The Best Podcast

Today’s podcast is the continuation of the first episode of this new season. It is a reading of my newest article on my blog, “Quarter One - 2022.” It’s a compilations of my learnings from the first three months of the year. You can see the full article on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-one-2022 . Readings of the rest of the article are to come in upcoming episodes. I hope you find th...

The start of this new season begins with a reading of my newest article on my blog, “Quarter One - 2022.” It’s a compilations of my learnings from the first three months of the year. You can see the full article on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-one-2022 . I’ll be back with the rest of the article in upcoming episodes. I hope you find these learnings to be interesting and insightful....

Today’s podcast is a brief reflection on the transition that is currently upon me. I’ve been here many times before, yet the feelings are so similar. It’s a beautiful time in which it seems like the world is opening up to you. I hope you can resonate and that you enjoy listening. Thanks for tuning in. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is based on a reflection that came from a conversation I just had with a dear friend. We got into talking about drug use in people around us during university, which led me to ponder the roots of the problem and things that could help people not fall into it. I share my thoughts here in the hopes that you find them to be interesting and valuable. Thank you for listening. As always,...

Today’s podcast isn’t so much of a sharing of information, but rather a reflection on my personal hesitation to discuss a number of authors and ideas that I have engaged with personally and in more private conversations. As a person who values transparency and open speech, it’s a hesitation that I am not fully proud of, yet it’s one that I must admit, as it’s truly there. Perhaps you can resonate....

Today’s podcast is a spontaneous one. It’s an episode in which I reflect on the last couple of weeks’ experiences and readings, which split themselves into two ideas. They clearly struck a chord with me, which I hope you can pick up while listening. I hope you enjoy the episode and find value in it. Thank you so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Stepping away from work and my routines can be challenging for me. Both leaving and coming back in without the proper preparation and planning can leave me feeling uneasy and with some minor anxieties. That’s the situation I currently find myself which, so I decided to take some time to share about it today in this episode. Perhaps you can relate to my present circumstances. I appreciate you takin...

Today’s podcast is a conversation with Gabi as we reach the end of her time in the US. We spent some quality time talking about her learnings and big takeaways from her time in the US, along with learnings about our relationship that have come out over that time. It was a conversation that I’m sure I’ll return to in the future. I hope you enjoy it and find the content to be interesting. Thanks for...

Today’s podcast is about an experience I had over the weekend while traveling. I hadn’t been in my normal routine while away from home, and thus a lot of things were off. This led me to an interesting feeling of angst that I had to experience and process in a conversation with my girlfriend, which I describe here in this episode. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be a valuable insightful. Thanks...

Today’s podcast is a series of musings about a number of important parts of life if we’re seeking flourishing and positive human experiences. Accepting reality, accepting the way that things come and go, realizing our capacity to change and grow, and experiencing flow are just some of those components that I discuss today. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be a valuable short discussion. I apprec...

Today’s podcast is about a couple of big things that I learned about early on but failed to react to in a meaningful way. These experiences have taught me some really significant lessons which I wanted to share here in a short episode. I hope you enjoy it and find the lessons to be valuable, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is based in my personal experience of lacking focus in the middle of the day. From 2-4 PM, I frequently have a harder time to concentrate and not get distracted. Nevertheless, bearing down and focusing during that time, despite the challenges I naturally experience, is extremely helpful because it leads to a chain of other positive effects in the other areas of my life. I detail th...

Today’s podcast is a review of the past week and how I’m looking at the week ahead. That involved a reflection on Mother’s Day and the things that come to mind when thinking about mothers, along with some points about what I’ve learned about balancing my optimal schedule and what reality provides me. I hope you find these thoughts to be insightful in some way. Thanks for listening. As always, Much...

Many people have asked me how I maintain the friendships I have with people across the world over a number of years. Well, I listened and decided to put an episode together in which I talk about how I think I’ve done that. I hope you all find it to be helpful and interesting. It was a fun topic to reflect on. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In American culture, it’s common to not slow down and just eat during our days. It’s typically this other thing that we just need to do. Today’s episode is my challenge to this common practice, as I think we would benefit from slowing down and intentionally, mindfully eating. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be valuable. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about the stories we hold onto and constantly reference throughout our lives. We all have them. Whether it be the Koran or a Marvel movie, they are ever present. It’s not a new idea either. We’ve done this since the advent of language. I explore this concept more in this episode, along with what I think we should do in response to it. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be intere...

Today’s podcast is short and sweet. Many westerners have a notion that the best version of ourselves for making decisions is one that is emotionless and relies purely on reason. However, there are issues with this view, which I take the time to lay out here. It’s not so rosy as it seems. I hope you find the message to be insightful, interesting , and valuable. As always, thanks for listening. Much...

American culture frequently encourages the notion of “finishing what you started.” Quitting is often labeled as wrong, useless, weak, and a slew of other negative adjectives. What I want to present here is the frequently missed, positive side of quitting, which I wish more of us pondered and considered. I hope you find it to be a valuable and interesting proposition. It’s an idea that shook me up...

Today’s podcast is an expression of an idea that I’ve been sitting on for some time, but just simply have not expressed fully until now. We are complex beings. Our lives are full of diverse influences, both internal and external. Many of us easily understand this. The piece I want to express today is that we, as complicated as we are as individuals, are all products of other individuals who are as...

After spending some time with family and engaging with them in conversation, I came to a key realization that seems to always come up for me in life. I share these realizations in today’s episode, which I hope you find to be valuable and in line with who I am. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a quick rundown on the value of sleep and some key dimensions of sleep. I tried to keep it short for you to get quick information, rather than going on and on about it. I hope you find it to be packed with value in the short time it lasts! As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is my first episode in Portuguese. Gabi and I talk about what a media “empire” could look like if we were to start producing content and attempting to build a following on social media. It was a fun conversation. I will also mention that we recorded this on a walk with cars passing us in the background, so my apologies for the poor audio quality. Espero que você goste do episódio e...

Today’s podcast is a discussion about our tendency to caricature reality. Or in other words, to simplify it and make it more simple and easy than what actually exists in reality. I warn us against caricaturing reality here, along with discussing what life could look like if we were to seek a more complete reality beyond these caricatures. It’s a topic that I’ve stewed on a great deal over the last...

Today’s podcast is the final one of the series with Gabi. This time, we talk about the challenges of making it happen in the long term relationship, or in other words, coming together and building a lasting relationship in person. We touch on ways of thinking about the challenges that lie ahead, along with the reasons for sticking to it and being together. It was a really enjoyable conversation fo...

Today’s podcast is about being together. Gabi and I first dig into the challenging parts of being together, talking about the unique challenges of being at home and in the other’s home while together. We then discuss the good things about being together, which are a bit more obvious but are nevertheless enjoyable to talk about. I hope you find some value in it and perhaps can take something away f...