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Comment “BUCKETLIST” and I’ll send you a DM with a link to the full episode Had such a great conversation with @garrettgee from @thebucketlistfamily on No Magic Pill. We talked about mental health, family, business, and what it really means to build a life around adventure, presence, and the people you love most. Garrett has taken his family around the world, but what stood out to me most was not just the travel. It was the intention behind it. The way he thinks about time. The way he thinks about his kids. The way he thinks about building a business that supports the life he wants to live, instead of the other way around. So many of us chase freedom for years. Garrett is one of those people who reminds you that freedom is not just something you earn someday. It is something you choose, design, and protect along the way. Grateful for this conversation. Full episode of No Magic Pill with Garrett Gee is out now.
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Comment “BUCKETLIST” and I’ll send you a DM with a link to the full episode Had such a great conversation with @garrettgee from @thebucketlistfamily on No Magic Pill. We talked about mental health, family, business, and what it really means to build a life around adventure, presence, and the people you love most. Garrett has taken his family around the world, but what stood out to me most was not just the travel. It was the intention behind it. The way he thinks about time. The way he thinks about his kids. The way he thinks about building a business that supports the life he wants to live, instead of the other way around. So many of us chase freedom for years. Garrett is one of those people who reminds you that freedom is not just something you earn someday. It is something you choose, design, and protect along the way. Grateful for this conversation. Full episode of No Magic Pill with Garrett Gee is out now.
Comment “BUCKETLIST” and I’ll send you the full episode! Most of us do not lose our closest friendships all at once. We just slowly stop making them a priority until one day we look up and realize we are lonely in a way we cannot quite explain. Garrett Gee said something on the No Magic Pill podcast that I think every person in their thirties, forties, and fifties needs to hear. The people who knew you as a child are not just friends. They are medicine. Not therapy in the clinical sense. Medicine in the most literal sense. When Garrett gets together with his two closest childhood friends they stop being adults entirely. They goof off, joke around, and play like they are kids again. Nobody else in your life can do that for you. Not your spouse, not your colleagues, not the friends you make at work or at the gym. The people who knew you before you had anything to prove are the ones who remind you who you actually are underneath all of it. I have felt the loneliness that comes from letting those friendships slide. And I have also felt what happens when you invest in them again. There is nothing like it. It always comes back to priorities. Not what you say you care about. What you actually make time for. When did you last reach out to someone who knew you in seventh grade? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @garrettgee @nomagicpillpodcast
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Comment “BUCKETLIST” and I’ll send you the full episode! Most of us do not lose our closest friendships all at once. We just slowly stop making them a priority until one day we look up and realize we are lonely in a way we cannot quite explain. Garrett Gee said something on the No Magic Pill podcast that I think every person in their thirties, forties, and fifties needs to hear. The people who knew you as a child are not just friends. They are medicine. Not therapy in the clinical sense. Medicine in the most literal sense. When Garrett gets together with his two closest childhood friends they stop being adults entirely. They goof off, joke around, and play like they are kids again. Nobody else in your life can do that for you. Not your spouse, not your colleagues, not the friends you make at work or at the gym. The people who knew you before you had anything to prove are the ones who remind you who you actually are underneath all of it. I have felt the loneliness that comes from letting those friendships slide. And I have also felt what happens when you invest in them again. There is nothing like it. It always comes back to priorities. Not what you say you care about. What you actually make time for. When did you last reach out to someone who knew you in seventh grade? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @garrettgee @nomagicpillpodcast
To everyone who has ever told themselves "just get through this, it will be over soon"… I recorded this conversation with Matthew McConaughey a while ago and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Matthew said that telling yourself something will be over soon is actually the fastest way to fall apart. And when he explained why, something clicked for me that I had never been able to articulate about my own hardest seasons. The trick he uses is the opposite of what most of us do. And it is so simple that it almost sounds wrong. I know some of you are in the middle of something hard right now. And I want you to have every tool that has helped me, from the people who have genuinely changed the way I move through difficulty. That is why I built No Magic Pill. Not as a podcast. As a place where the conversations I needed to hear when I was at my lowest actually exist. Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. And thank you Matthew for this one. Full episode is live now. Link in bio to subscribe. @officiallymcconaughey
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To everyone who has ever told themselves "just get through this, it will be over soon"… I recorded this conversation with Matthew McConaughey a while ago and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Matthew said that telling yourself something will be over soon is actually the fastest way to fall apart. And when he explained why, something clicked for me that I had never been able to articulate about my own hardest seasons. The trick he uses is the opposite of what most of us do. And it is so simple that it almost sounds wrong. I know some of you are in the middle of something hard right now. And I want you to have every tool that has helped me, from the people who have genuinely changed the way I move through difficulty. That is why I built No Magic Pill. Not as a podcast. As a place where the conversations I needed to hear when I was at my lowest actually exist. Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. And thank you Matthew for this one. Full episode is live now. Link in bio to subscribe. @officiallymcconaughey
My sister Paige taught herself to sew from a book called Sewing for Dummies. And then she made eight thousand dollars in one day at a street fair. She told this story on the No Magic Pill podcast and it is one of my favorite origin stories I have ever heard because of how pure it is. No business plan. No investor pitch. No MBA. Just a woman who got completely obsessed with making clothes, started wearing them around, and kept getting stopped by strangers asking what she was wearing. That was the signal. She paid five hundred dollars for a booth at the Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice, spent three months making as many pieces as she could, and walked away from that one day with eight thousand dollars. And she knew in that moment that she had a business. What I love most about this is that the passion came first and the business came second. She was not trying to build a company. She was obsessed with the craft. The obsession was so visible that people could feel it in what she was making and wearing. And that is what made strangers stop her on the street. You cannot manufacture that kind of energy. You can only follow it and see where it goes. Is there something you are obsessed with right now that you have not yet given yourself permission to take seriously? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen.
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My sister Paige taught herself to sew from a book called Sewing for Dummies. And then she made eight thousand dollars in one day at a street fair. She told this story on the No Magic Pill podcast and it is one of my favorite origin stories I have ever heard because of how pure it is. No business plan. No investor pitch. No MBA. Just a woman who got completely obsessed with making clothes, started wearing them around, and kept getting stopped by strangers asking what she was wearing. That was the signal. She paid five hundred dollars for a booth at the Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice, spent three months making as many pieces as she could, and walked away from that one day with eight thousand dollars. And she knew in that moment that she had a business. What I love most about this is that the passion came first and the business came second. She was not trying to build a company. She was obsessed with the craft. The obsession was so visible that people could feel it in what she was making and wearing. And that is what made strangers stop her on the street. You cannot manufacture that kind of energy. You can only follow it and see where it goes. Is there something you are obsessed with right now that you have not yet given yourself permission to take seriously? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen.
Comment “AVIATOR” and I will DM you the full episode! 📥 Some bonds are built in childhood. Some are built while racing through the jungle with one loaf of bread. In 2002, @paigemycoskie and I were contestants on The Amazing Race. At the time, we had no idea that experience would become a kind of training ground for the rest of our lives. Years later, Paige was there in the earliest days of TOMS. I was in Argentina and needed a logo for this shoe company I was starting. She designed the TOMS logo in a day. Charged me $500. Still the best $500 I have ever spent. Then she went on to build something completely her own. Aviator Nation started with a sewing machine, an $8,000 bank loan, and clothes she was making at night after work. Today, it has become one of the fastest-growing fashion brands in the world. But this conversation was not just about business. It was about what people do not always see behind the success. The obsession. The low points. The depression. The moments when even the people closest to you may not know how much you are carrying. Paige was there for me in some of my darkest times. And in this interview, I learned more about the darkness she had carried too. This episode is about passion, family, believing in the thing you cannot stop thinking about, and the bond siblings share when life takes them through more than they ever expected.
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Comment “AVIATOR” and I will DM you the full episode! 📥 Some bonds are built in childhood. Some are built while racing through the jungle with one loaf of bread. In 2002, @paigemycoskie and I were contestants on The Amazing Race. At the time, we had no idea that experience would become a kind of training ground for the rest of our lives. Years later, Paige was there in the earliest days of TOMS. I was in Argentina and needed a logo for this shoe company I was starting. She designed the TOMS logo in a day. Charged me $500. Still the best $500 I have ever spent. Then she went on to build something completely her own. Aviator Nation started with a sewing machine, an $8,000 bank loan, and clothes she was making at night after work. Today, it has become one of the fastest-growing fashion brands in the world. But this conversation was not just about business. It was about what people do not always see behind the success. The obsession. The low points. The depression. The moments when even the people closest to you may not know how much you are carrying. Paige was there for me in some of my darkest times. And in this interview, I learned more about the darkness she had carried too. This episode is about passion, family, believing in the thing you cannot stop thinking about, and the bond siblings share when life takes them through more than they ever expected.
Jim Kwik was about to quit school. His brain felt broken, he had no direction, and nobody had ever stopped to ask him what he actually wanted. Until one man did. Jim told this story on the No Magic Pill podcast and I could not stop thinking about it. He sat down with a very successful mentor, admitted he was quitting, and the mentor asked him one question nobody had ever asked before. Why are you in school? What do you want to be, do, have, contribute? Jim had no answer. He had just assumed you go to school, get a job, follow the path. The mentor handed him sheets of paper, made him write down his dreams and aspirations by hand, and then grabbed the pages out of his hands and started reading them. Jim was terrified. One of the heaviest burdens of not feeling enough is the fear of being judged. And here was this successful man reading the dreams Jim had never shared with anyone. And then the mentor spread his fingers apart and said, Jim, you are this close to everything on this list. He then moved his fingers to the sides of Jim’s head and said, it is what is in between these ears that is the key. Ask a new question and you get a new answer. That one conversation changed the direction of his entire life. The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @jimkwik @nomagicpillpodcast
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Jim Kwik was about to quit school. His brain felt broken, he had no direction, and nobody had ever stopped to ask him what he actually wanted. Until one man did. Jim told this story on the No Magic Pill podcast and I could not stop thinking about it. He sat down with a very successful mentor, admitted he was quitting, and the mentor asked him one question nobody had ever asked before. Why are you in school? What do you want to be, do, have, contribute? Jim had no answer. He had just assumed you go to school, get a job, follow the path. The mentor handed him sheets of paper, made him write down his dreams and aspirations by hand, and then grabbed the pages out of his hands and started reading them. Jim was terrified. One of the heaviest burdens of not feeling enough is the fear of being judged. And here was this successful man reading the dreams Jim had never shared with anyone. And then the mentor spread his fingers apart and said, Jim, you are this close to everything on this list. He then moved his fingers to the sides of Jim’s head and said, it is what is in between these ears that is the key. Ask a new question and you get a new answer. That one conversation changed the direction of his entire life. The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @jimkwik @nomagicpillpodcast
Comment “Cory” and I will DM you a link to the full episode with @coryrichards and I 📥 Secrets don’t just live between two people. They start living inside us. The thing we are afraid to say. The part of the story we keep editing out. The truth we think would make us harder to love. So we hide it. And the longer we hide it, the more we start believing the lie: “If they really knew me, they would leave.” That is how shame works. It convinces us that being fully known is dangerous. But intimacy cannot grow where we are performing. Love needs truth. Friendship needs truth. Healing needs truth. Not all at once. Not with everyone. Not before you feel safe. But somewhere, with someone, the truth has to come out. Because the parts of you that you are hiding are usually the parts that need love the most. This conversation with Cory Richards on No Magic Pill stayed with me. Secrets are the termites of love and intimacy. And honesty, when it is met with compassion is how we begin to rebuild.
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Comment “Cory” and I will DM you a link to the full episode with @coryrichards and I 📥 Secrets don’t just live between two people. They start living inside us. The thing we are afraid to say. The part of the story we keep editing out. The truth we think would make us harder to love. So we hide it. And the longer we hide it, the more we start believing the lie: “If they really knew me, they would leave.” That is how shame works. It convinces us that being fully known is dangerous. But intimacy cannot grow where we are performing. Love needs truth. Friendship needs truth. Healing needs truth. Not all at once. Not with everyone. Not before you feel safe. But somewhere, with someone, the truth has to come out. Because the parts of you that you are hiding are usually the parts that need love the most. This conversation with Cory Richards on No Magic Pill stayed with me. Secrets are the termites of love and intimacy. And honesty, when it is met with compassion is how we begin to rebuild.
Comment “CORY” and I will DM you the full episode with @coryrichards 📥 The most dangerous place Cory Richards has ever been was not the side of a mountain. It was inside his own mind. Cory has survived avalanches, climbed in the Himalayas, and built a life as one of the world’s most renowned adventure photographers. But in this conversation, he talks about something harder to face: His childhood. His bipolar diagnosis. The belief that he was broken. The parts of himself he thought were unlovable. His memoir, The Color of Everything, came into my life at a very specific time. I was coming out of seven years of depression. I was trying to understand my own mind after being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was trying to put the pieces of my life back together. And I could not put his book down. By the end, Cory reminded me of something I deeply needed to remember: Facing yourself is terrifying. But hiding from yourself is what keeps you trapped. This episode is about art, adventure, mental illness, shame, healing, and the truth that so many of us spend our lives running from: You are enough as you are. New episode of No Magic Pill with Cory Richards is out now.
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Comment “CORY” and I will DM you the full episode with @coryrichards 📥 The most dangerous place Cory Richards has ever been was not the side of a mountain. It was inside his own mind. Cory has survived avalanches, climbed in the Himalayas, and built a life as one of the world’s most renowned adventure photographers. But in this conversation, he talks about something harder to face: His childhood. His bipolar diagnosis. The belief that he was broken. The parts of himself he thought were unlovable. His memoir, The Color of Everything, came into my life at a very specific time. I was coming out of seven years of depression. I was trying to understand my own mind after being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was trying to put the pieces of my life back together. And I could not put his book down. By the end, Cory reminded me of something I deeply needed to remember: Facing yourself is terrifying. But hiding from yourself is what keeps you trapped. This episode is about art, adventure, mental illness, shame, healing, and the truth that so many of us spend our lives running from: You are enough as you are. New episode of No Magic Pill with Cory Richards is out now.
Comment “JOSHUA” and I will DM you the full episode… When I was in the deepest depression of my life, one of the things that helped me was a simple mantra: I am enough. I have always been enough. I am enough. At first, it felt almost too simple to matter. But I kept repeating it. Again and again. Not because it magically fixed everything. It didn’t. I still needed therapy. I still needed support. I still needed stillness. I still needed to do the deeper work. But those words gave my mind something new to hold onto. And I’ve noticed this in so many people who have been through depression, anxiety, or a dark season and come out the other side: The story we tell ourselves matters. The mind can become a very painful place to live when the only sentence playing on repeat is: I am not enough. So sometimes healing begins by giving yourself a different sentence. Not as a cure. As a practice. For @joshuatbassett it was “Love is worth living for.” What is yours?
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Comment “JOSHUA” and I will DM you the full episode… When I was in the deepest depression of my life, one of the things that helped me was a simple mantra: I am enough. I have always been enough. I am enough. At first, it felt almost too simple to matter. But I kept repeating it. Again and again. Not because it magically fixed everything. It didn’t. I still needed therapy. I still needed support. I still needed stillness. I still needed to do the deeper work. But those words gave my mind something new to hold onto. And I’ve noticed this in so many people who have been through depression, anxiety, or a dark season and come out the other side: The story we tell ourselves matters. The mind can become a very painful place to live when the only sentence playing on repeat is: I am not enough. So sometimes healing begins by giving yourself a different sentence. Not as a cure. As a practice. For @joshuatbassett it was “Love is worth living for.” What is yours?
My sister Paige came on the No Magic Pill podcast and told me something she has never shared publicly before. And I am so proud of her for saying it out loud. She was 23 years old when she kissed a friend for the first time and realized she liked it. Her reaction in that moment was simple and uncomplicated. Love is love. She had never thought there was anything wrong with it. She was not scared or confused by what she felt. She was just open to it. But the person she kissed was not ready for anyone to know. And the very next day that person pulled back and said we cannot tell anybody about this. Paige told me that was one of the worst moments of her life. Not because of what she had felt. Because of what happened immediately after. It was her first real experience of not being able to be herself. Of having something pure and genuine about who she was treated like something that needed to be hidden. And she carried that quietly for seven years. I am sharing this because I know there are people listening who have had that same experience of being made to feel like who they are is something to be ashamed of. And I want them to hear my sister say clearly that there was never anything wrong with it. There was never anything wrong with her. Love is love. And anyone who makes you feel otherwise is dealing with their own fear, not your truth. The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen.
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My sister Paige came on the No Magic Pill podcast and told me something she has never shared publicly before. And I am so proud of her for saying it out loud. She was 23 years old when she kissed a friend for the first time and realized she liked it. Her reaction in that moment was simple and uncomplicated. Love is love. She had never thought there was anything wrong with it. She was not scared or confused by what she felt. She was just open to it. But the person she kissed was not ready for anyone to know. And the very next day that person pulled back and said we cannot tell anybody about this. Paige told me that was one of the worst moments of her life. Not because of what she had felt. Because of what happened immediately after. It was her first real experience of not being able to be herself. Of having something pure and genuine about who she was treated like something that needed to be hidden. And she carried that quietly for seven years. I am sharing this because I know there are people listening who have had that same experience of being made to feel like who they are is something to be ashamed of. And I want them to hear my sister say clearly that there was never anything wrong with it. There was never anything wrong with her. Love is love. And anyone who makes you feel otherwise is dealing with their own fear, not your truth. The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen.
Comment “LIMITLESS” and I will send you a DM with a link to the full pod with me and @jimkwik Your mental health is not separate from your body. For years, I treated my mind like it was floating above the rest of me. But sleep matters. Food matters. Movement matters. Alcohol matters. Sunlight matters. Stillness matters. If you keep mistreating the body, the brain eventually feels it. Healing starts with listening.
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Comment “LIMITLESS” and I will send you a DM with a link to the full pod with me and @jimkwik Your mental health is not separate from your body. For years, I treated my mind like it was floating above the rest of me. But sleep matters. Food matters. Movement matters. Alcohol matters. Sunlight matters. Stillness matters. If you keep mistreating the body, the brain eventually feels it. Healing starts with listening.
Robin Sharma said something on the No Magic Pill podcast that I lived firsthand and have never heard described so precisely. He told me about someone he had worked with who watched the wire hit their bank account after exiting their company, a number they had spent years building toward, and felt completely the same the moment it arrived. Not different. Not transformed. The same. That was my exact experience when I sold TOMS. The wire hit and the next day was one of the worst days of my life. Robin quoted an old Zen proverb that I keep coming back to. Wherever you go, there you are. No amount of money changes what is happening inside you. It just removes the excuse that the money was the thing standing between you and feeling okay. Robin is one of the world's most respected leadership advisors and the bestselling author of The 5AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. And he said something I think every entrepreneur and high achiever needs to hear. Strategy matters. Building a great team matters. Delivering value to your customers matters enormously. But everything begins within. And money is only one form of wealth. We just get very confused about that, especially when we are in the middle of building something. What are the forms of wealth in your life that have nothing to do with your bank account? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @robinsharma
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Robin Sharma said something on the No Magic Pill podcast that I lived firsthand and have never heard described so precisely. He told me about someone he had worked with who watched the wire hit their bank account after exiting their company, a number they had spent years building toward, and felt completely the same the moment it arrived. Not different. Not transformed. The same. That was my exact experience when I sold TOMS. The wire hit and the next day was one of the worst days of my life. Robin quoted an old Zen proverb that I keep coming back to. Wherever you go, there you are. No amount of money changes what is happening inside you. It just removes the excuse that the money was the thing standing between you and feeling okay. Robin is one of the world's most respected leadership advisors and the bestselling author of The 5AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. And he said something I think every entrepreneur and high achiever needs to hear. Strategy matters. Building a great team matters. Delivering value to your customers matters enormously. But everything begins within. And money is only one form of wealth. We just get very confused about that, especially when we are in the middle of building something. What are the forms of wealth in your life that have nothing to do with your bank account? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @robinsharma
After selling TOMS I had more money than I had ever imagined. And I still felt like the poorest version of myself I had ever been. Garrett Gee named exactly why on the No Magic Pill podcast. When Garrett sold his app for 54 million dollars he and his wife sat down and asked themselves a question that I wish someone had asked me at that moment in my life. If someone has no money but a strong marriage and you have a lot of money but a broken marriage, who is actually wealthier? Rich and wealthy are not the same thing. So they made a list of the seven ways they were going to make sure they were wealthier than a poor man, which is what they called it. Because they had been given this enormous blessing and they refused to let it mean nothing. A strong marriage. Strong relationships with everyone in their circle. Being a meaningful part of a community. And then health, broken into three categories they refused to collapse into one. Spiritual health. Mental health. Physical health. And the last one was the one Garrett said has been the biggest lesson of his life since that moment. Freedom. I sold a company and lost most of those seven things almost immediately. I did not even have a list to measure myself against. This conversation made me want to build one. Which of those seven do you feel most wealthy in right now and which one are you neglecting? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @garrettgee
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After selling TOMS I had more money than I had ever imagined. And I still felt like the poorest version of myself I had ever been. Garrett Gee named exactly why on the No Magic Pill podcast. When Garrett sold his app for 54 million dollars he and his wife sat down and asked themselves a question that I wish someone had asked me at that moment in my life. If someone has no money but a strong marriage and you have a lot of money but a broken marriage, who is actually wealthier? Rich and wealthy are not the same thing. So they made a list of the seven ways they were going to make sure they were wealthier than a poor man, which is what they called it. Because they had been given this enormous blessing and they refused to let it mean nothing. A strong marriage. Strong relationships with everyone in their circle. Being a meaningful part of a community. And then health, broken into three categories they refused to collapse into one. Spiritual health. Mental health. Physical health. And the last one was the one Garrett said has been the biggest lesson of his life since that moment. Freedom. I sold a company and lost most of those seven things almost immediately. I did not even have a list to measure myself against. This conversation made me want to build one. Which of those seven do you feel most wealthy in right now and which one are you neglecting? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @garrettgee
Gabor Mate said something on this episode that I think everyone needs to hear at least once in their life. Pretty much everything you think is wrong with you actually represents some kind of a wound. He went back to our earlier discussion of trauma and reframed it again in a way that finally made it click for me. If trauma was simply what happened to us in childhood, then it would be over. Finished. Nothing left to do about it. But that is not what trauma actually is. Trauma is the wound you are still carrying right now. And like any wound, it can be healed in the present. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with you. You are carrying a wound, and that wound is healable. It is going to take some work, starting with the questions you ask yourself. Gabor also pointed me back toward meditation as a path into that work. It does not cost anything, and it can take you deeper into yourself than almost anything else. I needed to hear this again, even after everything I have already worked through. The full episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen.
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Gabor Mate said something on this episode that I think everyone needs to hear at least once in their life. Pretty much everything you think is wrong with you actually represents some kind of a wound. He went back to our earlier discussion of trauma and reframed it again in a way that finally made it click for me. If trauma was simply what happened to us in childhood, then it would be over. Finished. Nothing left to do about it. But that is not what trauma actually is. Trauma is the wound you are still carrying right now. And like any wound, it can be healed in the present. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with you. You are carrying a wound, and that wound is healable. It is going to take some work, starting with the questions you ask yourself. Gabor also pointed me back toward meditation as a path into that work. It does not cost anything, and it can take you deeper into yourself than almost anything else. I needed to hear this again, even after everything I have already worked through. The full episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen.
Thank God for depression. That is something I never thought I would say out loud and actually mean it. I shared this on the No Magic Pill podcast with Joshua Bassett and I want to say it directly to anyone who is in pain right now or watching someone they love go through something they cannot fix. The mess can become the message. I have seen it in my own life and I have watched it happen for the guests who have come on this podcast and been willing to tell the truth about what they went through. The depression, the anxiety, the breakdown, the season where everything fell apart, those are not the parts of your story you need to hide. Those are the parts that will eventually help someone else find their way through something similar. For me the depression was the check engine light. It was the wake up call that nothing I was doing on the outside was going to fix what was broken on the inside. And as painful as that season was, and it was the hardest thing I have ever been through, I am genuinely grateful for it now. Because it brought me here. To this podcast. To this community. To a life that finally feels like it actually belongs to me. If you are in the middle of your mess right now please keep going. The message is already forming. The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
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Thank God for depression. That is something I never thought I would say out loud and actually mean it. I shared this on the No Magic Pill podcast with Joshua Bassett and I want to say it directly to anyone who is in pain right now or watching someone they love go through something they cannot fix. The mess can become the message. I have seen it in my own life and I have watched it happen for the guests who have come on this podcast and been willing to tell the truth about what they went through. The depression, the anxiety, the breakdown, the season where everything fell apart, those are not the parts of your story you need to hide. Those are the parts that will eventually help someone else find their way through something similar. For me the depression was the check engine light. It was the wake up call that nothing I was doing on the outside was going to fix what was broken on the inside. And as painful as that season was, and it was the hardest thing I have ever been through, I am genuinely grateful for it now. Because it brought me here. To this podcast. To this community. To a life that finally feels like it actually belongs to me. If you are in the middle of your mess right now please keep going. The message is already forming. The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
Joshua Bassett asked me a question on the No Magic Pill podcast that I have not been able to stop sitting with since he said it. Do you love me or do you love the way I make you feel? He introduced me to an Indian Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello and a book called Awareness that he calls the greatest book he has ever read. And the entire book circles around that one question. Because there is a profound difference between loving someone for who they actually are and loving them for the feeling they produce in you. One is about the person. The other is about you. And most of us have never stopped long enough to be honest about which one we are actually operating from in our closest relationships. I spent years in relationships driven by how the other person made me feel about myself. That is not love. That is a transaction dressed up as love. And when the feeling changes, as feelings always do, the relationship has nothing left underneath it to hold it together. When you have that awareness, Joshua said, you can finally build the right kind of relationship. A healthy one. One that is actually about the other person and not just about what they do for your sense of self. That question is worth sitting with for a long time. Do you love the people closest to you or do you love the way they make you feel? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
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4d ago
nomagicpillpodcast
Joshua Bassett asked me a question on the No Magic Pill podcast that I have not been able to stop sitting with since he said it. Do you love me or do you love the way I make you feel? He introduced me to an Indian Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello and a book called Awareness that he calls the greatest book he has ever read. And the entire book circles around that one question. Because there is a profound difference between loving someone for who they actually are and loving them for the feeling they produce in you. One is about the person. The other is about you. And most of us have never stopped long enough to be honest about which one we are actually operating from in our closest relationships. I spent years in relationships driven by how the other person made me feel about myself. That is not love. That is a transaction dressed up as love. And when the feeling changes, as feelings always do, the relationship has nothing left underneath it to hold it together. When you have that awareness, Joshua said, you can finally build the right kind of relationship. A healthy one. One that is actually about the other person and not just about what they do for your sense of self. That question is worth sitting with for a long time. Do you love the people closest to you or do you love the way they make you feel? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
One of the most important teachings I have ever received came from teachers I spent time with in India. And I shared it with Joshua Bassett on the No Magic Pill podcast because I think it explains something about suffering that nobody in the Western world ever taught me. All suffering comes from obsessive self-centric thinking. Not selfishness. Not narcissism. Something more subtle and more universal than either of those. It is when you become so preoccupied with your own pain and your own search for relief that the focus on yourself becomes the very thing that deepens the suffering. I lived this completely. My depression went from mild to extreme to suicidal and I now believe a significant part of why is that I kept turning inward looking for the answer. What can I do. How do I fix this. Where should I go. Which relationship do I need to change. Which country do I need to move to. All of it focused entirely on me. And the more I focused on me the worse it got. The minute I shifted my focus outward, toward someone else's problems, toward a way I could serve, toward building something that was genuinely for other people, the state I was in started to shift. And once I truly landed in the belief that I am enough, not as a mantra but as something I actually felt in my body, the suffering went away. The answer was never inside the suffering. It was always just outside of it. What would change if you shifted your focus from yourself to someone else today? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
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3d ago
nomagicpillpodcast
One of the most important teachings I have ever received came from teachers I spent time with in India. And I shared it with Joshua Bassett on the No Magic Pill podcast because I think it explains something about suffering that nobody in the Western world ever taught me. All suffering comes from obsessive self-centric thinking. Not selfishness. Not narcissism. Something more subtle and more universal than either of those. It is when you become so preoccupied with your own pain and your own search for relief that the focus on yourself becomes the very thing that deepens the suffering. I lived this completely. My depression went from mild to extreme to suicidal and I now believe a significant part of why is that I kept turning inward looking for the answer. What can I do. How do I fix this. Where should I go. Which relationship do I need to change. Which country do I need to move to. All of it focused entirely on me. And the more I focused on me the worse it got. The minute I shifted my focus outward, toward someone else's problems, toward a way I could serve, toward building something that was genuinely for other people, the state I was in started to shift. And once I truly landed in the belief that I am enough, not as a mantra but as something I actually felt in my body, the suffering went away. The answer was never inside the suffering. It was always just outside of it. What would change if you shifted your focus from yourself to someone else today? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
I asked Gabor Mate a simple question. How would you define trauma? His answer completely reframed how I think about my own past. Trauma is the wound you are still carrying. Like any wound, it can be healed in the present. Most people think of trauma as the things that happened to them, neglect, abuse, family stress, violence, a bad divorce. Gabor told me that is not actually the trauma. Those are the traumatic events. Trauma literally means a wound. That is the actual meaning of the word. It is the wound that has not healed. So it is not what happened to you. It is what happened inside you as a result of what happened to you. That distinction changes everything about how you approach healing. You are not trying to undo the past. You are tending to the wound it left behind. The full episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @gabormatemd
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1mo ago
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I asked Gabor Mate a simple question. How would you define trauma? His answer completely reframed how I think about my own past. Trauma is the wound you are still carrying. Like any wound, it can be healed in the present. Most people think of trauma as the things that happened to them, neglect, abuse, family stress, violence, a bad divorce. Gabor told me that is not actually the trauma. Those are the traumatic events. Trauma literally means a wound. That is the actual meaning of the word. It is the wound that has not healed. So it is not what happened to you. It is what happened inside you as a result of what happened to you. That distinction changes everything about how you approach healing. You are not trying to undo the past. You are tending to the wound it left behind. The full episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @gabormatemd
I discovered a Japanese concept called ikigai during one of the hardest seasons of my life and it changed how I thought about everything I was building. Joshua Bassett and I talked about it on the No Magic Pill podcast and I wanted to share it because I think it is one of the most useful frameworks I have ever come across for understanding why some people feel alive in their work and others feel completely hollow even when they are succeeding by every external measure. Ikigai is a diagram that maps four things. What you are passionate about. What you are good at. What the world needs. And what you can be paid for. When all four of those things overlap in the same place, that is where you find your flow state. That is where joy and feeling truly alive become consistent rather than accidental. When I was really suffering I kept coming back to this diagram and asking myself honestly whether those four circles were actually aligned in my life. And the answer was that some of them were and some of them were not. And the ones that were not aligned were quietly draining everything the aligned ones were trying to build. It is a simple diagram. But the honesty it requires is anything but simple. Are all four of your circles in the right place right now? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
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2w ago
nomagicpillpodcast
I discovered a Japanese concept called ikigai during one of the hardest seasons of my life and it changed how I thought about everything I was building. Joshua Bassett and I talked about it on the No Magic Pill podcast and I wanted to share it because I think it is one of the most useful frameworks I have ever come across for understanding why some people feel alive in their work and others feel completely hollow even when they are succeeding by every external measure. Ikigai is a diagram that maps four things. What you are passionate about. What you are good at. What the world needs. And what you can be paid for. When all four of those things overlap in the same place, that is where you find your flow state. That is where joy and feeling truly alive become consistent rather than accidental. When I was really suffering I kept coming back to this diagram and asking myself honestly whether those four circles were actually aligned in my life. And the answer was that some of them were and some of them were not. And the ones that were not aligned were quietly draining everything the aligned ones were trying to build. It is a simple diagram. But the honesty it requires is anything but simple. Are all four of your circles in the right place right now? The episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @joshuabassett
If you had asked me when my kids were small what my highest value was, I would have said the happiness of my family. And I would have meant it completely. Gabor Mate told me something that stopped me cold. You do not tell somebody’s values by what they say. You tell their values by how they behave. If you looked at how I actually lived back then, my real values were success as a doctor would describe it for himself, being someone important to the world, being someone who was giving and making a difference. Not that those things are bad. But they were not actually the thing I claimed mattered most. Gabor’s challenge to anyone listening is simple and a little uncomfortable. Do not ask yourself what your values are, because you will tell yourself a really nice story. Just look at how you actually live. Where you spend your time, your energy, your thought patterns. That is the only honest way to find out what is actually important to you. I have been sitting with this one since we recorded it. The full episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @gabormatemd
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1mo ago
nomagicpillpodcast
If you had asked me when my kids were small what my highest value was, I would have said the happiness of my family. And I would have meant it completely. Gabor Mate told me something that stopped me cold. You do not tell somebody’s values by what they say. You tell their values by how they behave. If you looked at how I actually lived back then, my real values were success as a doctor would describe it for himself, being someone important to the world, being someone who was giving and making a difference. Not that those things are bad. But they were not actually the thing I claimed mattered most. Gabor’s challenge to anyone listening is simple and a little uncomfortable. Do not ask yourself what your values are, because you will tell yourself a really nice story. Just look at how you actually live. Where you spend your time, your energy, your thought patterns. That is the only honest way to find out what is actually important to you. I have been sitting with this one since we recorded it. The full episode is live now. Click the link in the bio to listen. @gabormatemd

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