The Best Podcast

Today’s podcast is the second reading of my newest article, titled “Quarter Four - 2021” on my blog, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform. I cover many more lessons that I picked up over those 90 days, from the strength of emotional memories to the importance of hard conversations. I hope you can relate and perhaps find value in the things I discuss. I appreciate you listening. As always,...

Today’s podcast is a reading of the first part of my most recent blog post, which you can find at mattbest.net/theplatform . From equations of happiness to meditating on death, there was a lot to cover here. I hope you enjoy it and find my learnings to be valuable in some way. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a review of a new perspective of love which I came across within the last year. It’s from an author named Anthony De Mello. His view is one which seemingly clashes with some preexisting societal notions of love, but I really think it holds a lot of truth. Perhaps you will, too. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a heavy one. The concept of death is often a hard one for all of us to effectively make sense of. It’s scary and frequently framed as a frightening thing to not discuss or ponder. I argue for an alternate view here, along with offering a personal experience I have had in which I have applied this alternative view. Perhaps you’ll be touched by it and resonate. I sure hope so. Tha...

Today’s podcast is a nice conversation I had with a good friend of mine. We got into all sorts of things, like being a romantic, what we hope life looks like in ten years, how we treat older people in society, and much more. I hope you enjoy it and find some nice gold nuggets inside. As always, thanks so much for listening. It means a lot. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a slightly rushed one, but I think it articulates some of the details of my everyday process. Despite our circumstances at a given moment and our previous choices, we have the chance to look at where we stand to identify what the next best step is. We can’t always do everything, and that’s okay. We can do at least something though, which is something that helps me to be aware of...

Today’s podcast is a short one, but it’s very vulnerable and open. The last week hasn’t been easy for me. Hard moments are hard; what a surprise. But I can’t run away from it. I need to look at it all as it is and sit with it, despite how uncomfortable and miserable it can be to be in this state. Perhaps you can relate. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reading from my latest blog post, which you can find at mattbest.net/theplatform. I took some disciplined time to think through both my orientation to setting goals for 2022 and each specific goal. I’m excited to see where it takes me. Thanks for listening. I hope you find it to be valuable and perhaps insightful in some way. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

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...