Noise

Most of us became self-conscious long before we knew the word for it. Somewhere between elementary school and high school, we learn to watch ourselves — how we sit, how we speak, how we come across — often more carefully than we learn how to trust ourselves. In this episode, I explore how the schoo…

Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped feeling like life was a mission or that it had stakes. Not because we stopped caring — but because we learned how to function without that deeper sense of meaning we once had as kids. In this episode, I talk about losing touch with that inner orientation,…

Last summer, I felt a level of energy and direction I had never experienced before. Everything felt intense — like I had finally found the path I was meant to be on. But when that intensity faded and life returned to something more ordinary, it forced me to confront a harder question. Why do some m…

When I reconnected with a strong sense of purpose in my life, I thought the hardest part was behind me. But I soon realized that rediscovering something meaningful doesn’t automatically change the psychological structures you’ve built over time. In this episode, I reflect on how that sense of purpo…