This page lists all my podcast appearances, the date and name of the podcast, what I talked about (show notes), and when I talked about it (time stamps).
All in all, this post is the ultimate guide to all Sloww podcasts!
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The Ultimate Guide to all Sloww Podcasts
Podcast Playlists
Podcasts (by Date)
- Jun 19, 2024: âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast (Rufus Pollock)
- Jun 12, 2024: âEvolutionFMâ Podcast (Scott Britton)
- May 23, 2024: âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #95 (Alex Levy)
- May 21, 2024: The Nick Daigler Podcast (Nick Daigler)
- May 17, 2024: “Elevating Consciousness” Podcast #47 (Artem Zen)
- April 4, 2023: âCurious Humansâ Podcast (Jonny Miller)
- March 29, 2023: âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29 (Artem Zen)
- March 28, 2023: âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006 (Steve Schlafman)
- March 22, 2023: âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57 (Alex Levy)
- March 21, 2023: âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56 (David Elikwu)
- March 8, 2023: âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337 (Sean DeLaney)
- March 7, 2023: âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010 (Spencer Kier)
- Feb 28, 2023: âThe Pathless Pathâ Podcast #143 (Paul Millerd)
Podcasts (by Topic)
Sloww Stage Support (Lifelong Learning & Deeper Development):
Explore more: Sloww Stage Support (Lifelong Learning & Deeper Development): How do I develop by learning?
Lifelong learning, inquiring, reading, synthesizing, etc:
- The Nick Daigler Podcast: Inquiring and thinking as the common foundation of everything, living inquiry (living life as inquiry), aligning intuition and articulation (5:27); Transformative Learning Theory process, perspective transformation, the flywheel cycle from questioning to learning to developing, the whole purpose of lifelong learning is deeper development (12:53); Personal knowledge management, Sloww as public commonplace book, new Synthesizer course (27:40); The learning is in service of the living (33:46).
- âEvolutionFMâ Podcast: Howard Gardnerâs synthesizing mind, articulating an intuition, lifelong learning flywheel of questioning to learning to developing, ever-deeper self-inquiry, all learning is in service of living, all learning tested against lived experience, building the best possible map in the mind to point to the territory beyond mind, waking up vs growing up, horizontal learning vs vertical development (16:45); Testing 3rd-person scientific explanations against 1st-person subjective experience, consilience between the two to align 1st & 3rd person (48:00).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: The biggest ideas Iâve come across so far, taking an interdisciplinary approach to learning (25:30); What the learning process looks like, different types of learning, how my mind works, personal knowledge management, second brain vs first brain, overview of the Synthesizer course, quality as a byproduct of quantity (29:00); The synthesizing mind, taking an interdisciplinary approach (41:00); Influential people and books (55:00).
- âThe Pathless Pathâ Podcast #143: Thinking itself as a passion, writing to help thinking, synthesizing and dot connecting across themes/patterns, lifelong learning, quality as a byproduct of quantity (45:00); Where Sloww fits in your info diet, creating online courses starting with the Synthesizer course (1:03:30).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Interdisciplinary learning, being a âbadâ reader growing up, How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler), dialectical objectivity, coming to terms with authors (1:06:00); Novel synthesis, reaching the end of the internet on a subject (1:12:30); What question is most alive for me right now (1:26:30).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Reading as my worst subject growing up, starting lifelong learning with what you are most interested in, interdisciplinary dot connecting, Synthesizer course, quality as a byproduct of quantity, reading, notetaking (1:18:00).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Being open to ask any question, 5 Whys, my childhood, synthesizing mind, interdisciplinary approach (22:00); Asking open and honest questions, transformative learning & disorienting dilemmas, being honest with myself, fears & weaknesses (43:00).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #95: Suffering, transformative learning, questioning starts everything, living the questions, all of the learning is in service of the living (27:05); Synthesizer course, synthesizing mind, AI (40:15).
- “Elevating Consciousness” Podcast #47: Lifelong learning and deeper development, flywheel of questioning to learning to developing (40:00); Learning is in service of living, training ground and playing field are one and the same (1:22:50); Synthesizer course (1:37:15).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: The flywheel of questioning to learning to developing, ever-deeper self-inquiry over a decade (18:15).
- âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29: Synthesizing mind (25:30); Deciding what to learn and read, Synthesizer course, Sloww stages (29:30).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: What is a synthesizer? (5:00).
Human Development & Sloww Stages:
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: Why Iâm more optimistic about the future than most, The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, This is Water by David Foster Wallace, the rising tide of psychological development collectively, adult learning as a means to adult development, Ken Wilberâs Integral Theory and how technology runs ahead of culture (35:00); How the Sloww Stages came about, lifelong learning as support for all stages, Stage 1 intentional living, Stage 2 life purpose, Stage 3 mental mastery (the mind), Stage 4 spiritual growth/timeless wisdom (beyond mind), holons/holarchy, Maslowâs holarchy of needs, transcending and including (or development is envelopment), end-of-history illusion, unfolding and connecting dots looking back (38:00).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Education, 5 Whys, meta-crisis, relationship with our minds, Ego Development Theory, purpose, heroâs journey, transformative learning, lottery of birth, the paradox of conditioning and identity (32:45); Interconnected knowledge network of the mind, Robert Sapolsky and human behavior, the interconnected web reaching from ancestry to today (41:30); Memetic immune system (Daniel Schmachtenberger), human development theories, fear of disappointing parents, self-worth directly tied to work, developing a new relationship with your mind (1:34:30).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Human development theories, Ken Wilberâs Integral Theory, Robert Keganâs theory of adult development and subject-object theory, how Susanne Cook-Greuterâs Ego Development Theory works, how the Sloww stages map to EDT (35:00); The Extended Mind (Annie Murphy Paul), polarity thinking (Beena Sharma), how Ken Wilber learned to write by copying Alan Wattsâ books, AI as a catalyst for human development (1:00:00).
- âEvolutionFMâ Podcast: Waking up from conventional living, more people moving to postconventional psychological development (11:45); Ken Wilber, Integral Theory, ego death feeling at any stage of psychological development, Susanne Cook-Greuterâs ego development theory, subject-object relationship as bridge between psychology and spirituality (13:45).
- The Nick Daigler Podcast: Sloww Stages, questioning by stage (âHow do I develop by learning?â âHow do I design a lighter life?â âHow do I find a higher purpose?â etc) (4:08); Ego Development Theory, why I resonate so much with EDT, subject-object relationship, more seeing and more compassion, horizontal vs vertical development (15:48); Psychological deaths of how you previously identified yourself (34:57).
- “Elevating Consciousness” Podcast #47: Ego Development Theory, sense of self, Nora Batesonâs thoughts on developmental stage theories (50:45); MetaCrisis.org, what is the meta-crisis, why the meta-crisis is a me-crisis (1:09:30).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: Susanne Cook-Greuterâs ego development theory, crisis as watershed between conventional and postconventional stages of development, Robert Keganâs subject-object theory (20:00)
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: What are the 4 Sloww stages? (40:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Upcoming online courses, Sloww stages (55:00).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #95: Sloww Stages (7:15).
Sloww Stage 1 (Intentional Living):
Explore more: Sloww Stage 1 (Intentional Living): How do I design a lighter life?
Intentional living, slow living, simple living, etc:
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: How language impacts your thinking, relationship with time, glorification of busy & busy as a badge of honor, slow living mythbusting, Greg McKeown (Essentialism), busy life vs full life (1:00:00); Minimalism mythbusting, embracing trade-offs, four burners theory (1:07:00).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: What intentional living means to me, my lifestyle design, figuring out âenough,â discovering the FIRE movement (15:00); A busy life vs a full life, prioritizing all the projects that have emerged over the years (58:00).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Slow living myth busting, busy life vs full life, The Quest of the Simple Life (W.J. Dawson), meta-crisis, our relationship with our minds (1:14:45).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: Where does someone start with intentional living? (47:00); Why is this so hard for so many? (51:00).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Intentional living, pleasure vs purpose, simple living vs slow living, glorification of busyness (34:30).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: Why Sloww is named Sloww, discovering intentional living, slow living vs simple living (5:45)
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #95: No-buy year for clothing, no-alcohol year (24:36).
- âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29: Slow living myth busting, how to read (14:00).
Money, entrepreneurship, lifestyle design, financial independence:
- âThe Pathless Pathâ Podcast #143: Money scripts, leaving money/lifestyle behind, finally pursuing the entrepreneurial path, wife/parental support, work vs play (28:00); 6 months of decompression time after quitting career, evolving relationship with money, imposter syndrome, aversion is the flip side of greed (34:15); Personal development before business development, discovering d-commerce (as opposed to e-commerce), the continually unfolding process, the transformative learning journey (48:00); Surprising trade-offs, starting as an audience of one, no praise/criticism, structuring your day, nothing gets done if you donât do it, hidden upsides (58:30).
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: Entrepreneurial dreams, my other side project that I put on the backburner to pursue Sloww (11:30); Intentional living, finances/money, why Sloww is named âSloww,â work as self-worth, funding the fun, building an entrepreneurial runway, discovering the FIRE movement, entrepreneurial math, evolving relationship with money, imposter syndrome (15:30); Conversations with my wife about intentional living, money, quitting career, and pursuing entrepreneurship (24:30).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: Typical day, timeblocking, wasnât a reader growing up, thinking behind the work (19:00); âWeb of goalsâ lifestyle design from Jacob Lund Fisker (Early Retirement Extreme), entrepreneurial math (23:00); Dealing with imposter syndrome, evolving relationship with money, work attached to my self-worth, why I have multiple books/projects going at the same time, going with the flow of life (51:30); Pursuing entre-/solopreneurship, how to think about money (1:00:00).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Pursuing entrepreneurship, job crafting, entrepreneurial math, FIRE movement, Jacob Lund Fisker (Early Retirement Extreme), cutting expenses by 30%, Vicki Robin (Your Money or Your Life) (51:00); Picking projects as a solopreneur, projects emerging, prioritizing projects based on intrinsic energy and aliveness, how Sloww products emerged naturally (1:24:30); How I structure my time, timeblocking / timeboxing, planning fallacy, reading multiple books at the same time (1:29:30).
- “Elevating Consciousness” Podcast #47: Money and meaning, monetizing meaning as a byproduct, meaning/purpose before money/profit, volume vs price, building a portfolio of products, ramping down spending while ramping up monetization, conscious capitalism, transition from corporate to entrepreneur, entrepreneurial runway, no option B, imposter syndrome, when did I think Sloww would work (1:30); Challenge of taking a holistic, generalist approach (30:30); Start with purpose, work vs play, job crafting, pathless path (43:45).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: My evolving relationship with money, attempting to âfund the fun,â building an âentrepreneurial runway,â discovering the FIRE movement, Vicki Robin (Your Money or Your Life), Jacob Lund Fisker (Early Retirement Extreme), the beauty of âentrepreneurial math,â job crafting vs entrepreneurship (29:30).
- The Nick Daigler Podcast: Describing yourself and what you do, imposter syndrome, pathless path vs entrepreneurship, choosing what to focus on in entrepreneurship, trial and error, âfailedâ business ideas (38:42).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: All things entrepreneurship, e-commerce vs d-commerce, primary skills for solopreneurship, the pathless path (38:00)
- âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29: Lifestyle design of the perfect day, lifelong learning as play (12:00); Money (38:00).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: How did you know you were ready for entrepreneurship? (23:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Entrepreneurship, you donât know how much time you get to live (38:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #95: Imposter syndrome, describing yourself, passion, entrepreneurship, job crafting, love & consistency (19:30).
Sloww Stage 2 (Life Purpose):
Explore more: Sloww Stage 2 (Life Purpose): How do I find a higher purpose?
Existential crisis & cognitive dissonance:
- âThe Pathless Pathâ Podcast #143: Pre-existential crisis, when a hard work ethic comes back to bite you, burnout plus purposelessness, existential crisis, asking all the questions (13:45); Company/brand âpurpose-washing,â the irony of having an existential crisis while my day job was being paid to reinvent the brand I was working on (17:15); Paul reads a quote from my crisis, âtotal workâ philosophy, the vicious cycle of jumping jobs (20:00); âHow to have an existential crisisâ doc, discovering intentional living for the first time, trying to reset my perspective on life (22:30); 2.5 years of cognitive dissonance post-crisis, growing disconnect between what I was learning vs how I was living (25:45); Existential crisis is still the spark/fuel 8 years later, everything is connected with everything else, the art of living, end of history illusion (43:00).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Existential crisis, busyness plus purposelessness, pre-crisis vs post-crisis, stumbling into a marketing major and career, disorienting dilemmas, the irony of reinventing a brand while having a personal crisis, starting to ask all the questions, zombified state, nervous system (6:45); The state of my mind in my crisis, psychological development, 30 years of not questioning, my mind prioritizing passion/purpose vs money/materialism, how did my mind become my mind, asking questions and not pre-judging the answers, meeting life face-to-face, 5 Whys (14:30); Discovering intentional living, 2.5 years of increasing cognitive dissonance, starting Sloww, using Sloww as an acronym, shifting from an external focus in life to an internal focus, interdisciplinary approach to learning (19:00).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: Evolution of my mindset, stumbling into my marketing career, existential crisis, year of cognitive dissonance (32:30); Detailing my existential crisis, why 2023 is a better time to experience a crisis than 2015, personality tests, getting to know yourself psychologically (36:00); What happened after the crisis, 2.5 years of cognitive dissonance, finding purpose, entrepreneurial dreams, background in graphic design, stumbling into marketing in college, how everything converged, taking the leap into solopreneurship (43:00); Advice if youâre in your own crisis, crises throughout history, transformative learning (47:00).
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: Leading up to existential crisis, the 6-week crisis itself (4:00); The following 2.5 years of increasing cognitive dissonance, asking all the questions but not having any of the answers, dying inside by early 2018 (7:30); The difference between a crisis in 2015 vs 2023, not having a lot of examples/guides in 2015, are crises more common today, are more people looking for purpose/meaning (30:00).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: Before Sloww, existential crisis, not questioning anything for 30 years (3:00); Busyness + purposelessness, increasing cognitive dissonance of learning vs living, running out of options with no Plan B (10:15); Winning at school, sports, and work but failing at life (15:30); How people/relationships reacted to my crisis (31:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Introduction, background, trajectory, existential crisis (0:00); Pre-crisis & post-crisis, question & answer phase, deeper dissection of the crisis, why itâs better to have a crisis today (10:30); 2.5 years of cognitive dissonance, finally taking the leap into entrepreneurship (15:30).
- The Nick Daigler Podcast: Existential crisis, succeeding on paper but failing the most important subject of life, killing myself with work, disorienting dilemmas, 6 months of burnout + purposelessness followed by a 6-week acute existential crisis (7:02).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: What was going on in 2015? (11:00); What happened on Christmas Eve 2015? (14:00); What kept you working for 2 years after the crisis? (18:00).
- âEvolutionFMâ Podcast: Existential crisis, cognitive dissonance, inquiry and introspection (3:30).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Existential crisis, discovering intentional living, slow living (4:00).
- âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29: Cognitive dissonance, getting started with intentional living (8:00).
Knowing thyself psychologically, purpose, & ikigai:
- The Nick Daigler Podcast: Passions/obsessions of thinking and inquiring, passion as what you canât not do (0:37); The question of âWho am I?â as the common theme of the journey, evolution of that question and answer (2:20); Ikigai 2.0, mythbusting ikigai, figuring out purpose, job crafting, business development as byproduct of personal development, getting to know thyself psychologically (50:00); Pausing and listening to life, being aware and paying attention, 5 Whys, anticipation vs reflection (1:05:00).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Chicken and egg of personality type, pathless path, good quitting vs bad quitting (13:00); Asking questions, busyness plus purposelessness, getting to know yourself psychologically (20:00); The ikigai meme and mythbusting, synthesizing mind, the Ikigai 2.0 model and process, money as a byproduct (44:00).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Being vs Becoming, who am I?, knowing thyself psychologically & spiritually (7:45); Psychological development, how development connects to purpose, ikigai vs Ikigai 2.0 (50:00).
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: Life purpose, ikigai, Ikigai 2.0 breakdown, checks and balances when finding purpose, money as an optional byproduct of meaning, job crafting (45:00).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: Work vs Play, why passion matters, money as a byproduct of purpose, myth-busting purpose (1:00); My purpose and the evolution (4:30); Why ikigai isnât really ikigai, a walkthrough of Ikigai 2.0 (6:00).
- âThe Pathless Pathâ Podcast #143: Figuring out who you are and who you are not, figuring out the one thing you canât not do (41:00).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Redesigning the ikigai model, money as a byproduct, my own purpose (25:30).
- âEvolutionFMâ Podcast: Ikigai, truth of ikigai, Ikigai 2.0, money as optional byproduct (57:00).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: How did you know your purpose? (30:00).
- âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29: Purpose, happiness.
Sloww Stage 3 (Mental Mastery):
Explore more: Sloww Stage 3 (Mental Mastery): How do I build a better mind?
Childhood conditioning/socialization:
- âThe Pathless Pathâ Podcast #143: Stories and scripts I grew up with, getting to know myself, dissecting my socialization/conditioning, how I ended up on the default path, fear of disappointing parents/others, a bit about my parents and childhood, the hard work ethic script, being good at something vs loving it, being a âgood quitterâ (1:45); Background in graphic design, graduating from college, no internships, no rush to start a career, stumbling into a marketing career, waking up 7-10 years later wondering how I ever got into it in the first place, inversion & counterfactual thinking (10:00); Humanizing Sloww, getting out there more, realizing my personal story is interesting, balancing learning and living (53:30).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: How my marketing career actually helped me, the initial idea of Sloww, discovering intentional living, living and learning the hard way with lifestyle inflation (10:30); The importance of reflection and connecting the dots by looking back (50:00).
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: My background in graphic design through high school, stumbling into a marketing career after college, not questioning anything in my life until 2015 (0:00).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: Childhood upbringing, luck of the lottery of birth, achiever mindset, self-worth directly tied to work, Enneagram fears of useless/worthless (25:30).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: What was driving me in my marketing career? (7:30); Why do so many people fall into this way of being? (9:30).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Childhood curiosity and imagination, growing up shy and quiet, pursuing graphic design, not growing up a reader (2:30).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Childhood, growing up creative, design, perfectionism, information/life artist (9:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Clues and seeds along the path upon reflection (5:45).
Birth Lottery & Free will:
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: Lottery of birth overview, childhood amnesia, testing everything against my lived experience, the strangest thing, validating all this for yourself, Livewired by David Eagleman, socialization/conditioning, implications of all this, Creating Freedom by Raoul Martinez, universal/unconditional compassion, myth of ultimate responsibility, realization/understanding vs belief (55:00); Agency and free will, does it even matter, why it changes everything, why lack of free will is liberating vs limiting, how awareness of something changes your relationship with it, Keganâs theory of adult development and subject-object theory, false dichotomy of determinism vs free will, the holy shit moment, Behave by Robert Sapolsky (1:08:00).
- âCurious Humansâ Podcast: Lottery of birth, ovarian lottery, original position (or veil of ignorance) thought experiment, the strangest thing, everyone is other-created before they are ever self-created (46:30).
- âEvolutionFMâ Podcast: Where do desires and wants come from?, 6-pack abs thought experiment, wanting new wants, asking âWhy?â enough times always ends in âI donât knowâ, certainty vs uncertainty (43:00).
- âWhat Got You Thereâ Podcast #337: The lottery of birth, ovarian lottery, original position/veil of ignorance thought experiment (1:03:00).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: Whatâs your current thinking on free will? (59:30); Whatâs the ovarian lottery? (1:05:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #57: Lottery of birth, conditioning, compassion (29:30).
- âElevating Consciousnessâ Podcast #29: Free will (48:30).
Sloww Stage 4 (Spiritual Seeing):
Explore more: Sloww Stage 4 (Spiritual Seeing): How do I see beyond mind?
- âEvolutionFMâ Podcast: Spiritual synthesizing, taking a broad approach to spiritual teachers/traditions, defining spirituality, falling in love with truth (9:30); Suffering vs unfolding, life just happening, life living you vs you living life (11:45); Life is the spiritual practice, meditation as what you do vs meditation as who you are, the learning and the living are one and the same in real-time, no checklist of practices (no meditation, no retreats, no events, etc) (26:00); Closing the gap between reaction and reflection to real-time, ego-aware/construct-aware stage in EDT to watch your ego in real-time, defining awakening, aware of mind vs thinking you are your mind, postconventional stages of psychological development (30:45).
- “Elevating Consciousness” Podcast #47: Spirituality vs religion, seeing beyond mind, spiritual translator/spiritual synthesizer, creating common ground and coming to terms, creating a better map or finger pointing at the moon, Wise Walk (1:24:30); Thoughts on anger, thereâs no such thing as wrong experience, we see behavior but not experience, are people always doing their best (1:45:30).
- âThe Knowledgeâ Podcast #56: Being raised religious, spiritual baggage, spirituality vs religion, coming to terms with authors (24:30); Daniel Kahneman on money, The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel), question everything, be open to anything, life is just happening/unfolding, determinism and unpredictability, listening to life, wu wei, Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), awareness changes relationships (1:11:30).
- âAudience of Oneâ Podcast #010: What Iâm seeking, life is just happening/unfolding, do you live life or does life live you, Alan Watts on sailing vs rowing, Michael Singer on surrender (1:22:30).
- âLife Itself Ordinary Peopleâ Podcast: Self-questioning, self-inquiry, who am I?, listening to life, life unfolding (44:00).
- âWhere the Road Bendsâ Podcast #006: What is unfoldment? (54:30).
- âThrough Conversationsâ Podcast #95: Wise Walk (14:15).
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