The Everything Experiment

For the longest time, I’ve believed that if I just thought harder, planned better, optimized more, and refined every little detail, I’d eventually "be successful"... Lately, though, I’ve started wondering if all that optimization has been creating another problem: What if overthinking slowly pulls us away from ourselves? 🤔 This realization didn’t come from some profound breakthrough, it...

What if the thing we’ve been chasing to feel safe is quietly pulling us away from ourselves? For most of my life, I’ve believed that building a secure life was the responsible thing to do. A stable career, predictable income, a plan, something solid to stand on. But lately, I’ve found myself asking a different question: What if that security has a cost? Not because security is bad... we all need i...

We’ve all had thoughts, ideas, desires, or feelings that seem to show up out of nowhere. Sometimes they’re reactions, sometimes they’re distractions, sometimes they’re just passing impulses... But every once in a while, something keeps returning. 🌍 A place you can’t stop thinking about. 🤔 A change you feel drawn toward. 🎨 A creative project that won’t leave you alone. 🤷🏻‍♂️ A question that ke...

For 24 hours, I removed the noise... No phone. No music. No TV. No Computer. No podcasts. No social media. No conversations. Nothing. Just silence. What started as a simple experiment became one of the most insightful days I've had in a long time. In this episode of The Everything Experiment®, I share what happened when I intentionally stepped away from external stimulation for an entire day,...

For many of us, Avatar: The Last Airbender was more than just a cartoon. It was a story about grief, identity, belonging, purpose, forgiveness, responsibility, and what it means to become the person you’re meant to be. Years later, people still talk about Aang, Zuko, Katara, Toph, Sokka, and Uncle Iroh, not because they could bend the elements, but because they felt real. In this episode of The Ev...

For a long time, I was trying to figure out who I was without fully expressing myself in the process... really expressing myself. And that's because… awareness only gets you so far. At some point, you have to stop editing yourself and actually let yourself be seen. In this episode of The Everything Experiment, I talk about the liberating feeling of expressing yourself honestly: not for attenti...

There’s a strange thing that happens when pressure builds long enough... The options narrow, the distractions disappear, and eventually… the things you’ve been avoiding get harder to outrun. After being laid off, I found myself trying to build the smartest next step, something practical, strategic, and capable of creating stability. But over the last few weeks, another realization has been surfaci...

Ever had that feeling in life where nothing is fully guaranteed… but something inside of you starts to shift anyway? In this episode, I talk about what it’s felt like stepping into something that finally feels honest. After being laid off, I found myself standing in uncertainty again, trying to figure out what came next, questioning whether I should return to another corporate role or take a real...

There are moments in life where something shifts, and nothing feels certain anymore. No clear direction, no guaranteed outcome, just the space between what was… and what’s next. In this episode, I’m recording before a conversation that could shape the next chapter of my life. After recently being laid off from my day job, I find myself in a place a lot of us eventually face… where the old path is...

Have you ever felt like your life is objectively good… but you still have moments where you feel frustrated, tired, sad? And then you start judging yourself for it? 🤔 In this episode, I explore the tension of feeling grateful for your life while also moving through frustration, sadness, or uncertainty, and why those emotions don’t cancel each other out. So many of us have been conditioned to over...

Yo… I had an experience recently that I haven’t been able to shake. I was sitting in a bath, just trying to slow things down, and I went into a meditation that took a turn I didn’t expect. At one point, it felt like I stepped outside of myself... like I wasn’t the one experiencing the moment anymore, but rather, the one observing it. And then something even stranger happened… It felt like I disapp...

Everything feels fast. Not just busy... but sometimes, relentless. Like life is constantly moving forward, and we’re just trying to keep up with it. And for a long time, that showed up for me as this underlying feeling of anxiety… always rushing, even through the smallest, everyday tasks. Now, of course, there are personal layers to that. But at a certain point, I started experimenting with someth...

What happens when you stop avoiding the one thing every human shares? For most of my life, the idea of death felt distant… something to ignore, something to fear, something that only showed up in certain moments. But recently, that changed. Not in a dramatic way. Not in a dark way... In a quiet, honest way. I started actually acknowledging it, not just thinking about it, but allowing it to be real...

There’s something about the band Cake that has always felt… real. Not polished. Not performative. Just honest in a way that’s hard to explain. And lately, I’ve been noticing this tension, between yearning for the honest things in life, and feeling like so much of the world is tailored in a different direction. Which made me come back to their music with a different lens... Because maybe it’s not j...

Lately I’ve been noticing something in real time that I never used to observe so deeply... I’ll start to go down the rabbit hole of a thought pattern… and suddenly I’ll catch myself thinking: "Wait… I’m doing it again." That moment is strange. Because the pattern still exists in some ways, but awareness has now entered the room. In this Episode 8 of The Everything Experiment , I reflect...

Here in Episode 7 of The Everything Experiment™ , I found myself thinking about time… very differently. It all started with a documentary about dinosaurs. The Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old. Dinosaurs ruled the planet for around 165 million years. Humans, by comparison, have existed for only about 300,000 years. On the scale of this planet, we basically just arrived. And yet modern life of...

In this episode, I reflect on the way modern life quietly reduces people to performance metrics... how much we produce, how much we accomplish, and whether we’re measuring up to the endless scoreboard of progress. Careers, productivity, KPIs, constant output… it’s easy to wake up one day and realize the entire system is designed to keep us distracted. But once you see the game, a question appears:...

In this episode of The Everything Experiment , I explore a quiet tension many of us feel but rarely name: Are we living our lives, or documenting them? In the digital world, where everything can become content, it’s easy to slip into scanning mode. Instead of being present in a moment, we’re evaluating it. Framing it. Deciding whether it’s worth posting. This conversation centers around the differ...

In this episode, I talk about something I didn’t expect: Why does living in alignment sometimes feel harder than staying misaligned? When you start making choices that reflect who you actually are... when you stop performing, stop people-pleasing, and begin stepping into authenticity... friction shows up. Old triggers resurface, your nervous system reacts, and suddenly the aligned path doesn’t fee...

In this episode of The Everything Experiment, I talk candidly about something that’s been unfolding quietly behind the scenes: the realization that I don’t have to become more in order to matter. For years, I’ve felt the subtle pressure to produce, to improve, to optimize, to prove. Modern culture rewards output. Social media amplifies performance. And somewhere along the way, it becomes easy to c...

For more than 20 years, I was told what I was feeling wasn’t serious. That the pain was normal. That I should wait it out. That I was overreacting. In this episode of The Everything Experiment , I walk through the moment I finally realized that being dismissed, medically, emotionally, and internally, wasn’t normal. I share the full journey that led to my wrist reconstruction surgery: the symptoms,...

Welcome to The Everything Experiment. In this very first episode, we're having a little fireside chat about how the show came to be, what it's all about, and the inspiration that fuels it. I'm so grateful you're here, and I hope you're ready to soak up EVERYTHING life has to offer! ========== 🌍 Explore What's Possible: https://www.austenletourneau.com/ ==========