Building Resilience: Stoic Practices for Overcoming Anxiety
Anxiety is the thing I have spent the most time wrestling with, so this episode is less a lecture and more a report from someone still doing the work. I share what actually helped me, where Stoic prac...
6 Feb 202438min
The Struggle and Triumph of Living Authentically with Dan Munro (Round 4)
Dan Munro is back for a fourth conversation, and this might be my favourite one yet. Dan is a coach and the author of "The Naked Truth", and his whole project is honesty: what it costs to tell the tru...
30 Jan 20242h 2min
Self-Mastery and the Discipline of Surrender with Eric Brown
"Self-mastery is the ability to live by choice and not by chance." That line from Eric Brown sets the tone for this whole conversation. We range widely: personal growth, what self-mastery actually req...
29 Des 20231h 35min
Dan Munro’s Guide to Overcoming the Validation Addiction
Dan Munro is back, and this time we go after the validation addiction: the quiet habit of arranging your life around being liked. Dan is a coach and the author of "The Naked Truth", and his angle is a...
23 Nov 20231h 14min
Clarity of Intent: Stoicism's Formula for Real Success
Most of us measure success by whether we hit the target. The Stoics would say that is the wrong place to put your attention, because the target was never fully in your control to begin with. This epis...
14 Nov 202335min
The 3 Limits of Modern Stoicism
I love Stoicism, which is exactly why I want to be honest about where it falls short. In this lesson I lay out three places modern Stoicism tends to go quiet: trauma healing, mindfulness, and ecstatic...
10 Nov 20239min
Stoic Focus Training: A Six-Step Plan For Distraction
Distraction is rarely a willpower problem. It is usually a setup problem: we sit down to focus without ever preparing the ground. This episode walks through a six-step process I use to prepare for med...
7 Nov 20231h 5min
How To Handle Criticism Without Abandoning Your Work
When you put your work out in public, the criticism comes. I am an introvert who ended up making content for a living, so I have had my share of being told I was doing the wrong thing in the wrong way...
3 Nov 20237min
