Havana Cafe Sessions Podcast
102 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -If you love conversation and coffee, you’ve come to the right place. We meet weekly at our favourite local cafe to chat about life, the universe, and everything with the aim to make ourselves better through dialogue.
Oh and yes, we want to change the world too!
Our dialogues are not exclusive, in fact, the more people – people like you – we can engage in conversation, the more we all learn.
Our basic approach is grounded in appreciative inquiry, the Socratic method (basically asking loads of good questions that make you stop and think), and positive psychology.
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Episodes
#146: Setting Your Intentions for 2020
December 31, 2019 09:20 - 1 hour - 100 MBAs an alternative to making a laundry list of New Year's Resolutions, we choose 3 intention words that we'll to guide us through the New Year.
#145: Cultivating your life using design thinking
November 21, 2019 17:48 - 46 minutes - 69.8 MBIn this episode, we explore some of the ideas from the book, Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
#144: Is life basically suffering?
October 24, 2019 16:08 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBSounds like a very heavy topic, but we, of course, handle it in our normal low-key, informal way.
#143: Creativity and the Courage to Live a Creative Life
August 12, 2019 07:00 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBIn this episode, writer Cherry Williams and I have a coffee and chat about creativity and the courage to live a creative life.
#142: Why Positive Affirmations Don't Work
August 05, 2019 06:10 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBOn this episode, Jeremy Sadler joins me to talk about positive affirmations and why they don't work. Of course, you know they do work, but Jeremy lays out where we go wrong in making affirmations causing them not to work.
#141: The Four Agreements
July 29, 2019 06:08 - 1 hour - 109 MBIn this episode, Sarah and I explore our thoughts on Don Miguel Ruiz's book, The Four Agreements.
#140: Self-Acceptance
July 22, 2019 06:00 - 45 minutes - 63.4 MBExcited to have as my guest host, Victoria James, founder of Mindflowers, in the studio with us to talk about self-importance and how mastering it will boost your authentic happiness by a factor of 10.
#139: Something Is Not Quite Right With The World?
July 08, 2019 06:03 - 53 minutes - 74 MBThis week, Sarah returns back to the studio, and with her, she brought an interesting topic. Do you ever get the feeling that something is not quite right with the world? This feeling sometimes manifests itself in the form of dissatisfaction, anxiety, or existential dread. But is this dissatisfaction inherent? Well, that's exactly what Sarah and I dive into for episode #139. In our open-ended casual style, we examine the topic through a variety of lenses from Samsara ("wandering through...
#138: Resilience and how to bounce back from bullying
July 01, 2019 05:14 - 41 minutes - 47.4 MBIn this episode, We're talking about resilience and how to bounce back from bullying. Viki has first-hand experience with bullying both as a kid and as an adult, and now as a parent whose child has had to deal with bullying. She drops some useful tips covering the problem from multiple levels.
#137: Can women really do it all?
June 24, 2019 06:00 - 56 minutes - 65.1 MBIn this episode, we're joined by Aimee Mann of CEO of Your Special Needs Family Podcast to explore the question, can women do it all?
#136: Does manifestation, like in the Law of Attraction, really work?
June 17, 2019 07:00 - 47 minutes - 54.6 MBIn this episode, Sarah asks the question does manifestation, like in The Law of Attraction really work?
135: Biohacking your way to a longer life
June 03, 2019 05:36 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBIn this episode, we explore biohacking coffee to extend life and answer the question of how to live through learning how to die.
#134: Creativity and Being Who You Are
May 20, 2019 07:00 - 55 minutes - 63.8 MBHow do you nurture an idea from its initial conception to fully realizing it into the world?
#133: What we learned from Star Wars
May 13, 2019 04:19 - 56 minutes - 65.5 MBIn this episode, we use the Star Wars saga as a lens to explore some major life themes. Also, Clay has a massive mind-shift.
#132: On the Road to Santiago
April 22, 2019 08:47 - 52 minutes - 72 MBIn this episode, Clay and Sarah share their individual experiences of walking the Road to Santiago.
#131: Spirituality versus being a better person?
April 15, 2019 07:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBIn this episode, we discuss where spirituality fits on the spectrum of personal development.
havana sessions 130 mixdown
April 01, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBIn this episode, we share our love of having conversations that matter. We share some of our backstory on how and why we do the podcast.
#129: 6 Impactful Books That Will Shift Your Mind
March 24, 2019 22:38 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBIn this episode, Clay and Sarah share 3 books each that have influenced their lives in a major way. As Clay describes it, "Books that punch you in the face."
#128: Let's Get To Work
March 17, 2019 21:59 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBIn this episode, we explore the idea of work.
#127: Hiking With Nietzsche
March 11, 2019 09:59 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBIn this episode, we explore the philosophical idea of becoming who you are using John Kaag's book, Hiking with Nietzche as the backdrop to our conversation over coffee this week.
#126: The Body-Mind Connection
March 04, 2019 06:11 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBIn this episode, we discuss how you can use the body to explore your emotions and your thoughts.
#125: Cult of Personality
February 17, 2019 08:37 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBIn this episode, we discuss the cult of personality and the compulsion for everyone to be famous.
#124: The 7 Types of Love
February 11, 2019 06:26 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBAs you gear up for Valentine's Day this week, consider this: romantic love is a modern construct that emerged in tandem with the novel. The idea of romantic love, as we know it today, came on the scene in tandem with In Madame Bovary (1856). That's one type of love. As it turns out, love has many levels. In this week's episode, we explore the 7 types of love.
#123: Search for Meaning
February 04, 2019 06:35 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBIn this episode, we explore Viktor Frankel’s Man’s Search for Meaning
#122: It's not just an adventure; it's a state of mind
January 28, 2019 06:21 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBIn this episode, we explore the value of adventure and how adventure enhances your overall well-being.
#121: The Art of Ageing
January 21, 2019 06:35 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBIn this week's episode, we explore the process of growing older and how to face up to the inevitable march of time.
#120: Celebrating Imperfection
January 14, 2019 06:12 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBIn this episode, we explore the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, the art of imperfection.
#119 Curiosity
January 06, 2019 20:51 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MBIn this week's episode, we explore the power of curiosity.
#118 Tip of the Iceberg
December 31, 2018 07:47 - 34 minutes - 48.3 MBin this episode, we explore a couple of useful models for identifying and changing behaviors.
#117 Reflections and Intentions
December 24, 2018 06:46 - 51 minutes - 71.8 MBIn this episode, we share our intention setting process for getting ready for the New Year to ensure we're set up to have a fantastic year of achievement.
#116: Life is but a dream...
December 17, 2018 06:16 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBIn this episode, we explore how our mind plays with reality.
#115 Time and Attention
December 09, 2018 22:41 - 1 hour - 102 MBIn this episode, we explore the 5 literacies you need to survive in the 21st century. In part II we explore our relationship to time.
#114: Find your freedom
December 02, 2018 17:25 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBThis week we explore the give and take of freedom. Are we really free and is the freedom we do have, balanced?
113: Effortless effort
November 25, 2018 15:43 - 47 minutes - 65 MBThis week we found ourselves wondering if it's important to try or if it is better to let go and just go with the flow. To help us explore this, we delve into the Taoist concept of Wu Wei.
#112: We were on a break!
November 18, 2018 20:41 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBThis week conversation at the Havana Cafe centers around intentionality and our continuing pursuit of happiness. Hi, it’s Clay and Sarah — We’re back in action this week at the Havana Cafe drinking coffee and discussing where life has taken us on our quest to find wisdom in the messy realities of life.
Episode 111: How attached are you to your things?
July 23, 2018 12:00 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MBIn this episode, we explore the attachment we have to things and how those things sometimes demand too much of us.
Episode 110: Wayfinding our way through life
July 15, 2018 20:23 - 53 minutes - 74.5 MBIn this week's episode, we explore the ancient art of wayfinding with a modern twist.
Episode 109: Individual connections, culture & your life
July 09, 2018 12:00 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBThis week we enjoyed a winding conversation about how individual connections spread cultural norms, and how different cultural groups shape our lives.
Episode 108: What hero's journey are you on?
July 01, 2018 18:50 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBThis week we take a close look at the hero’s journey and how we can apply it in a practical way to our own life journeys.
Episode 107: The Poetics of Space
June 24, 2018 20:41 - 51 minutes - 71.6 MBThis week we wax a bit lyrical about the poetics of space, the possibilities of feng shui, and what it means to ‘hold space’ for oneself and others. In this episode:
Episode 106: Consciousness — what is it and does it have to come in human form?
June 18, 2018 08:39 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBThis week we're continuing our discussion of the films Ex Machina and Her, and adding on insights from the TV series Westworld and Humans, looking more closely at the question of Consciousness & Free Will.
Episode 105: What makes us human?
June 11, 2018 12:00 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBWhat makes us human? Is it consciousness? Is it our emotional complexity? Is it merely our physical body? Sometimes the only way to see through our biases in perception is to consider an alternative...an opposite. This week we are discussing our big question in the context of two great films — Ex Machina & Her.
Episode 104: Rediscovering the Wild
June 03, 2018 19:44 - 57 minutes - 79.9 MBThis week Clay and Sarah reach for their cups of coffee and contemplate how and why we might rediscover the wild.
Episode 103: Language...instinct, technology or virus?
May 28, 2018 06:41 - 48 minutes - 66.7 MBThis week we use Burroughs’s famous quote “language is a virus from outer space” to contemplate language as instinct, technology or virus.
Episode 102: Hedonism - Mastering the Lost Art of Pleasure and Leisure
May 20, 2018 19:07 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBIn this episode, we revisit the original idea of hedonism as ancient Greek philosophy that argued that pleasure and happiness are the primary or most important intrinsic goods and the aim of human life.
Episode 101: “Levelling up” in your Life
May 14, 2018 05:27 - 57 minutes - 79.9 MBWhen the very things that once excited us now feel boring and repetitive... When we’ve achieved our big goal but now feel as if we are stagnating and wanting more... When we’ve mastered a set of skills and feel a new call to adventure and change... It’s time to ‘level up’. This week Clay and Sarah discuss what it means to ‘level up’ in life.
Episode 100: What's the Question That Drives You?
May 07, 2018 06:15 - 1 hour - 105 MBHooray. We've made it to episode 100. For this episode, we reached out to you, our listeners, to find out what their ultimate questions are.
Episode 99: What stands in the way becomes the way
April 30, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBObstacles, difficulties, things “not going according to plan” are an inevitable part of life. But how we respond to these so-called obstacles is what defines us. This week Clay and Sarah explore the idea of obstacles as the pathway to growth and new opportunities.
Episode 98: How has cyberspace transformed creativity?
April 22, 2018 20:53 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBWithin the “consensual hallucination of cyberspace” which we call the internet, a creative explosion is taking place. We have access to an immense range of audio-visual arts, stories, poetry, music...and new combinations of these. And the internet has also made it possible for us to create art in new ways and then share it with, literally, the WORLD. This week Clay and Sarah consider the multitude of ways cyberspace has transformed creativity as well as our ideas about what it means ...
Episode 97: Self-mastery – breaking through habits to realise your true potential
April 15, 2018 20:48 - 52 minutes - 72.9 MBThis week Clay and Sarah discuss the concept of self-mastery.