Creating The Life You Wish Episodes

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, …
Aug. 15, 2022

The Ethical Dilemma

In philosophy, ethical dilemmas, also called ethical paradoxes or moral dilemmas, are situations in which an agent stands under two conflicting moral requirements, none of which overrides the other. A closely related definit…
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 com…
July 4, 2022

The Art of Comfort

The whole sense of comfort and having a friend who is your witness in life is that there is a treasure in when you and a friend are not on equal footing when they are not in the thick of things that you're in the midst of. T…
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 peop…
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 pro…
June 13, 2022

The Wabi-Sabi Friend, How to Appreciate Every Connection and Situation in Life

Wabi-Sab, the Japanese aesthetic principle embraces the imperfect and impermanent nature of all things; recognizing beauty in the flawed, the incomplete, and the broken. Beauty can be found beneath the imperfect surface. Wab…
May 2, 2022

The Art of Ceremony and the Value of Ritual

Ceremony, what does it really mean? What is it? What is a daily ceremony? It's an intentional routine that's connected with how you start, how you move through, or how you end your day, the goal of ceremony is to be aware of…
April 18, 2022

The Art of the Compliment - Compliment vs Complement

How can a compliment open the doors to friendship or even save someone's life? We discuss in this episode of "The Art of the Compliment" as we understand the ways to establish joy, kindness, and sincerity and see how a compl…
April 4, 2022

A Kind World - Finding Freedom and Truth During a Tumultuous Time, with Barry Lane

Our Kindness expert, Barry Lane is back to remind us that "Kindness is Truth, Kindness is Freedom." Barry soothes our nerves with his sweet songs (two new songs as we record live in Barry's studio - the second song is way a…
Guest: Barry Lane
March 28, 2022

Colors - How We Perceive Colors in Life and Color Translates In Our Connections with Each Other

Flowers evolve to be attractive to bees so that they can pollinate and they can reproduce themselves, which is if there's a lot of competition in the flower world, this is why you have such stunning orchids. It's because the…
March 21, 2022

Social Penetration Theory - Outlining the Stages and Layers of Friendship

Social penetration was theorized in the seventies by two sociologists trying to figure out how people become friends and attempting to categorize different kinds of classifications of friends. We break down five stages of fr…
March 14, 2022

The Quiet Friend - Speaking Up in Defense of Others or Having Our heads in the Sand?

When is it OK to be quiet? When someone is hurting, is it OK to be quiet? When you know there is injustice, do you go about your day and just focus on yourself? If you lived in Europe before WWII and you noticed your friends…