B-RAD with Brad Toews

We all start life with a script but at some point we jump off that script and start to improvise our life. Doing our part to move human understanding forward, and beyond "the way it always is". Maybe a little music metaphor can help us get there?

Writing a children's book, defining creativity, and what it means to pursue the art of good. An interview with children's book author Jorey Tessier.

A giving experience that shows people the difference they make when they give. An interview with Givesome founder Jay Whitelaw.

We can move from a comfort zone into a capacity zone. Our capacity zone is beyond the brink of our personal limits (and limiting beliefs), it’s past the Shire.

In her memoir "Love Warrior" Glennon Doyle Melton says that pain is like a traveling professor. When pain knocks on the door — wise ones breathe deep and say: “Come in. Sit down with me. And don’t leave until you’ve taught me what I need to know.”

The idea of finite and infinite games comes from the work of James P. Carse and was popularized by Simon Sinek. I'm interested in how to apply the idea of finite and infinite games to how we live our lives.

Small hinges swinging big doors. One of the most important pieces of a swinging door is also the smallest. It's the pin of the door hinge. Without the pin, the door doesn't pivot and move. It's stuck in place.

Freediving of Guillaume Néry, my experience with transcendental meditation, and finding yourself in the ocean.

We know that death is ahead for every one of us. It's part of the circle that none of us escape. But what if life exists on the other side of death just as the natural world teaches us.

In this final episode of the series, I explore what the physical body can teach us about how we do the work of becoming. It is work for sure, but it's not the work of defining an identity, it's the work of living an identity.

The epigenome, vinyl records, and Stephen Pressfield's angel midwives.

What if, instead of defining the meaning of our life and existence with our efforts, we are endowed with meaning already? Instead of creating self we find self.

Our life is defined by three points of identity - me, you, and us. And it's the dynamic interplay between these three that creates a resonance in our life and imbue our being with its "one of an eternity" quality, something John Duns Scotus, 12th-century philosopher, and theologian, called "thisness".

True humility is the posture of a child and a willingness to open oneself to an expanding and evolving understanding of the universe, our own knowledge and experience.

How do we live with the tension of desire? What do we do about the poison of possessing? Can we find satisfaction in dissatisfaction?