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The Tony Michaels Podcast

The Tony Michaels Podcast

Tony Michaels

The Tony Michaels Podcast is no longer publishing new episodes. Regular publication ended in July 2026, and this feed remains online as an archive of more than 1,100 episodes about American politics, constitutional accountability, concentrated power, democracy and working people.


Tony Michaels now creates Five Minutes in America, a weekday radio and podcast storytelling series, and Along the Way, a weekly program about personal growth, citizenship and building a meaningful life. Both are published by The Coffman Chronicle.


Follow Tony’s current work and listen to Five Minutes in America:
 https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/s/five-minutes-in-america


Along the Way is also published by The Coffman Chronicle.

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  • 1160 - Introducing Five Minutes in America | Follow the New Show

    Send us Fan Mail Five Minutes in America is a new weekday audio series written and told by Tony Michaels. Each five-minute episode tells a complete American story about ordinary people, shared responsibility, and the constitutional principles that bind us together. The first story, “The Fence,” is available now. Follow the new show so the next story is waiting when the weekday series begins September 7. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minutes-in-america/id6805530471...

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026
  • 1159 - The Busyness of It All

    Send us Fan Mail Perfectionism does not always look like fear. Sometimes it shows up early, carries a clipboard, and points toward one more little thing a responsible person ought to fix. In this episode of Along the Way, I look at the difference between craft and perfectionism, business and busyness—and the moment I finally allowed The Fence to stand on its own. Listen to Five Minutes in America: https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/s/five-minutes-in-america Paid members of The Coffman Ch...

    Sat, 22 Aug 2026
  • 1158 - It Is Impossible to Fail

    Send us Fan Mail Success isn’t a spotless notebook. Success is refusing to surrender authorship. Help put Five Minutes in America on the radio—and hear the stories first as a paid member of The Coffman Chronicle: https://www.thecoffmanchronicle.com/ If somebody asked me to sum up everything I have learned about success in one sentence, this would be it: It is impossible to fail. We fail at things. We lose opportunities. We make mistakes. We write sentences we wish we could erase. But th...

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026
  • 1157 - The Chicken Story That Sold Bathrooms

    Send us Fan Mail I loved butchering chickens. My mother hated it. And believe it or not, that story helped me sell more than one bathroom. During my years in bathroom-remodeling sales, I learned that the best way to stop being strangers wasn’t a clever sales pitch. It was to listen. A question about someone’s house could lead to a story about where they grew up. Their memory would make room for one of mine. By the time we sat down to discuss the bathroom, we weren’t merely a salesman and ...

    Sat, 08 Aug 2026
  • 1156 - Find Your If: The Greatest Advice My Art Teacher Ever Gave Me

    Send us Fan Mail My high school art teacher gave me one of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever received. The funny thing is—she first gave it to me twenty-five years ago. This week on Along the Way, an old art portfolio, a new sketchbook, and Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If—” helped me understand where this show truly begins: inside the notebook. We spend a lot of our lives aiming at what we desire—money, recognition, applause, success. But a desire is not a task. You cannot do fame. You ...

    Sun, 02 Aug 2026
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