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The Rising and Thriving Podcast
Welcome to The Rising & Thriving Podcast—the podcast for high-functioning men who feel emotionally drained, stuck, or broken by life’s hardest seasons.
Hosted by therapist, coach, and father Yves Mukanya, each episode offers raw stories, mindset shifts, and tools to help you rise from divorce, burnout, and identity loss—and rebuild your life with clarity, confidence, and conviction.
Topics include:
- Divorce recovery & emotional healing
- Purpose after burnout
- Fatherhood, masculinity, and mental health
- Building a meaningful life after everything falls apart
Subscribe now if you're ready to reclaim your identity—and thrive on your own terms.
The Rising and Thriving Podcast
Lawyers Don't tell You This About Decision-Making | Leadership Lessons | with Michael Just S01EP02
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Decision-making under pressure, legal judgment, leadership, fatherhood, entrepreneurship, and responsibility when there is no clear answer and the outcome affects other people.
What do you do when you have to make an important decision, but you do not have all the information you need?
In this episode of The Rising and Thriving Podcast, My guest, Michael S. Just, and I explore what it means to think carefully when experiencing pressure and making decision that may affect the people around us.
The conversation examines the difference between following rules and using judgment, the risk of leaving stability to build something of your own, and the way responsibility can shape how you lead at work, at home, and in your community.
In this episode, we talk about:
• Making decisions when there is no clear answer
• Understanding the human cost behind professional choices
• Leaving stability and accepting the risk of building something new
• Leadership that adapts to different people and situations
• Fatherhood, responsibility, and creating opportunities for young people
• Learning to live with decisions when the outcome is uncertain
This conversation is part of Season 1 of The Rising and Thriving Podcast, where we explore how people think and decide when the stakes are high.
Subscribe to follow the full season.
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About the Guest
Michael S. Just is an attorney and the founder of Just Law. His work focuses on veterans’ benefits appeals. He has also taught law, supervised future attorneys, and founded the AAU basketball program Hoops Army.
Website: https://www.mjustlaw.com/
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About the Host
My name is Yves Mukanya. I am a therapist, transformational coach, and host of The Rising and Thriving Podcast. I focus on helping individuals navigate identity, pressure, and decision-making in moments that shape the direction of their lives.
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#DecisionMaking #Leadership #LegalJudgment #Entrepreneurship #Fatherhood #Mentorship #HighStakesDecisions #RisingAndThrivingPodcast
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:06 Judgement Vs Certainty
05:22 Sustained Pressure and Burnout
17:10 Decison-Making Under Pressure With A Teaching Lens
30:56 Fatherhood and Long-Term Responsibility
39:00 Moral Weight And Reflection
43:10 Closing Reflection
44:31 Final Question To Close
46:14 Sign-OFF + Call To Action
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