Intro to Expansion

In this episode, we explore 7 indicators of the state of our American empire, what this means for us, and the posture we should take as we move forward. Despite all that’s happening out in the world, this episode is a reminder to bring it back to what’s ours specifically to discover and to dedicate ourselves to.

Give it a listen!

Melvyn 🌐

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In this Musing episode, I share some thoughts about process and how our commitment to processes that support our bodies enables us to function optimally and embody all we’ve covered so far.

Give this musing a listen and take a look at your own process and adjust as you see fit.

Melvyn ⚙️

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In this episode, we discuss how our imaginations are the chief creative power we have available to us to reconstruct our lives. We cover the “lowdown” on imagination, the science of it, exercised to strengthen and direct our imaginations toward the lives we want to lead and why we struggle with our imagination and creativity in the first place.

After all the internal reconstructive work we have undergone these last few weeks and months, we finally have a tool that takes all of that work and directs it both inwardly and outwardly.

This is powerful constructive work we’re doing and I invite you to dive into the episode.

Melvyn

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In this Musing episode, I discuss an alternative view of our emotions and how they can assist us on our way to our highest aims. As always, I invite you to navigate your emotions with gentleness and curiosity.

Explore this perspective and muse with me about our emotions.

Melvyn 🚸

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In this episode, we examine how our fears, though biological in origin, may reveal patterns that can not only point us in the direction of our dreams but propel us into them.

I share how a few persistent fears that plagued me for a long time were actually indicators of my greatest potential impact. This episode goes deep and just might change how you see, and engage, with your fear. Grab a notebook, and some tissue, and let’s see what fear has for us.

Spoiler alert: It’s good.

Melvyn 😱

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In this Musing episode, we cover the internal pattern, resistance, that may just be keeping us stuck in the name of safety and familiarity. In it, I use examples from my romantic relationships and my work experience to illuminate how we subtly protect ourselves from what we want.

Give this episode a listen and pair it with what we’ve covered in Urgent Life, Redefining, and House Your Words Built. Please excuse the laughing fit. Perspective is a funny thing!

Melvyn 🪂

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In this episode, we explore the creative power of our words, for better and worse, and the reality-editing capacity of our beliefs. We cover how these two elements have constructed our lives as they stand and how we can use them to reconstruct ones we leap out of bed for (or in my case, stay up late for).

In it, we revisit our evolutionary origins, we chat with some anthropologists and linguists and briefly touch on a common relationship belief spreading through the population.

A fun and thorough listen, if I must say.

Melvyn 🗣️

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In this short-form musing episode, I explore the nature of ideas and how simultaneously fleeting and formative they are.

In this post, I aim to encourage us to create space for ideas to meet us and to take their visitation seriously as they may be the entryway to worlds heretofore untraveled. I invite you to go on this walk with me.

Melvyn 🌱

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In this episode, we explore the function of definitions in our lives and how we can use them to reconstruct our targets, our capabilities, and our sense of self.

In it, I especially ask you to redefine your view of creativity and productivity for the times that we live in. Be advised, this one is full of admonishments, so if you aren’t prepared to act or consider how you can shift, it might be a little vexatious. It’s all love tho.

Melvyn 📝

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In this episode we cover the importance of living life urgently and how valuable weeks can be in our reconstruction. I also discuss how we will approach reconstruction and the aims I have for all of us.

It’s a lot of heart in here. Get in.

Melvyn 🏗️

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