{"podcast":{"title":"Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais","slug":"finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955","podcast_index_feed_id":4955,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/finding-mastery","website_url":"http://www.findingmastery.com","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/1b/7d/32/1e/1b7d321e-8d97-4243-9e9d-cfa87fdd2355/80a942c601e5aa10075b1f6a0a7ebd2a417522904e0a5f78d5e0fdd3f887bb13ee819e380f7c4c76626bc328d9ddd463c0be3400081e4e9131546757d7b71035.jpeg","author":"Dr. Michael Gervais","episode_count":633,"summary":"Dive into the minds of the world’s greatest athletes, leaders, thinkers, and doers with Dr. Michael Gervais—a high performance psychologist and world-renowned expert on the relationship between high performance and the mind. Dr. Gervais’s client roster includes Super Bowl winning NFL teams, Fortune 50 CEOs, Olympic medalists, internationally acclaimed artists, and more. On Finding Mastery, Dr. Gervais sits down with the best at what they do, like David Goggins, Brene Brown, Toto Wolff, soccer legend Abby Wambach, neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — translating their life stories, mental skills, and personal practices into applicable tools you can use to unlock your potential. Walk with us to the edge of human possibility and learn what you are capable of. New episodes every Wednesday.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T06:20:11.791859+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955"},"episode":{"title":"5 Questions to Unlock Your Inner Potential | Dr. Mike Gervais - AMA Vol.29","slug":"5-questions-to-unlock-your-inner-potential-dr-mike-gervais-ama-vol-29","published_at":"2026-05-06T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/5-questions-to-unlock-your-inner-potential-dr-mike-gervais-ama-vol-29","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955","url":"https://findingmastery.com/podcasts/ama-29","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/120/rss.art19.com/episodes/5bb6f830-f485-4f30-b437-a42ad61b6b6a.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"What questions are tugging at you right now, and how might exploring the answers help you live and perform with more clarity? We're back with another special edition of the Finding Mastery podcast: an Ask Me Anything episode, built from the deep and sometimes vulnerable questions submitted by our community. Joining Dr. Michael Gervais again is Jeff Byers, former NFL player, Co-Founder and CEO of Momentous, and a longtime friend of Finding Mastery. Jeff built Momentous on a foundation of transparency and scientific integrity in an industry that can be full of noise, and he brings that same standard of honest engagement to the questions we explore here. His experience navigating the identity shift from elite athlete to entrepreneur makes him a uniquely grounded co-host for conversations about who we are, what drives us, and how we keep growing when the road ahead isn't clear. The questions we explored: Navigating a major life transition... how to work through the grief of leaving a sport, the psychology of identity foreclosure, and why transitions are actually an invitation to examine who you are and who you're becoming. When your life is good but something feels missing... the difference between being stuck and being in the fog, what the biology might be telling you, and how self-efficacy, agency, and your own life history factor into the picture. Finding your purpose when it hasn't revealed itself yet... the research on purpose as a cornerstone of a thriving life, the three components of a clear purpose, and a practical framework to start building one right now. What community actually means... why belonging goes deeper than shared interests, what we lose when we slide toward digital connection only, and why community is built on responsibility as much as relationship.…","meta_description":"What questions are tugging at you right now, and how might exploring the answers help you live and perform with more clarity? We're back with another spec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3599,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/episodes/5-questions-to-unlock-your-inner-potential-dr-mike-gervais-ama-vol-29/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/finding-mastery-with-dr-michael-gervais-4955/5-questions-to-unlock-your-inner-potential-dr-mike-gervais-ama-vol-29.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}