{"podcast":{"title":"Whole Again: Mindfulness and Resilience Through Kintsugi Wisdom","slug":"whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339","podcast_index_feed_id":6642339,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/wholeagain/","website_url":"https://michaelobrienshift.com/whole-again-podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/372cb119-572e-4e11-9002-29bfdfa876c9/3000-3000.jpg","author":"Michael OBrien | Mindfulness & Resilience Coach","episode_count":441,"summary":"Discover how to create a meaningful life on your way to who you are becoming. Whole Again: Mindfulness and Resilience Through Kintsugi Wisdom provides the support you need to heal, develop a growth mindset, and embrace who you are becoming. Inspired by the Japanese art of “Golden Repair,” Kintsugi teaches us that even when life breaks us, we can rebuild—stronger, wiser, and more beautiful than before. Listen to discover weekly growth-mindset tips, build emotional resilience and manage stress through microdose meditations, and ways to live a meaningful life and the person you are becoming. And as America turns 250, tune in to hear your neighbors share their reflections on our Perfectly Imperfect Union and on ways we can come together to end the divisions that prevent us from realizing our collective potential. I’m Michael O’Brien—husband, Girl Dadx2, son, friend, animal lover, endurance cyclist, and survivor. After a near-death cycling accident—what I call My Last Bad Day—the metaphor of Kintsugi helped me see that I could be whole again. Today, as a Mindset & Resilience Leadership coach, Corporate Speaker, Meditation Teacher, and founder of The Pause Breathe Reflect Method, I'm he…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T22:19:04.832153+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339"},"episode":{"title":"Growth Mindset Tip #25: The Value of Patience for Mindfulness and Resilience","slug":"growth-mindset-tip-25-the-value-of-patience-for-mindfulness-and-resilience","published_at":"2026-06-26T11:11:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339/growth-mindset-tip-25-the-value-of-patience-for-mindfulness-and-resilience","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339","url":"https://michaelobrienshift.com/whole-again-podcast/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ac1d1949-8650-480a-b4e5-a3427218f46c.mp3","summary":"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. ------- Are you confusing patience with passivity? Many of us do. And in a culture that rewards urgency and speed, patience has gotten a bad reputation, as if staying patient means sitting still and letting life happen to you. In this Friday growth mindset tip, Michael unpacks one of the most misunderstood words in leadership and in life. Drawing on his rehab after My Last Bad Day and a recent coaching conversation with a senior executive navigating a corporate change initiative, Michael reframes patience not as the absence of action, but as disciplined engagement without attachment to immediate results. You will discover: Why the word \"patience\" likely doesn't mean what you think it means, and how that misreading costs you The critical difference between a passive person and a patient person Michael's three-part framework for patience: acceptance, persistence, and trust Why a good gardener is the perfect metaphor for how patient leaders actually operate How confusing urgency with importance creates a culture of chaos and what to do instead A simple one-to-two percent shift you can make this week to start playing the long game Press play and let Tip 25 meet you right where you are. And if this episode speaks to you, share it with someone on your peloton who could use a reminder th…","meta_description":"The Whole Again Podcast: Mindfulness and Resilience through Kinstugi Wisdom airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with Pause Breathe Reflect Microdose M…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":603,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339/episodes/growth-mindset-tip-25-the-value-of-patience-for-mindfulness-and-resilience/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/whole-again-mindfulness-and-resilience-through-kintsugi-wisdom-6642339/growth-mindset-tip-25-the-value-of-patience-for-mindfulness-and-resilience.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}