Welcome to the Mike Method, where we believe conversations with leaders matter. Join host Mike Desjardins, CEO of ViRTUS as he takes you on a journey through conversations with some of the most inspiring leaders he's had the pleasure of meeting over the past 25 years.
In each episode, listeners get to be a fly on the wall as Mike chats with leaders who are more than just that—they're mentors, coaches, and true inspirations. Imagine having coffee with them, diving into their stories, learning about their triumphs and trials, and discovering the lessons they've applied to achieve real success. These aren't run-of-the-mill media personalities; these are leaders who make a difference behind the scenes, whose impact is felt by those they lead and work with every day. As a B Corp committed to the triple bottom line, ViRTUS cares about everyone involved in their journey—partners, vendors, customers, employees, families, charities, the environment, and communities. Join the exploration of how leaders who think differently show up differently. New episodes coming to your ears every Tuesday.
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Welcome to the Mike Method, where we believe conversations with leaders matter. Join host Mike Desjardins, CEO of ViRTUS as he takes you on a journey through conversations with some of the most inspiring leaders he's had the pleasure of meeting over the past 25 years.
In each episode, listeners get to be a fly on the wall as Mike chats with leaders who are more than just that—they're mentors, coaches, and true inspirations. Imagine having coffee with them, diving into their stories, learning about their triumphs and trials, and discovering the lessons they've applied to achieve real success. These aren't run-of-the-mill media personalities; these are leaders who make a difference behind the scenes, whose impact is felt by those they lead and work with every day. As a B Corp committed to the triple bottom line, ViRTUS cares about everyone involved in their journey—partners, vendors, customers, employees, families, charities, the environment, and communities. Join the exploration of how leaders who think differently show up differently. New episodes coming to your ears every Tuesday.
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Most people think nervous system regulation means being calm — it doesn’t; it means not getting stuck. In this episode, Mike Desjardins talks with Anna Brooks, a guide in deep transformation whose work blends somatics, nervous system regulation, and “soul truth.”
They explore how your nervous system shapes every experience and how flexibility—not calm—is the real goal. Anna shares simple tools like the one-breath hum and butterfly taps, plus the ABC path: Awareness. Breathe. Choose. This conversation is a deep exhale and a practical guide to feeling steady in motion.
A wonderful resource from Anna, discussed in this episode:
Shift & Integrate:
Respond vs. React.
Moving in choice and with more aliveness.
1) Notice and attune: slowing down, settling...
2) Meet the feeling/expression/experience etc. exactly as it is, not trying to change it, shift it, make it something else, exactly as is it.
*The truth of how it is for you and then actually believe yourself.
3) Of course
That makes sense
I feel ______ and that’s ok
4) Expand: a call to extend your capacity to hold things/parts of yourself → meeting the vastness of who you are!
*This is also often one of the things that actually helps shift states.
In meeting and honouring the vastness of who you are, what might you want/need to expand (shift) back into ventral (if that's the desired state)?
5) Integrate (wholeness - opposite of fragmented and constricted): by meeting all your parts you step back into your power (Truth) and "the things you want to shake off they get transmuted into power, because they’re [actually] integrated."
6) Choose: again and again, and again.
At every stage → processing, metabolizing, releasing, and weaving/integrating through movement!
Episode Resources:
Anna Brooks: Website / LinkedIn / Newsletter Signup
Power of the Pause (free resource!)
A special playlist that tends to Nervous System soothing
ViRTUS: Website / Instagram / LinkedIn
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