What Stoicism Looks Like in Public and in Private
This episode follows Epictetus’s vivid portrait of Diogenes the Cynic—a philosopher who lived as a “spy” on false values, exposing how little we truly need to live freely. From Diogenes’ fearless simp...
4 Mar 7min
Why Good People Suffer
This episode tackles one of life’s most enduring questions: why do misfortunes so often strike those who seem least deserving of them?Drawing on Seneca’s On Providence and the poetry of Octavio Paz, w...
25 Feb 6min
Don’t Lose Today in the Trap of Tomorrow
This episode explores how expectation quietly robs us of the only time we ever truly have: today. Through a wry story from John O’Donohue and Seneca’s sharp warning about waiting on tomorrow, we see h...
18 Feb 6min
The Stoic Morning: Poems To Wake Up To
This episode is a quiet pause at the start of the day—a meditation on mornings as gifts rather than obligations. Drawing on Stoic gratitude and four short poems by Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Rumi, an...
11 Feb 5min
When Escape Isn't Possible, Acceptance Is The Way
This episode examines a quietly radical insight: that much of our suffering comes not from pain itself, but from our attempt to escape it. Drawing a line between Alan Watts’ observation and Stoic acce...
4 Feb 7min
You'll Never Be Perfect, And That's Just Fine
This episode reframes Stoicism not as a quest for unreachable perfection, but as a practice of steady progress. Drawing on the ancient idea of the prokoptōn—the one who makes progress—we explore why e...
28 Jan 6min
People Over Things: The Urgency of Today
This episode reflects on how awareness of mortality sharpens our sense of what truly matters, through the unforgettable lesson Randy Pausch taught with a spilled soda and Marcus Aurelius’s reminder th...
21 Jan 5min
We Suffer Most in Our Imagination
This episode explores the Stoic art of decatastrophizing—learning to meet fear by stripping events down to what they really are, rather than what our imagination makes of them.From Socrates calmly fac...
14 Jan 6min
