Inspire people. Support each others' growth. Create a meaningful life. Does this mission reflect your values? Welcome to the community! What is WHYLD about? Bringing together friends and strangers for conversations on topics that expand their horizons. Fostering the exchange of thoughts between people of diverse walks of life. Giving extraordinary people „from next door“ a voice to share their stories. Celebrating people’s authentic life choices. Why? So that YOU feel inspired to step into YOUR most authentic, vulnerable, wild self. How can you be part of WHYLD? We produce every episode with love and care. They are a gift to you which can be multiplied indefinitely. Take away from the content what you deem valuable. You may want to try on new thoughts, challenge long-held beliefs, disagree with some aspects of it, or find yourself affirmed by others sharing your experiences, your thoughts, your dreams. Please be invited to share your own view through means of our social media appearances, invite your friends to the discussion, or share the podcast with them...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 21 hours 17 minutes
episode 36: WHYLD36 - Camino Portugués - On Foot From Porto to Santiago. Will I Arrive?
Have you ever been on a pilgrimage?
“The Camino de Santiago […], known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain...
episode 35: WHYLD35 – What Can Dead Bodies Teach Us About Living? – Kari Northey
What story will we tell when we are dead?
“There's all sorts of scenarios of death that can be embarrassing. […] It's just very private and very intimate and they're forced into almost having to expose themselves to someone...
episode 34: WHYLD34 - Who Am I? How Appreciation of Others and My Reality Led Me Through Difficult Times
What if what you thought you wanted does not hold true anymore?
“The issue with phases of transitions is that they are exactly that: phases. They might start overnight and surprise the hell out of you. But then they will patiently accompany you until you figure out how to solidify the person soup that you have become.”
It feels good to be consistent, to stay true to past statements and beliefs, to be the reliable, steady type of person...
episode 33: WHYLD33 - Why Fight the Winter? A Long COVID Journey - Nanda Jansson
Will life ever be the same again?
“I felt sick for about 10 days. On the 10th day, I went to bed and I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling literally like there was an elephant on my chest...
episode 32: WHYLD32 - Happiness Without Challenging Emotions Is Not Sustainable, Here Is Why – Leonard Gabriel Heygster
???????? Like sweet and sour: Contrast makes a wholesome recipe – even a recipe for happiness? ????
Contentment, joy, satisfaction, happiness, well-being… we use various words ???? to describe a phenomenon that all of us seek to maximize in our lives...
episode 31: WHYLD31 - Is Connecting With People a Skill That You Can Learn? - Sara Ness
???? Do you feel safe relating your authentic truth? ????
“When I was in college, I got really interested in studying intentional living communities, co-ops, cohousing communes. ???? […] A lot of what the co-ops would run into were these continuous communication problems. […]????There were conflicts, they just wouldn't get dealt with because no one knew how to do it...
episode 30: WHYLD30 – Dad’s Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life - Cody Daigle-Orians
???? Is it okay to not want sex? ❤️????
???? “I just thought I was a broken gay guy for 20 years.” ????
When Cody Daigle-Orians first posted a video ???? on TikTok, outing ???? himself as asexual, he immediately received hundreds of comments from young ace (asexual) people saying “Wow, I didn't know ace adults existed!” ???????? He was 42 back then...
episode 29: WHYLD29 - Skin Tales: Body Painting As Healing Art? - Kristen Zamora (Adams)
????️ What if the most vulnerable parts of your story were painted on your skin? ????
This can be a scary thought. We all navigate the sweet tension between wanting to be SEEN for who we are and wanting to hide ???? certain aspects we feel uncomfortable showing...
episode 28: WHYLD28 - From Patient to (Role) Model? Defying the Odds with VACTERL Birth Defects - Anja Christoffersen
???? Is disability a tragedy? ????
“We shouldn’t think of disability as a tragedy but it was that I could have died - which was the tragedy.” ????
At 28 weeks of her pregnancy, Anja Christoffersen’s mom was told that her baby ???? had no stomach and would not be able to survive. 17 years later, her beautiful daughter was walking the runway of Amsterdam Fashion Week...
episode 27: WHYLD27 – A Family Sailing the Oceans for a Living – Brian Trautman
????️ A life happening on land, a vacation on a boat - we have heard of that option before. But who says it can’t be the other way round? ⛵
Former electrical engineer Brian Trautman figured an 18-month sabbatical at sea would get him over a “freakout about life” ???? when he left shore in Seattle back in 2009...