There is a particular kind of company that a podcast can offer.
You are driving somewhere, or walking somewhere, or doing the necessary but not particularly fulfilling task of existing in the world, and there are two voices in your ears. You don't know these people, not really. But you've grown fond of them in the way you grow fond of anyone who is consistently honest with you about the things that matter.
We wanted to build that.
Why we made this
The honest reason is this: some of what we are trying to share deserves more than one format.
We are readers. We will always be readers. There is something about the written word, the way you can move at your own pace, return to a sentence, hold it up to the light, that nothing else replicates.
But we also know that the world has shifted. That the commute is often a podcast now. Some people absorb ideas more easily through voice than through text. That there is a science behind this, something about the human voice, the particular intimacy of being spoken to, that activates a different kind of listening.
If there is something in what we're doing that could help more people, then we want it to reach more people. And that means meeting you where you are.
What you'll find here
The podcast is us reading you the pieces we write, having the conversations these pieces spark in us, and exploring the meditations where many of these realisations are originally found.
No particular order. No prescribed path. Let your curiosity lead you to the title that resonates right now, and see what it offers.
Some episodes will be quiet and slow. Some will be the kind of conversation that makes you want to pull over and sit with it for a moment. Some will be meditations you can return to.
All of it is designed for the same thing: to help you come home to yourself.
An invitation
We want to hear from you. Not just the numbers, though those matter in their own way, but the actual you.
The topics you want us to explore. The conversations you wish you were having. The things you've been carrying that you haven't yet found the words for.
Tell us. And maybe one day we'll be able to feature it, or, if you're open to it, feature you.
This is not a one-way broadcast. It's the beginning of something we're building together.
Come along for the journey. Let your curiosity lead. We'll be here.
Where to start
If you're new here, start wherever something pulls you. That's the only instruction.
If you want a place to begin, the blog on the stranger's validation. On the universe's signs. On Hanuman and the reworking of the reward system.
Or begin with the meditation. Begin with the breath.
Everything you need is already inside of you. We're just here to help you remember.
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