Stoic Solutions Podcast

You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula with episode 75 – Joy. I talk about the importance of positive emotions and how they can help us experience fulfillment in day-to-day living.

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You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula with episode 75 – Calculated Risks.

Visit my website at stoicsolutionspodcast.com where you can email me; connect with me on social media; find past episodes; and join my Discord chat server for interactive discussion. Support my work through Patreon, Paypal, and referral links by visiting the donate tab on my website.

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You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula with episode 74 - Influencing others' behavior. I discuss the role we can play in inspiring others and exerting some level of influence in orienting others to a virtuous path making a case for having some level of influence in others' lives.

Visit my website at stoicsolutionspodcast.com where you can email me; connect with me on social media; find past episodes; and join my Discord chat server for interactive discussion. Support my work through Patreon, Paypal, and referral links by visiting the donate tab on my website.

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Podcast music, used with permission, is from Fairyland's album 'Score to a New Beginning.' View their Facebook page here:

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John Bartmann offered free consultation and audio edits for episodes 51-63.

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You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula with episode 73 – Routine.

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Mentioned in episode:

'Routine' by Stephen Wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh5mWzKlhQY

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Podcast music, used with permission, is from Fairyland's album 'Score to a New Beginning.' View their Facebook page here:

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John Bartmann offered free consultation and audio edits for episodes 51-63.

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You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula and my voice has mostly returned following a week break for episode 72 'Taking the High Road.'

Visit my website at stoicsolutionspodcast.com where you can email me; connect with me on social media; find past episodes; and join my Discord chat server for interactive discussion. Support my work through Patreon, Paypal, and referral links by visiting the donate tab on my website.

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Podcast music, used with permission, is from Fairyland's album 'Score to a New Beginning.' View their Facebook page here:

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John Bartmann offered free consultation and audio edits for episodes 51-63.

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You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula. This is Episode 71 with special guest Cathy Young.

We talk about free speech, the injustice taking place in left-leaning social justice circles, authoritarianism on the right, civility, responsible use of social media, political divisions, the danger of identity politics, and the intellectual dark web. She also questions popular movements including feminism and Black Lives Matter highlighting many flaws where activism and ideology go wrong.

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Cathy Young -- author and public speaker -- is a columnist for Newsday and contributing editor for Reason and ArcDigital as well as a contibutor to The Jewish Daily Forward.

Young was also a regular op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe from 2000 to 2007. From 1993 to 1999, she was a weekly columnist for the Detroit News. Her columns, book reviews, and feature articles have appeared in many publications including New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily Beast, Time.com, The New York Observer, The American Spectator, Salon, National Review, and The New Republic.

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Find Cathy Young on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63

Further reading, articles from Cathy Young:

The Left-Wing Threat to Liberalism

https://forward.com/opinion/381490/the-left-wing-threat-to-liberalism/?attribution=author-article-listing-17-headline

The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild

https://observer.com/2015/06/the-pecking-disorder-social-justice-warriors-gone-wild/

The Totalitarian Doctrine of 'Social Justice Warriors'

https://observer.com/2016/02/the-totalitarian-doctrine-of-social-justice-warriors/

You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula. This is Episode 70 – Perfectionism – Discussion about the perils of too much orientation towards perfection. We should strive for a happy medium, moderation in being conscientious.

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You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula. This is Episode 69 – A Vegan Lifestyle – Reflections on my personal diet and why you should consider making changes for your health, your bank account, the environment, and animals.

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Extra Resources:

Massimo Pigliucci: 'Should a Modern Stoic be Vegetarian?'

http://modernstoicism.com/should-a-modern-stoic-be-vegetarian-by-massimo-pigliucci/

'Let's talk Veganism' with RationalityRules, Alex O'Connor, Rachel Oates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ5hFdOSRB8&t=3126s

Kenny Luck is an author, filmmaker; photographer; videographer; and a doctoral student studying Human Development at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He released the documentary 'Half Empty: Life in America's Unhappiest City' in 2016 and 'Opoid Nation: The Making of an Epidemic' in 2017. He last appeared on this podcast in June of 2017 to talk about his work on Henry David Thoreau in his book 'Thumbing Through Thoreau.'

We talk about his documentaries and -- more generally – goal setting, understanding what's in our control, not being results-oriented, and the pitfalls of perfectionism.

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Show Notes:

Find Kenny on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kjluck.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kjluck

Opoid Nation: Making of an Epidemic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygqalpOT3Tw

Half Empty: Life in America's Unhappiest City:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGV__DjaGBk

You're listening to the Stoic Solutions Podcast - practical wisdom for everyday life. I'm your host, Justin Vacula. This is Episode 67 – Stoicism, Not Feminism: A response to a July 2018 New York Times piece titled 'What Feminists Can Do for Boys' written by feminist author Jessica Valenti in which she encourages rejection of expectations that men be strong and stoic.

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Show Notes

Jessica Valenti: “What Feminists Can Do for Boys”

http://archive.li/AhA7N

The Young Turks: "SHAME On Women Who Voted For Trump" (Not safe for work)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBquRAun1RE

Cathy Young 'Feminists treat men badly. It's bad for Feminism.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/30/feminists-treat-men-badly-its-bad-for-feminism/?utm_term=.4d2829f9dd02