How much of your life do you spend straining and efforting only to spin your wheels and ultimately burn out? In this episode, Joe and Brett peel apart the layers between 'trying' and effortless action. They acknowledge the value of each way of being across various life contexts and discuss the role emotional fluidity plays in freely navigating the spectrum — from trying to its polar opposite. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to exper...
Apr 14, 2023•35 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast We return to Joe's journey, where his years-long chase after a momentary experience of oneness slowly expires. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore
Mar 31, 2023•28 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast Joe takes us on a walk through his childhood and early life, from the suburbs of Connecticut to fleeing the revolution in Iran. A green mohawk and an 8-second hit of oneness. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore
Mar 17, 2023•41 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Brett answer more questions from listeners. Is it helpful to connect to difficult people to discover one's triggers? Am I delusional for feeling okay when the money's running out? How do Joe and Brett benefit from being purveyors of knowledge? What kinds of experiences are outside of their reach? How can I call up emotions that aren't presently triggered? How can I make peace when I don't feel affection from my partner? How to feel through contraction or 'gunk' in my body? How necessary ...
Mar 03, 2023•42 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Brett talk about how principles drive decision-making and shape our lives -- whether we're aware of them or not. They distinguish between principles and values and examine what gives a set of principles their clarifying power. Joe shares the principles he's used in life and business, and the process by which he's grappled with them over time. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.l...
Feb 17, 2023•45 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast In the third episode of our series for the Decisions Course, Joe and Brett dive into a common emotional pattern that shows up anywhere decisions are made. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore
Feb 10, 2023•41 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Brett talk about how to dismantle patterns that cloud our judgment and make decisions that include the wisdom of our emotions. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore
Feb 03, 2023•46 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast Our guest Christofer returns with his wife Sadie for a powerful couples coaching session with Joe. They uncover how a pattern of self-reliance and appearing strong for each other has created stress in their relationship. What happens when they try a different approach? Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore...
Jan 20, 2023•45 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Brett celebrate a banner year of podcast growth by answering questions directly from listeners. In this episode, we explore: (3:20) Anger – feeling, expressing, and receiving ‘anger at’ a person (11:07) Presence – staying with ourselves in complex and fast-paced group situations (15:23) Depression – what is it, and how can we play with it? (21:26) Alone, but not lonely – how our sense of connection evolves through deep work (25:16) Desire – staying in touch with our wants as craving subs...
Jan 06, 2023•40 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast Joining us for today's episode is Joe’s daughter, Esme. Esme was given a school assignment to make a podcast about where she came from by interviewing a person from her family about a meaningful experience in their life. She decided to deviate from the task and follow her interest. She wanted to know what it was like for her Dad to raise her. When her assignment was complete, she offered to share it with our listeners. Enjoy this touching interview between Esme and her Dad Joe. Learn more about ...
Dec 23, 2022•23 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s episode is a coaching session with a guest who wants to stop postponing his enjoyment into an abstract future that never arrives. The session opens up into a deep exploration of what can happen when we bring enjoyment into any moment -- even while experiencing chronic pain. Learn more about our free workshops and online courses at artofaccomplishment.com We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore...
Dec 09, 2022•31 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Brett discuss how to find deeper clarity in decision-making, whether in the office or on the edge of a cliff. Decisions are emotionally-driven, and we navigate them based on how we think we’ll feel when an outcome arrives. When we’re willing to feel any emotion, our decision-making becomes clear. Tune in to see how becoming more aware of our emotions and using guiding principles can help us quickly identify the next obvious step in any decision-making process. Learn more about our free w...
Nov 25, 2022•43 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast In our previous episode, Joe and Brett talked about how seeing through limiting beliefs can be scary because we're not sure we'll be safe. This is an especially relevant concern in the realm of high-risk activities like skydiving and BASE Jumping. In today's episode, we explore how Brett's relationship with the idea of safety has changed over the course of a decades-long career in adventure sports. They discuss: 1:54 - What is safety? 5:32 - Safety as an idea can bring us comfort or distress 9:2...
Nov 11, 2022•23 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Revisiting the topic of limiting beliefs, Joe and Brett explore what prevents us from seeing them, what keeps them stuck, and how to see through and integrate these beliefs in a way that enables a more free and easeful existence. In this episode, we discuss: The logical fallacies, ignorance, and avoided consequences that make us not see many of our hidden beliefs How we can see a belief and still be limited by it Exploring the “latticework” of beliefs that hold structures of identity in place. T...
Oct 28, 2022•50 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, coach Mina Lee joins Joe to explore the nature and emotional dynamics of overwhelm. They inspect how it shows up in our lives and the emotional blocks, beliefs, and nervous system responses that keep it in place. Tune in for a fresh perspective on how to embrace the intensity of overwhelm and tap into an internal sense of safety that facilitates the real-time processing of big emotions and life challenges. Learn how overwhelm flows through a company and inhabits its culture, and...
Oct 14, 2022•51 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast In this follow-up on the recent episode “How Relationships Reveal Us”, Alexa joins Joe and Brett to dive deeper into the premise that we’re all attracted to the partners who trigger us the best. What does this mean, and how do we follow these triggers toward our mutual growth and freedom? We discuss how trigger and attraction are related and how avoiding the feelings underneath our triggers can produce relationship dynamics that last for years if left unexamined. Learn to recognize and welcome y...
Sep 30, 2022•55 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Our sense of identity is composed of the ideas and emotional states — even the gut reactions — that we identify as who we are. Identity is how we recognize ourselves. It guides the structure of our thoughts, emotions, and visceral responses. Most people don’t spend their lives learning how to make their identities more transparent. We often think it’s hard to change aspects of ourselves. The reality is that transforming our identity isn't inherently difficult — it's just that a large part of it ...
Sep 16, 2022•36 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast What can we learn about ourselves from the way we engage in relationships? Brett and Joe address curiosities from listeners about how to approach relationships in a healthy way, riffing on the observation that we find ourselves attracted to the people who most perfectly hook into our triggers, traumas, and projections. Seeing this pattern as a feature rather than a bug, relationships become a vessel for deep healing and personal growth. Examine how an agreement that “we’re together to make each ...
Sep 02, 2022•46 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Anthropologist and coach Alexa Anderson joins the podcast again for a deep dive with Joe into the emotional and practical value of grieving fully. They examine several forms in which grief can arise, the relationship between grief and identity, various mysteries of the way grief moves, and how unfelt grief underlies interpersonal and societal conflict. Alexa and Joe discuss the tools they’ve used to help them move their grief in the wake of painful losses and to pre-grieve losses that haven’t ye...
Aug 19, 2022•50 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast “Never rob a man of his pain or his gold because both will serve him equally well.” Super Bowl champion Aaron Taylor reflects on a journey to emotional freedom that continues far beyond his accomplished career in the NFL. For every feeling he'd been pushing away, Aaron came to find that “on the other side is infinite possibility.” Join Aaron, Brett, and Joe as they talk about performance anxiety, feelings in the locker room, and how faith affects decision-making. They touch on the nature of acco...
Aug 05, 2022•51 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Shame is nature’s way of training us to fit into our culture and society. Like an electric fence, it outlines the contours of the identity we’ve grown into and discourages us from straying outside the lines. This boundary around our comfort zone is often a poor match for ourselves and the world we live in. When we feel shame, our emotional experience stagnates, dampening our evolution and our enjoyment. People often find themselves stuck in the same shame cycles for years. In this episode, Joe a...
Jul 22, 2022•43 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Joe coaches a course participant through an exploration of self-trust. Beginning with an intellectual question about conflicted inner parts, our guest embraces the underlying emotional experience and touches the essence of who she is. "What's the ultimate thing that you're running from?" "Some sort of spiral effect -- I've seen people I love spiral into depression or spiral into madness." "There's an abyss in you that you're avoiding, and your fear is that if you go into that, you won't come out...
Jul 08, 2022•40 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Apologies are commonly associated with shame, power games, or beliefs about who’s right and who’s wrong. In this episode, we talk about the freedom to be had in making apologies without shame and in full ownership of our experience. “When you make an apology that's upright, that's empowered, it feels fantastic. You feel strength in it. You feel responsible. You feel empowered." What We Discuss in Episode 54: 3:52 Why apologies are sometimes used to appease our own guilt. 11:05 How to apologize i...
Jun 24, 2022•34 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast At the age of eighteen — just before the birth of his child — Emile began serving a life sentence for murder. In this episode, Emile tells us how he came to face the fear that drove him to kill a man, and which followed him into prison. He shares how he learned to love himself and see through an identity that might have otherwise imprisoned him in yet another manner. After finding inner freedom, Emile eventually wrote his way out from behind bars as well: his sentence was commuted in 2017 after ...
Jun 10, 2022•49 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast Beneath the stories we tell are emotions waiting to be felt. In this episode, we talk about how our stories and emotions interact and how feeling our emotions can help us find deeper stories. "If you allow the emotions to move you, your stories change, period. Every time." What We Discuss in Episode 52: 01:34 What stories are and how they impact our emotional experience. 09:14 Expanding the connection of stories to belief systems and identity. 11:42 The intellectual and emotional components of s...
May 27, 2022•35 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Will Chesney found identity and purpose as a Navy SEAL, one of the military’s most elite teams, where he was required to perform calmly and effectively under the most extreme circumstances. However, years of neurological and psychological trauma left Will in a very dark place. Unable to do what he loved most or connect effectively with others, he turned to drinking and isolation. After hitting rock bottom, a friend reached out and invited Will to join him on a journey of self-discovery that allo...
May 13, 2022•43 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast We invite you to experience our work. Reserve your spot at view.life/explore
May 05, 2022•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast We talk a lot about connection in this podcast — connection with ourselves, our emotions, our relationships and with the world around us. It’s essentially what we’re pointing to in every topic we discuss. In today’s episode, we talk about why that is, and how orienting toward connection in all aspects of our lives facilitates sustained expansion, increases our capacity, and puts us in touch with something bigger than ourselves. “And the truth is that you're being in connection with yourself and ...
Apr 29, 2022•42 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 49, Brett interviews Joe Sanok, a business consultant and productivity researcher who, until recently, lived full-time in a camper with his wife and children. When he and his wife decided to uncouple, it changed both Joe’s and his children’s lives in a big way. Learn how Joe used his meditation practice and other self-exploration tools to allow his world to unfold beautifully through surrender to reality as it was rather than clinging to what he thought it should be. Joe’s latest book...
Apr 15, 2022•38 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we talk about limiting beliefs and how they run our lives, affecting our capacity to be with ourselves and live the life we want. We discuss how to find them, see through them, and discover what happens when these beliefs are no longer running the show. “It's about being able to integrate new knowledge. And if you can't integrate new knowledge because you think you have the whole story, you're limited. Period.” What We Discuss in Episode 48: 2:51 Defining what limiting beliefs a...
Apr 01, 2022•36 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast 
