The Via Stoica Podcast – The Podcast on Stoicism
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Via Stoica is a podcast dedicated to Stoicism as a lived philosophy and a practical way of meeting modern life.
We draw from ancient texts and apply them to real challenges, emotional reactivity, discipline, purpose, relationships, and adversity.
This is not about abstract theory. It is about practice, with attention to what is within our control.
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Do you follow your own advice, or only give it? This episode of the Via Stoica Podcast looks at how to practice what you preach, using a Stoic practice called otherizing: seeing your own situation as if it happened to someone else.
Welcome to the Via Stoica Podcast, the podcast on Stoicism. I recorded this one on a walk in Portugal and finished it at home after I met a friend and chose time with them first, a small example of Stoic philosophy as something you live, not just talk about.
It is easy to tell a friend that a broken cup is nothing and much harder to say it about your own. I ask whether teaching what I have not mastered makes me a hypocrite, and I share what I notice when I teach the pause on a Stoic walk and then catch myself adding judgments to my own bad moments. Epictetus gives us a simple way to create distance from a hard moment, and Seneca shows why even a teacher takes the medicine he recommends. I also talk about stepping out of my comfort zone, one step at a time.
Listen for a three-step exercise: recall advice you gave, recall advice you received, then ask what you would tell someone in your own situation and whether you can follow it. This episode invites you to bring the advice you give so freely home to yourself.
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