The Vortex of Willingness
- Author
- Mark Walker
- Published
- Wed 14 May 2025
- Episode Link
- None
What are you willing to be bad at... in public?
In this episode, we opens up about showing up broke, vulnerable, and still committed to the path. Inspired by a coaching question, Coltrane's jazz, and Lincoln's long game, this is a raw meditation on what it means to keep creating even when it’s messy.
You’ll also learn a powerful tool that blends Phil Stutz’s Vortex with the ancient Tibetan practice of Tonglen... designed to help you breathe through discomfort and rewire your response to fear and failure.
Inside this episode:
- The truth about being broke (and not broken)
- Coltrane, Lincoln, and the art of listening
- The “Vortex of Willingness” – a real-time practice for hard moments
- Why ambition isn’t enough—and what to build instead
- A quiet invite into the next Awareness Lab
“Freedom is not found through escaping experience but by embracing it.”
– Mark Epstein
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