WHYLD - Podcast for Bold Authentic People (And Those Who Wish They Were)

WHYLD45 - Am I Really Being Myself? Let This Exercise Guide You Towards a More Authentic Life

March 15, 2024 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

How authentic do you allow yourself to be, truly? “Given the big role working plays in our lives, it would be a big loss if we couldn’t be ourselves at work, wouldn’t it?” In short, we talk about this in the episode: How does your body let you know when you are in alignment – and when you are straying from your truth? In which situations or environments do you suppress your authenticity? How could you change that? If you made that change, how would your life be different? This epi...

WHYLD44 - Women, Would You Pay for Sex? Pillow Talk With a Male Escort - Ben Nordmann

February 15, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MB

Can you imagine paying for a sexual service? “My goal is that a client is not booking me again.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: Why do women pay for sex? And is it a bad thing? How does one become a callboy… and why? Why does a sex worker say, “my aim is that no woman calls twice”? Is this even legal? Germany’s Prostitution Protection Act and what introducing the “Nordic Model” would mean for consumers. Why might it feel safer for someone to book an escort than to go ...

WHYLD43 - Words Divide, Words Unite? The Magical World of Lobsterbird

January 15, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB

What is a Lobsterbird? “As the saying goes: A fish and a bird could fall in love. But where would they live?” In short, we talk about this in the episode: White-Asian, male-female, arts-science - what is it like to be a builder of bridges between polarities? 88 temples in 24 days – why Lobsterbird completed Japan’s Shikoku pilgrimage in record time and what a rice field can teach you. Wormholes, wisdom, wonders – how Tina was challenged by Lobsterbird’s language but found: We are n...

WHYLD42 - How Deep Can I Go? The Peace & Peril of Freediving - Lily Crespy

December 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

How long can you hold your breath? “90% of the blackouts happen near the surface at the very end of the dive.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: How dangerous is freediving really? Step by step, what happens during a vertical freedive? What surprising reflexes help humans survive longer underwater? Who was Stephen Keenan to Lily and what happened on July 22nd, 2017? In more words: Imagine walking 120 meters (131 yards) on one breath. Think you can make it? ...

WHYLD41 - Is It Selfish Not to Have Children? - Veronica (The Childfree Connection)

November 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

Do I have to have kids? “Moms reach out to me all the time and share their stories and say that they just weren't aware that they had the choice.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: How can you find out if you (don’t) want to have kids? Is being childfree different for men vs. women? Should “kids, yes or no” be a topic on your first date? Why is this such a sensitive topic? In more words: Veronica grew up in a very traditional Hispanic home where the father worked a...

WHYLD40 - Is It a F*** YES? A Nomad’s Journey Home - Alexandra “Allie” Elle

October 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MB

Is “should” still part of your vocabulary? If it’s not a F*** YES, it’s a F*** NO! In short, we talk about this in the episode: How the way you are eating might reflect your connection with yourself. How a “head person” might find access to their heart’s voice. What you might want to know about the local culture before moving to the Azores… In more words: Alexandra “Allie” Elle has not always been this connected with the callings of her inner voice. The passionate writer lived with...

WHYLD39 - Just a Phase? Busting Bisexuality Stereotypes - Mark Cusack

September 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MB

Is it just a phase? “For that whole time, I was not being authentic. I was low-level terrified on a daily basis. And it doesn't take an expert to think about the effect that has on someone's nervous system. That repression is deadly.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: What are the stereotypes around bisexuality? Can gender-fluid people find partners? How are authenticity & mental health connected? In more words: “Promiscuous, unreliable, secretly gay or straight” – bi...

WHYLD38 - Without Borders: What Is It Like Being a Humanitarian Physician? - Reza Eshaghian

July 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MB

Do poverty, war, and health crises really lie outside of your responsibility? "I grew up with this sense of how inappropriate and unfair the world is. And how I shouldn't be passive in this injustice and that I shouldn't just take care of myself." In short, we talk about this in the episode: How to become THAT person who saves lives worldwide on a Doctors Without Borders mission. What day-to-day humanitarian aid work is really like, beyond what you learn on the news. The emotional...

WHYLD37 - Do You Know How to Cuddle Right? Honour Your Boundaries - Jean Franzblau

June 15, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MB

Do you know how to ask for what you desire, embrace a “no” response, and respect your own boundaries? “I'm learning that to be a whole person and a happier person, I need to have conversations that are challenging all the time. Almost daily.” In short, in this episode, we talk about: What professional cuddling is and why it is valuable work. How cuddling events can teach you about boundary setting and navigating difficult situations. Why having an intimacy coordinator professional on se...

WHYLD36 - Camino Portugués - On Foot From Porto to Santiago. Will I Arrive?

May 15, 2023 05:00 - 11 minutes - 8.27 MB

Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? “The Camino de Santiago […], known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain.” (Wikipedia) On May 17th 2023, Tina is starting off on a big adventure and physical challenge: Walking the Camino Portugués, a 250+ (depending on the variation) kilometre path from Porto, Portugal, to San...

WHYLD35 – What Can Dead Bodies Teach Us About Living? – Kari Northey

April 15, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

What story will we tell when we are dead? “There's all sorts of scenarios of death that can be embarrassing. […] It's just very private and very intimate and they're forced into almost having to expose themselves to someone.” In short, we talk about this in the episode: What made Kari decide to become a mortician and what is it like to be in this job? How is caring for the living often more challenging than working with the dead? What questions about the dead is Kari being as...

WHYLD34 - Who Am I? How Appreciation of Others and My Reality Led Me Through Difficult Times

March 15, 2023 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

What if what you thought you wanted does not hold true anymore? “The issue with phases of transitions is that they are exactly that: phases. They might start overnight and surprise the hell out of you. But then they will patiently accompany you until you figure out how to solidify the person soup that you have become.” It feels good to be consistent, to stay true to past statements and beliefs, to be the reliable, steady type of person. But what if things that were valid in the past a...

WHYLD33 - Why Fight the Winter? A Long COVID Journey - Nanda Jansson

February 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 45 MB

Will life ever be the same again? “I felt sick for about 10 days. On the 10th day, I went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling literally like there was an elephant on my chest.” Nanda Jansson is one of the unlucky ones who made the acquaintance of COVID-19 in March 2020, while the other billions of us followed cases like hers on the media, safely locked into our homes, not sure what we should believe about this strange new disease that was quickly taking over the planet...

WHYLD32 - Happiness Without Challenging Emotions Is Not Sustainable, Here Is Why – Leonard Gabriel Heygster

January 15, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MB

👩‍🍳 Like sweet and sour: Contrast makes a wholesome recipe – even a recipe for happiness? 😍 Contentment, joy, satisfaction, happiness, well-being… we use various words 💬 to describe a phenomenon that all of us seek to maximize in our lives. Do the aforementioned terms really refer to the same thing? In what ways are they related? And what do we need to do to attain happiness and its linguistic siblings? 🤔 👱 Leonard Gabriel Heygster wanted answers. And he had a hypothesis: “What you focus ...

WHYLD32 – Happiness Without Challenging Emotions Is Not Sustainable, Here Is Why – Leonard Gabriel Heygster

January 15, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MB

👩‍🍳 Like sweet and sour: Contrast makes a wholesome recipe – even a recipe for happiness? 😍 Contentment, joy, satisfaction, happiness, well-being… we use various words 💬 to describe a phenomenon that all of us seek to maximize in our lives. Do the aforementioned terms really refer to the same thing? In what ways are they related? And what do we need to do to attain happiness and its linguistic siblings? 🤔 👱 Leonard Gabriel Heygster wanted answers. And he had a hypothesis: “What you focus ...

WHYLD31 - Is Connecting With People a Skill That You Can Learn? - Sara Ness

December 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB

🤗 Do you feel safe relating your authentic truth? 🗫 “When I was in college, I got really interested in studying intentional living communities, co-ops, cohousing communes. 🏡 […] A lot of what the co-ops would run into were these continuous communication problems. […]🤫There were conflicts, they just wouldn't get dealt with because no one knew how to do it.” Often, we find ourselves in challenging situations of socializing and communicating: 🍸 the awkward small talk at our friend’s party...

WHYLD30 – Dad’s Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life - Cody Daigle-Orians

November 15, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MB

🤔 Is it okay to not want sex? ❤️‍🔥 💬 “I just thought I was a broken gay guy for 20 years.” 💬 When Cody Daigle-Orians first posted a video 📹 on TikTok, outing 📣 himself as asexual, he immediately received hundreds of comments from young ace (asexual) people saying “Wow, I didn't know ace adults existed!” 🙏🏽 He was 42 back then. In our culture, love and sex are dominant themes everywhere you look – in movies, books, advertisements, conversations with friends, expectations imposed by t...

WHYLD29 - Skin Tales: Body Painting As Healing Art? - Kristen Zamora (Adams)

October 15, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

🖌️ What if the most vulnerable parts of your story were painted on your skin? 🎨 This can be a scary thought. We all navigate the sweet tension between wanting to be SEEN for who we are and wanting to hide 🙈 certain aspects we feel uncomfortable showing. While the latter might apply to arguably “minor” things like bad moods, particular quirks we are embarrassed about, or our perceived weaknesses, it especially applies to more delicate parts of our story: 😨 😥 Traumatic experiences we surviv...

WHYLD28 - From Patient to (Role) Model? Defying the Odds with VACTERL Birth Defects - Anja Christoffersen

September 14, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB

😳 Is disability a tragedy? 🤔 “We shouldn’t think of disability as a tragedy but it was that I could have died - which was the tragedy.” 💬 At 28 weeks of her pregnancy, Anja Christoffersen’s mom was told that her baby 👶 had no stomach and would not be able to survive. 17 years later, her beautiful daughter was walking the runway of Amsterdam Fashion Week. 💃 Between those two moments lie years of 🏥 👩‍⚕️ hospital admittances, surgeries, the fight for self-determination in Australia’s heal...

WHYLD27 – A Family Sailing the Oceans for a Living – Brian Trautman

August 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MB

🏝️ A life happening on land, a vacation on a boat - we have heard of that option before. But who says it can’t be the other way round? ⛵ Former electrical engineer Brian Trautman figured an 18-month sabbatical at sea would get him over a “freakout about life” 👻 when he left shore in Seattle back in 2009. He went all in, sold his house 🏡, his cars 🚗, his career 🕴️ – all in exchange for a 53-foot, 2-mast beauty called Delos and the promises of a vague future. 12 years later, the land is ...

WHYLD26 - Sexing Out Loud. Own Your Pleasure - Alexa Bowditch

July 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MB

Do you get the sex you want? 🔥 Oops, what a bucket-of-cold-water type of question. 🥵😅 Especially for those of you who don’t usually find yourself in conversations about sex. Why should one even podcast about it? Well… I dare say, sex, love, and relationships are a vital part of everyone’s life. 🌱 ❤️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 This applies in some ways even to people who do not “practice” one or the other for any reason. There is no wholesome, authentic living without integrating 🔗 the body you have been gi...

WHYLD25 - Coming Home. A Gay Woman’s Guide to Overcoming Rejection - Meagan O`Nan

June 15, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MB

🏃‍♀️Running away from where it hurt? We all have done that. But walking back towards it? 🚶‍♀️ Being rejected for who you are takes a toll on a soul. Especially so if the ones rejecting you are the very people you love most - your family, your community. 💔 This happened to Meagan after being outed as a gay woman 👭. One day she is a valued member of the local athletic and Christian community ✝️, on the next her “choices” are condemned as sinful and appalling. She left Mississippi. 🧭 But af...

WHYLD24 - Travelling Through Life in a Mobile Record Studio - Ady Parzentny

May 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MB

🛑 When will you stop treating your passion as a hobby? 🛑 To Ady Parzentny, music is everything. Has been for decades. When the working day was over, he used to hit the rehearsal room and play the night away. 🎸 👨‍🎤 But making music for a living? 💰 Unthinkable. After all, is it really appropriate for a punk rocker to make money with his music? Just when he got a taste of financial success through his music, the gravity of "ULP" (upper limit problem) would bring him back down. 🛬 Today...

WHYLD23 - How to Reclaim Life Through Authentic Choices – Sam Sheppard

April 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MB

What if you chose YOU today? “By making that choice I became significantly happier. And from then on, every time I made a choice that literally felt authentic, I would gain freedom, I would gain happiness.” 🤗 Those are the words of Sam Sheppard. A kind woman with a big heart and a beautiful warm laugh. A teacher👩‍🏫 all her life, a facilitator with engaging energy. An eloquent speaker who can lift you up by the craft of words. Also, a woman scarred by childhood bullying, having struggled ...

WHYLD22 - Candidly Speaking - Adolpha Cole

March 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MB

„Why do white people hate black people?” This is an honest question ⁉️ which people visiting Candidly Speaking events might seek answers to. In other contexts, (white) people might read this as an accusation and begin to push back – but not in the intimate space ❤️ Adolpha Cole & her team create for their participants. Candidly Speaking is a concept for 💬 authentic conversations 💬 between people from all walks of life 🌈 - on topics that have the potential to divide as much as unite the...

WHYLD21 - Exploring the World Awake - with Erik Lorenz

February 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

Have you ever, during your travels, had a conversation that was so beautiful, so rare, so impactful that you wished others could have witnessed it? A fleeting moment in time, sharing your universe with a person whom you will likely never meet again. The stranger at the café in Marrakesh, the trucker in New Zealand, the villager in Tonga. Sharing these precious opportunities of diving into another person’s world, learning about other ways of looking at and spending life is basically the rea...

Episode 20 - Season 1 Finale With Former Guests Romeo, Francesco, Tom, Bek & Sarah

December 15, 2021 16:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB

How can you tell a season is ending? That’s a question I have asked myself for 19 episodes of WHYLD Podcast 😅 When I first started this podcast, I guess it felt calming to have a built-in drop out option, a natural end in case this creative endeavour was going nowhere. The opportunity to say anytime: “Hey, this is the last episode of Season 1… and you happen to have to wait for some 2 years for the next season to go live”. However, my mentality as a podcaster has shifted from boxed (sea...

Episode 19 - Adopt, Don't Shop (Romanian Dog Rescue) - Delia Botea

November 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB

Who needs to do something about it? For Delia Botea, the answer was “Me.” In Romania, a country where there are 600 000 stray dogs roaming the streets, waiting to be captured and very likely killed, Delia made a choice: If no one helps these poor, often malnourished, injured, sick, abandoned souls… she must do it. Once scared of dogs herself, she started rescuing one dog at a time and had all of her family members host one. Soon she was running out of safe havens for her rescues, so ...

Episode 18 - The Blue Collared Woman - Teagan Dowler

October 15, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MB

Can you be the same person at work that you are at home? Before brushing off this question, pause and reflect. Why should you even ask yourself this? Why shouldn’t you be able to be yourself at work? Why should this be important, after all? Workplaces are spaces in which we spend a whole lot of our time. It’s where we show up, challenge ourselves and others, learn, experience setbacks, laugh, fight, inspire, join forces, burn or bore out. It is an important space and we deserve to be se...

Unicorn in Uniform (Germany's First Transgender Commander)

September 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB

Do you show your true self at work and in all your relationships? You do not need to struggle with your gender identity to experience difficulties in answering YES to that question. Being ourselves first and foremost – and not what we think is expected of us in our many social roles – can be a courageous act. For Anastasia Biefang, the first transgender commander of the German Armed Forces, it took decades to stop pushing her inner truth back down. After many years of service, she took...

Episode 17 - Unicorn in Uniform (Germany's First Transgender Commander) - Anastasia Biefang

September 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB

Do you show your true self at work and in all your relationships? You do not need to struggle with your gender identity to experience difficulties in answering YES to that question. Being ourselves first and foremost – and not what we think is expected of us in our many social roles – can be a courageous act. For Anastasia Biefang, the first transgender commander of the German Armed Forces, it took decades to stop pushing her inner truth back down. After many years of service, she took...

Episode 16 - Are You an Imposter?

August 15, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MB

⁠Do you doubt you live up to people's expectations of you? Do you tend to belittle your own successes? Welcome to the club of many.⁠ ⁠Sometimes we call it modesty, sometimes we speak in the name of realism, sometimes we claim to acknowledge the support of others.⁠ But frankly: oftentimes we simply cannot accept our own greatness.⁠ ⁠In this episode, we unpack the so-called IMPOSTER SYNDROME – a psychological phenomenon that has people feeling like they are a fraud. It disproportionately a...

Episode 15 - Luck or Fate? No Success Comes By Chance - Romeo Salazar

July 18, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MB

Are you holding open the door for fate to enter or do you push it close? Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. Sometimes we hit obstacles, sometimes miracles lift us across them. In this episode, musical theatre performer Romeo Salazar shares his experience of losing the stage to perform on during the Covid pandemic. In this juicy, textured conversation we contrast seemingly mere luck and helping fate find you through your active being and doing. Filipino-born and Catholic-raised Rome...

Episode 14 - Fear of Not Being Perfect Is Costly

June 20, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

How much are you willing to sacrifice in order to hide your „imperfections“? We all do it at times. We throw our energy, time, and an impressively creative charade of excuses onto the things we feel insecure about, ashamed of, or „not ready yet“ for. We willingly trade our dreams, opportunities, and belief in ourselves for a chance to hide our imperfections from the people around us. And for the peace in knowing that we cannot fail… because we decided not to try in the first place. Thi...

Episode 13 - How to Find Humility and Dignity on the Journey to Fertility - Sandra Winterbach

May 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MB

Did you know that up to 1 in 4 recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage? This is something few know about. In school during sex education, we learn how to avoid pregnancies. However, the other side of the medal is rarely spoken about: How to deal with not being able to get pregnant or the child never making it through to being a new, miraculous life on this planet. What does it really mean to experience a miscarriage? What do hormonal contraceptives you took in the past have to do with yo...

Episode 13 - How to Find Humility and Dignity on the Journey to Fertility - Sandra Winterbach

May 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MB

Did you know that up to 1 in 4 recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage? This is something few know about. In school during sex education, we learn how to avoid pregnancies. However, the other side of the medal is rarely spoken about: How to deal with not being able to get pregnant or the child never making it through to being a new, miraculous life on this planet. What does it really mean to experience a miscarriage? What do hormonal contraceptives you took in the past have to do with yo...

Episode 13 - How to Find Humility and Dignity on the Journey to Fertility

May 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 64 MB

Did you know that up to 1 in 4 recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage? This is something few know about. In school during sex education, we learn how to avoid pregnancies. However, the other side of the medal is rarely spoken about: How to deal with not being able to get pregnant or the child never making it through to being a new, miraculous life on this planet. What does it really mean to experience a miscarriage? What do hormonal contraceptives you took in the past have to do with yo...

Episode 12 - Loving 2-4-1 - Chris, Sven and Andy

April 18, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Can you imagine sharing life with more than one partner? Find the love of your life, get married, buy a house, have kids. This default notion of a desirable, successful path in life is a common theme in society. In this picture, a monogamous “escalator” type relationship plays a central role. However, vowing sexual exclusivity to, loving and living with one partner only is not the sole option. It is estimated that about 4-5 % of people living in the U.S. are practising a consensual non-m...

Episode 11 - Challenge Is a Given, Attitude a Choice - Kara Scott

March 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB

Have you ever questioned feeling pity for someone with a disability? This conversation might make you do just that. Kara Scott had been confronted for years with strange neurological symptoms and vague diagnoses that would make a spelling champion break a sweat. Her life changed for good when, on the flight home after a family vacation, paralysis hit from her chest down. She has got every reason to resent her fate, or so one might think. But she won’t buy that. This energetic mum of tw...

Episode 11 - Challenge Is a Given, Attitude a Choice

March 14, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB

Have you ever questioned feeling pity for someone with a disability? This conversation might make you do just that. Kara Scott had been confronted for years with strange neurological symptoms and vague diagnoses that would make a spelling champion break a sweat. Her life changed for good when, on the flight home after a family vacation, paralysis hit from her chest down. She has got every reason to resent her fate, or so one might think. But she won’t buy that. This energetic mum of tw...

Episode 10 - Higher Quality Questions, Higher Quality Results

February 14, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB

Does your way of asking questions get you ahead or does it set you back? We pose questions all the time, out of a desire to understand, to connect, to get clearer on a course of action, to challenge others, and a million more reasons. Questions are such a basic component of our linguistic toolkit, rarely do we pay attention to their power. Yet, questions are far from being innocent or incidental. A question has the power to alter the course of a life, conjure up harm and hurt, trigger beaut...

Episode 9 - Sometimes 80 Percent Is Good Enough - Sarah Appelt

January 17, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MB

Are you attuned to your inner voice? Can you relate to the feeling of not being able to be your true self in the circumstances you are in? To experiencing pressure, stress, and the resulting effects on your body and mind as you try to meet the expectations of yourself and others? Depending on how deep you are stuck in the rabbit hole, you might think that there is no way out, that you are just not enough to meet the demands, that you’ll have to continue to fight. But be mindful of the fact ...

Episode 8 - Challenge as a Meditation - Jason Stephenson

December 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MB

How well are you connected to who you truly are being at the core? What might sound like an awkward question to some is a game changer once we actually open up to it. We are more than our name, our profession, our history. Jason Stephenson, the creator of guided mediation and affirmation recordings, reflects on how mindfulness helps to strip away those superficial layers of identity and to get closer to your authentic being and your calling in life. In the true spirit of 2020, this episo...

Episode 7 - Embracing Uncertainty - Francesco Leone

November 13, 2020 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB

Have you ever wondered why phone booths in Italy might be wider than elsewhere? Well, it's most likely an untrue myth, to be fair. Plus, this is definitely not the topic of the episode - but you'll hear an answer anyway if you keep listening to the very end. In this episode, you'll get to meet Francesco Leone. A serial entrepreneur who does not consider himself to be one. All his life, being a passionate dreamer and a multi-faceted character, Francesco has created an authentic path for him...

Episode 6 - Money off my Mind - Rebecca Bek Huynh

October 16, 2020 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MB

Are you putting others first and leaving yourself behind in the process? There is no right answer to the question of how much sacrifice is adequate and what degree of egoism is healthy. Luckily, life is not about either/or. Our span of life provides plenty of room for taking care of others as well for exploration, self-expression, and goal pursuit. When Bek Huynh was only a teenager, she made a decision to get her parents out of debt. She disobeyed her parents’ wish for her to pursue finan...

Episode 5 - Reset through Fasting

September 18, 2020 18:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB

Pleasure, indulgence and abundance is a popular theme of society Especially in safe and economically prosperous parts of the world. Abstaining from something that we enjoy and think we need can therefore be experienced as anything between pointless, sad, and even downright scary. This could apply to all kinds of things, like cars, kitchen gadgets, sex, traveling or posting selfies on social media. But none of these examples pose an actual existential threat when we decide to renounce thes...

Episode 4 - Finding Resilience in 21 Hour Swim - Ashleigh Seymour

August 14, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MB

What proof do you need to believe in your own resilience? A lot of people tend to attribute their successes in life to external factors. Well, I was just lucky… I had help I couldn’t have done it without. This does not really foster one’s self-esteem. But what if you swam across the sea for 21 hours without stopping, without touching anything solid, through glearing day and pitch black night? Even the humblest soul must then acknowledge the fact that she is nothing short of resilient an...

Episode 3 - The Hidden Superpower

July 17, 2020 19:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MB

Do you take others for granted? You would realize that, at the latest, if you complained about something someone did “not right”. All of us are making hundreds of choices daily when interacting with ourselves or other people. We could choose to be rude, to be unreliable, to be ignorant. Yet instead, most of us most of the time decide to be respectful, to do our best, to be trustworthy. We learn and grow and we become damn good at things others rely on us to do. So how come in some soci...

Episode 2 - 4270 Kilometres on Foot - Thomas Clemens

June 15, 2020 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB

Would you have it in you to cross the US all the way from the southern to the northern end… on foot? Well, in episode 2 you get to meet someone who did just that. Thomas Clemens walked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), a long-distance hiking trail that stretches for 4270 kilometers, in 5 months and 13 days. Doing nothing but putting one foot after another, day after day, across snow-covered mountains and through the searing heat of the desert, Thomas proved how far willpower and a strong rout...

Episode 1 - Welcome to the Podcast & Speaking Out Loud

June 14, 2020 19:00 - 11 minutes - 7.76 MB

Welcome to the WHYLD Podcast. Inspire people. Support others' growth. Create a meaningful life. If this mission resonates with your own values, this podcast is for you. My name is Tina Hewelt and I create WHYLD because I love people and am deeply curious about why they do what they do. Especially if – to me – they seem to have weird hobbies, quirky personalities, out-of-the-box thinking, I love exploring what gets them excited and drives their actions. I have had the chance to meet gorgeo...

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