Mike Baker HQ — Human First Mike Baker HQ
Subscribe
Podcast

Episode 36: What Nobody Mentions About Stability

Episode 36: What Nobody Mentions About Stability We spend a lot of time learning how to survive chaos. We don’t spend nearly enough time learning how to live once things finally calm down.

Mike Baker 11 February 2026  ·  1 min read
Podcast

Season 1 · Episode 36 · February 11, 2026 · 24 min

YouTube channel Listen on Spotify Apple Podcasts

Just an Ordinary Tuesday

New episodes and essays land in my Tuesday letter, along with the Resource Library. Free, and leaving is easy.

You’re in. Check your inbox to confirm.

Show notes

Episode 36: What Nobody Mentions About Stability

We spend a lot of time learning how to survive chaos. We don’t spend nearly enough time learning how to live once things finally calm down.

In this episode, Mike talks about stability—why it can feel uncomfortable, why calm can feel unfamiliar, and why some people end up sabotaging good situations without realizing what they’re doing.

This conversation explores what happens when urgency fades, when life steadies, and when you’re left with space you don’t quite know how to fill. Mike shares insight into why stability can feel like loss at first, how growth continues even when it’s quiet, and why trusting good things can be harder than enduring hard ones.

If you’ve ever felt restless when life finally stopped shaking, or wondered why peace didn’t feel the way you expected it to, this episode will help you make sense of it.

The episode closes with the song “Even the Strong Break,” a reminder that strength doesn’t mean being unbreakable, and that pausing, resting, and letting yourself feel is part of staying whole.

I’m still here.

Still trying.

And if you’re listening, chances are you are too.

Thanks for listening to Still Here, Still Trying.

If this episode gave you something to think about, please like, follow, subscribe, and share it with three people who could use it in their lives.

You can find more of my work — music, writing, art, and reflections — at:

🌐 mikebakerhq.com

Grab a copy of my book, The Optimist’s Way:

📚 https://a.co/d/4RqPS6g

Thanks for being here.

Still here. Still trying.

Support the Podcast Here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2516381/support

I’ll send you the next one

My letter is called Just an Ordinary Tuesday. Essays mostly, and now and then a song, an episode, some artwork, or something from the advocacy work.

Joining is free, and it opens the Resource Library: twelve tools I built because we needed them.

You’re in. Check your inbox to confirm, and the next ordinary Tuesday will find you.

I aim for Tuesdays, twice a month or so, and I don’t always make it. Your address stays private, and leaving is always easy.

More episodes All episodes →
14 Oct 2026

My ADHD Rabbit Hole Built an Apocalypse Club

A conversation about AI with Jake and his friend Max turned into Apocalypse Optional, a sci-fi film and book club with a quiz that sorts you into your apocalypse house. Season 2, Episode 19 of Still Here, Still Trying.

5 Oct 2026

After 27 Years, What Makes Someone Your Person?

Kellie and I heard a Tolkien line about marriage at a celebration of life the day before our 27th anniversary. What actually makes someone your person after decades together? Season 2, Episode 18 of Still Here, Still Trying.

23 Sep 2026

Wherever You Go, There You Are

A high school friend used to say it as a joke. At fifty, it became a question: wherever I go, I’m going to be there, so how much say do I still have in what it’s like when I arrive? Season 2, Episode 17 of Still Here, Still Trying.