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The Becoming Übermensch podcast invites you on an extraordinary journey of personal growth and transformation inspired by the radical teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Join Jimmy, a behaviour change expert with over 20 years of experience, as he demystifies Nietzsche’s complex philosophy, making it both accessible and actionable for modern life.

Whether you’re new to Nietzsche or already familiar with his thought, this podcast promises fresh perspectives and practical guidance for unlocking your highest potential.

Prepare to delve into a world of exhilarating summits and profound revelations. It’s time to become the architect of your own destiny. Are you ready to say an eternal Yes to your life and the world? 

Transcript

What if you could change everything?

What if your life didn’t have to be frittered away on drudge-work, empty observances, uninspiring pastimes, and shallow pleasures?

What if you could discover the real meaning and significance of your individual existence? 

What if you came to believe—to know—that your joy was itself the justification of all existence?

The human is the most exceptional animal, yet it is too often an enemy to itself: smothering its own light, stifling its own song, throwing a pall of shame over its most potent energies. This poor creature dreams of release from the comfortable but mundane bondage to which civilisation condemns it, yet it is terrified of its potential for freedom. It yearns for a modicum of control over its fate whilst being oblivious to its potential for extraordinary power. Each of us has moments when we gaze upon the vastness of the stars, all too conscious of our smallness and the brevity of our lives, and we are haunted by questions—questions for which no answers seem to be forthcoming. 

But there are answers.

Friedrich Nietzsche, the iconoclast philosopher of the Will to Power, calls you to adventure: you are to create yourself; to “become who you are”, to transform yourself into the architect and artist of your own destiny. In his provocative and enigmatic ideal of a new and unprecedented kind of being—the superhuman Übermensch—Nietzsche ignites a flaming beacon to guide those who have the will towards their own self-overcoming.  

I’m Jimmy. I am a behaviour change expert with over twenty years’ of experience in leading teams to help thousands of people make positive changes to their lives using techniques based on scientific evidence. Following some personal tragedies that were the catalyst for nearly a decade of intensive study and experiment, I’m going to lucidly interpret for you Nietzsche’s complex but extraordinary philosophy, making it both intellectually accessible and practically actionable. Don’t worry if you know nothing about Nietzsche, this podcast can be considered, at the very least, a primer in his thought—though I do hope it can be much more than that. If, on the other hand, you are familiar with Nietzsche’s ideas—I am confident that you will find here something fresh, perhaps even something unprecedented. 

Subscribe now and join me on a journey into the heart of strange and hidden worlds—worlds of frightening abysses and exhilarating summits. Nietzsche’s teachings provide a singular opportunity for realising your highest possibilities, for creating a life overflowing with every kind of abundance, and for vanquishing the everyday nihilism of modern life. In them, lies the formula for absolute affirmation: to want it all, to love it all, to be able to declare an impassioned, unhesitating, eternal ‘Yes!’ to your life and to the universe.