The Strong Stoic Podcast
The Strong Stoic Podcast
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#419 - Give Your Past Self Some Grace
We all know we should learn from our mistakes.But somewhere along the way, many of us confuse self-reflection with self-punishment.In this episode, I explore the difference between shadow work and self-loathing. Drawing from Stoic...
#418 - Everything You Have Is Borrowed (Including Your Strength)
As we grow stronger, wiser, healthier, and more disciplined, a subtle danger emerges: contempt.It's easy to celebrate strength. It's much harder to remain compassionate toward weakness—especially the weaknesses we once saw in ourselves.<...
#417 - Kyle Sarka - The Strange Comfort of Mortality
What happens when someone you love dies?In this conversation, I sit down with a returning guest shortly after the loss of his father. We explore grief, mortality, legacy, and the strange reality that every person we meet was once a child...
#416 - How to Move Forward When Everything Feels Heavy
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the workout, the meeting, the difficult conversation, or the grieving process.It’s the first step.In this episode, Brandon reflects on a lesson shared by Jeff Nippard following the tragic loss of h...
#415 - You Will Be Forgotten - And That's Beautiful
Most extraordinary people are never famous.History remembers a few names — Marcus Aurelius, Churchill, Dostoevsky — but civilization itself is carried forward by ordinary people doing small things faithfully. Good fathers. Loyal friends....