Millennial's Search for Meaning

Aaron Steinberg and Samantha Thomas
  • 5.0 (4)
  • Self-Improvement
  • Series

A miniseries to help you discover your passion, and make it actionable, tangible, and sustainable during these uncertain times.

  1. Episode 1

    The Fantasy of the Perfect Choice

    We're told that the key to a happy path is to follow our passion, so we keep trying new places, people, hobbies, and careers, hoping one will be it. After a while of failures, and even some successes, we start to feel lost or empty. What is a modern, meaningful life? Should we be more practical like our grandparents? Or should we never settle for something that isn't us? Your hosts, Aaron, a relationship and trauma coach, and Samantha, a love researcher and corporate director, will guide you through an internal road map that will allow you to figure out what you really want and sustainably put it into action.

    The Fantasy of the Perfect Choice

  2. Episode 2

    WTF is Passion, Anyway?

    Intuitively, we understand passion to be an activity or thing that makes us feel that alive, spark feeling, so we pursue those types of things, hoping one will keep making us feel this way all the time. But none does. Is the idea of passion just idealism, or are we thinking about this wrong? Sam and Aaron lead us to consider WTF is passion anyway, and their conclusion probably isn't what you were expecting. With our new practical and actionable definition, we begin our roadmap to a sustainably meaningful life.

    WTF is Passion, Anyway?

  3. Episode 2 Bonus

    EXERCISE - Exploring Our Passions and Preferences

    In our first exercise to personalize the content, Sam guides us through an exercise called The Five-Fold Why, which allows us to explore the different sides of passions and preferences: how do we want to feel about ourselves and what impact do we want to have, and what are our most desired ways to do it. Through this exercise we develop a working hypothesis of what we are passionate about and how we want to express it as a basis for the rest of the material, and we start to develop our sense of meaning.

    EXERCISE - Exploring Our Passions and Preferences

  4. Episode 3

    You're Not Lost - Passion Isn't Always Pretty

    When we connect to our passion(s), we can get this rush of excitement that we finally have found our thing. However, when the path isn't smooth or it starts to lose a bit of luster, we can feel even more lost because isn't passion supposed to be easy, sacred and filled with aliveness all the time? Didn't someone say that once you find what you're passionate about you won't work a day in your life? Well, what's wrong with us!? It turns out that passions are not some cosmic path handed down from on high, but a byproduct of our developmental experiences, both good and bad. Passion is neutral. Understanding our stories, and that passion is neither exalted or base, gives us the relief to know we can't really be lost because this is a thread of our entire life.

    You're Not Lost - Passion Isn't Always Pretty

  5. Episode 3 Bonus

    EXERCISE - Reflection on the Origins of Our Passions

    In our second personalization exercise, Aaron guides you through a visualization, a deep dive through your life to uncover where your specific passion(s) came from and how they can be best considered.  One part nostalgic, one part therapeutic, and one part comedic, Aaron will give you the tools to understand your past and inner world in a way that allows you to move forward with the right blend of confidence and humility.

    EXERCISE - Reflection on the Origins of Our Passions

  6. Episode 4

    Making Meaning Tangible

    A big issue in the passion conversation is that everything is fantastical. Being a writer doesn't mean writing an article; it means being a NYT best seller. Being an actor doesn't mean commercials; it means Meryl Streep. While it's important to have a vision that feels inspiring, if you can't fulfill your passion today, you're only focusing on one side and have lost the journey. In this episode, Aaron and Sam explain how to think about expressing passions in both grand and simple ways, and give you guidance on the arc of a meaningful life from the most minor, gritty, potentially thankless immediate step to perhaps the fulfillment of your ultimate dream.

    Making Meaning Tangible

  7. Episode 5

    Making Meaning Sustainable

    As we continue down the path to connecting with our passions and preferences and making them tangible, we will at some point lose steam, lose faith, and lose track. We might even question all of it, thinking we have ourselves totally wrong. It turns out passion is a hard thing to make sustainable. What we learn is that sustainability in passion requires balancing a handful of principles–practicality and fantasy, self focus and impact focus–while making sure our basic needs are met and not letting preference issues derail us entirely. Here we really understand the full map of living a meaningful life and where we might get lost along the way so we can be proactive and also pull ourselves back when we get lost.

    Making Meaning Sustainable

  8. Episode 6

    Perseverence - Reviewing the Main Takeaways from the Series

    In our last episode, Sam and Aaron do a recap of the main points from all the previous episodes so we have it all in one place to draw from. We understand that there is no perfect choice, that passion is a neutral state informed from our development, how to make that tangible and sustainable, and we've personalized it through exercises. We're left with the idea that this is all a process, a journey, and we'll keep refining and exploring as we go, and that's the whole point.

    Perseverence - Reviewing the Main Takeaways from the Series
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A miniseries to help you discover your passion, and make it actionable, tangible, and sustainable during these uncertain times.

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  • Creator
    Aaron Steinberg and Samantha Thomas
  • Episodes
    8
  • Seasons
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright by Aaron Steinberg and Samantha Thomas. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Millennial's Search for Meaning