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Brick to Marble#31 - Is my life a comedy or a drama? It’s honestly just perspective.What “genre” is my life? Romance? Horror?Most of the time, it comes down to perspective.The same life can feel completely different depending on the story you tell yourself. Living long can feel heavy or meaningful. Living short can feel tragic or intense. Being poor can feel freeing. Being rich can feel suffocating.Nothing about the facts has to change for the experience to change.Perspective shapes how we experience pain, success, relationships, money, gender, aging, and loss. Two...
2026-02-0806 minBrick to Marble#30 - Young Women Born Rich , Young Men Born BrokeShe’s 22. He’s 50. And everyone sees it.This episode is about value. Not moral worth. Actual value. Social, sexual, economic. The kind that gets you attention, access, options.We break down why young women are born rich. They show up and the world responds. Parties, invitations, validation, powerful men. They don’t have to earn it. It’s given.Young men are born broke. No status. No resources. No leverage. They get overlooked. They have to build everything from the ground up. Money, body, confidence, presence.Older men come back into the...
2026-02-0111 minBrick to Marble#29 - My Butterfly Effect: Dengue virus, assault and robbery, fractured ribThis episode is personal.A single week in my life set off a chain reaction: dengue fever, an assault involving a motorcycle, money stolen during an apartment purchase, a return to Muay Thai that ended in the ER with a fractured rib, and the emotional spillover that followed.This episode explores the butterfly effect in real life. How small disruptions stack. How chance and causality blur under stress. How health, safety, money, body, and relationships influence each other once pressure builds.If life feels...
2026-01-2509 minBrick to Marble#28 - What Does It Even Mean to Be a Man Anymore?Being a man today feels like a losing game.Be strong but don’t be threatening.Be vulnerable but don’t be a burden.Lead but don’t control.Stay quiet but speak up... like a man.A lot of men are confused, exhausted, and sadly disappearing.Can we please talk honestly about modern masculinity, cultural double standards, silence, shame, and why strength and compassion don’t have to cancel each other out?Just a r...
2026-01-1811 minBrick to Marble#27 - The World Watches You Live for One Day (Can you handle it?) #TrumanShowWhat would actually change if the whole world watched you live for one full day?
2026-01-1109 minBrick to Marble#26 - New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work… But Make Them Anyway | 2026 EditionNew Year’s resolutions carry a strange contradiction. People dismiss them as symbolic, yet they keep returning to them because starting over MATTERS. Humans grow through structure, ritual, and agreed-upon meaning. Calendars help us mark time, track progress, and interrupt old defaults.Resolutions create change when they move from intention into behavior. Aristotle framed growth as habit, built through repetition rather than bursts of motivation. Carl Jung believed clarity appears through action, with understanding arriving only after movement begins. Th...
2026-01-0414 minBrick to Marble#25 - 🎄 For anyone feeling alone after Christmas... I'm going through it tooIf you are feeling alone after Christmas, this episode is for you.The days after the holidays can feel heavy. The lights stay up, routines return, and the warmth fades. For many people, that shift brings sadness, loneliness, and questions about meaning, relationships, and time.I am going through it too.Let's talk honestly about spending Christmas alone, how that changed as I got older, and why post Christmas sadness makes sense. We talk...
2025-12-2510 minBrick to Marble#24 - Relationship Check-In: Love Bombing, Emotional vs Rational Minds, and Learning to ListenRelationships move fast, feelings run deep, and stakes feel high.In this first-ever one-take conversation, my girlfriend Ana Beatriz and I sit down for an honest relationship check-in just one month in.We talk through what it actually feels like to fall quickly, question intentions, navigate age (35, 21) and cultural differences (Canadian, Brazilian), and learn how two very different emotional styles can still meet each other with care.This episode stays real. No scripts. No experts. Just two people figuring it out together in real...
2025-12-2134 minBrick to Marble#23 - Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself: The Neurochemistry Behind Your Life | RESET (6/6)Why don't I feel like myself anymore? Let's look through the only lens that makes sense: your neurochemistry.Neurochemistry shapes your thoughts, emotions, focus, motivation, and how you interpret your entire life.This is a clear, human explanation of what each chemical does, how modern life disrupts them, and why feeling “off” isn’t a character flaw... but a sign that your system is out of rhythm.(01:19) Dopamine (01:45) Serotonin (02:20) Endorphins (02:50) Cortisol (03:17) Adrena...
2025-12-0714 minBrick to Marble#22 - GABA & Glutamate: The Overstimulated Mind | RESETTwo chemicals determine whether your mind feels focused or chaotic: glutamate and GABA.In this episode of RESET, you’ll understand why modern life accelerates your brain through constant stimulation, caffeine, notifications, and multitasking — and why your “calm system” struggles to keep up.You’ll learn:• How glutamate drives speed, stimulation, and racing thoughts• How GABA creates calm, clarity, and emotional steadiness• Why silence feels uncomfortable when your baseline stays elevated• How to rebuild a brain that can slow down and focus again🧱 Lesson 5 of 6 | Next Sunday: Rebalanc...
2025-11-3015 minBrick to Marble#21 - Cortisol, Adrenaline & Survival Mode: The Stress Chemistry Trap | RESETSurvival mode once saved our lives. Today it runs through deadlines, notifications, and comparison.This episode of RESET explains how cortisol, adrenaline, and norepinephrine shape energy, focus, stress, and emotional intensity. You’ll understand why your mind races, why your body feels wired and tired, and how to create the internal conditions for safety again.You’ll learn:• How the stress system evolved• Why modern life keeps the stress cycle active all day• How to discharge stress instead of storing it• Breathing, m...
2025-11-2317 minBrick to Marble#20 - Serotonin & Endorphins: Why Calm Feels Wrong | RESETWe’ve built lives so loud that peace feels wrong.Silence makes us anxious, stillness feels suspicious.In this episode of RESET, we rebuild the chemicals that make peace feel rewarding again: serotonin and endorphins, your body’s natural stabilizers.You’ll learn:• Why quiet feels uncomfortable after overstimulation• How rhythm, sunlight, and movement rebuild serotonin• Why endorphins are the forgotten reward of endurance• The daily practices that make calm feel safe again🎧 RESET –...
2025-11-1609 minBrick to Marble#19 - Dopamine Addiction: Why Nothing Feels Good Anymore | RESETDopamine built civilization but it’s also destroying attention.It’s the chemical that drives pursuit, curiosity, and motivation, but when hijacked by phones, porn, caffeine, and endless novelty, it becomes the reason nothing feels satisfying anymore.In this second episode of RESET, we break down how dopamine was designed to help you survive, and how modern life rewired it to keep you chasing stimulation that never fulfills you.You’ll learn:• Why you mistake anticipation for happiness• How dopamine tolerance...
2025-11-0907 minBrick to Marble#18 - Dopamine, Cortisol & Overstimulation: The Hijacked Brain | RESETWe’ve all rewired our own brains.Dopamine, cortisol, and constant stimulation have made focus feel impossible and peace feel boring.This first episode of RESET explains what’s actually happening inside your mind — why your reward system is burned out, and how to start getting your chemistry back.You’ll learn:• How overstimulation trains your brain to crave chaos• Why silence feels like withdrawal (and how to survive it)• The pleasure-pain balance that governs every habit🎧 RESET – Brick to Marble Cou...
2025-11-0208 minBrick to Marble#17 - I Lived Like Peter Pan: Here’s The Truth About Never Growing UpHere’s the thing about Peter Pan.The genius is in its simplicity, as is often the case with children’s stories.Peter Pan represents the child in all of us who believes that freedom means flying away to a make-believe world, when in reality all he’s doing is avoiding maturity.Neverland is that idyllic fantasy that can never be reality. It’s avoidance and distraction... from ourselves, and from the people we love. From Wendy, who’s willing to take us, but can’t wait...
2025-10-2615 minBrick to Marble#16 - Why Your Brain Hates You: Homeostasis Will Kill You Or Heal You (Dopamine, Serotonin, Cortisol)The human brain is a balance machine.Every thought, craving, and emotion is shaped by three core chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, and cortisol.1️⃣ Dopamine drives reward and motivation.2️⃣ Serotonin brings stability and peace.3️⃣ Cortisol triggers stress and alertness.When they work together, life feels steady — energy in the morning, focus through the day, calm at night.But modern life breaks that rhythm.Caffeine, scrolling, porn, alcohol, constant noise — they all spike dopamine without effort, drown serotonin, and keep cortiso...
2025-10-1914 minBrick to Marble#15 - My Testicle Exploded in China (surgery photos included): A brutal lesson on pain & masculinityAn illegal Muay Thai knee exploded my testicle.📸 Surgery pics: https://bricktomarble.com/testicle-surgery-photos/No cup. No help. No English. Just three days alone in China with a swollen, purple baseball between my legs, wondering if I’d ever be the same.Would I still be a man? I flew across the world to get my ball blown up by a stranger named Bao Yu.This is the story of what happens when your body...
2025-10-1211 minBrick to Marble#14 - Furry Culture vs. Honor Culture: Are You Samurai or Fursona?Honor culture was life and death. Reputation meant survival.Samurai in Japan followed Bushido, duels in the West settled insults with pistols, and Mediterranean families carried vendettas for generations. Honor gave discipline and courage, but it also created endless violence, shame, and fragile egos.Furry culture feels like a different brain created it. Built around fursonas, costumes, and conventions, it’s a world of neon foxes, wolves, and dragons. People gather to roleplay, dance, an...
2025-10-0507 minBrick to Marble#13 - Tribes of One: Society’s Collapse into Digital Disconnection (Living in The Age of Avatars)Humans are social creatures. For thousands of years we survived by belonging to tribes — walking together, hunting together, sleeping side by side. Now we live as isolated individuals, staring into glowing screens, measuring our worth in likes, comments, followers, subscribers.This is the evolutionary mismatch. We were built for movement, connection, and face-to-face ritual. Instead, we sit alone, scrolling avatars. We confuse engagement with meaning. We confuse attention with worth. We forget that reality exists beyond electricity.And the cost is real: loneliness, depression, anxiety, violence. Young men radicalized on...
2025-09-2809 minBrick to Marble#12 - The Guilt Economy: Born into Shame (You Are Not the Sins of Your Father)What if guilt isn’t just a feeling, but a currency? A weight passed down from generation to generation, tied not just to our actions, but to our identity?Investigate the roots and repercussions of guilt... from the Garden of Eden to Mark Madoff, from Freud to Shakespeare, from reactive regret to inherited shame. Break down the types of guilt, the psychology behind it, and the path to letting go.Because guilt has a purpose, but it also has a limit.This is your in...
2025-09-2107 minBrick to Marble#11 - The Dark Triad: Naming the 3 Archetypes of Your ShadowWhat lives in your darkness? What would someone close to you say is your most destructive trait?Let's explore your personal dark triad: three deeply embedded traits that shape how you love, how you self-sabotage, and how you move through the world. From inherited trauma to impulsive choices, I unpack my own story, as well as offer six shadow archetypes to help you name your own.Do not disown your dark side. But you must take care of it.(00:00...
2025-09-1416 minBrick to Marble#10 - The Pain of Being Who You’re Not: Be Yourself Before Life Chooses for YouWe’re all handed a block of stone: unformed, raw, messy. What matters is what we carve from it.This episode marks the beginning of A Builder’s Journey, a special series within Brick to Marble. Every tenth episode traces the long, messy, beautiful path of transformation, from raw material to something more honest, more true, more alive.This chapter dives into the cost of being someone you’re not. Growing up between cultures (Brazilian and Ukrainian), chasing validation through achievement, comedy, women, and ultimately investment banking, I learned how ea...
2025-09-0705 minBrick to Marble#9 - You Don’t Need to Be Loved to Matter: You Need to Love Like It MattersBeing loved feels good, but loving with your whole heart is everything. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love... even when it hurts, even if they don’t say it back, even when it breaks your heart.Being loved isn't enough. Loving transforms you. From Kierkegaard’s view of love as choice, to Nietzsche’s belief that love affirms life, to Simone de Beauvoir’s vision of love as freedom, love shapes identity, courage, and meaning.Love is risk. Love is surrend...
2025-08-3107 minBrick to Marble#8 - Fear of Failure and Death Anxiety: What are you afraid of ?Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear of freedom. At the root, almost all anxiety is really fear of death. From Seneca’s warning that “he who fears death will never do anything worthy of life” to Joseph LeDoux’s neuroscience of the amygdala, David Buss’s evolutionary psychology, and Freud’s theory of unconscious conflict.Why does fear feel so immediate, so physical, and so paralyzing?Fear comes from ancient instincts designed to protect survival, and the brain reacts before you understand. Uncertainty feels worse...
2025-08-2407 minBrick to MarbleBonus - Navigate, Unpack, Alchemize: The Rise of Modern MetaphorHow well do you know these 9 common words and phrases that have been co-opted by metaphor and pop culture? We’ve all heard them, but these words didn’t always mean what they mean now.Where did they come from? What did they used to mean? And what does it say about us now?(00:00) We Shape Our Tools and Our Tools Shape Us (00:16) 9 Old Words Co-Opted by New Metaphor (00:49) Plant a Flag (01:17) Navigate (01:51) Post-Mortem (02:20) Unpack (03:00) Pivot (0...
2025-08-2007 minBrick to Marble#7 - Inked Up & Insecure: Watch This Before Your Next TattooTattoos speak when words fail. Ink becomes rebellion, identity, memory, armor. Some use it to leave their past behind. Others to keep people at a distance. The louder the ink, the more it says. Is there a desire to be someone else entirely? Expression becomes escape. Camouflage becomes confession. And your body tells a story your voice can’t.(00:00) “Show Me a Man with a Tattoo…” (Jack London Quote) (00:14) Tattoos as Rebellion, Memory, Armor—and Something Deeper (00:4...
2025-08-1704 minBrick to Marble#6 - Glorious, Guilty Sex: A Pleasure-Shame ParadoxSex is a contradiction. Connection and performance, pleasure and guilt, novelty and boredom. Freud called sexuality the root of human motivation. Nietzsche saw desire as inseparable from suffering. Foucault argued sex is political: a form of confession, power, control. We chase the high, count bodies, fake the climax, and then sit in silence. Why? Let's confront the inherited stories about sex. More = better, love must feel like lust, fulfillment demands fantasy.(0:00) Sex is a Lie(0:12) The Paradox...
2025-08-1004 minBrick to Marble#5 - Change Yourself. The Rest Is an Illusion.Let go of what isn’t yours and reclaim what matters most.You think you can’t change yourself. You can. You think you can change others. You can’t.(00:00) Quote (00:18) You Can't Build Someone Else's House (00:56) Relationship Advice (01:57) Marcus Aurelius (02:48) Outsourcing Responsibility (03:24) The Circle of Control (04:07) Your Homework (04:39) Changing Someone Is a Form of Control (05:09) Growth Equation Growth = control surrendered + self reclai...
2025-08-0305 minBrick to Marble#4 - Love Who? Do What? Live Where?: Designing a Life That’s Truly YoursEvery soul must make three choices that will define everything.“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver(00:00) Quote (00:12) 3 Questions to Shape Your Life (01:03) The Importance of the 3 (02:49) Identity-Based Decision Making (03:39) Ikigai Japanese Philosophy (04:34) Contextual Self Theory (05:35) Sacrifices Are Inevitable (06:37) Homework (08:02) Achieving All 3 (09:03) Growth EquationWhat if getting one thing wrong (the person, the place, or the pa...
2025-07-2709 minBrick to MarbleBonus - AI & Meaning. What's Left for Humanity?If machines can do our jobs, write our stories, and simulate our love… what’s left for us?The existential crisis of AI, meaning, and identity.Video is an AI generation, but the thoughts behind it are human.“Man is a being in search of meaning.” – PlatoGrowth = choosing meaning over a manufactured utopiaBrick by brick, we’ll get there.-🔸 Build with me:Instagram: bricktomarblepodcastWebsite: bricktoma
2025-07-2302 minBrick to Marble#3 - Try Everything. Quit Most: Quitting Doesn't Make You A Quitter“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve this beauty.” – Maya Angelou(00:00) Quote (00:25) You Must Live Through It (01:25) Bruce Lee Said (01:46) Society Wants You to Be a Gimmick (03:04) Letting Go (03:43) Famous Quotes (04:06) Find Your Art (04:14) Growth Equation Quitting is sculpting... not shameful.You have to live through what doesn't fit, to know what does.We tal...
2025-07-2004 minBrick to Marble#2 - Redefining Your "Fear" of CommitmentWhat about "respect" for commitment? Respect for the decision, respect for the aftermath, respect for yourself. Let's delete "fear" of commitment as a saying.(00:00) Quote (00:44) 10 Years Before Marriage (02:05) What We Owe Each Other (03:09) The Anxiety of Options (03:58) Asking Too Much from Our Partners (04:45) Society Is a Problem (05:15) The Flaw in the Plan (05:42) RESPECT (06:32) Growth Equation Growth = waiting with intention before carving certainty in stoneBrick by brick, we’ll...
2025-07-1306 minBrick to Marble#1 - Give me Monday over SundaySunday spirals are real. You know the feeling — sweaty night, mindless TV, that growing pit of dread. But what if Monday wasn’t the enemy? What if Sunday was just… mismanaged?(00:00) Quote (00:09) Anticipatory Anxiety (01:08) The Weekend Avoidance (01:36) The Fresh Start Effect (03:14) Figuring Out Sunday (03:39) What the Psychologists Say (04:11) Lower Your Expectations (04:32) Keeping the Devil at Bay (05:32) Monday Begins on Sunday (05:44) My Advice (06:00) Growth Equation This episode unpacks the emotional weight...
2025-07-0606 minBrick to MarbleTrailer: Your New Personal Development PodcastA quiet show for loud minds.Brick to Marble is for anyone trying to shape themselves, with patience and intention.Start your week with something honest. New episodes every Sunday.Growth = loneliness before the breakthroughBrick by brick, we’ll get there.-🔸 Build with me:Instagram: bricktomarblepodcastInstagram: mangojaguarWebsite: bricktomarble.com
2025-06-2900 min
RUF MICH AN - der ABSTAUBER PodcastFolge #16: Stefan "Major" MaierhoferFolge #16: Stefan "Major" Maierhofer
Johannes Hofer telefoniert mit den ABSTAUBERN Jean-Claude Mpassy, Florian Prokopetz und Lukas Traxler mit dem Major aka Stefan Maierhofer.
2019-06-1513 minRUF MICH AN - der ABSTAUBER PodcastFolge #15: Stefan PoschFolge #15: Stefan Posch
Johannes Brandl und die ABSTAUBER Jean-Claude Mpassy, Florian Prokopetz und Holger Hörtnagl telefonieren mit Hoffenheim-Legionär Stefan Posch.
2019-06-1508 minRUF MICH AN - der ABSTAUBER PodcastFolge #5: Stefan IlsankerFolge #5: Stefan Ilsanker
In der fünften Folge von Die ABSTAUBER hat der Trainer folgendes Team ins Studio geschickt: Jean-Claude Mpassy, Florian Prokopetz, Lukas Traxler und Sky Moderator Johannes Brandl. Für Lukas alias Captain Luke ist es der erste Auftritt bei den Abstaubern – und der stand ganz im Zeichen der Champions-League-Qualifikation des FC Salzburg. Bei Ruf Mich an war dieses Mal Stefan Ilsanker am anderen Ende der Leitung.
2019-06-1505 min