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When you say one thing but do another, it weakens your character. When you lie to yourself, you create a disconnect and find conflict in life. Many times our integrity is tied to our ability ti be successful in our relationships, careers, jobs and business, but also in how we show up for others and for ourselves. In this podcast, we discuss the ethics of kindness, how we cannot say we are against animal cruelty, while at the very same time, pay for it simply due to habit and social norms, and how this shakes our characters and foundations, the building blocks for life success.

In our deep dive of religious texts across the board, we discuss preaching mercy and compassion while sacrificing animals, exploiting animals and building slaughterhouses. We talk about the righteous care for animals.

Did you know aged and slower greyhounds are often sold to medical companies and universities to be forced to undergo invasive medical experimentation? Did you know society is constant brainwashed and misled to ignore what happens to animals for human pleasure? Did you know that, while still smaller in number, an ever increasing number of children and adults are refusing animal products and are speaking up for the endless number of animals that are killed each year? Children are looking up to vegan superheroes. Advocacy groups around the world are turning the animal exploitation system on its head. In our podcast we take a deep dive.

You know that feeling when something doesn’t sit right… but you go along with it anyway? Most of us have been there. We’re taught what’s “normal.”We’re told what’s acceptable.And over time, we learn to ignore that quiet voice that questions it. But holding that contradiction — knowing something causes harm, yet continuing to support it — is exhausting. In this video, we explore a simple but confronting idea:morality isn’t defined by the person making the choice…it’s defined by the one experiencing the consequences. When we apply that honestly — not just to human rights, but to all sentient beings — the line between right and wrong becomes much clearer. The difficult part isn’t understanding it.It’s facing it. Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it. But there’s also something people don’t talk about enough:the relief that comes when you stop resisting that truth. When your actions finally align with your values…there’s no more mental gymnastics.No more justifying.Just clarity. This isn’t about being perfect.It’s about being honest. If it wouldn’t be okay for you —why is it okay for them?

We do a deep dive into societal conditioning from childhood to adulthood and how it shapes how we view speciesism.

Just like a new mobile phone, humans come with factory settings. For humans, that factory setting is EMPATHY. Over time, societal conditioning that is forced upon all of us by pressure groups, controlling education, controlling the influences of what we buy, work to override our factory settings. Today we talk about the young animal rights activists who have the strength to stand against the conditioning, no matter the exclusion by peers. Yes 99% of humanity can be wrong and yes 1% of the population can be the outliers who recognise our inherent factory settings and stay who humanity were meant to be.

We might not like the truth but we must live with that truth. Some will say that the truth is flexible and has nuance. However, this is only where opinion intersects with truth. Opinions shape morals and morals shape actions. Then there are the morals we tell ourselves and others that are important to us, but those become weak-lip service when we look at our choices, the injustices we commit upon others and the harm we do for selfish pleasures, hidden behind false cognitive dissonance. Gary Yourofsky speaks to Vegan Action Global about how we can strengthen our moral baseline to become meaningful, intentioned people

How do we quickly make changes? Usually it is by understanding our real reason 'why'. We deeply explore a moral baseline that most humans claim they have but so few practice. Oliver Loos joins us from Anonymous for the Voiceless, Germany.

The truth is the truth. Whether something is moral is something only a victim can decide. In this podcast we explore the deeper ethics of becoming better humans and where all of human conditioning can be seen.

Have you ever considered the Animal Paradox and the Moral Inconsistency that keeps most of us trapped in a cycle of our endless problems? It is the paradox and inconsistency that keeps us as the oppressor and the victim. The oppressor of others but the victim of societal brainwashing and conditioning by governments and corporations who profit from pain. Changing your habits is easy when you let go of the inner turmoil . And in the end, the decision to do the right thing just feels great.

For anybody struggling to effectively outreach in their animal rights activism to advocate against animal exploitation, this podcast will break down an effective strategy that will stop your energy being drained by those you outreach, and assist you to better connect their actions to more their empathic values

What is moral consistency? When you have a moral inconsistency you have a weakness in your character that others can exploit. In this Explore Life Podcast, we interview Terry, a vegan animal rights activist to discuss base moral consistency, connecting to the suffering of others, and why it is so important to fight for the mos exploited beings on the planet. We also discuss why animal rights activists burn out or simply disappear.

Here, one of the hardest and affecting interviews Greg Dean has conducted. What if you were raised to commit violence by your parents and foster parents, for money? In this podcast, we explore the life of a man, born innocent, but raised to exploit and abuse other living beings for financial gain and the pleasure of others. A man who lost himself in the violence, who then suffered PTSD, then attempted to take his own life and what caused him to crawl back to create positivity in the world around him for a brighter, more peaceful future. Be prepared, because you will soon understand who you personally played an integral role in his childhood and adult work life, yet you likely never realised. Who he became at his worst, as a result of your personal choices. And you will be asked to make a different choice. Because, if the Second Chance Man can do it, we can all reflect on our actions and collectively create something amazing.. Today, you will be challenged, if you stay with us to the end. This is the Second Chance Man.

My name is Greg Dean. I am the host of Explore Life. In Episode One we explore what happens when you lose everything you have built, forcing you to start your life over, however, ensuring that you are not a victim, but instead, the recipient of the gift of new opportunities. We speak to a man lost his relationship, career,  business and his money and how he cut loose,  decided to explore what life really had to offer, and how he gained more than he ever expected by taking calculated risks. Interviews and lessons designed for you to apply to your own life. One Life. Limitless stories. - Greg Dean