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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.

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.

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.

Good leadership means noticing how much work people do just to make their own work possible. A Sunday in the goalie crease, four beer-league games, and what changed when I trusted the team in front of me.

Two years. That was the “good” outcome.

The Work Should Lead Back to People MikeBakerHQ has changed, and this episode marks where the work is headed next. For the last few years, Mike Baker has explored artificial intelligence through art, music, writing, and a long list of creative experiments.

Good intentions matter, but the people closest to us experience our follow-through, attention, tone, and the work we leave behind. In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike begins with a very 2026 attempt to connect Google, Apple, Outlook, and an AI assistant named Mira to finally solve the

Something is shifting. You can feel it in relationships beginning to heal, communities finding their voices, and people becoming less willing to live under fear, division, and toxic leadership.

Author, speaker, podcast host, songwriter, AI-assisted artist, EndoDad advocate, and CEO of a community health center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Season 2, Episode 11 Why I Released 10 Books at Once: The Human First Story Behind Mike Baker HQ Why did Mike Baker release 10 books at once? In Season 2, Episode 11 of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike talks through the heart behind his 10-book release and the larger Human First world taking shape thr

This week on Still Here, Still Trying, Mike records a quick road episode from his hotel room in Carlisle, Pennsylvania while attending the U.

This week on Still Here, Still Trying, Mike talks about the kind of week that makes life feel full, beautiful, hard, and a little too fast. After a few episodes focused on the upcoming Human First books, this one brings the question home.

This week on Still Here, Still Trying, I’m pulling the camera back on the full Human First book series, releasing June 30. Last week, we started with Believe Her the First Time and the question at the heart of that book: when a woman says her body hurts, do we believe her before she has to prove it?

What Are We Doing With the Life We Still Have? Memorial Day, hockey, family, and the ordinary joy we almost miss Episode 51 of Still Here, Still Trying starts at the rink and moves into something much deeper.

What Kind of Community Do We Want to Be? Episode 50 of Still Here, Still Trying is about what happens when good people get tired of the noise, step back from public life, and leave the room to the loudest voices.

Everybody looks fine until you realize most people are surviving quietly. This week’s episode almost didn’t happen.

Episode 48 | Season 2, Episode 4 Beautifully Unfocused: How to Love Someone With ADHD If you love someone with ADHD, there’s a good chance you’ve misunderstood them at least once. And if you have ADHD, there’s a good chance you’ve spent a lot of your life feeling misunderstood before anyone ever ask

Human First: Believe Her the First Time The first book in the Human First series starts with women’s pain, endometriosis, and what love does when belief becomes action. The Human First book series releases July 1, and this episode kicks off the run by going straight to the heart of the first book: B

Everybody loves the message: build your life, chase the dream, start the thing, stop waiting. I do too.

The Real Cost of Always Being Right What if the thing you’re most certain about is quietly costing you the people you care about? In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, I get into something that’s been bothering me more and more.