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Joe Mittiga

The #1 U.S. How To podcast for emotional growth, WE is a movement for reconnection—heart to heart, soul to soul. Hosted by Joe Mittiga, WE explores emotional healing, mental health, personal growth, relationships, and spiritual awakening in a world that feels increasingly disconnected. Each episode reveals why you feel the way you do—and the emotional, mental, and spiritual growth that leads to healing, peace, purpose, and deeper human connection. Through honest conversations and real-life experiences, WE helps you better understand yourself, others, and your place in a changing world. Healing doesn't happen alone. It happens when we remember WE.

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Thursday · 1 hr 24 min
Even Though I’m a Little Nervous, I’m Beginning to Believe My Life Has a Greater Purpose Than I Ever Imagined — The Spiritual Awakening That Helped Me Understand How My Life Can Make a Difference and Help Heal Humanity
What if everything you've been through has been preparing you for something greater? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores the moment when personal growth begins to become purpose, when healing turns into service, and the question shifts from “Who am I becoming?” to “What am I becoming for?” Joe shares his own spiritual evolution and the realization that purpose isn't necessarily something we have to search for. Sometimes it begins with taking what we've learned through our pain, healing, failures, relationships, and growth and using it to make someone else's life a little better. From telling someone you're proud of them to volunteering, mentoring, giving back, or simply choosing kindness, Joe explains how seemingly small actions can create a ripple effect far beyond ourselves. You don't have to heal the entire world to make a difference. You can start by helping the people already within your reach. This episode is about moving from healing to service, from me to WE, and beginning to believe that your life may have a greater purpose than you ever imagined.
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Tuesday · 1 hr 28 min
Why Do I Feel So Afraid Every Time I Think I’m Finally Discovering Who I Really Am? — The Emotional and Spiritual Growth That Helped Me Trust My Higher Power, Live Authentically, and Become the Person I Was Created to Be
What happens when you finally begin discovering who you really are, but instead of feeling free, you feel afraid? In this episode of the WE Podcast, Joe Mittiga explores why emotional and spiritual growth can sometimes create more uncertainty before it creates peace. As we heal, our priorities, relationships, beliefs, and sense of identity can begin to change, leaving us with a difficult question: What if becoming who I really am means letting go of the life I’ve always known? Joe shares his own journey of realizing that the fear may not come from discovering a new version of ourselves. It may come from letting go of the identity we spent years believing we needed to be. He explores how old emotional patterns, fear-based thoughts, and the need for approval can keep us attached to a version of ourselves we have already begun to outgrow. Through sacred silence, emotional healing, faith, and learning to trust a higher power, Joe explains how we can begin recognizing the voices that tell us we are not ready, not worthy, or not capable. His message is simple: fear does not have to be a stop sign. You can feel fear and still move forward. This episode is about having the courage to release who you thought you had to be, trust the process even when you cannot see where it is leading, and continue becoming the person you were created to be. Because perhaps discovering your authentic self isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about finally having the courage to become who you’ve been underneath the fear all along.
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October 1 · 1 hr 17 min
The More I Pursue My Passion and Purpose, the More What I Want From Life Keeps Changing — The Personal and Spiritual Awakening That Helped Me Let Go of What I Thought I Wanted and Discover What I Really Want
What happens when you work hard to create the life you thought you wanted, only to realize you don’t want the same things anymore? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores how healing, personal growth, and spiritual awakening can completely change our definition of success. The money, recognition, achievements, and approval we once chased can begin to matter less, while peace, love, connection, faith, freedom, passion, and purpose take on greater meaning. Joe shares why purpose isn’t necessarily something we suddenly discover. It can unfold and evolve as we do. Through his own journey, including the decades-long evolution of his book Filling the Void, he illustrates how letting go of attachment to a specific outcome can allow life to move in unexpected directions. This episode challenges us to stop asking, “How successful can I become?” and start asking a deeper question: “What can my life become?” Because perhaps success isn’t only about what we accomplish. It’s also about who we become along the way.
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September 29 · 1 hr 27 min
I’m Excited to Become the Person I’m Meant to Be, Though I’m Overwhelmed Because It Means Leaving a Big Part of Me Behind — The Emotional and Personal Growth That Helped Me Let Go and Trust Who I’m Becoming
What happens when you’re excited about who you’re becoming but overwhelmed by what you have to leave behind? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores one of the most complicated parts of personal transformation: realizing that growth isn’t always about adding more. Sometimes, becoming the person you’re meant to be requires letting go of old beliefs, behaviors, relationships, expectations, and even dreams that once defined you. Joe explores the mental, emotional, and spiritual sides of personal growth and why transformation can sometimes feel like grief. He shares his own journey of healing and explains why you don’t have to reject or hate the person you used to be in order to become someone new. You can appreciate the version of yourself that carried you this far while recognizing that your past doesn’t have to determine where you go next. From identifying the old voices that keep us trapped in familiar patterns to learning how to listen for a healthier internal guidance system, Joe explores how self-awareness, emotional healing, silence, faith, and letting go can help us move from fear toward greater wholeness.
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September 24 · 1 hr 28 min
I Feel Frustrated and Exhausted Because I Spent Years Trying to Show the World I Was Enough — The Spiritual Awakening That Showed Me How to Stop Proving Myself and Live a Life of Peace and Inner Abundance
What happens when you achieve more, earn more, accomplish more, and receive more recognition, yet still don’t feel like you’re enough? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores the exhausting cycle of trying to prove our worth through achievement, approval, money, relationships, and external success. He shares how his own spiritual awakening helped him recognize that he was asking the outside world to give him something that could only be discovered within. Joe explores where the feeling of “not enough” can begin, how the need for external validation can follow us into adulthood, and why listening to our internal voices, practicing silence, self-acknowledgment, emotional healing, and connecting with a higher power can begin to change that pattern. The message at the heart of this episode is powerful: you can still dream, grow, achieve, and pursue success without using those accomplishments to prove your worth. When you stop depending on the outside world for validation, you stop giving it control over your peace.
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September 22 · 1 hr 20 min
I Feel Sad and Mad Because I Keep Repeating the Same Emotional Patterns — The Emotional Growth That Helped Me Break Free from a Powerless Way of Living, Trust My Higher Power, and Live with Faith and Oneness
Why do the same relationships, emotional reactions, and painful patterns keep showing up, even when you thought you had already healed? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores his belief that our biggest emotional reactions can reveal unresolved pain within us. Rather than focusing entirely on changing other people or external circumstances, Joe shares how he learned to turn inward, recognize his own emotional patterns, and take responsibility for what he could actually change. Through personal stories and practical techniques including silence, journaling, examining your internal dialogue, and what Joe calls inner-child work, he explains how he approaches moving from automatic reaction toward greater awareness, faith, and emotional freedom. If you’ve ever wondered, “Why am I back here again?”, this episode challenges you to stop seeing the pattern as punishment and start asking what it may be showing you about yourself.
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September 17 · 1 hr 24 min
I Want to Pursue My Passion, Though I Feel Trapped in a World That Wants Me to Live My Old Life — The Spiritual Discovery That Showed Me How to Break Free from Other People’s Expectations and Live Free
Have you ever looked at your life and realized it simply doesn’t fit you anymore? Not because your life is bad. Not because you aren’t grateful. But because somewhere along the way, you changed. In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores what happens when we grow emotionally and spiritually, begin discovering new dreams and passions, and suddenly realize we’ve been living according to expectations that may no longer reflect who we are becoming. Joe examines the difference between feeling stuck and feeling trapped, why disappointing others can sometimes feel more frightening than disappointing ourselves, and how developing autonomy can help us stop depending on outside approval for our sense of worth. Through deeply personal stories about relationships, making amends, listening to his internal voice, giving from abundance rather than obligation, and his own spiritual journey, Joe explores what it means to build self-trust and follow the direction of your life even when the people around you don’t understand it. Your old life doesn’t have to have been wrong for you to outgrow it. You can honor where you’ve been, love the people who helped you get there, and still give yourself permission to become someone new.
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September 15 · 1 hr 14 min
I’m Afraid I’m Not Good Enough to Have a Really Happy and Joyful Life — The Emotional Healing That Allowed Me to Let Go and Heal My Self-Doubt, Believe in Myself, Trust My Higher Power, and Create a Great Life
What if the life you’ve been searching for doesn’t begin when you finally become good enough, but when you realize you already are? In this deeply personal episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores the emotional roots of self-doubt, unworthiness, and the persistent feeling that no matter what you accomplish, something inside is still missing. Drawing from his own journey, Joe shares how past mistakes, painful experiences, and unmet emotional needs shaped the way he once saw himself. He examines the difference between believing “I made a mistake” and allowing that experience to become “I am a mistake,” and why our past can help explain us without having to define our future. Joe also shares the practices he has used to connect with his inner emotional world, listen differently to the critical voices within, and begin healing the parts of himself that never felt heard, valued, or good enough. This episode is an invitation to stop searching outside yourself for the worthiness, happiness, and peace you’ve been trying to find, and begin asking a different question: What becomes possible when you finally believe you are already enough?
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September 10 · 1 hr 15 min
It Can Still Feel Scary as I’m Beginning to See the World Differently Because I’m Becoming Someone Different — The Personal and Spiritual Growth That Helped Me Trust My Higher Power, and Live My Life with Love, Purpose, and Passion
What if the world around you doesn’t need to change before your life can begin to feel different? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores what happens when personal and spiritual growth begins changing the way you see everything around you. Relationships feel different. Success takes on a new meaning. Old priorities begin to shift, and even positive transformation can feel scary when you realize you’re becoming someone different. Through his own experiences with grief, relationships, purpose, faith, and personal transformation, Joe shares how he has learned to look inward instead of waiting for the outside world to give him the peace and fulfillment he was searching for. This episode explores what it means to trust your higher power, listen for guidance, move through fear, and take meaningful action toward the life you feel called to live. Because sometimes the world doesn’t have to change first. Sometimes everything begins to look different when you do.
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September 8 · 1 hr 20 min
I Keep Doubting Myself Because It’s Scary When My Life Keeps Having to Change — The Emotional and Spiritual Transformation That Helped Me Be Guided by My Higher Power, Start Believing in Myself, and Live an Abundant Life
What if self-doubt isn’t a sign that you’re going the wrong way, but a sign that you’re growing? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores why major life changes can trigger fear, uncertainty, and doubt, even when we’re moving toward something better. Through his own journey of emotional healing, sobriety, relationships, business, loss, and spiritual growth, Joe shares how he learned to quiet the voices of fear, trust his higher power, and keep taking the next step. Discover how to move forward even when you’re afraid, trust who you’re becoming, and believe there may be an abundant life waiting on the other side of change.
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September 3 · 1 hr 48 min
Why Healing My Internal World Changed Every Relationship in My External World — The Spiritual and Personal Growth That Showed Me How to Outgrow Old Patterns and Live a Life Full of Purpose and Passion
What if changing your relationships starts with changing what’s happening inside you? In this deeply personal episode of WE, Joe Mittiga shares how healing old emotional wounds transformed the way he experienced love, relationships, spirituality, and himself. He explores why some relationships deepen as we grow while others must change or be released, and how healing from the inside out can lead to greater freedom, purpose, connection, and peace. This episode is an invitation to stop looking outside yourself for what may be waiting to be healed within.
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September 1 · 1 hr 41 min
I Am Excited to Learn How to Keep Moving Forward Because I Don’t Want to Go Back to Who I Used to Be — The Emotional Growth That Helped Me Trust My Higher Power as I Become the Person I Was Born to Be
What happens when you’ve done the healing, but realize you no longer want to return to the person you used to be? In this episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores the next stage of emotional and spiritual growth: learning to trust the person you’re becoming. Joe shares how healing changed more than the way he felt. It changed how he saw himself, his future, and the life he wanted to create. Joe opens up about moving beyond survival, releasing old beliefs and reactions, and learning to trust a higher power even when he couldn’t see exactly where his life was taking him. His message is simple: you don’t have to have your entire future figured out. Sometimes your responsibility is simply to keep healing, keep growing, and take the next step. He also challenges listeners to recognize when old patterns, relationships, addictions, or codependent behaviors are keeping them stuck. Healing isn’t meant to help you tolerate the same unhealthy life forever. At some point, moving forward means creating boundaries, choosing yourself, and having the courage to change your environment. Finally, Joe explores what can happen when healing creates enough inner peace to begin giving back. Whether it’s your time, money, wisdom, compassion, or service, he believes purpose grows when we take what we’ve learned and use it to help someone else. The takeaway: You weren’t meant to heal just so you could become who you used to be. Keep moving forward, trust the person you’re becoming, and use what you’ve overcome to help someone else along the way.a
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August 27 · 1 hr 43 min
I Feel Scared and Excited Because I Thought Healing Myself Was the Goal—Now I Realize Healing the World Is — The Personal and Spiritual Awakening That Helped Me Discover What My Higher Power Wants Me to Do with the Rest of My Life
What if healing yourself was never the destination, but preparation for something greater? In this deeply personal episode of WE, Joe Mittiga shares how his journey from fear, addiction, trauma, and painful experiences led him to a powerful realization: healing isn’t only about understanding your past. It can become the wisdom, compassion, and strength you use to help someone else. Joe tackles the difficult subject of sexual abuse and generational trauma, sharing his own experiences and exploring how unresolved wounds can continue affecting relationships, self-worth, intimacy, and the next generation. His central message is that cycles can be broken when people have the courage to acknowledge their pain, seek support, and choose healing rather than continuing harmful patterns. This episode is ultimately about moving from pain to purpose, from isolation to connection, and from healing ourselves to helping others heal. Because healing doesn’t happen alone. It happens when we remember the WE.
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August 25 · 1 hr 36 min
Life Can Feel Hard and Scary Because I Never Realized How Much I Had to Change — The Emotional Healing That Prepared Me to Become the Person My Higher Power Created Me to Be
What if life feels hard and scary not because something is going wrong, but because you are changing? In this milestone 50th episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores the uncomfortable side of emotional healing and spiritual growth. He shares how true healing doesn’t simply help us feel better. It can change what we want, what we accept, our relationships, and ultimately the direction of our lives. Joe opens up about learning to take responsibility for his own emotions, recognizing codependent patterns, letting go of the need to fix other people, and finding the courage to look at his own side of the street. He explains how greater emotional awareness can lead to autonomy, freedom, and a deeper connection with your higher power. Most importantly, Joe challenges us to turn healing into action. Tell the people you love what they mean to you. Give your time, wisdom, or resources. Find your purpose and use what you’ve learned to support someone else. Healing isn’t about becoming who you used to be. It’s about becoming who you were created to be, then using that freedom to help heal humanity one smile at a time.
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August 20 · 59 min
I chose to Live My Purpose in a World that is creating the Generation of Change - The Spiritual Awakening That Inspired Me to Help Heal Humanity, One Smile at a Time
What if healing yourself isn’t the destination, but the beginning of something much greater? In this episode of the WE Podcast, Joe Mittiga shares the spiritual awakening that helped him realize his healing was preparing him to live his purpose. He explores what he calls the Generation of Change, a time when people around the world are searching for deeper meaning, authentic connection, and a life that goes beyond traditional definitions of success. Joe shares how his experiences in Africa opened his eyes to the global water crisis and inspired Project Smile, connecting his personal healing journey with a larger mission to give back and help others. He also explores the shift from gratitude to grace, where fulfillment comes not only from what we receive, but from what we give. His challenge is simple: find your unique expression of love, discover where you can make a difference, and begin. Your healing may be the foundation. Your purpose is what you choose to build from it. Together, we can help heal humanity one smile at a time.
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August 18 · 1 hr 27 min
I Think I'm Ready to Pursue My Passion, but I'm Afraid Because I Don't Know Where to Start — The Emotional Healing Needed to Live with Purpose, Discover Meaning, and Become Who I Was Created to Be
What if you know you’re ready for something more, but fear keeps asking, Where do I begin? What if I fail? What if I’m not qualified? What if it’s too late? In this episode of the WE Podcast, Joe Mittiga explores how emotional healing can help you move beyond the fear and limiting voices that keep you from pursuing your passion and purpose. Joe walks through the journey from dreaming to imagination, inspiration, creation, and ultimately manifestation. He explains why you don’t need the entire roadmap before you begin. You need the courage to take the first step and trust that the next step will reveal itself. He also challenges the belief that your passion must immediately make money. Your purpose can begin with just 15 minutes a day, allowing you to create something meaningful while continuing to handle the responsibilities of everyday life. Most importantly, Joe shares a practical way to confront the voices saying you’re not good enough, ready enough, or capable enough: write them down, get them out of your head, and ask for the strength and courage to move forward anyway. Your passion isn’t waiting for you to have all the answers. It’s waiting for you to begin.
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August 13 · 1 hr 32 min
I Feel Hurt and Afraid in a World That Holds On to Fear — The Personal and Spiritual Growth That Helped Me Let Go of Fear, Heal My Heart, and Become Part of Humanity's Healing
Have you ever felt like the person you used to be no longer fits, but you’re not quite sure who you’re becoming? In this deeply personal episode of the WE Podcast, Joe Mittiga explores what he calls “psychic death,” the emotional and spiritual process of letting go of an old identity so a new version of yourself can emerge. Joe opens up about grief, fear, addiction, divorce, the loss of his beloved dog Zeus, his mother’s death, raising his sons, and the major transformations that have shaped his spiritual journey. Through these experiences, he shares why healing isn’t about avoiding pain or simply changing your thoughts. It’s about finding the strength and courage to feel what needs to be felt, release what no longer serves you, and listen for the guidance within. Joe also explores the difference between loneliness and oneness, gratitude and grace, and external success versus true internal abundance. He shares how giving back through Project Smile transformed his understanding of purpose and helped him recognize that becoming part of humanity’s healing doesn’t require changing millions of lives. Sometimes it begins by helping one person. If you’re feeling hurt, afraid, lost, disconnected, or aware that something in your life is changing, this episode is an invitation to stop fighting the transformation and begin asking a different question: What is the next version of my life asking me to become? Together, we’re growing. Together, we’re changing. Together, we’re healing.
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August 11 · 1 hr 12 min
I Can't Let Go Because I Feel Hurt and I Feel Anxious — The Emotional Intelligence Needed to Break Free from Fear, Live with Courage, Discover Inner Abundance, and Move Forward with Confidence
Why is letting go so difficult, even when we know it's time? In this deeply personal episode of WE, Joe Mittiga explores the fear, grief, and emotions that keep us holding onto relationships, memories, losses, and versions of our lives that are no longer meant for us. He explains that sometimes we're not afraid of letting go itself. We're afraid of what we'll feel once we finally do. Joe shares this lesson while experiencing profound grief following the loss of his beloved German Shepherd, Zeus. Through his own pain, he opens up about making difficult decisions, asking for guidance, finding courage through faith, and allowing yourself to fully feel grief instead of running from it. This episode is a powerful reminder that healing doesn't require avoiding pain. It requires the courage to move through it. Joe shares how silence, spiritual connection, emotional support, and his practice of Ask, Listen, Live can help us navigate loss and discover peace on the other side. If you're grieving, struggling to let go, or afraid of what comes next, this episode reminds you that you don't have to carry it alone. Serenity is on the other side of feeling the pain, not avoiding it.
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August 6 · 1 hr 18 min
I Feel Like I Can't Move Forward Because I Can't Forgive the People and the World of My Past — The Personal and Spiritual Growth That Helped Me Move Forward, Reinvent My Future, and Live with Purpose, Passion, and Prosperity
Why do so many people stay trapped in the past even after they've forgiven those who hurt them? In this deeply personal episode of WE, Joe Mittiga reveals that the greatest barrier to healing often isn't forgiving others. It's learning to forgive yourself. Through his own journey of addiction, trauma, recovery, and spiritual growth, Joe explores how guilt, shame, and the stories we continue telling ourselves can quietly keep us imprisoned long after the pain has passed. Joe shares practical insights on emotional healing, self-compassion, making amends, releasing toxic shame, embracing silence, and reconnecting with your higher purpose. He explains why true freedom comes from living your amends rather than simply regretting your past, and how purpose, passion, and inner peace become possible when you stop defining yourself by yesterday's mistakes. Along the way, he offers powerful exercises to help you quiet the inner critic, strengthen your relationship with yourself, and begin creating a life guided by love instead of fear. If you've ever felt stuck, weighed down by regret, or wondered why you still can't move forward despite doing everything "right," this conversation will help you discover that healing doesn't begin when your past changes. It begins when you do. Because healing doesn't happen alone. It happens when we remember the WE.
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August 4 · 1 hr 22 min
I Feel Like I Should Be Able to Forgive, but I Can't — The Emotional Growth That Helped Me Heal the Wounds of My Past, Release the Pain, and Discover the Inner Peace I Was Looking For
Why is forgiveness so hard... even when you genuinely want to let go? In this deeply personal episode of The WE Podcast, Joe Mittiga challenges one of the most misunderstood ideas in personal growth: that forgiveness is something you simply decide to do. Instead, Joe explains that forgiveness is not an action step. It's the natural result of emotional healing. If you've ever found yourself thinking, "I know I should forgive, but I just can't," this conversation will help you understand why and show you a healthier path forward. Drawing from his own life, Joe shares powerful stories of grief, childhood trauma, addiction, emotional recovery, and the painful journey of healing deep wounds that shaped his life for decades. He explains why anger, shame, guilt, and unresolved pain often keep us trapped, and why trying to force forgiveness before healing only creates more suffering. Joe introduces listeners to his WE philosophy, the connection between the higher self, the human self, and the inner self, and explains why true healing begins by giving a voice to the hurting parts of ourselves instead of silencing them. Through practical guidance on emotional awareness, sacred silence, journaling, healthy emotional expression, grief work, and self-compassion, he offers a roadmap for transforming pain into lasting peace. Perhaps the most moving part of the episode is Joe's own story of ultimately finding compassion for someone who had deeply wounded him. He shares how years of emotional work allowed him to stop seeing the person only through the lens of his own pain and instead recognize another human being who was also deeply hurting. In that moment, forgiveness wasn't something he chose. It simply became who he was. If you've been carrying resentment, grief, betrayal, or emotional wounds for years and wondering why you can't just "move on," this episode will remind you that there is nothing wrong with you. Healing comes first. Forgiveness follows.
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