The Best Podcast

The Best Podcast

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The Best Podcast episodes

  • Episode 499: Black and White
    Today’s podcast is an examination of a current political and social challenge. Our proneness to black and white thinking that is polarizing and exclusionary. It’s pretty much never just black or white, and it’s pretty much never just gray either. It’s a mix of colors and intensities and so much more. It’s complicated yet so meaningful to strive to decipher. I hope you find my discourse here to be helpful and insightful. It’s a topic that means a lot to me, so I hope you sense that in my voice, too. Thanks for listening. It always means a lot to me. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    14 min
  • Episode 498: Arbitrary Opportunities
    Today’s podcast is about the value of arbitrary days. Any day is a great opportunity to make a change, to evolve, or to see ourselves differently. This can be hard to embrace and to do effectively, and thus our culture provides us with time periods which inspire reflection. Christmas and the holiday season are just that. I wanted to highlight this in today’s episode and also to wish you the very best in your seizing of this arbitrary season. I hope you find it to be a meaningful message. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    11 min
  • Episode 497: Holding Myself Accountable
    Today’s podcast is a vulnerable one. I haven’t been at my best with my habits over the last few weeks. I haven’t been reading consistently, I haven’t been meditating on a daily basis, and I’ve been spending more time than I’d like on YouTube. This has all led me to not being as focused and effective as I’d like to be. It’s hard to be at my best during this period, but I don’t want to give into that excuse. Instead, I wanted to talk through it here and be vulnerable with you all about these challenges. I hope you find it to be a valuable listen. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    7 min
  • Episode 496: How Do You Know?
    Today’s podcast is an impassioned one. It’s a topic I continuously come back to over and over again. It’s not an easy one for me to fully figure out, but I’m getting there. It’s about intellectual humility and always coming back to ask ourselves, “How do you really know?” It’s not an easy task, but it’s a pursuit that promises tremendous value in my view. I hope this message persuades you. Thank you for listening. It means so much to me. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    19 min
  • Episode 495: Who Are You?
    Today’s podcast details a process which I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about in my adult life. Asking ourselves who we are, who we aspire to be, how we personify our values, and what we can do to better personify our values and our ideal self is a reflection that I sincerely believe we would all benefit from participating in on a consistent basis. I make a case for it in this episode. Perhaps you’ll take it to heart and do something with it. It would mean so much to me and the world. Thanks for listening and engaging with this. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    10 min
  • Episode 494: It’s Okay
    Today’s podcast marks another new chapter. Coming home from Brazil and leaving Gabi hasn’t been seamless, because it simply can’t be. It’s a significant transition in which a lot of changes take place, which takes time. I talk through where my head is in this transition in today’s episode, along with why I think it’s important to give myself some grace within the challenges of these circumstances. I hope you find some value in it. As always, thanks for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    8 min
  • Episode 493: The Whole Picture of Goodbye
    Today’s podcast is a hard one for me. As I get ready to say goodbye again, I’ve gotten to reflect on what it really means to leave and head home. There are good and bad things about leaving, and then there are good and bad things about returning. Learning to see all of this for what it is, and to process it all for what it is, is fundamental to making sense of my experience I think. I took some time today to explore this thought and the different things in play in my current situation. I hope you find it to be interesting and insightful in some way. I appreciate you listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    10 min
  • Episode 492: A Special Day
    Today’s a special day! Happy birthday, Gabi. I love you very much. This podcast is dedicated to her and the relationship we’ve been able to build over the last two years. In this episode, I reflect on everything that we have lived together in a stream of consciousness fashion, allowing my thoughts to wander around all of the wonderful things she has shared with me. I hope you enjoy it. I appreciate you listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    13 min
  • Episode 491: This Is Water
    Today’s podcast is in reaction to my listening of David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water” graduation speech at Kenyon College in 2005. It’s a beautiful speech which I’d highly recommend you listen to. I took some time in this episode to talk through some of my takeaways and the beauty I found in his words. Perhaps you will, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    9 min
  • Episode 490: Gabi and I Talking about Talking
    Today’s podcast is a short conversation between Gabi and me. It was much longer in its original version, but we decided to cut it due to some personal considerations afterwards. We may consider posting in the future, but now did not feel like the right time for us. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy the short chat between us. I certainly did. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.
    17 min

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