Ep 508 You Already Have the Life. You're Reading It Wrong with Dr. Michael Glock

Dr. Michael Glock spent seventy years earning the right to say something simple. Twenty-eight startups. Two marriages. A doctorate in depth psychology. Talks at Yale, Princeton, and the University of London. And the thing he keeps coming back to with clients is not a strategy. It's a sentence a client said to him days before this recording: standing on a beautiful plot of land, deciding what to build next.

 

Most people chasing the next milestone assume it will finally quiet a low-grade unease they stopped noticing years ago, because it's been there so long it feels like personality. Glock has spent two decades watching what happens when successful people stop long enough to ask what that unease has actually been trying to tell them.

 

What was covered:

1. Why Carl Jung's idea that "the dreams are the same, just dreamt in modern dress" shows up in Glock's clients as blocked toilets and flooded basements at the start of the work, and circles and mandalas by the end
2. The four directions of the medicine wheel, and why most high achievers get stuck circling the East (the eagle, the big plan) without ever visiting the West (the bear, reflection)
3. Why "beginner's mind" determines whether transformation is even possible, and why extreme success can make someone harder to reach, not easier
4. The scenario-planning method Glock borrowed from the same research culture that invented modern futurism, now used to build a client's future ten years out and let it pull them forward
5. Why he believes most people don't need a different life, they need a different interpretation of the one they already lived
6. What running a suicide-prevention line in 1970s New Zealand as a teenage immigrant taught him about what people actually need when life ruptures

 

About Dr. Michael Glock:

Dr. Michael Glock is a philosopher, futurist, hypnotherapist, and co-founder of Joymind, one of the largest hypnotherapy platforms in America. Trained in Jungian and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, he developed Hermeneutic Hypnosis, an emerging framework blending hypnosis, neuroscience, mythology, symbolic thinking, and storytelling. For more than 20 years, he has worked with entrepreneurs, executives, creatives, and high performers seeking transformation beneath outward success. His work focuses on how unconscious narratives shape anxiety, trauma, burnout, identity, and human behavior — and how altered states and imagination can help rewrite those patterns. He is the author of Way Ahead: Medicine Stories and publishes widely on Medium.

 

Links:

joymind.com/richersoul   

Websites: https://joymind.com/cat/specialists/michael-glock/

https://www.drmichaelglock.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichaelglock/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/joymind-hypnotherapy/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joymindhypnotherapy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joymind.hypnotherapy

X: https://x.com/DrMichaelGlock

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joymind

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joymind.hypnotherapy

 

Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@richersoul

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