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Still Here, Still Trying
by Mike Baker | Still Here, Still Trying
Still Here, Still Trying is about what it actually takes to keep showing up when life gets heavy.Hosted by Mike Baker, this podcast is built on real stories, music, and honest conversations about mental health, leadership, family, and the stuff people don’t usually say out loud.If you’re looking for news or politics, this isn’t that.If you’re trying to make sense of life while still moving forward, you’re in the right place.Still here. Still trying.
Episodes
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My ADHD Rabbit Hole Built an Apocalypse Club
My ADHD Rabbit Hole Built an Apocalypse Club Still Here, Still Trying | Season 2, Episode 19 I’m about ten movies into a project that started with a conversation about AI. Now there’s a website that sorts you into your apocalypse house. This is what happens when my ADHD gets access to building...
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After 27 Years, What Makes Someone Your Person?
Season 2, Episode 18: After 27 Years, What Makes Someone Your Person? Today is our 27th wedding anniversary. Yesterday, Kellie and I attended a celebration of life for a couple who had been married for 66 years. During the service, someone shared a J.R.R. Tolkien quote about marriage that…
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
Season 2, Episode 17: Wherever You Go, There You Are How much of what you call “who I am” is still open to change? A good friend used to say, “Wherever you go, there you are,” when we were in high school. Back then, it was something funny we said. Thirty-plus years later, I’m fifty, raising a...
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The Team in Front of You: What Hockey Taught Me About Trust, Leadership, and Performance
The Team in Front of You: What Hockey Taught Me About Trust, Leadership, and Performance Four beer-league hockey games. One very average goalie. Four completely different results. In one game, I only let in two goals. In the others… several more. My skill did not suddenly change, and neither did…
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We Got Lucky. That Is the Problem: Endometriosis, Diagnosis Delays, and Advocacy
Two years. That was the “good” outcome. People with endometriosis commonly wait four to twelve years for a diagnosis. Our family received an answer in two—and somehow that made us lucky. That is completely unacceptable. This episode is not a takedown of doctors. Most healthcare providers I know...
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The Work Should Lead Back to People
The Work Should Lead Back to People MikeBakerHQ has changed, and this episode marks where the work is headed next. For the last few years, Mike Baker has explored artificial intelligence through art, music, writing, and a long list of creative experiments. Those tools helped him bring ideas to…
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What Is It Like to Live With You? Marriage, Follow-Through, and Being Easier to Love
Good intentions matter, but the people closest to us experience our follow-through, attention, tone, and the work we leave behind. In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike begins with a very 2026 attempt to connect Google, Apple, Outlook, and an AI assistant named Mira to finally solve…
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Something is Shifting
Something is shifting. You can feel it in relationships beginning to heal, communities finding their voices, and people becoming less willing to live under fear, division, and toxic leadership. You can also feel it in the growing desire for something more grounded: real connection, honest...
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Why I Released 10 Books at Once: The Human First Story Behind Mike Baker HQ
Season 2, Episode 11Why I Released 10 Books at Once: The Human First Story Behind Mike Baker HQ Why did Mike Baker release 10 books at once? In Season 2, Episode 11 of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike talks through the heart behind his 10-book release and the larger Human First world taking shape...
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Make Time to Think: Leadership Lessons From a Week With Military Strategists
This week on Still Here, Still Trying, Mike records a quick road episode from his hotel room in Carlisle, Pennsylvania while attending the U.S. Army War College. This one is intentionally simple. No studio setup, no Mira intro, no closing song, no extra polish. Just a portable mic, bad hotel...
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When the House Gets Full, Then Quiet Again
This week on Still Here, Still Trying, Mike talks about the kind of week that makes life feel full, beautiful, hard, and a little too fast. After a few episodes focused on the upcoming Human First books, this one brings the question home. Sammie graduated. The family went to the Oregon Coast.…
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Nine Books, One Question: Are We Still Human?
This week on Still Here, Still Trying, I’m pulling the camera back on the full Human First book series, releasing June 30. Last week, we started with Believe Her the First Time and the question at the heart of that book: when a woman says her body hurts, do we believe her before she has to prove...
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Human First: Believe Her the First Time
Human First: Believe Her the First Time The first book in the Human First series starts with women’s pain, endometriosis, and what love does when belief becomes action. The Human First book series releases July 1, and this episode kicks off the run by going straight to the heart of the first…
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What Are We Doing With the Life We Still Have?
What Are We Doing With the Life We Still Have? Memorial Day, hockey, family, and the ordinary joy we almost miss Episode 51 of Still Here, Still Trying starts at the rink and moves into something much deeper. After a weekend playing in the Inland Northwest Girls Hockey Foundation tournament, Mike...
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The Middle Has to Move
What Kind of Community Do We Want to Be? Episode 50 of Still Here, Still Trying is about what happens when good people get tired of the noise, step back from public life, and leave the room to the loudest voices. Mike Baker reflects on leadership, local politics, healthcare, Idaho women’s health,...
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Everybody’s Tired, But We’re Not Done
Everybody looks fine until you realize most people are surviving quietly. This week’s episode almost didn’t happen. I was tired, late, and running on fumes, which made me realize that might be the exact thing worth talking about. In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, I talk about the kind…
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Beautifully Unfocused: How to Love Someone With ADHD
Episode 48 | Season 2, Episode 4 Beautifully Unfocused: How to Love Someone With ADHD If you love someone with ADHD, there’s a good chance you’ve misunderstood them at least once. And if you have ADHD, there’s a good chance you’ve spent a lot of your life feeling misunderstood before anyone ever...
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Build Your Life, But Don’t Lose Your Soul
Episode 47 | Season 2, Episode 3 Build Your Life, But Don’t Lose Your Soul Everybody loves the message: build your life, chase the dream, start the thing, stop waiting. I do too. But there’s a harder question underneath all that ambition: What kind of person are you becoming while you build? In...
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The Real Cost of Always Being Right
The Real Cost of Always Being Right What if the thing you’re most certain about is quietly costing you the people you care about? In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, I get into something that’s been bothering me more and more. The way certainty has taken over how we think, how we talk…
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I Almost Quit… Because Everything Feels Broken Right Now
I almost quit paying attention to all of this. Not life. Not my work. Not my family. Just the noise. The constant pressure to pick a side. The way conversations turn into fights before they even begin. Something feels off right now. And if you sit in it long enough, it starts changing you. This...
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What People Need Most Right Now
Episode 44: What People Need Most Right Now The world feels loud right now. People are stressed, tired, overloaded, and trying to function while carrying more than they are saying out loud. In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike Baker talks about what people need most right now, and it...
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The Moment I Realized This Wasn’t Normal
The Moment I Realized This Wasn’t Normal I went to the Endo Summit thinking I’d learn more about endometriosis. What I didn’t expect was to walk out of there thinking about something way bigger. This one stuck with me. Not because of one moment. Not because of one story. It was the pattern. The...
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Why Everyone Feels Like They Have to Be Okay
What happens when you’re the one everyone depends on… but you don’t feel okay yourself? In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike Baker gets honest about something millions of people are feeling right now but rarely say out loud. The pressure to stay strong. The weight of responsibility....
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Does Any of This Actually Matter Anymore?
Does Any of This Actually Matter Anymore? That question shows up for a lot of people who are trying to build something meaningful. You’re putting energy into your work, your family, your ideas, your community. You show up every day and try to do things the right way. And somewhere along the line…
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The Quiet Sabotage: Passive-Aggressive and Avoidant Patterns
The Quiet Sabotage: Passive-Aggressive and Avoidant Patterns Podcast Description Earlier this year, Mike Baker began a series inside Still Here, Still Trying exploring the personality patterns that shape relationships, leadership, and the environments we live and work in. The first conversation…
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Episode 39: Guarding Your Mind
Episode 39: Guarding Your Mind Everything around us seems designed to pull our attention into chaos. Open your phone and the loudest voices rise to the top. Every problem feels urgent. Every headline demands a reaction. Over time, that constant pressure starts to feel normal, even though it…
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Episode 38: We’re Going to Be Okay
Episode 38: We’re Going to Be Okay Everything feels loud right now. Scroll for five minutes and you’d think the whole thing is unraveling. Anger sells. Extremes trend. The sharpest voices get the most attention. But that’s not the whole story. In this episode, Mike reflects on a recent trip to…
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Episode 37: The Difference Between Peace and Avoidance
Episode 37: The Difference Between Peace and Avoidance A lot of us have learned how to get quiet. We’ve pulled back, muted the noise, stepped away from things that felt too loud or too heavy. Some of that has been necessary. Some of it has been healing. But not all quiet means the same thing. In...
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Episode 36: What Nobody Mentions About Stability
Episode 36: What Nobody Mentions About Stability We spend a lot of time learning how to survive chaos. We don’t spend nearly enough time learning how to live once things finally calm down. In this episode, Mike talks about stability—why it can feel uncomfortable, why calm can feel unfamiliar, and...
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Episode 35: Things I’d Stop Teaching If I Was Being Honest
Episode 35: Things I’d Stop Teaching If I Was Being Honest There’s a lot of advice we keep repeating because it sounds wise, responsible, or motivating. Some of it worked once. Some of it helped at a different time in life. And some of it quietly stops serving us long before we admit it. In this...
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Episode 34: The Freedom of Caring Less About the Wrong Things
Episode 34: The Freedom of Caring Less About the Wrong Things In this episode, Mike talks about the quiet shift that happens when you stop caring so much about things that never actually made life better. Approval. Being right. Keeping up. Explaining yourself to people who were never going to...
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Why Does Everything Feel Louder Lately? | Episode 33
A year into this chapter, the tone feels louder, sharper, and more centered on ego than responsibility. This episode isn’t about politics as a debate. It’s about what this style of leadership does to us over time. I talk honestly about exhaustion, disappointment, and the quiet ways trust erodes...
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Episode 32: Who You Become in the Middle
Episode 32: Who You Become in the Middle This episode was recorded after a full week of perspective. Turning fifty. Time away with Kellie. Music that demanded presence. A surprise that reminded me how much quiet work love actually takes. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I saw a simple image...
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Episode 31: Stop Making Yourself Small
Stop Making Yourself Small; Finding Oxygen After You Leave Broken Systems In this episode of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike sits down with longtime friend Chad Anderson for a wide-ranging conversation about identity, trauma, creativity, and what it takes to live fully after leaving systems that…
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Episode 30: Beautifully Unfocused
Beautifully Unfocused This episode moves differently. Mike Baker walks through his new album Beautifully Unfocused one song at a time, using music to explain what living with ADHD actually feels like from the inside. Not a release announcement. Not a lesson. Context. You’ll hear where each song...
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Episode 29: Christmas, Still Here
Episode 29: Christmas, Still Here (A Short Reset for the Week Before Christmas) The week before Christmas hits hard for a lot of people. The calendar fills up, patience gets thin, and emotions show up in ways that don’t always make sense until you’re in it. In this short episode of Still Here,...
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Episode 28: A Goalie's Letter to Santa
Episode Title: A Goalie’s Letter to Santa Beer league goalies live in a different headspace. Warmups start and you’re already in your head. One screen you can’t see through, one weird bounce, one soft goal, and you’re doing therapy in real time behind a mask. In this holiday episode, Mike sits…
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Episode 27: Let Something Be Easy Today
Let Something Be Easy Today This episode lands right before Christmas, right in the middle of a packed calendar, a messy sleep schedule, and two big nights at The Art Spirit Gallery for No Permission Needed. Mike talks about: Heading into Friday night ArtWalk and a community night with friends,...
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Episode 26: Joy Looks Good On You - Holiday Special
Joy Looks Good on You – Holiday Special This episode sits inside real December, not the postcard version. I walk through the stories behind my Christmas albums, from Starlight and Silent Nights to the new projects Still Snowing Somewhere, That Christmas Feeling Again, and Lights in the Window. We...
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God Complex: Narcissism in Life and Leadership
God Complex: Narcissism in Life and Leadership This episode kicks off a new five-part series on personality patterns we face at home, at work, and inside every messy human system. We start with one of the most confusing and emotionally draining patterns out there: narcissistic behavior. I walk...
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Episode 24: Live Now
In this episode, Mike slows everything down and talks about what it means to actually show up in the moment you’re living. It starts with a hand-painted mirror he found in Palm Springs. Three simple lines hit him harder than expected: Look back. Look ahead. Live now. From there, he walks through...
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Looking Back With Clear Eyes- A Special Episode
This week’s episode is a steady, honest look back at everything that happened around the art show opening. Mike walks through the reactions, the confusion, the support, and the noise that hit before anyone even saw the work. He talks about what he learned, why stories matter, how the women in his...
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Episode 23: Someone Out There Needs Your Story
In Episode 23, Mike Baker reminds us that our stories matter more than we realize. This episode dives into the quiet impact of truth — how the things we survive, share, and speak out loud can become lifelines for someone else. Mike also opens up about the success of his new art show No Permission...
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Special Episode - My Art Show Went Viral and People Lost It
My art show went live and the reaction blew up fast. The gallery posted the announcement and the comment sections turned into a storm. People questioned my intentions, my process, my place in the gallery, and my right to create work connected to women’s health. A lot of people judged the work...
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Episode 22: No Permission Needed
Description: This episode opens the door to my new art show, No Permission Needed, running at The Art Spirit Gallery in downtown Coeur d’Alene. These portraits grew out of real stories — women who’ve carried pain, power, and resilience in silence for far too long. The show is built from…
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Bonus Episode: Veteran's Day 2025
Episode Title: Veterans Day – Scars in the Light In this special Veterans Day mini episode, Mike reflects on the people who’ve shaped his understanding of service and strength — his dad, both grandfathers, his father-in-law, cousin Bubba, teammates from hockey, and the veterans who serve today at...
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Episode 21: The Things That Keep Me Sane
🎙️ Still Here, Still Trying – Episode 21: “The Things That Keep Me Sane” What keeps you grounded when the world won’t slow down? For me — it’s motion, creation, rhythm, and the people who still give a damn. In this episode, I open up about the small, real things that keep me from burning out —…
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Life Across the Sea (with Cameron Baker)
Episode Title: Life Across the Sea (with Cameron Baker) Description: In the first-ever interview on Still Here, Still Trying, Mike sits down with his middle son, Cameron Baker, who’s been living and working in New Zealand. Together they talk about what it means to start over in a new country —…
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Episode 20: The Art of Staying Human
Episode 20: The Art of Staying Human The noise is everywhere — headlines, outrage, algorithms feeding the chaos. But underneath all that, there’s still something worth protecting. In Episode 20 of Still Here, Still Trying, Mike Baker shares The Art of Staying Human — a grounded, honest guide to...
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Episode 19: The Middle Still Matters
🎙️ Episode 19 — The Middle Still Matters Somewhere along the way, noise replaced nuance. Everything became a side to choose, a take to post, a reaction to perform. We started scrolling through outrage like it was oxygen, and somehow forgot how to just… listen. In this episode, Mike Baker steps...
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Still Here, Still Trying is about what it actually takes to keep showing up when life gets heavy.Hosted by Mike Baker, this podcast is built on real stories, music, and honest conversations about mental health, leadership, family, and the stuff people don’t usually say out loud.If you’re looking for news or politics, this isn’t that.If you’re trying to make sense of life while still moving forward, you’re in the right place.Still here. Still trying.
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