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Four episodes, in order
If you have never listened before, this is the shortest path into what the show is actually about. About two hours in total.
The question behind every episode
“How do we develop the inner authority to lead, decide, and speak clearly when the world is louder, faster, and less trustworthy?”
Every episode helps you return to your own judgment — through enduring wisdom, candid conversations, and practical reflection for the responsibilities you carry now.
The Three Meanings Of Tao
Begin with the idea the whole show rests on: that there is a way of acting that does not require force. Lao Tzu is the plainest entry point into everything that follows.
Listen to this episodeFrom the OM By The Beach Archive · November 2020
The Three Approaches To Power
Three kinds of power — and why the one most leaders reach for first is the weakest. This is where the wisdom material meets the working week.
Listen to this episodeFrom the OM By The Beach Archive · November 2020
An Ecology of Mind
Bateson on how minds and systems are entangled. If you make decisions inside an organisation, this reframes what you are actually deciding about.
Read this reflectionFrom the OM By The Beach Archive · December 2020
The Seven Levels Of Wisdom – with Mónica Esgueva
A conversation rather than a reflection — Mónica Esgueva on holding Eastern and Western thought together without collapsing one into the other.
Listen to this episodeFrom the OM By The Beach Archive · June 2024
Editorial direction
Where the show is going
The subjects the next season is being built around. Not a schedule — a direction.
- 01The Decision You Cannot Delegate
- 02When the Advice Is Good and Still Wrong for You
- 03Leading People Who Are Tired
- 04What Ambition Costs, and What It Is For
- 05The Discipline of Saying the True Thing
- 06Authority Without Certainty
- 07The Season After the Goal Is Met
- 08Wu Wei in a Quarterly Reporting Cycle
- 09How to Think When Everyone Is Shouting
- 10The Leader as Student
- 11Silence as a Management Practice
- 12Dharma and the Job You Actually Have
- 13Reputation, Integrity, and the Gap Between Them
- 14What the Stoics Got Right About Bad Quarters
- 15The Courage to Change Your Mind in Public
- 16Grief, Loss, and the Working Life
- 17Building Something You Will Not See Finished
- 18The Ecology of a Working Mind
- 19Speaking Plainly in an Age of Positioning
- 20Returning to Your Own Judgment