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Ep 44 So Much Transcending Thought, but if It's Nice, Enjoy, KRS-ONE Apr 05, 2021

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Trying a different cardio machine..if that's your version of shaking things up then guess what? You're doing it. Keep it up. Starting a meditation practice we start to see thinking as the enemy, but when you're practicing, and you're on a roll, good thoughts start happening. Still the enemy? Also, crows. And meditative breath takes work, especially "tummo' exercises. "Re-Minding." Hip Hop or Rap? KRS-ONE (Knowledge Reigns Supreme)

ep 43 and 1/2. Stream of Consciousness, Unprecedented Follow Up, Spanish. Feb 17, 2021

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This episode isn't half empty, its half full. New things, breaking ground, and the magic of building value. And that half is brought to you by Duo Lingo! Where you can learn a new language in just 10 min a day. Try Duo Lingo for ten minutes just ONE DAY! You'll be so hooked you WILL do it again the next day OR... there will be NO charge!! By your 13th minute, you will FEEL your confidence in saying, reading, AND writing tranlastions like: "I am a woman." (Yo soy una mujer) and even "Juan eats apples." (Juan come manzanas) By week's end!!!.....you WILL be stacking tricks to conjugate verbs: Yo ends with 'o' and it's verb should as well (Yo bebo means 'I drink', Yo como means 'I eat') Download today and be on MY learning team and pay no charge AT ALL!!! Try NOW! https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKT7GTQCW7BYODLQ?v=la Follow www.instagram.com/ethansharrettofficial For curious hashtagging, nature, odd humor, and sexy, steamy dad fashion. #dudeoir God Bless. Namaste. Go nuts.

Ep 43 Slow Down, Good Conversation, Gamble Feb 12, 2021

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So you tried, and it worked out differently. Take the velocity down a notch. Coincidences. I'll keep trying. Will you? Good conversations where you don't know how they'll work out. Feeling Groovy. Art Garfunkel. Watch this shit: https://youtu.be/NAEppFUWLfc

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Leave a compelling comment that confuses someone else so much they might listen. Ride Uber again. Namaste, and God Bless.

Ep 42. What 'Battery' Can You Charge? Are We Really Empathic? What is Life? (Song) Jan 01, 2021

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See where this got us? I'm a wreck. Maybe its impossible to capture what your 2020 brought. Ditto. But please send an email. Also, understanding when impulses drive us this way or that. The subway in NYC, nothing like it. Instagram, Covid-19. Independence (lonely).

God bless, and Namaste.

Ep 41. Election in the US, "AP" Classes, Kanye, Fault, Fish. The Self, Nov 03, 2020

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Divorce gets better. Kanye West on Joe Rogan. The United States, or the 'States' vote. Trump. Left wing vs right wing: And the WINNER is..Ethan rambles about Betta Fish, commonly referred to as 'Fighting Fish', they can get along with tank mates. No live concerts with the virus is bigger than we think. Advanced Placement classes in school, your kid doesn't know he can even TRY. Get involved. Thank you for listening. Transcript below. For oddity and feel-good (usually) follow www.instagram.com/ethansharrettofficial The JOYFull Podcast – Hosted by Ethan Sharrett –Ep 41. Election Night in the US. Fault. Fish. Fault.The Self. Concerts. - Free Listening on Podbean App 0:11 All right. Episode 40 or 41. Episode 41, let’s call it that. That’s what it’s going to be.And already, it’s somewhere in the 40s. Maybe another one will come out before thisone gets published. And that one would take its place. But this is probably 41. Sowelcome to it. And thank you for listening. As always, if you do like it, please leave acomment on like iTunes or Amazon podcast, wherever you’re listening, pleasure is.Leave a like, leave a comment, leave a recommendation. I used to say this more. If youdon’t like it, you know, if you’re going to turn it off right now, leave that in a comment,say, this is a pointless podcast, but it’s not. It is not. It’s somebody getting things offtheir chest sometimes. And talking about the state of the world, the state of The Worldin the mindfulness revolution. When we go inside, we can really face that the state ofThe World is really reflective of the state of our world. And what I want to say to youtonight or today - if you’re listening to this in the day, of course - is that this is not ourfault. I feel like everybody is really stressed out right now. I don’t like to label theepisodes like with a specific event, because then when the event is done, who’s goingto listen to that episode, then it will be all for just that one day and only like sevenpeople listen to it. Like saying, like a special Thanksgiving episode of, you know, theNPR frickin, whatever podcast. You never got to listen to that unless it’s onThanksgiving, Ramadan, or whatever the holiday you celebrate is or some other,Kwanzaa, festivus, any other holidays you celebrate, you only want to listen to thattopical thing on that day, right?2:17 But I’m going to break all my boundaries and all my comforts and say this is a specialUnited States Election Day for president and we are coming to you live from right nextto my little fish tank, in Reiko County, Virginia, where I did vote today, and a lot ofpeople voted, not as bad of a line as I thought it was going to be. I tried to vote early acouple times last week. And every time I went by the courthouses where they weredoing it super long lines. So the early voting, early polling was, in my experience morecrowded than like the normal day, today. Page 2 of 83:07 I just got this tail algae eater. He is awesome. He’s just wiggling around like crazy. Ijust got done filming a video of the fish tank for the first time. I’ve never done thatbefore. But there is a beta fish and beta Fisher aka like the Siamese fighting fish,according to Alexa. A lot of people say Chinese fighting fish, Japanese fighting fish.But according to Alexa, Siamese fighting fish. And they’re not supposed to reallycohabitate that well with other fish, but he seems to get along great with this tiny littlealgae eater. I wonder what I’m going to do with that little video I took.3:45 But yes, Election Day. And I want to say, this is not our fault. Let me get back on trackwith that. This is not our fault. Nothing is this... And I don’t think who is going to beelected president tonight is, really, if you really boil down your emotions, me, youanybody, it really comes down to like this, right and wrong. It comes down to, or whatwe think is right. And we’ve charged up the wrong part with our emotions so much thatit is going to frickin sting. And you’re going to get angry if your guy doesn’t wintonight. And my god doesn’t win tonight. I mean, there’s going to be just like beforethe elections, anger on both sides. And I want to just kind of release us. Take a big deepbreath out and say, the phenomenon of more than even just social media andsmartphones and stuff like that. It’s the 24 hour news phenomenon. It was such a newtechnology, pretty recently, in the grand scheme of things, that this came on quick, andwe can’t be blamed for not knowing what the hell we’re doing and forgetting to be, youknow, really decent people through and through, throughout our whole entire day, ourwhole entire lives, and becoming really responsible and mature about some of the waythings are right now. Because this all in the grand scheme of things did come on superquick. And so of course, there’s going to be some tension. We’re all getting to knowabout how this works, hopefully. You know, I just want people to forgive themselvesfor emotionally charging something that is just tearing apart their lives or their day,their family. I mean, I got people in my family that would curse the other ones for theiropinions. Some families like really roll with it well with a good sense of humor. And Ilove you, but I just don’t agree with where you come out on what we should dopolitically. My family is kind of a little heaviness to it. Like it’s even for me. I mean, ifpeople start getting into, what they think politically, it just takes me out of it. So I’mgoing to work on that, I encourage you to do that same thing, too. Because we’re allgoing to be dying at some point. And we don’t want to look back and think, “Oh, mygoodness, it was so plain to see that we had this chance that really, really showed us Page 3 of 8where our tension lies and where we are turning on each other, and what emotion, whatspirit we are throwing at other human beings. And it was so crystal clear at that time.However, we just rode that out. And we didn’t say, All right, I’m going to enough ofthis. What’s a new way to think about everything?” On my deathbed, I don’t want tolook back and just feel like “Oh, dude, I can’t believe how bent out of shape I was aboutthat.” Look how! Look what we could have done. So let’s not do that. And I have acouple of pointers that I can’t think of them now, of course, and I didn’t write them out.But let me see if I could remember.7:42 First one. All right. Whatever... Let’s go off book. Let’s go completely off the grid.First of all, let me talk to you about my first government teacher that I really, reallyappreciated, Mr. Woods. Mr. Woods had this deep voice, Mr. Woods. He didn’t sayMr. Woods, except the first day, “My name is Mr. Woods”, and he write it on thechalkboard proper, like real actual chalk. But the roll call was funny, every day. Thiswasn’t like AP classes. I did not know that you should like strive for AP classes. Ialways put that out of reach. If you’re in high school or going to be in high school andlistening to this, get into those AP classes. Because apparently, from what I know, Idated a girl who was always in AP classes. And she was like, what the regular classesare like zoo. And I was like, “Oh, yeah. And you didn’t put yourself in that zoo?” Shesaid, “No, absolutely not.” I was like, “Oh my gosh! They were a freaking zoo.” So theroll call in Mr. Woods’ class, it was one of the funny things that some of the crazy classclowns would enjoy. Like, the low voice so almost like, not quite James Earl Jones, butsimilar. “You didn’t?” Yes! Yes. Here. “Michael, Paul Rodriguez” Here! You know.So everybody just kind of, say the name of the person. He just said, like, try to do it inthat low voice.9:20 But the cool thing that he said was, “The more you know about yourself, the more youknow about government.” And that the government is made up of a bunch of ourselves.So when we pull back and we watch what’s happening, and we don’t think that we, inour own lives, in our own spirit, are not part of what’s happening. We are absolutelykidding ourselves. So let’s make it the healthiest thing possible. “The more you knowabout yourself, the more you know about government.” He would say that nearly everyday. And I wish I could remember one of the exact lessons, but it would come back toand you’d be like, “Oh my goodness, it’s so true Mr. Woods.” More we know aboutourselves, the more we know about government. Where I’m going with that, but it’s Page 4 of 8not our fault is don’t blame us. This frickin social media and iPhone, and 24-hour newsphenomenon. This came on really quick. We got to adjust. And it says on my Instagramlike profile right now. And if you don’t follow, it’s @ethansharrettofficial.10:40 I’ve had that up there for a while. I really liked this phrase. I don’t know if I heard itsomeplace or came up with it or modified it or something, but it is. I heard about itsomehow. The music choice channel on my cable network that comes with myapartment, it has these little quotes that come up. And I think I modified somethingfrom that. But anyway, it says that you have got to celebrate the virtues of your politicaladversary. I guess it was. Is there a better word for adversary? The person who is onthe other side of you politically. And instead of attacking everything they do wrong, itmight be healthier to say, I’m on your team. If you don’t know, I’m going to let youknow that on the political right, the crazy Neo conservative Trump party, people on theright end of the spectrum. They have some amazing values that that actually motivatesome of the things that we can look at the bad side of if we want, but really, they aredriven and the people I love are driven by this, they’re driven by, like this love of family,this love have kind of a unit that appreciates like, this is time on earth. And let’s keepour family together. And there’s some good wholesome things about time on Earth thatare best when in shared moments. And it’s not even so much about, like a traditionalfamily. I believe as much as you know, work hard and take care of, of yourself andthose you love. And that motivates a lot of things. And the other thing that’s also reallygood. Is there preaching, preaching their attachment to the idea of self-accountability,and quit your complaining, quit my complaining, take care of yourself, take a good hardlook at what you’re doing that might be hindering you and be real about it. Those aresome things that are not on the political right. Those are some things that are if you areon the left, you actually really like those when you study yourself, when you studythese, these master guru teachers from Sadh guru, to the Buddha to this author that Ithink is amazing that Oprah thinks is amazing study what Oprah says, “Oh mygoodness, look at yourself.And don’t expect anybody else to see the true value and the true... And theresponsibility for yourself that you have” one of my favorite motivational speakers,Eric Thomas E the hip hop preacher, on YouTube, just so many teachers are saying,stop, you’re complaining, stop, you’re looking outside for problems that you can bedistracted by, and work on yourself, whether it’s your own health, your own Page 5 of 8mindfulness routine, your own finances, do that, focus on that, and, and be grateful.And through that process of you being healthy, responsible for yourself, working onyourself, you are going to have this flood of energy that can actually be a positive thingin the world and share with others. And that self-accountability is one of the other kindof virtues that I would encourage you to celebrate about that other side. So now let’s doit on the flip side. I think that was three right so On the flip side, all right. Let’s look atthose. Those wacky left leaning Neo socialist liberals. Those guys that don’t know whatthey’re doing, they’re bad. No, no, they’re not. They’re driven by some things that arelike, I see what’s going on. And this is not right, this is taking away, it’s taking awayprivileges from people that should frickin have them, like medical coverage. Look athow many people don’t have a shot at getting good medical coverage, getting a goodjob getting a good education, they grew up in poverty. This is a virtue for somebody tolike, dedicate so much of their time to focus on messaging that is centered around, likethe plight of impoverished people, or people who are not being treated fairly. That’sgood. Yeah, both sides are, we can look at what they do. That’s like, bad, but what’sanother good thing about those wacky leftist people, open minded, bring on in somenew ideas, you know, what a good American thing like cutting edge, the cutting edgeof, of how society can be run is, is what we think of as, like the one of the proudest, youknow, memories in the United States is what like Tom Brokaw would have writtenabout Is he the guy who wrote the greatest generation, some book that got some acclaimso nostalgic, and the stories about, you know, the troops coming home from D day,and in a ticker tape parade, when everybody understood that we were actually on thecutting edge of, of the best way to the best new way to look at things, the best new wayto possibly do things and in, in, in perfect, mega industrialized world, those virtues onthe left, they’re amazing. At and I’m going to break it down like that. So my point is, ittakes a lot of pride sucking up to start doing this, if you’ve built your habits and yourlife on, on, on charging up how wrong the other side is. And that’s some pride that whenpeople are faced with something real in their lives, like, like breaking an addiction. Inan in, maybe it’s just an emotional addiction. I loved going to a classes or classes,meetings, I don’t do them. I’d like to think that I can drink at a responsible level. Eventhough when I try to not drink at all. For days on end, I it’s very difficult. I’m just like,screw it, I need some wine. But it got me enough, enough interested to go into some ofthese meetings, and listen to people pouring their hearts out and they have to frickinwork they work on they rip out the darkness. They rip out what made them feel like the Page 6 of 8only way to hang on in the past. And they have to let go that they have to friggin let go.And we might have to do that.18:43 And I’m going to tell you a personal experience of mine. That, like when you get adivorce, I bet a lot of people go through this. There’s so much anger, especially whenthere’s children involved and at first, you’re just like you’re the enemy, you’re theopposition, everything you want. I don’t want everything I want. I’m going to have tofight you to get and everything you say I’m going to flip bad. And every time Icommunicate with you, I’m going to be a total prick about it. And that was like thenatural only way to like to control that energy for a while. But when you see people thatare really happy really working on the same team, and I see this a lot, and there’s peoplethat have understood this. And they got through it. And I was really helped by EdRatchford who is a healer who I interviewed with several episodes ago. Talking I don’tthink I talked about it as much in the interview but like on the phone one time. He waslike a man, even when I realized that it can be so much better to let those things go andbe on the same team. It kind of goes back on what you’ve been doing for a while. ButHoly Jesus that feels so much better. And it helps our children, it helps our souls to belike me and do what I can. And if I have to say something that you might not like, Ibetter, I’m going to, like really sugarcoat that and explain it to you in a way thathopefully we could go somewhere forward, rather than saying, like, you’re your dumbass, and this is what I want. And so, the point there is we’re going to have to breathethrough this, and I’m getting messages tonight, like a friend out there who said, I’m, Ican’t do it, I’m going to off myself. If, you know, Trump is elected president.…

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Ep 40. Relationships, Silence, The Korean Superpower of NUNCHI Oct 20, 2020

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Why it was hard to record during a crumbling relationship. What learning and experience I take forward despite the horrors of Covid-19. Going to a new career. Vlog explanation. Book review - Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success by Euny Hong. Voting. Continuing the mindful revolution. If you haven't, please leave any comment, it helps SO much (my favorite podcasters insist it does). For hot dude-oir posts and gym selfies, follow www.instagram.com/ethansharrettofficial The JOYFull Podcast – Hosted by Ethan Sharrett – Ep 40. Relationships, Silence, The Korean Superpower of Nunchi. 0:10 Before we start this episode, a big Happy Birthday to my mother. A just appreciation for everything that she did, [and for] making me realize at all times that love is the highest thing that we can strive for in every situation. And every mother has such a lot of work to do, and their kids are going to love them. And then they're going to blame them for everything. But any blaming that is done that is just one step on the road to self-accountability and taking control of their own lives. And so if you feel that child with love, like my mother did, it's all an amazing thing. So thank you for everything you do. And Happy birthday, Mom. 1:01 Welcome to my podcast. Thank you so much for listening. I owe a big explanation to the time, it's been since the last episode. Or if you're pretty new to this, you might have just listened to the last episode today. So I don't owe you an explanation. Except to the dates because you can still probably see like, "Oh, man, this guy hasn't podcasted for a long time." But it has been a while. And so I wanted to give a brief update, and just talk a little bit, because I was working on something. And I was like, "You know what, I should kind of work on this and the podcast at the same time." I'll get into more of that later. But an update is, yeah, some exciting things, some challenging things, which is, you know, I never know what to... There's a few months there after the virus started, and some big changes in my life, like a move or relationship. There are some moments that I didn't have the right place to give you like an authentic glimpse into what was going on. And I know that this whole thing was begun at as an idea to give you those glimpses as things were going on. And the challenges of what I was dealing with. So that hopefully more people could relate to those as they might have dealt with them, or it could at least relate to when they were dealing with them. But I just couldn't find the right moment that I was like, "This is what I want to share." It was fast blur. 2:58 So the last episode, I talked about how I had dedicated some time when I had my previous job to try to advance and change careers. And that had been kind of a big risk for me to resign from a job with the confidence that I could bounce into this different career path, different industry, different job functions and things like that. And I think on the last episode, it might have been a downer. I was probably like "Don't do what I did, or something." Like I still don't have a job yet. I jumped the gun on that. I was overly confident and just kind of sharing with you where I was on that. 3:57 Well, it was a hard road and I didn't get a new job as fast as I would have liked to. But I eventually did. I get a new job outside of my industry in an exciting line of work, in the digital content space, in marketing. And it's been exciting to learn things I've never learned, work with people who I've never worked with before and a whole different type of space. That has been really cool. And it was a difficult road that included not having much income for a while and surviving only on what I could Uber or what I could get through the Lyft and Uber driving, which was fun by the way. Did I tell you how much fun that was on the past episode? I really liked getting people in the car talking to them whenever possible and hearing what they had to say about this and that. If there's like... It's kind of cool. I look forward to actually to doing that again alongside of the next career. So that I could do that career and then sometimes go out and make a little bit of extra money during the driving and checking in with people of from all walks of life and sharing moments with them in the Uber or Lyft or what have you... I definitely prefer Uber. I don't know why but you have to use Lyft as well, if you want to get the maximum amount of rides. 5:50 So what I was doing for a while and it got to be a little frustrating. I mean, grace of God that I did qualify for the stipend of unemployment, the stimulus, payment, those types of things kept me afloat. And it was an amazing thing that I was able to get those and I still might just blows my mind still. But now since then I have gotten that job. I had to get help on my resume. I had to attend interviewing classes. My brother and his wife really helped me out with my resume. There is job interviews that went terribly awry like I told you on the last episode. But I eventually after that interviewing seminar and that Rebs that resume assistance that I got. It really ended up giving me a cool new opportunity. And so that's kind of the update about the job. 7:07 The virus update, it was a really unique time for every single person but and still continues to be. But so many people have shared with me how the good that they got out of it whether their life was completely different for one week whether it was different for a long, long time. A lot of people that had their kids at a school, whoa, that was a whole new experience just to be with your child that much. Whoa, that's challenging. I mean, you just see immediately when you talk to a parent no matter what age their kid is just to be... It seems like it would be a gift. And it is a gift. It's an amazing gift. But the energy that it takes from you to go from your child is in daycare throughout the bulk of the day or has a nanny or whatever or is in like a school through the bulk of the day to like 24/7, you are right there and have to make sure that child is like stimulated, entertained, fed, occupied at all times. It sheds light on an interesting concept about how significant that is, as a society as civilization in this country even which is the pride of the capitalistic. Everything's not a government program. It's as many things as possible are private entities and private companies. 9:10 However, one thing all people agree on throughout the country is that there's got to be a place for our kids to be away from the home for a large majority of a day, for a large majority of the year. That's a funny thing that even more than public pay for hospitals for medical care. It's like we need to make sure these kids all have a place to freaking go. Because it is not natural for parents that have to understand how to take care of their kid all freaking day. You got to be a professional for that. It showed me that for sure. But make no mistake, I have several pictures that will remind me of what an amazing unique time that was to explore full days upon full days with my son and my girlfriend now ex-girlfriend’s daughter and the kids in the neighborhood through that time. Also through that time, other really interesting things were the neighbors that lived on the street. The entire dynamic of a neighbor or a person at the store or something definitely neighbors. It shifted from that person that you wave to, do the little finger wave above your steering wheel or smile, like "Hey, how you doing? Great. How are you? Great. Take care." those simple, courteous interactions with so many people became very..., when nobody was working for a while or nobody was driving to an office for those... Most people, actually, incidentally, most people on that street simply didn't go to their office anymore but stayed home. But for that reason they're always outside. And there is also an atmospheric shift, what I really attribute to the difference of the sound of the atmosphere. 11:23 I remember one day walking out and realizing even though it was like a mile from the interstate. This is like a tucked away place in the trees and very seemingly secluded and you can hear owls at night. It's very dark there and you can see stars up above. But it's a little residential kind of circle and cul-de-sac type of area with great little condos not huge not tiny, super responsible people around that neighborhood, super friendly people. So it's not like an urban place where there's typically a lot of traffic noise, however, the extent of the virus shutdown was [Inaudible 12:15] and that this the seizing of the traffic on the interstate that was almost a mile away. It was so dramatic and so significant that the one day, I remember, thinking I've never experienced silence like this. It was both eerie and enlightening and calming. And I was really thankful for just the chance to look around. And see, by and large, everybody is okay at this time, at this moment that is completely silent. And there's no cars driving around. And just children were all playing in the street and the first several days that people really started coming together out in the street to let our kids play and to talk to one another. We actually had little chalk outlines to make sure that everybody stayed six feet away and the kids would stay within their families like little chalk bubble. And that lasted for a little while but over time you just got so accustomed. It seemed like one big family unit. And it became a little bit of gray lines to keep like your kids away from their kids and etc. So definitely see more and more relaxed. 13:41 Even though it was still definitely don't bring out a bag of chips that all kids are going to reach into. Don't share drinks with people. Don't offer somebody else some food where normally you might have said "Hey, have some of these brownies or whatever." Not that kind of brownie. You wouldn't. It just was understood that you don't... There is still some type of level of honoring the contagion as it were. But it definitely got more relaxed. And these neighbors that you'd normally would have just said given a wave to become like you knew everything about. Where they're from? Where their family's from? Who their aunts and uncles are? How many brothers and sisters they have? What their days are like? And hanging out with him all the time. So, it was an amazing realization to think of what the potential there is for those things that are right around you all the time and they could be so much more. And silence, listen. Silence. Total silence for a while was something that I'm gonna remember for a long time. Noise pollution has always been a thing that I just wish I could experience like zero noise pollution again. I've heard there's some country where no cars are allowed or Island or something. It'd be really interesting to go there. Love it. 15:21 So that's like the virus update. Let's see the relationship update. Man, I would love to get into that with you. I'm not sure I feel ready yet. But the there was a relationship that I was pretty fired up about that things didn't seem to work in the end. And wow, I mean, just culture has gone. So different, so fast that if you've been out of the dating world for a while and you try to get back into it. You see just the difference like, for example, now I'm like rebuilding. I have some side projects going on with the vlog and the channel and the podcast and some videos that I put together and a full time job that I love. And just like rebuilding but still I freaking wants some interaction. And therefore I'm on these dating websites. And you just imagine... We're just all swiping each other and expectations can't fricking meet. I'm not relationship material right now. I'm on under construction. You know what I mean. It's still on there. And other people like women are out there too. And they're probably not relationship material at all. Just got out of a relationship. No clue how to really make it work with the next one. But we're all on there swiping around and try not to be hurt. And so that's the world I'm living in right now. And a lot of things go into that, geez, I should have..., I'm gonna change my name, have a whole different podcast that's just about that. So I can say, breaking anything because there's a lot to be said. Just God bless you, if you're trying to date these days. Please allow yourself to change. I'm trying to allow myself to change and just embrace what the culture is right now. And go with the flow. That seems to be a good thing to do and don't take anything too seriously and go treat yourself. So that hopefully is a relationship thing. 18:04 It's tough with children but one thing that I know is the children need, above all, just an example of how to be happy. And so that keeps..., I truly, truly believe that no matter what I say to my son (no matter what) I tell him what he sees (what your kids see) is the way that you interact in the world. They just see what you do. So he probably detects like a little bit of, a tiny bit of confusion. Yeah, it's alright to be a little confused sometimes. But still that like things are awesome and we can appreciate everything around us and welcome every single day is like an awesome new day. And that is what gives me a boost to feel happy about everything. How did this get to multiple pods of my personal update? I remember for a while, I'll give you a personal update, a societal current events update and then a cultural update something like that. A method or technique that I've been working on or that I'm studying, an approach, an idea, a concept that I've been studying. That was the three things personal update, society and culture and then a skill method technique, approach that I've been studying. So somehow today, the personal update has been multiple facets of my personal update. 20:12 So I guess the next thing is, I guess there is something that I'm kind of that a new concept somebody gave me a book about this Korean concept of nunchi. And that is really fascinating. I recommend it. Let me go get it real quick. Alright, so the title of the book is "The power of nunchi" and nunchi is spelled N.U.N.C.H.I. by Euny Hong. This is called the Korean secret to happiness and success, the power of nunchi. And I'll try to summarize it but I definitely recommend you pick it up. It's an easy read, quick read, casual style but definitely an expert, this woman, Euny Hong, E.U.N.Y. H.O.N.G. and it seems to be this idea that in the Korean culture is so important. Basically, of knowing what's appropriate and inappropriate in any scenario, a lot of it is, it comes down to reading other people to see what really is appropriate. You might have an instinct that if you observed really what's going on your instinct is probably not a good play or it might not be. So just observe the room, observe the people you're with, to see what's appropriate and really what's going to be a good move to make the energy in the room better and to jibe with everything. And it's not always like this Western idea of kind of taking over a room or changing the energy of a room. And it's a lot about the classroom, the office meeting room, any kind of space that you happen to be a part of. There's like this overall taking in of what's going on at that time. And kind of appreciating everybody's p…

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Ep 38. Can Massage be done as Teletherapy? Online Energy Sessions, Healing, and Being a Twin Dad, with Ryan Greene Apr 06, 2020

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We continue our venture in uncharted territory. How can massage be done as teletherapy? Why has Reiki healing been credited with so much success by doctors and hospitals, though it is not "medicine"? Can the caring of another person provide a biological benefit? This is a conversation with the founder of Awaken Massage RVA and certified Therapist and Reiki Master Ryan Greene. Visit www.awakenmassagerva.com or follow at www.instagram.com/awakenmassagerva with questions or to schedule. Mention the JOYFull Podcast for a 50% discount for teletherapy. Follow Ethan Sharrett @ethansharrettofficial

Ep 37. Surreal Has Begun, Still Ubering. Essential Workers, Accusatory vs. Helpful. Mar 26, 2020

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The virus was going on overseas. Why I'm still Uber driving in The Van. It's getting freaky. Essential workers have to get to Food Lion, McDonalds, Kroger, Ralph's, the gas station you name it. We're taking part. Will they ever get the credit we owe them? Wishes for unity. Accusatory vs. Helpful. God help NYC. NOTE: The interview clips with essential workers didn't turn out quality-wise for audio. BUT see photos at www.instagram.com/ethansharrettofficial

Ep 37. The Surreal Begun, Essential Workers, Virus Response Mar 26, 2020

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The virus was going on overseas. Now the wildfire of COVID-19 is in the US. Why I'm working. We're taking part. Wishes for unity. Accusatory vs. Helpful. God help NYC. NOTE: The clips with essential workers did not turn out quality wise for audio. But see photos of them at www.instagram.com/ethansharrettofficial

Ep 36. How low can you go? Your confidence, that is. Hamlet, Mornings, Dad Mar 12, 2020

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Even when I got a part I wanted - Hamlet... my mind was ready for a sabatoge. Self doubt could be stifling us. We have no idea what's possible. Challenging schedules and finding your morning. There's a book called "The Morning Miracle" by Hal Elrod. It made a change pretty quickly. But then it was on me to keep that going. Trying to share how powerful that is. Please click like, and leave a comment, it helps SO much. Follow www.instagram.com/ethansharrettofficial Transcription below: The JOYFull Podcast – Hosted by Ethan Sharrett –Ep 36. Overcome Low Confidence With MorningMe-Time 0:15 Now it’s recording. All right, I’m going to try to recreate everything I just said whilethe microphone was not on. I don’t know how I’m going to do that. I’ve been ramblingto myself, I guess with no microphone on. This is Episode 36 of the JOYFull podcast.My name is Ethan Sharrett. Thank you so much for listening to it. It’s a pleasure to haveyou here. And as always, if you feel moved, every review or comment or little thumbsup, thumbs up really helps. But if you would, please leave any review on like iTunes,or Apple podcasts or anything like that. It helps people to kind of relate to what theshow is like and see if they want to check it out or not. And I would be so happy andthankful to you for doing that. And for listening. Well, it’s the JOYFull podcast. Andlike I said, Episode 36. All the other episodes, there’s a lot more than 36. But a lot ofthem in the first year were not designated with the number. There was just like interviewepisode. That’s all it would say. But from now on going forward, we are numberingthem. So no matter what, if it’s an interview episode, or just, I guess, an advancementtechnique episode, it will all be numerated.1:38 Well, I have just written a bunch of notes over the last day or so. And now they all looklike chicken scratch. “Who wrote these episode notes?” Me! Me, I guess, I did. Thisshow usually has three components. And it’s one like, what’s going on with me? Notbecause I need you to know what’s going on with me, but because anything somebodyis going through, chances are you are too, or have or know somebody who is. So I tryto just share what’s going on with me. So you can contextualize what the secondcomponent is, which is the sharing and description of some method, approach,technique, tool, idea that I am practicing. So you can figure out if you’d like to applythat or hopefully pique your interest in it because everything I practice, I feel it is reallypositive and good. I mean, I do some things that are definitely not positive, And nogood at all. But the ones that I’m sharing are all good. And hopefully I can pique yourinterest in some of those. And the third thing is like a cultural observation about somekind of issue, political issue, world issue, book, a movie, something in the media,something like that. I’m in media. I should be a mediaologist. I just came up with that. Page 2 of 9So thanks for listening, geez. Once again, I recorded so much good content, and I lookeddown. And somehow the thing had stopped recording. And I was literally talking abouthow I didn’t record enough because of the technical issues. So I’m trying to figure thatout. Thank you so much for bearing with me.3:31 This episode is just me talking about me, and you. And I’ve gotten a couple of emailsabout guests lately. And some of them have been anonymous, some of them have justsaid, “Thanks.” I like it. And even those, if you can just do those, those allow people topossibly check it out, possibly share, which I would be so grateful to you for.3:56 So what is going on with me? Well, I drove around today for Uber, drove a bunch ofpeople around. That’s a really cool thing to do. I like it. I mean, you get exhausted fromjust the stress of trying not to crash and have anybody crashed into you and traffic rulesand lane changes and all that. But it’s awesome for people to be able to... You turn onthis app and people get in your car and you say, “Hey to them,” and then you get a littlebit of money. So whilst I am between careers and sources of more stable income, I’mdoing that and it’s pretty fun. Just got done doing that today. And if you have anyquestions about what that experience is like, or what are the etiquette there in, youknow, or your observations or what your experiences have been with Uber, please writein ethan.sharrett@gmail.com, or you can find me on Instagram and message that way,its @ethansharrettofficial. And soon, like I keep saying, I’m going to flesh out thatJOYFull podcast Instagram as well. But right now, just the one picture.5:15 Well, I tried to bring it to you very authentically, if I can, which is not always easy forall of us. Some of us have to... We literally have to go into a specialist to bring out whatthe hell is wrong with us, right. And so I am trying to bring that about, and share it withyou. And what I’m doing to tackle some of the issues you also might be tackling, whichis causing yourself to experience more joy, and share more joy, because you’re full ofthat joy, and enhance our experience collectively and individually on this planet.Because a lot of things are possible. A lot of things are possible. And things that wehaven’t even thought of yet. There are things right now that we think are impossible.And we are all bothered by which will be done. And problems will be solved. Like theway our brains work, I mean, it’s going to be laughable some of the things that we thinknow and some of the divisions that are between us now, some of the bullshit we fall fornow, as society that... I really believe, like in a few years’ time, so many more people Page 3 of 9are going to understand how important it is for our brains to be healthy and how partsof our neuroses and areas of the brain can cause us to react in some of the ways that wedo that keep us from making any ground on some of the bigger issues, like helpingpeople get more educated. So that our economy doesn’t have these weird, artificialdamaging things in it, like that are bad for the environment, or bad for our own healththat we consume so much. And because we don’t know any better. Well, we’re goingto know better, we’re known more and more and more better all the time. So I encourageyou to just keep doing what you’re doing. Because it’s getting better all the time.7:45 Despite what you see in the.... Just don’t believe the hype. Don’t believe the hype ofthe divisiveness. It is only getting more and more and more and more. And in the end,I mean, you should believe the hype that if you take care of yourself and make yourbrain healthy, and share how to do that, with more and more people, which we are theyounger generation, as well as the people who are just fed up of like older generations,we are coming around. We are meditating. We are seeing that we’re accountable forwhat we do. And we are realizing we can give ourselves a better day, a better life bysome of the simple things we practice. And not by what we own. Although it is nice toown things. Sure.8:43 All right. I am kind of spent, but I do want to get into... Like the first thing was Uber,the second could be... What’s going on with me? I’m moved. I tell you that before inthe other episode. Oh! how I started... How I had my notes? This line from Hamlet fromHamlet, Shakespeare. Well Horatia sees the ghost of Hamlet’s father, also namedHamlet, memory serves. And he says, “Oh! This is wondrous strange”, and he’s like,“terrified”. And Hamlet says, “Well, then, as a stranger, give it welcome. There aremore things in heaven and earth Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Andhe’s like, through some kind of tragedy, the tragedy that takes place in Hamlet, he’sopened his mind to the world; things are possible. And he’s saying to Horatio, “Listen,your imagination, your philosophy right now, it needs to embrace new things becausethe world can be seen differently. There are things existing that we don’t think arecapable, are possible right now.” So that’s kind of like... That’s why I had that in mynotes. Because somehow this wonder is strange was in my journal the other day. Just Iremember writing down this is a mysterious magical world. There are opportunities.There’s more possible in this world than we think right now. And so let’s push our Page 4 of 9imagination for our day today, and tomorrow, and get ready for tomorrow. Get readyfor tomorrow.10:43 And that led me to think that when I got fortunate enough to be, in this little smallTheatre Company in Los Angeles with a black box theater, was doing a bunch of plays.And I was lucky enough to be cast and play Hamlet, in that little production in a stylishlittle take on Hamlet, but using the actual play, and I got so many I have so much rewardor good compliments, and, I don’t know, what are the what’s the word?Congratulations, everybody [was saying]. “Congratulations, amazing, that you got thatpart. Congrats, congrats, congrats, way to go”. And I remember feeling like that way Iwas, was amazing. I really was trying to get that part so bad. Which is funny in itself.But it was absolutely 100% real at the time. I remember at the read through the veryfirst read through when everybody gets together and sees who you meet, not only meetthe cast, but you know, we sit down and we just actually take out the play and readthrough it. So everybody’s sitting down in the, in the chairs of the theater, like they’rethe audience there. But this is the cast. And the director is the only one sitting on thestage. She’s the director, and she’s going to kind of call out, the stage directions andkind of paste the thing along for everybody. And she goes Ethan, you, you sit up herewith me on the stage your Hamlet. I remember just thinking, looking at everybody outthere, and the other guys who had also audition, who were playing some of the othercool parts in there, and they auditioned for Hamlet. I remember looking at each of themand thinking, oh my God! that guy would be an awesome Hamlet. “Oh my gosh! That’slike, that’s Hamlet. That’s what Hamlet would look like, right there”. That is what Iwanted to share with you that crazy level of self-doubt some of us get before we evenlike undertake a thing or while we are doing it. And I just want that’s like one of it’skind of always stay with me why would I even have that impulse of thinking? I’m sosomebody else should be hammered and not me. It’s not very good to go into a projectthat way. I guess I kind of ignored those instincts. And in the here’s the truth about thatno matter who is playing this part or that part, whoever is or doing this job or that job,Billy Bob or Joe. There’s nobody that can do them if they’re practicing these lifeaffirming practices, these techniques, and they’re finding they’re speaking from theirtrue voice. And they’re not thinking that somebody else should be doing it, but they’redoing enough repetition and enough exploration, enough study and just in confidencebuilding exercises. I mean, some of them are as simple as just saying, I am confident I Page 5 of 9am confident a lot of times and I didn’t at that time. I didn’t know that since then, I’vestarted this podcast. And because I’m really turned on by the ability to give ourselves abetter day and a better life through practice and that some people need it. And if youhave doubt or if you lack confidence sometimes, I just want to share with you how Ifound that was such a low point of doubt that I would even like think that and of courseI didn’t know I wasn’t quite a Were I mean, I, I did some of the practices that I talkedabout now. It was, it was probably, on my radar, how awesome Yoga is for you. But Ididn’t realize many, many, many of the other things that I share on this podcast. Andthat people have that make up the mindfulness revolution that say, you can advanceyour mind, you can take control of your emotions, you can cultivate more of the lifeand the energy that you want to have in yourself and therefore share with the world.Because, everybody deserves some joy. Everybody deserves to experience that. Andanything’s possible, it really is. Where was going with, I was just reading through mynotes, and saying, just how crazy that is that? How much you can lack confidencesometimes. And then I asked, how’s your tomorrow looking and if your tomorrow islooking anything, like, if you’ve heard me talk about like the Miracle Morning, or themiracle, the self, people call it the Miracle Morning, self-love time, the self-love hour,the Power Hour, the me time morning, the me gift, the I love me a lot to me, it’s allabout you. I mean, it’s you. And there’s this really special thing that you can do in yourmornings to, to I’d like you to wipe the slate clean of how you’re going to feel. Onceyou do these things, I just am going to encourage you to know that you’re going to feeldifferent. If you have a morning that includes some of these things. And if you can’t dothe 30 straight days of this me time morning, that’s 60 minutes long before you go towork or anything like that, if you can’t do that, and maybe you could do like four daysor five days. And I have an amazing experience with that. And the whole concept isthis, I want to ask you a serious question. When you got up this morning? How muchtime did you have before you were reacting to other things? How much time was it thatwas planned that you were hitting exactly the marks that you had designed? Like theprevious day. If you have the kind of life that you’re already like, bam, this is wherewhat I grab at 5:30am. This is what I do at 5:45am. If those are like all are already likethese, these bullet points on your day, kudos to you. That’s awesome. And I and then Iwant to challenge you and see if you’re doing some of these other things as well, sinceyou’re obviously a master of like staying on track with that. If you wake up and you’reimmediately like solving your kids’ problems, or immediately just trying to get ready Page 6 of 9on time and saying and like short, short cutting things to get to your car on time or, youknow, like I don’t have time to make breakfast, I’ll stop and get it. I don’t have time towash my hair. I’ll just you know, put it in a ponytail. Or whatever. If you’re doing thosethings, just reactionary, wise. When it started building a morning of me time, that’scompletely proactive that you planned the night before. And so if your answer wasYeah, pretty much felt like it was like a reaction the whole day until I got home. Andthen I at the end of the day, I can finally just laze around on the couch just for five to30 minutes and just not do anything because I’m so exhausted from getting myselfhome or getting myself and my family home or whatever.19:26 And this whole thing about this miracle me morning time. It’s just, I have so much moreto say about it. But um, that’s what we’re going to go with today. And I have some toolsif you’ve, if you it’s really, really hard to think of doing this. But the whole concept isthat there’s one hour that you’re going to gift yourself, nobody else can possibly dothis, except you. And it’s an amazing thing because the world is going to cause you todo react all day long. But this is something that starts your day out with you at the centerof it that nourishes your mind nourishes your confidence nourishes your body, and helpsyou visualize what you want. Even if all your visualization is I don’t know what I wantyet. And it’s going to allow you to bring in, there’s other things that you’re not doing,like start introducing them to you to your life, if you wanted to read a book, if youwanted to write a book, if you want to go back to school, if you want to get your realestate license, if you wanted to dimension those things already. If you wanted to learnsomething, get in better shape, get some biceps, get some guns for the hands, do somecurls for the girls, anything like that, you’ll get a chance to start doing those thing…

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