Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview Stoke philosophers, we explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal,

and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast.

I actually have a new producer on the podcast. Her name is Rachel.

Sometimes people think this stuff is just me and it's not it takes a village, there's a team behind it. And Rachel started working on some of the product management for the stuff we do over in the Daily Stoke Store, working with vendors, etc.

and ended up helping me schedule some guests and is now taking on a much more active role in producing the show.

What does this have to do with what you're about to listen to? Well, I'll tell you today's guest is one of the first ones that Rachel suggested not someone that reached out or someone I wanted to have on, but someone that Rachel was a fan of and had read and was telling me all about the name sounded vaguely familiar and I realized I was familiar with the work of today's guest.

And it happened that Dawson, who is one of the editors or something YouTube channel, he was also a fan and so when two people on my team are really into something that's obviously something I am going to give a look and I'm glad I did because I quite enjoyed the book of today's guest.

Dr. Samantha Bordman has a BA from Harvard and MD from Cornell and then she has a masters in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania to say she is trained would be an understatement, but she's interested in this idea of vitality.

What does it mean to have a life filled with vitality, right? And as we talk about in today's episode, that's maybe not the word that people would use.

Maybe naturally to describe what they want out of life, but it is in fact what we want we want to life filled with vitality also we want to be vital and her new book every day vitality turning stress into strength, the subtitle really to me echoes what I was trying to talk about in the obstacles away.

And of course the message of stoicism, which is how do you take the things you don't control turn them into things that benefit you or at least find a way to survive them if you can't get fully there.

And we talk a lot about stoicism in this episode talk about Victor Franco talk about her work and her new book every day vitality turning stress into strength, you can follow Dr. Samantha Bordman on Instagram at Dr. Samantha Bordman.

I follow her you can follow her on Twitter at Sam B M D and you can go to her website at www.positiveprescription.com. I really enjoyed this interview. I think you're going to enjoy listening to it.

And I think Rachel made a great suggestion and I hope it will be the first of many if they can all go this well.

So let's start with the idea of vitality because vitality is an interesting word. I think when people think about like what they want their life to be, you know, you're like describe your ideal life in a word.

I think they might say like successful or they might say fun or happy. I feel like weirdly vitality would be pretty far down that list.

...