Is There Something More?

Piers Foster

A solo podcast for people who try to do everything "right" and still find themselves asking the question in the title...possibly at 11pm, perhaps holding a glass of wine, occasionally mid-bath. Piers Foster, an executive and personal coach, thinks out loud about identity, ambition, self-worth and the stories we tell ourselves about success — without pretending to have arrived at any answers. Come for the ideas, stay for the bubble-bath philosophy.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    S.1 Ep.5 That's Just How I Am

    Nobody ever says “that’s just how I am” about their generosity. This week: Socrates agreeing that he was born with vices and reasoning his way out of them, Demosthenes shaving half his head so he’d stay in and practise, and Odysseus tying himself to a mast. The question is which parts of us are temperament and which are simply habit.

  2. Oct 23

    S.1 Ep.4 What Makes You Feel Alive?

    Why do so many people who have done well describe feeling most alive in the pursuit, and oddly flat on arrival? This episode looks at the difference between being inside an experience and managing it, with Gilgamesh and the snake, Winnicott on compliance, a 1973 experiment with felt-tip pens, and Nietzsche’s advice to build your cities on Vesuvius.

  3. Oct 8

    S.1 Ep.3 What Are You Protecting?

    If you've ever felt stuck, this may help explain why, and indeed what you can do about it.

  4. Sep 24

    S.1 Ep.2 What Is The Cost Of Being Strong?

    What if the thing everyone admires about you is also the thing keeping them from really knowing you? A look at self-reliance, the false self, and why admitting you need help so often feels like failure.

  5. Sep 15

    S1. Ep.1 Who Am I, Really?

    We spend decades building the version of ourselves that other people rely on, until something forces us to notice we've forgotten it's a performance at all. Drawing on Jung's idea of the persona and the shadow, this episode asks what's actually underneath the roles we've learned to play, and why "finding your true self" might be the wrong question entirely.

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A solo podcast for people who try to do everything "right" and still find themselves asking the question in the title...possibly at 11pm, perhaps holding a glass of wine, occasionally mid-bath. Piers Foster, an executive and personal coach, thinks out loud about identity, ambition, self-worth and the stories we tell ourselves about success — without pretending to have arrived at any answers. Come for the ideas, stay for the bubble-bath philosophy.

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