Hosted by John · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 76 episodes
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"Slay your dragons with compassion" To become equal to the dream sewn within us, our heart must break open and usually must break more than once. That’s why they say that the only heart worth having is a broken heart. For only in breaking can it open fully and reveal what is hidden within." - Michael Meade This is a series of podcasts based on the premise explored in Malcolm Stern’s acclaimed book of the same name, that adversity provides us with the capacity to develop previously unexplored depths and is , in effect , a crucible for self reflection and awareness. Malcolm lost his daughter Melissa to suicide in 2014. It slowly dawned on him over the following few years that he was being educated and an opportunity was being presented where new insights helped him forge a path through his grief and despair. As part of that cathartic journey, he wrote “ Slay Your Dragons with Compassion ( Watkins 2020 ) where he was able to describe some of the practi
John hosts Slay Your Dragons - Malcolm Stern, a arts show with 76 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail A five-year-old watching her parents shout and thinking “it doesn’t have to be like this” can grow into an adult who makes conflict resolution her life’s work. That’s where our conversation with Anna beg
Send us Fan Mail Someone asks, “Do you have children?” and suddenly you are standing at a crossroads between politeness and truth. That is where this conversation begins: a party, two strangers, and the quiet moment when
Send us Fan Mail Spiritual awakening is often marketed as a constant high, but what happens when it feels more like an unravelling? I sit down with mentor Joanna Long to talk about awakening as the unconscious becoming c
Send us Fan Mail A diagnosis can scramble your sense of who you are, especially when you’ve built a life around clarity, competence, and being the person with the answers. When Jonathan Dawson tells us he has Parkinson’s
Send us Fan Mail Pain does not only come from what happened to us. Sometimes it arrives already packed in the family story, sitting in the nervous system like an inheritance we never asked for. We talk with Andre Zitcer
Send us Fan Mail A single sentence changed everything: you’re not doomed. From that moment, Darinka chose life and built a disciplined, human path back to health—pairing monitored fasting and daily visualisation with mus
Send us Fan Mail A sudden loss can set the course of a lifetime. Malcolm sits down with master puppeteer and educator Tony Gee to trace the unexpected path from a father’s death in Singapore to world-record puppet shows,
Send us Fan Mail A lost voice became a doorway. When our guest—a former international singer—underwent thyroid surgery and fell into silence, a drumbeat led to a startling vision of a warrior and an arrow to the throat.
Send us Fan Mail What if the moment your life falls apart is not failure but initiation? In this candid conversation with author and philosopher Fiona Robertson, we trace the shape of a true dark night of the soul: the s
Send us Fan Mail Grief rarely knocks once. Sometimes it moves in, rearranges the furniture, and dares you to keep living in your own house. That’s where we meet James: a man who fell back in love with an old friend turne
Send us Fan Mail What if the smartest decision you ever make begins with your body quietly refusing to board the train? That was Carmen’s turning point—a full-body no that unravelled a polished corporate life and opened
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you stop playing small and start telling the truth—to your coach, your body, and yourself? Claire joins us to share how she left a stable HR career and built a life around running, brea
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a life built on performance turns toward presence? We sit down with world‑ranked dancer and coach Andrew Cuerden for a candid journey from a disciplined South African childhood to Londo
Send us Fan Mail The transformative power of bringing our full humanity into leadership takes center stage in this profound conversation with Nicholas Janni, award-winning author of "Leader as Healer." Nicholas shares hi
Send us Fan Mail What happens when your name isn't truly yours? When your cultural heritage is erased? When doctors dismiss your pain? Camilla Balshaw's powerful story tackles these questions with remarkable vulnerabilit
Send us Fan Mail What messages might our bodies be sending through illness, disability, or limitation? What wisdom lies beneath the surface of our physical challenges? Caroline Born, a movement practitioner with over fou
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you discover your voice is actually a gateway to spiritual awakening? In this soul-stirring conversation, Malcolm Stern welcomes singer-philosopher Chloe Goodchild, founder of The Naked
Send us Fan Mail Alina's remarkable journey from the constraints of Soviet Ukraine to spiritual enlightenment reveals how profound suffering can transform into extraordinary wisdom. Born into poverty under communist rule
Send us Fan Mail When a palm reader told high-powered lawyer Jonathan Sattin to quit his job during a lunch break reading, most people would have laughed it off. Instead, he handed in his notice that very afternoon. This
Send us Fan Mail What happens when we stop swimming against the current and allow life to show us where we truly belong? Martin Pollecoff, former chair of the UK Council of Psychotherapists, shares a fascinating journey
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