Today’s podcast is an article on my blog, The Platform, which you can find at mattbest.net/theplatform. It is a reflection that I wrote following spending 90 days living in Rio de Janeiro, writing a journal on a daily basis. I read through that journal and pulled out some key learnings, which I articulate here. I hope you find these learnings to be valuable and meaningful. I can easily admit that a lot went into them. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today marks the end of my time in Brazil. Ninety days of change, novelty, learning, humbling... comes to a close. This experience, just like everything else in life, has an ending, which I have now reached. Endings are a brutal and beautiful thing. This fact inspired me to record this episode about endings and what they mean to me. Perhaps you can relate and find this message to be valuable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reflection on some key lessons that I’ve taken from one of my favorite thinkers in history - John Stuart Mill - in his book, On Liberty. Choosing your own path, developing the self, and the downsides of conformity are just some of the themes that surface which I wanted to spend some time to discuss with you here. I hope you find these lessons to be as valuable and potent as I have. Thanks so much for listening. It really means a lot to me. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Gabi and I decided to talk one last time for the podcast to talk through some big picture stuff from our time together at her home in Brazil. As always, it was a really fun conversation that was super enjoyable for me (which I hope you’ll perceive in the dialogue). I hope you enjoy it, too! Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Hey. Today’s podcast is about courage and why I’m really happy that you can’t fake it. I take some turns into Star Wars nerd territory, along with some spurious thoughts about what it means to be courageous and some key distinctions. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be valuable despite my ramblings. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast, along with the ones ahead, are going to be tough ones for me. In this episode, I reflect on the formation of my new identity in Portuguese through speaking in constantly during my time in Brazil and how that is affecting me. Like I said, not easy stuff to work through mentally. However, I think there’s a happy moral of the story to be taken here, so give it a listen and let me know what you think. Thanks for listening. It means so much to me. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Yes. That is in fact an odd title. Probably not one you would expect from me at first glance. But I ask you to listen and give the thought a chance, as I think it’s quite a profound one if you can take a step back and grasp it. I hope you find it to be valuable and that it perhaps can shift your thinking a bit. Thanks again for listening. It really means a lot to me. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reflection on the misalignment between popular media and music’s conception of romance and romance that is more optimal for well-being over time. As you will see, I think that this misalignment is concerning, and I wanted to take some time today to talk through why, plus some related thoughts about romance and relationships in general. I hope you enjoy the episode and find it to be valuable. That’s always my goal. Thanks for tuning in. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is my third conversation with Gabi. I really enjoyed it, as I always do. We wouldn’t be together if that wasn’t the case. In this episode, we talk about habits, which leads us into conversations about social media, exercise, fasting, and alcohol, with some math errors mixed in. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! As always, thanks so much for listening. It means a lot to me. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast stems from the ending of my most recent read - The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I discuss a scenario he poses to the reader and the lessons to be taken from it. I found it to be quite profound, so I wanted to take some time to share it with you. As always, thanks so much for listening. I hope you’re finding these podcasts to be meaningful, enjoyable, and valuable. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.