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U Can Do It with Michael McGinnis: Inspiring Growth ~ Igniting Potential

Are you yearning to wake up each morning with a sense of meaning, purpose, love, and joy? Welcome, everyone, I'm Michael McGinnis, an award-winning author, speaker, and educator on human potential, your host on "U Can Do It" – "Inspiring Growth – Igniting Potential!" Life presents us with challenges that serve as catalysts for growth. The pivotal question is: How do we respond to these challenges, or better said, opportunities? Do we adopt a victim mindset or rise to become victors?

U Can Do It with Michael McGinnis: Inspiring Growth ~ Igniting Potential

Are you yearning to wake up each morning with a sense of meaning, purpose, love, and joy? Welcome, everyone, I'm Michael McGinnis, an award-winning author, speaker, and educator on human potential, your host on "U Can Do It" – "Inspiring Growth – Igniting Potential!" Life presents us with challenges that serve as catalysts for growth. The pivotal question is: How do we respond to these challenges, or better said, opportunities? Do we adopt a victim mindset or rise to become victors?

Michael has teamed up with Transformational Talk Radio to launch his new podcast, U Can Do It: Inspiring Growth – Igniting Potential. On U Can Do It, Michael’s goal and purpose is to engage with YOU in open and candid conversation to guide and inspire you to be your full potential.Our focus is to guide and inspire you to master the most amazing journey you have – YOUR LIFE! It's a journey of Personal & Spiritual Growth, Self-Discovery, and Enlightenment. Whether you seek to heal your past, transcend limiting beliefs, unlock your true potential, or uncover greater levels of meaning, understanding, purpose, love, and direction in your life, our show will engage you with open and candid conversations featuring the ingredients to becoming your full potential! 

Characteristics of this is to find greater levels of meaning, purpose, love, and joy, the ingredients often associated with living a great life. Life Mastery is about developing a strong psychological foundation in Personal Growth, exploration of who you are and what you want to be through Self-Discovery, and ultimately discovering new meaning and purpose in life and beyond with our Enlightenment.

About Michael

Michael’s life is about the study and application of Human Development and Human Potential. His story begins with a traumatic childhood and confronting the choice of succumbing to being a victim or taking charge of his life as a victor. The amazing breadth and depth of his life experience, studies, and personal transformation from despair to enlightenment, launched his lifelong passion to be his full potential defined as “waking up each day with meaning, purpose, love and joy.” His research led to the development of a framework for growth and becoming your full potential, inclusive of the stages of personal growth, self-discovery, and enlightenment.

His quest has been and continues to be to gain a greater understanding of human potential and apply his learnings to his own life and to be a source of inspiration and guidance for others by sharing his stories, experiences, and learnings for others on the path. Whether it is to overcome past emotional trauma, increase self-awareness, transform unhealthy patterns & beliefs, find new meaning in their life, discover their full potential, and/or to contemplate the meaning of life and their purpose, Michael offers unique guidance and insight from a user's perspective to help others make the most of their life's journey.

He is well published on these topics including his award-winning book, “Discovering Michael: An Inspirational Guide to Personal Growth and Self-Discovery” (Balboa Press, division of Hay House). "When milestones are hit or insights revealed, readers may feel it with him...An engaging, vulnerable and analytical writer...His greatest feat is bringing his past painfully full circle...A deeply sincere guide for survivors of past trauma in search of self-actualization (Kirkus Indie Review)"

As a recognized leader in his field and approach to leadership development, Michael is an outspoken advocate for the need for authentic and mindful leaders today in government, politics, and Corporate America, he published “Leadership from The Inside Out: Building Your leadership Foundation” “This book is a refreshing change from the conceptual to the practical. I found myself thinking about the “leaders” I have worked for and with over my career and how I felt and how productive I was in each situation. The author does a great job distilling down to the true essence of leadership. This book is a roadmap for personal discovery and a journey to a better leader with personal stories to reinforce the points. Well done!” (Amazon Books review).

A diverse career with leadership and education at the core. Held Learning Leader roles, Executive Director role, and a four-year political appointment. He achieved mastery in leading and transforming learning organizations. Noted for passion and ability to develop high-performance learning organizations that focused on business strategy. Led two global learning organizations to Training Top 100 national recognition. Well-published and speaker at national training conferences. A gifted leader, coach and mentor who truly cares about the employees. Obtained results through people, not over them! As an Adjunct he instructs Leadership, Training & Development, Talent Acquisition and Onboarding formerly at University of South Florida and currently at the University of California.

In addition are his blog, videos, and podcasts accessible on his site, growhumanpotential.com

Michael discovered his purpose during the Self-Discovery stage that is “To Love, Share, Teach & Heal through God’s Love in My Heart.” He is noted for his personal and humble nature, engaging facilitation style, storyteller, true authenticity, candor, humility, integrity, compassion, volunteerism, walking his talk, and the unique breadth & depth of his life experience. He offers unique, welcome, and inspirational insight from a user’s perspective. He has traveled and volunteered extensively domestically and internationally in capacities including Children's Oncology Camp, Hospice Care, Emergency Medical Technician on Volunteer Ambulance, Respite Foster Care, Puppy Raiser with Guide Dogs of America, Red Cross, and more.

Michael believes we each have the choice to grow, develop our self-awareness, and with this awareness to become our full potential and the ultimate feeling of meaning and satisfaction is using our gifts to help others grow. We each have a unique purpose which is to discover our unique talents and then share these with others to individually make a difference and collectively to put a ding in the Universe.

Michael’s Story

Following a traumatic childhood Michael ventured out on his own with many personal issues relating to low self-esteem and a belief that he was unlovable and unworthy. He depended on others to give him the love he could not give to himself which resulted in co-dependent relationships and a constant feeling of being lost and confused. The pain became too much which led him to therapy and workshops where he started to put the pieces of the puzzle together regarding why things were going so wrong.

Utilizing what he refers to as "tools for self-discovery" he began to rebuild and reshape his unhealthy beliefs into more positive and productive beliefs. The person he saw in the mirror no longer was so unworthy. With a greater sense of self-esteem, he found greater levels of happiness in his life. However, something within wanted more, an understanding of what life was all about. In his early thirties, despite being successful in his job, he decided to leave his success in Corporate America in further search of himself. When asked why he was leaving his job, he said to his boss, "I am going to find the meaning of life and how I fit in."

Being open to new experiences, his journey included backpacking across the globe, volunteering in numerous capacities domestically and abroad. Initially his goal was to understand why he had experienced so much pain and suffering, understanding death and dying, studying numerous religions, listening to other's stories, and hours of contemplation about what life was all about and how he fit in. It was in effect, A Modern-Day Vision Quest, becoming exposed to concepts, ideas, rituals, and people that helped him form deeper values and beliefs. The journey led him to experience some of the stark contrasts’ life offers, from beautiful sites and natural wonders, to disease, famine, and starvation. In each case, he discovered ways to make connections and volunteer with the local communities which enabled him to learn their amazing stories of trials and tribulations.

He returned to find that although the world had not changed, he did, thereby giving greater meaning and perspective to the diversity of life around him, and to the value of his own life. He then married, raised 3 children, and continued his career. It was not an easy transition. He adjusted and had since been recognized for many outstanding achievements during his career as an educator and leader. He has published numerous articles in his field and has spoken at national conferences. Although life continues to have its trials and tribulations, what is different now is a deeper understanding of himself and of life itself, greater levels of gratitude and compassion for others, and a passion to help others grow.

Favorite Quotes
“Throughout your life, there is a voice only you can hear. A voice which mythologists label "the call." A call to the value of your life. The choice of risk and individual bliss over the known and secure. You may choose not to hear your spirit. You may prefer to build a life within the compound, to avoid risk. It is possible to find happiness within a familiar box, a life of comfort and control. Or, you may choose to be open to new experiences, to leave the limits of your conditioning, to hear the call. Then you must act. If you never hear it perhaps nothing is lost. If you hear it and ignore it, your life is lost.” ― Jennifer James

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ― George Bernard Shaw