Business Episodes
Jan. 23, 2023
7 Ways of Rest Your Body and Mind Need So That You Can Be a Good Friend
Let's talk about rest. R e s t. We're always going, going, going! Doesn't the world to you seem like everything is speeding up faster and faster, and that time is going by incredibly fast, like a rollercoaster fast?Today's episode is on the value of rest and all the different types of rest we need …
Jan. 16, 2023
The Gift
Everything is a gift, but it's not your responsibility to accept every gift that's given to you. Just because someone offers you something, does not mean you have to accept it. The word "gift" has been around for a long, long time, and when you get into German and you break it down, it basicall…
Jan. 9, 2023
Understanding Nate from Ted Lasso
Someone you help out that you love, who also loves you may turn on you. We've all heard the term “hurt people hurt.” The people who have hurt in them, who've experienced some sort of abuse (emotional pain or even physical pain) tend to lash out. Not everybody does that, but it's kind of like having…
Jan. 2, 2023
IRL - Friends In Real Life
Friends In Real Life. We've spent so long sequestered where the relationships that we had had were primarily virtual. They were over the phone, they were on video chat, but they weren't tactile, they weren't "I'm right in front of you." So things like when I'm texting, I can curate. When I'm Facebo…
Dec. 12, 2022
Social Comparison Theory
Matt explores the findings of Leon Festinger who was trying to figure out how people like to arrange themselves into groups, peer groups, social groups, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And so he started really trying to get an understanding of what that means.
It's hard to measure yourself a…
Dec. 5, 2022
The Worst Friend - The Noble Friend
Today, we discuss a key perspective needed to recover from the betrayal of a very, very bad friend. Beyond devastation, beyond the level of betrayal, we can and will find our way back to our perfect selves.
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Sept. 19, 2022
How You End Is How You Begin
Why it's so important to end things on a proper note so that you can have a great new beginning; from friendships to jobs, to moving to a new place.
How You End is How You Begin
Sept. 5, 2022
Ethics part 4 "he who cannot draw on 3000 years is living hand to mouth."
Goethe said "he who cannot draw on 3000 years is living hand to mouth." We explore our history and think about this quote by Goethe as we wrap our ethics series. We explore so much, including Goethe, the four ideals, prosperity, the satisfaction of desires, moral duty, spiritual perfection, Lao Tzu…
Aug. 29, 2022
The Origins of Ethics and Its Influence on Friendship part 3
ethics and the origins of it, understand ethics, bringing it back to how it is affecting our friendships, how it is affecting our society, and basically ultimately our lives. Ethics is philosophical and it deals, it concerns itself with conduct in questions of good and evil in right and wrong.
Th…
Aug. 22, 2022
Ethics and the world of Good and Evil, and Right and Wrong
Ethics is that weird branch of philosophy that concerns itself with conduct and questions of good and evil and right and wrong. And those four words good and evil, and right and wrong sound like they should be like, oh yes, good is right. And evil is wrong, but there are always shades of gray in be…
Aug. 8, 2022
The True Meaning of 'Martyr' and how it Affects Our Relationships
Fawn and Matt get into the etymology of the word MARTYR and figure out what it means within our various relationships within our culture and society.
July 18, 2022
Respect vs Kindness - The difference between the two and how to use both in friendship
Understanding what kindness actually is, as opposed to respect, means learning how we can use both in our relationships.
July 11, 2022
True North - How to Find Deeper Connections
We all have a compass needle within us knowing the true north. The direction that points directly toward the geographic north pole. This is a fixed point on the Earth's globe. That is the definition of true north. Like a compass points toward a magnetic field, your personal true north directs your …
June 27, 2022
How to Tell What Kind of Friendship You have
There are three types of friends. There are those people who are friends with you because they get stuff from you. There are those people who are friends with you because of the way you make them feel. And there are the people who just love you. Okay. Those would be the three types of friends and o…
June 20, 2022
The Art of Authenticity in Friendship - 4 Key Things to Notice
Did you know that our cells, (the cells in our bodies) create light? Science today is telling us that even our cells emit light when they perform their functions. Neurons in the brain and spinal nerves have been found to produce photons. Photons are tiny particles of light that influence our very a…