Delete Your Defaults

For all that we live in a world that pretends we’re rational beings doing rational things, feelings drive everything in our lives, or block everything. Developing the skill of feeling our feelings, allowing them to move, expressing them healthily determines the quality of our relationships, our creative output, our work product, and so much more.

This episode explores vulnerability as the core to full contact living, how avoiding vulnerability is a way of trying to be in control and stay safe. But what is safety? Protecting ourselves from life means protecting ourselves from living.

People are craving authenticity more and more—both expressing it and being around others who are embodying it. We explore our own challenges to being authentically self-expressed and our experiences getting in touch with it.

What does it mean to live fully? We explore the value of boredom, getting to know our neighborhoods, and the mind-bending idea that we are one with all existence.

All humans are creative and have creative processes. We explore our own creative processes, barriers and facilitators to creativity.

We explore the concept of work life balance, the definition of success, and the foundational question of what is your life for?

We explore endings, beginnings, their cocreative nature, and how we relate to them. Why is it easier to feel the pain of loss than the delight of gain?

Unsustainable is just another way of saying “losing strategy”. We explore layers of unsustainability in modern life and expansive reframes for optimism.

This episode explores the idea of truth, whether objective truth exists, and how to relate to uncertainty. We cover ground from spirituality to politics.