reinvention. Time leverage. AI. Human performance. Stoic practice applied to actual problems instead of quoted on a poster. No motivation. No affirmations. Frameworks you can run this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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