A Wayfinder's Guide to Life

A Wayfinder's Guide to Life

A Wayfinder’s Guide to Life is a field guide for entrepreneurs standing at the crossroads of outward success and inner yearning. Through intimate stories from a life of global exploration, candid reflections from the entrepreneurial journey, and the timeless wisdom of diverse cultures, host Mike Brcic offers a poetic and practical compass for leaders, dreamers, and soul-seekers ready to find their true path.

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June 3, 2025 11 mins

In this inaugural episode of A Wayfinder’s Guide to Life, host Mike Brcic invites you into the wilderness... both literal and metaphorical. 

Recorded deep in the northern woods of Ontario, this is more than a podcast introduction. It’s a soul call for entrepreneurs and leaders in midlife who’ve climbed the first mountain of success, only to find it strangely silent at the summit.

Mike shares his own story of burnout, quiet reckoning,...

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Welcome to the very first episode of The Wayfinder’s Guide to Life

In this season-opening reflection, host Mike Brcic lays the foundation for The Wayfinder’s Journey, a 10-part exploration inspired by the Hero’s (or Heroine’s) Journey, a timeless map for navigating the sacred wilderness between outward success and inner yearning.

In “The Call,” Mike shares the moment when the life he’d built, outwardly admirable, no longer felt lik...

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June 3, 2025 19 mins

In this stirring second chapter of The Wayfinder’s Journey, Mike Brcic invites us into the raw and often unspoken terrain of resistance: that sacred and deeply human hesitation that follows the soul’s first whisper. 

What happens after the call arrives but before we’re ready to answer it? This episode explores the inner walls we build with logic, busyness, and success to keep the truth at bay.

Drawing from mythic stories, his own ent...

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June 10, 2025 19 mins

There comes a moment when staying put becomes more painful than stepping into the unknown. In this episode of The Wayfinder’s Guide to Life, Mike explores that sacred moment of decision, when the soul whispers “it’s time” and you find yourself on the edge of the map.

We talk about what it means to cross the threshold in midlife: to choose courage over comfort, to honour the quiet ache for something more, even when the path ahead is ...

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June 17, 2025 18 mins

There comes a moment on every soul journey when the map has burned, the compass spins, and the stories we’ve told ourselves no longer hold. 

This is The Descent. Not the ache of knowing change is needed, nor the resistance to it, but the cold, quiet wilderness that follows after the letting go. A space of sacred unravelling where identity dissolves and something new waits to be born.

In this deeply personal episode, Mike Brcic shares...

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June 24, 2025 16 mins

At some point in every soul journey, the map dissolves. You’re walking through the wilderness of midlife, uncertain and raw, and then... someone shows up. 

Not with answers, but with presence. This episode is a meditation on the quiet power of guides.

Mike shares the story of a gentle but powerful man who walked beside him when the lights had nearly gone out, and what that experience taught him about seeking and becoming a ...

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July 1, 2025 19 mins

You’ve already said yes to a more soulful life. You’ve crossed the threshold, left behind the old map, and stepped into the wilderness. But now the way forward vanishes beneath your feet, and all you're left with is the silence and yourself.

In this episode, we explore The Trial, a sacred moment in every Wayfinder’s journey where clarity is absent, doubt is deafening, and the only thing being tested is your devotion to the trut...

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July 8, 2025 19 mins

What happens when the striving ends and the soul begins to speak?

In this raw and poetic reflection, Mike explores the tender terrain of revelation, not as a sudden lightning bolt, but as a slow, embodied awakening. 

Through stories from his own life and a stirring account of one participant's ascent in the mountains of Laos, we witness the profound clarity that can emerge after the unravelling.

This episode is for anyone who has...

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July 15, 2025 15 mins

After the mountaintop comes the homecoming. And this, too, is sacred.

In this episode, Mike explores one of the most overlooked stages of the hero’s journey: The Return. 

When the insight fades and the world remains unchanged, how do you carry your transformation into everyday life? How do you stay true to what you’ve become?

With honesty and warmth, Mike names the ache of returning changed, and the courage it take...

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July 22, 2025 17 mins

There comes a quiet moment after the journey ends. The suitcase is unpacked, the stories are fresh, and life begins to feel more like your own. That moment is not the conclusion. It's the beginning of something even more sacred: the offering.

In this second-to-last episode of Season One, Mike reflects on the quiet power of gifts born from our deepest wounds. 

Through stories of childhood loss, the ache of belonging, and examples...

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July 29, 2025 9 mins

In the final episode of Season One, we reach the far edge of the map. But instead of closure, what we find is a new kind of beginning. Mike Brcic reflects on the Hero’s Journey and how it offers context, clarity, and meaning for the wilderness of midlife.

This episode is an invitation to recognize that your longing, your restlessness, your ache for something more... these aren’t flaws. They’re compasses. And they’ve been guiding you...

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