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Your Thoughts Your Reality

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Welcome to "Your Thoughts, Your Reality with Mike Cole," the podcast that shines a compassionate light on the journey of veterans battling through life's challenges. Michael Cole, a Certified Elite Neuroencoding Specialist, dedicated to guiding military veterans as they navigate the intricate pathways of post-deployment life. Join him as we delve into the profound realm of Neuroencoding science, empowering these brave individuals to conquer universal battles: procrastination, self-doubt, fear, and more. Together, let's uncover the strength within you to re-engage with families and society, forging a new path forward.

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  • Who Carries It Forward? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Rick DellaRatta

    Who Carries It Forward? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Rick DellaRatta
    Oct 17 2026
    Send us Fan MailWhat does it really mean to leave a legacy?Is legacy what people remember about you after you are gone—or is it what you build now that other people can carry forward?In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with internationally recognized jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and Jazz for Peace founder Rick DellaRatta for a conversation about legacy, purpose, service, music, peace, and turning adversity into meaningful action.Together, Mike and Rick explore Legacy — The 10th Silent War and an important question for veterans, leaders, high performers, and anyone entering a new chapter:How do I take what I know, what I care about, and what I have lived through—and turn it into something that continues serving beyond me?Rick’s story changed dramatically on September 11, 2001.From a rooftop less than a quarter mile from the World Trade Center, Rick witnessed the events of 9/11 unfolding. Without a piano in front of him, words began moving through his mind. He started writing them down.Those words became a poem called “Jazz for Peace.”Rick then faced a choice.Would the poem simply remain words on a page—or would he try to live what he had written?He chose to act.That decision eventually grew into Jazz for Peace, a global initiative using music to support peace, education, fundraising, grassroots organizations, and causes around the world. The organization has now supported hundreds of benefit events while creating opportunities for other people to participate in something larger than themselves.That is where this conversation becomes bigger than music.Rick’s message is that legacy requires participation.It is easy to care about a cause.It is easy to admire someone doing meaningful work.It is easy to say that something should change.But eventually, the question becomes:What am I willing to do?This conversation connects directly to several of The 10 Silent Wars:Legacy — The 10th Silent War: “What am I creating that someone else can carry forward?”Mission — The 2nd Silent War: “What am I willing to contribute my time, talent, or experience toward?”Connection — The 3rd Silent War: “How can what I do bring people together rather than push them further apart?”Direction — The 8th Silent War: “What is one meaningful action I can take next?”Identity — The 1st Silent War: “Am I living according to what matters to me—or only thinking about it?”Rick also shares his belief that music is far more than entertainment.Across languages, cultures, religions, and backgrounds, music can create connection where words sometimes cannot. He describes it as a vehicle for creativity, healing, education, human consciousness, and ultimately peace.Mike and Rick discuss something equally important for anyone wondering whether they are capable of creating meaningful impact:You do not need to start a global movement.Contribution can begin much closer to home.Help a legitimate cause in your community.Support someone doing work you believe in.Use a skill you already possess.Do something kind for another person.Take the first action.Rick describes this as creating “wealth inside.”We spend enormous energy pursuing financial wealth, status, accomplishments, and external success. But Rick challenges listeners to consider another form of wealth:What are you doing that makes your soul richer?That question sits at the heart of this episode.Because legacy is not only about what you leave.It is about what your actions make possible while you are still here.Rick also shares practical ways people can participate through Jazz for Peace—including simple actions designed to help individuals and organizations support worthwhile causes without requiring enormous amounts of money, influence, or time.And to close the conversation, Rick gives listeners something special: a live musical performance and his Jazz for Peace poem—the words that helped begin a mission he has now carried for 25 years.In this episode, you’ll learn:How witnessing 9/11 led Rick DellaRatta to write Jazz for PeaceWhy he chose to turn a poem into a 25-year missionWhat legacy means when other people can participate and carry the work forwardWhy music can connect people across cultural, religious, and language barriersThe difference between caring about a cause and actually participatingWhy meaningful contribution does not require creating a global organizationHow adversity can become the beginning of something constructiveWhy service and contribution can create a different kind of personal wealthHow ordinary people can begin supporting causes they genuinely believe inWhy the first small action may matter more than having the entire planBefore moving on, ask yourself:What do I already have—an experience, skill, talent, relationship, or cause—that I could use in service of something bigger than myself?You do not need to know where it will lead.You only need enough willingness to ...
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    37 min
  • What Did Survival Hide? | Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War | Eugene Yeskov

    What Did Survival Hide? | Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War | Eugene Yeskov
    Oct 16 2026
    Send us Fan MailWhat happens when survival mode keeps running even after the immediate danger has passed?When fear, trauma, war, or major adversity takes over, emotional armor can make sense.We compartmentalize.We stay useful.We keep moving.But eventually the crisis changes—and the armor does not always get the message.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with Eugene Yeskov, a transformational coach from Ukraine whose perspective on resilience, purpose, fear, and personal growth has been shaped by experiencing the impact of war firsthand.Eugene now lives in Greece and helps people who feel lost, stuck, or disconnected from themselves reconnect with their values, inner strength, purpose, and direction.Together, Mike and Eugene explore Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War and an important question:How do you move forward without allowing what you survived to decide who you have to become next?Eugene describes what happened when war began in Ukraine.For days, his world narrowed to survival.Sleep changed. His attention became intensely focused on danger, safety, and getting through what was directly in front of him. The bigger questions about purpose, fulfillment, and the future temporarily disappeared.He also shares the story of a friend in Mariupol who, under extraordinary circumstances, became almost unrecognizable compared with his normal personality—taking charge and helping more than 100 people escape danger.It illustrates one of the central ideas in this conversation:Survival can activate parts of us we never knew were there.But what protects us during crisis may not be what we need once the crisis has changed.This conversation directly connects to several of The 10 Silent Wars:Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War: “What did I build to survive that I may still be carrying?”Identity — The 1st Silent War: “Who am I beyond what happened to me?”Mission — The 2nd Silent War: “What gives my life meaning when survival is no longer the only goal?”Fear — The 9th Silent War: “Am I building my life around what I’m afraid of—or what I actually want?”Direction — The 8th Silent War: “What is pulling me forward now?”Eugene’s own search for purpose began before the war.He built a successful career in technology and economic cybernetics. By conventional standards, he had accomplished many of the things that were supposed to create fulfillment.He had the career.He had the apartment.He had the car.And he still felt empty.That realization led him to begin asking different questions:Why am I here?What actually fulfills me?What would make my life meaningful?Eventually, Eugene discovered coaching and what he describes as his mission: helping other people uncover their own sense of purpose.Mike and Eugene discuss why purpose can become especially important after adversity. When life has been organized around surviving the next day, moving forward may first require reconnecting with gratitude, relationships, values, and the things that make life worth living.Eugene explains that when he works with someone who is deeply stuck, he does not immediately begin by asking them to discover their life mission.He starts smaller.What went well?What are you proud of?Who do you love?Who loves you?From there, people can begin reconnecting with what matters before trying to answer the larger question of what comes next.They also explore Eugene’s approach to uncovering the deeper “why” behind a goal.The first answer is rarely the whole answer.Why do you want success?Why do you want money?Why do you want recognition?Why does that matter?By continuing to ask why, Eugene believes people can move beyond the surface-level answer and discover the values and emotional needs underneath it.The conversation then returns to emotional armor.Eugene suggests beginning with a deceptively simple question:“Does this behavior actually feel like me?”If anger, withdrawal, defensiveness, control, revenge, or disconnection does not feel aligned with who you want to be, the next questions become:When did I start doing this?What was I protecting?And do I still need that protection in the same way today?Mike and Eugene also discuss how to find meaning after painful experiences without pretending the pain was necessary or minimizing what happened.The goal is not to romanticize trauma.It is to recognize that the past has already happened—and ask whether there is wisdom, strength, awareness, or direction you can carry forward from it.In this episode, you’ll learn:What survival mode can do to your priorities and sense of purposeWhy emotional armor can protect you during crisis but create disconnection laterHow Eugene experienced the beginning of the war in UkraineWhat extreme adversity can reveal about human resilience and resourcefulnessWhy purpose often disappears when survival becomes the immediate priorityHow gratitude, love, and values can help someone begin reconnecting ...
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    32 min
  • When Trauma Rewrites Tomorrow | Direction — The 8th Silent War | Faust Ruggiero

    When Trauma Rewrites Tomorrow | Direction — The 8th Silent War | Faust Ruggiero
    Oct 14 2026
    Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you survive the trauma—but lose your sense of where life is going?Trauma does not only change how you remember the past.It can change how safe the present feels, how much you trust yourself, and whether the future still feels possible.In this episode of Your Thoughts, Your Reality, Michael Cole sits down with Faust Ruggiero, a therapist whose career spans more than four decades, including approximately 35 years working with veterans and first responders.Faust is the creator of the Process Way of Life, the author behind the Fix Yourself Empowerment Series, and the author of The Fix Your PTSD Handbook, a practical guide designed to help people better understand trauma, PTSD, and the steps involved in moving toward recovery.Together, Mike and Faust explore Direction — The 8th Silent War and why finding direction after trauma often requires more than simply setting another goal.Sometimes you first have to understand what is happening inside you.Faust shares how his work with veterans began early in his career when a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war came to him carrying severe trauma and suicidal thoughts.That experience taught him something that would shape the next several decades of his work:Before you can help someone move forward, you have to earn enough trust for them to believe they are no longer carrying everything alone.Faust explains why trauma can become “stuck,” how painful experiences can replay internally, and why PTSD may begin affecting far more than memories—relationships, employment, anger, isolation, substance use, self-perception, and the ability to imagine a meaningful future.The conversation also addresses one of the most difficult parts of military transition:The person who returns home is not simply the person who left.Military training intentionally builds a soldier capable of functioning under circumstances most civilians will never experience. But when service ends, the behaviors, vigilance, identity, and survival responses developed in that environment do not disappear with the discharge paperwork.Faust argues that reintegration needs to be treated as a genuine process—not an expectation that someone should simply “go back to normal.”This conversation directly connects to several of The 10 Silent Wars:Direction — The 8th Silent War: “How do I create a future when trauma keeps pulling me backward?”Identity — The 1st Silent War: “Who am I when being a soldier is no longer my daily role?”Trust — The 5th Silent War: “Can I believe someone will actually stay with me through this?”Emotional Armor — The 7th Silent War: “What did I learn to suppress in order to survive?”Connection — The 3rd Silent War: “How do I reconnect when I feel like nobody truly understands me?”Faust also explains the approach behind The Fix Your PTSD Handbook.Rather than offering one template for everyone, he emphasizes individualized, step-by-step progress.Build trust first.Understand the trauma.Look at how it is affecting the rest of life.Then create practical actions small enough to actually take.Mike and Faust also discuss the power of internal language.Trauma can create painful beliefs such as:“I’m a bad person.”“I don’t deserve forgiveness.”“If people knew what I had done or seen, they would look at me differently.”Faust explains that healing is not simply replacing a negative statement with forced positivity. His approach is to begin separating emotional conclusions from facts—understanding how someone arrived at those beliefs and changing the internal dialogue from there.That becomes especially important when discussing the movement from victimization toward empowerment.The message is not that someone caused or chose their trauma.It is that what happened does not have to be given permanent authority over what happens next.You cannot rewrite what occurred.But with the right support, understanding, and action, you can begin reclaiming authorship of tomorrow.In this episode, you’ll learn:Why trauma can affect your ability to imagine a futureHow trust becomes foundational when helping veterans process traumaWhy PTSD can show up through relationships, anger, isolation, substance use, and hypervigilanceThe difference between surviving an experience and actually processing itWhy military identity does not simply disappear after dischargeWhy Faust believes reintegration should include individualized psychological supportHow the Process Way of Life approaches change through incremental actionWhy there is no single treatment roadmap that fits every veteran or trauma survivorHow internal language can reinforce shame and self-punishmentWhy replacing emotional conclusions with facts can help change the conversation insideHow someone can begin moving from surviving the past toward creating direction for the futureIf something in this conversation felt familiar, don’t immediately move on.Ask yourself:Is ...
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    38 min
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