July 29, 2025

Does Feeling Lucky End Depression?

In this episode, Michael Unbroken dives into a powerful and personal exploration of how the emotion of feeling lucky might just be the missing link in your healing and success journey. See show notes below...

In this episode, Michael Unbroken dives into a powerful and personal exploration of how the emotion of feeling lucky might just be the missing link in your healing and success journey.

After years of self-inquiry, research, and listening to some of the greatest minds in the world, Michael unpacks whether "feeling lucky" could be a mindset that shifts depression, anxiety, and apathy into momentum, hope, and achievement.

He shares real-life stories—from his chaotic upbringing and moments that could've gone very differently, to surprising wins in business and chance meetings with icons like Gary Vaynerchuk—that challenge how we define luck, and how we might use it as fuel for transformation.

💬 Can luck be a belief you choose rather than a force you wait for?

🧠 Could embodying the feeling of luck change your mental health?

💥 What if one of the cures for anxiety or depression is choosing to see your life as lucky?

Tune in to hear Michael’s raw reflections, personal experiences, and a new hypothesis that might just change how you see your own path forward.

************* LINKS & RESOURCES *************

Learn how to heal and overcome childhood trauma, narcissistic abuse, ptsd, cptsd, higher ACE scores, anxiety, depression, and mental health issues and illness. Learn tools that therapists, trauma coaches, mindset leaders, neuroscientists, and researchers use to help people heal and recover from mental health problems. Discover real and practical advice and guidance for how to understand and overcome childhood trauma, abuse, and narc abuse mental trauma. Heal your body and mind, stop limiting beliefs, end self-sabotage, and become the HERO of your own story.

Join our FREE COMMUNITY as a member of the Unbroken Nation: https://www.thinkunbrokenacademy.com/share/AEGok414shubQSzq?utm_source=manual

Download the first three chapters of the Award-Winning Book Think Unbroken: Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma: https://book.thinkunbroken.com/

Join the Think Unbroken Trauma Transformation Course: https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com/

@Michael Unbroken: https://www.instagram.com/michaelunbroken/

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/think-unbroken-with-michael-unbroken-childhood-trauma-cptsd-and/exclusive-content

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Support the Podcast: Become a listed sponsor!

Follow me on Instagram @MichaelUnbroken

Learn more about coaching at https://coaching.thinkunbroken.com

Get your FREE copy of my #1 Best-Selling Book Think Unbroken: https://book.thinkunbroken.com/

What's up guys! Happy to be here. Great to connect with you and have you back for another episode of the podcast. if you're watching on the YouTube, thank you. You can go look up Michael Unbroken on YouTube. I'm gonna jump right into it.

I was thinking a lot over the last few days, like what is the actual, like solution and cure for depression and for anxiety. I feel this weird energy over the course of the last year where it's not that I'm living necessarily in anxiety or depression, just feeling like there's been something amiss.

And so I've been doing a lot of just self-narrative reflection, a lot of research, a lot of listening to some of the greatest minds in the world, something that I've always been attuned to, and I've just come to something, I'm talking out with you here in real time.

And that is luck actually the factor and the feeling, the emotion of feeling lucky.

Is that the thing that actually creates a massive change in your psychology to move your closer towards success? Basically, if I were to summarize it and shorten it, it's does luck equal success? Does feeling lucky equal success?

Does giving yourself like physically, or mentally giving yourself the emotion of feeling lucky, does that actually equate to success? And it got me thinking about a lot of my own personal journey. I look at so many of the things that have happened in my life. And I cannot help but feel this immense sense of luck sometimes, and this is just me being honest sometimes there's been a sense of, what's the point? Does this even matter? Why am I doing this? Who cares? That's just true apathy has always been my worst enemy. There's no question about that. I cannot hide that. I never have. I never will. That's where my nihilism comes from, right? Just because at the end of the day, I kind of think, well, I don't know that any of it matters while simultaneously holding the contending thought that actually all of it matters, which is such a wild thing to an idea to coexist.

So anyway, I've been contemplating about this idea of:

“Does the feeling and emotion of luck? And lucky actually lead down the path of success?”

And where that started from was a deep look back at my journey almost in its entirety. I was having conversation with a friend and we were talking about how I feel lucky that I had parents that were drug addicts and alcoholics, which is such a crazy idea to wrap your head around until you wrap your head around it, because I would not be here without that, I would not be here without them, without the chaos and all of the things that happen with them forcing me effectively to figure out everything on my own. As a kid, I wouldn't be here with you today. Right. So that's a big deal. And then I started thinking about how lucky I was.

For even the couple of times that I would get in very intense trouble, be in handcuffs and somehow escape it, like that's luck, like maybe in the deepest sense of it, in, in a lot of capacity. How I feel lucky in those times where my friends would go and do something that I knew would have consequences, and I would be with them and nothing would happen, or on the other times where something would happen and I wouldn't be there, and I would escape those consequences.

Again, luck then I fast forward into my twenties working in this corporate career that I built, then building a photography company, and then you know, now everything I've built with Think Unbroken and the podcast and the books and the people I've coach, all of that feels lucky to me. And the reason why it feels lucky. Is because I've always tried to come into this with feeling like I could do it, and you need a little bit of luck on your side for that idea of I can do it to come to fruition. Right. I heard, it may have been Alex Hormozi who said this. He goes, I don't like when people call me lucky, because they didn't see all the work that it took for the luck to happen.

And I agree with that entirely. I do, but I also have the mindset coming into it like, I'm lucky I can do this. And so I've been toying with this idea, and the reason why I'm sharing it with you is because I, I'm wondering for you and some of you, I'd love to hear from you if you'll send me a message on Instagram at Michael Unbroken, if you will DM me on there.

I would love to hear from you and know what your thoughts are about this. And the reason why is because I'm wondering if we took this idea of luck. And we applied it to all of the things that were happening in our life that were positive, and we focused our energy into the positive instead of into the negative.

Would that change the way that we think about and perceive the world? I can't help but lean towards, yes, because I guess at the default of it, how could it not?

If you feel lucky and you walk out onto the street and you put yourself into this emotion of feeling lucky, how could you not be lucky? I don't understand.

If you are going on a date and you're meeting someone, you feel like you're lucky, not that you'll get lucky. I mean, maybe you'll get lucky, but not that, but it's like, if you feel this feeling of luck, oh my God, it's finally gonna be my person, maybe they'll be your person.

What about in your own healing journey, right where you go?

I feel so lucky that I get the opportunity to do this deep work and uncover the true core essence of who I am as a human being. Does that change your life? And that's what I've been thinking about a lot is like, how do you take this idea of feeling lucky and leverage it? As many of you know, and I've shared this many times, I've been fortunate enough to go under the tutelage of Tony Robbins, both in his massive gigantic events, his smaller events, but also in his small group coaching and be very close to him and have these experiences of learnings from him.

And he always wears this hat, that says live lucky, and I never really understood it until I started going deep into this part of my journey, which is new and I'm talking out with you in real time, but I never understood this idea of live lucky. Until kind of now, and it makes so much sense that you would put yourself into the framework and into the mindset of saying, I am lucky.

And then using that and leveraging that to go and create the life that you want to have and I distinctly know without a shadow of the doubt that in order for luck to transpire, you do have to put in hard work. But if you believe that your hard work will lead to luck, then how could you not be lucky at the end of it? It's the same way like before, I've gotten on stages and speaking to people in the same way before I wrote the first book that became a bestseller. And the same way that when I launched this podcast a very long time ago, I knew that it could be one of the best in the world.

And because of it, we've done. So many amazing things, and I appreciate all of you for listening, right? So I took all these ideas and concepts that I believe could come to fruition, and I just, I felt like I could make it happen. And I, the sprinkles of luck that came in have only ever happened because I kept doing the work.

I remember once I was in Minnesota, I went to VCon, which was Gary Gary Vaynerchuk's event, and I'm just walking around and sure enough, boom, pop into Gary like it's before the event. Nobody's around. I'm on a random street, I don't even know where I am. And he's getting outta the car with my buddy D Rock at the same time, and that could not be more lucky, that could not be more lucky. And so we forget to leverage luck about the amazing good things that happen to us. And we tend to sit in the negative low vibrating energies, and, and it's reasonable because of our past and the experiences that we have. But I wanna challenge you for the next week just think about every little idiosyncrasy that happens, every nuance, every little idiom, every strange coincidence, all the good things and all the bad things. Can you look at them through the eyes of someone who's lucky?

I don't know if this works, by the way. I'm not saying this does, but I am saying, what if one of the solutions, I'm asking the question, I should say, my hypothesis is what if the solution for anxiety and depression is just simply walking into the world and feeling lucky? Would that change anything? I don't know. But if you'll message me at Michael Unbroken, I'd love to know and hear about your story and your journeys, and most importantly, thank you for listening.

If you found any value with this, share it with a friend, please, because I know that they might need a little bit of luck in their life. And if you're struggling in your journey, go to thinkunbroken.com for tons of free resources as well as your opportunity to hop on a free coaching call with me.

Take care of yourself, take care of each other.

And Until Next Time.

My Friend, Be Unbroken.

I'll See Ya.