# How To Show Up with Honor, Mindfulness, Resilience (387)

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Podcast: [Whole Again: Mindfulness and Resilience Through Kintsugi Wisdom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339)
Published: 2026-05-27T11:11:00+00:00
Episode link: https://michaelobrienshift.com/whole-again-podcast/
Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3242c99b-83dc-45c7-9316-74143b991030.mp3
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Duration seconds: 755

## Resource

The Whole Again Podcast: Mindfulness and Resilience through Kinstugi Wisdom airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with Pause Breathe Reflect Microdose Meditations, Growth Mindset and Mindfulness Tips, to help us transform our scars into healing and resilience. And between May and October, I'm sharing a new series I'm calling: A Perfectly Imperfect Union. It's about connecting with every day folks as they reflect on America at 250. Conversations will air every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ------- What does it mean to truly honor the fallen? Not just on the day of the parade. Not just during the moment of silence. But the day after. And the day after that. That's the question Michael O'Brien sits with two days after Memorial Day. Michael knows something about being saved by strangers. On July 11, 2001, a Ford Explorer crossed the center line and hit him head-on while he was cycling in New Mexico. Roughly 50 people -- people who didn't look like him, pray like him, or come from where he came from -- saved his life that day. Their blood is literally part of him. In this Wednesday episode of Whole Again, Michael draws a direct line between the soldiers who gave everything for people they never met and the small, daily choice to show up for the person standing right in front of you. His challenge isn't about grand gestures or political declarations. It's quieter and harder than that. It's about whether Memorial Day can change something in us that lasts longer than the long weekend. Kintsugi teaches us that the cracks don't end the story. The gold poured into the repair. That's where the beauty lives. But it doesn't happen on its own. Someone has to do the work. Before you go, Michael has a challenge for you: What is one small act of kindness you can offer this week to s…

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