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I almost quit paying attention to all of this. Not life.

Episode 44: What People Need Most Right Now The world feels loud right now. People are stressed, tired, overloaded, and trying to function while carrying more than they are saying out loud.

Episode 43 — It Wasn’t Normal I went to the Endo Summit thinking I’d learn more about endometriosis. What I didn’t expect was to walk out of there thinking about something way bigger.

Episode 42: The Pressure to Be Okay What happens when you’re the one everyone depends on… but you don’t feel okay yourself? In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike Baker gets honest about something millions of people are feeling right now but rarely say out loud.

The Quiet Sabotage: Passive-Aggressive and Avoidant Patterns Podcast Description Earlier this year, Mike Baker began a series inside Still Here, Still Trying exploring the personality patterns that shape relationships, leadership, and the environments we live and work in. The first conversation in t

Episode 39: Guarding Your Mind Everything around us seems designed to pull our attention into chaos. Open your phone and the loudest voices rise to the top.

Episode 38: We’re Going to Be Okay Everything feels loud right now. Scroll for five minutes and you’d think the whole thing is unraveling.

Episode 37: The Difference Between Peace and Avoidance A lot of us have learned how to get quiet. We’ve pulled back, muted the noise, stepped away from things that felt too loud or too heavy.

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.

Episode 35: Things I’d Stop Teaching If I Was Being Honest There’s a lot of advice we keep repeating because it sounds wise, responsible, or motivating. Some of it worked once.

Episode 34: The Freedom of Caring Less About the Wrong Things In this episode, Mike talks about the quiet shift that happens when you stop caring so much about things that never actually made life better. Approval.

A year into this chapter, the tone feels louder, sharper, and more centered on ego than responsibility. This episode isn’t about politics as a debate.

Episode 32. Who You Become in the Middle This episode was recorded after a full week of perspective.

Beautifully Unfocused This episode moves differently. Mike Baker walks through his new album Beautifully Unfocused one song at a time, using music to explain what living with ADHD actually feels like from the inside.

Episode 29: Christmas, Still Here (A Short Reset for the Week Before Christmas) The week before Christmas hits hard for a lot of people. The calendar fills up, patience gets thin, and emotions show up in ways that don’t always make sense until you’re in it.

Episode Title: A Goalie’s Letter to Santa Beer league goalies live in a different headspace. Warmups start and you’re already in your head.

Let Something Be Easy Today This episode lands right before Christmas, right in the middle of a packed calendar, a messy sleep schedule, and two big nights at The Art Spirit Gallery for No Permission Needed. Mike talks about: Heading into Friday night ArtWalk and a community night with friends, endo

God Complex: Narcissism in Life and Leadership This episode kicks off a new five-part series on personality patterns we face at home, at work, and inside every messy human system. We start with one of the most confusing and emotionally draining patterns out there: narcissistic behavior.

In this episode, Mike slows everything down and talks about what it means to actually show up in the moment you’re living. It starts with a hand-painted mirror he found in Palm Springs.

This week’s episode is a steady, honest look back at everything that happened around the art show opening. Mike walks through the reactions, the confusion, the support, and the noise that hit before anyone even saw the work.