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Navigating Crazy

Releases August 4, 2026

Navigating Crazy Releases August 4, 2026

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Navigating Crazy

How to Live and Work Sanely in an Insane World
The world isn't going to get saner. You can.

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Endorsements for Navigating Crazy

“Mike Staver has been my leadership coach for years, and the clarity and groundedness he has brought to my thinking is something I cannot easily quantify. He refuses to let his clients separate who they are from how they lead. He starts with values and purpose as the load-bearing walls of a life that can actually hold weight. Honest, rigorous, and applicable. Read it.”
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Jessica Edgerton, CEO, Council of Multiple Listing Services

“We’ve worked with Mike Staver for years and trusted him to help develop leaders throughout our organization. The best leadership coaches understand that leadership is ultimately about people. Mike understands something even deeper: that people are often navigating challenges they don’t fully recognize in themselves in a world where there is no longer a clear definition of ‘normal.’ Navigating Crazy offers rare insight into the psychological underpinnings of success, fulfillment, and personal accountability. It’s a book that will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading it.”
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Chris Kelly, President & CEO, HomeServices of America

“As a small business owner who took over the family business with no business training, I measured success by a spreadsheet, with no clear vision. This book, like Mike, is an accountability partner who won’t accept your BS excuses and pushes you to write the story you actually want to tell.”
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Anthony Gentile, CEO, Jan-Pro of Huntsville

“No one understands how to navigate chaos and crazy better than Mike Staver. With humor and a grounded perspective, Mike provides the knowledge to process the world with confidence and clarity — so desperately needed right now.”
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Paul Boomsma, CEO, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World

Most challenges — the daily, grinding kind — come from one place: the gap between what you expected and what is. Narrow the gap, and the noise quiets. Refuse to, and no system, hack, or mindset will save you.

At work or at home, in the boardroom or the living room, the friction shows up in the same place: between what you wanted and what’s actually there.

But you can’t narrow a gap you won’t name. Which is why the work begins with a harder question: What are you pretending not to know?

Until you answer that honestly, every framework is theater.

Navigating Crazy is not a productivity book.

It’s not a mindset book. It’s a clear-eyed guide to seeing reality, narrowing the gap between expectation and what is, and building a life that holds, not because the world cooperates, but because you stopped requiring it to. Whether you lead a company, a classroom, or a household, this book tells you something true instead of something easy.

Inside, you’ll learn:

A practical framework for naming what is, deciding what's yours to change, and letting go of what isn't

Why most self-help fails - it treats the symptom and ignores the source

How to tell the difference between acceptance and approval, and why confusing the two keeps you stuck

If you're done being told to manifest your way out of reality, start here.

Releases August 4, 2026
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Trusted By the World's Most Influential Leaders

You’ve done the work. Built the career, raised the kids, run the classroom, held it together. And you’re still tired, still spinning, still wondering why the techniques that promised so much delivered so little.

Here’s why: techniques treat symptoms. The source is somewhere else.

Mike Staver has spent years coaching people through this work — CEOs and teachers, parents and professionals, leaders running organizations and individuals running their own lives. He’s watched accomplished people remain stuck inside enviable lives. He’s also watched people find genuine steadiness inside circumstances most would call impossible. The variable was never the circumstances. It was what they did with them.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Navigating Crazy

What is the central idea behind Navigating Crazy?

Most of the stress and overwhelm you feel comes from the gap between what you expected and what actually is. This book is a guide to narrowing that gap so the noise finally quiets. It is built on the uncomfortable idea that your dissatisfaction is usually the friction between your expectations and your refusal to accept your circumstances as they are.Most of the stress and overwhelm you feel comes from the gap between what you expected and what actually is. This book is a guide to narrowing that gap so the noise finally quiets. It is built on the uncomfortable idea that your dissatisfaction is usually the friction between your expectations and your refusal to accept your circumstances as they are.

Acceptance is not approval and it is definitely not resignation. It is the discipline of seeing exactly what is in front of you so you can act on it instead of arguing with it. You stop wasting energy on how things should be and start taking effective action on how they actually are. That distinction is the difference between people who stay stuck and people who move.

The work in this book begins with a question most people spend their lives avoiding. You have to ask yourself what you are pretending not to know. Until you answer that honestly every other framework or system is just theater. Navigating Crazy gives you the tools to answer that question and build a life that holds because you stopped requiring the world to cooperate.

This is not a book about thinking positive and it is not a book about hacks or systems. Most self help fails because it treats the symptom and ignores the source. This is a book about thinking clearly and grounded reality. If you are done being told to manifest your way out of your problems then this is where you start.

Mike wrote this for everyone navigating real demands including parents and teachers and caregivers. While the framework is grounded in thirty years of coaching senior leaders at companies like FedEx it is designed for the person in the middle of a hard week. The strategies work just as well in the living room as they do in the boardroom.

Currently Navigating Crazy is available for pre-order from Amazon. The book will officially release on August 4, 2026, at which time Amazon distribution will ship your copy based on your delivery selection at purchase.

The world is not going to slow down.

Navigating Crazy is about what you do with that.

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Releases August 4, 2026

About Mike Staver

Mike is a Speaker Hall of Fame inductee, founder of The Staver Group, and an executive coach with years of work with senior leaders. His clients include Mayo Clinic, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, Jan-Pro, Council of Multiple Listing Services, and FedEx. His programs have been ranked number one by Training Magazine on its list of top learning and development programs in the world.

He holds degrees in business administration and counseling psychology. His third book, Leadership Isn’t for Cowards, gave senior leaders a framework for making the difficult calls their roles require.

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