ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Most success stories skip the expensive part.
The Honest Mic is where founders, operators, creators, and people with scars worth learning from share what it really takes to build, recover, and keep going.
No hype. No highlight reel. Just honest conversations from people who've been through something worth hearing.
The goal isn't inspiration. It's perspective you can actually use.
The Honest Mic is where founders, operators, creators, and people with scars worth learning from share what it really takes to build, recover, and keep going.
No hype. No highlight reel. Just honest conversations from people who've been through something worth hearing.
The goal isn't inspiration. It's perspective you can actually use.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 hours
Average audio length:
30 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
180 episodes
since May 5, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Most people think leadership is about titles. About being in charge. About having the corner office and the team that reports to you. But Dr. Kevin Wayne Johnson has spent more than three decades learning that leadership isn't about any of that.
It's about service.
Kevin spent 34 years in the fed…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
You can be smart, capable, and completely overwhelmed. Not because you lack skill or drive. Because your brain is running patterns that made sense once and now work against you.
That's the pattern Dr. Marcia Ruben has spent more than three decades helping leaders untangle.
She's an executive coac…
You can be the most knowledgeable person in your field. You can have years of expertise. You can be the one everyone comes to for answers. And still feel like the spotlight was meant for someone else.
That's the internal hurdle Kelly Schuknecht has spent over twenty years helping professionals ove…
In 2000, Mick Wienholt was climbing alone on a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado. He caused an avalanche. It would have killed him. His skull was fractured in three places. His scalp was split open to the bone. He was losing significant blood. And he was alone.
He hiked three miles back to his truck. B…
Most self-help tells you to flip a switch. Find the right system, the right mindset, the right morning routine, and everything changes. But if healing actually worked like a light switch, none of us would still be struggling with the same things we've been struggling with for years.
Kerisma Vere k…
At two years old, Bradley Gabbert was struck by a car and spent two weeks in a coma. He came home having lost the ability to walk and speak. He relearned both. And from the outside, he built a remarkably normal life.
But there was another part of the recovery he wouldn't recognize for decades.
He…
Phil Cohen is the CEO and co-founder of Simplifyber, a North Carolina-based advanced materials company that has raised $20 million to commercialize a proprietary liquid fiber molding platform. They form bio-based, shaped parts directly from natural cellulose fibers.
And this isn't his first rodeo.…
Most people are not living. They're surviving. They're getting up, going to work, paying bills, handling the next crisis, going to bed, and doing it all over again. And somewhere along the way, they stop asking whether there's another way.
Paul Padgett knows that pattern. He's spent decades in lea…
Most people who understand the finance side of a deal have never had to run the operation day to day. And most people who run the operation have never had to evaluate a business from the outside as an investor.
Christopher Swing has done both.
He's been a CFO. He's done private equity deals. He's…
Most of your life is being run on autopilot. Automatic responses. Conditioned patterns. Reactions you didn't consciously choose. The question isn't whether you have a self-driving system underneath your awareness. It's whether you're ever going to take the wheel.
Alan Bodnar has spent the past dec…
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