Recognizing Spiritual Ego – Podcast #280
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary

Cathy and Todd discuss “spiritual ego” and why many teachers develop a sense of “specialness” around their knowledge or awareness. This can lead to a desire for power rather than an ability to live the message. They also discuss a listener question about how to talk to teens about drugs.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My name's Todd Adams. |
| 0:10.1 | This is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:11.1 | Welcome back to yet another episode of Zen Parenting Radio. |
| 0:14.2 | This is episode number 280, sweetie. |
| 0:16.7 | All right. |
| 0:17.2 | You good with that? |
| 0:18.2 | On today's show, we're going to be doing some promoting of some awesome businesses that we're part of. |
| 0:23.9 | That's what we're going to do on the show today? |
| 0:25.5 | It's one of the things. |
| 0:26.7 | That doesn't sound too fun, though, really. |
| 0:28.2 | It is fun because they're all resources that our listeners will adore. |
| 0:32.5 | So what are we doing? |
| 0:33.2 | We're promoting? |
| 0:34.5 | Yeah, we're HGNA. |
| 0:36.4 | Our awesome Zen gets real. |
| 0:38.1 | Oh, for sure. |
| 0:39.0 | We're going to do that, but that's not what our topic is on the show today. |
| 0:42.0 | No, that was the first thing that I decided to talk about. |
| 0:44.5 | I love our partners. |
| 0:45.6 | And actually, we're also going to promote our Friday show, Dan Martinez. |
| 0:49.4 | Yes, it's a good show. |
| 0:50.5 | Oh, so good. |
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