The Ten Thousand (10,000) Heroes Show

Yesterday, I delivered my first sermon in an actual house of worship. It was an exciting and bizarre moment for me, and turned out to be quite beautiful. Exciting because I see myself as a priest, and giving a sermon is a very priestly honor. Bizarre because I never thought I'd ever write a sentence like that last one!  I've been marrying people for the last eighteen years. My first chaplaincy assignment was fifteen years ago. I've done plenty of conflict and relationship coaching over the past twenty years. I've even given away around 10,000 loaves of bread over the past decade. And yet, it's only recently that I've come to see myself as a priest. (growing up, it was always wizard!) One of my projects is to rescue the community-oriented elements of religion from the trash heap where they ended up, with the rest of the religious junk we discarded. To pick up the "baby" of caring and food and togetherness from the "bathwater" of dogma, rigidity, and us vs. them.   ​ My other project is to preach the gospel of ahimsa (unconditional love) at every scale, and explain both the pragmatic and spiritual benefits of doing so.   ​ Today's sermon represents a major milestone in my own understanding of that journey, and therefore, my ability to conspire with my fellow humans to make it happen.   (For the video version, go here: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes) 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

Earlier this week I spoke with renowned mediator Ken Cloke. Ken is a living breathing apostle of the philosophy of practical nonviolence that Gandhi and MLK took to such a high level. Because we were on a call with a group of professional mediators, I asked Ken what the recent US election might mean for mediators in the US. I'm sharing his answer more publicly because I see the philosophy behind mediation as being appropriate to anyone involved in human relationships. The mediation mindset is what happens when you look at human relationship as a spiritual path.  I encourage you to listen to Ken with the following question in mind: What is the essence of non-violence? He says the word "nonviolence" explicitly only once, near the end of the episode, but everything he is saying about doubling down on our values and rising above hatred is, in my mind, the core of Gandhian teachings. Other important tidbits are Ken's definition of an enemy, which is a really kick in the stomach, and his architecture of hatred -- the three essential elements to creating political hatred.   🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

Happy USA Election Day 2024, denizens of the world. May it be, in fact, happy and harmless. I have an election-day message for you. We Too Must Grow. It's a combination of my thoughts on the opportunities the election presents us with "It's Worse Than You Think" and my explication of a song that I think is INCREDIBLY RELEVANT to this moment. The song is called "We Too Must Grow". It was written and recorded by my friend Joe Bridge. Here's a link if you want to listen to a version without my comments: We Too Must Grow - Joe Bridge     🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

This episode is based on a speech/sermon I wrote in October 2024 and delivered at a March for Democracy in a small town. I used the opportunity to share what conflict mediation has taught me about winning. Part I: Definitions of winning and losing Part II: What's really standing in our way Part III: The pearl of wisdom and what we can do about it There's also some bonus material -- concrete guidelines based on 2200 years of human experience (the Bhagavad Gita) Enjoy! The full text of the speech can be found at: https://ankurdelight.com/2024/10/09/how-to-win-a-democracy/ 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

This episode is about Muslim-Jewish relations. It's about whats been going on in Israel and Palestine for the last year. It's about what's possible in the next year. It's about what happens when we expand the circle of concern. And it's about what is happening, all over the world, in small communities, unreported by most of the news, when people open their hearts, right now. I interviewed Aziza Hassan and Andrea Hodos from New Ground: A Muslim-Jewish partnership for change. I get their stories, their experiences, and their perspective on how to build a relationship that can handle the test of conflict. This the opposite of what you will hear on the news. It's about going deeper and staying closer, not demonizing and vilifying.  Join us. 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

Two years ago I overheard a conversation at a local farmers' market about Clam Gardens.  Being a nosy podcast host, I eavesdropped, eventually inserted myself, and got some contact information. Today I caught up with Ala̱g̱a̱mił Nicole Norris, of Halalt First Nation on what's now known as Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Nicole is a Shellfish Aquaculture Specialist, Intergovernmental Communicator, Cultural Support Worker;  knowledge holder, and language preserver for the Hul'qumi'num. She's also incredibly fun to talk to and not afraid to get deep and trippy from the beginning, as you will soon hear.  I had several shifts in understanding during our interview, especially around how we as humans relate to the other species around us, as well as how we relate to our ancestors and our descendants. Let's jump in. 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

In this episode I present what I learned from William Ury's The Third Side. The basic idea is that our communities and societies are the most important element in developing an effective conflict management system, and that the essence of being effect is to exert peer pressure on resolving the conflict instead of taking the "side" of any of the parties. Hence, the 3rd side... (For the video version, go here: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes) 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

For the last few months I've been reflecting on How to Prevent a Civil War. Here's why I think we need to act: - It is in the avowed interests of multiple powerful actors -- both inside and outside of the US -- to foment widespread discord, confusion, and animosity. - The logical conclusion of widespread discord, confusion, and animosity is civil war. - The people working on this have lots of resources and effective technology (ie AI chatbots) at their disposal. Basically, in absence of our concerted actions, things are going to get worse. The most effective tool I have come to so far is conversation. Honest, deep, vulnerable, heart-opening conversation. This podcast is V1 of a model I'm playing with that I'd like to try out. (For the video version, go here: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes) 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

The concept I want to present today is the Six Dimensions of Conflict, which comes up in Chapters 2 and 3 of The Crossroads of Conflict by Ken Cloke. Ken has a model where he breaks down conflict and how we approach it into six areas, and then looks at that sextet from 4 different angles: - Orders of Resolution - Math/Geometry - Location in the body - Mediation style 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

As part of my journey towards understanding what brings us together and what keeps us apart, today I want to share three examples of social dialogue I learned about in the past couple of weeks. I will resist the temptation to draw conclusions prematurely, but just let us all ruminate together with these three examples. The first is from Nelson Mandela's autobiography -- Long Walk to Freedom (PDF) -- which I'm currently reading. The second is a description of traditional dispute resolution in pre-partition Punjab from a recent interview I did with Somia Sadiq. (From: http://10kh.show/00117-every-conflict-hides-a-story-with-somia-sadiq 28:30 - 31:30) And the third is from a listener who called me yesterday and shared his experiences with a facilitator named Bob Chadwick. I'll share a little bit of what I learned in the call and then read a passage from Chadwick that I found online. (From: Bob Chadwick, https://managingwholes.com/chadwick.htm/) So, I don't know how you see yourself in this moment, but I see you as someone, like me, who is interested in and capable of preventing a civil war. Someone whose actions or inaction will have a lot of consequences where you live, not just this year or this election cycle, but for the next generation and the next phase in our social development.  🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

As Lao Tzu used to say: "Do the hard thing while it is still easy." According to my guest, Ward Hayes Wilson, it's a pretty good time to work on nuclear disarmament. This is precisely the opposite of all my reflections on the issues, which usually end in hopeless shrugging and attempts to resign myself towards guaranteed nuclear annihilation. (Much harder when you have kids!) Ward has a very different take, which is rooted in 30 years of obsessive study of the issue and the fundamental premise -- which he has confirmed will military leaders around the world -- that nuclear weapons are simply not useful for warfare. Bonus: He's also smart, hilarious, and does great accents.  (For the video version, go here: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes) 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

Somia Sadiq is a peacebuilder and entrepreneur focused on Conflict Transformation. Our conversation was so wide-ranging I thought it would be worth a brief rundown of what we covered:   - Resilience and Fasting - Definitions: Settler and Newcomer -  Identity politics - Ancestral guilt and shame - How to approach history (and history of oppression) without guilt - The role of public apologies - The limits of apologies - The necessary components of an apology - intentionality - acceptance of harm - remorse - how it impacted you - Description of traditional mediation in Punjab (from her grandparents' house) - Highlights from William Ury's The Third Side: Community as the Conflict Management System - What makes something feel fair? - Is taking sides ethical? - How do global conflicts affect our individual experience? - What do people mean by "trauma-informed"? - The Mice and the Cherry Blossoms Experiment - Trauma vs Agency and Free Will   While it was a stellar interview, I have to say my favorite moment was her story at the end. Listen for it.     🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸   ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.      ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again.   http://tenthousandheroes.club  

Casper ter Kuile is like a better version of myself. He's on a mission to rescue spiritual truths from religious dogma to fill the voids in modern life. We talk about what atheism and spirituality mean to us, gain inspiration from a John O'Donahue essay on "The Priestliness of the Human Heart," discuss the current struggles in El Salvador (and how to handle it), and finally, I broach the topic of: How To Prevent A Civil War. If you're concerned about the divisiveness in our culture and want to do something about it, I suggest you tune in ;) 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

Wolf Sherman has dealt with excruciating pain 24/7 since being hit by a car a couple of years ago. The relationships he has developed between pain, drugs, and gratitude struck me as something every single one of us can learn from.  We also get into modern masculinity and communication with whales.   Yeah, You heard me right. 🐋   🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

In this episode, I talk with one of my greatest mentors, John Giuliano, about how the Régimen de excepción is affecting his small community. Specifically, we discuss the situation of the co-director of the Tamarindo Foundation, Santos, who was arrested 54 days ago (as of March 6, 2024). The second half of the show (@ 16:02) covers John's response to the arrests, the difference between revenge and justice, and the unhealed wounds from the Salvadoran civil war. 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.    ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://tenthousandheroes.club

Here's a gratitude-forward recipe for Sourdough Bread. I go through the 4 main ingredients that go into the bread, and then go into the ingredients that go into those, and then the ingredients that go into those…   It's a gratitude practice. Try it out on literally anything in your life and see where you end up.   If you're actually looking for my recipe for sourdough bread, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w12kQ54EpnQ&t=0s   *** About The Ten Thousand Heroes Show *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Why are you here? What is this short and fragile life about?   These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along. But once we're exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.   Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning. But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.   The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.   We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.   And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.     🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.   ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://momentumlab.com/newsletter  

If what I'm trying to do with this podcast is: Go deep immediately without any fluff, and Help us all understand how purpose shows itself empirically, even when things look horribly gnarly,    Then I give this conversation ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.   It's deep. It deals with horrible things (sexual trauma). It's hopeful.   And Abby Carl is an absolute hero for turning all her experiences into something everybody who interacts with her can benefit from.   Check it out.   Abby's website: www.growstrong.one Abby's Instagram: @growstrong_one Abby on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grow.strong.5   Note: All my cameras flipped out during the recording of this in-person interview, so the last few minutes have no video. I didn't feel like deep-faking the rest, so I threw an audiogram in there so you'd have something pretty to look at.   🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.   ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://momentumlab.com/newsletter   *** About The Ten Thousand Heroes Show *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Why are you here? What is this short and fragile life about?   These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along. But once we're exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.   Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning. But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.   The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.   We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.   And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.   *** Show Links *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Newsletter: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: ankur@momentumlab.com Show Archives: http://10kh.show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10000-heroes/id1565667158 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Mh2WvODShs6jwIQSd0wp1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes Coaching Program: http://momentumlab.com/fellowship Upcoming In-Person Retreats: https://momentumlab.com/retreats/   ***  About Momentum Lab *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ The Ten Thousand Heroes Show is brought to you by Momentum Lab. I normally refer to Momentum Lab as an experiment-based coaching program or a goal accelerator. But it's beyond that. It's a deep investigation into Purpose, Vision, and what it takes to achieve our goals in every area of life. If you're interested in falling in love with who you are, what you're doing, or what you're surrounded with, there's two roads: Accepting what is Transforming your situation We help you do both.   The best way of learning more is to sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Ten Thousand Heroes Club: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter  

Jason Taylor runs deep.    He's an ecologist and Five Elements acupuncturist with a lot to share about living a healthy and balanced life.   But what I liked best is how deeply he engaged with the questions.   That's part of what I love about this show – it's not just Information handed down from On High, but a mutual exploration, where we're all learning about our paths, through the vessel of the interview.   Tune in to hear the throughline in Jason's journey from environmental education to bat research to acupuncture, and how the Seasons of Life are present not only in the year, but also in each day and your own life and moods.   🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.   ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://momentumlab.com/newsletter   *** About The Ten Thousand Heroes Show *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Why are you here? What is this short and fragile life about?   These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along. But once we're exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.   Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning. But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.   The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.   We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.   And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.   *** Show Links *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Newsletter: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: ankur@momentumlab.com Show Archives: http://10kh.show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10000-heroes/id1565667158 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Mh2WvODShs6jwIQSd0wp1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes Coaching Program: http://momentumlab.com/fellowship Upcoming In-Person Retreats: https://momentumlab.com/retreats/   ***  About Momentum Lab *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ The Ten Thousand Heroes Show is brought to you by Momentum Lab. I normally refer to Momentum Lab as an experiment-based coaching program or a goal accelerator. But it's beyond that. It's a deep investigation into Purpose, Vision, and what it takes to achieve our goals in every area of life. If you're interested in falling in love with who you are, what you're doing, or what you're surrounded with, there's two roads: Accepting what is Transforming your situation We help you do both.   The best way of learning more is to sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Ten Thousand Heroes Club: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter

Crystal Beasley is a trip. She's a high priestess of the heart and listening to her journey is the auditory equivalent of getting tickled (for me) at least.   At one point she tells me she is here to protect the place of women. Then she mentions a finishing school she runs, to turn Men into Gentlemen. And then she reveals the How: Teaching them to Ask for what they Need.   It seems simple, but every day I run into it. Sometimes with myself, sometimes with a colleague, sometimes with a daughter.   How much time could we save, Looping narratives could we cut short, and Sleep could we gain?   Just by knowing what we Need, and asking for it?   Resources Cris mentioned: Link to her film on Charles and Diana (6m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOw77x7JbGg Her website with a lot of different projects and resources: http://www.crisbeasley.com/ Her course "Holy Hell Yes - Navigate Massive Change without Losing Your Shiz": crisbeasley.com/maven   She actually made a discount code just for you: "Use code 10KH for 50% off until Jan 31st"   And, for more about the mystery school, which she can't post online, please email crystal@crystalbeasley.com   🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸 ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.   ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://momentumlab.com/newsletter   *** About The Ten Thousand Heroes Show *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Why are you here? What is this short and fragile life about?   These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along. But once we're exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.   Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning. But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.   The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.   We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.   And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.   *** Show Links *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Newsletter: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: ankur@momentumlab.com Show Archives: http://10kh.show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10000-heroes/id1565667158 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Mh2WvODShs6jwIQSd0wp1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes Coaching Program: http://momentumlab.com/fellowship Upcoming In-Person Retreats: https://momentumlab.com/retreats/   ***  About Momentum Lab *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ The Ten Thousand Heroes Show is brought to you by Momentum Lab. I normally refer to Momentum Lab as an experiment-based coaching program or a goal accelerator. But it's beyond that. It's a deep investigation into Purpose, Vision, and what it takes to achieve our goals in every area of life. If you're interested in falling in love with who you are, what you're doing, or what you're surrounded with, there's two roads: Accepting what is Transforming your situation We help you do both.   The best way of learning more is to sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Ten Thousand Heroes Club: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter  

Walter Faro sees himself as a protector and creator of refuge.   His father (and mentor) was a trained assassin and mercenary, and Walter has spent his life trying to understand and integrate the skills and worldview he learned in his formative years.   Incredibly, he brings this history and presence to his work as a DEI facilitator.   Naturally, his vision for how to create safety and protection is much larger than that.   Join us to hear the whole story.   Walter's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wtfaro/   ♥️ If you liked this episode, let us know with a review. And follow this show to get all our latest episodes.   ♥️♥️Of course, If you really liked this episode, subscribe to The Ten Thousand Heroes newsletter to get weekly 5 minute reads on meaning, purpose, and community. Plus, you'll never miss an episode again. http://momentumlab.com/newsletter   *** About The Ten Thousand Heroes Show *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Why are you here? What is this short and fragile life about?   These questions have easy answers in traditional cultures. You listen to the myths and stories of your elders and nod along. But once we're exposed to the chaos and diversity of the larger world (#thanksglobalization), the simple narratives of our ancestors suddenly seem silly and unattractive.   Rationality leads us into a desert of meaning. But it turns out that we left something important behind: Purpose.   The Ten Thousand Heroes Show aims to restore our collective sense of meaning and fulfillment through demystifying purpose.   We present empirical techniques and rational arguments for taking Purpose seriously, while leaving room for fun and mystery.   And we interview inspiring humans along the way, each of whom has a clear sense of Purpose, and whose sense of Purpose has allowed their success.   *** Show Links *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ Newsletter: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: ankur@momentumlab.com Show Archives: http://10kh.show Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10000-heroes/id1565667158 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Mh2WvODShs6jwIQSd0wp1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tenthousandheroes Coaching Program: http://momentumlab.com/fellowship Upcoming In-Person Retreats: https://momentumlab.com/retreats/   ***  About Momentum Lab *** 🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🏾🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏿🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏾‍♂️ The Ten Thousand Heroes Show is brought to you by Momentum Lab. I normally refer to Momentum Lab as an experiment-based coaching program or a goal accelerator. But it's beyond that. It's a deep investigation into Purpose, Vision, and what it takes to achieve our goals in every area of life. If you're interested in falling in love with who you are, what you're doing, or what you're surrounded with, there's two roads: Accepting what is Transforming your situation We help you do both.   The best way of learning more is to sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Ten Thousand Heroes Club: http://momentumlab.com/newsletter