Watch as a renowned global manufacturing company takes time to dive into helping its employees focus on mental fitness. This series of podcast episodes will discuss the feelings that many organizations' employees often grapple with in today's world, balancing a career, family, stress and the many other factors that can affect mental health. Learn how to improve mental fitness for a happier stress-free life.
How to Empty Your Bag of Stones
A step-by-step walk through the Mental Clearing Process
You've felt the weight. You've seen what it costs. Now here's what to do about it.
In this episode, Travis walks through the Mental Clearing Process step by step and not just the what, but the why behind each step. Why you have to feel it before you can release it. Why letting go isn't erasing. Why your mind holds on to things in the first place. And what it feels like when you finally clear something that has been sitting in your bag of stones for years or decades.
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This episode includes Travis's own 5-day story of doing this work, and one of the most memorable metaphors in the series: a poisonous snake in your kitchen and what that has to do with forgiveness.
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What You'll Learn:
Step 1: How to create the mental and physical safety needed to go deep
Step 2: How to recall a trigger and why specificity matters
Step 3: How to acknowledge blame, one person at a time, starting with the most energy
Step 4: How to allow emotions fully and why this has to be a body experience, not just a head one
Step 5: How to reframe, finding what's real, what's good, and what you were meant to learn
Step 6: What forgiveness actually means and what it doesn't
Step 7: Start over, repeat the process for each person or event until there's no energy left around it
Why your brain holds on (the snake story) and how to know when you're done
30 Jun 2026
I'm Fine and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
I'm Fine and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
The difference between genuine peace and the story we tell to survive
When someone asks how you're doing and you say "I'm fine"...are you? Or are you just out of hope that anything will change?
In this episode, Travis draws a hard line between apathy and true acceptance, the two states that look similar from the outside but couldn't be more different on the inside. He explains why numbness isn't peace, why anger is actually healthier than apathy, and why the moment you blame someone else for how you feel, you've handed them all your power.
This is the episode that makes you realize you might be carrying more than you think and that the weight you've been calling "just how I am" is actually something you can put down.
What You'll Learn:
The difference between apathy and true acceptance and why most people are stuck in apathy without knowing it
Why anger actually contains more hope than numbness
What it really means to own your emotions and what you give up when you don't
Why being triggered is always your responsibility, not the other person's
The gap between who you want to be and who you are and why it exists
3 Jun 2026
Why Your Brain is Running Out of Battery
Why Your Brain Is Running Out of Battery
The hidden cost of everything you've been pushing down
Most people assume they're tired, distracted, or just wired a certain way. What if the real reason is something else entirely and it's something invisible, accumulating quietly in the background of your mind?
In this episode, Mike and Travis introduce the Mental Clearing Process: what it is, why almost everyone needs it, and why so few people know it exists. Using real stories, neuroscience, and a metaphor that will stick with you, they explain how unresolved experiences silently drain your mental energy and what it looks like when you finally start to clear them out.
What You'll Learn:
Why anxiety, depression, and stress are actually misdirected energy and what to do about it
How your brain is like a flooded hard drive running out of RAM
Why the things you pushed down years ago are still costing you energy today
What it feels like when triggers become curiosity instead of hijacks
Why this process works for everyday frustrations and life-changing events alike
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