Hi, I’m Mike Drew—founder of Empowered Mindset Coaching, husband to an incredible wife, and proud dad to two young daughters.

For over a decade, I worked in a high-pressure world as a mortgage loan originator. My days were measured by numbers, deadlines, and constant motion. From the outside, it looked like success. Internally, I was often operating on autopilot—pushing forward, carrying responsibility, and quietly feeling disconnected from myself and the life I was building.

In 2021, that internal pressure caught up with me in an unexpected way. I was rushed to the ER with debilitating back pain and told to prepare for a lifetime of flare-ups and medical management. Unsatisfied with that answer, I began searching for a deeper explanation. What I discovered—through the mind-body work of Dr. John Sarno—challenged everything I thought I knew. I learned that unprocessed stress and emotional tension can express themselves physically, and that the body often speaks when the mind has learned to stay silent. (Yeah, it was pretty crazy to me at the time too!)

That realization changed my perspective entirely.

It helped me see how narrowly I had been living—how many assumptions, expectations, and limits I had accepted without ever questioning. As I began to slow down and look more honestly at my inner world, everything started to shift. I immersed myself in the study of mindset, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and human performance—not to “fix” myself, but to understand how change actually happens.

Becoming a father deepened that commitment. With two daughters under 15 months old, I reached a point where continuing on autopilot was no longer an option. I made the difficult (and pretty scary) decision to step away from a 13-year career and a familiar identity in order to pursue a more fulfilling path that would allow me to put my newly acquired perspective and the coaching skills I had developed as a mortgage professional to use in the service of others.

Today, Empowered Mindset Coaching exists to help professionals and parents who appear capable and successful, yet feel internally stretched, scattered, or disconnected. My work blends formal training in Whole Person Coaching with mindset science, emotional intelligence, and facilitated conversation—both one-on-one and in small peer groups—to help clients gain perspective, reduce internal pressure, and move forward with intention.

This work isn’t about motivation hype or positive affirmations. It’s about creating space to think, being challenged honestly, and reconnecting with what matters most.

Because I’ve lived both the pressure and the perspective shift, I don’t approach this work as a theory. I approach it as a practice—one rooted in awareness, responsibility, and the belief that meaningful change begins when we learn to see ourselves and our lives more clearly.

If you’re ready to step off autopilot and into a more intentional way of living, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.