The reason you can't see your gifts (yes you have them)

In this reintroduction episode of the Ms. Michaela Mae Show, Michaela Mae opens up about why she's decided to continue running two separate podcasts — the Ms. Michaela Mae Show and The Western Hippie — and why that decision is rooted in clarity rather than fear. She shares powerful epiphanies from a recent weekend that led her to a message she believes is deeply collective: most people are severely underestimating how necessary their gifts are to the world.

Michaela breaks down the paradox of the internet — how it has simultaneously expanded our world and closed it — and how living inside an online "think tank" causes creators, coaches, and healers to assume their knowledge is common when it isn't. Using real-life examples, including a conversation with a well-known figure in the spiritual space and the rise of Rachel Hollis, she illustrates why the thing you think is "obvious" is actually life-changing information to someone outside your circle.

She also touches on the connection between unused gifts and depression, addiction, and self-destructive patterns — and why showing up fully with what you have to offer isn't just good for your audience, it's necessary for you. Michaela wraps up with an update on her content schedule, what's coming next for the show, and a peek at a possible new daily video format.

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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Miss Mikayla May Show. I'm your host, Miss Michaela May, here with all three Corgis today. I usually say take and Willie, but my mom's dog, Daisy, is actually here with me today as well. So we have all three Corgis in the house per usual. And I briefly mentioned this in the last episode, but I feel like today is kind of just a catch-up, pickup, where I left off in a way, but in a different way, also because last episode I wasn't really sure what I was doing. And one of the things I had mentioned in that episode is I had an epiphany when my horse died, and it was that I really wanted to be aware of because I have two podcasts. I have this episode, The Miss Mikaela May Show, and then I have the Western Hippie. And I wanted to be really clear that I wasn't splitting the episodes off because of a limiting belief or because of um, we would call it like the fear of being seen. Like I I had something where I wasn't comfortable with people seeing all of me, and I felt like I had to split myself off into two different people because that is something I've experienced in the past. And so I wanted to be really conscious that I wasn't doing that. And ultimately what I've come down to is it really is two different customers and two different audiences for the two different podcasts. So I have decided to go forward with the two different podcasts, and um that's kind of the update, what we're doing, and because when I see the Western Hippie brand, I see it eventually turning into a supplement line and the Western Hippie being a resource where people could come to learn everything about just dog health and horse health in general, but it's more of a product, like I see it more like Nike. And I might have mentioned this on like the first episode of whatever, where this podcast I see is more of the personal brand, what I'm doing, more casual. And again, I thought about combining that both in the Western Hippie, and then now after some time, uh moving through some more grief, I'm like, no, I actually do really enjoy having the two different podcasts. So here we are. That is the plan. I don't have a schedule yet, but as of right now, the plan is to proceed with both of the podcasts. Uh, what I wanted to kick off with today, now that this podcast we're restarting it, rebooting it, whatever you want to call it, um, is I had a very interesting weekend. I had a very fascinating weekend, and some of the insights that came through. I'm recording this on a Monday. I'm recording this on Monday, uh, April 20th, 2026. So my weekend previous to whatever this was was very fascinating. So I had some realizations, epiphanies, whatever you want to call them, come through during this really interesting weekend, and I wanted to share them with you because they felt really powerful to share with not just myself, but with everyone. Um, because it seemed like a very what I would call collective and cultural message that was going on in the world. Um, and that was we don't see how big of a necessity us and our gifts are to the world because we tend to put ourselves in a think tank. What's really interesting is the internet has somehow expanded the world and closed the world at the same time. And I'll explain what I mean by that. Expanded meaning we could connect with people easier, simpler than ever from all across the world. We can do business with people from all across the world. We don't have to, you know, at one point in our society and our culture, you had to be in a very specific business that did business with foreign governments and other things like that to be able to really connect with someone so easily, or you had to travel or do pen pals or letters or whatever to really connect with someone who was overseas or not in your country. Now you just get online and you can go connect with anybody in within a few seconds if you wish. Um, and so in that way, it's expanded our world, right? We can connect, like I follow people from Australia, I learn from people in Australia, I follow people from England, I learn from people from England, I have uh a few people that I follow and connect with from India. Like, there's all of these connections I have that I I don't believe I would have them without social media. I just I just don't see a way in what that those are possible. So again, that's like how the world has expanded. And the way that it is closed down and shut down is with the online media space and stuff like that, we're just more likely to follow people who do what we do, who think how we think, who believe what we believe. And in that way, it's very much closed our circles and our trains of thoughts and stuff like that. And I'm not gonna get into, you know, the good, bad, the whole extrapolation today, because I'm only gonna stick to one specific piece of why that circle closing does not benefit us. I'm not even gonna say good or bad, but how it's not benefiting us right now, is we think everyone's doing what we're doing. We think that everyone knows what we know. We think that the thing that we want to share on social media that we want to teach on social media is so obvious. And I'm here to tell you it's not. One of the things that I had to come to the realization, because that was where I was at. Like I've been taking classes to learn certain um tools, gain certain gifts, to strengthen certain skills. So everyone in my circle right now were people that I went to school with uh or class with, they're people that we practice together, like we're all doing the same thing. Like, I think about the first fifth, the 15 people I engage the most with on social media, minus two, I think are all doing what I'm doing. We're all doing the same thing. And so I just assume this information's obvious because we're all talking about how these things go together, how trauma and self-image and the universal law of reflections, and if you're new here, these may things may sound foreign, foreign to you, hence my point. Um, I'm actually going to be explaining those more in upcoming episodes. But to me, they're just so obvious, and I know exactly what they mean. I can explain self-concept to you, but then over the weekend, I was talking to someone who's really well known in the spiritual space. She had no idea what these things were. Like, I'm in the spiritual space, she's in the spiritual space, and yet she had no idea what I was talking about. I could speak her lingo just fine, but like she had no idea what my lingo was, and it dawned on me like, oh my gosh, like what I have to offer to the world is so necessary. Like, it isn't obvious, and this is why it's needed. Like, after seeing the things that like she was going through and struggling with, I'm like, oh my gosh, I have to keep talking about this. Like, I have like, but it wasn't a have to because I felt like just another like fish in the sea, right? Like it just because there was so many, it's like, well, this isn't important because there's 10 other people talking about it or whatever. And then because of that experience, I'm like, oh no, this is such a big necessity. And then what's interesting enough with the Western Hippie, which is my animal and dog health stuff, with my my horse and I don't do cat, I don't do cats, my horse and dog health podcast and the stuff that I talk about my Instagram on my Instagram. With that, uh, one of our friends had a really rough weekend with her animals, and um it became so obvious to me because after she was telling me what happened at the vet, the vet's protocols were never gonna help those animals. Like they they just weren't. And so, even with that, I'm like now it's become even more of a necessity for me to like hammer down and like dial in all of that. And so I say all of that because if you're listening to this, you are in a very similar scenario. There is a part of you that has a gift you want to share, and you're just thinking like everyone else is doing that. Why do I need to do that? And there's two things is the one because we've put ourselves in these think tanks, we just think everyone knows. We just think, and so again, similar to what I went through, that's why I want to share this message with you you today is no, it's just in your circle. But I can guarantee you, if you go out of your online circle, out of your online think tank, and you just walk into a grocery store and go ask three people, like think of the thing that you want to talk about most. Go find three people, not online, maybe at the grocery store, maybe just someone that you work with or something, and say, Hey, do you know about this, this, and that? I think you would be surprised at how many people don't know what you're talking about and how many people need what you want to talk about. And I'm thinking even specifically, when I first got into the personal development scene, I guess is what we would call it. Rachel Hollis was like I don't know how else to say, but like she was like the hottest thing, like she was the thing. Like she was this rising star. Um, she was the thing. Like in 2018, right behind Michelle Obama, Rachel's book was the best-selling book of the year. Like she was just, I remember I had started following her before the book like really took off. Like I had found the book, and the book was was gaining traction, but it it didn't get as hot as it eventually did. And I remember, I think when I started following her, she had like 200,000 followers on Instagram, and within the week she was up to a million followers. Like, I just remember because it was fascinating for me, like checking her page, refreshing it, was like, this is insane. Like, this is insane, it's it was genuinely insane. And so um, I was at a friend's house. Like, this is again while Rachel's like on this rising like trajectory. I'm at a friend's house and I said something, and it to me, again, I'm in my think tank. I think like everyone knows who Rachel Hollis is. There's not a person in the world right now who doesn't know who Rachel Hollis is, because again, online a million followers is a lot, but when we think we have billions of people in the world, a million really isn't that much, like in correlation. Obviously, a million, like you can't even put a million people in a room to go speak to, but you know what I mean. I digress. Um, and I said something, and she's like, Who's Rachel Hollis? So I was at this friend's house, she's like, Who's Rachel Hollis? And I was like, You don't know who Rachel Hollis is, and that really really again made me realize, like, oh, I'm in this tank, like just because it's obvious to me, just because I can see all the shrubbery and the greenery around in this tank, doesn't mean everyone can. So do with that what you will. And I just encourage you to see how just because it appears that it's so obvious to you, doesn't mean it's so obvious to everyone else. And when we stay in this think tank, we start to diminish our own gifts, and when we start to diminish our own gifts, then we're not using our gifts to the best of our ability. And if we don't use our gifts to the best of our abilities, that's truly when I believe like depression, um, addiction, and other things start to set into our lives because unused energy has to go somewhere. So that energy is either coming out through your gifts or it's going to come out through a maybe a habit that doesn't serve you the best or an addiction of some sort, you know, whatever you want to call it. So as of right now, I'm gonna keep this episode a little bit short today. As of right now, my plan is to try and do at least two episodes here a month because I I want to do a podcast a week, but it's really important to me that I keep the Western Hippie going as well as the Miss Michaela May show going. And so I believe as of right now, I'm gonna I'm in I'm in experimentation mode. Always, I'm always in experimentation mode. So I'm gonna uh see how it feels for me to do um basically alternating weeks where I do the Miss Michaela May show on the first week and the third week of the month and the Western Hippie on the second and fourth week of the month or something like that. So again, I'm experimenting um with the format and like the drop schedule, all of that. Um the second thing, uh although there's a wild hair, there's a wild that we used to always say my friend had this dog, and she would just go do the most random things, and every time she would go do the most random things, like you would think her name was Lucy, like you'd think Lucy was just having a calm, cool, and collected day, and all of a sudden Lucy would just go race hell somewhere. And my friend used to say, like, oh, Lucy's just got a wild hair up her ass. And I've always kept that because I'm like, actually, that's really accurate. So I have a wild hair up my ass. My friend actually told me she was doing something like this, and I was like, you know what, that could be that could be helpful of recording a podcast every morning, like almost as a video blog vlog thing. I don't know if I'd put that on the podcast, I'd probably just keep that on YouTube. I had tried that back in October when I started this podcast, and I didn't love it then. However, I'm in a different season, different place, and everything now, and I and I'm needing that routine of doing like one thing that's the same every morning. So I might test that again, but again, those episodes would I would just put them on YouTube. I don't think I would I would publish them on the podcast as well. I think I would just keep them on YouTube. Um, so format up in the air, TBD, I'll let you, you'll know when I know. You'll know when I know. Um, the second piece of the Miss Michaela May show going forward, what we're gonna do is um I am going to get more into mindset teachings, emotional healing teachings, um, spiritual principles, spiritual laws, that kind of stuff. So it will be my personal brand. I will be doing fun stuff, like if Landon and I want to do a movie review or if I want to talk about a movie, etc. Like I'll do my fun stuff here, like two to three percent of the time, um, I think. Um, but then I'm really going to I'm really passionate about spiritual laws, energetic tools, and stuff like that right now. So this next era of the Miss Mikaela May show is going to be all of that stuff tied in. So I'm excited. I'm thankful you're here, and thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Miss Mikayla May Show. I will see you either next week if I decide to go weekly, who knows with me, or two weeks from now. So anyway, take care. Um, I'm really thankful you're here, and we will talk soon.