Clarity Jam Sessions

with Bradley Davidge
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We spend so much of life searching for the next answer, the next method, the next breakthrough. What if clarity isn't something you achieve? What if it's something you notice? Clarity Jam Sessions is where I explore music, spirituality, coaching, creativity, relationships, and the beautiful mystery of being human. With friends, artists, thinkers, and anyone willing to have a real conversation. No scripts. No gurus. No self-help treadmill. Just honest conversations. Stop Striving. Start Living. Life is happening. We're live. Let's jam.

Episodes

  1. Oct 5

    Is That a Decision or a Choice?

    This morning I chose an egg sandwich. My mind wanted a reason. Tuna has more protein. Why the bread? I simply chose the egg sandwich, because I chose it. Decide comes from a Latin root meaning to cut, to kill. A decision is heavy. Right or wrong, better or worse, a whole case built so I can kill off the other option. And often it just lingers. Days, weeks, years. A choice is lighter. It needs no reason. In this jam I share a client who was stuck on a decision with everything riding on it. We put the snow globe down and let it settle. Within fifteen minutes he saw it. The answer had been in front of him the whole time. We also look at feelings. "I don't feel like it" is weather. It's welcome, and it makes a very poor judge. So I ask one question: who am I serving today? Then I choose. The experiment for your week: next time you catch yourself going back and forth, ask it. Is that a decision or a choice? Then choose.

  2. Sep 28

    Stacking Wood: Unfinished Projects to CEO

    Are you constantly busy, pouring hours into new ideas only to watch them quietly expire after three weeks or two months? In this solo Clarity Jam Session, Bradley Davidge breaks down why relying on transient feelings creates a built-in expiration date on your goals before you even begin. Bradley shares the story of an enormously talented client who was spraying his energy everywhere and trapped in the comfortable "parking spot" of waiting to "get clear" before committing. By dropping the search for the perfect path and going all-in on a single option with a little heat, he went from endless unfinished streaks to publishing a book, releasing courses, and becoming the founder and CEO of his own multi-product company. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: The Expiration Date Trap: Why feeling-led projects inevitably run out when your transient emotions shift.The "Getting Clear" Illusion: How waiting for absolute clarity is often a comfortable stalling tactic where nothing is required of you.There Is No "Right Choice": Why hunting for the perfect option keeps you going everywhere and nowhere at once.The Campfire Principle: Why action is what lights the fire of motivation—you don't wait to feel like it, you just start stacking wood.Revealing the Staircase: How taking the single next step uncovers opportunities and products that were previously hidden. Featured Quote "The action is what lights the fire. Nobody's coming to tell you what you want. Go stack the wood." Call to Action: Stop waiting for clarity to arrive before you move. Pick one thing with a little heat today and go stack the wood.

  3. Sep 21

    Finding the Feeling Behind the Story: What a Dirty Dish Teaches Us About Reaction

    In this solo jam session of Clarity Jam Sessions, host Bradley Davidge explores why a simple dirty dish in the sink can suddenly trigger an instant physical reaction. Using the analogy of a child’s teddy bear, Bradley unpacks how 100% of our security and comfort comes from within ourselves rather than external objects. When unexpressed emotions accumulate in a closed system, the mind quickly searches for an external target—whether a dish, an email, or traffic—to build a case and justify why we feel the way we do. Rather than trying to fix or suppress these feelings, this episode invites you to notice the tiny gap between your physical reaction and the story your mind builds around it, allowing you to catch the narrative halfway through. Key Takeaways: • The Dirty Dish Effect: How an instant reaction like a tightening jaw turns into evidence and a legal case against the world. • The Teddy Bear Principle: Why external objects don't contain emotional comfort or irritation—they are just stuffed with stuffing. • Unfelt Emotions & Closed Systems: How unexpressed feelings wait for an everyday trigger to point at. • Action Without Resentment: How catching the mind's story lets you address the situation cleanly without emotional baggage. This Week's Experiment: Next time something small gets a reaction that feels too big for it, pause and catch what happens. Notice your jaw tightening and the feeling appearing before your mind rushes in to explain or fix it—don't try to solve it, just catch it for yourself

  4. Sep 14

    The Stress Maracas (with Bloom de Wilde)

    What if stress isn't something that just happens to you, but a pair of noisy maracas you keep choosing to pick up and shake? If you have ever felt caught in the trap of overthinking, creative block, or chasing perfect spiritual states, this episode of Clarity Jam Sessions is your invitation to slow down and step into pure presence. Host Bradley Davidge sits down with multi-platinum singer-songwriter, visual artist, and transformational coach Bloom de Wilde. Together, they explore what it means to stop forcing life and art, surrendering instead to become an open instrument for creativity. IN THIS EPISODE, WE JAM ON: The "Stress Tray" & Stress Maracas: How a hilarious Monty Python waiter metaphor reveals that time pressure, urgency, and worry are completely optional items on life's menu.You Are the Instrument: The freedom of moving away from the striving ego and allowing yourself to be played by the universe—whether on the microphone, in an Indonesian Gamelan orchestra, or in a coaching conversation.Overcoming Writer's Block & The Ego: Bloom shares her journey from co-writing the #1 hit "Bom Bom" to realizing that real magic happens when you give "zero f***s to outcome".The Vesica Piscis of Co-Creation: How true transformation occurs in the sacred overlap where two unique universes meet.Living in Timeless Time: Learning to step off the self-help hamster wheel and noticing that we are always here and always now.KEY QUOTES: "Presence is being slowed down enough to see that everything is neutral and everything is optional." — Bloom de Wilde"I am an instrument, and I allow myself to be played by the universe, by creativity itself." — Bloom de Wilde"We are on different parts of the world in different time zones, and yet we are always here and we are always now." — Bloom de Wilde

    The Stress Maracas (with Bloom de Wilde)

  5. Sep 3

    Wisdom Doesn't Follow Rules (with Sam Goldfinch)

    What if the secret to true freedom isn't working harder on yourself, but learning to stop striving and finally start living? If you have spent years on the self-help hamster wheel—chasing the next spiritual high and trying to "fix" your feelings—this episode of Clarity Jam Sessions is your permission slip to step off the ride. Host Bradley Davage sits down with colleague and coach Sam Goldfinch to pull back the curtain on the "self-help trap". Together, they point you away from constant mental analysis and toward a life lived in direct, sensate experience. IN THIS EPISODE, WE JAM ON: Why Wisdom Has No Rules: How our rigid assumptions and "spiritual rules" actually block our real-time, intuitive knowing.The "Press Secretary" vs. The "President": Understanding the loud, analytical voice in your head versus the deeper biological intelligence actually running the show.Feeling Creatures Who Think: Sifting through neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's realization that our analytical left brain is actually "late to the party".The Car Wash Paradigm Shift: Bradley shares the incredible story of a combat veteran who shifted from an aggressive, fight-or-flight trigger to complete, peaceful presence in a single heartbeat.Expanding Your Life Menu: How shifting to an "inside-out" understanding of reality instantly opens up entirely new choices in your daily life. "We think we're thinking creatures that feel, but we're actually feeling creatures that think." — Jill Bolte Taylor (quoted by Sam) CONNECT WITH SAM: Listen to Sam's weekly "10-minute jams" and explore his coaching programs: Website: https://www.rebelspirituality.com/Email: Hello@rebelspirituality.com Subscribe, leave us a 5-star review, and share this episode with someone who is ready to stop striving and start living! "Wisdom doesn't follow rules... It’s a metaphor pointing to like assumptions, beliefs, interpretations, the kind of hidden thinking that we have." — Sam Goldfinch "We are sentient beings... The one thing that we're really, really good and almost born to do, almost like a birthright, is to feel." — Bradley Davidge "We think we're thinking creatures that feel, but we're actually feeling creatures that think." — Jill Bolte Taylor (quoted by Sam Goldfinch) "Life's too important to be taken seriously." — Oscar Wilde (quoted by Sam Goldfinch) "There's learning in the feeling. It's not here [the head]... it's more of a learning from here [the heart/body] and then it comes up here." — Chip Chipman (quoted by Bradley Davidge)

    Wisdom Doesn't Follow Rules (with Sam Goldfinch)

  6. Aug 26

    Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings

    Have you ever gone looking for the one exception, the one place where it wasn't true, and come up empty? I went looking. Feelings run everything, so I tried to find anywhere in my life where that wasn't the driver. Couldn't find it. There's a difference between "I haven't found an exception yet" and "there are no exceptions." I know which one I've got. Feelings, nothing more than feelings.

  7. Aug 20

    The Teddy Bear Distinction

    Cut a teddy bear open and there's nothing in there but stuffing. So where's the comfort actually coming from? This one's about the referee, your partner, your bank account, and the thing you keep pointing at when really the feeling was always coming from you. First heard this distinction from my friend and mentor Jamie Smart, and it's never left me.

  8. Aug 18

    Living Outside The Moment

    Clarity Jam Sessions A jam session doesn't start with a setlist. You show up, you play what's true in the moment, and something real comes out of it. That's what this podcast is, in conversation. After 40 plus years as a musician and ten as a coach, I've come to see that presence isn't something you arrive at. It's not a place to get to, it's a place to come back to, over and over. This show is that practice, out loud. I'm not here as someone who's arrived. I'm still in it, same as you. Some episodes are solo jams. Some are conversations with musicians, coaches, and people doing their own version of this work. No script, no fixed destination, just presence, curiosity, and whatever's alive to explore that day. Life is happening right now. What would you love to create today? Let's jam.

    Living Outside The Moment
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We spend so much of life searching for the next answer, the next method, the next breakthrough. What if clarity isn't something you achieve? What if it's something you notice? Clarity Jam Sessions is where I explore music, spirituality, coaching, creativity, relationships, and the beautiful mystery of being human. With friends, artists, thinkers, and anyone willing to have a real conversation. No scripts. No gurus. No self-help treadmill. Just honest conversations. Stop Striving. Start Living. Life is happening. We're live. Let's jam.

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  • Creator
    with Bradley Davidge
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © with Bradley Davidge
  • Show Website
    Clarity Jam Sessions