In this episode I speak with candour about some of the challenges of being a creative when it comes to completing what you set out to accomplish.

You will be introduced to why disagreement can be a powerful tool.  

In this episode I share for the first time what happened when I hit rock bottom in 2017. You will likely relate to this if you have experienced any of the following:

- you have experienced feeling like a failure

- your identity has ever been tied to some role or title

- you have ever gone through a deep depression

- you have used substances to numb pain

This episode is the first part of a journey of resilience, courage, and transformation which I share with you for the first time this week. Stay tuned for part two tomorrow, where I share some of the biggest lessons I learned on the path to completing my PhD at Oxford.

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Do you ever find yourself trying to get it right? Trying to figure it all out? Do you always try to control the situation? Do you try to figure out the right answer? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are like me and you will likely relate to what I share here. This was how I went about my life until three years ago, when the word 'leadership' became an important part of my vernacular, and has remained ever since. In this episode, I once again step out of what I perceived to be comfort zone and in doing so come to share the surprising ease that was created when I let go of getting it right. I look at being a leader when we let go of the pretence of professionalism and perfectionism that kills our aliveness in life. I share about the importance of creating alignment, and how when I move away from my core values, this tend to constrains my leadership. And I explain why giving up on perfectionism does not mean giving up on your ambition.  

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Do you ever feel anxious? Do you ever find yourself worrying about the future? If so, this episode is for you. Part of my mission in my life is to disappear depression and anxiety in society. Until recently this seemed like a nice idea but I didn’t see any real access to how to make this possible. This episode carries on where I left off in the episode ‘What’s Really Impacting Your Mental Health’. The aim here is to deepen this initial conversation to help people escape the prison of their minds. Here is some of what you can expect: I share how anxiety up till 3 years ago was pervasive in my life. I look at why its unsurprising that there was a decrease in anxiety among many teens during the lockdown. I relate having anxiety to experiencing there being something wrong. I draw a separation between a reductionist view of anxiety, which is focused on reducing anxiety, from a disappearance based view of the identity called ‘I am anxious’ or ‘I have anxiety’. I consider the relation of anxiety to fear. I consider why the persistence of anxiety may be related to the notion of being right. All of this comes from compassion, personal experience, and an intention to empower people around what they experience as anxiety. The intention is to provide an alternative way of thinking about what leads for anxiety to persist for so many of us.

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Have you ever experienced shame or guilt? Have you ever experienced shame and guilt because you are a white man?

This episode continues where I left off last episode with Joe Bernstein, Leader and Coach for Healthy Masculinity – who is passionate about unpacking the intersections of race and gender. 

In the last few months we have seen a shift in what I described in the last episode as collective agreement about what is tolerable. This led to white men particularly, but not exclusively, avowing their guilt and shame for their role in systemic oppression.

Here are some of the questions we explore:

If you are ready to go from being the passenger in your life to the owner of your life then for a limited time go to: bit.ly/creatingpowerfulleaders

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Have you ever felt that it is not okay to be a man? Have you ever felt that it is not okay to be a white man? If you answered yes to either than these next two episodes are definitely for you.

These are the types of feelings which have filtered in and out of the collective space unconsciously until there collective explosion in June, as a response to the horrors of the police brutality against black people in the United States.

In the last few months we have seen a shift in what I call collective agreement about what is tolerable. Whilst this was going on I sat down with Joe Bernstein, Leader and Coach for Healthy Masculinity who has been passionate about unpacking the intersections of race and gender”

This first part of the conversation sets the scene for the heavier lifting in part 2.

And In part 2 you will see how this how all connects to the avowals of shame and guilt that white men in particular have been expressing.

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

If you would like to create more joy in your life, then this episode is an access point for doing so. Find out what we have forgotten about bringing joy to our lives in our pursuit of looking good and achievement. In this episode of This Humean Life, I continue my conversation with Saj Shah around creating a life of joy. Have you ever said 'I am getting there'? Have you ever asked yourself what is my purpose?  Have you ever said to yourself 'I don't need any help, I can do it alone'? If you have, then listen in to find out what these seemingly unrelated questions have to do with creating a life of joy. You will hear ideas which will likely be unfamiliar and you might find yourself asking, 'What does a watermelon have to do with creating joy?' You will hear about how Saj brings the practices of joy into every aspect of his life, including a powerful example of how he implemented this with his youngest son. You will learn about the epidemic that is playing out in the corporate environment, as well as my biggest beef with the personal development industry, and why this idea is effectively stealing people's joy.  AND you will start to learn how you too can tap into joy!

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Imagine that you could create a life in which joy was not a temporary relatively rare experience but at the core of your way of living. What would that be like for you? What would become available if you were able to create a life of joy?

My guest over the next fortnight is Saj Shah. A phenomenal leader of transformation and a person known for effortlessly activating joy in others. Saj is working on a book where he reverse engineers the practices he has developed through years of experimentation to help people create more joy in their lives. You will learn in part 1 of the conversation how Saj came in the grimmest of circumstances to choose a life where creating joy was given such high value. But beyond that, the enquiry involves considering how the ability to trigger joy from within could be a more effective way to empower people's mental health and even replace anti-depressants.

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Have you ever felt like you were waiting to get there, waiting to reach the 6 figure salary and then you will be happy? Have you ever felt like things were not okay and rather than that be a temporary state it seemed to be pervasive? Have you ever felt like your views about business and life are 'hardwired'? Do you ever feel like there is something you 'should' be doing in life and in business? Are you sick of writing to-do lists? Are you seeing more obstacles in your way or opportunities to grow in your business? Do you ever compare your business with other people's and other organisations? Do you ever wish it could be easier, that you could just trust your own intuition? Would you like to know how you can shift out of your comfort zone and into the zone? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions whether in life or business, then you are likely to get value from part 2 of my conversation with Clee Stacy. These are the types of questions we are exploring in looking at how we can bring more intuition and play to business.  

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.

Do you ever listen to podcasts around business and feel its dull and uninspiring? Do you have a perception of business which is hard work? Can you get results in business without the grind? Can you create a business which is fun and playful? What would it be like for you if you could transform the business you have to being one that you love or create a business you love? Do you think it's possible? Are there any rules which you feel you MUST follow if you want to be successful in business? What if there was a way to create your business and your life in a way that actually serves and works for you, for your unique genius.  These are the kind of issues I will be exploring with Clee Stacy. In this first part of my conversation with Clee Stacy we talk about ideas like finding your genius zone, bringing yourself into alignment, and creating intentional action which allows you to choose your day. Like all of the episodes of this podcast business is only the launching pad from which our discussion evolves and so there is likely to be as much which speaks to the non-business owner as those in business. 

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About Host: Sam Kukathas, is the Owner and Founder of The Philosophical Coach. The Philosophical Coach exists for people to live a life free from constraint. It transforms the realms of leadership, communication and performance.  If you want to learn more or hear what others have said about working with Sam in relationships or any other aspect of life, then go to: thephilosophicalcoach.com 

Sam has worked with the leading thought leaders and transformation leaders of the last 50 years. In addition he works with the Foundation for Ontological Leadership Education on the effective exercise of leadership and how we can bring mastery to our lives.