MIKE COLTER: Luke Cage Turning Point, Grad School Wake Up Call & Choosing Growth Over Easy Money

Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum

Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum | Daylight Media

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Mike Colter (Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Evil) joins us for a deeply reflective and grounded conversation about confidence, discipline, and what it really takes to sustain a career in Hollywood without losing yourself. Mike opens up about early support versus later self doubt, nearly being pushed out of grad school, and how proving people wrong became fuel rather than resentment. He talks about why Luke Cage changed his life but never defined him, why he values trust over prestige, and how self worth comes from being comfortable alone. Thank you to our sponsors: 💪 Mars Men: For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off FOR LIFE, Free Shipping, AND 3 Free Gifts at Mars Men at https://mengotomars.com ❤️ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/inside and get on your way to being your best self __________________________________________________ 💖 Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/insideofyou⁠⁠ 👕 Inside Of You Merch: ⁠⁠https://store.insideofyoupodcast.com/⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Watch or listen to more episodes! 📺 ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/show⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Follow us online! 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠https://instagram.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🤣 TikTok: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@insideofyou_podcast⁠⁠ 📘 Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🐦 Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/insideofyoupod⁠⁠ 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum.
0:05.6	I'm Michael Rosenbaum and this is Ryan Taez.
0:07.9	I'm Ryan Taez.
0:08.9	I'm Ryan Taez.
0:09.9	I'm here as well.
0:10.9	Guys, how are you?
0:11.9	How's your week going?
0:12.9	I hope you're healthy and happy and doing your thing and taking care of yourself and all
0:16.8	that stuff.
0:17.8	I mean, we talk about that a lot.
0:20.4	I know I forget to take care of myself, and then I find myself just broken. I do. Threw my back out. I'm so sorry. Yeah. So I'm going to get an MRI and stuff. Anyway, if you'd like to join, if you're liking the show, if you're here from Mike Coulter, Luke Cage, who's awesome.
0:38.9	If you're here from Mike and you haven't heard of my podcast, I appreciate you listening.
0:43.1	And if you like the episode, all I ask is, you know, if you think, you know, this guy's not too bad.
0:48.8	Write a review.
0:49.9	Subscribe.
0:50.7	More importantly, subscribe.
0:52.3	And if you really like the podcast and you want to support us, which the only reason we're going is because of supporters like Patreon, go to patreon.com slash inside of you, P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash inside of you. You can go to my Instagram at the Michael Rosenbaum. There's a link tree for cameos, conventions that i'm doing uh the smallville cruise cruiseville
1:12.5	dot com you can go to to get tickets and much much more the inside of you online store has smallville
1:18.4	scripts signed by me um smallville lunchbox is signed by me and tom ship keys a bunch of bunch of stuff
1:25.6	so go check it out it's really cool the inside of you online store. And you know, that's all I really need to say today, I believe. Yeah, there's lots of other things. But check out my Instagram and you know, follow me and look at the link tree. Ryan, are you healthy? Are you happy? Yeah. Yeah.
1:44.4	I mean,
1:44.6	I was gone for a little bit.
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