Inner Freedom Podcast
Stories and conversations about true personal transformation, awakening, and living your life's purpose. Hosted and produced by author and coach Mike Kavanagh.
Be sure to check out Mike's latest audiobook called:
SPIRITUAL WAYFINDERS: The Audio Documentary. True Stories of Awakening and Transformation.
Available anywhere that sells audiobooks and at https://www.mikekav.com.
"Spiritual Wayfinders is a moving audio documentary about purpose, awakening, and the transformative power of the human spirit."
Book description:
In Spiritual Wayfinders, Mike Kavanagh tells his story of healing and spiritual transformation after a spontaneous awakening ushered in an unexpected phase of darkness and profound personal struggle. Along the way, he is joined by six people who share their own unscripted true stories of spiritual transformation — stories that include near death experiences, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, overcoming life-threatening illness, deep meditative practices, and more.
Inner Freedom Podcast
A Life Coaching Breakthrough
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When Vanessa started her life coaching journey, she had 3 goals:
1. Lose weight and get healthy
2. Open herself up to love after 8 years of not dating
3. Build a career with the flexibility she wants to live her best life
But she felt stuck -- held back by deeply held beliefs and patterns she inherited from growing up. Besides immigrating to the US alone from Peru at age 17, paying her and her brother's way through college by holding down 5 jobs, and raising her daughter as a single mom, Vanessa has had to overcome other challenges. But she is committed to her inner work and can feel deeply she is meant for a truly great life, not a mediocre one. That is her Quest.
This is Episode 2 of Quest — a real-time coaching documentary following real people on their journeys of personal transformation. No scripts. No highlight reels. Just the actual work.
If you feel drawn to participating in filmed coaching or Quest, you can learn more here:
👉 https://www.mikekav.com/
QUEST: THE FELLOWSHIP
A small, intimate coaching fellowship for people in their 40s and 50s who are ready to finally start the thing they've been putting off — before they miss their chance.
It isn't a course. It's a real process, with real people.
I'm working with a small founding group — and there may be space for one or two more. If this is your season, learn more and apply here:
👉 https://www.mikekav.com/fellowship
SPIRITUAL WAYFINDERS: True Stories of Awakening and Transformation
An audio documentary in which 7 people share their stories of awakening and transformation in their own voice. Available everywhere that distributes audiobooks. Links and preview at:
👉 https://www.mikekav.com/
MIKE'S NEWSLETTER
I share the raw breakthroughs happening inside Quest coaching sessions — the insights, the resistance, the moments that actually move people.
If you want that kind of depth delivered directly to you:
👉 https://www.mikekav.com
QUEST: THE SERIES
The real-time coaching documentary following real people’s journeys of purpose, self-discovery, and personal development. See what actually happens when someone decides to stop waiting. Watch every episode here:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6VuNi3Axd9ZJe9ClJnyhn682wq5Kmnxf
QUEST: BEHIND THE SCENES
Watch behind the scenes content about Quest, the coaching documentary series.
👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6VuNi3Axd9aXg_CMZBjhvDVZtNjoYWL4
Chapters:
00:00 A painful memory
00:26 About Vanessa's Life Coaching Journey
02:30 Vanessa's reaction to one of my podcast episodes
04:07 Life Coaching Session 1: Vanessa's relationship to her mom
07:12 The first insight -- hiding because of weight gain
10:40 How to fight 40 years of negative beliefs and low self worth
13:13 Why do I subconsciously gain weight?
15:27 The reason Vanessa is here doing this
16:56 Mike's voice message to Vanessa
17:27 Vanessa's dreams
19:10 A big day -- the release of the first episode of Quest
20:17 Life coaching session 2: Vanessa's core wound
23:12 Vanessa's abandonment memory of her father leaving
26:37 Healing the core wound
29:28 Why is it so scary to sit with that difficult emotion?
32:08 Vanessa's breakthrough