Psilocybin and Veteran PTSD: A former Special Forces medic on neuroplasticity, emerging therapies and the caution they call for.
Marvin Mikle spent more than a decade in Army Special Forces as a Green Beret and medic, and after six deployments that included hitting IEDs, he left the military being told that injuries like these…
Deciding Under Pressure: What Special Forces training teaches about holding before committing to a move.
Marvin Mikle spent more than a decade in Army Special Forces and completed six deployments, and the discipline he rates highest is not speed. Most high performers meet pressure by acting faster…
Thinking Clearly Under Pressure: How high-functioning people lose the ability to tell urgent from real, and how to get it back mid-situation.
Marvin Mikle works with people who are already capable, disciplined and experienced, and who still hit a wall the moment pressure gets close. His argument is that the wall is not a motivation…
Ambition Driven by Purpose or by Avoidance: How to recognise whether hard work is fuelled by alignment or by fear, scarcity and unprocessed experience.
Hard work can look identical from the outside while coming from radically different places within. Marvin explores the uncomfortable possibility that achievement can sometimes become avoidance - and…
Rebuilding After an Unplanned Career Exit: Practical first steps for professionals whose role ended on somebody else's terms.
Marvin Mikle was medically retired out of Army Special Forces after more than a decade and six deployments, which ended the work he was best at on somebody else's timetable. Most advice about career…
Managing Energy in Demanding Careers: Auditing where effort actually goes, and why time management alone does not prevent burnout.
Marvin Mikle coaches consultants and bankers who manage their calendars to the minute and still finish the week with nothing left. He argues the scarce resource was never time: two people can work…
Identity Beyond Achievement: Separating what you do from who you are, drawn from transitions from Green Beret to Wall Street, entrepreneurship and coaching.
Life gradually gives us identities - leader, parent, partner, executive, veteran, entrepreneur, high performer - but those roles don't necessarily tell us who we are. Marvin explores what happens…
Stillness as a Decision-Making Tool: Why driven people resist slowing down, and how pausing to separate reality from noise leads to clearer, more intentional action.
We're taught to respond to uncertainty with action: solve the problem, make the decision, work harder and keep moving. Marvin challenges that instinct. He explores why stillness can feel so…
Staying Grounded Amid Ongoing Uncertainty: How to separate what matters from what feels urgent and find clarity without waiting for circumstances to calm down.
Chaos isn't always something you can eliminate. Careers change, relationships shift, pressure builds and circumstances refuse to cooperate. Marvin explores how to remain grounded when the external…
Burnout as Information: What burnout reveals about identity, alignment, energy and purpose, and why returning to the same patterns may not be the goal.
What if burnout isn't simply something to recover from, but information about the way you've been living? Marvin challenges the familiar cycle of pushing to exhaustion, recovering and then returning…
The Spiritual Side of Identity: Using stillness to separate the roles we perform from who we are, and to tell achievement driven by alignment from achievement driven by fear.
From an early age, we're taught to build an identity around what we do: our career, achievements, relationships, responsibilities and the expectations other people place upon us. But what happens…
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