
The Odyssey and the Stoics
This week, we start a multi-episode series on The Odyssey which gives Mick and Adam a chance to discuss the original story as well as the new movie hitting theatres right now. This week's episode centres on the history o

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A conversational podcast about Stoicism and its application in modern life. Co-hosted by Mick Mulroy and Adam Piercey, episodes centre around topics from modern life like dealing with anger, ethics, lessons to take from the philosophy, and many others.
Adam and Mick hosts Pub and Porch: Applied Stoicism, a society show with 53 episodes published.

This week, we start a multi-episode series on The Odyssey which gives Mick and Adam a chance to discuss the original story as well as the new movie hitting theatres right now. This week's episode centres on the history o

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick discuss the concept of imperfection, starting with the use of Brene Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection as a starting guide. Adam and Mick discuss how noone is perfect, and how th

Today, the podcast is celebrating 1 year of episodes! Adam and Mick decided that for this week's episode they would do a "pulse check" to see how they both felt the podcast had been going since its start last year. Adam

In today's episode, Adam and Mick discuss the impact of rumors and how Socrates devised a three-step plan for deciding when to say anything called the Three Sieves. Adam and Mick start off with the first sieve: Is it tru

In today's episode, Adam and Mick discuss a very practical topic which is the discussion of burnout. The episode begins by discussing what burnout is, what it might mean to different people, and we hear from Adam on his

In this penultimate episode on raising kids, Adam and Mick dive into the topics of fostering and adoption. Mick shares personal stories of his first-hand experience of fostering, and the relationship that he built that s

Today's episode continues our series on Raising kids with episode 3, focussing on the last 3 rules from Musonius Rufus on raising children: praise character and effort more than achievement, teach responsibility and acco

In today's episode, recorded on Father's Day itself, Mick and Adam delve further into Musonius' rules about raising kids. The episode starts out by talking about what it means to "provide" as a father, referencing the Ke

To honour Father's Day, today's episode centres around raising kids. We focus on the teaching of Musonius Rufus and his rules about raising children, and start to discuss the first few rules from Musonius' teachings. Dis

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick discuss one of the "Big Three" of Stoicism: Epictetus. In discussion is Epictetus' origins, what we know (or don't really know) about his early life, how he came to become a slave, a

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick continue the conversation in part 2 of the main topic for this week's episode which is the selection of leaders, be it political, industry, military, or otherwise. Concepts around th

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick open with a little life update to each other and also talk a little bit about some recent space program events going on. Then, the conversation shifts to part 1 of the main topic for

In today's episode, Mick and Adam discuss a topic that has become quite prevalent in these past few years: freedom of speech. Concepts around what is means by definition, but also what it means in practice, are major top

In today's episode, Adam and Mick continue our episodes on the classical Stoics. Today's episodes covers Musonius Rufus, a prominent Stoic in Rome during the time of Octavian and Nero and also the teacher of one of the "

This week, Adam and Mick start a new series of episodes one the original Stoics of history. In this first episode, their topic is Zeno the original founder of Stoicism. The story of his origins, how he came to be in Athe

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick discuss the Stoic virtue of Temperance. Opening with some initial definitions of the word, Adam and Mick discuss their views on temperance meaning self-control and the choices we mak

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick talk about change. The conversation starts by focussing on how change is constant, and an expected part of the universe, and how we can approach that as Stoics and as human beings. T

Today's episode revolves around relationships, and how Stoics approach them. Historical references to Stoicism's stance on relationships are where we start, with clear discussions on Stoicism's key tenets and beliefs aro

In this episode, Mick and Adam discuss the current and historical context of Stoicism as a "street philosophy". Stoicism's origins, and how it spread to the streets of Rome and beyond, are discussed, as well as historica

In this week's episode, Adam and Mick discuss some of the recent, alarming activity around the banning of certain books for their being deemed "inappropriate" in some shape or form. Wisdom, and our ability to think ratio
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