Our Evening Tea

In this episode, we dive into a deep discussion between two immigrants and well-traveled individuals who, before immigrating to our new home country, considered and visited many countries to potentially move to, delving into research of each of their most pressing social issues including, of course, that of immigration. This is not a simple promotion of a shared stance, nor an argument about whose...

In our version of the game ‘would you rather’, the questions get deep and the answers deeper. Philosophical, psychological, existential, conundrum-heavy; questions meant to dig us out of our comfort and instigate quality conversation. Join us as we talk, and hop into the comments or our Subscribers-only Chat Space on Substack to get deeper into this topic (and more) with us. All articles and podca...

Is each lived experience truly unique to the next? Do unique values equate to unique potential, and if so, is such potential able to be realized and lived out in the world as we live in today? Is there any standard answer to the deeper questions of what miht be righteous desire and action, or are we each tasked with finding some balance between what we would want, what people say we should want, w...

Tragic occurences have been plaguing life and all people for so long that in the background of any moment- at all times- are stacks and stacks of things we still need to process- or move on from and ignore. Yet, we as humanity have no clear consensus on which we should pursue… so in this episode of Our Evening Tea, we try to delve in a bit and discuss the issue of if we should be slowing down soci...

Kids have dreams, but this current world society all too often strips us of those dreams as we grow into what we can find comfort and safety in within the adult world. But as we get older and fledgling mid-life crises begin to peak their heads into our lives, the question arises of if we should drop the lives we’ve been building, in order to chase the dreams we all but gave up on earlier in life....

Pressure comes from everywhere, all the time, bombarding us in our easiest and toughest decisions- and though some of that pressure might be well-intended, none of it seems to be beneficial, unless come from the self. However, in this episode, we discuss this and more in our seeking to find the answers to how to believe in ourselves even when noone else does. Join us as we talk, and hop into the c...

As humans, we tend all to often to claim our failures as being the fault each of our own; at the same time, we auction off the claim to our successes to whichever highest bidder happens to be in the vicinity. In this episode, we talk all about success and failure and their causes, even reaching the point where we realize- and go into depth discussing- that we should probably be claiming our succes...

In this episode, we discuss marriage and its implications in today’s world- from monogamy misshaping our potential as individuals, to who such misshapen potential benefits, and everything in between. We paint a bleak picture throughout this conversation about the realities of modern-day marriage culture, across cultures and micro-societies, but we also offer solace and resolution for those who mig...

In this episode, we are joined by our very first guest on the show, Mr. Dave MacLean, a great long-time friend who has plenty of life experience stepping through fear. And don’t we all, as we realize in this conversation! We discuss fear from all angles, going off in every direction we can find to dive deep into that seemingly natural- yet so uncomfortable- response to (or maybe even driver of) di...

Worrying comes naturally to most people, is uncomfortable for all, yet feels productive- seemingly a necessary evil, if you will- but is this universal mindstate truly productive? Do we gain anything from spending our energy planning for things we can never predict or direct anyways? What does preparing ourselves for the worst actually do? Is there any benefit, or is the worry not worth the lost p...

For this first episode of Season 2 of Our Evening Tea, we are beginning a new era here on the A Beautiful Grind Substack! There will be many changes, some of which you might notice if you have been tuning in to our podcast (or text articles) for some time. For Season 2, we are intending to post a podcast every week, rather than every other week as we began doing in Season 1. Also, podcast topics w...

This sixteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “The Many Seasons of Healthy Relationships”. This will be the final episode of Season 1; we will be back with some exciting changes for Season 2, after a one-month break. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beauti...

This fifteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “The Spiritual Driver of the Physical World”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes This post regards the following: Hope is complicated, coming and going seemingly...

This fourteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Corporate Life in a Warring World”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes This post regards the following: Life- not to mention work and mundane tasks- can feel o...

This thirteenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Are my problems yours and yours mine?”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes This post regards the following: When problems arise in the world, the natural next...

This twelfth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Is AI poised to make people stupid?”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes This post regards the following: AI is a tool which makes almost everything easier- from...

This eleventh episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “What does it mean to be genuine?”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes This post regards the following: We as a society have been being bombarded lately with advi...

This tenth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Let’s Normalize: Weighted Judgment”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes here This post regards the following: Nobody likes to be judged negatively for the personal...

This ninth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “We want to change the world, but…”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes here This post regards the following: As children, we have big dreams of grand contributions...

This eighth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Traveling as a Growth Serum”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: All A Beautiful Grind posts and Our Evening Tea episodes here This post regards the following: World travel and exploration can be more than just vacation,...

This seventh episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “To Defy Death”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: abeautifulgrind.substack.com This post regards the following: When forced to plead for one’s life, returning to traditional life constructs afterwards can be challengin...

This sixth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Habitat Deprivation in America”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here, and are emailed weekly to subscribers: abeautifulgrind.substack.com This post regards the following: Almost everywhere (if not everywhere) in the world has access to the outdoors, at least in...

This fifth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled “Unapologetic Self-Growth”. All articles and podcast episodes are available here: abeautifulgrind.substack.com This post regards the following: The status quo is easy to maintain and will grant us comfort for a while, but eventually will lead to crises of the spirit and so our wo...

This fourth episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled ‘Let’s Normalize: Laziness”. This post regards the following: In such a fast-paced world as we are living, where productivity is held in the highest regard but we often find ourselves asking the question of what or who such productivity even benefits, is it wrong to take time fo...

This third episode of Our Evening Tea is supplementary to an article posted to the A Beautiful Grind Substack, entitled ‘An emotionally-balanced badass’. This post regards the following: Maintaining a disposition of relentlessness towards life itself, coupled with kindness and a gentle approach to collaborating with our fellow humans is more difficult than one might expect. Due to societal factors...