The Best Podcast

Today’s podcast surfaces a them that came up in a conversation with a friend recently. Telling ourselves the truth is a powerful practice. When we hear this, we often think about a more humbling, and perhaps humiliating, truth. However, the honesty I’m talking about in this episode is a more uplifting one. One that goes against catastrophization and toward uplifting ourselves. I hope you find the...

Today’s podcast comes as we reach the middle of January. Many of us may be working on goals for 2022, which can be a daunting process. In this episode, I offer some practical advice which I’ve come across along the way. It’s not easy, but it’s something we can do well with the right approach and thought process. I hope you find some value in what I share here. Thanks for listening. As always, Much...

Today’s podcast is an exploration of what prenups are and how going about the conversation about them can be positively transformative for oneself and for one’s romantic relationship. It stems from a conversation I recently had with a couple of friends that resonated with them a lot, so I wanted to talk about it and share it here on the podcast. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be a valuable tho...

Today’s podcast is dedicated to my dad. I’m so grateful for our relationship and everything I’ve learned from him. For that reason, I wanted to take some time to talk about him and our relationship today. Perhaps you’ll be able to relate to it in some way. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a review of my 2021 goals. It’s jam packed with learnings and reflections on the year. It was a really refreshing activity for me, which I hope you can pick up on in the episode. Thanks so much for listening and I hope you find some value in it. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care. Cheers to 2022 and many more episodes to come on The Best Podcast.

Today’s podcast is aimed at orienting us well to how we can make it happen in 2022. I discuss the courage to start, the importance of taking risks, the magic of persistence and consistency, and the importance of valuing execution over ideation. It was a fun monologue for me, which I hope you pick up on. May this message resonate with you and set you up for a great start to the new year. Thanks so...

Today’s podcast is an examination of a current political and social challenge. Our proneness to black and white thinking that is polarizing and exclusionary. It’s pretty much never just black or white, and it’s pretty much never just gray either. It’s a mix of colors and intensities and so much more. It’s complicated yet so meaningful to strive to decipher. I hope you find my discourse here to be...

Today’s podcast is about the value of arbitrary days. Any day is a great opportunity to make a change, to evolve, or to see ourselves differently. This can be hard to embrace and to do effectively, and thus our culture provides us with time periods which inspire reflection. Christmas and the holiday season are just that. I wanted to highlight this in today’s episode and also to wish you the very b...

Today’s podcast is a vulnerable one. I haven’t been at my best with my habits over the last few weeks. I haven’t been reading consistently, I haven’t been meditating on a daily basis, and I’ve been spending more time than I’d like on YouTube. This has all led me to not being as focused and effective as I’d like to be. It’s hard to be at my best during this period, but I don’t want to give into tha...

Today’s podcast is an impassioned one. It’s a topic I continuously come back to over and over again. It’s not an easy one for me to fully figure out, but I’m getting there. It’s about intellectual humility and always coming back to ask ourselves, “How do you really know?” It’s not an easy task, but it’s a pursuit that promises tremendous value in my view. I hope this message persuades you. Thank y...

Today’s podcast details a process which I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about in my adult life. Asking ourselves who we are, who we aspire to be, how we personify our values, and what we can do to better personify our values and our ideal self is a reflection that I sincerely believe we would all benefit from participating in on a consistent basis. I make a case for it in this episode. Perhaps y...

Today’s podcast marks another new chapter. Coming home from Brazil and leaving Gabi hasn’t been seamless, because it simply can’t be. It’s a significant transition in which a lot of changes take place, which takes time. I talk through where my head is in this transition in today’s episode, along with why I think it’s important to give myself some grace within the challenges of these circumstances....

Today’s podcast is a hard one for me. As I get ready to say goodbye again, I’ve gotten to reflect on what it really means to leave and head home. There are good and bad things about leaving, and then there are good and bad things about returning. Learning to see all of this for what it is, and to process it all for what it is, is fundamental to making sense of my experience I think. I took some ti...

Today’s a special day! Happy birthday, Gabi. I love you very much. This podcast is dedicated to her and the relationship we’ve been able to build over the last two years. In this episode, I reflect on everything that we have lived together in a stream of consciousness fashion, allowing my thoughts to wander around all of the wonderful things she has shared with me. I hope you enjoy it. I appreciat...

Today’s podcast is in reaction to my listening of David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water” graduation speech at Kenyon College in 2005. It’s a beautiful speech which I’d highly recommend you listen to. I took some time in this episode to talk through some of my takeaways and the beauty I found in his words. Perhaps you will, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a short conversation between Gabi and me. It was much longer in its original version, but we decided to cut it due to some personal considerations afterwards. We may consider posting in the future, but now did not feel like the right time for us. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy the short chat between us. I certainly did. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Todays podcast addresses a couple of points that seemingly always come up on social media. “Don’t judge yourself” and “be your harshest critic” are frequently used phrases, yet often without the proper nuance they deserve. I try to work through this duality in today’s episode to show why both side have value and why we should strive to not solely do one or the other. I hope you enjoy it and find i...

Today’s podcast is a reflection on how complicated history is, along with some thoughts on how we will become the history that we look back on today in the future. It’s a tremendous burden we carry, yet it’s a beautiful one in my eyes. I hope you enjoy the episode and find it to be a meaningful monologue. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is my argument for why we should do the hardest thing first each day. Whether it be physically in a workout or mentally with a hard task in our work / studies, I think there are lots of benefits to doing the hardest thing first, which could even be transformative in some circumstances. I hope you enjoy it and perhaps find enough value in it to try it out in your own life. Thanks fo...

Today’s podcast is a return to the typical monologues of the past. It’s a topic I care a lot about and I think merits more attention than it usually gets. It’s about how we talk to each other about politics, religion, social justice, social issues, and other tense topics. I give a rundown of some tools that I use and why I think they’re beneficial. It’s certainly incomplete, but I think it does a...

Today’s podcast is the final installment of my reading of my learnings from quarter three. You can find the full article on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform . In this episode, I cover various lessons, such as how it’s okay to be behind or down in a given moment and a question that I’ve found to be extremely valuable to ask myself. I hope you enjoyed this series of episodes. As I mentioned, this...

Today’s podcast is the third reading of my learnings from quarter three, which you can find on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform . I cover various points, from the ease of missing the magnitude of the moment to the value of marginal utility. I hope you enjoy it and tune in for the final episode in a few days. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In today’s podcast, Gabi returns for a fun conversation about the harder and less sexy parts of relationships, the challenges and value of small fights, habits and the important structures for developing and maintaining good ones, and the importance of fun time, along with many other topics. It was a really enjoyable conversation, which turned out to be much less serious than our initial conversat...

Today’s podcast is a continuation of the previous one, in which I read through some of my learnings from quarter three of this year. From the being mindful of our information consumption to the affordances of sacrifice, I cover a lot in these learnings. I hope you find these takeaways to be valuable and actionable in some way in your own life and perspective of the world. Thanks for listening. As...

Today’s podcast is one I was excited to record and share. It’s the first of a few that come from the newest article on my website, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2021 . From deep focus to our assessments of life experiences, I start a tour of the learnings I’ve had over the last three months or so. I hope you enjoy it and stick around for the additional learnings in up...