My guest today is Mike Meydenbauer.  

Mike is an executive coach focusing on helping leaders and teams stay ahead in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times.

He works with leaders to help them remember their innate capability to lead with passion, make bold decisions, and develop the mindset to achieve the impossible.

Mike’s father’s untimely death from cancer thrust him into a world of change and uncertainty at a very young age. 

Out of this he found his sense of purpose in the world.  He went to the U.S. Naval Academy and spent a career in the Navy and later became a diplomat, living around the globe. 

Mike and I connected through our mutual friend and colleague Russ Watts and also through the connection of storytelling.  I asked Mike to be a guest on the podcast before I knew anything about the story he would share.  A story of loss, heartbreak, miracles, and faith.  

I feel a great sense of honor to host Mike’s telling about his son, Niko, who forever changed their family’s life in just 2 short weeks of living.  Navigating unexpected medical emergencies, hospitals and then the loss of Niko in a foreign country and in a foreign language added to the immense challenges he and his wife faced.

Mike, I’m grateful to have you on the podcast, thank you for sharing, thank you for inspiring, and thank you for inviting each of us to keep Niko’s memory and influence alive and making a positive difference in the world so many years later.

Connect with Mike:

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www.makelifelessdifficult.com 

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