Welcome to the Beyond - the podcast for lionhearted men. Spending time in meaningful conversations with young people is an absolute honor for me. 

I love hearing their rawness. Their honesty. I love getting beyond the b******t and platitudes and surface level crap.  I am deeply humbled and excited that I’ve found my way to allowing my curiosity, my authenticity, my listening to create the space for real connection and deep dives. I believe it creates significant, essential space for our young people to feel seen, feel safe, and bring their wholeness alive. 

My most sincere belief is that all young people crave these kinds of real conversations, where they can bring themselves. Fully. Raw. Exposed. Passionate. And feel safe and grateful for the opportunity not have another meaningless, shallow holiday party kind of experience that insults their intelligence and creates serious dissonance. 

Today’s conversation is with Theo Andrew. Theo is a magical, brilliant game creator and player. If ever you get the chance to play a game with him it will be an experience that will live with you forever. And he is stuck. Caught in a world asking him to jump through all the hoops…and he hates and sucks at hoops, so his brilliance, his passion, and his aliveness is stuck. It leaves me deeply driven to unlock the potential and incredible ness of our young people.  

Come along as Theo shares the mindset of Generation Z, the hopelessness, the frustration, the powerlessness…ugh. Then we turn it towards creating new pathways, new imaginings, and what might happen if we unleashed his gifts!  

I hope you enjoy this unfiltered glimpse into the challenging adventure our young people are living through. A real conversation. The real struggle. The deep desire for a life beyond, Beyond struggle. Beyond hoops.  Thank you for caring, for listening, and welcome to The Beyond - conversations with my friends. 

Today you will be treated to the tenderness and power of friendship. Jesse and I work our way towards the incredible and vulnerable territory of how to be the dads we want to be, how to support our kids to be themselves, and our own loving friendship. 

We begin with a wild and curious reflection about Revolution, that will surely inspire reflection. As I’ve listened to this episode, what keeps working me and I hope provokes you, is an inquiry about how we got to the place where differences we feel with people shifted from not liking an idea to the dangerous territory of not liking the person. We wonder into how existing in this territory limits our giving our gifts, limits who we become, and holds tremendous potential energy because we both know incredible people in the world caught in or by judgement and fear. 

Our current paradigm clearly isn’t working. If we stay here, we’re fucked. But there are other paradigms.  Jesse and I welcome you into our efforts to create something different. We talk about sports, the education system, how to create meaningful relationship with self and others, and we end up in a tender, powerful space of connection. 

My hope is to model the kinds of connection between men that is available and revolutionary.  It takes trust, courage, and deep listening. I’m grateful for my friendship with this thoughtful, humble, powerful man, and believe you’ll be able to feel and hear what is possible Beyond, when we venture from the status quo, from normal, and allow in the energy and presence that the two of us believe is the only way forward.  I trust you will be deeply touched, moved, and inspired by this episode of the Beyond podcast - real conversations with my friends.

Hello my friends and welcome to Beyond. The conversation today is another exploration with my young friend Jordan.  Jordan has had quite a journey with many ups and downs, and to his immense credit, through the tough moments he has become a passionate advocate for aliveness. He has a beautiful heart and continues to explore how to get his voice and gifts into the world. Our connections include group work, occasional walks, and deep recorded talks that we want to share with you.  

Our exploration on this day begins with awareness of War in the world. Abroad and at home, the desire to fight each other, to be on the right side, to other people is very present in our world today. Jordan and I believe there is another way, a way into the Beyond. 

You will be invited to reflect with us about: 

• Being connected to, not separate from, the natural world
• Living beyond standard, simple conversations, in the Beyond - the land of different perspectives and possibilities
• Why are real conversations uncomfortable? How to create them?
• The power of honoring your desires, living your aliveness, and being in your highest alignment - and the potential sacrifices 
• Why people are miserable
• You’ll hear us use “I” statements, trying to speak from our experience and not make generalizations

The invitation into seeing the world differently and engaging with self, others, and the more than human world feels essential for how we move forward. This kind of real conversation and new paradigm hopefully provides hope and offers an imagining of what is possible when we engage in life beyond status quo interactions and choices.

Please accept this invitation, this offer to open options, open places in ourselves, and learn to be in the incredible discomfort and juiciness of nuance. So yes, another rich and important connection. I hope you enjoy this episode of the Beyond podcast - real conversations with my friends.  

Wow. Just wow. 

What an honor to spend time with this lion-hearted young man. Jordan Zimmerman is committed to speak truth to power, to bring his conviction and his heart to the world. He is a stand for people finding their way to happiness, meaning, and fulfillment.  He wants to spend his Saturday nights talking about real stuff, getting into those deep, amazing conversations, and create amazing connection…and he invites his friends into that space over and over again, offering them a different path than getting drunk and numbing everything. 

His journey has been a hard one. He has faced his darkness and he’s on a mission to do life differently.  I love. Love. Love spending time with Jordan. We get into all kinds of juicy territory when we connect.  

On this particular dive there is no b******t. There is no f*****g around with the nonsense of playing half way. To turn find our way to a meaningful life, we’ve got to be having different conversations, different interactions, different relationships with ourselves, that are beyond the half world that wants to check out and be numb.  We’re seeking connection with the aliveness and knowing that lives in us. There is no room for half way here as we talk sports, but not watching sports. We get into the gifts of playing and trying to be the best athlete, no the best person, you can be. Inside this we get into fulfillment, and fun!  Long term AND short term wins, and how much resistance there is in people to get into the tough places. Wow do we have to learn to hang in discomfort. That is so so clear.  

There is so much here. Passion, care, honesty…it is just so juicy and important.  

You are going to love and be deeply impacted by this conversation.  Thank you for listening and be ready. Here comes Jordan and here we go into Beyond - real conversations with my friends. Enjoy. 

Hello my friends and welcome to Beyond. The conversation today is one in what will be a series of explorations with my friend Jesse, as we learn to share our heart felt reflections. As we embark on what we consider overdue. A courageous, and hopefully meaningful, sharing of our journey in making sense of our world today. 

Our focus in this connection begins with awareness of War in the world. Abroad and at home, the desire to fight each other, to be on the right side, to other people is very present in our world today. Jesse and I believe there is another way, a way into the Beyond. 

Expect to wonder about

• How to engage the power of conflict to generate connection, collaboration, and expand community. 
• How we come together in these times, not tear apart
• How to heal the war inside ourselves
• What happens beyond the paradigm of destruction and the moral high ground
• How we invite in and anchor the energy of aliveness, peace, and connection like a orchestra conductor
• How to find our way to bigger questions, different perspectives, and ownership on the path beyond normal

This territory is important because we are lured into fighting constantly, we too easily use it to define our identity. “I am this or that, are you with me or against me?” We are swimming in waters and breathing the air of being on the right side of the fight. Our movies, our news, our politics all ask us to choose sides.  Jesse and I want to offer ways to accept the poet Rumi’s invitation,

“Out Beyond Right doing and wrong doing, out beyond right and wrong, out beyond fighting, there is a field, lets meet, lets explore, lets dance on this beautiful land. “ 

Hopefully you’ll want to join us for the dance, the laughter, the playfulness, the beautiful discomfort this field out Beyond offers. So yes, today is really cool and important and I hope you enjoy this episode of the Beyond podcast - real conversations with my friends.  

Beyond is for those  ready to imagine, to find, to create a new way forward. Those who want to break some rules, to lead, to get messy and into the amazing nuance of life. Those in between places, the real conversations with all perspectives considered. We are here to get good at being uncomfortable.  We are here to get good at sharing your unique way, your talent, your brilliance, your spunk with us. And with the world. Those for whom the status quo does not work. For those who going back to normal simply will not do. 

Beyond. An incredible imaginal and real place. A place of aliveness. Beauty. Connection.  

We are in powerful, beautiful, necessary apocalyptic and revolutionary times.  Times when we have to embrace the incredible power of death, and life. And life and death. Times when we realize that to re-create systems that work, the old systems have to die. Beyond is a commitment to explore how we hospice the death of the old ways and midwife the birth of new, incredible, powerful paradigms, ideas, possibilities that create hope. That create change. That gives us reason to live.   

I want to guide us on a journey of creation, where we imagine and create new ways of doing things. I aim for it to be a playful, fun, meaningful, provocative time where we get into all kinds of juicy trouble.   I want to be a stand for you to feel challenged, to try new things, to feel inspired to become your most powerful self. Because when we all get there, amazing things can happen. 

I want to inspire connection with yourself, between one another,  and with this incredible more than human world. 

I want you to know that being your unique self is the most revolutionary act you can commit. And I want to help you deepen your understanding of yourself, your daily practice, and how to be in the world. 

I’ve always been a guy who wants to have important, inspired conversations, to dive deep, to feel. To figure out how to talk about the stuff that isn’t being talked about. Because it’s uncomfortable. Because it’s inconvenient. Because we don’t know how. The intention is to help you remember that get to be the heart centered person you are. And that you know how.  

We are here to do the opposite of pretend. We are here to stand in beautiful discomfort of todays Biggest, Most Important Questions.  To not pretend and to As long as I can remember I have been questioning how and why we’re doing what we’re doing, and in my child like hope and belief that we’ll take good care of each other, of our home, of this planet, of all beings.

We are not here to argue, we are here to explore and be curious. 

Here is Season 1, you will find several different kinds of episodes.  There are solo episodes, there are conversations with my friends, and there will be some interviews.  You can learn more about these in episode 2, where I dive deeper into what we’re up to here. 

So. There we have it.  You are introduced. The Beyond is here. 

Welcome to Beyond. Now, lets dive on in. 

Welcome.  I’m hopeful you are on the journey to live your aliveness. That you are looking out at world and saying both “No thank you. This is not working.” And “How incredible to be alive at this time, this powerful and incredible time of beautiful, creative revolution, apocalypse, and reimagining ways to care. What an incredible opportunity.”

Beyond is for those  ready to imagine, find, create a new way forward. Those who wants to break some rules, to lead, to get messy and into the amazing nuance as you share your unique way, talent, brilliance, spunk with us, with the world. Those for whom the status quo, for going back to normal simply will not do. 

I’ve been confused and quiet for a long time. 

So here I am inviting you into all the conversations that I’ve always wanted to have.  I hope you enjoy these explorations as much as I do. Please dive in. 

This episode will set the stage and give you an overview of topics we’ll explore and the basic format.  

I’ll share today about 

• Deep Meaningful Conversations

• Stepping outside the grip of external validation

• The territory of the Beyond and what I imagine to be New Ways

• New Masculine energy

• Beyond as a prayer, a practice, a way, an invitation, an imagining, a place of connection, a fellowship

Thank you for being here. As I like to say, Thank You for Being You. The Unique being that you are, having made the powerful, courageous choice to be alive in these dynamic times.  I’m glad you are here. Welcome to Beyond. Enjoy. 

Deep Meaningful Conversations

Always was the guy who wanted to have deep meaningful conversations and connections.  I wanted to spend Friday night talking, not partying. Exploring ideas, 

Being Morgan - outside the grip of external validation

Recently finding myself outside of the need to prove myself with external validation and structure. Of needing the approval of the cultural world, and instead getting clear that the life I have to live is Morgan’s. That’s the only life I can live and judging my worthiness based off of others success and the stories of what I believe I am supposed to be, has lost it’s grip on me.  So I’m here to explore  and share this exploration. 

Beyond the status quo and normal

The current paradigm we’re playing here in the US is not working. It’s time for a different paradigm, a new way, so I offer the Beyond. 

We will explore the beautiful place where deep connection happens, with self, others, and the more than human world.  

New Ways - Wholeness, Full Pictures, Being with what is, Being in the Uncomfortable, Ripe moments

Speak up and stop betraying ourselves with silence, that keeps everything safe and status quo. 

Seems simple. Bringing the whole picture to the table, setting it on the table, and then

Masculine Energy - Feminine Energy

Not being an a*****e.  Not being meek.  Learning host to bring our lion hearts forward into the world.

Time to step into, not away from the challenges and beauty of the day. Time to bring the whole picture with all the variables into awareness. Time to step Beyond, into new ways. The current way, the current paradigm just isn’t working - people are miserable, we keep fighting, young people feel no hope, and we just keep pretending that we can keep doing the same thing and our lives will change. It’s like continuing to rack up credit card debt thinking that someday some thing will magically change if we just keep going.  

Beyond as a prayer, a practice, a way, an invitation, an imagining, a place of connection, a fellowship