Meta Description: Epictetus taught that impressions—not events—disturb us. Scott Smith explains why calm is the only response that preserves power under pressure.🎙️ Episode Summary“It is not things that disturb u...

Meta Description: Marcus Aurelius warned against living for reputation. Scott Smith explains why respect is an outcome of disciplined behavior—not something leaders should pursue directly.🎙️ Episode Summary“Be in...

Meta Description: The Stoic discipline of "Assent" teaches leaders how to choose their thoughts wisely. Scott Smith explains how guarding the mind creates clarity, calm, and inner freedom.🎙️ Episode Summary“You h...

Meta Description: Temperance is self-command, not self-denial. Scott Smith explores how Stoic restraint creates freedom, focus, and strength in leadership and life.🎙️ Episode Summary“No man is free who is not mas...

Meta Description: Justice, for the Stoics, meant service to the whole. Scott Smith explains how just leadership builds trust, strengthens teams, and turns authority into responsibility.🎙️ Episode Summary“What bri...

Meta Description: The Stoics taught that courage isn’t fearlessness—it’s action guided by principle. Scott Smith explains how courage strengthens leadership by choosing what’s right even when fear is present.🎙️ Episode Summ...

Meta Description: Seneca defines wisdom as clarity, not intelligence. Scott Smith explains how right understanding reduces stress, sharpens judgment, and helps leaders make decisions that stand the test of time.🎙️ Episode S...

Meta Description: Seneca teaches that composure is a leader’s power. Scott Smith shows how a calm mind weakens misfortune and strengthens decision-making under pressure.🎙️ Episode Summary“To bear trials with a ca...

Disclaimer: This episode includes mention of the death of a spouse, a deeply loved wife and mother, and personal reflections on loss, faith, and the unexpected ways pain shapes our lives. It is not a theological discussion, but Scott...

Meta Description: Epictetus challenges us to live with urgency and intention. Scott Smith explains how remembering your mortality sharpens focus and strips away distractions that steal your time and energy.🎙️ Episode Summar...

Meta Description: Epicurus reminds us that difficult victories shape who we become. Scott Smith shares why hardship creates inner confidence and why leaders should embrace the struggle rather than chase ease.🎙️ Episode Summ...

Meta Description: Seneca teaches that difficulties aren’t detours. They are the training ground. Scott Smith breaks down how resistance builds mental strength and why embracing challenges creates resilient leaders.🎙️ Episod...

Meta Description: Scott Smith blends wisdom from Lao Tzu and Zeno to reveal how small steps toward stillness create profound clarity and inner alignment.🎙️ Episode Summary“To the mind that is still, the whole uni...

Meta Description: Scott Smith explores Epictetus’s teaching on self-mastery and why tranquility requires learning to choose your response instead of reacting to every trigger.🎙️ Episode Summary“No man is free who...

Meta Description: Scott Smith shares a Stoic-adjacent insight from Quintus Curtius Rufus on staying grounded under stress — and why emotional steadiness is a leader’s hidden leverage.🎙️ Episode Summary“He is a gr...

Meta Description: Scott Smith explores Marcus Aurelius’s path to inner freedom by releasing the weight of other people’s opinions — and the deeper tranquility that comes from forgiveness.🎙️ Episode Summary“Tranqu...

Meta Description: Scott Smith unpacks Seneca’s reminder that tranquility begins in the present moment, not in the future we try to predict. A grounded lesson in easing anxiety and returning to what’s real.🎙️ Episode Summary...

Meta Description: In a vulnerable reflection inspired by real loss, Scott Smith explains how Marcus Aurelius’s reminder of mortality can sharpen purpose and deepen how we live.🎙️ Episode Summary “Do not act as i...

Meta Description: On Thanksgiving Day, Scott Smith shares a Stoic approach to gratitude that holds up when life is heavy, imperfect, or in transition. Marcus Aurelius teaches that contentment is clarity — and gratitude is strength.

Meta Description: Scott Smith unpacks Marcus Aurelius’s insight that true harmony begins within. Inner alignment creates outer clarity.🎙️ Episode Summary “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony wi...

Meta Description: Emotional steadiness is a leadership superpower. Scott Smith explains Marcus Aurelius’s warning against overreacting or withdrawing when others struggle.🎙️ Episode Summary “Don’t be overheated ...

Meta Description: Marcus Aurelius reminds us that leadership becomes powerful when it stops being about ego and starts being about contribution. Scott Smith breaks down why serving the common good makes you a clearer, stronger leader...

Meta Description: Life isn’t short—wasted time makes it feel that way. Scott Smith breaks down Seneca’s call to use your minutes with intention and take back your days.🎙️ Episode Summary“Life is long if you know ...

Meta Description: Talk is cheap. Scott Smith explores Epictetus’s challenge to live your philosophy so clearly that it’s visible without explanation.🎙️ Episode Summary“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” —...

Meta Description: Popularity is not wisdom. Scott Smith unpacks Marcus Aurelius’s warning about following the crowd and shows how real leaders choose accuracy over applause.🎙️ Episode Summary“The opinion of 10,00...