BONUS: Finding Stillness Amidst The Chaos | Ryan and Samantha Holiday
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4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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While in Vancouver, mom of four asked Ryan - "How do I achieve stillness while being a parent and juggling everything in my business?" In today's bonus episode, Ryan and his wife Samantha are sharing their different answers to this question, breaking down what stillness means to them and how they work to cultivate it in day to day life. Check out The Daily Dad Podcast for more episodes like this!
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| 1:08.5 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 1:09.6 | Welcome to a bonus episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. So the Stoics have this word |
| 1:14.5 | Adiraxia, which basically means of a freedom from disturbances. I translate this as stillness. |
| 1:23.7 | That's a word you see in both the Eastern and the Western philosophies. |
| 1:28.7 | Like, how do you slow things down when they're going really, really fast? |
| 1:32.5 | And this is hard to do in any time. |
| 1:35.3 | It was hard to do in the ancient world. |
| 1:37.4 | Seneca talks about trying to concentrate when there's noise on the street below. |
| 1:42.4 | Blaze Pascal talked about how all humanity's problems |
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