EP55: Stop Living a False Life
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Executive Director at Boulder Crest Institute, Josh Goldberg, shares his story of how he left his materialistic “Truman Show” lifestyle behind to pursue a life of meaning and connection. Josh shares how he was able to fix his life through service to others, and how volunteering with military veterans impacted his life. As Executive Director at the retreat and Co-Author of Struggle Well, Josh shares techniques used to help trauma: the 5 phases of Post Traumatic Growth and the Wellness Triangle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan. I am your host and today is |
| 0:09.1 | kind of be kind of a little bit of a piggyback episode off of our last episode with Ken and |
| 0:16.5 | really excited to kind of get into this episode today because we're going to talk with Josh |
| 0:22.2 | and he's the co-author of Struggle Well with Ken and is also the executive director of their |
| 0:28.8 | Institute Boulder Crest. So again kind of a little bit of some of the post-traumatic growth work |
| 0:36.2 | with different veterans and different kinds of trauma experiences but Josh has a very different |
| 0:42.1 | kind of background where he was not at all really related to the military life growing up |
| 0:48.4 | and I think has a story that many people will be able to relate to so without any further |
| 0:54.3 | ado. So hi Josh welcome to the show thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much Taylor thank |
| 1:00.4 | you for having me. Yeah definitely I'm really excited to get into this conversation with you as |
| 1:05.5 | it's a little bit of like the flip side kind of of what I spoke about with Ken in our last episode. |
| 1:11.1 | You kind of have a little bit of a different background but are involved in some of the same work. |
| 1:17.1 | So would love to kind of like start off this conversation just getting a little bit of a little bit |
| 1:24.0 | more of your background. I mean in our initial call absolutely loved how you kind of started telling me a |
| 1:30.3 | little bit of your story. How you know you were very opposite in the sense that you had no military |
| 1:36.4 | upbringing. So would love to hear you kind of walk us through your story a little bit of how you kind |
| 1:41.6 | of got connected with Ken. Absolutely so I tell people I grew up as as what I call an indoor Jew |
| 1:48.8 | in Dallas, Texas. That means I was somebody who was raised to use my mind and not my hands right I'm |
| 1:54.7 | not handy with things obviously outside of the camping. My job was to be smart and get a |
| 1:59.5 | profession and make the family proud and I did a good job of that and for I went to school to |
| 2:05.5 | college and graduated in 01 and then subsequently worked for big companies for the next 10 years |
| 2:12.1 | 10 or 11 years around the world and I had you know asked by some of my life were great and I was |
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