Driving the Road to Abundance with Mike Chabot

This week, we spoke with Mike Chabot, the creator of Road to Abundance, a program dedicated to helping successful men align their energy with their goals and finding gratitude in everyday life.

Dennis Postema: How do you help other successful men?

Mike Chabot: I specialize in helping successful men unlock a secret life level of purpose and meaning.

The suicide rates for men are soaring. Many men reach elevated levels of finance and career, and then they get lost. That’s why there are high occurrences of suicide, sex abuse and substance abuse. Nobody takes the time to help men figure out their issues because we are supposed to be tough, we’re supposed to “have it,” we’re successful, partying, having sex—all of that gets promoted, so people think that is what happiness looks like. It’s the “American dream.” Why not have a big house or a big car? You “should” feel good.

I was there. I didn’t feel good. Many of my successful friends didn’t feel good either.

I grew up in a family where we talked about our feelings, so I never had trouble expressing myself. My dad worked at a resource center. Patients would stay for a week. I stayed for a week at seventeen and then for another week in my twenties. I was always into personal development.

I am blessed to have friends I could talk to too. My friends’ financial situations vary, and it’s helpful for getting a variety of perspectives on issues.

Many men don’t have a close circle of friends to talk to about feelings and other personal life subjects. They have “cool” friends who don’t want to hear about it. Men trap their emotions and that negative energy. They turn to drugs, alcohol, sex, partying and materialism.

Dennis: Where do you think we lost our way?

Mike: There needs to be a balance between feminine and masculine energy. It’s important to work hard, but you need to balance it out with meditation, breathwork, resting and generally taking care of your soul.

Many men push their feelings down. When a man gets his heart broken, he is pressured to not talk about it because he’s supposed to be a big tough man, and expressing those emotions is uncool.

I did the same thing when I was younger. I figured I would push the emotions down and then they’d go away. This kind of thinking can create physical health problems.

In my twenties, I competed for Mister Canada. I was physically in the best shape of my life. But my guts were bleeding. I had two surgeries. I had to go to the bathroom up to fourteen times a day. I had issues with my legs and my nervous system. Thirtysix doctors were unable to diagnose me with anything.

When you’re bleeding, you lose iron, so you are always tired, and you get depressed. Your gut produces happiness hormones. I couldn’t go to an event if I wasn’t certain I’d be able to get to the bathroom at a moment’s notice, so on top of my gut issues, I felt depressed and anxious because I had to turn down opportunities.

I think all of my emotional problems led me down a bad path. Many men think that their past doesn’t affect them, or that they

can push it away, but it doesn’t work that way.

Dennis: What led you to start Road to Abundance?

Mike: I was a college dropout. At nineteen, I was making decent money, sometimes $1,000 a day, but I was depressed. I got into a motorcycle accident, so I put my business on hold because I thought, “Maybe life is trying to say something to me.”

That was the first warning.

I kept going down a bad path filled with toxic relationships.

When I was competing in Mister Canada, I almost died. They rushed me to the hospital because I lost too much blood. I thought I ate something that triggered my gut. My red cell count was around sixty to sixty-five. I stayed for three days. Sometime later, I had to be rushed to the hospital again and have emergency surgery. I stayed for seven days.

I was miserable. I couldn’t live life. I was in a toxic relationship and went bankrupt. I was at rock bottom.

From that point, I started working on myself more. Within six months, I was back on track, making six figures, going out to restaurants several times a week, spending time with good friends. By societal standards, everything was good, but I still felt miserable. I thought it would go away.

This went on for two years.

I was vacationing in the Maldives. I posted photos of the trip on Instagram, and the comments were like, “Wow, you’re living the dream. I wish I was you.”

I felt dead inside. I had no emotions. People dreamed of that life because that’s what we project on social media, and it’s what’s sold to us constantly, but it wasn’t bringing me anything. I was offered three other opportunities to take trips to beautiful places, but I refused all of them.

When I returned home, I sold everything I owned and left for Bali. I said, “I’m not going to come back to the Western world until I figure out what’s wrong with me and I find myself.” I asked myself, “Who is Mike?”

hot gets you more likes and views. If you want money from brands, you have to be hot. It was too late for me to change my brand, so I thought about quitting social media.

I was in Bali for three months, and I found myself there, but I’m going to save you the trip: you don’t need to go to Bali.

I designed Road to Abundance because I found a way to live in a purposeful and meaningful way, and it’s not perfect, because it never is. You just have to start.

There were three years between my trip to Bali and launching Road to Abundance. I didn’t want to be like other coaches who fake it until they make it. I can’t lie to myself or to others. I said to myself, “I need to be the man that I say I am.”

It took three years to become that man. It was a transition.

I designed this twelveweek program based around the idea that if I had done these things from the get-go, it would have saved me so much time and effort. I want to save others, because when you’re depressed, you don’t want to wait three years and you don’t want to have to fly all over the world to figure out who you are and feel happier.

One of my clients planned on traveling for eight months because they were depressed. They hated their life and their job.

I said, “Wait, chill out. Delay your travel. You have twelve weeks with me. Do the homework, and it will change your life.”

After six weeks, they realized that they have a good life, but that they needed to improve their business and then sell it, because they didn’t want to keep running it. They canceled their trip because they recognized that they were just trying to escape.

Many companies in the modern world don’t care about their clientele. They sell products at incredibly high prices, and they don’t give good customer service. Amazon and Apple are at the top because they give amazing customer service, so people come back to them. What drives me is building companies that sell products that improve on something and give good customer service. I want to make products that I personally will use—I create them for myself, and I wouldn’t consume something low quality, so I want to share only the best-quality products and services with other people.

Dennis: Can you walk us through the Road to Abundance program?

Mike: It’s super easy. This program is primarily for successful men who are coachable and willing to do what it takes to improve. It’s not a “Mike is going to fix me” program. I’m not fixing anybody.

I am not a coach, I am a guide. I have the knowledge and I can show you how I did it, but you have to do the work. I call myself the Chakra Sherpa, because the Sherpa can help you climb Mount Everest, but he can’t do it for you.

The first six weeks of the program focus on videos and overall knowledge. Successful people tend to be in a rush because they want to finish everything, but that doesn’t work in

my program. We take it week by week. We work on subconscious and mental reprogramming, because no matter how badly you want something, no matter how many times you promise yourself that you’re going to go to the gym and eat healthy food, you don’t reach those goals because you aren’t in control of yourself. Most of what we do is based on subconscious patterns that we have built up, and if you aren’t rewriting those patterns, you won’t move forward.

The next six weeks focus on training the new you, your higher self. Who do you want to be? What does that person look like? What habits do you need to develop? We go over health for an entire week. I teach biohacking too.

You don’t have to put in hours and hours every day—you can do four hours per week. If you don’t have that much time to dedicate to yourself every week, then you don’t have a life. If you don’t have ten minutes to meditate daily, you don’t have a life.

The last two weeks of the program consist of spirituality. When you finish this program, it will change your life, guaranteed. If there isn’t any change, I’ll give you a refund, but you need to put in the work.

Every client has had good results. Some have said “wow” by week two.

Dennis: Tell us about your gratitude journal.

Mike: I sell a gratitude journal titled “Road to Abundance Journal.” It focuses on gratefulness, because I have found that being grateful eliminates fear, anxiety, and other negative emotions that prevent you from taking action daily.

My girlfriend inspired me to journal, because there is a power to writing things down. At first, I said, “I’m good, I say positive things in my mind,” but putting it on paper—whether it’s in my journal or any old notebook—is important.

The “Road to Abundance Journal” is two hundred pages long. The goal is to write at least five things that you are grateful for every day, and you cannot write the same thing more than once a week. that I’m a healthy human and I can do whatever I want. I can train, I am grateful for this podcast setup and being able to share my words. I am grateful for the knowledge I possess. I’m grateful to live in a country where we have clean water.”

Doing this daily will elevate your frequency and your vibration. Once the positive thoughts in your subconscious mind become cemented into your conscious mind, then you start affecting matters with your mind in a positive way.

Writing out your gratitude, combined with breathwork, is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. Your breath alone can change your mental state. If you stop what you’re doing and take ten breaths, you will feel so much better.

Find out more about Mike Chabot on roadtoabundance.com or on Instagram at either @roadtoabundance or @mikechabotfitness. Purchase his gratitude journal on Amazon and keep an eye out for his upcoming book, “The Habit Tracker.”

Mike talks about energy and abundance. Everything is based on energy, and most energy comes from your gut. The gut provides everything in your body, so if it doesn’t work properly, you will have problems. If you’re pushing energy down, it will go anywhere in your body. You have chakra, energy centers, within your body. When they’re not aligned properly, and you stack up negative energy, it’s like carrying a bag full of rocks. It gets heavier and heavier and your posture worsens. It’s super easy to let go and clean it, but you have to be ready. You have to acknowledge that there is a problem. If you deny it, then you’re on the wrong path, and those problems aren’t going away on their own. I decided to help men because a lot of successful people I know said, “I thought I would feel different,” or, “When I made my first million dollars, it felt good for five minutes, and then I wondered, ‘Okay, what’s next?’.” Numbers are infinite. If you’re not happy and grateful right now, more money won’t change that. People get lost. They know there is a better life available to them, they can even see it, but they don’t know how to get there. There’s a disconnect. That’s why I started the Road to Abundance—to show people the path to that kind of inner success.