
What if what you thought you wanted does not hold true anymore? “The issue with phases of transitions is that they are exactly that: phases. They might start overnight and surprise the hell out of you. But then they will patiently accompany you until you figure out how to solidify the person soup that you have become.” It feels good to be consistent, to stay true to past statements and beliefs, to be the reliable, steady type of person. But what if things that were valid in the past are overcome by reality? Can you be a consistent person AND change? This solo episode is a vulnerable account of a difficult time, when three pillars of Tina’s identity began to sway at once, shaken by the tremors of a personal earthquake. In this episode, Tina talks about: Liquefaction of soil and of an identityReorienting after losing interest in a dream careerAcknowledging the need for fewer stimuli in life Daring to navigate two romantic relationships at onceFinding the one thing that matters in this lifetimeResources mentioned in this episode:Quake City – Exhibition by Canterbury MuseumSoil Liquefaction – some info on WikipediaWHYLD Podcast episode 3, “The Hidden Superpower”WHYLD Podcast episode 33 with Nanda Jansson, “Why Fight the Winter? A Long COVID Journey”Blog post by Martha Beck, “Growing Wings: The Power of Change” Do you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one Do you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Mar 15, 2023
29 min

Will life ever be the same again?“I felt sick for about 10 days. On the 10th day, I went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling literally like there was an elephant on my chest.”Nanda Jansson is one of the unlucky ones who made the acquaintance of COVID-19 in March 2020, while the other billions of us followed cases like hers on the media, safely locked into our homes, not sure what we should believe about this strange new disease that was quickly taking over the planet.A lot of us had lived in some degree of denial, not believing the possible severity of an infection – and its potential to completely change the life which came afterwards.It took Nanda 71 weeks to return to work again. She documented the long journey to recovery on her blog called “Living My Truth”. Her “Corona Chronicles" spread around the planet and helped others navigate their own COVID story.“I don't feel I've been suffering from COVID. I've been surfing the waves. I like to see myself as a resilient surfer.” Nanda, a Dutch woman who found love and a new home in Sweden (“we actually believe we are the world's first internet couple”), is a joy to listen to, as she radiates a deep curiosity and gratitude for life. In this episode, we talk about:A “first waver’s” experience of almost dying and ever so slowly recovering from (Long) COVID-19Finding the gift and beauty in slowing downLearning to accept not only the “positive” aspects of our authentic selvesWelcoming challenging times for they change who we are for goodBecoming “person soup”Resources mentioned in this episode:Martha Beck: “The Way of Integrity” (book); “Growing Wings: The Power of Change” (blog post)Katherine May: “Wintering” (book)Nanda Jansson: “Corona Chronicles” (blog post series)“Wintering” (blog post)"The Elephant on my Lungs” (blog post)Do you want to connect with Nanda?"Living My Truth" blog: www.livingmytruth.seInstagram: @livingmytruth.seFacebook: @livingmytruth.seLinkedIn: Nanda JanssonDo you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Feb 15, 2023
1 hr 5 min

👩🍳 Like sweet and sour: Contrast makes a wholesome recipe – even a recipe for happiness? 😍Contentment, joy, satisfaction, happiness, well-being… we use various words 💬 to describe a phenomenon that all of us seek to maximize in our lives.Do the aforementioned terms really refer to the same thing? In what ways are they related? And what do we need to do to attain happiness and its linguistic siblings? 🤔👱 Leonard Gabriel Heygster wanted answers. And he had a hypothesis: “What you focus on is what you get more of.” ☝️ So, he mused, if he spent more time thinking about happiness… would he then get happier automatically? 🚀 Worth a try! And what better way to delve into a topic than to interview scientists and experts on the matter? The 🎙️ HumansAreHappy 🎧 podcast was born. In this episode, we ask Leonard about: What are the preliminary findings on his quest to understand happiness? Is there an actionable recipe for happiness? Which deep beliefs made him choose a rational, scientific approach for HumansAreHappy… and why does he now know that this alone cannot complete his journey? Did spending that much time thinking about happiness actually make him a happier person? Join us for this deep conversation 🤿 and get just one step closer to authentic fulfilment in your life. 😃 Resources mentioned in this episode:SelfHealers Soundboard PodcastHumans Are Happy Podcast (German language)Ep. 1 - Dr Ernst Fritz-Schubert – „Make sure that which gives you short-term pleasure also gives you long-term satisfaction”Ep. 2 – Dr Burkhard Pleger – „It is not about happiness… satisfaction is the supreme discipline"Do you want to connect 😉 with Leonard?Website (German language): www.humansarehappy.orgLinkTree: humansarehappyInstagram: humansarehappyTikTok: humansarehappy.orgLinkedIn: Leonard HeygsterDo you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Jan 15, 2023
59 min

🤗 Do you feel safe relating your authentic truth? 🗫 “When I was in college, I got really interested in studying intentional living communities, co-ops, cohousing communes. 🏡 […] A lot of what the co-ops would run into were these continuous communication problems. […]🤫There were conflicts, they just wouldn't get dealt with because no one knew how to do it.” Often, we find ourselves in challenging situations of socializing and communicating: 🍸 the awkward small talk at our friend’s party 😰 the job interview that we do not know how to conduct in a light and relaxed atmosphere 🧑🤝🧑 the difficult topic we want to bring up with our partners or housemates Sara Ness used to struggle with this, too, thinking she was lacking the social skills 🔧 required. Until she discovered practices that have the power to 😃 boost connection, trust, and communication in any setting: Authentic Relating. Sara is a connector, facilitator, community builder, founder, curious soul, and relentless researcher. 🦄 Listen to her share what she learned through years of facilitating 👩🏫 Authentic Relating, why she never actually liked being the CEO of her company Authentic Revolution, and what her latest research project 📚 on Relating Languages is about. Do you want to connect 😉 with Sara?You can support Sara here: https://www.patreon.com/snessWebsite: https://www.authrev.org/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/spesmiraInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/instigatress/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthRev/ Do you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Dec 15, 2022
1 hr 4 min

🤔 Is it okay to not want sex? ❤️🔥 💬 “I just thought I was a broken gay guy for 20 years.” 💬 When Cody Daigle-Orians first posted a video 📹 on TikTok, outing 📣 himself as asexual, he immediately received hundreds of comments from young ace (asexual) people saying “Wow, I didn't know ace adults existed!” 🙏🏽 He was 42 back then. In our culture, love and sex are dominant themes everywhere you look – in movies, books, advertisements, conversations with friends, expectations imposed by the family… 👩❤️👩 Many of us, including folks in the diversity-aware queer community, have never called into question 🤔 whether the need for physical and romantic intimacy actually applied to everyone. It does not. In this episode, actor and playwright Cody shares his journey of self-discovery, from identifying as a gay man with a “problem” 😒 to living life as a confident, out-and-authentic homoromantic ace person. 😃 Ace, homoromantic… say whaaaat? 😵 If your head is spinning from all the unfamiliar terms: No worries, we’ll explain all of them and more in the episode. Which is Cody’s specialty. 👨🏫 Through his social-media-based educational project called “Ace Dad Advice”, Cody is busy busting myths 🤜 and giving an authentic voice to the ace community. He particularly aims at supporting young people questioning their sexual and romantic needs and letting them know: You are not broken, your experience is valid as it is. 🌈 👉 Cody’s first book, “I AM ACE: ADVICE ON LIVING YOUR BEST ACE LIFE”, will come out in January 2023. 📖 Terms explained in the episode: ace (asexual) allosexual and alloromantic aro(mantic) greysexual and greyromantic demisexual and demiromantic … listen to the episode for Cody’s explanations (minutes 21 – 27) Mentioned in the episode: Cody on Dr. Joe Kort’s Podcast Do you want to connect with Cody? Website: www.acedadadvice.com TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@acedadadvice YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/acedadadvice Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acedadadvice Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acedadadvice Twitter: https://twitter.com/acedadadvice Do you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Nov 15, 2022
57 min

🖌️ What if the most vulnerable parts of your story were painted on your skin? 🎨 This can be a scary thought. We all navigate the sweet tension between wanting to be SEEN for who we are and wanting to hide 🙈 certain aspects we feel uncomfortable showing.While the latter might apply to arguably “minor” things like bad moods, particular quirks we are embarrassed about, or our perceived weaknesses, it especially applies to more delicate parts of our story: 😨 😥 Traumatic experiences we survived, physical illnesses or mental health issues we suffer from, violence and abuse we had to go through et cetera. Shame and guilt can lure us into silence and isolation, which might not help our healing. 🤫 Kristen Zamora (Adams), a professional face and body painter from 🐾 Paw Paw, Michigan (USA), breaks the silence and does the radical opposite: Painting people’s vulnerable stories 📖 in full scale on their naked bodies. It had started with artistic intentions at Grand Rapids🏆 ArtPrize 2017. It has evolved into much more: a healing modality, a full-on passion for Kristen, and an invitation to 🔍 look at her own hiding more closely… And she did it again: 5 years after the premiere, Kristen again contested at Grand Rapids Art Prize 2022... and won in the category "Time-Based Visitor Award Winner". Deservedly so. Congratulations, Kristen, and thank you for making invisible stories visible. Do you want to connect with Kristen?Website: www.kfxembodyart.comFacebook group: ArtPrize 2022 Embodied- Healing Through Body Art ProjectInstagram: @kfxbodyartDo you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Oct 15, 2022
57 min

😳 Is disability a tragedy? 🤔 “We shouldn’t think of disability as a tragedy but it was that I could have died - which was the tragedy.” 💬 At 28 weeks of her pregnancy, Anja Christoffersen’s mom was told that her baby 👶 had no stomach and would not be able to survive. 17 years later, her beautiful daughter was walking the runway of Amsterdam Fashion Week. 💃 Between those two moments lie years of 🏥 👩⚕️ hospital admittances, surgeries, the fight for self-determination in Australia’s health care system … as well as the ordinary life 👧 of a happy, self-confident girl growing up. Anja was born without a normal stomach indeed. Affected by the rare complex of birth defects called VACTERL association, there was even more unusual about the newborn’s body 😧: an extra vertebra, missing bones, no anus but two vaginas, a hole in the heart, the food pipe leading into her lungs, just one kidney… Reading this list of abnormalities, it is hard to imagine that this girl survived 💪 and keeps on defying all the hardships life throws at her. 24 surgeries, some as early as 5 hours post-birth, and 150+ hospital admissions helped her on this path. Anja is a champion. Being veered off her academic career path due to her health condition, she got on her feet again and created a different path for herself 🦄: As a model on international runways showing her scars, as a speaker and author, she has become for others what she lacked in her childhood: A role model who makes visible what you cannot see on the outside. Because behind every beautiful smile is a story, sometimes a story of disability and chronic illnesses. And behind every one of such stories is a champion. Today, Anja is the founder of Champion Health Agency 🥇, a 'talent agency' for lived experience representing people with disability, chronic illness and carers. Mentioned in the episode:Video by "truly": "My Rare Condition Meant I Couldn't Eat Food | BORN DIFFERENT" (YouTube)Anja's book called: "Behind the Smile: An Inspirational Journey from Disability to Ability"Do you want to connect with Anja?Website: www.championhealthagency.comFacebook: @championhealthagencyInstagram: @championhealthagencyEpisode cover: photo courtesy of Anthony ByronDo you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Sep 14, 2022
1 hr

🏝️ A life happening on land, a vacation on a boat - we have heard of that option before. But who says it can’t be the other way round? ⛵ Former electrical engineer Brian Trautman figured an 18-month sabbatical at sea would get him over a “freakout about life” 👻 when he left shore in Seattle back in 2009. He went all in, sold his house 🏡, his cars 🚗, his career 🕴️ – all in exchange for a 53-foot, 2-mast beauty called Delos and the promises of a vague future.12 years later, the land is where Brian retreats for a sabbatical whenever he feels like taking a break from sailing. For 12 years – impressive even for the most ambitious among globetrotters and sabbaticalists 😃 – he has rewritten what a “normal life” for him could look like: Diving, beach walking, collecting visa stamps in his passport, seeing the world’s most beautiful spots – and sharing it all with the community on YouTube 📹 for a living.Speaking of community, “SV Delos” ⛵ is more than just Brian. Over the years, many crews, including total strangers and sailing rookies, have enjoyed their time underneath the sails of Delos. Nowadays, it is mostly Karin 👱♀️, Brian’s wife and Swedish princess, as well as little 👶 Sierra, their daughter, who rock the boat alongside Brian. In this episode, Brian shares 💬with you his experience and practical advice on a number of topics, such as: 🌊 how to prepare for travelling the earth on a sailboat 🌊 what the perks and the nightmares of a life at sea really are 🌊 how to get over “I am not ready yet” 🌊 what to think about when planning to raise a child on a boat Now, what is a dream YOU have and risk forgetting until you retire (or maybe never)? Are you sure that this dream would stand in the way 🚧 of you creating a sustainable life for yourself… or could it well be the start of it? 🌈 Do you want to connect with Brian? YouTube: /svdelosInstagram: @svdelosFacebook: @svdelosWebsite: www.svdelos.comDo you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Aug 15, 2022
1 hr 3 min

Do you get the sex you want? 🔥 Oops, what a bucket-of-cold-water type of question. 🥵😅 Especially for those of you who don’t usually find yourself in conversations about sex. Why should one even podcast about it? Well… I dare say, sex, love, and relationships are a vital part of everyone’s life. 🌱 ❤️ 🧑🤝🧑 This applies in some ways even to people who do not “practice” one or the other for any reason. There is no wholesome, authentic living without integrating 🔗 the body you have been given, your feelings, your desires, your connection to other people, your boundaries, your relationship with yourself. 🧘 This episode features a brave woman who might not even call herself that. 🦸♀️ But sharing your relationship and sex life on a podcast and social media, so that others feel that they are not alone, requires courage. Sex coach Alexa Bowditch, aka That Sex Chick, encourages us to let go of limitations, ask questions, and embrace what is true for us – because our pleasure is solely our own responsibility. 💪😀 Whether you currently consider yourself to be kinky or vanilla, mono or poly, single or partnered, straight or not 🌈 – Alexa and her colleagues at Sex & Love Co have your back in exploring what’s possible in love, in sex, in life. Do you want to connect with Alexa?Website: www.thatsexchick.com Facebook: @thatsexchickInstagram: @thatsexchickAlso mentioned in this episode:@sexandlove.co (Sex & Love Co. - Instagram) @bryndaylor (Alexa's business partner and fellow coach @ Sex & Love Co - Instagram) @conscious.bro (Alexa's husband, men's coach @ Sex & Love Co. - Instagram) Do you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Jul 15, 2022
1 hr 13 min

🏃♀️Running away from where it hurt? We all have done that. But walking back towards it? 🚶♀️Being rejected for who you are takes a toll on a soul. Especially so if the ones rejecting you are the very people you love most - your family, your community. 💔This happened to Meagan after being outed as a gay woman 👭. One day she is a valued member of the local athletic and Christian community ✝️, on the next her “choices” are condemned as sinful and appalling. She left Mississippi. 🧭 But after years of seeking a sense of self-worth away from home, Meagan decided that healing could only be done where it all had begun: home.In this episode, writer and speaker Meagan O’Nan shares her journey towards self-love, reconnecting with her community, and raising a child 👩👩👧 of two moms there. You’ll learn about Meagan’s take on the differences between authenticity and vulnerability and find out why she says: “Speaking vulnerably has changed my life."You can read more about and from Meagan in her 3 books:📚 Creating Your Heaven on Earth: Unveiling the Truth that Was Always There (2008)📚 Courage: Agreeing to Disagree Is Not Enough (2014)📚 Held and Free (will be published in September 2022) Do you want to connect with Meagan?Her website: www.meaganonan.comFacebook: /SpeakerMeaganONanYouTube: /UC4NWqDpzVc8WuH4HoLTqargInstagram: @megonanDo you enjoy WHYLD? Then get in touch! Quick one-stop-shop: www.linktr.ee/whyld.podcast Follow us on Instagram: @whyld.thepodcast Find us on Facebook: @whyld.one Or visit our website: www.whyld.one
Jun 15, 2022
56 min
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