This Naked Voice

If Trust was easy, we wouldn't be talking about it.  

Why is trusting so difficult?  

Burt Gershater is an inspiring, nationally recognized life coach, speaker, and trainer who sparks powerful changes in people’s lives. For 45+ years, Burt has worked with corporate CEOs, company managers, nonprofit executives and teams, professionals from many different industries, and top collegiate and world-class athletes. 

In this episode he makes the case for leaning into trust, both of the personal and spiritual kind, even as I push back occassionally, challenging him as to why it doesn't often "make sense" to do so.  

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In the US, we think "freedom" is about choices.  And, it partly is.  But true freedom is about so much more.  It's about being free from our engrained patterns of responses to the external world.  From our sense of identity.  Free to consistently explore, change and evolve who we are, without feeling tied to old thoughts, behaviours and beliefs.  

That can be easier said than done, but the groundwork to help us do so can be laid early on, during our education.

I sit down with Wade Cavin, a dedicated and brilliant Waldorf Educator, to ask him what our education system is missing at its root, why that's important, how we might approach our education differently, for our children and for ourselves as adults, and why it might be beneficial to do so.

He also speaks to why it's so important for humans of all ages to cultivate awareness of their intuition, imagination, their interests, and desires, because those are the signs that direct them on how to live their life.  

This was an incredibly enlightening conversation for me... even more so on the second listen as I was editing it.  I hope you enjoy it.  

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"The art of creative living is not the execution of some intentional program for life, but a natural, evolving expression."

It's no secret humans have not been the best stewards of nature in the last 150 years or so.  What are the cultural beliefs that have allowed us to be so callous in our behaviours?  

Spoiler alert: It's not as simple as ignorance and greed.  It's much deeper and more nuanced.  

If we want to move more in alignment with the Way of the Artist, how can we begin to explore our own beliefs about nature, stay open to the lessons it holds for us, and in the process, transform our relationship to it for our continued evolution as individuals and as a culture?  

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What does it mean to be an "Artist of Life"?  

Not just a painter or musician kind of artist, but someone who shows up with the qualities, mindset and behaviours of an artist in every aspect of your life?  What the hell does that even mean?  

How does our modern world discourage us from stepping into our potential roles as artists? 

This episode dives into how shifting our mindset to approaching our day-to-day as Artists of Life could have a profound impact on not just us as individuals, but on the broader culture as well.  

But first, we must transform our relationships with some other significant areas of life.  
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What do women find attractive, and/or what do they seek when evaluating men as potential partners? 

How might a changing world have shifted this over the last many decades?  If at all?

I put up a poll on my social media account last year on the topic and got a pretty forceful response... so much so that my friend and fellow coach, Casey Sedlack, invited me to have a conversation about it, to take a deeper dive.

I talk about a lot of my limiting beliefs around relationships in this episode.  This conversation was helpful for me to get a better understanding of my own unconscious beliefs that I've been holding for a long time, and allowed me to explore them with someone I trust. 

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg here.  I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on this topic and this conversation.

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"There are a thousand right choices, and all of them are wrong."

"Everything is a risk... once you realize that it's all a risk, then you minimize your risk."

I must say, there are some wonderful and memorable moments in this talk I have with Dale Bates - a retired architect and urban designer whose focus for the majority of his career was on healthy design - architecture that supports human health.  Dale has also been an unexpected mentor in my life for the past 8 years.  

Dale speaks to what being an architect and artist has taught him on his own human journey - about making decisions, and letting go of the illusion of security.  We speak about embracing risk and its relationship to our feelings about death.  Last but not least we speak about how to live in good relationship each day with our fear and anxiety - revealing how doing so can inform the quality of our own behaviour and life.   

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How do Masculine & Feminine values shape our culture around work and life in general?  

How do you define Masculine & Feminine?  Do you get down with Carl Jung and his badass self?  

This episode attempts to define leisure in my own words, as well as explain why I believe it's important.  

I do this through exploring  masculine and feminine value structures - Doing vs Being, in a nutshell - and linking them to the way our culture thinks about work, and as a consequence, how we approach life.  

I touch upon Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, I have an excerpt from the Indian guru Sadhguru, and bring in the history of science and empiricism as a potential source for our overwhelming reliance upon the masculine. 

I welcome your feedback and comments.  Please direct them to [email protected]

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If you could take a pill to instantly learn anything you wanted, would you take that pill:

A) Every time you had to learn something?
B) Some of the times you had to learn something?
C) Never?

Why or why not?  What things would you take the pill for and what would you not take it for?  

I continue my discussion with Prof. Eugene Matusov of the University of Delaware about the importance of leisure and its connection to education and our existence as humans.

He references an Isaac Asimov story that was the inspiration for an impromptu study he did as to how people would choose to learn for themselves over time.  

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Why is leisure important?  How might we see evidence of the lack of genuine leisure impacting us in our education systems and beyond?  

This is part 1 of 2 of my conversation with Professor Eugene Matusov - he wrote a book called "Envisioning Education in a Post-Work Leisure Based Society".  

Professor Matusov (or, Eugene, as I know him) is one of the most unique and out of the box thinkers I was fortunate to encounter as a student at the University of Delaware.  Though I was never in his class, I consider myself a perpetual student of his.  

We get a small taste of his fascinating upbringing in the Soviet Union, and hear how he consistently rubbed up against a culture and society that didn't know how to handle someone who existed as uniquely in the world as he did.  

We speak about the connection between leisure and education, about fake vs genuine leisure, Plato vs Aristotle,  and the necessity of Freedom - and how to define that idea more specifically so that we may transcend ourselves and self-actualize.  

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It's easy to be a critic.  It's easy to tear things down.  It's much harder to be a creator - to have a vision of what can be and build things up.  

What makes the difference between a cultural critic and a cultural creator?  Why is it even important to draw a distinction?  

I speak to the intention and energies behind these two ways of being, how to shift from critic to creator, and why it's necessary more than ever.  

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