I sat down with Michael Iorg: filmmaker, performer, musician, military reservist, and Associate Clinical Mental Health Counselor at Elevated Counseling and Wellness. These two go back to college — to Eric Young's film class, a shared love of storytelling, and a friendship built on the kind of creative chaos that sticks with you.

Michael has played Romeo and the Tin Man on stage, written and directed films like The Bill and Desert Duel, picked up a guitar and written his own songs, served in the military reserves, and is now building a platform to share real, practical mental health tools with anyone who needs them.

This is a conversation about all of it — the roles, the service, the healing, and what it looks like to keep reinventing yourself without ever losing the thread of who you are.

In this episode:

His time in the military and what it gave him that nothing else could

A stage career spanning Romeo, the Tin Man, and everything in between

Writing and directing original films — The Bill, Desert Duel, 'Twas, and more

The transition from performer to mental health counselor

Where creativity and healing overlap

His TikTok platform @dailymentalhealthskills — 60+ videos and growing

The mental health app he's currently building-- www.dailyreset-app.com (Still under construction)

Books he returns to: The Four Agreements and The Untethered Soul

🎧 Also available on Spotify, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio

Find Michael:

TikTok: @dailymentalhealthskills

YouTube: @michaeliorg