B-RAD with Brad Toews

Don’t ever apologize for the space you occupy. (Even if you're a culturally apologetic Canadian.) It discounts what you have to offer, and it rules out what others are able to receive.

Out of great tragedy and a slow and painful healing process Laura has gained confidence to speak her truth. Having learned the hard way what can happen when people’s inner wisdom is silenced by following a dynamic and compelling leader.

You are completely removed from the constraints of time. And yet we all live within the constraints of time. We are in time, but we are not of time.

The heart of an addict is healed by the heart within the addict.

You don’t cover an original because you lack originality. Rather you play with someone else’s creation as a means of creating yourself.

One year ago I started this podcast. Thirty episodes later I share what the name B-RAD means.

How do we know what we know? And how can we even begin to know what is unknown?

Like the ignorant fish in the story by David Foster Wallace, we're asking ourselves what's water? And we're exploring how reflection can provide the space and cultivate awareness to see reality with more clarity.

Reclaiming our original goodness, as not "just enough" but the fullness of our potential as created by Being itself. It's all good baby!

We use labels all the time. But who are we, really, under those labels?

What can H2O - honesty, humility, and openness - teach us about how to thrive as a human being, not just survive as a human body?

When you have integrity you are biodynamic. You are all in one. A closed system of sustainability where everything has a place. The compost fertilizes the field, the soil grows the grapes, the insects pollinate the blossoms, the sheep eat the grass. It all belongs. It works together.

While I've been traveling this year, I've been wrestling with the following question. Why do I feel unstable when I don't have a house to live in? Home. What does it mean? And where is it?

I was a fearful kid and carried that fear with me into my adulthood. Although I've intellectually claimed the truth that the Divine has given me a spirit not of fear, but of power, love, and sound mind, I've never experienced that power in my body; a power that leaves no room for fear, until now. Join me for this story where belief becomes knowing.

Chewing is an integral part of our experience with food. How we chew has biological and psychological affects on our whole body. We can make some interesting points of comparison between the importance of chewing for our digestion and the importance of chewing on life experiences and ideas. Do you eat life too fast? Do you shallow big bites of experience without savouring it? Want to get more nutrition and nourishment from your life? Take a listen.