The Empty Project

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Courses, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Do you ever feel like you’re trying to fit even more stuff into a life that’s already full? In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro are talking about our culture's obsession with more, more, more, and how it's making us overwhelmed, exhausted, and burnt out. Their solution? Empty space! Our culture doesn't train us to appreciate empty spaces, but emptiness is what gives things value. To hear how to shift your focus so you can start noticing and using the empty spaces in your life, be sure to tune in!

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0:00.0	So we've just finished recording today's podcast, The Empty Project.
0:06.2	You want to tell the readers why it's called the Empty Project?
0:10.4	We got thinking about the value of emptiness and you'll hear all about the empty spaces in our lives that are in fact incredibly precious and after we thought this all through and we knew what we wanted to talk about we went to record it on garage band and what comes
0:26.2	up in garage band when you start is it just says empty project which is the software that we record
0:32.0	the audio of the...
0:33.0	Yes, and it says that every time, but this time it was literally true.
0:38.0	We were making the empty project.
0:41.0	So in today's episode, you'll hear about the ways that the culture
0:46.8	teaches us to not see the beautiful spaces, the spaces that make everything into beauty and art and value in our lives and how we just
0:56.8	need to switch our attention a tiny little bit to bring all of that into focus for us and make our lives a little wilder.
1:04.0	Hope you enjoy it.
1:07.0	You know, what I'm seeing out in the world is a lot of fear and a growing amount of despair.
1:13.0	Maybe you're feeling that way too,
1:15.0	because the ways our culture has taught us to navigate the world,
1:19.0	to navigate our lives, they are failing us. We need a new language. We need a new set of tools to
1:28.4	find our way individually and as a group. And I know we can still do this. I put everything I do know about it into Wayfinder
1:36.2	Life Coach Training and the tools that I teach there are to help people redefine how we relate to each other, how we make a living, how we do community.
1:47.1	We can only change the world for the better if we redefine how we think, and the world needs wayfinders now more than ever. So please go to Marthabeck.com
1:58.1	and you'll find your way. Hi I'm Martha Back and I'm Rowan Mangan and this is another episode of
2:11.0	bewildered the podcast for people trying to figure it out, which we do for our
2:16.0	bewildered community, which is also known as the kahoot.
2:20.0	One big kahoot.
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