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#319 - How to Feel Stoic Joy
Episode 319
This episode explores the concept of joy in Stoicism and its relationship with Epicureanism. The host discusses how joy is often misunderstood in Sto…
2 years, 3 months ago
#318 - Confronting Self-Deception for Personal Growth
Episode 318
In this episode, Brandon explores the idea that we often lie to ourselves about why we act in certain toxic ways. He discusses how we attribute our e…
2 years, 3 months ago
#317 - Sharon Lebell: Finding Agency in Life's Chaos
Sharon Lebell is a bestselling author, speaker, composer, and performing musician. She wrote The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happi…
2 years, 4 months ago
#316 - Chaos and Order in Daily Life
Episode 316
The concept of Chaos and Order is associated with Taoism. It’s rather simple: life is divided between Chaos and Order. Too much Chaos is bad, and too…
2 years, 4 months ago
#315 - Award-Winning Musician Mike Ryan | Music, Stoicism, & the Creative Process
Episode 315
Mike Ryan is an award-winning professional musician, songwriter, studio owner, and author from my home province of Nova Scotia (that’s up in Canada, …
2 years, 4 months ago
#314 - Managing Jealousy as a Stoic
Episode 314
Jealousy: we all feel it, have felt it, have grappled with it, and know that it’s toxic. There are arguments about whether anger is a useful emotion.…
2 years, 4 months ago
#313 - Olympic Skater Mark Tuitert: The Stoic Mindset
Episode 311
Mark is a gold-medal Olympic speed skater. He won gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He is also the author of The Stoic Mindset: Living t…
2 years, 4 months ago
On Wasted Time | Episode 312
Episode 312
Seneca’s very first chapter in Letters From a Stoic is titled “On the Use of Time”. Time is something that is very paradoxical in the sense that we n…
2 years, 5 months ago
#311 - Trauma From A Stoic Perspective
Episode 311
A ship accumulates marine growth on its hull as it traverses through water. Some would suggest that our souls do a similar thing, accumulating trauma…
2 years, 5 months ago
#310 - Changing Ourselves: What, Why, and How
Episode 317
We can’t improve if we don’t change. Self-development is change. Remember that we need to know three things to improve: where we are, where we want t…
2 years, 5 months ago