Mike Bayer: ...you have a better life when you help others

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is well-known personal development coach Mike Bayer, whom you may know as Coach Mike from the Dr. Phil show and elsewhere. Mike started as a mental health and addiction counselor before he founded CAST Centers, the go-to clinic for executives, singers, actors, athletes, and anyone who wants to learn how to live their best life. He's the author of the New York Times bestseller, Best Self: Be You, Only Better and in this interview, he explains what we need to do to stop being our 'anti-self', inspire others, and achieve our goals.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. Joining us on this episode is well-known
0:18.8	personal development coach Mike Bayer, who you may know as coach Mike from the Dr. Phil show.
0:24.6	Mike started as a mental health and addiction counselor before he founded Cass Centers,
0:29.3	a treatment center that provides a network of professional support to help clients improve their mental health, emotional health, and their overall well-being.
0:37.1	Mike is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Best Self. improve their mental health, emotional health, and their overall well-being.
0:43.5	Mike is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Best Self, Be You Only Better.
0:45.9	And Mike, it's a pleasure to welcome you to our show.
0:48.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:51.3	Mike, why did you write the new book Best Self? You know, I have been helping people one-on-one for, gosh, I've been in mental health for over 15 years.
0:59.8	And so what I wanted to do was I wanted to create everything that I've learned through the years and put it all into a book,
1:08.1	you know, into a how-to manual that's a playbook for somebody to be their best self.
1:12.8	And how did you get into the industry? And why did you decide to become a life coach?
1:17.2	Yeah, so that's a good question. I did not think as a kid I would end up in this industry.
1:24.0	I actually got sober at 22 years old. I was addicted to drugs. grew up in Orange County,
1:29.5	California, went to play college basketball at Fordham in the Bronx as a walk-on. And by the time I
1:35.6	got out to college, I just was really unhappy with my life. I got addicted to drugs, eventually
1:43.0	addicted to methamphetamine, really, really didn't like myself,
1:46.7	which kind of sparked this journey into self-help.
1:53.0	And once I started to get well, I became an alcohol and drug counselor.
1:56.6	I did a lot of interventions, traveled all over the world, you know, helping families,
2:02.4	help their loved ones who didn't want to change. And so it's just been, ever since I got
2:08.5	sober, it's been a passion of mine because I know that people can change. And seeing people change
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