I was surprised to learn that even singing has a dark side that needs to be pressure tested. In this episode of the Questioning Podcast I am joined by Philippe Castagner (aka Mister Opera) who is a professional opera singing and also the founder of the Vocalist Chat Hub which is working towards reducing toxicity between singers and creating a healthy culture of singing pressure testers.  

Check out Philippe's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/pcastagner 

And the Vocalist Chat Hub: https://www.facebook.com/groups/427489748074451/

For years I believed that if I wanted to help people - I should become a spiritual teacher. Eventually I opened my own school and worked hard to be a good spiritual teacher to my community, but as time moved on I started to realize that I was potentially doing more harm than good. In this episode of Lessons Learned The Hard Way I share what I discovered to be the downside to spiritual teachers and openly speak about my own personal mistakes being one.  

Here you can find the previous episode of Hard Lessons where I speak about the often hidden downside to Yoga, from my personal experience: https://youtu.be/kivsGL6vkYA

Everybody once in a while thinks what it would be like to open your own coffee shop. Few of us do. Even fewer of us manage to do it successfully. Yet Juljano Kapllani, owner of Unfiltered Coffee Co knows his game and shares the challenged, successes and failures in opening his very own specialty coffee shop.

Learn more about Unfiltered Coffee Co and Juliano Caplani here: https://www.instagram.com/unfiltered_coffee_co/

Yoga can be a wonderful, but also dangerous practice based on what information you choose to believe in it. In this great conversation with Salome, a Yoga instructor focusing on the science side of it we talk what Yoga myths are out there, what can be done about that and we also touch the subject of mental health and depression, a very important question for today's situation in the world.

Any charity can be a hit or miss. Sometimes even with the best intentions a real difference isn't made. In the very first episode of the Questioning Podcast I am joined by Raimond Mwaringa of the Dreamers' Association which is trying to make a real difference in Kenya by giving opportunity for underprivileged children to receive an education and also supporting local communities by creating long lasting change such as building irrigation system, supporting local farming, creating wells and more.

Learn more about the Dreamers Association and Raimond Mwaringa here: https://www.thedreamers.ch/

More about The Questioning Podcast: Welcome to the podcast which is showing examples of how the process of questioning and critical thinking may improve not only our lives, but also the lives of others. This podcast features various individuals out of various fields as they share how they applied critical thinking and questioning successfully into their work and lives.

The Questioning Podcast is a part of "The Journey" YouTube channel which is a project seeking to inspire more people to apply critical thinking and questioning to improve their own and the lives of others. Check out The Journey YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/rokasleo