Fearless Knowledge

"In this episode, I'll be sharing an interesting story on how I ran into Jason Silva, the popular American-Venezuelan modern philosopher and social media speaker on Amsterdam's streets! Our conversation on the fear of abandonment led me to ask whether the fear of love has become an epidemic in our modern Western societies? Or perhaps fearful love has reached a climax since the advent of marriage for love in the Victorian period? Maybe fearful love is what Jane Austen was actually talking about in the under layers of her characters, disguised as 'pride' and 'prejudice'.

Lately, I've been doing a crash course in a psychology theory called Attachment Theory, which aims to answer why we may become fearful of love and intimacy. So, just for fun, I examine a few of Jane Austen's characters from this lens.

And Ali, in his usual deep metaphorical and political style, makes the connection between attachment theory and Austen's characters and asks whether we see the 'avoidant' Mr. Darcy everywhere in our corporate, political and professional spaces!

And ultimately, how does one become a secure or 'fearless lover' in all aspects of life?

Enjoy and share the word about Fearless Knowledge!

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's workshop training series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

#Podcast #Fearlessness #Fear #EmotionalIntelligence #Storytelling #FearofLove #FearlessLove #AttachmentTheory #JasonSilva #ThaisGibson #JohnBowlby #JaneAusten #PauloFreire #SelfDevelopment

"In this episode, I'll be sharing an interesting story on how I ran into Jason Silva, the popular American-Venezuelan modern philosopher and social media speaker on Amsterdam's streets! Our conversation on the fear of abandonment led me to ask whether the fear of love has become an epidemic in our modern Western societies? Or perhaps fearful love has reached a climax since the advent of marriage for love in the Victorian period? Maybe fearful love is what Jane Austen was actually talking about in the under layers of her characters, disguised as 'pride' and 'prejudice'.

Lately, I've been doing a crash course in a psychology theory called Attachment Theory, which aims to answer why we may become fearful of love and intimacy. So, just for fun, I examine a few of Jane Austen's characters from this lens.

And Ali, in his usual deep metaphorical and political style, makes the connection between attachment theory and Austen's characters and asks whether we see the 'avoidant' Mr. Darcy everywhere in our corporate, political and professional spaces!

And ultimately, how does one become a secure or 'fearless lover' in all aspects of life?

Enjoy and share the word about Fearless Knowledge!

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's workshop training series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

#Podcast #Fearlessness #Fear #EmotionalIntelligence #Storytelling #FearofLove #FearlessLove #AttachmentTheory #JasonSilva #ThaisGibson #JohnBowlby #JaneAusten #PauloFreire #SelfDevelopment

"Aggressive Mediocrity"! What a term right? All credit goes to the political-legal-EI genius, Ali Khan, for this one as he sits in the hot seat of being my interviewee in this episode. This is a very real and raw conversation on what it means to live a life based on 'aggressively mediocre' values! And what does it have to do with being afraid?

If we don't live a life of mainstream aggressive mediocrity, then what is the alternative?

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

#Podcast #Fearlessness #Fear #EmotionalIntelligence #AggressiveMediocrity #KindestAptitude #Egonomics #SelfDevelopment #PostCOVIDworld

"Aggressive Mediocrity"! What a term right? All credit goes to the political-legal-EI genius, Ali Khan, for this one as he sits in the hot seat of being my interviewee in this episode. This is a very real and raw conversation on what it means to live a life based on 'aggressively mediocre' values! And what does it have to do with being afraid?

If we don't live a life of mainstream aggressive mediocrity, then what is the alternative?

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

#Podcast #Fearlessness #Fear #EmotionalIntelligence #AggressiveMediocrity #KindestAptitude #Egonomics #SelfDevelopment #PostCOVIDworld

This episode is part 2 of Ali and I's conversation on empathy during the current crises. We explore the range of our emotional reactions after a crisis has shocked millions into empathy, such as the tragic explosion in Beirut, Lebanon recently. Lebanon here stands symbolically for all the crises we face of course, one after the other. I also share a couple of intimate stories of my childhood, growing up in some explosions and warfare and the impact it has had on my career in emotional intelligence.

Is it okay to feel fear and anger during tragedy? What do we do with our subdued desire for empathy after anger, that fiery emotion, turns into a sad melancholy? Have the hit after hit of crises made our generation crises junkies? We defer to to the Emotional Intelligence experts once again. Is an 'integrated mind' as neuroscience experts like Daniel Siegel the solution to how we process crises and empathy?

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali

***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

This episode is part 2 of Ali and I's conversation on empathy during the current crises. We explore the range of our emotional reactions after a crisis has shocked millions into empathy, such as the tragic explosion in Beirut, Lebanon recently. Lebanon here stands symbolically for all the crises we face of course, one after the other. I also share a couple of intimate stories of my childhood, growing up in some explosions and warfare and the impact it has had on my career in emotional intelligence.

Is it okay to feel fear and anger during tragedy? What do we do with our subdued desire for empathy after anger, that fiery emotion, turns into a sad melancholy? Have the hit after hit of crises made our generation crises junkies? We defer to to the Emotional Intelligence experts once again. Is an 'integrated mind' as neuroscience experts like Daniel Siegel the solution to how we process crises and empathy?

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali

***This podcast series is inspired by Tania Khojasteh's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

Empathy for me is synonymous with fearlessness! It is after all, the 3rd pillar of emotional intelligence, according to EI expert, Daniel Goleman. So, in this episode, Ali and I explore what empathy is, what kinds of empathy can exist, and why we are feeling moved to have compassion with even far away crises these days - from the explosions in Beirut to a global pandemic. This is a moment of calling for us, friends! We are invited during crises to fearlessly develop our empathy muscle and create an "Empathy Movement". An empathy movement might turn out to be the kind of movement we have needed all along to solve our most complex social problems.

Tune in and enjoy! Let us know your thoughts and share the good word.

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

Empathy for me is synonymous with fearlessness! It is after all, the 3rd pillar of emotional intelligence, according to EI expert, Daniel Goleman. So, in this episode, Ali and I explore what empathy is, what kinds of empathy can exist, and why we are feeling moved to have compassion with even far away crises these days - from the explosions in Beirut to a global pandemic. This is a moment of calling for us, friends! We are invited during crises to fearlessly develop our empathy muscle and create an "Empathy Movement". An empathy movement might turn out to be the kind of movement we have needed all along to solve our most complex social problems.

Tune in and enjoy! Let us know your thoughts and share the good word.

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

In the early days of July 2020, Ali and I felt some funky low energy in the air - like some kind of invisible 'fluff' that was making people stuck. It felt as if this 'energy' was urging us to stop, to get inside of ourselves, and pay more attention to how we feel as we globally head out of COVID lockdown 1.0. What do we do or who do we become now that lockdown and its emotional turbulence are almost over? Do we return to being 'normal'? Is that even possible?

This conversation between two friends looking for solutions, is on the ultimate existential question of who are we as human beings - are we here to create or be creative? And what does 'energy' have to do with it? If we accept that we are energy in our simplest but most profound form, how does fear as one of our strongest emotions, shift our energy? Who do we become with fear and alternatively with fearlessness?

Fear not, although this is a deep conversation, Ali and I are as usual a bit lighthearted too.

Thanks for tuning in! Share the word about Fearless Knowledge.

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier

In the early days of July 2020, Ali and I felt some funky low energy in the air - like some kind of invisible 'fluff' that was making people stuck. It felt as if this 'energy' was urging us to stop, to get inside of ourselves, and pay more attention to how we feel as we globally head out of COVID lockdown 1.0. What do we do or who do we become now that lockdown and its emotional turbulence are almost over? Do we return to being 'normal'? Is that even possible?

This conversation between two friends looking for solutions, is on the ultimate existential question of who are we as human beings - are we here to create or be creative? And what does 'energy' have to do with it? If we accept that we are energy in our simplest but most profound form, how does fear as one of our strongest emotions, shift our energy? Who do we become with fear and alternatively with fearlessness?

Fear not, although this is a deep conversation, Ali and I are as usual a bit lighthearted too.

Thanks for tuning in! Share the word about Fearless Knowledge.

Fearlessly yours,
Tania and Ali


***This podcast series is inspired by Tania's training and workshop series for children and professionals in intersectional emotional intelligence.
© Fearless Knowledge 2020.

*Music has unknown composer and no copy rights.
*Sound Editing by Lukas Steinmaier