Today’s podcast is a discussion about my experiences on both sides of and in the middle of the spectrum of humility and action. These experiences have taught me a lot and continue to teach me more and more as I play along that spectrum. I tried to translate those learnings in this episode, which I hope you find to be valuable and informative. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In today’s podcast, I discuss a reflection from my first visit to church in over four years. It was a really cool experience for me which led to some reflections about the connections between religious and non religious activities, which I come to share with you here. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be valuable! As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about greatness. We all have probably done pretty well with our routines and diets for at least small periods of time in our lives, whether that be for a day or a few weeks. This is a good start, yet it’s not what greatness amounts to. Instead, greatness amounts to maintaining that discipline over long periods of time. Months, years, decades… of which I believe we’re all capable. I share some ideas on how this can be done in this episode, which I hope you consider and perhaps try to put into practice. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast marks the return of Gabi to the program. She made the long trip up to the US from Brazil and will be spending some time here with me, my friends, and my family. I’m today’s episode, I check in with her to see how these first few days have been and what she’s looking forward to in the rest of her time here. It was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy listening to it! As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Hey everyone. This is a pretty intense podcast. It’s an intense moment in the world. For the many of us outside of Ukraine, it’s quite distant, yet we can sense the tension of it all. In this episode, I encourage us to make some space to imagine what it would be like to be in their shoes and to ask ourselves how we would react if we were dealt that hand. It’s not easy, but I do believe it’s a really valuable exercise. Perhaps you will, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reflection on a short video I recently came across by Jay Shetty. In the video, he details an interaction he had with a monk when he was training to become a monk himself that taught him a powerful lesson about meditation. I really resonated with the message and wanted to talk about it more here. I hope you find it to be valuable like I did. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a review of the book I just finished (A Way of Being by Carl Rogers) and a reflection on the benefits of reading. Rogers’ psychology is an eye-opening one, so I wanted to take some time to share some key elements of it, as I think he provides some tools that are tremendously helpful for us in our interactions with others. I hope you find it to be useful, along with my comments about the benefits of reading. It’s truly a gift that keeps on giving. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about a struggle I’ve been starting to notice over the last few months. I’ve identified a need for articulating my knowledge and mental models about various subjects, but I haven’t come around to doing them, despite how much value is clearly present in doing this. It’s a bit of a menacing task, which is why I wanted to take some time to talk through it here. Perhaps you’ll find value and inspiration in it. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

I just spent a few minutes on Instagram on my laptop. Every time I find myself back in that space, some interesting reflection tends to come of it. This one led me to a really meaningful reflection about vulnerability and connection. I hope you find it to be meaningful, too. I appreciate you listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s episode is my final reading of my learnings from quarter four, which you can find on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform. I dig into a framework for political conversations, self confidence, my interesting relationship with criticism and love, and more topics. These are always a lot of fun for me to write and to think through. I hope you can sense that and find some value in them. It really means a lot that you take the time to listen and to engage. It is much appreciated. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.