Today’s podcast goes in a few different directions, while all revolving around one topic. The hero’s journey and the concept of the hero is spoken about so often, but what does it really mean and where does it come from? I share some answers to these questions and more in this episode. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today is my last day in the states after a month here. Coming off a few days with educators following the election result earlier in the week, I had some observations that I wanted to share. I discuss how we react when we are uncertain and upset, including our tendency to dig in and close off instead of open up during these times. I hope you find it insightful, especially during this time. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reading of my most recent Substack post, which you can find at mbest.substack.com/p/rest. I share my thoughts on rest, including how I define rest and what high quality rest looks like to me. I hope you find value in what I share here. Thanks for listening (and reading!). As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Love opens us up to so much. It opens us up to some of the best experiences in our emotional lives. It also opens us up to potential pain and hurt. It feels so good to receive love from others, and we often find ourselves giving love in order to receive it back. Today’s podcast is about the value of loving for loving’s sake, even if it exposes us to possible emotional pain as a consequence. But I want us to feel into the experience of loving in itself, independent of what we get back for it. I hope you find this message to be valuable and that it sparks some reflection. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast gets a little vulnerable. I share some details about my journey with humility and self-confidence in the workplace. I share some regrets I have and the realizations I’ve had over the last year. I hope my experience can bring some useful lessons to you. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast comes on the other side of a day’s worth of driving and sitting in the car, which is what I needed after many days of information coming in with few pauses to just sit with it all. Our current world is great at giving us overwhelming amounts of food for thought, and if we don’t give ourselves the space to digest it, the world won’t stop throwing more food down our throats. I hope you find what I have to say here about giving ourselves space useful to you in some way. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

As my 27th year of life culminated, I experienced a rush of emotions due to some recent life experiences which are translating into some useful looking ahead toward the future. I share a bit about that here, which I hope you find insightful in some way. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Returning to Utica and spending a week here has opened my eyes to some important differences between what I am now used to hearing in Rio and what I have frequently heard here. I spend some time reflecting about this, along with the ways in which we are the same, in this episode. I hope you find some value in it. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast articulates my current state after a few busy days without a mindfulness practice. Although 10 minutes seems so short, not having that time to meditate over the past week has clearly taken a toll on me. I describe those effects here and more, which I hope you find useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

After a long trip home and a lot of social time, I talk through the experiences I’ve had recently in today’s episode. It has left me with a lot to process, with a lot of points of reconnection. As always, I hope you enjoy it and find some value here. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.