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Your Thoughts Your Reality

Your Thoughts Your Reality

Mike Cole 135 episodes Nov 5, 2026

Your Thoughts Your Reality with Mike Cole is a podcast dedicated to helping veterans overcome challenges like procrastination, self-doubt, and fear through Neuroencoding science. Hosted by Certified Elite Neuroencoding Specialist Michael Cole, it aims to empower veterans to reconnect with their families and society. The podcast provides compassionate guidance for navigating post-deployment life.

Episodes

Who Are You Without the Team? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Joe Marzocco
Who Are You Without the Team? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Joe Marzocco Nov 5, 2026 31:16 Send us Fan MailWho are you when the team is gone?When the title changes, the daily conversations disappear, and nobody is waiting for you to make the next decision?For veterans, executives, leaders, and high performers, leaving a leadership role can create more than a career transition.It can create an identity crisis.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with Joe
Who Gets the Real You? | Connection & Authentic Relationships — The 3rd Silent War | Cindy Gould
Who Gets the Real You? | Connection & Authentic Relationships — The 3rd Silent War | Cindy Gould Nov 3, 2026 31:10 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you stop performing—and realize some people only knew the version of you that you were performing?People-pleasing, emotional armor, fear of rejection, and always being “the strong one” can make relationships look connected on the outside while leaving us feeling unseen on the inside.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole welcomes back Cindy G
Can Hope Become Legacy? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Anne Jolles
Can Hope Become Legacy? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Anne Jolles Oct 30, 2026 35:36 Send us Fan MailWhat do you do with fear you cannot fix?For military families, veterans, caregivers, and anyone living through uncertainty, there are seasons when you cannot control the deployment, the danger, the diagnosis, the grief, or what happens next.You can only decide what you do with everything you are carrying.But sometimes, the practice that helps one person survive a difficult chapter
What Survives Business Failure? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Ken Wimberly
What Survives Business Failure? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Ken Wimberly Oct 28, 2026 34:46 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the business you believed in fails—and takes hundreds of thousands of dollars with it?For entrepreneurs, veterans, leaders, and high performers, success can become deeply connected to identity.The business.The income.The achievement.The next win.But when the thing you worked hardest to build disappears, a much harder question remains:What survived the failure?In t
Who Carries It Forward? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Rick DellaRatta
Who Carries It Forward? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Rick DellaRatta Oct 16, 2026 36:53 Send us Fan MailWhat does it really mean to leave a legacy?Is legacy what people remember about you after you are gone—or is it what you build now that other people can carry forward?In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with internationally recognized jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and Jazz for Peace founder Rick DellaRatta for a conversation about legacy, purp
What Did Survival Hide? | Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War | Eugene Yeskov
What Did Survival Hide? | Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War | Eugene Yeskov Oct 15, 2026 32:08 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when survival mode keeps running even after the immediate danger has passed?When fear, trauma, war, or major adversity takes over, emotional armor can make sense.We compartmentalize.We stay useful.We keep moving.But eventually the crisis changes—and the armor does not always get the message.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with Eug
When Trauma Rewrites Tomorrow | Direction — The 8th Silent War | Faust Ruggiero
When Trauma Rewrites Tomorrow | Direction — The 8th Silent War | Faust Ruggiero Oct 14, 2026 38:05 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you survive the trauma—but lose your sense of where life is going?Trauma does not only change how you remember the past.It can change how safe the present feels, how much you trust yourself, and whether the future still feels possible.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with Faust Ruggiero, a therapist whose career spans more tha
Why Are You Still Waiting? | Fear — The 9th Silent War | Clifford Sosamon
Why Are You Still Waiting? | Fear — The 9th Silent War | Clifford Sosamon Oct 8, 2026 38:04 Send us Fan MailWhat if fear isn’t actually the thing keeping you stuck?Sometimes fear looks responsible.We research a little more.We wait for better timing.We tell ourselves we need more clarity.We keep preparing.But eventually, preparation can stop helping us move forward and start protecting us from having to act.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with Cliffo
When the Alerts Stop | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Judy Crockett
When the Alerts Stop | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Judy Crockett Oct 7, 2026 31:57 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you spent decades being the person who had to be ready for what could go wrong—and suddenly, nobody needs you to carry that responsibility anymore?The radio gets quieter.The routine changes.The emergencies belong to someone else.But your brain may not immediately understand that the mission has changed.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole s
What Are We Building Together? | Mission — The 2nd Silent War | Justin & Misty Williams
What Are We Building Together? | Mission — The 2nd Silent War | Justin & Misty Williams Sep 25, 2026 30:23 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the uniform comes off—but the part of you that wants to serve is still there?Military life gives you a mission, a team, structure, and a reason people are counting on you.Then transition comes, and nobody hands you the next set of orders.For a married couple who have both served, the question becomes even more interesting:How do you build the next mission together
What Did Strength Cost You? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Chris Chandler-Yates
What Did Strength Cost You? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Chris Chandler-Yates Sep 18, 2026 44:13 Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the version of you that keeps everyone safe starts costing you the people you love?For men in policing, military service, first response, and other high-pressure careers, control, vigilance, emotional restraint, and the ability to stay composed under pressure can become part of who you are.Those traits may make you exceptional at the job.But what happens when they
When Did You Start Doubting Yourself? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Laura Ollinger
When Did You Start Doubting Yourself? | Identity — The 1st Silent War | Laura Ollinger Sep 12, 2026 33:35 Send us Fan MailWhen did you first start questioning whether you were good enough?For many people, that story begins early—through grades, sports, appearance, approval, responsibility, or trying to become the version of ourselves we believe others will accept.Over time, those messages can become part of our identity until we stop asking who we are and start measuring ourselves by how well we perfo

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