CreateWho You Are
I help you free yourself from the past and create a new self-image.
Why
nothing's
worked
It's not a discipline problem
We push through no matter how we feel because discipline got us here. The truth is we don't know how much longer we can keep forcing it. And stopping feels like losing everything.
It's not a time problem
We tell ourselves we don't have time to relax, but the truth is silence is unbearable. When everything stops, whatever we've been trying to outrun is right there waiting, so we fill the space and stay too tired to feel it.
It's not an information problem
The books, the podcasts, the YouTube videos, the systems. We tell ourselves we're learning, but looking for the answer is easier than becoming the person who uses it. In order for something different to happen, we have to do something different. To do something different, we have to become the person who makes a different choice.
What actually worked
I've worked with a lot of coaches and done all the practices — meditation, breathwork, psychedelics. None of it truly moved the needle. Mike helped me actually embody the ideas instead of just reading them. I'm a different person than I was a year ago.
Mike's coaching helped me manage overwhelming emotions like anger and self-doubt. He taught me to shift my focus from unhelpful patterns to what I want to experience in the present moment. His expertise as a coach is one of a kind.
Mike has helped me learn to trust myself — one of the most important lessons I'll ever learn. I'm not the same person I was a month ago. He's completely changed my life.
Mike helped me overcome the daily challenges of PTSD. I was stuck in survival mode. The work transformed my perspective and gave me a deep-rooted sense of peace.
Two ways to
free yourself
Slow Down to
Speed Up
A guided 8-week program, not a course you binge and forget. Each week unlocks only after Michael reviews your progress, so the work actually becomes part of who you are. Direct access to him throughout.
- ◆Weekly video lessons
- ◆Progress reviewed personally by Michael each week
- ◆Journal prompts & practices you'll actually use
- ◆Direct text access Mon–Fri
Personal Coaching
One-on-one guidance at your pace. Weekly sessions, direct access to me between them, and practices built around what you've been carrying and who you're creating.
- ◆Weekly 1-hour sessions
- ◆Mid-week accountability check-ins
- ◆Direct text access Mon–Sat
- ◆Practices and tools built around your specific patterns
From proving to Free
Since graduating from Penn State in 2010, I sacrificed everything to fighting in MMA (mixed martial arts). From the outside it looked like discipline. No weddings, birthdays, relationships, or time with family and friends. Truth is, I was trying to prove myself to the world. That's not discipline. That's a man running from himself.
I felt alone. My mom was drinking, she was in a dark place and I didn't know how to reach her. My stepfather had been a father to me since I was four. Then he was gone. My dad and I weren't close, because I was hiding that I liked men and I didn't feel safe telling him. Growing up in the Bronx and fighting for a living, that part of me never felt safe anywhere. So I isolated myself and called it strength. I was strong enough to be there for others, but not enough to open up.
Anger was the only thing safe to feel, and fighting gave it somewhere to go. That was the rush of every fight. Perform and earn love. Fail and lose it all.
Then 2020. I planned to fight six times that year. Then lockdown hit. Suddenly there was nothing to train for and keep me busy. I'd spent years studying mindset and psychology to read my opponent's patterns, and my own. Being my own opponent during lockdown, I found out I was using fighting to cope with the fact that I wasn't happy.
In 2021, my instructor brought me to his seminar in Iceland to help clear my head. What I found was everything I'd missed. Life. On that trip a question showed up. What if I retire?
I was more scared of that thought than any fight I've ever had. That's when I knew I had to face it. Because if I didn't, people would keep calling me a warrior, and I'd know the truth. I was afraid of life without fighting.
I retired the week I got home. A few weeks later my manager called with a title fight, thinking it was just a manic episode. I turned it down.
"I faced my fear in fighting. Now I need to face my fear in life."
That's where the real work started. Not fixing myself. Putting down the self-limiting beliefs, stories, and pain I'd carried since I was a kid. Learning to give myself the very thing I was trying to win.
Now I guide leaders through the same journey, using what fighting taught me. Working with the mind. Moving through emotion instead of around it. Releasing tension in the body before it runs your decisions. I don't teach. I guide you back to who you are underneath the proving.
From proving to Free
Since graduating from Penn State in 2010, I sacrificed everything to fighting in MMA (mixed martial arts). From the outside it looked like discipline. No weddings, birthdays, relationships, or time with family and friends. Truth is, I was trying to prove myself to the world. That's not discipline. That's a man running from himself.
I felt alone. My mom was drinking, she was in a dark place and I didn't know how to reach her. My stepfather had been a father to me since I was four. Then he was gone. My dad and I weren't close, because I was hiding that I liked men and I didn't feel safe telling him. Growing up in the Bronx and fighting for a living, that part of me never felt safe anywhere. So I isolated myself and called it strength. I was strong enough to be there for others, but not enough to open up.
Anger was the only thing safe to feel, and fighting gave it somewhere to go. That was the rush of every fight. Perform and earn love. Fail and lose it all.
Then 2020. I planned to fight six times that year. Then lockdown hit. Suddenly there was nothing to train for and keep me busy. I'd spent years studying mindset and psychology to read my opponent's patterns, and my own. Being my own opponent during lockdown, I found out I was using fighting to cope with the fact that I wasn't happy.
In 2021, my instructor brought me to his seminar in Iceland to help clear my head. What I found was everything I'd missed. Life. On that trip a question showed up. What if I retire?
I was more scared of that thought than any fight I've ever had. That's when I knew I had to face it. Because if I didn't, people would keep calling me a warrior, and I'd know the truth. I was afraid of life without fighting.
I retired the week I got home. A few weeks later my manager called with a title fight, thinking it was just a manic episode. I turned it down.
"I faced my fear in fighting. Now I need to face my fear in life."
That's where the real work started. Not fixing myself. Putting down the self-limiting beliefs, stories, and pain I'd carried since I was a kid. Learning to give myself the very thing I was trying to win.
Now I guide leaders through the same journey, using what fighting taught me. Working with the mind. Moving through emotion instead of around it. Releasing tension in the body before it runs your decisions. I don't teach. I guide you back to who you are underneath the proving.
You're ready
What we do together: we look at the story you've been living inside, the one running your decisions without you noticing. Then we create the version of you that makes different ones. Not by adding discipline. By changing who's making the call.
- I won't tell you what to do.
- I won't give you advice.
- I won't hand you a framework.
What I will do is guide you while you create who you are.
45 minutes · No pitch · No obligation
You're ready
What we do together: we look at the story you've been living inside, the one running your decisions without you noticing. Then we create the version of you that makes different ones. Not by adding discipline. By changing who's making the call.
- I won't tell you what to do.
- I won't give you advice.
- I won't hand you a framework.
What I will do is guide you while you create who you are.
45 minutes · No pitch · No obligation