58 min
"Relationships with loyalty, honesty, and respect" - Stephen Shaw What's the value?
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- Philosophy
Stephen is a globally renowned mystic, spiritual life coach, shaman, tantra master, and author of 12 bestselling, spiritual self-help books. In his words, Stephen aims to help people transform their lives into deep fulfillment, profound self-love, and resounding joy. This was a fun conversation with Stephen, as it focused heavily on the importance of relationships in finding happiness and fulfillment in life. Specifically, Stephen called out 3 values that are most important when it comes to his relationships; loyalty, honesty, and respect.
It was really interesting to discuss this given Stephen's life experiences, including some trauma suffered as a child, a rigid dad heavily focused on achievement above all else, some failed marriages, and a violent attack he suffered that left him with PTSD. These experiences lead him to travel the world for 10 years in search of answers to what life is really about and how he could become more open to genuine relationships.
We also spent some time towards the end talking about his relationship with his wife and what he thinks makes that so successful. We talked about the importance of finding someone whose underlying values align with yours, which by extension means you must understand yourself and what you value first. As we discussed that is often makes relationships so tough, because we enter into them without really knowing ourselves fully and then just have to hope it will align with the other person.
Lots of good insights and interesting discussion with someone who has spent much of his life searching for answers to the same questions we debate often on this show. Thanks to Stephen for being on and sharing his story.
Stephen is a globally renowned mystic, spiritual life coach, shaman, tantra master, and author of 12 bestselling, spiritual self-help books. In his words, Stephen aims to help people transform their lives into deep fulfillment, profound self-love, and resounding joy. This was a fun conversation with Stephen, as it focused heavily on the importance of relationships in finding happiness and fulfillment in life. Specifically, Stephen called out 3 values that are most important when it comes to his relationships; loyalty, honesty, and respect.
It was really interesting to discuss this given Stephen's life experiences, including some trauma suffered as a child, a rigid dad heavily focused on achievement above all else, some failed marriages, and a violent attack he suffered that left him with PTSD. These experiences lead him to travel the world for 10 years in search of answers to what life is really about and how he could become more open to genuine relationships.
We also spent some time towards the end talking about his relationship with his wife and what he thinks makes that so successful. We talked about the importance of finding someone whose underlying values align with yours, which by extension means you must understand yourself and what you value first. As we discussed that is often makes relationships so tough, because we enter into them without really knowing ourselves fully and then just have to hope it will align with the other person.
Lots of good insights and interesting discussion with someone who has spent much of his life searching for answers to the same questions we debate often on this show. Thanks to Stephen for being on and sharing his story.
58 min