Live in Flow
I help you live in the flow state. I found it in a cage, then learned how to have it everywhere else.
AND ENTREPRENEURS
MMA
Champion
Jiu-Jitsu
Black Belt
This
is Flow
Get more done with less effort
Computers run slower when we open another tab instead of closing the one before. Our minds are no different. We handle one thing while thinking about another. Only half our attention on the task. Twice the time and effort to finish it. In flow, there's one thing in front of you and all of you is there for it. The work takes less out of you, and you finish the day with something left over.
Trust your decisions
In a fight there's no time to think. You see it, you move. If you hesitate you get hit. That's flow, and it's not limited to fighting. Outside the cage we do the opposite. We decide, then spend the week negotiating with ourselves, reading one more thing, asking one more person. In flow, you see it and you move. The time that used to go to second-guessing goes somewhere better.
Rest without guilt
We know when the gas light comes on, forcing the car to keep going will only break it down. Yet when we feel ourselves running on empty, we double down and go harder, believing rest is a luxury. In flow, rest isn't a reward for finishing. It's part of how the work gets done. You actually relax, recover and come back sharper.
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 in
Slow Down to
Speed Up
Eight weeks, one week at a time. Each week opens only after I review where you are, so nothing moves faster than you do. You'll learn what's driving your reactions, where your attention keeps going without you, and how to come back to the present moment on purpose.
- ◆Understand what your emotions are actually telling you
- ◆See the patterns running underneath your behavior
- ◆Come back to the present when your mind takes off
- ◆Weekly video lessons, progress reviewed by me each week
Focus Sessions
Focus is a muscle. Most of us have never trained it, so it goes wherever it gets pulled. We train it at your pace. The less effort everything costs you, the more energy you have for what matters most.
- ◆Turn overthinking into clarity
- ◆Change what you believe you're capable of
- ◆Create a new lifestyle
- ◆Weekly 1-hour sessions, direct text access Mon-Sat
From forcing to Flow
Since I graduated from Penn State in 2010, I sacrificed everything to fighting in MMA. No weddings, birthdays, relationships, or time with family and friends. From the outside it looked like discipline. 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 father 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. I carried it as shame and guilt. So I isolated myself and called it strength. I was strong enough to be there for others, but not enough to open up.
In college I drank heavily to make it quiet. It worked until it didn't. Anger was the only thing safe to feel, and fighting gave it somewhere to go.
Here's what I didn't understand for years. In the cage I had everything. All of my attention on one thing. No past, no future, no part of me held back. People called it focus and it was the thing I got complimented on most. A teammate once paid me to teach him how I did it, because he watched the way I wrapped my hands.
Everywhere else I was split. Part of me managing what I was hiding. Part of me holding my family together. Part of me performing. The cage was the only room where all of me showed up.
So I kept going back. Not for the belts. For the twenty minutes where I was whole.
Then 2020. I planned to fight six times that year and then lockdown hit. Suddenly there was nothing to train for and no one to be. I'd spent years studying mindset and psychology to read my opponents. During lockdown the only opponent left was me, and I found out I was using fighting to cope with not being happy.
In 2021, my instructor brought me to his seminar in Iceland to 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."
What I was actually afraid of was losing the only place I'd ever been fully present. It took me years to see that the cage never gave me that. I brought it in there with me. That's the work now. Training the same focus out here, so the whole life gets it and not just the twenty minutes.
Now I coach leaders, high performers and entrepreneurs to do the same, 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 train your focus so you can live in flow.
From forcing to Flow
Since I graduated from Penn State in 2010, I sacrificed everything to fighting in MMA. No weddings, birthdays, relationships, or time with family and friends. From the outside it looked like discipline. 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 father 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. I carried it as shame and guilt. So I isolated myself and called it strength. I was strong enough to be there for others, but not enough to open up.
In college I drank heavily to make it quiet. It worked until it didn't. Anger was the only thing safe to feel, and fighting gave it somewhere to go.
Here's what I didn't understand for years. In the cage I had everything. All of my attention on one thing. No past, no future, no part of me held back. People called it focus and it was the thing I got complimented on most. A teammate once paid me to teach him how I did it, because he watched the way I wrapped my hands.
Everywhere else I was split. Part of me managing what I was hiding. Part of me holding my family together. Part of me performing. The cage was the only room where all of me showed up.
So I kept going back. Not for the belts. For the twenty minutes where I was whole.
Then 2020. I planned to fight six times that year and then lockdown hit. Suddenly there was nothing to train for and no one to be. I'd spent years studying mindset and psychology to read my opponents. During lockdown the only opponent left was me, and I found out I was using fighting to cope with not being happy.
In 2021, my instructor brought me to his seminar in Iceland to 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."
What I was actually afraid of was losing the only place I'd ever been fully present. It took me years to see that the cage never gave me that. I brought it in there with me. That's the work now. Training the same focus out here, so the whole life gets it and not just the twenty minutes.
Now I coach leaders, high performers and entrepreneurs to do the same, 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 train your focus so you can live in flow.
You're ready
One conversation. We'll look at where your attention actually goes, and what it's costing you. No preparation needed.
- 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 show you what you are capable of.
45 minutes · No pitch · No obligation
You're ready
One conversation. We'll look at where your attention actually goes, and what it's costing you. No preparation needed.
- 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 show you what you are capable of.
45 minutes · No pitch · No obligation