Mike at Tombstone Territorial Park in the Yukon

My life started to shift when I took a sabbatical from my job as a marketing and business development manager and spent three months experiencing the natural beauty of BC, the Yukon and Alaska (this was in 2015). One night under the trees and stars and I was back on track. I returned resolved not to allow myself to get lost in work and responsibilities and go unconscious. A resolution I’m still keeping.

The next Summer my wife Jean Marie, daughter Amber Rose and I participated in a Progressive level “Dr. Joe” workshop (based on his book Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself) in Denver. It was a transformative and pivotal experience for me along with a three week long camping road trip with my daughter to Denver via Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, listening to the audio book and learning the meditation. I had now had a powerful transformational change methodology and tool kit.

The problem was that I was applying it to basically survive in my job in a small tech company. I coped and managed the stressful environment and position of  my role and the company. In addition, I was taking my life force and creative energy and applying toward ends I was not 100% on board with; basically compromising myself to earn a living. One of the benefits was that I got a lot of practice applying Dr. Joe’s methods to business. Some of the results achieved sometimes “blew my mind”; what I was able to manifest by applying meditation toward the achievement of company goals!

I believe an intelligent universe (Quantum Field as per Dr. Joe) or God (as per Yogananda and a myriad of others) is always conspiring in our favor. In October 2016 I had a stroke (the story of this is posted on my blog) which starting transforming every aspect of my life… for the better. Needless to say I was off the treadmill of work. Having the proverbial “life is too short and unknown not to live to its fullest” experience I started reineventing myself, applying Dr. Joe’s transformative work with the spiritual teachings of Yogananda to create a New Self and New Life.

One the principle results was  to begin a coaching* service, where I offer my experience and practice to helping others in their transformative change process, whether it is meeting business challenges or achieving personal goals. Still something was missing. I kept “following my energy” and it lead me to the Conscious Capitalism and B Corporation movements, which reignited a decades dormant fire to be contribute to the transformation of the planet by helping elevate business to its highest (and most effective) form.

 I am not formally trained or certified by Encephalon (Dr. Joe’s company) or the Self-Realization Fellowship (Yogananda’s organization).  I teach and apply my own experience, which has been significantly shaped by both teachers and influenced by many others.