BONUS | The State of The Daily Stoic Podcast

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, Ryan Holiday, Stoic Philosophy, 694393, Philosophy, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Stoic, Business, Stoicism

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It’s been eight years since The Daily Stoic Podcast launched. In today’s bonus episode, Ryan looks back on the journey to 2,600+ episodes and shares what’s next.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more,
0:41.4	visit daily stoic.com.
1:03.9	Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Happy New Year, everyone.
1:12.8	I know it's not actually New Year, but it feels like a new year. Just got back from vacation and went straight into a new school year. And you get into a rhythm when you have kids of, you know, is the New Year's
1:20.6	from January to December, I guess, but my year is August to June.
1:30.0	That's a year.
1:31.2	I don't know, it just feels like a new year just started.
1:34.7	The kids are a year older, even though their age hasn't actually changed.
1:38.4	Back in the rhythm of things, we had our little brief window with no commute, no homework, no
1:49.5	things we had to do or places we had to be, no sports, just hanging out. We had this amazing
1:55.3	trip to Greece. It was lovely. Spent about a month there. Could have been a little shorter. No, we had a lovely
2:01.7	trip as a family. Actually learned a lot as I talked about in one of the Daily Dad episodes we did.
2:07.2	And we went there because my son is obsessed with Greek history and we're trying to encourage
2:11.8	his interests. And of course, I also love Greek history. So I'm not going to try to knit that in
2:16.3	the butt. I want to encourage it. But I had this lovely trip. Now school just started and the Wisdom Takes Work launch is gearing up. So that it just, it feels like a chapter ended and a chapter begins, right? The book is done, except for the audiobook, which I am recording now. And then, yeah, I go into the marking mode. And then I'm working on my next book.
2:34.9	So anyways, a lot of things wrapping up, a lot of things starting. So I thought I would do a
2:40.1	state of the show episode in honor of this new year, which is not actually a new year. I know,
2:47.1	but you get my point. So we launched the Daily Stoic podcast eight years ago,
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