"Soul Conversations" with Don Ajené

Dr. Don Ajené
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Soul Conversations with Don Ajené is a contemplative podcast for people who want to live with greater honesty, depth, and emotional and spiritual maturity. Each episode offers space to slow down and listen to thoughts, feelings, and the quieter movements of the inner life. Through solo reflections and thoughtful conversations, the show sits beside you as you notice what is happening inside. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  1. 2d ago

    Weeds, Weeds, Weeds

    Some weeds live in us so long that we mistake them for who we are. In this episode, Dr. Don Ajenè begins with a story. When he was in his teens, someone made a passing comment that wasn’t even really about him, and he carried it for weeks. He took it apart, looking for what was wrong with him, and he decided the pain was just his nature: someone who feels things too deeply. It took years to see it differently. Hearing and receiving are not the same act, and not every word needs to take root. The weed is still in his soil, but it rarely needs pulling anymore. This is not a list of weeds or a plan for removing them. It is a quiet invitation to notice what is growing in us and to see it as something growing, not something we are. In This Episode — A passing comment, carried for weeks — What happens when a weed is mistaken for character — The difference between hearing and receiving — Why seeing comes before pulling — Patience, willingness, and the help of good company Reflection Question What have you been calling “just the way I am”? Join Our Soul Conversation Circle Our Soul Conversation Circle is a monthly membership community for meaningful conversation about life, emotion, spirit, purpose, and the experience of being human. Members gather for live Soul Conversations and continue the dialogue in an online community between gatherings. No required curriculum, no assignments. Come as you are, and bring your questions. Membership is $9.95 per month. We begin in January 2027. Learn more and join: https://don-ajene.simplero.com/page/716559 About Soul Conversations Soul Conversations with Don Ajenè is a contemplative podcast exploring the inner life through the lens of Spiritual Emotional Intelligence, depth psychology, and interspiritual wisdom. Season 5, The Curriculum of Becoming, is a season of ongoing enrollment, each episode growing upon the one before it. Soul Conversations is part of the Spirit of EQ Podcast Network. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/daniel-robinson/ame License code: XRS5F41ADKRYFIIG This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  2. Sep 14

    The Curriculum of Becoming: What Life Keeps Teaching Us

    There is no syllabus yet. Only ground that has already been prepared, and a welcome that has been waiting. In this season premiere, Dr. Don Ajenè opens Season 5 with an invitation rather than an agenda. Before naming what this season will explore, he sits with something more foundational: the posture required to walk through it at all. This is not an episode about content. It is a walk through the farm before anything has been named as crop. Drawing on the through-line from Season 4's Learning to Stand in the Weather, Dr. Ajenè begins where that season left off, rooted, not past the weather but standing inside what it taught. He names four postures the season will ask of every listener: patience, rootedness, willingness to be changed, and companionship. Not a lesson to carry off and use by Tuesday, but an orientation to return to all season long. This is not an episode about arrival. It is an invitation into a curriculum with no final exam, only ongoing enrollment. In This Episode Why this season begins with the farm, not the harvestThe difference between passive waiting and active patienceWhy things must root before they can bear fruitWhat it means to let something change you, not just inform youCompanionship as a posture, not just a relationshipAn introduction to The Curriculum of Becoming — a curriculum with no graduation, only enrollment Reflection Question What would it mean to show up this season willing to be changed, not just informed? Continue the Conversation Extended reflections and writings available on Substack: substack.com/@donajene About Soul Conversations Soul Conversations with Don Ajenè is a contemplative podcast exploring the inner life through the lens of Spiritual Emotional Intelligence, depth psychology, and interspiritual wisdom. Season 5 — The Curriculum of Becoming — begins a season of ongoing enrollment, each episode growing upon the one before it. Soul Conversations is part of the Spirit of EQ Podcast Network. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/daniel-robinson/ame License code: XRS5F41ADKRYFIIG This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  3. Aug 25

    Dawn

    Dawn doesn't announce itself. It doesn't ask if you endured well enough or stood correctly in the weather. It simply comes because that is its nature. Because the day has always followed the night. In this season finale, Dr. Don Ajené sits with the quiet arrival of dawn. Reflecting upon Season 4, this episode honors how far we have traveled through all the previous episodes: through humidity, heat, shade, wind, stillness, the eye, and soft rain, and what has been growing in us one degree of light at a time. This episode invites you to notice the dawn already present in you, whether you can see it yet or not. Extended reflections and writings are available on Substack: substack.com/@donajene Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/daniel-robinson/ame License code: XRS5F41ADKRYFIIG This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  4. Jul 14

    Soft Rain: Something Small and Good

    After every season of difficult weather, something arrives. It's not announced. It's not dramatic. It just arrives, like the first drop of rain after a long drought. In this episode, Dr. Don Ajené sits with the small and good things that arrive after sustained difficulty, like a soft hug when life has been hard, the simple word of encouragement when everything felt impossible, or the person who said nothing and simply listened. This is not an episode about grand breakthroughs or dramatic resolutions. It is an invitation to lower our threshold for what counts as good and to recognize that restoration doesn't wait for the storm to end. It arrives inside the storm. One small drop at a time. Extended reflections and writings available on Substack:substack.com/@donajene Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/daniel-robinson/ame. License code: XRS5F41ADKRYFIIG This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  5. Jun 5

    The Eye

    What if the stillness wasn't the end of the storm? What if it was the eye? In this episode, Dr. Don Ajené sits with one of the most important and most easily missed moments in any season of difficulty. The eye of the hurricane. That place of clarity at the center of great turbulence. From inside the eye, the sky is clear. The winds have stopped. Everything appears resolved. But the storm is still turning. This episode is not about fear. It is an invitation to honest seeing. Drawing from depth psychology, the Hebrew prophetic tradition, Viktor Frankl, Spiritual Emotional Intelligence (SEQ), SQ21, and Interspirituality, Dr. Ajené explores what it means to stand in the eye with both feet, receiving the clarity, remaining honest about where we are standing, and using this unique moment of stillness for what it was given for. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  6. May 5

    Stillness: After the Wind

    There is a particular kind of stillness that only comes after the wind. Not the stillness before, when something was gathering. This is different. This is the stillness of after. In this episode of Soul Conversations, Dr. Don Ajené sits with what becomes possible when the wind finally quiets, not because the world has changed, but because something within us has found a different relationship to what was moving. This is not an episode about resolution. It is an invitation to notice what is already here. Drawing from depth psychology, the wisdom of Viktor Frankl, Spiritual Emotional Intelligence, SQ21, and the interspiritual traditions, Dr. Don Ajené explores what stillness actually is and what it asks of us when we finally stop long enough to feel it. If you have been navigating a sustained season of difficulty, uncertainty, or inner movement, this episode is for you. Soul Conversations is part of The Spirit of EQ Podcast Network. Extended reflections and writings can be found on Substack at substack.com/@donajene This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  7. Apr 15

    Wind: What We Begin to Feel Again

    After time in the heat… and a moment of shade… something begins to move. Not direction. Not answers. But feeling. In this episode, we stay with what begins to return after rest: The quiet reawakening of sensationThe subtle movement of inner signalsThe difference between urgency and true movementAnd how discernment begins—not with action—but with noticing Wind does not move in one way. Sometimes it is a gentle breeze. Sometimes a shifting current. Sometimes something stronger begins to build. There is nothing here to figure out. Nothing to decide. Only something to notice. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

  8. Mar 25

    Shade: The Gift of Covering

    After prolonged exposure, something in us begins to thin. Our patience shortens. Caring feels heavier. We find ourselves holding more than we were meant to hold. In this episode, we turn toward Shade—not as escape, but as wisdom. Shade is the gift of covering. It is how we remain human in the midst of long and harsh conditions. Together, we explore: Why we cannot live in constant exposureThe difference between avoidance and restorationThe three forms of covering: from above, around us, and withinAnd how moments of shade allow us to recenter, recharge, and return with integrity This is not an episode about stepping away from life. It is about learning where life offers protection so that we can continue. A question to sit with: Where does shade already exist in your life? Take a breath. Slow down. Notice what is already offering you covering. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

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Soul Conversations with Don Ajené is a contemplative podcast for people who want to live with greater honesty, depth, and emotional and spiritual maturity. Each episode offers space to slow down and listen to thoughts, feelings, and the quieter movements of the inner life. Through solo reflections and thoughtful conversations, the show sits beside you as you notice what is happening inside. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy

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