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What if We Miss Our One and Only Amazing Purpose?

I’m gearing up for my 100th Episode. Not the episode itself, really, but what will happen AFTER the episode. I’m gearing up for KEW episodes 101-200. The next few Episodes leading up to 100 are building up to a massive idea that has arisen from the first 100. Kind of an integration and a revelation. I will introduce the main ideas in episodes 99 and 100. Then the fun begins. But to explain the title…

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“Will You Be Remembered as a Good Person?” FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 16: Who Tells Your Story?

This post was inspired by Lin Manuel Miranda and ‘Hamilton’. History is ‘His’ ‘Story. No matter what happens, it is kept alive in memories, writing, and stories. And whomever keeps it alive interprets the story. However, eyewitness testimony, or individual human memory, has been shown to be among the LEAST reliable way to relate things that happen ( However, eyewitness testimony, or individual human memory, has been shown to be among the LEAST reliable way…

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“Rugged Individualism or Unified Connection?” KEW Episode 95: Cooperation vs Competition

Do you enjoy friendly competition? Many of us do. Some say it brings out the best in us. Some thrive in an environment where other people push us to perform at higher and higher levels. I can appreciate friendly competition like this. But I rarely see it. And sometimes even friendly competition turns sour. Feelings get hurt. Tempers flare. The high level of energy surrounding competitive exchanges can often spill over into anger. In Economics…

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“Because even if you win, you’re still a rat!” FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 15: Rat Racer

If I’ve said it before, I’ve said it a million times. I still feel cheated by the rat race. The American Dream. The big lie. We are born, at least in the USA, dependent on the exchange of labor for money to support the US capitalist system. If we’re lucky we have guardians to support us until we are ‘adults’, but then we have to earn a few thousand dollars a month just to pay…

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“All Things in Moderation, or Indulge Your Every Whim?” Preview KEW Episode 94: Homeostasis

Do you remember Homeostasis from high school biology? Probably not – but I bet you have a pretty good idea about what it means. Here’s what Webster-Mirriam says it means: : a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group Of course, then, we have to define equilibrium also: 1 a: a state of intellectual or emotional balance : trying to…

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“Hindsight is 20/20” FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 14: What Can We Learn from COVID?

Now that the worst part is (probably and hopefully) over, can we look back and see how COVID has changed us? Many people died around the world and that will never be anything but terrible, but in what ways has COVID improved the lives of those who survived it? I hope I am being sensitive enough, because I am not trying to diminish the loss of human lives. This episode was recorded in June/July of…

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“Am I Evil, or Just Angry?” KEW Episode 93: Good vs Evil

Have you ever been sucked into an internet thread and walked away feeling angry? You know, like a political rant thread? Identity politics? Ad hominem attacks and name-calling? Isn’t that frustrating? That sentiment or feeling that other people are just mean, or evil, is part of what motivates this week’s Episode. Many will argue that people are just ‘bad’, or even ‘evil’, and that’s why we have bad things in the world. Like these internet…

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“It’s Like Lord of the Flies in Here” Preview KEW Episode 93: Good vs Evil

Do you think people are inherently good, or inherently evil? Like, left to our own devices, will we make decisions that are beneficial or harmful to others? I have mentioned the Rutger Bregman book, ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History‘ MANY times now on the podcast and this is my inspiration for this episode. For a summary of the brief story below, read the book or see his article in The Guardian. Spoiler alert, I believe people are…

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“Turn Off Your Analytical Mind” KEW Episode 92: Intuition

Has anyone ever told you to turn off your analytical mind? Or to use your intuition? I’m lucky to have a coach that constantly asks my analytical self to step aside. The space that remains, sans analysis, is incredibly interesting. And I think it’s where intuition lives. In fact, I’d say my idea of intuition was inaccurate. I guess I thought of it like a hunch. Or a tingly spidey sense. I’m not really sure…

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“How to Trust Your Gut” Preview KEW Episode 92: Intuition

How many times has someone told you to trust your gut? Or to use your intuition? What does that even mean? In the past few years I have done a lot of somatic meditation and coaching. I have learned to ‘get in touch with my body’. I didn’t know what it really meant to ‘trust your gut’, but I am learning. Prior to my introduction to somatic healing, I really wasn’t that in tune with…

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