The Stoic Heart Podcast

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. In this episode, we draw on 55+ years of combined teaching experience to discuss how Stoic philosophy can serve as a practical toolkit for both educators and students. From non-traditional learning environments like prisons and technical institutes to more traditional college settings, we share how we actively apply...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. When we encounter other people, our first impressions and judgments often arrive quickly — and not always accurately. The Stoics remind us that appearances are one thing, but the stories we tell ourselves about them are another. In this episode, we explore how our assumptions, emotions, and expectations shape the wa...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. Modern culture often encourages us to expect one person to be our partner, best friend, confidant, and source of nearly all our fulfillment. But is that expectation realistic — or prudent? In this episode, we explore what the Stoic tradition can teach us about friendship, marriage, and the wider communities that enr...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. In this episode, we explore the Stoic understanding of self-mastery as the ongoing discipline of governing our judgments, choices, and actions. We discuss how self-mastery develops through daily practice and careful attention to what lies within our control — and we examine the difference between reacting impulsivel...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public, so feel free to share it. In this episode, we discuss a recent unplanned trip to the hospital for Greg’s emergency appendectomy. In the midst of an unexpected middle-of-the-night hospital visit, we found ourselves not in a treatment room, but in a chaotic hallway packed with over 50 other patients (our accidental “roommates”), all of whom w...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. In this episode of The Stoic Heart® Podcast , we tackle the subject of compromise. We discuss that it’s not a “magic bullet” or a one-size-fits-all solution – especially when faced with the dangers of examining the hidden psychological traps of settling for the middle ground. We discuss why true harmony in any relat...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. In this episode of The Stoic Heart® Podcast , we clear up a common misconception about our work with The Stoic Heart®: that it’s only meant for romantic or partnered relationships. Drawing from our years together, as well as our own diverse personal and professional experiences, we explore how Stoic principles serve...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. Whether you’re speaking to a partner, a co-worker, a family member, or a friend, not paying attention to your tone in conversation can unfortunately yield some pretty quick escalations and even unwanted results. In our Reducing Conflict and Building Connection workshop , we focus on examining your tone as one of the...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. One aspect of disciplined communication in relationships involves applying a measure of prudence and self-control to what you’re intending or tempted to say to your partner. This can be in ordinary conversation, in tense situations, even in the middle of an angry argument. It involves applying three criteria which m...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. Sharing conversational space with other people might not strike you immediately as something that justice bears upon, but if you think through what it involves, you can see the connection between the virtue and how we carry out conversation. This becomes especially important within intimate personal relationships. O...

Thanks for reading The Stoic Heart®! This post is public so feel free to share it. In this first episode of The Stoic Heart® podcast, Andi and Greg discuss one particular useful Stoic practice, that of choosing to insert a pause (or even just slowing down) after the responses we have to the situations we find ourselves in with other people, in particular to what they do, say, the attitude they dis...