Search Marketing Specialist Patrick Berlinquette talks about how he turned the tables on Google -- and likely saved some lives in the process!

"It's (the GOP) morphed into a cult not with an ideology but a theology, and that means you follow the cult leader. And it means you are especially burdened if you are an apostate and you get shunned or even excommunicated.”

Congressional Scholar Norman J. Ornstein ("The Dean")gets to the guts of the Senate Impeachment Trial and describes how the parties have changed since Watergate and the Clinton trial.

"My doctors were assuming that I was a medical student and somehow that meant that I understood, or it somehow meant that I was immune to the disease of addiction. I learned the hard way that I was not."

Sarah Gad talks about her experiences with addiction, the Cook County jail system, recovery - and her 2020 candidacy for the U.S. Congress.

He is THE storyteller.

Doug Levy has had a towering career in Chicago broadcasting. For years a popular DJ on the preeminent rock station, he parlayed his on-air talent into a business career where he ascended to be president of Univision Television and Radio.

If you're in the mood to be both entertained and inspired, listen to my dear friend Doug as he shares a lifetime of wisdom, love and laughs.

Eddie Bocanegra is the preeminent expert on gun violence in the city of Chicago, because he grew up in it, served 14 years in prison for it -- and then decided to do something about it.

The Senior Director of Heartland Alliance's READI Chicago program talks about how they are building a national model for slashing shootings by working with men to change their lives.

He went from being wrongly convicted and imprisoned to becoming an attorney at law fighting to exonerate other victims of a corrupt criminal justice system.

Jarrett Adams was the very first guest on The Golden Mean, and he joins Michael for Episode #100 to share more of his inspiring life journey!

No one knows the digital news landscape better than Jimmy Greenfield - because he's lived it for 25 years in Chicago.

Jimmy joins the show to talk about his career as a news and sports editor, including what it's been like to cover the Chicago Blackhawks and Major League Baseball. Michael also gets Jimmy to tell the story of how he came to write his classic book: "100 Things Cubs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die."

"I want to believe, at the end of my life, that I had tried to do everything I could to fix things."

Democracy Reform leader Madeleine Doubek talks about why she's dedicated to reforming and improving Illinois government. The head of CHANGE ILLINOIS, Doubek breaks down the fight for voting rights, gerrymandering reform, balot initiatives and fairness in taking the 2020 US Census. Listen to a pure leader!

"Being lost in what you're doing is really what it's all about. Great performers can't really explain why their performance was great when it was great, they just know that it felt right. And when it feels right, you're not thinking much, you're not trying much, but you're trusting it and you're letting go and allowing your instincts to surface."

Dr. Jeffrey Fishbein talks about how patience, balance and never giving up leads to the deepest kind of success: fulfillment.

"Fearful." That's how Gilad Gordon described the feeling he had in 1973 when he attended the Watergate Impeachment Hearings. He was 16 years old. Forty-six later, on the morning of the Trump Impeachment Hearings, Gilad talks about what it was like - and how it compares to what we're going through now.