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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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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.
0:40.3	For more, visit DailyStoic.com. Let us fulfill our obligation.
0:59.9	That nice, warm feeling you're carrying over from Thanksgiving, that fullness after your
1:05.3	big family get together, from the meal, from the company, from all of it.
1:09.9	It's important that you realize that not everyone is feeling that right now.
1:14.6	In fact, many people are experiencing the exact opposite.
1:18.6	More than 47 million people in America face hunger.
1:22.3	Nearly 14 million children.
1:24.5	That's one in five.
1:26.3	One in five. Tragic and it's also unacceptable and preventable.
1:34.6	Add to that the recent government shutdown, federal cuts to programs that help food insecure
1:39.7	families and interruption of SNAP benefits. And it's not hard to understand why people in need of food
1:46.6	assistance are there and why their numbers have gone way up. Maybe you're thinking, well, what can
1:52.4	I do about it? How could I possibly help? Isn't stoicism about focusing on what's in my control?
1:59.1	How could I personally do anything about this insurmountable
2:02.5	problem? Well, as Marcus Aurelius wrote, those suffering humans are us and we are them. To allow
2:09.0	harm to come to them through indifference, through callousness, through despair is to allow harm
2:14.6	to come to ourselves. It's why the most magnificent moment of Marcus Aurelius' reign was not when he conquered
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