Grubitude

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, and Josh erased this line - for real, no great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. When I'm listening to him I am finding myself so often between reactions like "Holy Fuck! That's so true! Mic-drop!!!" and "WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST LISTEN TO?"

I was travelling for a month around Oaxaca and Chiapas together with Pati, a wonderful woman I connected with immediately - she was my age, quit her job due to the same reasons like me and started to discover Mexico for an unlimited time - so we were actually on the same mission. The light-heartedness I was feeling when we were just wandering around was unbelievable...good times, fucking good times!

Josh wanted me to post that raw material for his children. So, here it is.

I was chilling at a nightly bonfire with some suuuper unique people in the Oaxacan mountains when I met Josh, a seemingly confused, restless, pyjama-robed high-speed jabber-box...keep your mind on the word "seemingly" because if one would not pay a healthy dose of genuine attention to Josh, one would label and judge him as mentioned above...one would simply be superficial, allowing oneself to be confused by dazzling, outward appearances instead of trying to convert the word "seeming" into "being". Josh, to me, is the personification of the fact, that judgements limit experiences because if I would have avoided a conversation with him, just because he didn't seem to be normal (I hate that word) I would not have read his stunning book "Becoming a Superhero by Ditching the Costume"... I would not have recorded three podcasts with him where he opened himself up completely, wanting to highlight the family struggle he is going through... I would not have realized how wise he actually was and how powerful it is to drop all of my preconceived notions, fixed ideas and just to be neutral... letting somebody talk freely and just listening in order to listen, and not in order to reply. How wise he was? That wise: "It’s a persons own responsibility to love them for them. When you love yourself for yourself you’re able to love others before them. But if you love others only because they are loving you for you, you are only gonna love them for as long as you feel they are loving you. You’re rejecting your own self-responsibility."

Enjoy the episode and let me know what your major take-aways are! (btw, my phone died during the recording session because of the sun's heat, but at least it worked out with the other two sessions that I'm gonna post over the next days :)

One day, after several productive days I was just lying in the hammoc and suddenly - just before I wanted to go to the beach - an angel-like voice followed by a guitar play resonated all over the hostel ground...I didn't know where it actually came from since the whole hostel area was naturally blazoned with palm trees and other exotic floras that turned every corner into a safe haven...however, I was so fucking impressed by this voice that I decided to stay in the hammoc and to enjoy as well as to simply appreciate that unique voice resounding over that little paradise. After an hour of full laidbackness and beholding the sky I started to look around and realized that a bunch of other people seemed to have the same idea - silently hanging around and having a calmed plus content facial expression. There is some real magic in taking your time to simply listen to music without doing anything else - just cherishing the alternating, harmonious spectacle between sound and silence and feeling nothing else but beautiful peace. So, who the fuck was this talented guy providing peace for everyone? It was (what an irony): Angel. Angel with an angel-like voice, a sympathetic musician from Ibiza who shared his wonderful story in this episode: enjoy! :)

One of the most beautiful conversations I ever had! Period!

It’s simply incredible what kind of people you meet on the road, and how strong this connection remains, even though you haven’t seen each other for a year. Ryan, a random dude from Australia turned out to be my brother, and we’ll stay connected with each other forever, that’s for sure – not only technologically, but also spiritually. We spent a month together in Mexico and Guatemala, encouraging our personal growth process and man…I’ve probably never met a human being, that young and that awake like him – so fucking grounded, connected to his inner source and charismatic that automatically made (and still makes) me appreciate life more! For real, I’m genuinely grateful for getting to know this unique soul! I’m so curious where your path is gonna lead you because you’re made for some great things! And once again, thank you for one of the wisest things someone ever told me: “Follow your personal legend. Don’t resist the now, don’t resist your current situation – just let go and let surrender to what is and then beautiful things will happen.”

It's nonsense, says common sense.

Do you know these moments when you meet a new person and you get along with each other perfectly from the very first moment? When you’re instantly having a deep connection as if you have known that individual from before? When all of a sudden somebody becomes the missing link that you needed in order to unlock the next level in the game called life, and just through their presence you’re able to see the bigger picture again… I like to think about these people as forgotten siblings, travelling souls that you’re just able to recognize by vibes, not by appearances. And Nico? Nico is one of them. A human being that just goes with the flow and lives life simply. A human being that inspires just because he is able to express himself freely – be that by playing the guitar and singing so lightly that you get goosebumps every time when a melody embraces silence, or by just having the ability to just sit, to appreciate your presence and to talk about life, about love, about anything, about everything…to lead a conversation under the sun without the bondage of time, decelerating the accelerated lives and getting back to the essence that isn’t bound by obligations or barred by human limitations. By literally being able to talk in order to talk, without the attempt to get somewhere…

Just a man in his mid-thirties who took a leap of faith and left the English comfort zone to explore the world. When someone leaves his habitual environment to explore, then the majority shouts immediately: "Where are we going if everyone would do that?" However, one must also ask the counter-question: "Where are we going if everyone just screams, where are we going, and no one would go to see where one would come if one went."