In this episode, I have another Casually Profound conversation with Adam Camac. We are on state 5 of the Someday Is Today sub-series, where we record a podcast in each US state. This time, we start off discussing if we should to go to college. Sit back and enjoy the convo!   Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:05 Should we go to college? 14:10 More valuable skills to have learned in college 43:20 Re-evaluating the teacher profession 58:44 Holistic view of education   -- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My Easy Mode newsletter is published monthly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

December 2023 was a more reflective time but also a season of launching something new: HOMEY. It's a local Kansas City Meetup group of those who are Long-Term Multitaskers at heart. People who want to have friends doing variety of things, not just a single activity. Listen more to find out about this group as well as everything else the rest of the month.  -- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My Easy Mode newsletter is published monthly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this episode, I share insights from a training/mastermind I attended with an excellent Business Consultant: Jessica Lackey. She's been a guest on the Casually Profound series as well.    I don't have the recording of this particular one but you can participate in future ones, which are hosted monthly, at this link: https://www.jessicalackey.com/dialogue#dialogue  -- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My Easy Mode newsletter is published monthly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this episode, I share an instance of how the smallest margins can make the largest differences.  -- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My Easy Mode newsletter is published monthly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

“The checklist of living an excellent life is not a hassle.” - Lauren Widrick In this episode, I have a Casually Profound conversation with Lauren Widrick. She is a badass leader, authentic speaker, and community creator. We set the intention to discuss topics that Lauren has never mentioned on a podcast, and that’s exactly what we did! We broached topics like our ‘never enough’ insecurities and where they stem from, our future visions for ourselves and how talking to our future or past self can help us live in that reality, the financial stories we tell ourselves that impact our health, wealth, and happiness, and achieving all that we desire with enough gratitude and joy so we actually enjoy our lives along the way.   0:00 Intro & gratitude for family and community 7:32 Visualization 10:24 Who do others think Lauren Widrick is 11:40 ‘Never enough’ insecurities and roots 15:50 Early childhood giftedness transforming through life 19:39 Lauren’s role models 24:49 Talking to our past and future selves, including matrix reimprinting 29:00 Roots of combining left and right brains 31:36 Disclaimers could be symptomatic of insecurities…? 34:42 Lauren ONLY wants to speak + fear + events 45:37 Integration Time 46:45 Sai’s calling of writing 52:57 How Lauren manifests what she wants 57:57 Financial stories we tell ourselves 1:04:00 Final thoughts   To learn more about Lauren: Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenwidrick/ Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-widrick/ Join the Grab Life by the Goals Squad: https://www.laurenwidrick.com/squad Follow her on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@laurenwidrick174 To learn more about Sai: I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training: https://www.saivasam.com/quarter-life-on-easy-mode-free-training Life on Easy Mode Playground: https://www.saivasam.com/playground 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program: https://www.saivasam.com/life-coaching If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to https://www.saivasam.com and subscribe.

November 2023 was a month filled with connecting with new people and long-time friends. I also continued my tennis league, and I guess the spoiler alert is in the title, whoops! --- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

Enjoy my unique insights, learnings, and connections with this month's piece of content:    Persuasion Through Narrative Essay with Ryan Bernsten   This was a workshop I attended as part of the Johnson County Writers Conference at the public library. If you watch the workshop on YouTube, I'm actually in it as well lol.  --- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this short episode, I celebrate my dad's 60th birthday in a grand way with many, many friends and families.  -- I am a Life and Career Coach for young professionals looking to Live Life on Easy Mode. If you're feeling stuck, lonely, lost, and unfulfilled, then you've come across the right person. I want to make you feel growth, connectedness, clarity, and fulfillment. If you're interested, I have my 1x1 Easy Mode Coaching Program, Life on Easy Mode Playground (community of people who are interested in self-growth), and Free 60 Minute Life on Easy Mode Training. If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

Meet Declan Berndt, the most recent conversation partner on the Casually Profound series! Declan is a courageous, authentic man who experiences life deeply. You get a sense for that from the get go with his unique perspective on my first question.    Chapters: 0:00 Intro and Gratitude 2:55 Visualization 5:36 Who do others think Declan Berndt is? 7:20 Authentic, brave, courage, comfort zone, imposter syndrome 16:45 Writing a book, inspiration from real life 24:24 Social media reset 32:05 Absence accentuating the original presence of something 34:45 What does processing, reflection, integration actually look like 37:22 Integration Time 38:45 Who are the people Sai is spending most of his energy around 43:00 Who are the people Declan is spending most of his energy around 44:23 Expressing our truest selves amongst men 53:00 Integrating somatic practices into daily life 56:18 Holistic types of intelligence  1:00:00 Declan’s experience in South Africa and the US 1:03:15 How liberation feels different for everyone 1:05:43 The 8 types of freedom 1:08:33 Peace! --- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

October 2023 was a month where I started to prioritize meeting people over writing. That's the way to grow a business, at least at the very beginning. I followed the breadcrumbs set by other people to meet more people, go to more events, etc. Hope you're doing the same.  --- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

Enjoy my unique insights, learnings, and connections with this month's piece of content:    School-Kids as Factory Products | Zach Lahn     In this one, I am really drawn to Zach Lahn's Wonder School, which is in my home state of Kansas. I invite you to explore alternative forms of education other than public education if you have the means. This is a great place to start.    If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this short episode, I describe the potential end of something (my car) and the beginning of something else (a relationship).  -- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this episode, I have a Casually Profound conversation with Alphonso Meadows. He is a passionate, creative, engaging, and multi-faceted father, speaker, business owner, and musician.    Some links we mentioned at the end if you'd like to learn more about his ventures: The New Meaning Brand - Apparel (https://www.thenewmeaning.com/ | @thenewmeaningbrand on Instagram) My Right Hand Business Solutions - Payroll Consulting & Project Management (https://myrhbs.com/ | @myrighthandbusinesssolutions on Instagram)   Chapters: 0:00 Intro & Gratitude 3:35 Visualization 6:05 Who do others think Alphonso Meadows is? 8:30 Alphonso’s multi-faceted current and past ‘spinning plates’ 10:34 Being present as a transferrable skill between music and business 13:28 Scaling intuition in a business with conscious leadership 21:00 Defining leadership and discussing underrated aspects of it 29:00 Alphonso’s redefinition of success 34:25 Integration Time 35:30 Sai’s habits to create a fulfilling day 42:40 Sai’s journey with exploring spirituality 45:15 Intersection of spirituality and business 47:55 The art of listening for what people are not saying 53:23 How silence is an important part of effective communication 59:00 “You all are not out there” - How it’s easy to critique from the stands if you’re not on the field 1:04:20 Wrapping Up --- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

September 2023 was my first full month living back at home in Kansas City. Continuing to get adjusted to self-employment life + living with parents is a big shift.   --- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

Enjoy my unique insights, learnings, and connections with this month's piece of content:    Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #313   In this one, I reflect on how Jordan engages in open dialogue with others privately and how he approaches his book tour lectures, among other topics. Enjoy!   If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this episode, I reflect back on Labor Day Weekend 2023. A trip with the boys out to Denver. Lots of people I hadn't seen since college. We were able to reminisce on college days while building new memories. Hope you do one of these trips with your friend groups too.  -- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this episode, I have a Casually Profound conversation with Rachel Hatteberg Walt. She is a dynamic, passionate, enthusiastic, grounded, loving, purpose-driven individual. She shares her gifts every day with the world just living her authentic self, also showing through in her business Craftin Good (@craftingood on Instagram). Enjoy!   Chapters: 0:00 Introduction & Gratitude 2:00 Visualization 5:30 Who do others think Rachel Walt is? 7:00 Adjectives vs roles when we describe ourselves 8:40 Rachel’s value system 11:40 Rachel’s journey of freedom and using resistance for growth 18:45 How Rachel’s different roles have contributed to her growth 21:54 Example of family energy being connected 23:40 How to lean into your own intuition 32:27 How to listen to that intuition when you’ve been rational your whole life 36:05 Integration time 37:29 How does Sai play with his intuition? 40:24 Following your intuition with detachment 43:10 Technology’s impact on intuition including AI 48:54 What else is Rachel fiery about? 51:21 How to address larger systemic issues from the inside out 53:58 How Rachel is parenting with higher consciousness within larger societal contexts 55:24 Rachel uncovering her past limiting beliefs 59:13 Our experiences of releasing through crying 1:02:30 Rachel’s endeavors --- If you’d like to continue the conversation, you can reach out to Rachel Hatteberg Walt on Instagram at @rachelwaltandco along with her business @wearecraftingood.  --- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

August 2023 saw some big changes in my life, the largest of which was the move from Charlotte back home to Kansas City.  --- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

Enjoy my unique insights, learnings, and connections with this month's piece of content:    Master Your Communication Workshop hosted by Brenden Kumarasamy and Vamsi Polimetla.    In this episode, I attended a great masterclass by these two leadership and communication coaches. It was 90 minutes of insight and engagement. I highly recommend you attend their sessions when you can. Click the links on their names above to follow them on LinkedIn.    If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.

In this episode, I reflect back on my quick two-day Atlanta trip with a pit stop in Greenville. One of my first trips that I've taken advantage of being self-employed.  -- If you’d like to support my content creation journey, then go to my Ko-Fi page (https://ko-fi.com/saivasam) and give as much as you’d like. My TLDR of Life newsletter is published biweekly. If you’d like to get my latest original frameworks, exercises, and theories straight to your inbox, then go to saivasam.com and subscribe.