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1-800-GOAL-DIGGER
1-800-GOAL-DIGGER
Mika Liu

1-800-GOAL-DIGGER

Self-ImprovementEnglish
You’ve reached 1-800-GOAL-DIGGER, a podcast and media platform that explores ambition, identity, confidence, and personal growth through honest storytelling and reflective conversations. Through solo episodes and meaningful guest conversations, the show goes beyond the polished version of success to uncover the emotional truth and inner work behind growth, reinvention, and the stories we do not always hear out loud. Created and hosted by Mika Liu.

✨New episodes every other Monday✨
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Episodes

What Kind of Salesperson Are You? You Are Who You See Yourself As
14 September 2026

What Kind of Salesperson Are You? You Are Who You See Yourself As

What if you are not bad at selling yourself, and the real problem is the picture you have been carrying of what a salesperson is supposed to look like?I was in a session at work watching a senior sales rep talk about the traits that make someone good at this job. What stayed with me was not her list. It was that she saw herself as a salesperson. No question in it, no doubt about it. She said it...
You Became Who You Had to Be. Now Who Do You Want to Be? Season 2 Highlights
01 September 2026

You Became Who You Had to Be. Now Who Do You Want to Be? Season 2 Highlights

What if some of the qualities you think define you, being strong, independent, ambitious, capable, always holding it together, are not simply who you are?What if some of them are who you learned you needed to be?In this special Season 2 highlights episode of 1-800-GOAL-DIGGER, I’m revisiting some of the conversations that stayed with me most this season, from the emotional cost of being “the...
He Was Rich, But He Wasn't Generous
24 August 2026

He Was Rich, But He Wasn't Generous

In this episode of 1-800-GOAL-DIGGER, I share a relationship from my younger years that looked generous from the outside.He was 23 years older than me, financially successful, owned two businesses, bought me expensive gifts, and took me to beautiful restaurants.But after five years together, I realized something I could not see clearly at the time:He was generous with what was easy for him to...
You’re Not Afraid of Being Seen, You’re Afraid of What People Think
17 August 2026

You’re Not Afraid of Being Seen, You’re Afraid of What People Think

A listener left me a voicemail asking what advice I would give someone who has a meaningful project, business, or content she wants to share with the world, but is afraid of being seen.The timing of her question could not have been better.That same week, I had been feeling discouraged about the growth of this podcast. I wanted more people to see what I was creating. She was afraid of being seen...
I Was Never a Gym Person, Mel Grauds on Reinvention, Burnout, and the Power of Slow Build
10 August 2026

I Was Never a Gym Person, Mel Grauds on Reinvention, Burnout, and the Power of Slow Build

Mel Grauds never thought she was a gym person.She avoided gym class, did not grow up athletic, and spent years believing fitness simply was not for her. Then she became a personal trainer.In 2020, after burning out as a registered nurse, Mel walked away from a stable healthcare career in the middle of a pandemic and started what would eventually become Melrose Training. She had no clients, no...
Look Up, A Story Of Stars, Survival, And A Life Rebuilt From Scratch
03 August 2026

Look Up, A Story Of Stars, Survival, And A Life Rebuilt From Scratch

From the outside, Chelsea’s journey looks like an extraordinary climb: an astrophysics degree, more than twenty years in finance and strategic planning, a move across continents, a coaching business, a family she calls her anchor, and a life she says she is deeply in love with. But her story began with a young mother, an abusive home, and two years living in a women’s refuge.In this episode,...
I Always Thought I’d Be A Mother. But Did I Want To Raise A Child?
27 July 2026

I Always Thought I’d Be A Mother. But Did I Want To Raise A Child?

When I was younger, I never questioned whether I would become a mother. I assumed it was one of the natural stages of becoming an adult.Twenty years later, I am not a mother, and I am no longer certain that I ever will be.In this solo episode, I explore the question I still have not answered: do I want to raise a child now, or am I grieving the mother I always assumed I would become?I talk about...
AI Isn't the Story, You Are. How to Stay Grounded When the World Won't Stop Changing
20 July 2026

AI Isn't the Story, You Are. How to Stay Grounded When the World Won't Stop Changing

When a listener named Mel asked me how to future-proof ourselves in the age of AI and how I stay grounded beneath it all, I thought this was going to be an episode about technology.It wasn't.It became a conversation about fear, identity, and the pressure to keep up in a world that keeps changing.In this solo episode, I reflect on what working in enterprise technology has taught me about AI, why I...
A Better Looking Cage, A Story About the Life That Looked Right and the Freedom She Had to Build
13 July 2026

A Better Looking Cage, A Story About the Life That Looked Right and the Freedom She Had to Build

From the outside, Tiffiny was the woman who had it all handled. A master's degree, a demanding consulting career, a marriage, a body she competed with on stage. On the inside, she was barely keeping her head above water, and the hardest part of her life was the one nobody could see.In this episode, Tiffiny shares the day at her kitchen table that changed everything, the months of knowing before...
I Treated Myself Like a Product to Be Sold, An Afterthought on Personal Branding, After My Conversation with Ali Leung
06 July 2026

I Treated Myself Like a Product to Be Sold, An Afterthought on Personal Branding, After My Conversation with Ali Leung

I treated myself like a product to be sold. I did discovery on myself, but not compassionately.In this episode, I unpack what a senior marketer's offhand comment, that personal branding is a little bit contrived, forced me to confront. I talk about Misty, the alter ego I built out of everything I thought I was missing. Why performing is exhausting, because performing is not for the performer, it...