The GoodBeing Podcast

Aldous Huxley wrote that "knowledge is a function of being", meaning that the nature and amount of what we know is determined by how the things that we experience change us over time. The GoodBeing Approach is also concerned with our Being, and how focusing on our way of Being can provide the seeds of a better life for us and for our world.

Podcast produced and hosted by ⁠⁠⁠Bo Aganaba⁠⁠⁠. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠⁠⁠GoodBeing.ca

Do you have songs or albums that take you to a particular time in life? Or that go-to song that gets you pumped up or helps you when you're feeling down? Music's ability to amplify and channel feelings and emotions has always fascinated me, and I loved having a conversation with accomplished musician, producer, and educator Efa Etoroma Jr.

In this conversation we chat about streamlining the creative process, the importance of trust and support in collective improvisation and live performance, the relationship between artists and audiences, and how music can also teach us about life.

Efa's Website | Efa's Instagram | Efa live with Moonchild | Efa live with Kiefer

Podcast produced and hosted by ⁠⁠⁠Bo Aganaba⁠⁠⁠. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠⁠⁠GoodBeing.ca

Many of us have grown up with an impoverished, cold, and colonial understanding of "Nature". Somehow, in our attempts to master it and use it for our benefit, we have forgotten that we ourselves are part of nature, indeed are Nature. Aristotle said ""In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

Could that be true of us? Let's decolonize our understanding of Nature and find out.

Podcast produced and hosted by ⁠⁠Bo Aganaba⁠⁠. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠⁠GoodBeing.ca

Few things make you feel more alive than when you feel connected to your body. Over the years, I have come to cherish my physical practice and Wil Brown has been a teacher and inspiration to me for the last couple of years. His philosophy around "physical intelligence" has helped me to bring back so much joy and curiosity to my embodied experience and journey into getting and feeling stronger and more healthy.

Our conversation is about human movement, but it's also about the human experience more broadly, the process of growth and mastery, and how the journey is the whole point, because what could it really mean to "arrive"?

Wil's Website

Wil's Instagram

The Thing is Bigger Than the Thing: Short Video Essay

Podcast produced and hosted by ⁠⁠Bo Aganaba⁠⁠. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠⁠GoodBeing.ca

If you'd like to support the podcast, you can ⁠buy me a coffee⁠.

Children know something that so many of us have forgotten. That life is about play. Alan Watts said "See, this is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you’re doing in the here and now—and instead of calling it work, realize that this is play."

What happens when we treat more things in our life as play? That's what this episode is all about.

Podcast produced and hosted by ⁠Bo Aganaba⁠. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠GoodBeing.ca

Start the new year off with a primer on Meditation. Learn how this elusive practice can actually be quite simple with the right approach. The episode ends with a short guided Meditation to ground the ideas discussed.

Podcast produced and hosted by Bo Aganaba. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit GoodBeing.ca

I love the holiday season but I know it can be a challenging time of year for some people. Trying to balance cultural traditions, getting together with family, and the oppressive nature of our ultra-capitalist society can bring up a lot of different feelings. Here are a few thoughts on how religion, spirituality, consumerism, and science interact for me in today's world, and how what may seem like tensions between them can actual bring us more meaning and joy.

Join me for a wide-ranging conversation on the relationship between purpose, vocation, and your creative outlets. How can we bring a sense of coherence to these pursuits (should that be your desire)? Raised in Trinidad and currently residing in Canada, Alicia is a consultant-facilitator and Sustainable Impact Strategist who works with organizations and community groups. She is also a climate activist, public speaker and writer helping to shape our collective vision of a positive future.

Alicia's Instagram

Climateverse Instagram

Alicia's Writing

Podcast produced and hosted by Bo Aganaba. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit GoodBeing.ca

Mallory Chipman is our first guest on the pod! I first met Mallory over ten years ago now and it's been so fun to watch her artistic and creative journey. We had a great conversation about art and making a living as a musician and creative, self-expression, burnout, self-care, and many other topics.

Mallory's Website

Instagram

Facebook

Podcast produced and hosted by Bo Aganaba. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠GoodBeing.ca

Podcast produced and hosted by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bo Aganaba⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GoodBeing.ca⁠

If you'd like to support the podcast, you can ⁠buy me a coffee⁠.

Alan Watts said "I wonder what you mean when you say the words I or Me.

I wonder what that means too and asking the question can take us to some interesting places, including to the way that we think about the world itself. The way that we respond to the question is usually informed by the stories we use to understand the world, so let's start to explore what those stories might be.

Podcast produced and hosted by Bo Aganaba. To learn more about Bo and GoodBeing, visit GoodBeing.ca