Havana Cafe Sessions Podcast

As an alternative to making a laundry list of New Year's Resolutions, we choose 3 intention words that we'll to guide us through the New Year.

In this episode, we explore some of the ideas from the book, Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Sounds like a very heavy topic, but we, of course, handle it in our normal low-key, informal way. 

In this episode, writer Cherry Williams and I have a coffee and chat about creativity and the courage to live a creative life.

On this episode, Jeremy Sadler joins me to talk about positive affirmations and why they don't work. Of course, you know they do work, but Jeremy lays out where we go wrong in making affirmations causing them not to work.

In this episode, Sarah and I explore our thoughts on Don Miguel Ruiz's book, The Four Agreements.

Excited to have as my guest host, Victoria James, founder of Mindflowers, in the studio with us to talk about self-importance and how mastering it will boost your authentic happiness by a factor of 10.

This week, Sarah returns back to the studio, and with her, she brought an interesting topic. Do you ever get the feeling that something is not quite right with the world? This feeling sometimes manifests itself in the form of dissatisfaction, anxiety, or existential dread. But is this dissatisfaction inherent? Well, that's exactly what Sarah and I dive into for episode #139. In our open-ended casual style, we examine the topic through a variety of lenses from Samsara ("wandering through, flowing on", in the sense of "aimless and directionless wandering"), to Stoicism, The Matrix, and our own personal life experiences.

In this episode, We're talking about resilience and how to bounce back from bullying. Viki has first-hand experience with bullying both as a kid and as an adult, and now as a parent whose child has had to deal with bullying. She drops some useful tips covering the problem from multiple levels.

In this episode, we're joined by Aimee Mann of CEO of Your Special Needs Family Podcast to explore the question, can women do it all?

In this episode, Sarah asks the question does manifestation, like in The Law of Attraction really work?

In this episode, we explore biohacking coffee to extend life and answer the question of how to live through learning how to die.

How do you nurture an idea from its initial conception to fully realizing it into the world? 

In this episode, we use the Star Wars saga as a lens to explore some major life themes. Also, Clay has a massive mind-shift.

In this episode, Clay and Sarah share their individual experiences of walking the Road to Santiago.

In this episode, we discuss where spirituality fits on the spectrum of personal development.

In this episode, we share our love of having conversations that matter. We share some of our backstory on how and why we do the podcast.

In this episode, Clay and Sarah share 3 books each that have influenced their lives in a major way. As Clay describes it, "Books that punch you in the face."

In this episode, we explore the idea of work. 

In this episode, we explore the philosophical idea of becoming who you are using John Kaag's book, Hiking with Nietzche as the backdrop to our conversation over coffee this week.