Episode Highlights:

00:00 — Introducing today's topic: comparison culture and envy

01:11 — What Bishop Michael says he still misses, and what he doesn't

05:24 — Is social media the cause of comparison culture, or just fuel?

08:57 — The 1954 Festinger study: why we compare ourselves to the neighbor, not LeBron 14:19 — Where healthy comparison tips over into envy

16:35 — How comparison hits Andy: motivation, imposter syndrome, and “accomplishment addiction”

18:08 — Imposter syndrome, Catholic guilt, and feeling “not good enough”

22:03 — Gratitude as the real antidote to comparison

26:00 — The practical shift: turning envy into gratitude

27:01 — Closing thought: where does the comparison game end?

About Your Hosts:

Bishop Michael is a longtime friend and mentor to Andy, with more than three decades of shared history between them. A bishop known for his straightforward, often funny take on faith, he brings decades of pastoral experience, from teaching religious studies to serving as a first responder to his own community, to every conversation on the show.

Andy is a businessman, husband, and father who co-hosts This Should Be Good, bringing the questions real people are actually asking into conversation with Bishop Michael. Equal parts curious and irreverent, he keeps the conversation grounded in the everyday realities of work, parenting, and trying to keep up.

Connect & Resources: Have a question or a topic you'd like covered? Submit it here: thisshouldbegood.show, your question could become a full episode.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 — Introducing today's topic: doubt versus faith

00:45 — Rapid-fire: the career he'd have chosen instead of the priesthood

03:35 — Rapid-fire: his most embarrassing sing-along confession

04:10 — The phone call that led him from sportswriting to religious life

08:02 — Discernment, doubt, and the freedom to walk away

09:18 — Marriage as a covenant, not a contract

11:03 — Doubt as a function of relationship, not belief

21:30 — Why faith feels harder to talk about than almost anything else

26:08 — Owning the Church's flaws without losing faith in it

33:54 — The dark night of the soul, and what real spiritual strength looks like

About Your Hosts:

Bishop Michael is a longtime friend and mentor to Andy, with more than three decades of shared history between them. A bishop known for his straightforward, often funny take on faith, he brings decades of pastoral experience, from teaching religious studies to serving as a first responder to his own community, to every conversation on the show.

Andy is a businessman, husband, and father who co-hosts This Should Be Good, bringing the questions real people are actually asking into conversation with Bishop Michael. Equal parts curious and irreverent, he keeps the conversation grounded in the everyday realities of work, parenting, and trying to keep up.

Connect & Resources:

Have a question or a topic you'd like covered? Submit it here: thisshouldbegood.show, your question could become a full episode.

Episode Highlights:

00:00 — Bishop Michael and Andy open with this week's real question: is rest actually allowed?

02:02 — Bishop Michael on his own Friday day off — golf, a late breakfast, and actually stepping back

03:12 — What the Sabbath was designed for, with roots tracing all the way back to creation

06:41 — Hustle culture, grind culture, and the $1.8 trillion wellness industry cashing in on our guilt

09:08 — Where self-improvement tips into narcissism, and why “balance” is a smaller target than we think

12:17 — What the saints — and our own grandparents — can teach us about pace

14:47 — Orthorexia: how even eating healthy can become its own trap

16:03 — The Sabbath as one of the Ten Commandments, and why it still holds up

19:38 — “You're not the savior”: rest as a boundary for doctors, therapists, priests, and parents

25:18 — Where to start: the one question to ask before your own Sabbath

About Your Hosts:

Bishop Michael is a longtime friend and mentor to Andy, with more than three decades of shared history between them. A bishop known for his straightforward, often funny take on faith, he brings decades of pastoral experience, from teaching religious studies to serving as a first responder to his own community, to every conversation on the show.

Andy is a businessman, husband, and father who co-hosts This Should Be Good, bringing the questions real people are actually asking into conversation with Bishop Michael. Equal parts curious and irreverent, he keeps the conversation grounded in the everyday realities of work, parenting, and trying to keep up.

Connect & Resources:

Have a question or a topic you'd like covered? Submit it here: thisshouldbegood.show, your question could become a full episode.