The Daily Stoic

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What's The Daily Stoic about?

The audio companion to DailyStoic.com's daily email meditations, read by Ryan Holiday.

Each daily reading will help you cultivate strength, insight and wisdom necessary for living the good life. Every word is based on the two-thousand plus year old philosophy that has guided some of history’s greatest men and women.

Learn more at: dailystoic.com

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You Have The Power

09.24.2021

Ryan discusses the innate power that resides within us all, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Sign up for the ...

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09.24.2021 You Have The Power Ryan discusses the innate power that resides within us all, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Sign up for the ...
09.23.2021 This is All You Need \| The Most Secure Fortress Ryan explains why the desire to persevere and keep going is all that we need, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: ...
09.22.2021 Coach Bob Bowman on Balancing Stillness and Excellence \| You Have To Earn That Trust Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Bob Bowman, who is best known as the coach of 23-time ...
09.21.2021 What We Accept, and What We Must Never Accept Ryan explains why why we must do everything we can to change injustice when we see it, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it ...
09.20.2021 You Must Be Willing To Stand Alone \| On Handling Haters Ryan explains why no matter the circumstances courage is always required, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The ...
09.19.2021 How to Be More Courageous With Stoicism (7 Tips) Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book "Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave" at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Almost every religion, spiritual practice, philosophy and person grapples with fear. The most repeated phrase in the Bible is “Be not afraid.” The ...
09.18.2021 Professor Jo Lukito on the Rise of Misinformation On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to Jo Lukito about her research on trading up the chain and the spread of misinformation, the difference between disinformation and misinformation and the importance of the distinction, the tragedy of the ...
09.17.2021 You Need To Be That Bright Spot Ryan explains why doing the right thing matters even when it seems like no one else is, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy ...
09.16.2021 This is Why You're Upset \| Anyone Can Get Lucky, Not Everyone Can Persevere Ryan explains why legacy is for everyone else not for you, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave ...
09.15.2021 Author Adam Rubin on Creativity and Pursuing Your Passion \| Did It Make You Better Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Adam Rubin about his newest book High Five, taking the leap from being a part time artist to being a full time artist, the magic that is being able to express yourself ...
09.14.2021 The Whiplash is Your Fault Ryan discusses how much control you have over your response, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Sign up for the ...
09.13.2021 Just A Few Seconds Of Courage \| A New Way To Pray Ryan explains how a few seconds can define so much of your life, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune ...
09.12.2021 New Book Preview: Courage Is Calling \| You Must Burn The White Flag On today’s special episode of the podcast, Ryan reads a chapter from his newest book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave which is available for pre-order now. If you pre-order the book before September 28, 2021 you can get ...
09.11.2021 Bobby Hall (Logic) on Turning Pain Into Prosperity On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to recording artist Bobby Hall (known professionally as Logic) about his new memoir This Bright Future, defining what enough is for yourself, the stigma of speaking out about mental health, dealing with pain and struggle ...
09.10.2021 You Can’t Go Out Like This Ryan explains why we all need what you have to offer and why you should believe in the value that you bring to the world, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. If you or someone you know is in a mental ...
09.09.2021 You Are Not Seeing The Whole Picture \| Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself Ryan explains why legacy is for everyone else not for you, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out ...
09.08.2021 Author Tom Nichols on the Assault on Modern Thinking \| The Story We Tell Is Powerful Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Tom Nichols about his new book Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, how to bridge the gap between detailed knowledge and the public conversation, what it means ...
09.07.2021 How Are You Using Your Platform? Ryan challenges you to think about how you are using the voice that you were given, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave - check it out ...
09.06.2021 Nothing Is Possible Without This \| A Hard Winter Training Ryan explains why the virtue of courage is essential no matter what you do, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: ...
09.05.2021 50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics Ryan Holiday defines 50 rules for life from the Stoics, gathered from their immense body of work across two thousand years. These rules functioned, then, as now, as guides to what the ancients called “the good life.” Hopefully some of ...
09.04.2021 Little Rock Nine Member Ernest Green on Creating an Atmosphere of Change On today’s podcast Ryan talks to Ernest Green about his experience as one of the first African-American students to integrate at Little Rock Central High School in 1957, why we should strive to disprove backwards thinking, how we must change ...
09.03.2021 These Are The People Watching Out For You Ryan explains why we should thank the people who put their lives on the line for our freedom, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See ...
09.02.2021 This Is Worse Than Death \| The Philosopher’s School Is A Hospital Ryan explains why the Stoics have always given their lives for what they believe in, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the ...
09.01.2021 Brad Stulberg on the Practice of Groundedness \| They Are Us And We Are Them Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author Brad Stulberg about his new book The Practice of Groundedness which you can pre-order at https://www.bradstulberg.com/tpogpreorder, how the path to peak performance is inevitably tied to compulsive behavior, practical steps to alleviate ...
08.31.2021 Nothing Is Unusual Ryan explains why nothing should surprise a Stoic, on today's Daily Stoic Podcast. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
08.30.2021 This Choice Is Everything \| A Cure For Procrastination Ryan explains discusses the choice that will decide your fate, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Pre-orders are available for Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave ...
08.29.2021 Time Management Strategies From the Stoics On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the different time management strategies that come to us from the Stoics. LMNT is the maker of electrolyte drink mixes that help you stay active at home, work, the gym, or ...
08.28.2021 Sharon Lebell on Epictetus and Rescuing Philosophy from the Philosophers On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to Sharon Lebell about her translation of Epictetus – The Art Of Living, the im balance in the Stoic writings concerning gender roles, why we should take philosophy back from the philosophers, ...
08.27.2021 You May Have To Do This Ryan explains the resistance that you are likely to face during your life. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/email Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
08.26.2021 Compete With Yourself And Root For Everybody Else \| Seeking Out Shipwrecks Ryan explains how you turn the words and phrases you come across into actions, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Ladder makes the process of getting life insurance quick and easy. ...
08.25.2021 MLB Pitcher Scott Oberg on Overcoming Adversity with Stoicism \| Will You Answer the Call? Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and launches the pre-order for his new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave which you can check out at https://dailystoic.com/preorder Today’s interview with MLB relief pitcher Scott Oberg focuses on how an athletes ...
08.24.2021 You Have Not Been Harmed “The last year has been rough. It’s not how any of us would have chosen for things to go. Working from home. Cancelled trips. No unnecessary trips to the store, no concerts, no weddings or parties. Lost time with older ...
08.23.2021 Make Sure You Write Down Everything Interesting That You Find \| Just Say No to Future Misery “When he was young, James Mattis hitchhiked to San Francisco to meet Eric Hoffer, the philosopher most famous for his book, The True Believer, and as Mattis said, “Eric was the one who told me, ‘Make sure you write down ...
08.22.2021 Ryan Holiday on America’s missing Statue of Responsibility “THE STATUE OF LIBERTY was a gift from France to America, commemorating the two nations’ friendship and shared love of freedom. Completed in 1886, it marked one of the world’s first, successful crowdfunding projects. The famous poem “The New Colossus” ...
08.21.2021 Megan Phelps-Roper on Radicalization and Redemption On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper about her experiences growing up in the church, the problem of radicalization in society and modern institutions, considering the individual perspectives of the people ...
08.20.2021 These Conversations Are How You Learn “In times of clickbait and divisiveness, of the filter bubble and superficiality, one medium of communication has continued to grow exponentially: podcasts. On the one hand, this is a new technology. Recording equipment, bandwidth, the ubiquity of smartphones has made ...
08.19.2021 It's Not Unfair, It Just Is \| Corralling The Unnecessary “It’s amazing how often we find ourselves using these words. Words like “unfair,” “unlucky,” “frustrating,” “unfortunate,” “annoying,” “inconvenient” Ryan explains the fundamental Stoic practice of recognizing events as indifferent, not just talk about it, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry ...
08.18.2021 Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson on Building Resilience and Communicating Effectively \| It's About What You Make of It Ryan reads today’s meditation and has another conversation with Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson about their new book What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home, experiencing adversity and ...
08.17.2021 How To Teach and How to Learn “Tim Duncan is likely the great power forward in the history of the NBA. Five titles. Three NBA Finals MVPs. Fifteen All-star appearances. Fifteen All-NBA Team selections. Fifteen NBA All-Defensive Team selections. And he did it with a selflessness and ...
08.16.2021 Notice The Reminders \| Always Ask Yourself This Question “Everytime you cut your hair. Every time you trim your nails. Every time you have to replace an old shirt or a worn out pair of running shoes, take note. Take note of what they symbolize.” Ryan explains why you ...
08.15.2021 The Lancer Brigade’s Leadership Experience - Ryan Holiday in Conversation with Col. Jonathan Chung Today’s episode of the podcast is a conversation with Lancer Brigade’s Col. Jonathan Chung and Ryan Holiday which originally aired on The Leadership Experience Podcast. They talk about the Stoic concept of alive time vs. dead time that was originally ...
08.14.2021 NASCAR Champion Brad Keselowski on Reaching Your Maximum Potential On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski about the intricacies of stock car racing, how to build endurance and become great at whatever you do, how to lead and build a team that consistently ...
08.13.2021 This is Where You’re Supposed To Be “We all feel pulled. To do more. To go more places. To make more progress. We are dogged by the constant worry we’re in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing—or rather, there is some where else, somewhere better that ...
08.12.2021 What Are You Doing? \| Make The Words Your Own “We find ourselves baffled by our politicians. By our bosses. By our leaders. Why don’t they do something? Why can’t they just do the right thing? Why are they always putting profits over people? Why do they always hedge their ...
08.11.2021 Venture Capitalist Brad Feld on How Nietzsche Empowers the Entrepreneur \| This Must Be Done Daily Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Venture Capitalist and Author Brad Feld about his new book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors, the common misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy and life, why entrepreneurs have to focus attention ...
08.10.2021 Labels Make You Worse “It’s an interesting fact. Not once in any of his writings or speeches, let alone Meditations, does Marcus Aurelius call himself a Stoic. Other people may have applied the label to him, but he never identified with it. Never saw ...
08.09.2021 Why Are You Surprised? \| What Little Wins Can You Find “In June of 2001, Paul Wolfowitz, then U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, addressed the cadets at West Point. While the speech he gave was not itself a historical moment, one remark in it would go down in history. Because it ...
08.08.2021 Seneca on Being Today’s episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss’ Audio. In this letter Seneca writes about the ethereal nature of human existence, how time is constantly moving life forward, why we should take advantage of ...
08.07.2021 Journalist Oliver Burkeman on Making the Most of the Time That We Have On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to journalist and author Oliver Burkeman about his new book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals which releases August 10th, practicing the Stoic concept of memento mori, facing the harsh state ...
08.06.2021 You Have To Be Able To See Both Ways “There’s no question Marcus Aurelius had a cynical eye. This was deliberate. He looked out over a feast and ignored the culinary temptations to notice “the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.” ...

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What's The Daily Stoic about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Daily Stoic episodes:

You Have The Power

This is All You Need | The Most Secure Fortress

Coach Bob Bowman on Balancing Stillness and Excellence | You Have To Earn That Trust

What We Accept, and What We Must Never Accept

You Must Be Willing To Stand Alone | On Handling Haters

How to Be More Courageous With Stoicism (7 Tips)

Professor Jo Lukito on the Rise of Misinformation

You Need To Be That Bright Spot

This is Why You're Upset | Anyone Can Get Lucky, Not Everyone Can Persevere

Author Adam Rubin on Creativity and Pursuing Your Passion | Did It Make You Better

The Whiplash is Your Fault

Just A Few Seconds Of Courage | A New Way To Pray

New Book Preview: Courage Is Calling | You Must Burn The White Flag

Bobby Hall (Logic) on Turning Pain Into Prosperity

You Can’t Go Out Like This

You Are Not Seeing The Whole Picture | Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself

Author Tom Nichols on the Assault on Modern Thinking | The Story We Tell Is Powerful

How Are You Using Your Platform?

Nothing Is Possible Without This | A Hard Winter Training

50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics

Little Rock Nine Member Ernest Green on Creating an Atmosphere of Change

These Are The People Watching Out For You

This Is Worse Than Death | The Philosopher’s School Is A Hospital

Brad Stulberg on the Practice of Groundedness | They Are Us And We Are Them

Nothing Is Unusual

This Choice Is Everything | A Cure For Procrastination

Time Management Strategies From the Stoics

Sharon Lebell on Epictetus and Rescuing Philosophy from the Philosophers

You May Have To Do This

Compete With Yourself And Root For Everybody Else | Seeking Out Shipwrecks

MLB Pitcher Scott Oberg on Overcoming Adversity with Stoicism | Will You Answer the Call?

You Have Not Been Harmed

Make Sure You Write Down Everything Interesting That You Find | Just Say No to Future Misery

Ryan Holiday on America’s missing Statue of Responsibility

Megan Phelps-Roper on Radicalization and Redemption

These Conversations Are How You Learn

It's Not Unfair, It Just Is | Corralling The Unnecessary

Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson on Building Resilience and Communicating Effectively | It's About What You Make of It

How To Teach and How to Learn

Notice The Reminders | Always Ask Yourself This Question

The Lancer Brigade’s Leadership Experience - Ryan Holiday in Conversation with Col. Jonathan Chung

NASCAR Champion Brad Keselowski on Reaching Your Maximum Potential

This is Where You’re Supposed To Be

What Are You Doing? | Make The Words Your Own

Venture Capitalist Brad Feld on How Nietzsche Empowers the Entrepreneur | This Must Be Done Daily

Labels Make You Worse

Why Are You Surprised? | What Little Wins Can You Find

Seneca on Being

Journalist Oliver Burkeman on Making the Most of the Time That We Have

You Have To Be Able To See Both Ways

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