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you behind the velvet rope and inside the lives of our most iconic stars.

This season, we're going to spice up your life, diving into the world of Victoria Beckham.

From her disastrous first Spice Girls audition to her fateful meeting with a certain footballer,

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Welcome to the Daily Stoward Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women.

For more, you can visit us dailystoward.com.

The only part of your reputation to worry about.

The Stowards were towering figures of their own time.

Marcus Aurelius was cheered in the streets.

Cato was widely admired.

Mussonius Rufus was called the Roman Socrates.

Their reputations preceded them as it should with anyone who takes their commitment to the

virtues of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom, seriously.

But how do we square these reputations, which these men obviously cultivated and worked

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