Between the Ears Podcast

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Your inner state creates your outer reality. Between The Ears is a show about the mental and emotional world we all carry inside, and how understanding it can transform the life we live outside. Hosted by Arnold Beekes, each episode explores a single idea for building a better life between the ears: taking back control from the expectations of parents, teachers, bosses, and everyone else who has quietly been driving your behavior, learning what you actually want instead of what you have been told to want, and lowering the chronic stress that comes from living two lives at once. Every episode closes with a moment of everyday beauty, a small true story of kindness, courage, or compassion, because what you notice and appreciate shapes your inner state just as much as what you think. If you are ready to stop living someone else's life and start living your own, this podcast is for you.

Episodes

  1. 1h ago

    #5 Three Starting Points for Brain Fitness

    Welcome to Episode 5 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes lays out three foundational starting points for making brain fitness a daily habit, just as most people already do with physical fitness. Arnold defines brain fitness as choosing your uniqueness, learning continuously, handling challenges well, and contributing to a better world for all, and walks through why so many people struggle with this given rising rates of anxiety, stress, and burnout. He covers why your current state isn't your fault but is your responsibility, introduces the idea that we function with three brains (head, heart, and gut) rather than one, and explains why shifting from external to internal control is essential for genuine wellbeing. The episode closes with the show's signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring a family of beavers that solved a persistent flooding problem in West London. Topics Covered Defining brain fitness: choosing uniqueness, learning, handling challenges, and contributing Why rates of anxiety, depression, and burnout are rising globally Starting point 1: it's not your fault, but it is your responsibility Debunking the "chemical imbalance" narrative Starting point 2: we have three brains — head, heart, and gut What coherence means when all three brains work in sync Starting point 3: moving from external control to internal control How judgment from others (bosses, spouses, children) can quietly run your emotional state Taking back your power by focusing on what you actually want The show's closing theme of everyday beauty: beavers solving a flooding problem in West London About Arnold Beekes Arnold Beekes is the host of Between The Ears, a podcast built around the idea that your inner state creates your outer reality. Having lived in five different countries, Arnold draws on his own experiences to help listeners build a better life between the ears, one episode at a time. Connect with Arnold Beekes 🧠 Inner Fitness for Modern Life: https://braingym.fitness/ 🧠 Inner Leadership Training for Ambitious Leaders: https://www.brainathletes.club/ 🧠 Innovation Mindset for Exponential Change: https://www.innovationathletes.club/ 🤝 Join our free Brain Health community: https://www.skool.com/brain-fitness-7070 🔗 https://bio.link/beekes     🎙️ Edited and Produced by The PodFather Network LLC 🌐 https://roycoughlan.com/     #BetweenTheEars #BrainFitness #InnerState #PersonalDevelopment #ThreeBrains #InternalControl #MentalHealthMatters #Coherence #MoralBeauty #EverydayBeauty #PodfatherNetwork

  2. 1d ago

    #4 Uniqueness

    Welcome to Episode 4 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes explores why uniqueness matters and why our systems, from education to capitalism, work to suppress it in favor of predictable sameness. Arnold breaks down why copying someone else's "successful" method rarely works, walking through why trying to replicate someone else's results can leave you capped at a fraction of their success, and shares Scott Adams' alternative: rather than chasing being the best at one thing, become very good at two or more things and combine them. The episode closes with the show's signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring the story of Italy's expanding forests and the ecological and social renewal following them. Topics Covered Why we're all born unique, yet uniqueness gets suppressed How education and uniforms train us toward sameness The link between suppressed uniqueness and chronic stress and disease Why copying a "successful" method rarely produces the same results Breaking down the compounding subtractions: context, execution, mindset, and energy Scott Adams' framework: be the best at one thing, or very good at two or more How combining two or more strengths creates rare, valuable work Identifying your own effortless strengths as the starting point for uniqueness The show's closing theme of everyday beauty: Italy's expanding forests, their ecological value, and their role in reversing rural depopulation About Arnold Beekes Arnold Beekes is the host of Between The Ears, a podcast built around the idea that your inner state creates your outer reality. Having lived in five different countries, Arnold draws on his own experiences to help listeners build a better life between the ears, one episode at a time. Connect with Arnold Beekes 🧠 Inner Fitness for Modern Life: https://braingym.fitness/ 🧠 Inner Leadership Training for Ambitious Leaders: https://www.brainathletes.club/ 🧠 Innovation Mindset for Exponential Change: https://www.innovationathletes.club/ 🤝 Join our free Brain Health community: https://www.skool.com/brain-fitness-7070 🔗 https://bio.link/beekes   🎙️ Edited and Produced by The PodFather Network LLC 🌐 https://roycoughlan.com/   #BetweenTheEars #Uniqueness #InnerState #PersonalDevelopment #SelfDiscovery #ScottAdams #Individuality #MoralBeauty #EverydayBeauty #PodfatherNetwork #BrainFitness

  3. 1d ago

    #3 Identity

    Welcome to Episode 3 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes tackles the topic of identity, exploring why so many of us mistake our roles, labels, and job titles for who we actually are, and how that mistaken identity quietly limits us. Arnold draws on real examples, from people who lose their sense of self after being laid off, to a group of refugees in Uganda who introduced themselves by that label alone, to show how easily we box ourselves in with words like "I'm a nurse," "I'm a Christian," or "I'm a refugee." The episode closes with the show's signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring the simple practice of talking to strangers and a Paris exhibition reuniting Nazi-looted artworks with their rightful owners. Topics Covered Why we mistake our identity for a fixed, unchangeable thing How losing a job can feel like losing your entire identity The "box" that job titles and labels put people in Roles versus identity: parent, caretaker, believer, nationality A story from coaching refugees in Uganda about the danger of self-labeling Robert Greene's idea that "etiquette is deception" and the masks we wear Reframing identity: you are not your labels, you are awareness having an experience The ancient invitation to "know thyself" Asking not just "who am I" but "what do I really want" The show's closing theme of everyday beauty: talking to strangers, and the Musée d'Orsay's exhibition reuniting Nazi-looted artworks with unidentified rightful owners About Arnold Beekes Arnold Beekes is the host of Between The Ears, a podcast built around the idea that your inner state creates your outer reality. Having lived in five different countries, Arnold draws on his own experiences to help listeners build a better life between the ears, one episode at a time. Connect with Arnold Beekes 🧠 Inner Fitness for Modern Life: https://braingym.fitness/ 🧠 Inner Leadership Training for Ambitious Leaders: https://www.brainathletes.club/ 🧠 Innovation Mindset for Exponential Change: https://www.innovationathletes.club/ 🤝 Join our free Brain Health community: https://www.skool.com/brain-fitness-7070 🔗 https://bio.link/beekes     🎙️ Edited and Produced by The PodFather Network LLC 🌐 https://roycoughlan.com/     #BetweenTheEars #Identity #InnerState #PersonalDevelopment #SelfDiscovery #KnowThyself #LabelsVsIdentity #MoralBeauty #EverydayBeauty #PodfatherNetwork #BrainFitness #SelfAwareness

  4. 1d ago

    #2 Good Enough

    Welcome to Episode 2 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes explores why so many of us carry the persistent feeling of not being good enough, tracing it back to how conformity gets enforced through conditional love and approval, from parents and teachers to bosses and friends. Arnold breaks down why this feeling is a tool, not a truth, and makes the case for recognizing it, rejecting it, and finally accepting that you are already good enough exactly as you are. The episode closes with the show's signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring a story of neighborly kindness during a power outage and an animal therapy program using donkeys to help psychiatric patients in France. Topics Covered Why the feeling of "not good enough" is nearly universal How conditional love is used to enforce conformity, starting in childhood The role of parents, teachers, bosses, and friends in reinforcing this feeling Why performance reviews and school grading systems focus on flaws, not strengths A personal story about quitting a hockey team over pressure to drink alcohol Why people resist those who don't conform ("mavericks" and "outcasts") How the "not good enough" feeling keeps you out of the present moment Reframing the belief: accepting that you are already good enough The show's closing theme of "everyday beauty," including a neighbor's kindness during a power outage and a donkey-assisted therapy program in France About Arnold Beekes Arnold Beekes is the host of Between The Ears, a podcast built around the idea that your inner state creates your outer reality. Having lived in five different countries, Arnold draws on his own experiences to help listeners build a better life between the ears, one episode at a time. Connect with Arnold Beekes 🧠 Inner Fitness for Modern Life: https://braingym.fitness/ 🧠 Inner Leadership Training for Ambitious Leaders: https://www.brainathletes.club/ 🧠 Innovation Mindset for Exponential Change: https://www.innovationathletes.club/ 🤝 Join our free Brain Health community: https://www.skool.com/brain-fitness-7070 🔗 https://bio.link/beekes   🎙️ Edited and Produced by The PodFather Network LLC 🌐 https://roycoughlan.com/   #BetweenTheEars #GoodEnough #InnerState #PersonalDevelopment #SelfWorth #Conformity #ConditionalLove #SelfAcceptance #MentalHealthMatters #PresentMoment #EverydayBeauty #MoralBeauty #PodfatherNetwork #BrainFitness

  5. 1d ago

    #1 Live Your Own Life

    Are you living your own life, or someone else's? In this debut episode of Between The Ears, host Arnold Beekes explores how from childhood onward, we're trained to meet the expectations of parents, teachers, and eventually bosses, until "being good" simply means doing what someone else wants. Arnold explains why living two lives at once, someone else's during work hours and your own in the evenings and weekends, is a major source of chronic stress, and why that stress can eventually show up as back pain, burnout, or depression. He invites listeners to start looking inward instead of outward to figure out what they actually want, and to take back control of their own behavior. The episode closes with the show's signature segment on everyday beauty, including a story from Nanaimo, Canada, where a young boy's persistence in knocking on doors in the middle of the night helped save his father's life. Topics Covered Why most people are living someone else's life without realizing it How childhood conditioning trains us to meet other people's expectations The link between living two lives and chronic stress How chronic stress can lead to burnout, depression, and physical pain Taking back control by looking inward instead of outward The practice of greeting strangers on daily walks The story of a boy in Nanaimo, BC, whose persistence saved his father's life The show's closing theme of "everyday beauty" and moral beauty About Arnold Beekes Arnold Beekes is the host of Between The Ears, a podcast built around the idea that your inner state creates your outer reality. Having lived in five different countries, Arnold draws on his own experiences to help listeners build a better life between the ears, one episode at a time. Connect with Arnold Beekes 🧠 Inner Fitness for Modern Life: https://braingym.fitness/ 🧠 Inner Leadership Training for Ambitious Leaders: https://www.brainathletes.club/ 🧠 Innovation Mindset for Exponential Change: https://www.innovationathletes.club/ 🤝 Join our free Brain Health community: https://www.skool.com/brain-fitness-7070 https://bio.link/beekes   🎙️ Edited and Produced by The PodFather Network LLC 🌐 https://roycoughlan.com/     #BetweenTheEars #LiveYourOwnLife #InnerState #PersonalDevelopment #SelfImprovement #MentalHealthMatters #ChronicStress #BurnoutRecovery #MoralBeauty #TakeBackControl #PodfatherNetwork #MindsetShift #EverydayBeauty #SelfAwareness #BrainFitness

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Your inner state creates your outer reality. Between The Ears is a show about the mental and emotional world we all carry inside, and how understanding it can transform the life we live outside. Hosted by Arnold Beekes, each episode explores a single idea for building a better life between the ears: taking back control from the expectations of parents, teachers, bosses, and everyone else who has quietly been driving your behavior, learning what you actually want instead of what you have been told to want, and lowering the chronic stress that comes from living two lives at once. Every episode closes with a moment of everyday beauty, a small true story of kindness, courage, or compassion, because what you notice and appreciate shapes your inner state just as much as what you think. If you are ready to stop living someone else's life and start living your own, this podcast is for you.

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  • Creator
    betweentheear
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Between the Ears Podcast