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. 4 days ago

    Follow Your Curiosity & Your Life Will Change – Anas

    Anas grew up cutting hair in his garage in Montreal, then booked a one way flight to Dubai with no connections and built Backalive Barbershop into one of the busiest barbershops in the city by posting the whole journey on TikTok. Now he is building software that lets barbershop owners talk to their own data using AI. We get into the failed move to LA, the pivot to Dubai, and going from three barbers to seven in a matter of months. We talk about curiosity as the skill that compounds over a lifetime, why knowledge means nothing without action, and the conversation Anas had with his mom before he left, where he asked her one question that changed everything. We also get into flow state, vibe coding with AI, and the books that shaped both of us. The back half goes deep on fear of judgment, why almost nobody is thinking about you, and the Tao Te Ching, Naval Ravikant, and stoicism. We close on the best advice Anas ever received, and why most of the resistance to your dreams comes from people who never tried it themselves. Watch the full episode on YouTube: [link] 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 Anas: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ygblendz/ Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden

    1hr 15min

  2. 8 Jun

    The Dark Side of Modelling, Building Resilience & Chasing Big Dreams - Amber De Muyt

    Amber De Muyt is a Belgian fashion model, founder of Monique Models, and Europe scout for Respect Models Belgium. In this episode she talks about landing in China on a modeling contract, getting told to lose weight on day one, spending two months working hard, then getting sent home anyway. We go into the two years she spent not eating carbs out of fear, the first agent she signed with who told her she could not run because her legs would get too big, and how she used a lawyer to walk away from that contract. She built Monique Models to be the kind of agency she never had. The conversation ends on solo travel as the fastest way to find yourself, why the things that scare you most are usually worth doing, and the one piece of advice from her dad she still lives by. 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: https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Follow Amber: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amberdmuyt/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@amberdmuyt TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amberdmuyt Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden This episode contains affiliate links.

    1hr 19min

  3. 1 Jun

    Tibetan American Filmmaker on Bad Work, Flow State, and Betting on Yourself | Tenzin Yeshi

    Tenzin Yeshi is a Tibetan-American actor, writer, and director from Queens, New York. He's the founder of Six Realms Production and his latest film Free Tea Bed is on Apple TV. In this episode, we get into what it took to follow a creative path with no roadmap, why he believes making bad work is the only way forward, and how a late-night conversation about Tibetan identity became the seed for his short film You Tibetan. We go through how he dropped pre-med at City College to pursue acting, what the Meisner Technique changed in him, and how he made You Tibetan for $500 with his wife holding the camera. We talk about flow state, creating for yourself before thinking about the audience, the life lesson filmmaking gave him about asking for help, and the question every Tibetan diaspora person carries: if Tibet was free tomorrow, would you go back? The back half covers how his definition of success has shifted over time, what the attempt means even when the outcome is uncertain, what it means to be a second-generation Tibetan building something in the West, and the message he has for young Tibetans figuring out their path. The episode ends with four words from a theater director that changed how he works. 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: https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Follow Tenzin Yeshi: Instagram: https://instagram.com/protenzin Website: https://tenzin-yeshi.com Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden This description contains affiliate links. I only recommend what I personally use.

    1hr 5min

  4. 25 May

    Active Patience, and Building a Life That's Yours - Yassin Mahhou

    Yassin Mahhou is a young entrepreneur based in Belgium building a web development and audio-visual marketing business while co-founding Young Entrepreneurs, a podcast and community for young people building their own path. This is his second time on Courageous Ones. He hit his first online income milestone and felt almost nothing. We talk about why that happens, why the goal line keeps moving, and what it means to track progress when you are early in the game. The conversation covers enjoying the process without forcing it, dealing with dark stretches, and a concept Yassine came up with live on the call: active patience. We also get into intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation, why journaling is the one habit Yassine keeps coming back to, and what he wants young people building something to understand about their own value. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tUOX6f_WVMU Follow Yassin: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yassinmahhou/ Website: mohussolutions.com Young Entrepreneurs: https://www.instagram.com/jongeondernemers_podcast/ Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden Join the Courageous Ones community: https://www.skool.com/courageous-ones-6313/about

    1hr 21min

  5. 17 May

    How to Build Mental Toughness - Nils Rydsmo

    Nils Rydsmo is a 20-year-old Swedish creator in the men's health and hormones space who is currently serving in the Swedish Armed Forces. We met playing chess at Sam's Farm café in Canggu, Bali, became friends over a couple of weeks, crossed paths again in Chiang Mai, and this is the first time we sat down properly to talk. The episode covers what military service does to your mind, the difference between discipline and self-discipline, why going through hard experiences raises your baseline so ordinary life feels easier, and the misogi concept. Nils also shares a sharp take on hope — why people living in the worst conditions often have the most faith — and the mice experiment from Goggins' book that explains what hope actually does to human endurance. The back half goes into materialism, comparison, journaling, and how to figure out what you want from life by first naming what you don't. Two friends who met in Bali, catching up for the first time on record. If you want to build a mind that nothing can break, this one is worth your time. 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: 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 Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden

    1hr 19min

  6. 11 May

    How to Stop Living for Other People and Start Living for Yourself - Amy Lindsay

    Amy Lindsay is a photographer, videographer, and creative director from Scotland who spent four years in London building a career across the creative industry. She worked with brands like Hypebeast, directed music videos, and freelanced across fashion and music. In late 2024 she decided to travel. She ended up in Chiang Mai, Thailand, found Dang Muay Thai, got a job there, and never went back. In this episode, Amy and Tenzin talk about what it actually costs to leave a career that was working, how she started Muay Thai with zero experience in Australia and is now fighting competitively, and why she gets in the ring for her dad who passed away from cancer seven years ago. They also get into the London networking event she went back to after a year away, why she left after 10 minutes, and what that moment made clear about how much she had changed. The back half of this conversation is about presence. Amy teaches yoga at Dang Muay Thai and sees it as the partner to fighting. Muay Thai forces you into the present moment. Yoga gives you the tools to take that into your daily life. She talks about protecting your energy, stopping people pleasing, and the advice she received about living with intention and being true to yourself. That note is what this episode ends on. 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: https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Follow Amy: Instagram: https://instagram.com/amy.lindsay1 Creative work: https://instagram.com/amylindsay02 Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden This description contains affiliate links.

    1hr 42min

  7. 4 May

    Smile Maxxing, Delusional Confidence, and Why Chasing Purpose Keeps You Stuck | Noah Williams

    Noah Williams is an 18-year-old content creator and founder from Oregon. He completed his first 50K ultra marathon at 15 with almost no training, becoming one of the youngest finishers in the world. He is now building PlayR, a basketball app to make pickup games accessible to everyone. This conversation covers smile maxxing, morning routines, delusional confidence, and what it looks like to build a startup in your first year of college. At 16, Noah lost his biggest role model to a sudden heart attack. A week before that, he went through a breakup. He talks about that period, the lonely chapter that followed when he quit basketball cold turkey, and how he learned to break every hard thing into one step at a time. The back half goes into Marcus Aurelius, the Inner Game of Tennis, and why chasing your purpose is exactly what keeps you feeling behind. He closes with the one piece of advice he lives by: the more good you put into the world, the more good comes back. Follow Noah Williams: Instagram: https://instagram.com/noahw451 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@noahw451 Website: https://noahugc.me 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: https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden This description contains affiliate links. I only recommend what I personally use.

    44 min

  8. 27 Apr

    Why Most Creatives Burn Out Before They Find Their Best Work - Tenzin Kelsang

    Tenzin Kelsang is a Tibetan cinematographer and colorist based in Mumbai who has spent five years working his way into the Indian film industry, shooting music videos, short films, and commercial projects while building his craft from the ground up. We talk about what it's actually like being a Tibetan in Bollywood, how he learned to stop saying yes to everything and nearly burned out doing it, and why he eventually stopped editing his own work to protect his creative energy. Tenzin breaks down color grading, guerrilla shooting, and the real difference between beginners who overthink and professionals who just cut. The back half gets personal. We go into perfectionism, his short film about the irony of Tibetan identity and counterfeit culture, and what it means to finally let yourself enjoy life after years of putting work first. 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: https://riverside.sjv.io/DWLdOj Learn with Skillshare (1 month free): https://skillshare.com/en/r/profile/Tenzin-Lhoden/210780170 Follow Tenzin: Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden This description contains affiliate links.

    1hr 7min
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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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    Tenzin Lhoden
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