Will to Joy
Not advice, but technique. Not guidance, but tools. Not opinion, but evidence. Through the practical application of the extraordinary teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Joy Podcast is the high road to self-overcoming and transcendence.
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(Formerly the Becoming Übermensch podcast)
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2025
24. An Economy of Bodies: Nietzsche, Sex, and Beauty.
Special Episode: An Economy of Bodies – Nietzsche, Sex, Beauty, and the Will to Power
This week’s episode is something different. I’m sharing the recording of my presentation at the …
23. Wrestling with the Spirit of Gravity
Recorded on the rugged trails of the Lake District, with a stupidly heavy pack, sore knees, and a wild Nietzschean esprit!
In this episode, I yomp alone through across 40 miles of pe…
22. Can your suffering be sanctified?
This week on the Will to Joy podcast – Can suffering be more than something to endure? Nietzsche thought so.
In a world obsessed with comfort, safety, and minimising pain, he argued…
21. On self-overcoming part II
We continue our discussion of Nietzschean self-overcoming and explore a range of techniques for changing behaviour that scientific evidence tells us work.
You will descend into the w…
20. On self-overcoming
Why Won’t You Do What You Want You to Do?
You know what you want. You want to be fitter, healthier, stronger, more focused, more creative. You want to stop scrolling, quit drinking, …
19. Body is destiny
"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reaches up into the topmost summit of his spirit."
Beyond Good and Evil, 75
In this episode, we begin with a plunge into the sacred animalit…
18. Is the examined life worth living? Nietzsche and the curse of consciousness
Socrates claimed the unexamined life isn’t worth living—but Nietzsche wasn’t so sure. What if our acute self-awareness is the source of our suffering?
In this episode, we journey fro…
17. The long war against the body
What if history’s greatest heresy wasn’t the rejection of God—but the rejection of the body?
In today’s show, we follow Nietzsche’s assault on the Christian hatred of the flesh. From…
16. Nietzsche’s proof you have no soul - and why that's a good thing
What if your precious soul was just superstition?
What if your thoughts, feelings, and identity weren’t the whispers of a divine spirit, but the murmurs of your gut, your glands, yo…
15. EXTRA: Announcement of podcast name change
Join me for an important announcement about the future of the show. Your thoughts on this news most welcome using the "message the show" hotlink.
If you value Will to…
14. Against the Despisers of the Body - Nietzsche's dismantling of "The Soul"
You have been taught to despise your body—to believe that your true worth lies in some hidden soul, while your flesh is merely a burden or a prison.
But what if that is one of the g…
13. EXTRA: Technique for establishing positive habits
In this bonus episode, I share with you a proven, evidence-based technique for embedding positive behaviours in your life: the establishing of habits.In this bonus mini-episode of B…
12. My attempted 100 mile hike
Something different this week. Join me as I re-attempt a 100 mile hike along the South Down's Way in Southern England in just three days, wild camping along the way. Naturally, ther…
11. Nietzsche's Will to Power and a new Hierarchy of Needs
In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we plunge deeper into Nietzsche’s concept of will to power as the underlying principle of life, reinterpreting Maslow’s hierarchy of needs th…
10. Nietzsche's Will to Power in nature
What is power? Is it dominance over others, or something deeper—an intrinsic force woven into the very fabric of life itself? Nietzsche famously declared that “life as such is will …
9. Nietzsche's Will to Power unpacked
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power itself. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome.”
Nietzsche’s Will t…
8. Wanting and getting
Why do we always yearn for more? Why does happiness seem forever out of reach? In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we dive into the inescapable cycle of desire, fulfilment, and …
7. The anatomy of desire
What do we really want when we say we want happiness? In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we continue our deep dive into Nietzsche’s conception of happiness—not as a passive sta…
6. Nietzsche the storm cloud
There are few western philosophers that have had such an impact on our contemporary culture as Friedrich Nietzsche. Why, then, is his thought so often dismissed? Why does his philos…
5. What everyone really wants
Life itself forces us to posit values—this is Nietzsche’s insight, and it’s inescapable. Every desire, every choice, every “yes” and “no” reveals what we truly value. But have you e…