Feb 25, 2023
One of my unconscious obsessions is community. Basically: I love hanging out.
(And I’m good at it)
So I’m getting a few people whom I love, I admire, and I’ve learned from to share their wisdom around building community with me. And the first one is today’s episode with Shilpa Jain (Who was on in the first...
Feb 22, 2023
Part of our ongoing conversation with Jeff Salzman is how to integrate multiple points of view, so we can learn and include as we go through life instead of just Rejecting Things We Don’t Like.
Jeff highlights for us how that integration often happens: through Boredom. He gives an example from his own life...
Feb 20, 2023
This episode is about reconciling opposites. In this case, planning and relaxation. I introduce a tool I use called the Chain of Inspiration, which helps me connect the uninspiring actions I might have to take in the near term with what really calls to me in terms of action and results in the long term.
We use the...
Feb 18, 2023
This interview is about lemons, lemonade, and murder.
When Jan Canty’s husband of 11 years was murdered (decades ago), it turned her life upside down and inside out. But she ended up taking that energy, harvesting it, and used it to save her own life (first from depression, then from cancer), and has now dedicated...
Feb 15, 2023
So this is a bit of a strange episode. It’s a kind of gratitude meditation, in public. Which I’ve never really done before! But the idea is to take the theory Matt laid out in the pro-active gratitude episode and lay it out with respect to the bread. To go deep and acknowledge all those factors that conspire to...