Courageous Ones

Tenzin Lhoden
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Courageous Ones is a long-form podcast hosted by Tenzin Lhoden — a Tibetan-Belgian creator based in Belgium. Every episode is a deep conversation with people who chose courage over comfort. We talk about mindset, identity, fear, entrepreneurship, and what it takes to build a life on your own terms. No scripts. No filters. Just honest conversations.

  1. 3 days ago

    Why You Need to Learn to Be Alone With Yourself – David Green

    David Green is a filmmaker, storyteller and lifelong traveler whose experiences across different cultures have shaped the way he thinks about life, relationships, creativity and himself. In this conversation, we explore what solo travel taught David about humanity, his experience studying yoga and meditation in India, learning to sit with yourself, protecting your time and energy, forgiveness, friendship, relationships, fear of judgment and becoming more intentional about how you live. We also talk about what filmmaking taught him about being present, why some of his favorite memories were never captured on camera, his thoughts on AI and creativity, and why he believes getting to know yourself is one of the most important things you can do. A wide-ranging conversation about self-awareness, travel, meditation, creativity, relationships, purpose and learning how to live with more intention. Record high-quality podcasts with Riverside:https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Get 1 month of Skillshare free:https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Join the Courageous Ones community:https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about David Green Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ocularera/ Tenzin Lhoden Instagram:https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube:https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden #personalgrowth #selfawareness #courageousones

  2. 24 Aug

    Why You Should Create Before You Feel Ready - Tenzoni

    Tenzin Tsering, also known as Tenzoni, is a Tibetan-Filipino Canadian artist and illustrator. In this episode, we have an honest conversation about creativity, identity, courage, and what happens when the thing you love also becomes your profession. Tenzin shares how growing up surrounded by Filipino and Tibetan art shaped her creative path, why art became a way for her to connect with her culture, and the fear that can come with putting your work out into the world. We talk about creative blocks, perfectionism, The Artist’s Way, morning pages, digital versus physical art, flow states, and learning to create for yourself rather than for an audience. She also opens up about travelling solo to Nepal while feeling lost, trekking to Annapurna Base Camp, studying traditional thangka painting, and realizing that sometimes changing your environment doesn’t allow you to escape what is happening inside you. We also explore meditation, self-belief, finding meaning through creativity, and the advice from her father that continues to guide her: choose what makes you happy, and don’t do a half job. This is a conversation about creating even when you doubt yourself, reconnecting with who you are, and having the courage to be seen. Record high-quality podcasts with Riverside:https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOjGet 1 month of Skillshare free:https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Join the Courageous Ones community:https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about Tenzin Tsering Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tenzoni/ Website:https://www.tenzoni.com/ Tenzin Lhoden Instagram:https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube:https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden #CourageousOnes #Creativity

  3. 17 Aug

    Why Chasing Success Is Making You Miserable – Amin Alamdari

    Amin Alamdari is back on the podcast, almost two years after our first conversation. A lot has changed since then. In this episode, we talk honestly about what happens when the excitement of chasing your goals wears off and you’re left with the reality of actually building the life you wanted. Amin opens up about almost quitting entrepreneurship, questioning his definition of success, losing relationships along the way, and feeling deeply lonely while living in Bali, a place that from the outside looked like paradise. We also talk about ambition and burnout, learning to let go, why not everything in life needs to be optimized, the downside of constantly trying to improve yourself, discipline vs flexibility, happiness vs inner peace, toxic positivity, social media, and learning to be okay with difficult emotions instead of always trying to fix them. This conversation is ultimately about what happens when ambition matures, and when success starts to mean something deeper than money, status, or external validation. Hope you enjoy it. Record your podcast with Riverside https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare | 1 month free https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Join the Courageous Ones community https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about Amin Alamdari Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aminalamdari_/ Tenzin Lhoden Instagram https://instagram.com/tenzinlhode TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden #selfimprovement #entrepreneurship

  4. 28 Jul

    The Lost Art of Focus in a Distracted World – Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar

    Jamyang Dorjee Chakrishar is a Tibetan calligrapher, artist and cultural preservationist whose life has moved between public service, spiritual practice and art. After building a respected career in the Sikkim government, he made the difficult decision to leave behind comfort, status and a much higher salary to serve the Tibetan administration in Dharamsala. Years later, he helped bring Tibetan calligraphy to the world stage by creating a 165-metre calligraphy scroll. But what stayed with me most from this conversation was not the world record. It was the way Jamyang speaks about writing as meditation, focus as a form of discipline and the importance of learning how to sit with yourself. We talk about the monkey mind, why multitasking weakens the quality of our work, the value of handwriting in a digital world, creativity, suffering, expectations and the fear of what other people think. We also explore the importance of preserving Tibetan culture and the small actions each person can take to keep it alive. Near the end of the conversation, Jamyang shares a simple but powerful piece of advice: learn to be kind to yourself. Some of the links below are affiliate links. They help support the podcast at no extra cost to you. RECORD YOUR PODCAST WITH RIVERSIDE https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj LEARN WITH SKILLSHARE - 1 MONTH FREE https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 JOIN THE COURAGEOUS ONES COMMUNITY https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about JAMYANG DORJEE CHAKRISHAR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamyangchakrishar/?hl=en Website: https://tibetancalligraphy.com/ Rubin Museum interview: https://rubinmuseum.org/preserving-tibetan-culture-through-calligraphy-art-an-interview-with-jamyang-dorjee-chakrishar/ FOLLOW TENZIN LHODEN Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden CHAPTERS 00:00 Stop worrying about what people think 00:47 Writing as a spiritual practice 03:33 Leaving Tibet and growing up in exile 10:36 His Holiness the Dalai Lama changes his path 15:41 Choosing purpose over money 17:19 Ten years of service and becoming an artist 21:01 Rediscovering Tibetan calligraphy 25:38 Creating the world’s longest calligraphy scroll 33:24 How the record inspired Tibet 39:33 Why calligraphy is a form of meditation 44:29 Understanding the monkey mind 46:06 The problem with multitasking 49:16 How to find answers within yourself 52:55 Writing 550 pages by hand 58:35 Why handwriting still matters 1:02:40 Writing by hand versus typing 1:05:25 The difference between art and imitation 1:09:53 Is everyone capable of creativity? 1:13:38 Teachers, suffering and human potential 1:16:28 Where happiness and world peace begin 1:19:16 How to stop replaying your problems 1:23:24 Letting go of expectations 1:24:11 Stop caring what other people think 1:24:43 Preserving Tibetan culture and identity 1:32:05 The best advice Jamyang ever received #CourageousOnes #TibetanCalligraphy

  5. 20 Jul

    Why Most People Never Become Who They Really Are - Doina Serbul

    Doina is a singer, marketing coach, and creator from Moldova, now living in Bali. She helps people build a personal brand without losing who they are. She grew up in a house of teachers, reading twenty pages a day from the age of six and learning discipline before she learned anything else. She started singing to stand out from her sister, competed on X Factor at 17 and The Voice at 19, and then spent close to ten years shrinking herself to fit in. In this episode, she opens up about what that did to her and how she came back to herself. We get into authenticity and what it means in practice, how to find your real self through her personality map, why quality content beats posting for the sake of it, and how to overcome the fear of putting yourself out there. She closes on the best advice her father gave her. Let them talk, and keep working on yourself. If you've been afraid to be seen, this one is for you. Join the community: https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about Follow Doina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doina.serbul/ Marketing Mindset page: https://www.instagram.com/marketing.mindset.women/ Follow Tenzin: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden

  6. 13 Jul

    How To Be Ambitious Without Letting It Destroy You - Yassin Mahhou

    In this episode, Tenzin sits down with Yassin Mahhou for a long and honest conversation about ambition, entrepreneurship, discipline, burnout and the pressure to succeed. Yassin shares what it is like to build Mahhou Solutions while working multiple jobs and helping grow the Jonge Ondernemers Podcast. They discuss co-foundership, choosing priorities, why hard workers seem to get luckier and why not every hour spent working is a productive hour. The conversation also explores why nobody cares about you as much as you think, how to handle judgment and failure, the difference between motivation, discipline and obsession, and why becoming detached from the outcome can make you stronger. They also talk about communication, cultural differences, meditation, patience, the Mexican fisherman story and the meaningful life Yassin hopes to build by the age of 65. Follow Yassin: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yassinmahhou/ Mohu Solutions: https://mohussolutions.com Jonge Ondernemers Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/jongeondernemers_podcast/ Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenzinlhoden/

  7. 6 Jul

    Why Fitness Is The Secret To Changing Your Identity - Anik

    Anik is a fitness coach in Ireland and co-founder of Infinite, a coaching brand he built with his best friend. He breaks down creatine dosage, training splits, and the CNS fatigue most people mistake for ordinary tiredness. The conversation turns personal. Anik talks about the jobs he hated before fitness, the identity shift that came from staying consistent, and why the fear of judgment never fully goes away. You build the muscle to act anyway instead. By the end, you get his view on building a brand people trust, the promise-keeping habit behind real change, and a client story that sums up what it means to trust the process. Join the Courageous Ones community: https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2qlgAkv72v7ml42BjsPgyu?si=b47765bb3a2a4abb Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/courageous-ones/id1895268405 Record your podcast with Riverside: riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170Follow Anik: https://instagram.com/anik.infinite Follow Infinite: https://instagram.com/infinite.possibilties Follow Tenzin:Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden This description contains affiliate links. I only recommend what I personally use.

  8. 29 Jun

    Stop Waiting For The Perfect Time | Lhamo Tsering

    Lhamo left Tibet as a child, moved to India, then made her way to France for university. She studied medicine, dropped it, switched to business, graduated, and then did something most people in her position wouldn't consider: opened a Tibetan restaurant in Paris with her mom. This episode goes into what it's like to build a life in a country whose language you don't speak, the moment she realized her academic success was partly an illusion, and why she chose a path she knew wasn't her dream just because it was the right thing to do right then. She talks about the Tibetan identity questions she carries in exile, the artistic side of herself that never got nurtured, and the fact that the thing she loves most, writing, is also the thing she's most afraid to do. She closes with the best advice she's heard recently: ready is a decision, not a feeling. Record your podcast with Riverside: https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Join the Courageous Ones community: https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about Follow Lhamo: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumo_tsering/ Her restaurant: https://www.instagram.com/nouilles_amala/ Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden

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Courageous Ones is a long-form podcast hosted by Tenzin Lhoden — a Tibetan-Belgian creator based in Belgium. Every episode is a deep conversation with people who chose courage over comfort. We talk about mindset, identity, fear, entrepreneurship, and what it takes to build a life on your own terms. No scripts. No filters. Just honest conversations.

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  • Creator
    Tenzin Lhoden
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Tenzin Lhoden
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    Courageous Ones
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