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Hosted by Noel and Jake. Two friends lean into topics such as beauty, solitude, tenderness, and encounter. The presenters share reflections where grace came disguised as disaster and their belief that reality is more than generous.
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15. Farmer & Spiritual Director: Reconnecting With Nature’s Wildness Is The Way Back - Sean Sanford (opens the original)
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There's a reason a farmer and a spiritual director ended up talking about the same thing: comfort might be the least helpful thing you're chasing.In this episode, we sit down with Sean Sanford, Director of Mission for the Office of Ignatian Spirituality and a working farmer in New Jersey, who's spent years watching what happens when people (and land) are left to soften instead of stretch. We get into why modern life is engineered to remove discomfort, and why that might be costing us more than i
14. Why Successful People Feel Something Is Missing | The Hinge (opens the original)
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There's a strange pattern with high achievers: get them alone, take away the phone, the emails, the meetings, and within a few days something breaks. Not their performance. Their composure.In this episode, we talk about a retreat where CEOs and senior executives were given one rule: no distractions for three or four days. By day three, several of them were lonely, depressed, and confronting a mess in their personal lives that their success had been quietly covering for years.We get into why "bus
13. Why Truth Hurts | The Hinge (opens the original)
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What does it really mean to face the truth? In this episode, Noel O'Driscoll and Jake Esman explore what happens when we stop running from reality, and what it costs us when we don't.Drawing on Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Richard Rohr's Just This, and the Enneagram, they unpack why we resist reality even when it's right in front of us - and how acceptance, however painful, is the only path to genuine freedom.Whether you're working through grie
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