Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin

In this episode, I dig deeper into the importance of getting clear on your vision for yourself and your life and surrounding yourself with people headed in similar directions as you are or want to be headed in.

I give you a window into some of my challenges with my mental health and addiction and the hard lessons learned about how much those around us tend to influence us in our lives, and that it's our responsibility to choose who those people are.

And to close, I share a story about the humble goose that relates to this.

In this episode, I (unsurprisingly) ask lots of questions.

I share one of the most favourite things I've ever read, this —> comic strip about Questions and Answers that I find to be very philosophical and thought-provoking, and which prompted the idea for this episode. I also attempt to read the dialogue myself as both characters, a feat that I'm not sure I did very well, but I am sharing anyway.

Asking questions, and seeking or creating the answers to those questions, is one of the most fundamental parts of what it means to be human.

Let's explore just how much we don't know together!

Clip: Caught at the Pub with Bliss N Eso

In this episode, I had the pleasure of conversing with my dear friend, Anoushka D'souza about a variety of topics, including:

• You guessed it, Being Multidimensional Beings • Why weed/hemp was made illegal • The difference between THC and CBD • Pronoia aka the opposite of paranoia • The effects of talking to plants • The value of saying no and knowing your limits • Energy dynamics • Changing cultural norms through conversations • Extremist politics stoking the fire under the cultural boiling point • Media Consolidation and the Illusion of Choice • Why the mainstream media sucks so bad • What's at the heart of the mental health epidemic • Why anger is an important emotion and it's important to be able to express anger in healthy ways

You can find Anoushka at: https://www.facebook.com/Conxcious.Prod https://www.instagram.com/nunusvybz

Oh, where to start? So many things with these crazy minds of ours.

In this episode, I riff on the many things at the heart of the resistance we experience when we want to change or improve something about ourselves or the circumstances of our lives, and the mental blocks and challenges that keep us from creating the things we so desperately feel we want to, yet, consistently don't take action on.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton • High-performance success coach, Marissa Peer

Things to check out:

• Tim Urban's TED Talk, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator, and his most popular, 3-post blog series on the topic • Host of The New Man Podcast, Tripp Lanier's, summary of Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art, on How to Crush Resistance, Procrastination, and Excuses • Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris' TED Talk, How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime

Clip used from one of my favourite songs, Burgs ft. Harrison Lake by Mt. Wolf.

In this episode, I share an edited version of a comprehensive explanation of Unapologetically Human that I wrote and released as a "soft launch" of the podcast on my birthday back in October of 2018.

I had great intentions for what I wanted to create, but I had a lot going on in my life and in my mind. Like many things in my life, I wasn't fully committed so my execution fell through and I let the dream of the podcast remain just a dream.

This is that dream, coming to life.

On Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin, we seek to find answers to some of life's most profound and deeply complex questions.

On this episode, I give an overview of:

• Who I am • The topics the show is about • My vision for the show • Who the show is for, and who it's not for • What I intend to create for/provide to you as a listener