Delete Your Defaults

A show about hacking our social autopilot.

Get off of society’s rails, and come into full contact with life.

Aaron Bieber & Rosa Carson

Aaron Bieber & Rosa Carson

Latest Episode

Control

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026

Let’s dismantle one of our most seductive illusions: that we’re in control, and that that’s what makes us safe.

Love

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026

What if love isn’t a feeling, but a verb—a set of actions, choices, and ways of being?

Curiosity

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 24, 2025

In this episode we explore curiosity as a way of being, as a practice that softens defensiveness, loosens certainty, and reopens the doors your nervous system has been calling “walls.”

Perfectionism

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025

In this episode, we pull apart “perfection” from multiple angles: the rigid, human version that freezes us in place, and the spacious, spiritual sense that everything is already perfect as it is.

Incentives

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025

In this episode, we look under the hood of incentives—the seen and unseen forces that quietly steer our choices.

Expectations

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025

In this episode, we unpack the slippery power of expectations—how they can motivate, manipulate, cheer or demotivate.

Discomfort

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025

What if discomfort isn’t something to avoid—but an invitation into expansion, aliveness, and self-trust?

Communication

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025

In this episode, Rosa and Aaron unpack why most “communication” isn’t—yet.

Full contact living

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025

If you’re ready for friendships (and a life) that can hold truth, tenderness, and growth—this one’s for you.

Feeling(s)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 10, 2025

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.