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Mike Needs a Plan
by Mike Pridgen
I lost 110 pounds, but I'm most proud of keeping it off. Together, we're going to do the same thing. How do we do the same thing? By not doing the same things we've been doing. That means we'll need a plan -- yes, including me. I don't know everything, and if you're living this life right, you shouldn't, either.It's not about diets, it's not about exercise, it's about healing the mind. Build your plan with me, Mike Pridgen! Be kind to yourself!Join the free community Discord and connect with me at the link belowhttps://linktr.ee/mikepridgenShow logo by Caitlin CookIG: cooklin_comics
Episodes
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You Can ONLY Listen To This Episode If You're Walking!
This is a special episode, with a caveat -- you can ONLY listen to it if you're walking! Everyone listening to this show is trying to improve something about their lives. So use this as an opportunity to walk with me, and some of your new friends. I'll introduce you to them in the show. Let's get...
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Will You Be Successful? Two Questions That Tell Me Everything (Plus Audience Q&A)
There are two questions I ask to everyone I work with, and everyone who asks me for advice. These two questions tell me almost everything I need to know about whether or not someone is going to be successful on their weight loss journey long term. Will your answers be the ones that lead you…
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Ethan Suplee & Mike Figure It All Out (Slowly)
Ethan Suplee is well known for his work in all sorts of film & TV roles, like My Name is Earl, Mallrats, Boy Meets World, and more. But these days, he prefers to be known as the guy who's down more than half of his original bodyweight. You'd think he's got it all figured out...but, just like you...
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What Do You Do When You Lose Your Fire?
I am coming to terms with the fact that a major part of my identity has shifted over the last year. It's kept me paralyzed from trying new things, or feeling ok with the old things changing. What do you do when you lose your "fire" on a journey? Let's talk about it....
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Your Self Talk is Keeping You Fat; How to Break The Pattern
The way you talk about yourself is the way you'll live, act, and eat. It's a pattern that needs to be broken if you want to be successful, and if you're having trouble sticking to a diet long term, this might be way. Let's fix it. ___________________________________ Have a question or comment you...
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One Year Binge Free: How I Determined My Final Binge
One year ago, I binged on food for the last time. Here's what it took for me to make sure it never happened again, and why failure was necessary to make it so. ___________________________________ Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community…
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How Losing My Glasses In The Ocean Fixed My Anger
I lost my glasses in the ocean, and it gave me the permission to start healing from a turbulent past. For my whole life, turning my anger inwards was a safety mechanism to keep me in rooms I didn't feel I deserved to be in, with people I felt didn't want me. I thought if I was angry outwardly,...
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When Weight Doesn't Matter Anymore (with Coach Mandi Blandford)
Mandi is down 100+ pounds...but she's not keeping track. In fact, when I asked her to introduce herself, she didn't even mention it. Mandi is a dear friend of mine and a coach in our Skool community, helping others every day to build lives where weight loss is, like, the 15th most impressive or...
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The Magic Smoothie That Keeps My Weight Off??
Is it a secret ingredient that the doctors don't want you to know about? Is it a magic nutrient that acts as a "natural" ozempic in your blender? ...no. None of that stuff exists. Otherwise we'd all know about it and be eating it, and obesity wouldn't be a thing. Let's talk about the...
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Why & How to Fail Faster, For Better Results
If you knew you were only 100 rejections away from your dream, how quickly would you burn through the finite amount of failures? "But I don't want to fail!" Of course you don't WANT to...but everything worth having is on the other side of it. Today we'll talk about the importance of failure on…
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Does Weight Loss Improve Your Dating Life? Q&A from the Community
Does weight loss improve your dating life? How do you get back on track after a long break? What's the best way to overcome body dysmorphia? I took your questions from the Discord group and the Instagram broadcast channel and gave them my blind answers (I don't read the questions in advance!)...
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Waiting Ruined My Life...And It's Ruining Yours
Anything you want to be true at the end of your journey needs to be true at the beginning...even if it's a half-baked version of the thing. Waiting ruined everything for me. Waiting for confidence, waiting for ability, waiting for permission. I didn't realize I needed to actively build those…
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Can My Client Out-Coach the Coach? (Bailey Joseph)
I have been a weight loss coach for several years now and have been lucky enough to be involved in about 100 weight loss journeys. Today, I'm speaking to Bailey Joseph, who is a long time client of mine. She's down 65 pounds, beat fatty liver disease, lives an active lifestyle she could have…
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How Perfectionism Killed This Podcast (And How To Defeat Perfectionism Yourself))
It's been a while since I've made a podcast. I didn't decide to leave -- it just happened. I don't love that. It reminds me of the many times I slowed down & stopped on my 110lb weight loss journey, without really deciding to do so. After a certain amount of time, I just would realize...huh...I...
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How To Be Proud Of Yourself
It's tough, isn't it? But it's vital if you want to lose the weight and keep it off. You can't focus on the negatives and expect to start seeing positives. In this episode, we'll talk all about how do start shifting your mindset to one of success. ---------------- Have a question or comment you...
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How To Stop The Up & Down of Food Guilt
I went to the Cheesecake Factory last night. To some of you, that reads as something bad. To me, it was a wonderful time. However...I woke up with some less-than-constructive thoughts this morning. In today's slightly vulnerable episode, I'll walk you through how I'm getting rid of unnecessary...
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Do You Have To Hate Your Body To Change It?
Do you have to hate your body to change it? Do you have to be angry at yourself to lose weight? Do you need to speak negatively to yourself to get it to stick? On the second anniversary of my video where I took my shirt off at the boardwalk for the first time, we're going to talk about all of the...
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Break a Plateau 3 Ways, How To Stop Fearing Success, and more Q & A
Are you stuck in a plateau? In this episode, I work with Matt on how to start moving forward again after an incredible 102 pound weight loss. For Q&A episodes, I do not read any of the questions before answering them! This way, you get something more valuable than just the answer -- you get the...
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How To Get Started Again After A Break
I took a break! From a lot of things! Let's talk about the best way go get started again after some time off to ensure that we continue to create sustainable success. ---------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit...
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You Can't Get The Time Back
Throughout my life, I didn't do enough for myself. Any time I faced resistance in pursuit of self care or wish fulfillment, I'd take it as a sign that the thing I wanted wasn't meant for me. "No hopes", I'd repeat to myself, reasoning that it was better to not have hopes at all than to have them...
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How to Track Calories Kindly
Happy new year! It's resolution season, and a lot of you are thinking about tracking calories, but don't know where to start. There are a lot of programs and plans out there, and many of them are just fine. But what's better than signing up for a calorie tracking program? Getting it for free.…
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How to make a calorie deficit easier (and the secret reasons why it's so hard)
I'm in a measured calorie deficit for the first time in a while. IT'S HARD. But I'm not hungry all the time. In fact, I hardly ever am, and I'm losing weight. Today I'll talk about how, and also talk about why it's still difficult anyway. This is how you can get past all the same obstacles to get...
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The effects of overthinking, and how to overcome it
I overthought the intro of my own show, and it sent me into a self doubt spiral. A show I do every week! I should know how to start it. But I thought about it too much, and psyched myself out. I literally convinced myself I couldn't intro my own show. --------- Have a question or comment you want...
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How to Logic Your Way Out Of Self Hatred
Can you name ONE person that truly deserves the kind of self hatred that you impose upon yourself? In this episode, we discuss how to work through self hatred by proving -- with indisputable logic -- that it doesn't actually make any sense at all. Today's questions: -Can I name one person who...
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Thanksgiving Survival Guide, Part 2
Thanksgiving, and all holidays, should be a time without stress. Unfortunately I'm stressed today. Let's talk about how to deal with some of the common, uncommon, and hard to handle stressors of the holidays. --------------------------------------- Have a question or comment you want me to…
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Are You Holding Yourself to These Standards?
I'm about to starve my cat. The vet said she's too fat, so we have to put her on a special diet and bring her out to exercise and whatnot. But that sounds complicated and expensive so I think I'm just going to stop feeding her. If you're a normal person, that paragraph upset you. And yet, you've...
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9 Important Things That Took Me 31 Years to Learn
No question asked nor answer received is ever too late, but it can't hurt to get ahead. Here are 9 important things I learned about weight loss, growth, self respect, perspective, and life, as I reflect upon my recent 31st birthday. --------------------------- Have a question or comment you want...
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Here's why you're aging faster
These common myths about weight loss & aging might be the reason you're gaining weight & getting old...but does it have to be that way? Here's the simple way to start to fix it today. ---------------------------------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the...
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7 Decisions That Will Improve Your Progress RIGHT Now
A good plan is a series of steps. A GREAT plan is a series of decisions. In this episode, I'll coach you through 7 decisions you can make right now, wherever you are, that will help you start making great progress toward your goals today. ---------------------------------------- Have a question…
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Balance busy life & fitness, track consistently, and fix negative self talk
A Q&A episode from the members of my Instagram Broadcast channel. Insight on a bunch of great topics, like how to achieve your fitness goals with a busy life, how to make tracking less stressful, strategies and mindsets to work on negative self talk, and more....
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You're Not Attracted To Your Goals. Here's How To Ignite The Spark
1. Are your goals attractive? 2. Are your methods attractive? 3. Is your maintenance plan attractive? ------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next episode!...
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Why I'm Confident I'll Never Gain My Weight Back
I'll never be overweight again. I'm very confident in that. You aren't just yet. That's ok! Let's talk about how to get you confident, too. ---------------- Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on…
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I might have to stop
Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free weight loss community, and submit questions to be answered on the next episode! discord.com/invite/xMFxjY9FYS Connect with me! (1:1 coaching available!) linktr.ee/mikepridgen…
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Beat Procrastination, Impostor Syndrome, The Scale, & The Mirror -- Q&A
How to beat procrastination, impostor syndrome, negative self talk, motivation burnout, a lying scale, the mirror, & more in this Discord Q&A episode. I take questions from out Discord Community and read them for the first time on the show, so that I don't have time to prepare, and you can see my...
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Chris Terrell - Before & After
In this very experimental episode of Mike Needs A Plan, I pull an unreleased episode from the vault -- a year after it was recorded -- to see just how far I've come in the time since. Who better to do that with than my friend & mentor Chris, a guy who lost 125 pounds and has helped thousands of...
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No Motivation? Afraid Of Failing? This One's For You
Today I'm discussing Sophia's question from the Discord about finding motivation in spite of the fear of failure, and recalling everything it took to complete my first 5K this past weekend to illustrate what progress truly looks like. Shout out to Gloria & Michael!...
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You're Not Going To Like This, But You Need It
This one's going to piss a few of you off. But I wouldn't be serving you properly if all I did was affirm you. You know we do REAL positivity here -- none of that toxic positivity. This is also not meant to be accusatory, or demeaning. These are tough conversations I had to have with MYSELF if I...
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Do You Have A Food Partner In Crime? | Ep. 11
Some of us wouldn't eat as much as we do if it wasn't for someone in our lives always suggesting food, and the suggested deciding "sure, I could eat." Sometimes you're the suggested. Sometimes you're the suggestor. We explore the topic of friends and family with invitations bigger than our...
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How To Do Things You Don't Want To Do (Discord Q&A)
How to do things you don't want to do, the things that will surprise you when you lose all of the weight you want to lose, how to maintain new lifestyle changes, and much more on this first Q&A episode of the podcast. Have a question or comment you want me to discuss on the show? Join the free...
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How To Hope Again
I quit my job a year ago. It was the first time in recent memory that I truly, genuinely hoped for something. Without shooting myself down, anyway. My mantra of "No hopes!" kept me safe for a long time. But what was it keeping me safe *from*? Failure? Or success? In this episode, I talk about my...
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6 Things You DON'T Want To Hear About Improving Your Life
We need to talk. Don't worry, I'm not about to tell you to "eat less and move more." What more are you going to gain from a skinny guy telling you that again? Weight. That's what you'll gain. Because it changes absolutely nothing for you to hear that again. You know how the biological process...
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6 Things You CAN'T Do Anymore On a Weight Loss Journey - Ep. 7
We're always talking about what we CAN do on a weight loss journey, which I'm very grateful for. It's a much-needed shift in the weight loss conversation that has for years been bogged down with everything you can't and shouldn't do. However, there are SOME things you really can't do anymore if…
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Charlotte Skanes | Mike Needs A Plan Ep. 6
Charlotte Skanes lost 200 pounds, and knows how to enjoy every step of the process. Now she helps others to do the same, and sat down with me today to share some of her secrets. Thanks Charlotte! Find her here! https://disruptingobesity.com/ Find me & join the free Discord here!...
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David Roden | Mike Needs A Plan Ep. 5
David Roden lost 200 pounds and has kept it off for a decade...but never at the expense of taste. I had the wonderful opportunity to sit with him and talk all about it. Thanks David! Find him here! https://linktr.ee/fit_drock Find me & join the free Discord here! https://linktr.ee/mikepridgen…
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I Cried At The Gym | Mike Needs A Plan Ep. 4
This week, I'd like to read you a piece I wrote right before anyone found me on Tiktok & Instagram, about how I reframed my negative self-talk and really began down my path toward self acceptance and kindness. I also took this time to introduce myself, and tell you a bit about how my wellness...
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"TheBiggestFella" Noah Tanner PART 2 | Mike Needs A Plan Ep. 3
Looking for some low-calorie food swaps and a grocery list that can help you trim off some extra pounds & extra worry? Noah Tanner, "The Biggest Fella," lost 110 pounds and now helps others to do the same. He joins me today for part 2 of a special debut two-part episode. Find him here!...
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"TheBiggestFella" Noah Tanner PART 1 | Mike Needs a Plan Ep. 1
Noah Tanner, "The Biggest Fella," lost 110 pounds and now helps others to do the same. He joins me today for a special debut two-part episode. Find him here! https://beacons.ai/bigfellafitness Find me & join the free Discord here! https://linktr.ee/mikepridgen Show logo by Caitlin Cook IG...
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HOW TO SURVIVE THANKSGIVING | Mike Needs a Plan Ep. 2
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and you need a plan. All of your common questions and concerns are answered in this neat little last-minute guide. Message me & join the weight loss Discord group here! linktr.ee/mikepridgen Friends mentioned in this show: Morgan Woodruff:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I lost 110 pounds, but I'm most proud of keeping it off. Together, we're going to do the same thing. How do we do the same thing? By not doing the same things we've been doing. That means we'll need a plan -- yes, including me. I don't know everything, and if you're living this life right, you shouldn't, either.It's not about diets, it's not about exercise, it's about healing the mind. Build your plan with me, Mike Pridgen! Be kind to yourself!Join the free community Discord and connect with me at the link belowhttps://linktr.ee/mikepridgenShow logo by Caitlin CookIG: cooklin_comics
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