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Primal Question
by Mike Foster
Welcome to "the Primal Question," a podcast by Mike Foster, where we explore the deep-seated questions that drive our lives.Have you ever wondered what seasoned counselors say in their sessions to help people like CEOs, Grammy-winning Hip-Hop Artists, Emmy-winning Actors, and Non-Profit World-Changers heal from their past and unlock their full potential? Now’s your chance to be a fly on the wall. After spending 20+ years coaching and counseling high-level leaders, Mike Foster is pulling back the curtain so you can experience world-class coaching from anywhere. Grab your headphones and your favorite journal, and join Mike for candid coaching sessions and thoughtful discussions around the 7 Primal Questions that drive our lives.Learn more at: PrimalQuestion.com
Episodes
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Coaching Breakthroughs: How the Primal Question Model Transforms Lives with Ben and Leigh
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated method for...
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Your Primal Gift: How to Use Your Core Strengths to Transform Relationships and Impact Lives with Leigh Smith
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated method for...
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Overcoming Misunderstandings and Deepening Intimacy with Jennifer Johnson and Leigh Smith
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated method for...
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Maria Goff on How to Feel Safe and Secure in Your Own Life
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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Suzanne Lederer on Embracing Emotional Awareness
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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The Journey to Feeling "Good Enough"
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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Gaining Awareness with the Right Questions
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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The True Meaning of Success with Jesse Jacobs
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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Overcoming Perfectionism for a Happier Life
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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Laura Moore on Reclaiming Self-Value in a Critical World
➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated method for doing so? → Do you see a…
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Beating Burnout and Thriving in Life
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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Discovering Purpose in the Face of Infertility with Doug Brown
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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Welcome to the "Primal Question" Podcast
Learn the one thing that drives everything. ➡️ https://www.primalquestion.com/primal-book Do you ever wonder why you are the way you are? → Do you ever feel like you don’t quite understand your emotions and behaviors? → Do you want to change your life but don’t want a super complicated...
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How To Be Excessively Kind To Yourself
In this special COVID-19 episode of Fun Therapy, Mike shares three ways to respond to losing control and embracing the rumble of deep vulnerability. He talks about how to be excessively gentle with yourself, the two-steps to kindness and how to make sure you're being responsible for the energy…
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Marc Pimsler: Writing A New Story After Trauma
In this episode of Fun Therapy, Mike sits down with experiential specialist and therapist Marc Pimsler. Marc opens up about the abuse that he suffered in a mental hospital and how his incredible work is shaped by the pain from his past. We discuss the neurobiology of our thoughts and how our…
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Amber Rae: Defining A New Relationship With Our Critical Voice
In this episode of Fun Therapy, Mike talks with author Amber Rae ("Choose Wonder Over Worry") about the relationships we have with our thoughts and emotions. She shares about the limiting scripts she believed and how she chose to ignore her unprocessed grief. Through a creative practice of naming...
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Phil Wickham
In this special Christmas episode, Mike sits down with recording artist Phil Wickham. Phil shares about a risky but rewarding conversation he had with his brother recently and how important it is to say the unsaid. Mike also convinces Phil to play a couple unplugged songs from his new album…
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How To Declutter Your Brain
In this episode, Mike shares 3 simple ways to declutter your overpacked brain. It's time to go into the attic of your mind and discover strategies to clear out the junk that doesn't belong there. Mike shares about his recent brain detox and how he learned to limit the inputs, engage the body and...
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Summer Wright: When We Can't Forgive Ourselves
In this episode, Mike sits down with Summer to talk about her inability to forgive herself for an extramarital affair. They discuss how the voice of shame keeps her small and protected even though it is crushing her spirit. This episode is for anyone who struggles with forgiving themselves or…
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Kayla Stoecklein: Finding Strength In Unbearable Grief
In this episode of Fun Therapy, Mike sits down with Kayla Stoecklein to process the loss of her husband to suicide. In this riveting and courageous conversation, Kayla opens up about what life really looks like in the midst of unbearable grief. Strongest Workshop God's Got This Website Free…
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Guided Meditation: Discover Your Hidden Needs
In this episode, Mike leads you on a guided meditation to become aware of any unmet needs in your life right now. www.MikeFoster.tv Brain Detox: Free Download
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Season 4: Trailer
Mike shares about what to expect in this next season of the Fun Therapy podcast. He talks about upcoming guests and the helpful topics that will be covered in Season 4. The new seasons launches November 6th.
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Guided Meditation: Letting Go
In this special edition of Fun Therapy, Mike shares a guided meditation to help you identify heavy things that you have carried too long. If you're feeling weary and burned out by life, these few minutes will help you release relationships, failures and hurt you were never meant to carry. Music…
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Guided Meditation: Self-Acceptance
In this special episode of Fun Therapy, Mike has created a guided meditation to help you relax and center your life in self acceptance. Many will find this type of reflection helpful to identify the things below the surface that need love and compassion. This episode is a perfect tool to help you...
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How To Turn Your Thoughts And Feelings Into Allies
Alison Cook is the co-author of "Boundaries For Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies." Mike was so inspired by her book that he invited her to share about some of the key findings from her research. They discuss the importance of all emotions,...
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Unlikely Ways To Maximize Your Calling
In this episode, Mike shares the keys to maximizing your purpose, passions and life's calling. Too often we chase the big picture instead of enjoying the sacred moments of the windy road to getting there. He shares two fundamental ideas to experience the life you want and why to never diminish,...
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Mack And Meredith Brock
Our first ever "couples" Fun Therapy features worship leader Mack Brock and his wife Meredith. They share about their current struggles and the importance of healing their own family of origin brokenness. Mike also invites them into a powerful exercise where they affirm each other's value and...
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Malcom McLoughlin
Most people have distorted and incorrect beliefs about addiction. Many are confused about how to best help those who are struggling. We have been taught faulty ideas that actually add injury to the addict. In this episode of Fun Therapy, author and ultra-runner Malcolm McLoughlin pulls back the...
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How To Take Ownership Of Your Story
Too often we feel defeated by our past. We feel defined by our history. In this episode of Fun Therapy, Mike shares how to take ownership of your story and the four common responses we have to life. He unpacks the critical questions we should be asking about our past and how we can avoid being...
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Jeremy Cowart
Jeremy Cowart is a world renown photographer and artist. He is the creator of Help Portrait and is currently in the midst of building one of his biggest dreams yet, The Purpose Hotel. In this episode Mike and Jeremy talk about the challenges of adoption, facing his own health challenges and…
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Five Ways To Fall Asleep Naturally
An estimated 50-70 million US adults have issues with insomnia and wakefulness. On this episode of Fun Therapy Mike shares 5 ways to fall asleep naturally and how to improve your quality of rest. From establishing an electronic sunset to never using a King size pillow, Mike unpacks fascinating…
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Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of TOMS Shoes. In this episode, Blake shares about his passion for helping to end gun violence in America. He shares about the importance of listening to your heart as a leader and boldly taking on issues that matter to you. Mike...
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Kait Warman
Kait Warman is a well-known dating expert, speaker, relationship coach, and host of the popular Heart of Dating Podcast. In this episode, Mike and Kait talk about the challenges of dating and how to recover from past disappointments. She shares about the feelings of not being enough and the...
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Scott Harrison
Scott Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water and the author of NY Times Best-seller, "Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World." Scott sits down with Mike to talk about the death of his mother this year and how to find optimism in the midst of...
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Carlos Whittaker
On the Season Premiere of Fun Therapy, Mike and author Carlos Whittaker explore a limiting belief that keeps him from fully pursuing his calling. He talks about how a lie was planted inside of him many years ago still controls how he sees himself today. This episode is for anyone who is looking…
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When Twinkle Lights Reveal Our Sadness
In this special Christmas episode, Mike shares how to manage the emotional and family dynamics of the holidays. He talks about why this is both a joyful and melancholy season and gives practical tips for emotional health. Mike is also joined by Sleeping At Last as they talk about holiday…
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Season 3 Trailer
Hey Friends. This is Fun Therapy. I’m Mike Foster and together on this podcast we dive into the messy, not-so-perfect parts of our stories, and we do it with a smile. This is a place of love, and warm hugs, and the beautiful possibilities that awaits each and every one of us. We talk about the…
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Everyone Belongs in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
In the Season 2 finale of Fun Therapy, Mike dives into the teachings of Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) and why love must be the foundation for our lives. He also shares the four ways we deal with pain and a destructive belief that almost everyone carries inside of them. ABOUT MIKE…
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Jon Acuff
In this session of Fun Therapy, New York Times best-selling author Jon Acuff joins Mike to discuss his current challenge of giving himself permission to try new things. Jon is the author of six books including his most recent Wall Street Journal No. 1 best-seller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift…
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21. Jedidiah Jenkins
Jedidiah Jenkins is a professional adventurer and the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self: A 14,000 Mile Bike Trip & One Man’s Quest to Live a Life With No Regrets. He is a storyteller who encourages people to choose their life well and writes about everything from the cartels of Mexico to the...
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20. Body Beautiful and Being a Five
This week, Mike shares the important role the physical body plays in our identity and how it is often overlooked during our healing process. While addressing his own trauma of being locked in his body from early childhood, he shares a fascinating and unbelievable experience. Mike is joined by…
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19. Heather Avis
Heather Avis is the author of The Lucky Few and an advocate for families and children with Down syndrome. In this episode she and Mike process the heavy costs that come along with a sacred calling and how she is feeling exhausted and overwhelmed in the battle. ABOUT MIKE FOSTER Mike Foster is an...
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18. Toby Slough
Approximately 40 million Americans struggle with an anxiety disorder and about 2 percent of these individuals are prone to panic attacks. A panic attack is a sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions where you feel completely out of control and often feel like you’re...
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17. Margaret Feinberg
In this week’s episode of Fun Therapy, Mike is joined by acclaimed writer, speaker and Bible teacher Margaret Feinberg. The two talk about how to deal with major changes in life, what going through the grief process is like and how to deal with daily pain. ABOUT MIKE FOSTER Mike Foster is an...
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16. Karrie Garcia
Karrie Garcia from the Freedom Movement sits down with Mike to process the voice inside that tells her to live small and not to dream too big. She works through the implications that her mother’s suicide has had on her life and the struggle of feeling unwanted. ABOUT MIKE FOSTER Mike Foster is an...
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15. Jamie Tworkowski
Jamie Tworkowski is the founder of To Write Love On Her Arms. In this episode, he processes with Mike the struggle to discover his new voice, the pain of heartbreak and the desire to find true love.
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14. Eryn Eddy
Eryn Eddy, the founder of So Worth Loving, shares about the devastating impact of her recent divorce. In this episode, she processes with Mike the shame she felt and what she needed most from her friends.
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13. Rebekah Lyons
In the Season 2 premiere of Fun Therapy, author Rebekah Lyons joins Mike to discuss what it’s like to be torn between her calling and her family.
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12. Season 2 Trailer
Season two of Fun Therapy with Mike Foster is coming April 23! Each episode dives into the horribly messy parts of our stories (with a smile). Each episode features a candid “therapy” session with a key leader, influencer or artist. No talking points. No shameless self-promotion. Only beautiful...
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11. Finding Hope And Breadsticks
In this episode, Mike shares some final thoughts on the themes, ideas and stories shared throughout season one. He discusses the keys to creating connection and tips to get people to open up. He also places a call to Ryan O’Neal from Sleeping At Last to ask a big favor. ABOUT MIKE FOSTER Mike...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to "the Primal Question," a podcast by Mike Foster, where we explore the deep-seated questions that drive our lives.Have you ever wondered what seasoned counselors say in their sessions to help people like CEOs, Grammy-winning Hip-Hop Artists, Emmy-winning Actors, and Non-Profit World-Changers heal from their past and unlock their full potential? Now’s your chance to be a fly on the wall. After spending 20+ years coaching and counseling high-level leaders, Mike Foster is pulling back the curtain so you can experience world-class coaching from anywhere. Grab your headphones and your favorite journal, and join Mike for candid coaching sessions and thoughtful discussions around the 7 Primal Questions that drive our lives.Learn more at: PrimalQuestion.com
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