BOTH/AND
Explore what makes up life and humanity from a new perspective with a little wit and wisdom. BOTH/AND show us to welcome both the good and the bad, the easy and the devasting, the success and the failure. When we welcome all that life has to offer, we can live fully awake and align with the most authentic human experience.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 39
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
It's Okay To Have Regret
I’ve often heard people say, “I don’t have regrets.” I’m pretty certain I’ve said that myself many times. It’s almost like there is an undercurrent in our current culture that says regr…
I Tried Manifestation and It Didn’t Work. Here’s what to do instead.
What if there was a way to get everything you wanted? Better yet, what if you could get it with minimal effort and ease? Enter manifestation. It's become a hot topic in the personal dev…
What Is A Silver Lining and Why We Need To Stop Finding It For Others
My wife and I often didn't have the words we needed during our darkest season of infertility. In the midst of disappointment after disappointment, a cycle of manufactured hope turning i…
Shine Bright: The Shadows Are Not Your Home
Have you ever been asked, whether directly or indirectly, to become less than who you are or to minimize parts of your personality, your power, your influence, or your skills? In other …
Speaking Your Truth: Helpful, Harmful, or Healing
Have you ever been at the receiving end of someone just "speaking their truth?" They might have also said something like, "I just have to own my truth." It's relatively common language …
Start Where You Are Emotionally
I often want to bypass the hard emotions in favor of the good ones like peace, joy, contentment. While there are fast hacks to get me from a place of disappointment to elation, those ha…
Let's process what it means to be split down the middle
I'm processing, in real-time with you, what I've been experiencing lately. My depression has flared up again in a big way but while it's here and happening, I'm also still participatin…
Stop Being Obsessed With Happiness
When did we become obsessed with happiness? (Or, in my case, peace?)
This question kept popping up in my head as I was working through the idea of resilience for this episode, so I paid…
When You Stop Trying, You Become
I don't think trying is a real thing. Hear me out. You either do what you want to do or be the thing you want to be, or you don't.
Trying has become this non-existent middle ground wher…
The Problem with Fake It Til You Make It
Have you ever the phrase, "Fake it til you make it!" It seems like such an innocent little idea until you unpack it and see how unhelpful it really is.
Everything fake is rooted in decei…
I'm Over Personal Development
Can I be honest with you? I'm over personal development.
In this episode, I'm doing an experiment, in favor of vulnerability, and sharing something I wouldn't normally share, which is, I…
How We Use BS Narratives as a Survival Technique and Why It's Time To Stop
We all do it, whether we want to admit it or not. When situations don't go the way we want, hope, or plan, we often form narratives that help us feel okay about what happened.
And the tr…
The Biggest Lesson Learned
Every year on birthdays, I ask my friends and family, "what has been the biggest lesson you learned over the last year of your life?"
It's been a tradition for many years now and everyo…
Why Purpose Is Simpler Than You Think
What happens when you fail at your purpose? Is that even possible?
There is an idea circulating among certain cultures that we must find our one purpose or one "calling." And so, we go i…
It's Time For Effortless Release
How many times do we keep fighting, pushing harder, working harder, striving, and hustling when really what we need to do is release?
Let's explore this idea of effortless release and it…
You Have a 100% Survival Success Rate
This is going to kill me. Have you ever said those words or something similar?
I'll never make it through this.
This is too hard.
I can't do this.
All of these and so many other thoughts …
One Decision
What could one decision mean for your life?
I recently had a moment when a decision I made form 17 years ago came back to remind me of the power one decision can have. I hadn't thought …
Perception Comes From Inside of You
Where does perception come from? Is it outside of our control? Is it based on reality itself? Or is it something that we can change at will?
In this episode, we're raising awareness abo…
You Have The Power of Storms Within
Storms are wild, right? They are these powerful, massive, destructive forces on our planet that can wipe out entire cities, and bring such devasting results. We're taught to take shelte…
Three Ways To Expand Your Thinking
What happens when we close our mind off to the expansion it desperately craves? We live in a constantly expanding universe, which includes expanding our thoughts and thinking patterns. …