Verbō: A Podcast on Poetry, Philosophy and Becoming.

We crave silence, yet most of us run the moment it arrives. In this episode, Brian González explores our uneasy relationship with quiet, from his childhood in Puerto Rico to his experience with silence as a danger in the Army to our modern-day itch for constant noise.

Blending science and storytelling, he explains why silence feels uncomfortable, how the brain's default mode network makes us wrestle with big questions, and why that discomfort is exactly what we need. Listeners will learn how silence heals, fosters new neural connections, and provides the fertile ground where meaning and creativity flourish.

Silence isn't emptiness. It's presence. It may also be the most radical gift we can give ourselves.

Have you ever scrolled through your feed late at night and come across a post that felt as if it were pulled straight from your own mind? That eerie sense of déjà vu is no coincidence—it's a glimpse of what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious.

In this episode, Brian González delves into how social media acts as a cracked mirror of the human psyche, why ideas often emerge in multiple minds simultaneously, and the significance of viewing creativity as stewardship rather than ownership.

Verbō is where words become bridges, carrying us from the hidden to the spoken and from the collective to the personal.

In the first episode of Verbō, Brian José González Martínez shares his story, from his upbringing in Puerto Rico to his service as a U.S. Army sergeant to his rediscovery of his inner poet. He introduces One Way, the vision behind Verbō, which is a space for creators, seekers, and soul-rebuilders to explore poetic self-inquiry, mythic rewriting, and creative resurrection.

Verbō is more than a podcast; it's a voiceprint of emergence. This is where the journey begins.