The Michael James Way is a podcast about grit, growth, and the mindset it takes to win when the path gets hard. Hosted by Michael James, the show is rooted in his own story: riding a bicycle across the United States from San Francisco to the coast of North Carolina, then taking the lessons from that journey, discipline under pressure, mental toughness, and a competitive edge, and applying them to scale a company into a seven figure business. Each episode blends Michael’s personal perspective with real conversations from people who have done the work. The show begins with fellow remodeling company owners who have fought for every inch of progress, then expands into a wider world of high performers: business owners across industries, sports professionals, success coaches, and other leaders who have overcome long odds and kept moving anyway. This is not motivation for motivation’s sake. It is practical, honest, and story driven: what it costs, what it takes, and what it looks like to build resilience, earn momentum, and lead at a higher level, in business and in life.
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Recent episodes include "Every Angry Client I’ve Had Traces Back to One Thing" (23 October 2026, 8 minutes), "Your Team Isn’t the Problem. Your Clarity Is." (16 October 2026, 13 minutes), and "$3 Million and Beyond: Part Two - Impact" (9 October 2026, 9 minutes).
The Michael James Way publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 41 minutes.
Booking probability for The Michael James Way is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Michael James Way requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Michael James Way's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #35
In 28 years of running a remodeling company, Michael James has seen clients frustrated, angry, and a few who fired him outright. Every one of those moments traces back to the same cause: somewhere along the line...
Episode #29
For a long time, Michael James thought culture meant team lunches, company meetings, and people treating each other well. Then he watched employees who loved their coworkers, who called it the best team they had ever...
Episode #31
Ninety seven percent of business owners in America never get past three million in revenue. Michael James was one of them. He sat at roughly $900,000 believing that if he just worked harder, the grind would eventually...
Episode #30
Lisa Kessler's father used to call her a princess. He was not being sweet. She is a sixth generation Native Hawaiian whose family traces back to the Kamehameha line, and if the monarchy had continued, that is what she...
Episode #29
Josh "Cuddly Bear" Copeland has fought in the UFC, the PFL, and Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. He's entered a million-dollar tournament as the eighth seed and knocked out the man who beat his best friend. He's also...
Episode #28
Hugh Evans just produced the first halftime show in World Cup history, for an audience of two billion people. At fourteen, he spent a sleepless night on a concrete slab on top of a garbage dump in Manila. This...
Episode #27
In 2008 I lost my marriage, my business, my house, and my truck. My kids were five and three. The only thing that brought me any peace at the time was getting on my bicycle and riding. I wasn't training for anything. I...
Episode #25
Michael James hired a coach before he rode a bicycle across the United States. Early on she told him something he did not believe and almost quit over: you are going to have five times you are going to want to quit. She...
Episode #24
Michael has told the story of riding his bicycle across the United States dozens of times. He had never asked his kids what that summer was like for them. In this episode Brianna and Jasper James answer the questions...
Episode #23
Two years ago a client got on a Zoom call with us, and we could not hit her deadline. She was pregnant, she needed a bathroom finished by a date we could not promise, and she hired somebody else. Last month she signed a...
Episode #22
In 2016 my life looked perfect from the outside, wife, kids, white picket fence. Inside, it was falling apart. So I booked a one-way flight to San Francisco and rode a bicycle 3,500 miles across the United States to...
Episode #21
At 6,500 feet, Michael said something that reframed the entire show: "The reason why I'm up high is because there's safety in altitude." This is the first episode of Podcast in a Plane, five cameras mounted to a...
Episode #20
I lost $65,000 in a single crypto transaction. I still don't know exactly where it went. This is the conversation I wish I'd had two years earlier. Ryan Horst got into crypto in 2017, watched the 2022 collapse take 95%...
Episode #20
Michael hit rock bottom, no house, no money, living in a basement apartment with his kids, and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco with no plan to get back except riding a bicycle across the country. In this...
Episode #19
After 30 years of watching the James family from the front pew, Cora Varvell sits down with Michael for a conversation neither of them fully expected. She saw the man his father was at church, and heard from Michael's...
Episode #17
Dr. Tom Incledon, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Causenta Wellness, a cancer treatment and performance center in Scottsdale, Arizona that sees patients from 90 countries. His story doesn't follow a straight line. Raised...
Episode #16
This episode wasn't planned. Michael opens up about something most business podcast hosts never admit: while teaching frameworks for success, he's been battling self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and mornings where he...
Episode #15
Before Michael James scaled his remodeling company past seven figures, he made a decision that mirrored something he'd done years earlier on a solo bike ride across the country: Push all the chips in. No turning back...
Episode #14
Description: Luis Barraza didn't grow up dreaming of remodeling bathrooms; he went to college for business administration. But six years after co-founding Blue Wave Home Improvement in Central Virginia, he's built a...
Episode #13
Zack Clayton got the call to wrestle for AEW with three days' notice. No warning. No runway. Just show up or lose the shot. In this episode of The Michael James Way, Zack breaks down exactly what it takes to be ready...
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