Don't Die With Your Song Inside: A self-compassion guide to sharing your gifts with the world
Michael Mackintosh
10 episodes
1 week ago
Stop waiting to be ready. Start living fully.
Join Michael Mackintosh, founder of Awakened Academy, for raw, honest conversations about overcoming perfectionism and finally sharing what's inside you. Each episode blends personal stories, research-backed insights, and gentle practices to help spiritual entrepreneurs stop hiding their gifts and start living fully. It's time to stop dying with your song inside.
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Stop waiting to be ready. Start living fully.
Join Michael Mackintosh, founder of Awakened Academy, for raw, honest conversations about overcoming perfectionism and finally sharing what's inside you. Each episode blends personal stories, research-backed insights, and gentle practices to help spiritual entrepreneurs stop hiding their gifts and start living fully. It's time to stop dying with your song inside.
Don't Die With Your Song Inside: A self-compassion guide to sharing your gifts with the world
24 minutes 44 seconds
2 weeks ago
The Map
Here's where we are right now: Stuck in the perfectionism prison. Projects started but not shared. Gifts locked inside. Watching others succeed while we prepare. Exhausted from trying to be perfect.
And here's where we're going: Complete freedom. Clear minds. Healed hearts. Sharing our gifts imperfectly and joyfully. Living our dharma. Being authentically ourselves—messy, real, alive.
The question is: How do we get from here to there?
This is the map. Not just ideas—the inner transformations that break us free. A bird's eye view of our sacred journey to wholeness together.
This session reveals the complete path with twelve powerful shifts:
We are not our thoughts—we are the witness. We learn to surrender outcomes to the Divine instead of controlling everything. We discover that imperfect iteration is the only path to mastery. We embrace 80% as the new sacred standard. We learn why being real makes us magnetic. We stop performing the fake guru and come home to ourselves.
We find our lane—Pioneer, Translator, or Practitioner—and stop comparing. We share before we're ready using the Oprah Method. We develop growth mindset and see failure as feedback. We understand how 1% daily compounds into miracles. We learn that critics don't count—only the warriors in the arena matter.
And finally, we remember: We were never broken. We are already whole. We are already worthy. We are already enough.
Each shift is a key that unlocks a different part of the prison. We don't have to master them all at once. We just have to walk the path. One shift at a time. One small step at a time.
This is the complete roadmap from where you are to where you're meant to be.
Listen to this episode and let me know what hit you. Email me at success@awakenedacademy.com with your thoughts, breakthroughs, or questions. If you're an Awakened Academy student, join the discussion in our private Facebook group. Not a student yet? You're welcome to apply anytime at awakenedacademy.com.
Don't Die With Your Song Inside: A self-compassion guide to sharing your gifts with the world
Stop waiting to be ready. Start living fully.
Join Michael Mackintosh, founder of Awakened Academy, for raw, honest conversations about overcoming perfectionism and finally sharing what's inside you. Each episode blends personal stories, research-backed insights, and gentle practices to help spiritual entrepreneurs stop hiding their gifts and start living fully. It's time to stop dying with your song inside.