#89 - Balance Ambition & Peace (Go Deeper Without Losing Your Drive) - Max Stephens - High Performance Coach & Author

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If you’re interested in balancing ambition with inner peace, you’ll get a lot from today’s episode.

Max Stephens is a coach and writer exploring deep meditation, self-transcendence and practical psychology for high performers.

Today we covered a lot of ground including - growing up in an addicted household, Max’s India epiphany and early meditation experiences, family, forgiveness and gratitude to parents, building balanced drive without apathy through parts work and healthy scepticism. Circles of concern, altruism and what truly motivates top performers - the real purpose of meditation and working through inner conflict - deep practice, psychedelics and selflessness. The structure behind his book “What the F*** Do You Actually Want?” with client stories and practical starting points: forgiveness, mortality, radical honesty and how to forgive.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

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Fully Timestamped Chapter List

00:00:00 Intro Trailer for Max Stephens

00:00:33 Journey: Addicted Household, India Epiphany & Deep Meditation

00:08:14 Family, Forgiveness & Gratitude to Parents

00:22:49 Balanced Drive Without Apathy: Parts, Scepticism & Self-Transcendence

00:35:30 Circles of Concern, Altruism & Motivation in High Performers

00:50:59 Meditation’s Real Purpose & Working Through Inner Conflict

00:57:13 Deep Practice, Psychedelics & Selflessness

01:05:07 Book: What the F*** Do You Actually Want? Structure & Client Stories

01:15:22 Starting Points: Forgiveness, Mortality, Radical Honesty & How to Forgive

01:19:00 Closing: Mortality Reminder, Future Plans, Links & Outro

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