About Mike
Writer. Host.
Husband. Father.
Mike Brancatelli is a writer, podcaster, husband, father, and convener exploring culture, consciousness, power, beauty, family, technology, and what it means to remain human inside a civilization that increasingly separates us from soul, place, body, and one another.
From 2016 to 2024, he hosted Mikeadelic, a long-form podcast that reached roughly 750,000 downloads across more than 222 episodes and conversations with Charles Eisenstein, Christopher Ryan, Cory Allen, Daniel Pinchbeck, and others. His current work includes essays, conversations, one-on-one sessions, gatherings, and consulting for people and projects trying to recover living shape, deeper meaning, and a more human scale.
222+ podcast episodes · roughly 750,000 downloads · writing, sessions, gatherings, and consulting
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What This Place Is
A hearth at the edge of the machine.
Something in the current arrangement does not fit human beings very well. Life moves too fast. It is disorienting and disconnecting, even as we are told we are more connected than ever. It pulls us away from place, body, family, friendship, the living world, and the simple things that make life feel worth living—then packages fragments of them and sells them back to us.
This is a home for people who feel that and want to explore another way. A place to remember what matters, find the others, and experiment with ways of living that are more human-scale, reciprocal, beautiful, nourishing, and in better relationship with one another and the living world.
The new and ancient future is not a retreat into the past or a rejection of every modern tool and comfort. It is ancient memory carried forward with modern tools: keeping what genuinely serves life while recovering the relationships, skills, rhythms, places, and forms of belonging that help life flourish. This website is one small portal into that search—a place to move through ideas, conversations, images, gatherings, and invitations, and to help give another pattern a living form.
The Work of Renewal
Begin where the thread is alive.
You do not need to understand the whole map before entering. Begin with whatever still has heat. Read the essay that catches you. Explore the vision. Bring a real question into a session. Come to a gathering when the next room opens.
The larger work is to help people see more clearly, find one another, and begin giving another way of life an actual form.