Soulburn.fit Podcast
This is a podcast for men ready to reclaim their fire.
We dive into the forge of transformation—body, mind, soul, and spirit. Each episode is short, raw, and straight to the point. No fluff. No fake positivity. Just real conversations about confidence, discipline, identity, and power.
Whether you’re rebuilding your body, rewiring your mind, or facing down your shadows, this is your guide to becoming unbreakable.
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Soulburn.fit Podcast
Drive And Depth (An Introduction to Fire & Water L1)
We explore drive as fire and depth as water, and how culture’s worship of speed often strips meaning from our days. We map the gifts and shadows of each element, offer a simple daily practice, and share prompts to help you find rhythm instead of extremes.
• defining drive and depth using fire and water
• cultural bias toward overdrive and constant doing
• shadows of fire and water when unbalanced
• why depth gives goals meaning and roots action
• a pause practice to align choices with values
• relationship dynamics as elemental mirrors
• reflective prompts to translate feeling into action
• closing reminder that balance is rhythm, not stillness
Come back to episode three for structure and clarity an introduction to earth and wind
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Welcome to the Soul Burn.fit podcast. Today we're going to be diving into the two fundamental principles of drive and depth. And moreover, we're going to be discussing the fire and the water within because drive is fire and depth is water. We live in an age that worships fire, speed, success, glamour, action, fun, excitement. All great things. But we live in a world that worships that fire and at the same time fears water. Everyone wants to go faster, but few stop to ask, where are we actually going? You can only burn for so long before you need to breathe. Right now, we live in an age of overdrive. Our culture rewards intensity and output and constant doing. In fact, it almost necessitates it by just societal construction. We glorify busyness and constantly doing stuff. Like it's okay, it's good to be busy, it's good to be busy, but there's balance to it. And I guess that's what I'm trying to get at here. We glorify the busyness, but we don't focus enough on presence. When fire burns without water, it consumes rather than creates. We've mistaken motion for progress and achievement for fulfillment. Let's just talk about fire and water for a second. So fire, fire represents drive, will, grit, action, discipline, power, explosiveness, intensity. All great things. But fire too has a shadow. And that is restlessness, aggression, impatience, burnout, where you feel like your tires are spinning in the mud. You're running so fast, but you're going nowhere. And then we look at water. Just because just because you have an influx of fire in your life doesn't mean the water is not is not affecting you. Okay, the shadow side to water is passivity, avoidance, and emotional stagnation. And if you're confused, if I say the shadow version of anything, the shadow version essentially just means the darker, lesser known aspects of any given principle or quality, um, that when it's when it's taken to an unbalanced point, unbalanced and in some ways in a negative direction. Um, so when I talk about like the shadow aspect of fire, I'm talking about when your fire is burning and it is uncontained, it is enveloping the surrounding area, it's burning down your forestry uh or your forest. Does that make sense? And same thing with your water. Your the water needs to flow, but right now it's just pooling and it's just, I don't know if you've ever, I'm not sure what a good analogy for this is, but like when water's just like sitting in the same area and then like it doesn't move at all, then it gets all like gross, you know, it's it's the same way with you, you know. The it that water has to move around in you. Now that we understand fire and its shadow, and water and its shadow, let's take a look at depth. Depth is what gives life meaning, really. It's reflection, it's honesty, it's stillness, it's the quiet beneath the noise, it's the emotional current that makes the action matter. Without depth, our goals feel hollow. But at the same time, again, it takes balance because without fire, our depth never even reaches the surface. Drive without depth burns you out, and depth without drive drowns you. Every one of us, man or woman, carries both fire and water. Fire is our will to create. Water is our capacity to connect. The mature human learns to move between the two. When we honor both, action becomes sacred and feeling becomes strength. Fire becomes purpose, will, and passion. Water becomes emotional healing, intuition, and compassion. Here's a quick integration practice that you can take advantage of today and every day here to come. Pause before every major decision and ask, is this driven by my fire or guided by my depth? Again, this is just one of many questions you can ask yourself at any point in time. But if you're just wondering what is speaking louder in you right now, is it the fire or the water? And from the beginning of this podcast, you might be thinking that I'm saying, like, oh, water's more important and you should not have as much fire and you should have more water. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not even saying that you have too much fire. I'm just saying that this society and civil civilization and humanity that we live in promotes fire at an unbalanced level. Fire more than water. You know, action is more regulated and seen as and normalized than emotional, like processing and that type of stuff. So I'm just trying to explain to you that both are very important, and that they form a relationship. Okay? Relationships mirror the elemental balance. Too much fire can lead to control, dominance, defensiveness, and too much water can lead to neediness, overaccommodation, fear of loss. Balanced love is passionate yet grounded. It's assertive yet empathetic. It's compassionate, but you have boundaries. To truly see another, you must carry both the flame that illuminates and the water that listens. The next stage of human evolution isn't about doing more. It's about being aware while we do. Fire creates change and water gives it soul. Wholeness is born in the union of the two. Here's a reflective prompt that I want to take you through. Where in your life do you move without meaning? Think to yourself right now, are there times in your day, especially that are like repetitive and you do multiple days out of the week or every day, that lack meaning but you have to do it? Or you or you just do do it, because you've always done it? Where in your life do you move without meaning? Another question for you. Where do you feel deeply but fail to act? Where do you feel deeply but fail to act? This is one of those things where like you have beliefs that counter what is seen as like normal or standard or like a regular way of looking at it, and you're told you're wrong for feeling that way. And so you've been conditioned not to express part of processing an emotion is expressing it. Where do you feel deeply but fail to act? What would it look like to live with both fire and flow? Drive and depth. Drive driving you up and forward, depth bringing you back and grounding you downward and inward in the most poetic way. When was the last time you felt alive? Not just productive, not even like successful or even happy. When was the last time you felt alive? And just before I close, I want to remind you that balance isn't stillness, it's rhythm and harmony. And that the world doesn't need more fire, it needs fire that remembers its water. Listen, if you've been running without feeling, this is your call to slow down. If you've been feeling without moving, this is your call to rise. Within you burns a sacred fire and flows a sacred river. When they meet, you remember who you are. Come back to episode three for structure and clarity an introduction to earth and wind.