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, and the midlife unravelling that led him to create Wayfinders.

With poetic reflection and grounded honesty, he lays out the themes of this first season, inspired by the Hero’s Journey: the call, the resistance, the descent, and the return.

You’ll hear about his time with indigenous tribes, the power of silence, the ache of inauthentic living, and the hope that something more honest and alive awaits.

This episode is your trailhead. If you’ve ever felt a quiet longing for a different kind of life, this show is for you.

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CONTINUE THE JOURNEY:

✴️ Join a Wayfinders Adventure → way-finders.com/adventures

Wayfinders Adventures are soul-stirring retreats for entrepreneurs and leaders ready to reconnect with their deeper selves and others walking the same path.

✴️ Join Mike & Philip McKernan in Iceland in May 2026 → www.unshakeable2026.com

Unshakable: Iceland is a 5-day retreat at a private, secluded Icelandic sanctuary, led by me and Philip McKernan. For entrepreneurs who know the world is changing, and want to meet it with stillness, strength, and truth.

✴️ Join a live Soultalks call → https://lu.ma/soultalks

Each month, we gather for a soulful online conversation: a space to slow down, reflect, and connect with others navigating the same questions.

✴️ Get notified about upcoming entrepreneur events: https://way-finders.com/events-list

Get a weekly email with a curated selection of events around the world for growth-minded entrepreneurs.

✴️ Subscribe to my Substack → wayfinders.substack.com

For reflections, stories, and soul prompts between episodes, join me on Substa...

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 like home.

Through a vulnerable personal story and the soulful echoes of Wayfinders Adventures in the wilds of Mongolia, he unpacks the mysterious, often disorienting experience that begins every real transformation: the inner whisper that something deeper is calling.

This episode invites you to explore your own soul’s longing, to pause and notice what no longer feels alive, and to begin your own journey... not by fixing or fleeing, but by listening.

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PROMPTS AND EXERCISES

1. Where do you feel the ache for something deeper?
2. What part of your life no longer feels alive?
3. What does your soul want you to hear right now?

Place your hand on your chest.
Breathe deeply.
And ask... What’s whispering in me today?

CONTINUE THE JOURNEY:

✴️ Join a Wayfinders Adventure → way-finders.com/adventures

Wayfinders Adventures are soul-stirring retreats for entrepreneurs and leaders ready to reconnect with their deeper selves and others walking the same path.

✴️ Join Mike & Philip McKernan in Iceland in May 2026 → www.unshakeable2026.com

Unshakable: Iceland is a 5-day retreat at a private, secluded Icelandic sanctuary, led by me and Philip McKernan. For entrepreneurs who know the world is changing, and want to meet it with stillness, strength, and truth.

✴️ Join a live Soultalks call → https://lu.ma/soultalks

Each month, we gather for a soulful online conversation: a space to slow down, reflect, and connect with others navigating the same questions.

✴️ Get notified about upcoming entrepreneur events: https://way-finders.com/events-list

Get a weekly email with a curated selection of events around the world for growth-minded entrepreneurs.

✴️ Subscribe to my Substack → wayfinders.substack.com

For reflections, stories, and soul prompts between episodes, join me on Substa...

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 entrepreneurial unravelling, and encounters in Bhutan’s sacred monasteries, Mike shows how resistance isn’t weakness... it’s part of the initiation.

It’s the quiet tension where we delay, rationalize, and sometimes suffer for years, not because we lack courage, but because we fear what real change might cost us.

Whether you're stuck in a high-functioning version of pain or quietly questioning a path that once felt right, this episode is an honest invitation to recognize your own resistance... and what might be waiting on the other side of it.

If the call is still whispering, let this be the moment you begin to listen.

JOURNALING PROMPTS

1. Where are you choosing safety over truth?
2. What truth is inconvenient but undeniable?
3. What would you do if you didn’t have to succeed?

EXERCISE

Write a letter from your future self to the version of you who said yes.
Tell yourself what you walked toward. What you let go of.
Let yourself imagine who you became when you stopped resisting and started trusting.

CONTINUE THE JOURNEY:

✴️ Join a Wayfinders Adventure → way-finders.com/adventures

Wayfinders Adventures are soul-stirring retreats for entrepreneurs and leaders ready to reconnect with their deeper selves and others walking the same path.

✴️ Join Mike & Philip McKernan in Iceland in May 2026 → www.unshakeable2026.com

Unshakable: Iceland is a 5-day retreat at a private, secluded Icelandic sanctuary, led by me and Philip McKernan. For entrepreneurs who know the world is changing, and want to meet it with stillness, strength, and truth.

✴️ Join a live Soultalks call → https://lu.ma/soultalks

Each month, we gather for a soulful online conversation: a space to slow down, reflect, and connect with others navigating the same questions.

✴️ Get notified about upcoming entrepreneur events: https://way-finders.com/events-list

Get a weekly email with a curated selection of events around the world for growth-minded entrepreneurs.

✴️ Subscribe to my Substack → wayfinders.substack.com

For reflections, stories, and soul prompts between episodes, join me on Substa...