PEL Presents PvI#106: Heart Tchochkes w/ Seth Stephon Brown
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Seth is an improviser and aspiring professional "muse," which is a type of life coach that hangs out with you to see where you could be more in touch with your humanity so that you can then work out a coherent plan for your adult life. He discusses with Mary and Mark the conflict between authentic individual humans and a social structure filled with oppressive systems.
Should we "deprogram" ourselves from our standardized upbringing? Is there actually an authentic core we would uncover if we do so, or just a void ready to be filled with the promises of self-help gurus? We act out the personality store, the physically safe space, vulnerability coaching, ankle removal consideration, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is philosophy versus improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, |
| 0:09.6 | and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:13.6 | My name is Mary Hines, and today I am bringing the improvisational prowess, and I am joined by... |
| 0:19.4 | My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm bringing the supposed philosophy prowess, and I am joined by... My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. I'm bringing the supposed philosophy prowess, and we are joined by a special guest. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Seth Stephen Brown. |
| 0:27.6 | I am a professional muse and an improviser, so I'll hopefully be bringing philosophy and improv today. |
| 0:34.1 | Cheeseburger and fries. |
| 0:36.1 | I was looking at your website, the barstool theories.com. |
| 0:39.8 | Yes. |
| 0:40.2 | And usually a muse is the one who inspires others. |
| 0:44.9 | It's not the person who themselves is looking for ways to inspire themselves. |
| 0:49.4 | What is this musing all about here? |
| 0:51.3 | Basically, a new version of life coaching that kind of integrates a person's |
| 0:55.8 | obsessions and stories into the process. So instead of being very stoic or in like static rooms, |
| 1:03.7 | muses, we go into someone's life with them. We go out, we do events, we hang out together, |
| 1:08.0 | we see a part of their life. We feel like you hide so much of who you really are from a lot of people. |
| 1:13.5 | And if the job is to figure out what's going on and what's really up in your life, we have to see what your life is. |
| 1:19.4 | And so we inspire each other. So Muses get inspired by our clients and clients get inspired by us. |
| 1:24.9 | So it's kind of a, it's this really mutually beneficial and wonderful so far. |
| 1:28.4 | So what's the process like for when you're out and about and you're with your client |
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