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The Manosphere Got Stoicism Backwards
May 21, 2026
15m 33s
Overthinking Is Not a Thinking Problem
May 11, 2026
13m 08s
The Anxiety Trap: Why Fighting Makes It Worse
May 6, 2026
12m 19s
Why the Stoics Never Needed Willpower
Apr 13, 2026
14m 09s
Stoic Morning Practice: Stop Dreading Day Before It Starts
Apr 10, 2026
6m 46s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/21/26 | ![]() The Manosphere Got Stoicism Backwards | The manosphere has spent years quoting the Stoics to young men. Marcus Aurelius. Epictetus. Seneca. The version they sell, anger as strength, dominance as virtue, emotion as weakness, is the opposite of what those philosophers actually wrote. In Meditations 11.18, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his private journal that gentleness is more manly than rage. Seneca, in Letter 63, wrote that we may weep but must not wail, and admitted he had been overcome by grief himself. Epictetus, in Discourses 2.10,... | 15m 33s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Overthinking Is Not a Thinking Problem | Most advice for overthinking points you at the thoughts themselves. Journal them. Replace the negative ones with positive ones. Breathe. Meditate. Run. But what if the thoughts were never the problem? Epictetus taught that it is not events that disturb us, but our judgements about them. Overthinking is not a volume problem. It is a judgement problem. Somewhere in the loop you added a meaning to something that was otherwise neutral, and that meaning is what keeps you awake. In this episode I w... | 13m 08s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | ![]() The Anxiety Trap: Why Fighting Makes It Worse✨ | anxietystoicism+3 | — | — | — | anxietystoicism+3 | — | 12m 19s | |
| 4/13/26 | ![]() Why the Stoics Never Needed Willpower✨ | Stoicismwillpower+3 | — | — | — | Stoicswillpower+5 | — | 14m 09s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Stoic Morning Practice: Stop Dreading Day Before It Starts✨ | Stoicismmorning practice+3 | — | — | — | Stoic practicepremeditatio malorum+3 | — | 6m 46s | |
| 3/30/26 | ![]() When the World Feels Unjust (A Stoic Response)✨ | Stoicisminjustice+3 | — | — | — | Stoicisminjustice+3 | — | 11m 38s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Discipline Is a Skill, Not a Trait (5 Stoic Moves)✨ | disciplineStoicism+3 | — | — | — | Stoic practicediscipline+3 | — | 13m 55s | |
| 3/16/26 | ![]() 91% of Goals Fail: A Stoic Philosopher Explained Why 2,000 Years Ago✨ | Stoic philosophygoal setting+3 | — | stoicchallenge.co | — | goalsStoicism+5 | — | 18m 17s | |
| 3/14/26 | ![]() Stoic Morning Energy Boost: 5 Minutes To Wake Up Ready✨ | Stoicismmorning routine+3 | — | — | — | Stoic practicemorning energy+3 | — | 3m 51s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Your Opinions Aren't Observations, They're Demands✨ | Stoicismself-improvement+4 | — | — | — | Stoic practiceopinions+5 | — | 8m 40s | |
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| 3/3/26 | ![]() "Remove Desire Entirely" — What Epictetus Actually Meant✨ | Stoicismdesire+4 | — | Discourses | — | StoicismEpictetus+5 | — | 10m 18s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Marcus Aurelius Morning Meditation: Face The Day With Stoic Calm✨ | Stoicismmorning meditation+3 | — | stoicchallenge.co | — | Stoic practicemorning routine+3 | — | 8m 54s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Stoic Indifferents Explained: How to Want Without Suffering✨ | Stoicismself-improvement+3 | — | stoicchallenge.co | — | Stoic practicevirtue+3 | — | 9m 36s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Own What's Yours: The Dichotomy of Control (From The Vault) | This episode is a full lesson from one of the premium courses inside The Stoic Vault, my membership for people who practise Stoicism rather than just read about it. The lesson comes from the course Stoic Morning Routine: Start Calm and Strong. It covers the dichotomy of control, the single most useful idea in Stoic philosophy, and the one that changes everything when it actually lands. You will take one real concern from your day and sort it into two columns: what is mine and what is not. Out... | 13m 34s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() The Stoic Vault: What I Built and Why | About two years ago, I hit a wall. I had been teaching Stoicism for years. Writing about it. Making podcasts about it. And I was still losing my temper. Still spiralling over emails. Still lying awake replaying conversations. I knew the philosophy cold, and I could not apply it when it mattered. That is when I started asking what would actually help me. Not more books. Not more content. Something with structure. Accountability. Personal guidance. A quiet place to train. I could not find it, s... | 10m 20s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() What the Stoics Actually Meant by Practice | Epictetus did not write books. He ran a school where students lived for years, practising responses to insults, hardship and loss. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a daily training regimen, the same ideas over and over, drilling them into his reflexes. Seneca reviewed his day every single night for decades. The Stoics were not building a library. They were building a gymnasium for the soul. Somewhere along the way we forgot this. We turned philosophy into content to consume. We read a... | 12m 07s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | ![]() The Gap Between Knowing Stoicism and Living It | A few months ago I was in a conversation that started to go sideways. I could feel the tension rising, the tightening in my chest, my voice getting sharper. I knew exactly what was happening. I have studied this. I have taught this. I know what Marcus Aurelius would say. And in that moment it was like I had never read a word of Stoicism. If you have spent any time with this philosophy, you have probably had your own version of this. The email lands and you spiral. The criticism stings and you... | 10m 56s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Release the Day: 15-Minute Deep Sleep Body Scan | A slow, Yoga Nidra-inspired body scan to help your body soften and your mind go quiet at the end of the day. You will move gently from head to toe, releasing tension as you go, then drift into a calm, spacious stillness that makes it easier to fall asleep. A quiet Stoic thread runs underneath it: release what you cannot change, and come back to the only place you ever actually rest, this moment. Free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: stoicchallenge.co The Stoic Vault: stoicvault.com | 15m 22s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | ![]() The CCTV Thought Experiment: You Are What You Do, Not What You Say | Imagine aliens installed a silent CCTV camera over your shoulder for 30 days, then compiled a report on what you actually value, based only on your calendar, your screen time, your purchases, and how you spend your evenings. Would you recognise yourself? The Stoics put it bluntly: acta non verba. Actions, not words. What you do is what you believe. Everything else is commentary. In this episode I lay out the Stoic CCTV protocol, a 7-day experiment that pairs old Stoic practice (prosoche, volu... | 15m 34s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Morning Gratitude: A 10-Minute Stoic Practice | Start the day with a short gratitude practice rooted in Stoic thinking. In about ten minutes you will name three gratitudes, shift your attention from what is missing to what is already here, and set yourself up to notice what is going right rather than only what is going wrong. It draws on Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, who both used this kind of looking to see clearly what they already had before the day's demands took over. Good for mornings when you want to feel steady and grounded before an... | 8m 41s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | ![]() Stoic Morning Practice: Let Go of What You Can’t Control | Start the day with the most useful Stoic distinction there is: what is up to you, and what is not. In this 6-minute guided morning practice you will gently name a current worry, notice where it sits in the body, and let go of everything outside your control. Through short teaching, a simple visualisation, and a daily intention, you will practise meeting the day with calm and a clear sense of what is yours to do. Good for anyone who wakes up with racing thoughts or anxiety about outcomes. Epic... | 6m 33s | ||||||
| 1/4/26 | ![]() Psychedelics and Buddhism: Why Peak Experiences Aren't Enough (with Martijn Schirp) | Martijn Schirp and I have known each other for nearly a decade. He first reached out after reading a meditation article I posted on Reddit, a message that ended up changing my life and led to us co-founding HighExistence and running retreats together in Costa Rica. Since then Martijn has lived several lifetimes. Professional poker player who finished 102nd at the World Series of Poker. A crisis of meaning in Vegas that took him to a Buddhist monastery in Nepal. Then co-founding Synthesis, one... | 2h 07m 55s | ||||||
| 12/29/25 | ![]() Make Your Time Count: Stoic Keys to Focus and Fulfillment | Most of us feel we have too much to do and not enough time to do it. The Stoics had a different diagnosis: the problem is rarely a shortage of time, it is how much of it we hand away without noticing. In this episode I draw on Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus to make the case for spending your attention on what actually matters and letting the rest go. We look at why a finite life is a gift rather than a threat, the question Marcus asked himself to stay focused, how the dichotomy of cont... | 22m 48s | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | ![]() What You'll Miss When It's Gone: A Stoic Gratitude Meditation (Premeditation of Adversity) | What if the way into real gratitude is not positive thinking, but imagining loss? In this 12-minute guided meditation I walk you through an old Stoic practice called praemeditatio malorum, the premeditation of adversity. Used by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus, it trains you to appreciate what you have before it is gone. We imagine a vivid scene: a sudden accident that changes everything. Not to be morbid, but to wake you up to how fragile and precious your life already is, your health,... | 11m 44s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 | ![]() Stoicism Decoded: Your Guide to Ancient Wisdom in Plain English | The Greek terms are where a lot of people get stuck with Stoicism. This episode is a plain-English guide to the vocabulary that actually matters, so the ideas stop sounding academic and start being usable. I walk through the key Stoic words and what they really mean: arete (excellence of character), apatheia (freedom from being ruled by passion, not apathy), prohairesis (the choice that is always yours), logos, and the difference between the destructive emotions and the healthy feelings the S... | 14m 52s | ||||||
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