What does it actually look like to stay present when you're driving 10–12 hours a day, feeling lonely in your car, grieving lost friends, and still trying to create?

For this milestone episode, I tried something different—I asked Claude to generate 6 spontaneous topics about my life that I'd never seen before, then hit record and responded from the heart with zero preparation.

What emerged was a raw conversation about staying mindful through exhausting work, creative expression as survival, what loss teaches us about impermanence, the difference between loneliness and aloneness, gaming as a spiritual practice, and what I'd tell my 25-year-old self about cherishing time with the people I love.

No outline. No safety net. Just coming back to presence, over and over again.

In this episode:

• Staying mindful while driving long hours in the gig economy
• Why creative expression matters even when no one's listening
• What losing friends to death and distance taught me about impermanence
• The difference between being alone and being lonely
• Can gaming be a spiritual practice? Bringing mindfulness to Overwatch
• What I'd tell my 25-year-old self about being present with my kids

Mentioned in this episode:
My Green Day covers from 18 years ago as a newly divorced single dad:
https://www.youtube.com/sephiros888

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