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Featured Episodes
- Navigating Friendship - The Frog and the Scorpion: Resilience and Perseverance in the Face of Adversity
- "Questioning Conversations and Authentic Connections: Navigating Friendship in an Ever-Changing World"
- Understanding Pain in Friendship
- "Finding Happiness and Deepening Friendships: Embracing Rituals for Everyday Joy"
- "Embracing the Enchanted Stranger"
- The Hostage Friend?
- "Processing Emotions Daily: A Guide to Compartmentalization and Friendship"
- An O.C.E.A.N of Friends - Understanding Personality Dynamics: OCEAN Test Exploration
- The Orange Peel Test
- "The 'Popular Friend' - Navigating Authenticity: The Pitfalls of the Popularity Game"
- The Art of Joy
- OKAY
- Unraveling the Art of Asking Questions: Engaging in Meaningful Conversations with Our Friend Barry Lane
- The Humanitarian Clown – Ali Cheff
- The Transient Friend
- “The Miraculous Friend – Unveiling Miracles: The Transformative Power of Unexpected Friendships"
- The Other Weird Friend - Cultural Diversity's Impact on Society
- Slow vs Fast Communication
- Navigating Awkward Conversations - Unveiling the Pitfalls of Clichés and Finding True Dialogue
- "Fright Bonds: Exploring the Fascination with Horror Movies and Human Connections"
- Niceness vs Kindness
- Friendship and Emotional Support, Lessons Learned from Prejudice
- Very Superstitious
- Urban Mobility Behavior - How the Way We Move Affects Our Friendships
- The Art of Joy – How to Marry Joy with Hard Times
- We Are a Murmur
- The Art of Hearing with Dr. Cathia Walters
- Transitioning from Point A to Point B
- The Art of Stillness
- Wasted Time - How Do We Enjoy Our Time Together?
- Living Your True Life: 5 Ways to Embrace Happiness and Fulfillment
- "Unlocking Your Potential: How to Improve Your Luck and Manifest Success"
- Building a Positive Circle: 5 Kinds of People for a Healthy Friendship & Thriving Community
- Living For the Soul's Benefit, While Living Large - How Not to Stress Out About Money and Life W/ Barry Lane
- Relationships and the 5 Rules of Improv
- "Breaking the Silence: The Art of Friendship and Fearless Storytelling"
- Desiderata - The Things Most Wanted or Needed
- Don't Take the Bait! - Seven Strategies for Tough Situations with Friends, Family, and People in General
- Changing Our Narratives for A kinder, Friendlier World with Dr. Cathia Walters
- Don't Worry, Be Happy - A How-To Guide on Friendship and Wellbeing
- Radical Acceptance for Friendships, Careers, and Life with Dr. Cathia Walters
- Tao Te Ching of Friendship Finding the exceptional in the seemingly unexceptional
- þetta reddast - It Will All Work Itself Out
- How to Argue Well in A Friendship - and Still Keep the Friendship
- Away with the Hard Times! We're Done with YOU!
- Moving Through Trauma, with Dr. Cathia Walters
- Unleashing and Untethering Self-Identity within Friendships/Relationships for Survival
- Believe!
- What To Do When Your Friends Break Up
- Allowing People to Expose Their True Ways
- Of Sound Body and Mind with Jacqueline Fusari
- We Are Each Other's Messages in Water- Veda Austin
- The War of Art and Clearing Self-Hatred - Peeling the Onion to Love
- The Art of Self Awareness
- The Art of Vulnerability
- Don't Blame It On The Pandemic
- The Auger
- Me, We - The Shortest Poem in History and Muhammad Ali on Friendship
- Love and Hate - How to Heal a Broken Heart with Barry Lane
- Get Yourself Together!
- Official or Superficial Friendships
- 7 Ways of Rest Your Body and Mind Need So That You Can Be a Good Friend
- The Gift
- Understanding Nate from Ted Lasso
- IRL - Friends In Real Life
- Lesson from the Blue Jay on Authentic Communication and Revealing Authenticity
- Hypergrowth Mode Within Friendships and Relationships
- Social Comparison Theory
- The Worst Friend - The Noble Friend
- Kindness Rules - The Top 5 Ways of Showing Kindness
- It's Elementary
- Harsh but Truthful
- How to Make New Friends When You Move to A New Place
- The Invisible Lines We Must Cross to Live a Fulfilled Life and Be Able to Create Great Friendships/Relationships
- The Confidante - The Art of Confession
- Feeling Under the Weather
- The Notebook - A Happy Story
- The FedEx Delivery
- Earth Is A Small Town and Everyone Is Your Friend
- How You End Is How You Begin
- The Party Pooper and the Expert
- Ethics part 4 "he who cannot draw on 3000 years is living hand to mouth."
- The Origins of Ethics and Its Influence on Friendship part 3
- Ethics and the world of Good and Evil, and Right and Wrong
- The Ethical Dilemma
- The True Meaning of 'Martyr' and how it Affects Our Relationships
- The Power of Music: How Gray Baldwin Uses Sound to Transform Lives
- The Art of Identity and Understanding and Our LGBTQAI2S+ Family
- Respect vs Kindness - The difference between the two and how to use both in friendship
- True North - How to Find Deeper Connections
- The Art of Comfort
- How to Tell What Kind of Friendship You have
- The Art of Authenticity in Friendship - 4 Key Things to Notice
- The Wabi-Sabi Friend, How to Appreciate Every Connection and Situation in Life
- The Not So United States and the Voice of the Middle Ground - with guest Ruth Jefferson
- Filling Your Cup by Allowing for Emptiness -How to let go and feel good
- The Art of Travel and Communication in Another Country - The French Connection, The Gift We all Have with Ray and Vanessa
- The Gossipy Friend, how Twitter has destroyed our bond with one button; why friendship is so important and can save our society, especially right at this moment in time.
- The Ikigai of Friendship - Moving to Everyday Meaning and Joy in Life
- The Art of Ceremony and the Value of Ritual
- The Ceremonies of Life and the Disappointed Friend
- The Art of the Compliment - Compliment vs Complement
- The Art of Conversation and SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
- A Kind World - Finding Freedom and Truth During a Tumultuous Time, with Barry Lane
- Colors - How We Perceive Colors in Life and Color Translates In Our Connections with Each Other
- Social Penetration Theory - Outlining the Stages and Layers of Friendship
- The Quiet Friend - Speaking Up in Defense of Others or Having Our heads in the Sand?
- The Inside Job with guest Sharon Caren
- Galvanized - How Our Friendships and Thoughts Change the World
- Friendly Step #3 - Maintaining the Friendship
- Gaslighting in America - That No-Good Friend with special guest Emily Powell Gilliam
- Friendly Steps Towards a Friendly Society - Wings of Desire
- The Surrogate Friend
- Friendly Steps Towards A Better Society - 1 Brand New Day
- The Root of the Matter with Joseph Krikorian
- The Art of the Map with the Magical Cartographers
- The Art of the Story -
- Perceiving Together and Overcoming Adversity with our Friend Vanessa Brantley-Newton
- The Art of Creating a Loving and Beautiful World with Vanessa Brantley-Newton
- Eudaimonia
- The Awkward Friend
- The Art of Paying Attention w/ Maya Holland of Tools for Teens - Working with Energy Medicine
- The Strong Inner Compass with Maya Holland of Tools for Teens, Using Energy Medicine
- Intuition - The Art of the Start with Maya Holland - Tools for Teens
- The Break-Up - How to Deal
- Sawubona - Hello, We See you!
- The Favor
- Apologia
- The Bonsai Tree - On Nature and How We Grow
- Ego Amo Te
- The Art of Community with Maya Breuer
- CONNECTED - Roundtable #8 BREATH
- Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings with Mostafa Purmehdi - Social Responsibility continues
- The Yard Stick – How we measure up and what is the measure of a human?
- CONNECTED – Roundtable #5 – The Art of Creativity and Compassion
- Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings -#3 Social Responsibility
- CONNECTED – Roundtable #4 , The Reemergence
- Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings - Blockchain, ART, MUSIC, and NFTs with Mostafa Purmehdi
- CONNECTED - Roundtable #3 Visualize This
- Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings - Blockchain: Utopia or Dystopia with Mostafa Purmehdi
- Laughter is Medicine with Maz Jobrani, Tehran, and Mostafa Purmehdi
- CONNECTED - Roundtable #2 - Greetings From Around the World - How we connect and see each other
- Conflict Resolution with our friend Rock (Rockwell Felder of SquadCast)
- CONNECTED - Roundtable #1 - A Kind World
- A Kind World with special guest Barry Lane
- Unseen Forces w/ special guest Rachel Chevalier
- Friends with Money with Farnoosh Torabi
- Prosperare (Prosperity)
- Peculiar
- Play
- Survival of the Fittest and the Unlikely Friendship
- All In the Family
- Being A Good Host In the World
- People Along the Way
- The Mentor
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Recent Episodes
- Navigating Friendship - The Frog and the Scorpion: Resilience and Perseverance in the Face of Adversity
- "Questioning Conversations and Authentic Connections: Navigating Friendship in an Ever-Changing World"
- Understanding Pain in Friendship
- "Finding Happiness and Deepening Friendships: Embracing Rituals for Everyday Joy"
- "Embracing the Enchanted Stranger"
- The Hostage Friend?
- "Processing Emotions Daily: A Guide to Compartmentalization and Friendship"
- An O.C.E.A.N of Friends - Understanding Personality Dynamics: OCEAN Test Exploration
- The Orange Peel Test
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