Michael Connor | Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life

Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, or watch on YouTube, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. Connect with Michael: Book, "Insights of a Father": https://a.co/d/058kY6Df LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelconnor/ Bridge Partnership: https://bridge-partnership.com/ Bridge Institute: https://www.bridge-institute.org/ Insight Seminars: https://insightseminars.org/ Insight Boston (September seminar): https://insightboston.org/ What happens when a world-traveling seminar leader becomes a stay-at-home dad? In the 1990s, Michael Connor helped open Russia and Eastern Europe to personal growth seminars, leading trainings on five continents and once defending his work in a Siberian courtroom. Then at 41, his first daughter was born, and he came home. Six years with his girls became more than 1,000 recorded lessons, and 60 favorites became his book "Insights of a Father: Ordinary Days, Extraordinary Life." Today he coaches executive teams at global companies with Bridge Partnership. A conversation about teddy bears and diamonds, the wife who loved him enough to let him go, and seeing the world through a child's eyes again. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and welcome 00:20 Teddy bears and the lessons children teach 02:36 Santa Claus and diamonds 03:55 The choice at 41 06:06 What six years at home taught him 10:59 Worlds seen through the eyes of innocence 13:20 The red thread: purpose and the big questions 14:51 The leap: leaving healthcare for Bulgaria in winter 20:21 Post-Soviet Russia and a Siberian courtroom 25:27 Many lamps, one light 26:24 She loved him enough to let him go 29:50 How fatherhood changed his executive coaching 33:19 Compassion, filters, and what leaders miss 38:46 Terry Tillman and believing in miracles 40:37 His daughters, young adults now 43:42 Unconditional love and the safe harbor 48:49 What actually changes people 50:42 Lightning round: inner work, miracles, and deep listening