Midnight Wisdom

How much can we attribute to ourselves from the good that comes? Is it something that we do or happens through us? I'm finding it harder and harder to attribute anything to myself, or identify with many of things around me. How much choice did we really have with us being ourselves? And how much choice did we have in the little choices we did have?

I've been accused of something I didn't see coming. It shook me for a moment but I gave it a lot of thought and tried to take a lesson out of it. I'm home a day earlier than I should be. But I explain it all throughout the episode. Thanks for giving me the chance to feel heard.  I love you all and this is just one more lesson to learn throughout this journey.

What would go through your head as you take a step out of the plane? Would you remember to breathe?

This is between me and the microphone. You get to watch. 

I got a pretty cool monkey poster I put over my bed.

We're all keenly aware of how happy we are, or how happy we aren't. Happiness is something we're all chasing, yet sometimes it feels so out of reach.  What is it that truly makes us happy? The things that satisfy us or the things that give our lives meaning?

We impose our will on the world with every action we take, trying to mend any imbalances that exist between our internal state and our external state.  Behind every intention is a meaning we're trying to translate from within ourselves to the world around us. Like drinking water to quench thirst or throwing a dart and trying to hit the bulls-eye. We don't have a single intention at any one ti...

I met this white Finnish dude a week into my time in Madrid, and we acted like a married couple ever since. We saw each other like 6 times a week and took dancing classes together. I dub him "The Zenmaster" but our Cuban salsa teacher always called him "Rubio!" because he couldn't bother remembering his weird Finnish name. He ocassionally called me "Rubio!" too, even though I'm not blonde. I mean...

I'll be releasing a Midnight Reflections episode once a month alongside the normal episodes I'll be uploading. It just makes sense to off load a lot of what's going on in my life and through my head in an episode like this. It keeps me sane in a lot of ways.  With everything going on right now it can sometimes feel overwhelming. Writing a book, recording podcasts and filming online courses, a...

We give meaning to what we interact with, and we're interacting with everything that our brain manifests for us in our journey through this world. Our mind is a weird place, we're constantly in a struggle to understand ourselves and the things around us, and somehow give meaning to all of it, especially ourselves.  The universe is intelligence understanding itself.  Let's explore why.&nb...

A loving but random encounter happened on my bus ride home.  I had to share it with everyone here, so I started recording fresh out of the experience. 

How we live our days, is how we live our lives. We make decisions every day, every single one of us, that can branch out into a million others. And as time moves forward, we move forward with it, not by ourselves but all of us.. together. Every decision we make builds up into the path we're taking throughout our lives.  There isn't one person who decides where humanity is going.  It's on...

We live one life, and we always have so many choices. Choices that branch out our life into directions we never expect, but always try to imagine.  And no matter which path we take, no matter how beautiful, surprising or eventful our path and journey was, we will always think about the path we didn't take. The path we can't take any more. That's part of the reason to why we feel that way. We'...

My guests story begins when his great grandmother traveled to Brazil as a Christian missionary from Finland. Still alive to this day, a strong willed and loving woman, his great grandmother managed to connect two very different worlds together and create something beautiful. With deep Finnish and Brazilian roots, He shares with us what it means to be himself, a brave, beautiful and kind soul. And...

The 20th episode of Midnight Wisdom and I get the chance to talk to Alya Al-Hamad, one of my favorite people on this planet. Alya is an adventurer, Yoga Instructor, a Holistic Health Coach and soo much more.  She's passionate about so much and she has even more to give, and we talk about all of that.  We mainly cover her experience collaborating with Green School, a progressive school th...

Ahmad Kadhim joins us for our second guest episode tonight.  Ahmad is an interesting figure with a lot to say, a very open minded soul who's traveled and experienced a lot. He's the type of entrepreneur who's dipped a toe or two into everything, and he shares those experiences with us. We also dig into the lens of want. How what we want in any given scenario changes how we embody ourselves and bec...

Hey lovely peeps.  I went through too many different things to try to create a proper description so I'm not going to bother for now.  Just relax.. and listen to my beautiful voice.

It's been a crazy week. You can think 40 years in the future and make it seem like it makes sense but there’s so much that can change during that time. There’s so much that can change within the next 6 months that you can’t be sure how anything turns out.  My thoughts will change, what I like will change, I’ll change.. and there’s so many different opportunities for randomness to come in and...

My favorite episode so far, I really let loose. The world is intelligent, and this is us.. this is our story, and it is our narrative. Let's define it.  I link it all together with randomness and energy coming together to bring everything into being. It's a pretty random place, isn't it? I also reflect on some personal patterns I'm not fond of. And how it's affecting my progress with personal...

It's 9 am and I found myself recording this. I'm writing a paper about sustainability for university and I chose this topic specifically because I think it's all about sustainability; How long you can maintain a course of action within a changing environment. So I take a closer look at how we should go about changing ourselves, and how to put everything in perspective, through a lens of systematic...

It's New Years 2019. Marvin Lenz and I decided to chill in his car and record an episode in German. Marvin shares his perspective on New Years and the things that matter in life.  Marvin is a rapper and a hustler. I'm excited to see where he's going, and he has my full support. I'm looking forward to see him evolve into the  "Omnipresence" he claims he's going to become. The first podcast episode...

It's almost New Years. I take the time to reflect on where I am before thinking about where I'm headed. Celebrating the end of the year and the start of the new one is fun to say the least, but change happens through a systematic approach. I reflect on that thought  Oh and this time.. I'm on a Football Field. 

We're constantly throwing Sanity Signals back and forth to keep ourselves and everyone around us in check, following in accordance the societal rules we're surrounded by. I'm sharing something that happened last Monday that I thought was odd, and it really reminded me how people can sometimes be. They can be manipulative, sometimes scary, other times vulnerable. People can act in one way and expla...

We're already ten episodes in and Midnight Wisdom isn't ending anytime soon. I felt like I needed to clear up a few things. Where this podcast is heading and what everyone should expect. It's a bright future ahead of us, with many more interesting talks, lovely guests and powerful bonds created in the process. Between all of us, as a community. A community of play. One that learns in order to unde...

It’s something we all do, all the time. Avoidance is something we all suffer from. We avoid doing the things we love, always seemingly waiting for the perfect moment to do them, or even learn how to do them. We avoid the tough conversations we know we should have, and we avoid looking towards ourselves and answering the questions that seem to be the hardest for us. Let's ask those questions and ex...