Podcast Summary: Mike Force Podcast

Host: Mike Glover
Episode: Happy New Year! Reflections and Plans
Date: December 31, 2025

Episode Overview

In this heartfelt New Year’s episode, Mike Glover reflects on an incredibly challenging personal year and shares deep insights into resilience, faith, mental health, and the importance of intentionality. He openly recounts his struggles—legal, financial, and health-related—and outlines the habits and priorities that have helped him recover and move forward. This solo reflection is rooted in gratitude for his supportive community, his Christian faith, and a renewed focus on self-care and family.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Gratitude and Support from the Community

Mike begins by thanking his listeners for their unwavering support during his darkest moments.
- Quote [01:15]:
  
  "When I was at the very bottom, take the bottom, pull me out of it and put me underneath, bury me under the bottom. That's where I was. And you guys stepped up to support me."
He openly shares the extent of his personal and financial struggles, including spending over $200,000 in legal battles to keep his life afloat.
Community support, both financial and emotional, enabled him to persevere.

2. Reflections on a Difficult Year & Mental Health

Mike identifies mental health challenges and a lack of resilience as pressing issues, both personally and societally.
He attributes much of this crisis to social division, the absence of faith and family, and the effects of social media.
Despite difficulties, Mike expresses hope, citing the resilience of his community.

3. Mindset Toward New Year's Resolutions

Mike doesn’t believe in typical New Year’s resolutions, emphasizing ongoing personal change rather than waiting for the calendar to turn.
He encourages listeners to use the new year as an opportunity to “start over, start again, and rehabilitate,” but not to let the date define their progress.
- Quote [05:35]:
  
  "A new calendar year doesn't define how you move forward, but it could shape it."

4. Foundations for Moving Forward

a. Faith First

Mike stresses returning to his Christian faith as the bedrock of stability and resilience.
He admonishes listeners to replace time spent on social media with time in scripture, study, and prayer.
- Quote [06:40]:
  
  "Invest your time that's allocated to social media and reallocate it for scripture, for study, for prayer... you build a house of stone instead of house of cards."

b. Health and Wellness Priorities

Mike is candid about his own health challenges, including a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the risks it poses.
He shares the tools and treatments he’s found effective:
- Alternative Medicines:
  Ibogaine, psilocybin, 5-MeO—these provided perspective, not necessarily direct healing.
- Meditation:
  Weekly sessions with Chris, a retired SEAL Team 6 operator, for over 18 weeks have been essential to his recovery.
- Breathing Techniques:
  Belly breathing and the “internal selfie” practice help regulate his central nervous system.
  - Reference [13:10]: The Wisdom Dojo as a resource for mindfulness.
- Therapy:
  Both mandated and voluntary; he highlights therapy’s value even for those who may not feel particularly “broken.”
  - Quote [14:00]:
    
    "Therapy isn't just about talking to somebody. It's about identifying things in your life experience that could cause issues."
- Physical Health:
  - He’s quit drinking alcohol entirely, drawing a strong line for himself and his family.
  - After three back surgeries, he’s regained most feeling in his leg and resumed regular workouts.
  - He focuses on a high-protein, clean diet, working toward health “for the long game, the endurance.”

c. Relationships and Social Boundaries

Mike re-evaluates all relationships—prioritizing meaningful, faith-based connections.
He distances himself from social media and removes negative or distracting influences.
- Quote [22:40]:
  
  "For the first time in my life, am being selfish, focused on my family, my relationship with God, and my mental and physical health."
He urges listeners to do the same: to have necessary conversations, set healthy boundaries, and defend their priorities.

5. Looking Ahead: 2026 and New Ventures

Mike is determined to rebuild after losing his previous business—recounting humble origins and resilience in the face of heartbreak.
- Quote [25:10]:
  
  "I have to pick up the pieces. I have to mend them together, and I have to move forward with my life. And that's what I will do."
Plans include new content and launching a new business from scratch.

6. The Power of Intentionality

Mike concludes by highlighting the value of focus, presence, and redirecting energy from distractions to what matters most.
He challenges listeners to “trim the fat”—both literally and figuratively—cutting wasted time and investing in loved ones and purposeful activities.
- Quote [27:20]:
  
  "I want you to recognize it now... start cutting out things that are wasting your precious time and reallocate that time investing in things that you love and people that you love."

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

"When I started to put God first again in my life, ... I have sustained that and have maintained the integrity of being stable mentally and physically." [07:00]
"Most people drink because they're trying to separate themselves from the reality they don't like, to get into an alternative reality that makes them feel better. ... it's a self-fulfilling prophecy of a cycle of doom." [16:00]
“The amount of issues correlated to alcohol abuse supersedes any drug completely…” [16:35]
"Being middle aged is about the long game, the endurance." [20:00]
"If anybody in my family, anybody in my friend group tries to compromise [my priorities] in a negative or toxic way, they're out. ... You don't have to be reckless, mean. ... What I'm telling you is have the conversation because it's important we get our priorities straight." [24:00]
"As long as you got breath in you, you got fight in you." [26:00]

Important Timestamps

00:00 — Gratitude and recap of the year’s challenges
04:50 — Reflections on national mental health, divisive times
06:15 — Putting faith at the center, returning to God
13:10 — Insights from meditation, breathing, and the Wisdom Dojo
14:00 — The role and benefit of therapy
15:30 — Quitting alcohol and its impact
18:50 — Recovery from surgery, rebuilding physical health
22:40 — Relationship boundaries, social media detox
25:10 — Picking up the pieces and moving forward
27:20 — The importance of intentionality, trimming distractions

Final Thoughts

Mike’s message is one of raw honesty, discipline, and hope, rooted in Christian values and shaped by struggle and gratitude. He calls on his audience to be intentional in crafting their lives, to prioritize faith, family, and health, and to never quit—no matter how hard things become. This episode is a candid roadmap for resilience and renewal, timely for a new year and deeply personal to the host and his community.

Transcript

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Hey, what's going on, guys? Happy New Year. Wanted to do a video for you guys just to talk a little bit about the year and also New Year's resolutions. Like, I don't. I don't really do New Year's resolutions, but I'll. I'll capture some ideas and some thoughts that are in my head for the New Year. I. I started my resolutions almost a year ago because I had to shift gears. I have had a very difficult year. And I want to say personally, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for supporting me, this channel and all the things that I've been doing. You guys, when I was at the very bottom, take the bottom, pull me out of it and put me underneath, bury me under the bottom. That's where I was. And you guys stepped up to support me. I asked. I don't ask for help. I asked for help. I don't ask for support. I asked for support. It's the first time in my life that I've done that. And I did it because I really needed it. And you guys stepped up. You guys, whether it was shifting from Tier 3 to no pay to Tier 1, whether it was being there for me when I started preaching to the choir, which is year later, still ongoing, whether it was following along with the idea of unshaken community Church, of reshaping my content again, you guys supported me. I have spent over $200,000 liquidating almost everything material that I own to pay for a lot of legal fees. I know this because I just recently did my own discovery as part of my litigation and lawsuit case. And it is alarming how close we were to complete demise, bankruptcy, losing the home, everything, but I didn't, because of you guys. Some of the things that I've thought about this year, for me, that I saw a lot of people resonate with in, in their own lives and experiences go through the same thing at scale was mental health issues, resilience issues. I think a lot of that is where we're at with our country. You take social media, you take divisive politics, you take the lack of God, the lack of family. It creates nearly the perfect start point in the disaster that is, I believe, the downfall of our country. But because how resilient you are, how we have maintained this discussion and always tried to overcome and move forward in a positive direction, I still think there's hope. And I'm not going to quit. I'm not going to quit. Not just for me, not just for my family, but for everybody who's Been supporting me along the way. It's not in my nature to quit, even when for sure I've wanted to. My mom would say kwon power, because that's our Korean heritage. I won't ever quit, and neither should you. This year might have been a difficult year for you financially. In your relationships, your family, you might have dealt with issues like I have. Several of you have reached out and been dealing with custody cases, allegations, fighting for your family. Whatever it is. You should understand that a new calendar year doesn't define how you move forward, but it could shape it. And what I mean is Starting fresh on January 1st, your birth year or birth date via your birth year falls into that calendar year. But there's an opportunity, starting fresh January 1st, to start over, start again, and rehabilitate. And that for sure is what I'm doing. I don't call it resolutions. I don't really do that because I've been doing them this year. But here's a few that I've been doing that are very important to me that I think you will resonate with. Number one, placing God before everything else foundationally. I've been very poor at doing that. Whenever I've reshuffled the deck and focused on other priorities, the house of cards has fallen apart. When I started to put God first again in my life, a lot from your help. Thank you, John Evelyn. Many of you have supported me in that journey. I have sustained that and have maintained the integrity of. Of being stable mentally and physically with help from others because of that foundation that's been laid now. What does that mean? It means pick up your Bible, invest your time that's allocated to social media and reallocate it for scripture, for study, for prayer. When you do that, it recalibrates everything and you build a house of stone instead of house of cards. Number two, my individual health and wellness. I will not sit here and tell you that I've been well, because I have not. I have a legitimate diagnosis of traumatic brain injury. I have not taken it seriously until now, until the catastrophe because of my TBI and is progressive or regressive. There is a chance that my mental health will and can degrade over time. You see football players who lose their mind completely and wind up taking their own lives. Many of them have TBI and cte. So when you look at that brain damage, I'm already starting at a disadvantage in this civilian journey. But with health and wellness protocols that I've gone through this year, that you can go through this year, which I'll give You those pro tips, you could turn your life around. 1. Ibogaine, psilocybin. 5. Meo. These alternative medicines that have been in practice for thousands of years have given me perspective. They haven't given me healing, but they've given me the perspective to lead myself in a direction to heal. Meditation. I do meditation with a seal team six operator, retired, named Chris every Wednesday I 18, 20 weeks. It's been so long. I did it today. It is a necessity that you program in meditative practice, breathing practice. You need to understand that your central nervous system, based on past traumas, your resilience, your ability to get through difficult times, is going to fluctuate up and down. Hyper vigilant, hypo vigilant. And understanding that you could recognize the symptoms of the train coming off the track before it actually derails. I use the wisdom dojo. I encourage you guys to look that up because. Because it's helped me profoundly. Belly breathing. It's called belly breathing. Internal selfie. All these practices, which I've done progressively for near four or five months, has helped me. Therapy. I've taken therapy really serious, not only because it's a mandate for me based on my situation, but I've also done it on my own. Therapy isn't just about talking to somebody. It's about identifying things in your life experience that could cause issues. And I have some. I don't have many. I have some. I'm very fortunate to have grown up with a very good family, very good mother and a very good father and have not suffered like many have. If you have suffered, therapy can help you. Therapy could benefit you. Rounding it out, physical and mental health. Guys, I've stopped drinking alcohol. To me, maybe because of ibogaine. Certainly since then, I look at as poison. It's poison that you're putting in your body. I don't even want a glass of champagne tonight to celebrate the new year. I don't want anything in my system that's going to affect my central nervous system and derail the progress that I've made. I won't drink. I don't want my kids to see me drinking recreationally. I don't want that to be a part of my life. The amount of issues correlated to to alcohol abuse supersedes any drug completely because you can go right down the road, it's a quarter mile down the road from my house, and pick up as much liquor as you want and drink it until you die. And it's poison. I look at it as Drano. I'm not judging you if you drink, but if I cared about you, if I love you, I will tell you, don't drink anymore. Not drinking has greatly improved my life overall. Most people drink because they're trying to separate themselves from the reality. They don't like to get into an alternative reality that makes them feel better. And it's a self fulfilling prophecy of a cycle of doom because every time you drink yourself into your faults or fake reality, you're not able to pick yourself up in your actual reality and then it starts to compound itself, it becomes a bigger issue. Most people I know who have been in trouble, legally speaking, morally speaking, relationship or family speaking, it's related to booze or booze was the variable that changed everything. I encourage you not to drink. I also have started to repair my body after three back to back back surgeries, one upper and two lower and have been rehabilitating to the point I am right now where I almost have all feeling back in my left leg and I'm working out a few times a week. That has shifted the balance of my life in a positive direction. Also my diet guys, I eat between carnival which I I take seriously as I'm partnered with them more so because it's a huge component to my life as well as Wasatch way goo high quality protein. I get in 230 grams a day, one gram per pound of body weight. And I also am eating super clean. I'm eating super clean because I care about what's going in my body, because what's going on my body is going to affect my mindset, my progress, my family and relationships, my relationship with God and I won't deviate my life at this point. Being middle aged is about the long game, the endurance. And so I am very intentional and deliberate about my sleep, about what I eat, about how I pray and all my protocols, which I'll get into in another piece of segment. Lastly, my relationships, my personal relationships. Every single personal relationship that I have now is bound by are these people. I hate to say it because I don't, I don't want to be judgmental. Are they Christian, do they believe in God or do they worship Lamborghinis and Ferraris? Again, not judging, it's just not for me. I want people who are grounded in their faith in God and good friends because that's how they're driven, not because it's convenient, because of transactions or profit. Also my personal relationships with my children where before I feel like I wasn't present. You might feel the same way I've completely disconnected from social media. You'll see me go on, periodically interact. And then I deleted off my app. Why? Or I deleted off my phone. Why? Because I don't have time for that. I want to live in the real world. Somebody texts me about drama that's going on online, I tell them, please don't do it. They do it again. I block and delete them. I now, for the first time in my life, am being selfish, focused on my family, my relationship with God, and my mental and physical health. If anybody in my family, anybody in my friend group tries to compromise that in a negative or toxic way, they're out. They're voted off the island immediately. And you should do the same. You don't have to be reckless, mean. You don't have to abandon family and friends. What I'm telling you is have the conversation because it's important we get our priorities straight. Lastly, in 2026, I'm gonna do a lot of new content and I'm gonna focus on building my new business from scratch. As most of you know, I was derailed completely out of my business that I started and founded in a shipping container in Pakistan, working for the CIA. It's heartbreaking, but I don't have time to be heartbroken. I have to pick up the pieces. I have to mend them together, and I have to move forward with my life. And that's what I will do. And I'm saying that because I'm encouraging you to do the same. It is not over until it's over. And it's only over till God takes you out of the equation by taking that last breath here on Earth. As long as you got breath in you, you got fight in you. Last but not least, I want you to be intentional. Most of us are so distracted by all the things going on in the world. What's on our phone, what's being pumped through X, what's going on on the tv, that we forget where we are. We forget the beautiful children and family that exist in front of us. We forget about the beautiful opportunities and memories there are to create. I don't want you to lose those memories and lose those opportunities because you are distracted, only to regret it, recognizing it in the future. I want you to recognize it now. One of the best tactics that you could do is start trimming the fat. The literal fat and the figurative fat. Start cutting out things that are wasting your precious time and reallocate that time investing in things that you love and people that you love. Guys, I appreciate you appreciate all the support. Very thankful and grateful for all of you. And I hope, because I'll be sleeping. I hope you have a happy new Year. And here's to an amazing 2,026. Love you guys.