The Climb Higher Podcast

Michael Temple
  • 4.9 (36)
  • Self-Improvement

The Climb Higher Podcast is a short-form weekly show for people rebuilding themselves after heartbreak, emotional burnout, betrayal, anxiety, and identity collapse. Hosted by relationship coach and speaker Michael Temple, each episode delivers grounded, psychologically informed conversations about attachment, healing, emotional regulation, self-respect, masculinity, relationships, and personal growth — without manipulation tactics, gimmicks, or false promises. This is not a “get your ex back” podcast. This is about rebuilding your life, reclaiming your identity, strengthening your mind, and learning how to move forward with clarity, dignity, and emotional stability. Some episodes will challenge you.Some will steady you.Some may feel uncomfortably honest. But every episode is designed to help you think more clearly, heal more deeply, and stop abandoning yourself in the process of trying to hold onto people who no longer choose you. Short. Direct. Human. Because the higher you climb…the better the view.

  1. 2d ago

    Episode 20: The Difference Between Being Alone and Being Lonely

    Send us Fan Mail Being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. After a relationship ends, though, it can certainly feel that way. The house is quieter. The weekends feel different. The routines you shared are gone. Suddenly, you're spending time with a version of yourself you may not have known for years—or perhaps have never really known at all. In this episode of The Climb Higher Podcast, Michael Temple explores why learning to be alone may be one of the most important parts of rebuilding your life after a breakup or significant loss. You’ll discover the difference between solitude and loneliness, why the end of a long relationship can leave your identity feeling unsettled, and how the fear of being alone can cause people to choose their next relationship for company rather than compatibility. Because the goal isn't to find someone as quickly as possible to fill the empty space. The goal is to become someone who chooses a relationship from a place of wholeness rather than need. Learning to enjoy your own company doesn't mean choosing isolation. It means becoming comfortable enough with yourself that you don't need another person's presence to make you feel complete. If the silence after a relationship has been difficult—or you're tempted to rush into something new simply because being alone feels uncomfortable—this episode is for you. Sometimes solitude isn't the problem. Sometimes it's where you finally begin discovering yourself again. Remember: the higher you climb, the better the view. Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  2. Sep 22

    Episode 19: Stop Waiting for Closure

    Send us Fan Mail Episode 19: Stop Waiting for Closure How long are you willing to put your healing on hold while you wait for someone else to give you closure? Maybe you're waiting for an explanation. An apology. One final conversation. Something that finally makes what happened make sense. The problem is, that conversation may never come. Even if it does, it may not give you the peace you thought it would. In this episode of The Climb Higher Podcast, Michael Temple challenges one of the most common beliefs that keeps people emotionally attached after a relationship ends: the idea that closure has to come from the other person. You’ll discover why waiting for closure isn't emotionally neutral, how it keeps part of your attention invested in the past, and why an explanation from your ex may never resolve everything you're hoping it will. Most importantly, Michael offers a different way forward: Closure is not something another person gives you. Closure is a decision you make. You can acknowledge that the relationship mattered. You can wish you had answers. You can even hope that someday an apology or explanation comes. Your healing simply cannot depend on it. If you've been waiting for one last conversation before you finally allow yourself to move forward, this episode is for you. You don't need their permission to heal. Remember: the higher you climb, the better the view. Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  3. Sep 15

    Episode 18: Letting Go Without Forgetting

    Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to “let go”? For many people, letting go feels like forgetting. Like admitting the relationship didn’t matter, excusing what someone did, or somehow erasing an important chapter of your life. That isn’t letting go. In this episode of The Climb Higher Podcast, Michael Temple explores the difference between holding a memory and being held by it—and why moving forward doesn’t require you to deny what happened or forget what you lost. You’ll learn why letting go is less about erasing the past and more about releasing your grip on an outcome that is no longer coming. Michael also shares a personal lesson from his own life after heart transplantation and explains why healing often happens through small, deliberate decisions about where you place your attention. You don’t have to erase the past to build a future. Hold the memory. But don’t let the memory hold you. If you’re struggling to release a relationship, a loss, or a chapter of life that ended differently than you hoped, this episode is for you. Remember: the higher you climb, the better the view. Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  4. Sep 8

    Episode 17 - The Story You're Telling Yourself

    Send us Fan Mail Have you ever looked at your life and thought, "I'm starting over"?  After heartbreak, loss, or unexpected change, it can feel like everything you've built has disappeared. In this episode, Coach Michael challenges one of the most discouraging beliefs people carry after a major setback and offers a perspective that can replace hopelessness with confidence. Your next chapter may be closer than you think. Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  5. Sep 1

    Episode 16 - Starting Over Isn't Starting From Scratch!

    Send us Fan Mail Have you ever looked at your life and thought, "I'm starting over"?  After heartbreak, loss, or unexpected change, it can feel like everything you've built has disappeared. In this episode, Coach Michael challenges one of the most discouraging beliefs people carry after a major setback and offers a perspective that can replace hopelessness with confidence. Your next chapter may be closer than you think. Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  6. Aug 25

    Episode 15 - What You Are Actually Afraid Of!

    Send us Fan Mail We often tell ourselves we know what's holding us back. What if we're wrong? In this episode, Coach Michael uncovers one of the most overlooked fears that follows heartbreak and explains why recognizing it may be the first real step toward moving forward.  Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  7. Aug 18

    Episode 14: The Difference Between Existing and Living

    Send us Fan Mail Episode 14: The Difference Between Existing and Living After heartbreak, loss, trauma, or disappointment, many people continue going through the motions of life. They go to work. They pay the bills. They keep showing up. But deep down, they no longer feel fully alive. They're existing—but they're not really living. In this episode of The Climb Higher Podcast, Coach Michael explores the subtle but powerful difference between surviving and truly engaging with life again. Drawing from his own experience following a heart transplant, he shares why surviving a life-changing event doesn't automatically teach you how to live—and why so many people remain stuck in survival mode long after the crisis has passed.  You'll learn how heartbreak and disappointment can cause people to build lives centered around protection rather than participation, and why avoiding pain often means unintentionally avoiding joy as well. Through practical insights and encouraging challenges, this episode offers a roadmap for moving beyond merely getting through the day and rediscovering what it means to feel excited, hopeful, and engaged with life again.  In this episode you'll discover: The difference between surviving and truly livingWhy many people remain stuck in survival mode for yearsHow psychological flexibility contributes to life satisfactionWhy motivation often follows action—not the other way aroundHow to begin participating in your future instead of protecting yourself from your pastMost importantly, you'll be challenged to ask a different question. Not, "How do I protect myself?" but, "How do I live?" This week's challenge: Ask yourself, "What is one thing that would make me feel more alive?" Then take one small step toward it. Because life rarely changes through intention alone—it changes through participation.  Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

  8. Aug 11

    Episode 13: You Are More Than What Happened To You

    Send us Fan Mail Episode 13: You Are More Than What Happened To You At some point in every healing journey, the focus has to shift. The question can no longer be, "What happened to me?"The question becomes, "Who am I becoming because of it?" In this episode of The Climb Higher Podcast, Coach Michael explores how painful experiences—breakups, divorce, betrayal, loss, failure, and even life-threatening events—can quietly become part of our identity if we're not careful. Drawing from his own journey through a widow-maker heart attack, clinical death, and a heart transplant, Michael shares a powerful perspective on the difference between being defined by what happened to you and choosing who you will become because of it.  You'll learn why painful events are chapters in your story—not the entire story—and how many people unknowingly become trapped in an identity built around their wounds. This episode introduces the concept of post-traumatic growth and explains how adversity, while painful, can become the catalyst for a stronger sense of purpose, direction, and meaning.  In this episode you'll discover: Why painful experiences are events, not identitiesThe difference between experiencing pain and becoming painHow purpose helps pull you forward when pain keeps pulling you backwardWhat post-traumatic growth teaches us about resilienceWhy rebuilding often comes before complete healingMost importantly, you'll be challenged to stop seeing yourself solely through the lens of what you've lost and begin focusing on the person you're becoming.  This week's challenge: Ask yourself one powerful question: If my pain was no longer my identity, who would I be? The answer may reveal the next chapter that's been waiting for you all along. Support the show About Climb Higher Life doesn't always go according to plan—but your story isn't over. Climb Higher is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Temple, where relationships, resilience, personal growth, and emotional recovery take center stage. Through practical insights, powerful stories, and thought-provoking conversations, Michael helps listeners navigate life's toughest seasons while building a stronger future. Whether you're healing from heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, strengthening your mindset, or simply looking for encouragement to keep moving forward, each episode is designed to challenge, inspire, and equip you for the journey ahead. Follow Michael on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube at Michael To The Max. Ready to take the next step in your healing journey? 👉 Coaching, courses, and resources: https://stan.store/michaeltothemax

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The Climb Higher Podcast is a short-form weekly show for people rebuilding themselves after heartbreak, emotional burnout, betrayal, anxiety, and identity collapse. Hosted by relationship coach and speaker Michael Temple, each episode delivers grounded, psychologically informed conversations about attachment, healing, emotional regulation, self-respect, masculinity, relationships, and personal growth — without manipulation tactics, gimmicks, or false promises. This is not a “get your ex back” podcast. This is about rebuilding your life, reclaiming your identity, strengthening your mind, and learning how to move forward with clarity, dignity, and emotional stability. Some episodes will challenge you.Some will steady you.Some may feel uncomfortably honest. But every episode is designed to help you think more clearly, heal more deeply, and stop abandoning yourself in the process of trying to hold onto people who no longer choose you. Short. Direct. Human. Because the higher you climb…the better the view.

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  • Creator
    Michael Temple
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Climb Higher Podcast
  • Show Website
    The Climb Higher Podcast

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