In his work as a performance expert, Steve Magness has discovered that to truly reach the highest level in any field, it’s the mental game that matters most. Steve joins Ryan today to discuss intrinsic motivation, the difference between confidence and ego, and the psychological impact of performance expectations. Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance and author of Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform . His writing has appe...
Feb 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast The most important thing displayed in Andy Reid’s his office is not a trophy. Instead, it’s a simple 3x5 index card—now decades old—with a remarkable subdued message: “Don’t judge.” 🏈 Check out Ryan's interview with NFL Legend Tony Gonzalez : https://youtu.be/-oBWywBbJKA 🎥 Watch Ryan’s speech to the Browns here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STjOKmuJhc 👉 If you liked this episode, check these videos out on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel : 11 Stoic Principles Every Athlete...
Feb 07, 2025•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Perhaps you feel a bit like Marcus Aurelius did when he wrote in Meditations , “I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.” 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired bo...
Feb 06, 2025•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s easy to assume an Olympian would be all about external achievements, but Alexi Pappas has redefined what success means to her by letting go of goals altogether. Alexi joins Ryan to talk about falling in love with the process vs. achieving a goal, simplifying life’s decisions, and how losing her mom led her to seek mentorship everywhere. Alexi Pappas is an Olympic athlete, filmmaker, author of Bravey , and podcast host of Mentor Buffet . Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, ...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast The reason it makes you upset is because you expect it to be otherwise. Because you let it surprise you. Because you take it personally. 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medall...
Feb 05, 2025•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’d prefer to be less hemmed in, to have more freedom, to have fewer rules. But we are made better for the constraints of life. Today's entry in The Daily Stoic : On Being Invincible 📔 The Obstacle Is the Way leather bound edition: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📕 Get a signed, numbered first-edition of the 10th Anniversary Edition of The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday at dailystoic.com/obstacle 📔 Pick up your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic ! Check it out at th...
Feb 04, 2025•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have to remind ourselves, as Marcus Aurelius did, that no matter what other people do (or what other people get away with), our job is to be good. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ Protect your Daily Stoic Journal from the wear and tear of everyday use with the Leather Cover : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.c...
Feb 03, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast By supporting, encouraging, and influencing others, our efforts can live on. What matters is that we are the candle that lights another, which in turn lights another. 🎥 Watch Rupi Kaur's interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SkjF4ZWoCA 📕 Grab a signed copy of Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday | https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📚 You can get signed copies of Rupi’s 10th Anniversary Edition of milk and honey, the original milk and honey, the sun and her flowers, and homebody ...
Feb 02, 2025•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast How does Matthew McConaughey deal with difficult people? What’s his approach to dealing with life’s red lights? And what advice does he offer to someone considering a major career change? In a live conversation at The Painted Porch, McConaughey answers these questions and more, while also clearing up some confusion on his viral tuna salad recipe. Matthew McConaughey has starred in Interstellar , A Time to Kill, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club, and more . McConaughey also works ...
Feb 01, 2025•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast You want to achieve. You want to leave your mark on the universe. You want to conquer the world. 🎥 Watch 9 Stoic Lessons From Iron Maiden on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPCjKWz8dI Since we received such great feedback from the launch of 2025's New Year New You Challenge , we decided to RE-OPEN the challenge for February. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. 📔 Pick up your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic ! Check it out at the Daily Stoic Stor...
Jan 31, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast While in Vancouver, mom of four asked Ryan - "How do I achieve stillness while being a parent and juggling everything in my business?" In today's bonus episode, Ryan and his wife Samantha are sharing their different answers to this question, breaking down what stillness means to them and how they work to cultivate it in day to day life. Check out The Daily Dad Podcast for more episodes like this! 🎙️ Listen to The Daily Dad on Apple Podcasts and Spotify ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad ema...
Jan 31, 2025•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marcus Aurelius didn’t always make the right choices. Neither will we. The important thing is what we do after we come to this realization, after we realize we’ve put something off for too long. Since we received such great feedback from the launch of 2025's New Year New You Challenge , we decided to RE-OPEN the challenge for February. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top...
Jan 30, 2025•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Don’t wish for things to be a certain way, Epictetus says, but wish for them to be as they are. 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these ...
Jan 29, 2025•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast How has Matthew McConaughey managed to keep his priorities straight while living in the spotlight? In today’s episode, he opens up about balancing family life with acting, treating life’s choices as experiments, and focusing on creating a lasting impact rather than chasing quick wins. Matthew McConaughey has an impressive Hollywood resume, including Interstellar , A Time to Kill, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Dallas Buyers Club. McConaughey also works as a producer and spokesperson, and is the be...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cato defying Caesar. Rutilius Rufus going into exile. Marcus Aurelius on the battlefield.These were great and daring deeds of course. Lesser known of course, are the deeds of the Stoic women. 📚 Books Mentioned: Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday | https://store.dailystoic.com/ The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon | https://www.thepaintedporch.com The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson | https://www.thepaintedporch.com 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://...
Jan 28, 2025•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast We have to be willing to question. We have to be willing to try new things…or we’ll never get better. Since we received such great feedback from the launch of 2025's New Year New You Challenge , we decided to RE-OPEN the challenge for February. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https...
Jan 27, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this letter, Seneca is arguing against the treatment of slaves and uses slavery as a metaphor to illustrate how we allow things to control us and the importance of freeing ourselves. Today’s episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss’ Audio. Get the free PDF at tim.blog/seneca 🎙️ Listen to other letters from Seneca: Seneca on Despising Death Seneca on Conquering the Conqueror Seneca on Philosophy and Friendship Seneca on Practicing What You Preach Seneca on The Reas...
Jan 26, 2025•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Diseases have defined eras, from the Antonine Plague during Marcus Aurelius’ reign to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fauci, a public health leader and advisor to seven Presidents, talks with Ryan about the importance of social responsibility, his influential contributions during the HIV/AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic, and the growing politicization of public health. Dr. Anthony Fauci is a physician-scientist and immunologist, former NIAID Director, chief medical advisor to the president fr...
Jan 25, 2025•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Too many of us are total strangers to ourselves. The one that is whispering to us so many important lessons. 📚 Check out The Daily Stoic Boxed Set here which includes The Daily Stoic and The Daily Stoic Journal : https://store.dailystoic.com/ Protect your journal from the wear and tear of everyday use with the Leather Cover : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podca...
Jan 24, 2025•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast It doesn’t matter how badly we’ve messed up, how much we’ve fallen off course, it’s still there. It’s not exactly waiting for us, but it continues on, ready for us whenever we choose to rejoin. Since we received such great feedback from the launch of 2025's New Year New You Challenge , we decided to RE-OPEN the challenge for February. Head over to dailystoic.com/challenge today to sign up. 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top ...
Jan 23, 2025•16 min•Ep 2414•Transcript available on Metacast Changing our work patterns can feel daunting. We’re held back by the comfort of familiar routines and overwhelmed by the constant demands of urgent tasks and workplace conflicts, leaving us with little energy to explore new approaches. But what if there were a blueprint for getting unstuck? In his new book, Reset: How To Change What’s Not Working , Dan Heath shares a proven framework for driving meaningful change. Today, Dan and Ryan discuss trusting your instincts in creative decision-making, k...
Jan 22, 2025•58 min•Ep 2403•Transcript available on Metacast We all make promises to ourselves—set goals, set standards, make plans. We don’t all keep them. 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lesson...
Jan 22, 2025•2 min•Ep 2413•Transcript available on Metacast People want to be successful. They look at what successful people have done throughout history and they look for strategies, they look for models. Check out Ryan Holiday's MasterClass course Using Ancient Wisdom to Solve Modern Problems at dailystoic.com/masterclass 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to...
Jan 21, 2025•27 min•Ep 2411•Transcript available on Metacast Millions of people have been cut off from the truth. We can be sympathetic to this without assenting to it. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ Protect your Daily Stoic Journal from the wear and tear of everyday use with the Leather Cover : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from T...
Jan 20, 2025•8 min•Ep 2409•Transcript available on Metacast In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here is a lesson on courage we could all hear today. 📕 Check out the Virtue Series 3-Book Bundle which includes Ryan Holiday’s books: Courage is Calling , Discipline is Destiny , and Right Thing, Right Now 📚 Books mentioned: Taylor Branch Trilogy: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ Waging a Good War by Thomas Ricks: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch ...
Jan 20, 2025•9 min•Ep 2410•Transcript available on Metacast In his speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, Ryan shares the timeless Stoic lessons we can learn from Jimmy Carter’s life and his remarkable example of leadership, resilience, and moral clarity. 🎥 Watch Stoic Lessons From Jimmy Carter's Legacy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYGvMuC2Bc 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ ...
Jan 19, 2025•52 min•Ep 2400•Transcript available on Metacast Bob Bowman is the coach behind 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps and Paris Olympics swimming superstar Léon Marchand. Today, Bob joins Ryan in The Daily Stoic Podcast studio to discuss the pressures of success, the role of mastery, and the importance of maintaining passion and balance in highly driven athletes. He also shares his coaching philosophies and the leadership lessons he has learned while coaching some of the world’s greatest swimmers. Bob Bowman is the Director of Swimming ...
Jan 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep 2399•Transcript available on Metacast While we can't stop the fires or undo the damage, we can do what the Stoics taught us. Offer the kind of help we hope to receive should we ever need it. Donate to the LA Regional Food Bank here: https://www.lafoodbank.org/ 📔 Pick up your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic ! Check it out at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Sto...
Jan 17, 2025•11 min•Ep 2408•Transcript available on Metacast Philosophy isn’t about allegiance to a school—it’s about a commitment to growth, resilience, and truth wherever we find it. 🎥 Watch A Life Changing Stoic Lesson From Gladiator on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0srQO_qYi8 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for th...
Jan 16, 2025•17 min•Ep 2405•Transcript available on Metacast What’s up to us is that we do our best, what’s up to us is that we are the best we’re capable of being. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 🎙️ Listen to The Daily Dad Podcast on Apple Podcast and Spotify 📔 Get a signed leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad here: dailydad.com/leather 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast 🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@dailys...
Jan 15, 2025•3 min•Ep 2404•Transcript available on Metacast 
