In today’s podcast, Gabi returns for a fun conversation about the harder and less sexy parts of relationships, the challenges and value of small fights, habits and the important structures for developing and maintaining good ones, and the importance of fun time, along with many other topics. It was a really enjoyable conversation, which turned out to be much less serious than our initial conversations. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy the conversation and pick up some valuable pieces from it. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a continuation of the previous one, in which I read through some of my learnings from quarter three of this year. From the being mindful of our information consumption to the affordances of sacrifice, I cover a lot in these learnings. I hope you find these takeaways to be valuable and actionable in some way in your own life and perspective of the world. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is one I was excited to record and share. It’s the first of a few that come from the newest article on my website, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2021 . From deep focus to our assessments of life experiences, I start a tour of the learnings I’ve had over the last three months or so. I hope you enjoy it and stick around for the additional learnings in upcoming episodes. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a stream of consciousness reflection on reaching 24 years of life. It’s a reflection on the beauty of life, challenges, love, family, learning, polarization, completeness, and much more. I hope you find it to be a valuable spattering of ideas. Thank you for listening. Here’s to much more life. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

I’m back after a week’s hiatus! Today’s podcast starts as a reflection on my time away in São Paulo with Gabi and then maneuvers its way into a number of reflections and learnings about myself and my environment that I’ve felt a need to get off of my chest. It’s a particularly vulnerable and self-examining episode, but it’s one that felt good putting out into the world. I hope you enjoy it. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

It has been four years since I recorded the first episode of this podcast. So much has happened over that time, both in my own life and in the world in which I find myself, as a small grain in the vast desert. This episode is a reflection on all of those episodes and all of the life that has passed. I still marvel at it all to no end. I hope you find some value in the reflection I present here. Your attention means more to me than you know. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care. Here’s to many more years of The Best Podcast.

Today’s podcast addresses an idea that has been recurring in my head for a long time. If you really believe in something, what behavioral indicator support that belief? If you’re recommending something to someone else, are you doing it / have you done it too in your own life? These are questions I think we need to contend with more, which I bring to the fore in this episode. I hope you enjoy it, find it valuable, and perhaps even think it’s relevant to your own life. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is one in which I reminisce on a quote from an unknown author, which goes like this. “There’s a reason why the windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror.” Perhaps hearing this quote will click for you like it did for me upon first hearing it. If not, don’t worry. I focus on what the quote means and its relevance to life in this episode. I hope you find the message to be meaningful and useful. Thanks for listening. It means a lot. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about a line I read in a newsletter recently that jumped out at me. It was this - “What seems expensive is often cheap in the long run.” This quote came from the Farnam Street blog’s newsletter from Shane Parrish. It’s one I enjoy and recommend, as it’s the only newsletter I subscribe to. I hope you find my explanation of the quote to be valuable in some way. Thanks for tuning in. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a sampling of relationship check-in questions that Kat Cole published. I really like the questions and think the practice of doing this once a month with your partner could be quite positively transformative. For that reason, I wanted to share them with you here. I hope you find some value in them and the practice, whether you’re in a romantic relationship or not. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.