Middle East Studies Episodes
July 15, 2024
Mental Fitness for a New World
Join Matt and Fawn as they delve into the concept of mental fitness through the lens of negative visualization. Exploring ancient Stoic practices, they discuss how contemplating potential setbacks can build resilience and gratitude. From the origins of Stoicism to practical applications in modern l…
May 8, 2023
Unleashing and Untethering Self-Identity within Friendships/Relationships for Survival
As life happens, everybody fights, everybody argues everybody has a bad day. It's like people don't allow each other to flex and expand and contract. Oftentimes we get so focused and like we draw so much strength from things we've done in the past that have made sense for us that we can't conceive …
Feb. 20, 2023
Me, We - The Shortest Poem in History and Muhammad Ali on Friendship
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't learned anything"- Muhammad Ali. " Friendship is a priceless gift that cannot be bought nor sold, but its value is far greater than a m…
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.
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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…
Jan. 17, 2022
Making, Baking, and Breaking Bread Together - The Gata, with Joseph Krikorian
This is a longer show for a reason. We begin before Joey shows up by expressing some emotional stress and turmoil that happened to us this past week from fires to blizzards, to another case of Fawn experiencing some more racism, yet another mass shooting in Colorado, to all the other stuff. We talk…
Jan. 3, 2022
The Root of the Matter with Joseph Krikorian
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We welcome our friend Joseph Krikorian as we explore the Armenian culture and history.
We're going to begin the root of the matter as we del…
Oct. 25, 2021
The Art of Balance - with Maya Holland of Tools for Teens - Energy Medicine
Today we are talking about energy balances and imbalances; how energy imbalances can result in physical things, how energy creates things, how thoughts create things.
This episode continues our series for teens with our friend Maya Holland, founder of Tools for Teens, a meditation-based healing se…
Oct. 22, 2021
Miyamoto Musashi's Rules
Rules to live by!
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Sept. 27, 2021
1 Year Celebration
We are celebrating one year of talking about the art of friendship around the world. And today we have with us what I promised on the very first show "The Mentor" that explains this whole podcast; that our girls would be in on the episodes. They have been working behind the scenes and the past year…
Sept. 20, 2021
The Favor
This episode came about as we had a guest that was so hateful and wrongly accused Matt of "manipulation" because he likes to present people with favors. Wanting to clear things up from that conversation, Fawn wanted to make sure Matt explained (before he was so rudely cut off), one of the many ways…
May 9, 2021
Laughter is Medicine with Maz Jobrani, Tehran, and Mostafa Purmehdi
Two brilliant comics and a wise professor join our talk. Comics (and fellow hanvatans) Maz Jobrani and Tehran help us to explore the healing that happens in our society when we have levity.
The principle function of laughter is the creation and the deepening of our social bonds. Laughter is a soci…