What do women find attractive, and/or what do they seek when evaluating men as potential partners?  How might a changing world have shifted this over the last many decades?  If at all? I put up a poll on my social media account last year on the topic and got a pretty forceful response... so much so that my friend and fellow coach, Casey Sedlack, invited me to have a conversation about it, to take a deeper dive. I talk about a lot of my limiting beliefs around relationships in this episode.  This conversation was helpful for me to get a better understanding of my own unconscious beliefs that I've been holding for a long time, and allowed me to explore them with someone I trust.  Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg here.  I'm curious to know what your thoughts are on this topic and this conversation.Send your thoughts to [email protected] and follow on IG @thisnakedvoice https://www.instagram.com/thisnakedvoice/Find more of Casey at:https://www.caseysedlackcoaching.comhttps://www.instagram.com/casey.sedlack.coaching/Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

"There are a thousand right choices, and all of them are wrong.""Everything is a risk... once you realize that it's all a risk, then you minimize your risk."I must say, there are some wonderful and memorable moments in this talk I have with Dale Bates - a retired architect and urban designer whose focus for the majority of his career was on healthy design - architecture that supports human health.  Dale has also been an unexpected mentor in my life for the past 8 years.  Dale speaks to what being an architect and artist has taught him on his own human journey - about making decisions, and letting go of the illusion of security.  We speak about embracing risk and its relationship to our feelings about death.  Last but not least we speak about how to live in good relationship each day with our fear and anxiety - revealing how doing so can inform the quality of our own behaviour and life.   www.thisnakedvoice.comIG: @thisnakedvoiceSupport the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

How do Masculine & Feminine values shape our culture around work and life in general?  How do you define Masculine & Feminine?  Do you get down with Carl Jung and his badass self?  This episode attempts to define leisure in my own words, as well as explain why I believe it's important.  I do this through exploring  masculine and feminine value structures - Doing vs Being, in a nutshell - and linking them to the way our culture thinks about work, and as a consequence, how we approach life.  I touch upon Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, I have an excerpt from the Indian guru Sadhguru, and bring in the history of science and empiricism as a potential source for our overwhelming reliance upon the masculine. I welcome your feedback and comments.  Please direct them to [email protected]: @thisnakedvoicewww.thisnakedvoice.com Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

If you could take a pill to instantly learn anything you wanted, would you take that pill:A) Every time you had to learn something?B) Some of the times you had to learn something?C) Never?Why or why not?  What things would you take the pill for and what would you not take it for?  I continue my discussion with Prof. Eugene Matusov of the University of Delaware about the importance of leisure and its connection to education and our existence as humans.He references an Isaac Asimov story that was the inspiration for an impromptu study he did as to how people would choose to learn for themselves over time.  Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

Why is leisure important?  How might we see evidence of the lack of genuine leisure impacting us in our education systems and beyond?  This is part 1 of 2 of my conversation with Professor Eugene Matusov - he wrote a book called "Envisioning Education in a Post-Work Leisure Based Society".  Professor Matusov (or, Eugene, as I know him) is one of the most unique and out of the box thinkers I was fortunate to encounter as a student at the University of Delaware.  Though I was never in his class, I consider myself a perpetual student of his.  We get a small taste of his fascinating upbringing in the Soviet Union, and hear how he consistently rubbed up against a culture and society that didn't know how to handle someone who existed as uniquely in the world as he did.  We speak about the connection between leisure and education, about fake vs genuine leisure, Plato vs Aristotle,  and the necessity of Freedom - and how to define that idea more specifically so that we may transcend ourselves and self-actualize.  Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

It's easy to be a critic.  It's easy to tear things down.  It's much harder to be a creator - to have a vision of what can be and build things up.  What makes the difference between a cultural critic and a cultural creator?  Why is it even important to draw a distinction?  I speak to the intention and energies behind these two ways of being, how to shift from critic to creator, and why it's necessary more than ever.  Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

This episode was a treat for me, as I got schooled in flurry of fascinating information about the hidden wonders and the power of breathing.  I speak with Andy Sabatier - Doctor of Physical Therapy and founder of Academy West, which applies a physical therapy approach to changing breathing mechanics to improve people's quality of life - based out of Bend, Oregon.  https://www.academywestperformance.com/He's also been a dear friend of mine for the past decade.  "Andy Sabatier has spent years working in the ICU with patients whose breathing is compromised for a variety of life-altering reasons. Based on the success of focused breathing evaluation, education, and intervention in the ICU, Academy West was founded to apply these principles to a greater population. Teaching and facilitating the use of breathing strategies then incorporating elements of strength and endurance training allow all populations across various levels of activity to benefit. No matter our age or activity level, we are all trying to perform better in one way or another, and it starts and ends with how to breathe."I guarantee you'll learn something in this episode.  And hopefully, start paying a lot closer attention to your breathing, and how it impacts you, throughout the day.  I know this conversation made a difference for me in my life.  Even if it's only that I never say the phrase "breathwork" again.  (At least not in front of Andy)www.thisnakedvoice.comIG: thisnakedvoiceSupport the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

This first episode back of the year is a solo episode beginning to explore the question of "What does it mean to make a life worth living?" based on the incredible book called Zen and the Art of Making a Living.This introduction explores the unconscious myth that underlies our culture in the United States, and likely much of the western world - the myth of The Little King.  How does this myth influence the way we choose our jobs and careers?  How does it influence how we set our life goals?  How does it influence how we define success, happiness and fulfillment?And what do clocks have to do with any of it?   www.thisnakedvoice.comIG: thisnakedvoiceSupport the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

Divorce, Eviction, a Father’s Death - sometimes it feel like it’s more than the kitchen sink that life is throwing your way.  In Part 2 of my conversation with Erikk G., we talk about how these events contributed to him isolating from the very people who cared for him most, right at a time when those relationships were what he most needed.  That includes our relationship.  We talk about how shame, guilt and feelings of self-doubt have gotten in the way of our friendship countless times over the years, and throughout the conversation we find ways to share about how to move through them all.  There are some friendships worth fighting for, and sometimes that means holding my loved ones accountable for their destructive actions.  Erikk has always been worth fighting for to me.Who is it in your life that is worth fighting for, and holding to their best self?Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)

These next two episodes feature Erikk G. - Professor of Philosophy, podcast host of "The Relentless Picnic", and my best friend since 7th grade.  This first part is an introduction to Erikk, and is a small glimpse into the nature of our relationship.  Erikk is the type of friend who I have always called to explore emerging ideas, thoughts and feelings with, because I knew I would always be met with an open mind, open heart, and genuine personal reflection from him.  He has always been someone who has seen and approached the world differently, and he taught me to do so too.  And he always did it in a way that was not only thought provoking and meaningful, but damn funny too.  He has an incredible eye for pointing out the absurd.  This conversation is meant to set the stage for the next episode (Episode 11), where we dive deeper into the tougher parts of a 20+ year friendship.  We talk about how personal interpretations of life events and limiting beliefs about ourselves can get in the way of even our closest and most trusted relationships.  I hope this first episode intrigues you, and I look forward to having you back for Part 2.  Support the show (https://paypal.me/JoeyCardella?locale.x=en_US)