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. Sep 21

    Why You Still Don’t Believe in Yourself – Anik

    Anik is a fitness coach, creator and the person behind Infinite. In his fourth conversation on Courageous Ones, we talk about what happens when you stop waiting to feel confident and start giving yourself evidence that you can actually follow through. We get into putting yourself out there, dealing with rejection, following your curiosity, building self-belief through repetition, and how you change when you consistently show up for yourself. We also talk about social media and attention, visualization, meditation, stress, burnout and why the “perfect time” to start usually never arrives. The bigger idea is simple: confidence is not something you need before you act. Often, it is something you earn after enough action gives you proof. Some links are affiliate links. They help support the podcast at no extra cost to you. 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 Meditation resource mentioned: Medito — free meditation app https://meditofoundation.org/medito-app/ Anik Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anik.infinite/ Tenzin Lhoden Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden Chapters 00:00 Self-belief, content and courage 09:17 Rejection and giving yourself permission 17:30 Identity and building self-belief 24:24 Visualization and noticing opportunities 31:03 Social media, screen time and attention 42:29 Meditation and training your focus 53:00 Stress, burnout and the myth of perfect timing 57:51 One goal, proof and enough repetitions

  2. Sep 14

    Why He Wants to Be a Millionaire by 25 – Yassin Mahhou

    Yassin Mahhou returns to Courageous Ones for a fourth conversation. He is the founder of Mahhou Solutions and a co-founder of the Jonge Ondernemers podcast, and he is still pursuing the goal he shared in his first appearance: becoming a millionaire before 25. This episode is not really about the number. Yassin explains why the goal matters because of the person the process can make him. We talk about breaking big goals into measurable actions, making hard business decisions, facing rejection, finding exceptional people, adjusting when growth is slower than expected and learning to think from first principles. The conversation also explores the difference between producing and consuming, how to use AI without outsourcing your judgment, why people get trapped by shiny objects, and how courage means deliberately doing what you would rather avoid. This episode is sponsored by Mahhou Solutions. Get a free personalized website prototype: https://mahhousolutions.com/en/free-prototype?ref=courageousones 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 Yassin Mahhou Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yassinmahhou/ LinkedIn: https://be.linkedin.com/in/yassin-mahhou-be Mahhou Solutions: https://mahhousolutions.com/en Jonge Ondernemers Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/jongeondernemers_podcast/ Tenzin Lhoden Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden Chapters: 00:00:00 Coming up 00:01:08 Returning to the two big goals 00:08:55 Money, character and long-term growth 00:19:37 Rejection and ethical sales 00:25:56 Goals, first principles and direction 00:36:41 The reality of building a business 00:46:46 AI and independent thinking 00:56:22 From consumer to producer 01:07:50 The valley of despair 01:13:28 Courage and authenticity 01:23:31 Become better at becoming better #courageousones #entrepreneurship

  3. Sep 7

    How to Build a Life on Your Own Terms – Harsh Pandorwala

    Harsh Pandorwala is a content creator, entrepreneur and new father who has spent more than five years building online, travelling the world and learning what happens when your work becomes tied to public opinion. He and his wife went from starting a travel page with around a hundred early followers to rapid growth, while Harsh also experienced the less visible side of creating online: burnout, dopamine-driven validation and the pressure to keep performing. In this conversation, we talk about meditation and presence, focusing on what is actually in your control, the psychological cost of chasing virality, audience capture, staying authentic online and using AI without outsourcing your own creativity. Harsh also shares why he chose a slower life in Bali, how becoming a father changed his sense of drive, and why he is now building arkWELL around making wellness simpler and more integrated into everyday work and life. The thread running through the conversation is simple: build a life where your inner world, your work and your choices still feel like your own. This episode is sponsored by Mahhou Solutions. Get a free personalized website prototype: https://mahhousolutions.com/en/free-prototype?ref=courageousones 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 Harsh Pandorwala Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harshpandorwala/ LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/harshpandorwala arkWELL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thearkwell https://www.instagram.com/thearkwell/ Tenzin Lhoden Instagram: https://instagram.com/tenzinlhoden TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tenzinlhoden YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tenzinlhoden Chapters: 00:00:00 Coming up 00:01:34 Calmness, control and meditation 00:18:54 Burnout and inner work 00:25:36 From job to content creator 00:34:34 Authenticity, social media and AI 00:50:50 Bali, fatherhood and freedom 01:02:06 Building wellness into work 01:10:41 You have to try #courageousones #personalgrowth

  4. Sep 1

    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

  5. Aug 24

    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

  6. Aug 17

    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

  7. Jul 28

    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

  8. Jul 20

    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

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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
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2026 Tenzin Lhoden
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