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I've been mourning the relationship and the future I thought came with it, while finally getting my back checked after almost a year of trying to rehab it myself. Somehow I still have this fountain of hope that keeps me shooting shots. I also get into Alfred Adler, the third musketeer of psychology whose ideas feel like everything I believe, and the Google notebook hack I've been using to study him on my walks. Creative Contact is my weekly pod: life abroad, decisions, and figuring it out in real time.

A quick Sunday one. A friend was in town for a week, so I took him to the men's circle I joined when I first got to Medellín, and it reminded me how much people carry behind the scenes. Then envy as a north star and why I think I could own courage the way James Clear owns habits, plus the pit bull I went to meet for adoption who was way too much dog for my shoebox apartment. Creative Contact is my weekly pod: life abroad, decisions, and figuring it out in real time.

Two months out from the breakup, recorded at the new place outside the city. I talk about Coop, the AI assistant that's been emailing embassies to help me renounce my US citizenship, and the other half of this season, which might include Bible study at 35. Creative Contact is my weekly pod: life abroad, decisions, and figuring it out in real time.

A hands-on-my-head kind of episode. A little existential crisis last night turned into the real question: what am I actually passionate about, and how do I build a business I'm excited to wake up for? Plus why the 9-to-5 is my mortal enemy, and why I'm starting at zero to one. Creative Contact is my weekly pod: life abroad, decisions, and figuring it out in real time.

two, actually

I've been testing mountain life around Medellin on weekends. Turns out I like the idea of living out here more than the living out here. A short one about small experiments and what they taught me.

Recorded right after getting let go for the second time in a year, from a place I'm about to give up because it's too expensive. Stay or go, shrink to the cheapest rent possible or swing for it, and how to decide before you feel ready.

Recorded early in the morning from a mountain town in Colombia I'd never been to. Some Colombia talk, and me thinking out loud about the shape of the business.

No fancy intro on this one. Lost the job, lost the girl, and now everything's flexible. On exploring this era through small experiments instead of one big leap.

Lost the job, lost the girl, and for the first time in years nothing is holding me in place. A rambling one from the end of August about what it feels like to be completely untethered.

dark night of the soul type shit

War mode vs monk mode.

this one slaps

Officially aired 4.16.26

Originally aired 2.6.26