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Join Rob Bialostocki, highly experienced teacher, presenter, and life coach, as he shares everyday stories, insights, and practical ideas in a chatty, conversational style.We focus on personal evolution, navigating life's challenges and transitions, and living a life that matters to us, to others, and to the world we all live in.No fluff or bs here —just simple, real-world advice backed by decades of experience, psychology and practical philosophy, and a light sense of humour.Friendly, credible and useful.
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Using the film Where'd You Go, Bernadette as a jumping-off point, Rob looks at how people quietly lose touch with themselves — not through one big decision, but through years of reasonable choices that add up to living a life built for other people. He explains why midlife is when this usually surfaces, why most of us cover the feeling back up rather than face it, and shares a simple practice for finding your way back: ask yourself honest questions with a clear head, then let the real answer ...
When faith, marriage, family and health all fall apart in the same few years, how do you keep functioning? Rob shares a genuinely relentless stretch of his own life — questioning a decades-long faith, separating after 29 years of marriage, his daughter's surprise pregnancy, and a new partner's cancer diagnosis, all within about five years. He breaks down what actually helped him get through it: treating each crisis separately instead of one giant problem, being honest about how ha...
Most people confuse change with transition, but they're completely different processes. Change is external—you move cities, lose a job, get divorced. It's the obvious shift from point A to point B. Transition is the inner psychological journey of letting go of your old identity, spending time in uncertainty, then eventually embracing who you're becoming. Without proper transition, change becomes just "rearranging the furniture"—nothing really transforms inside you. That's why people can go th...
Why Nature Always Wins: Life Lessons from a Fallen Tree That Will Change How You See Control, Humility & Your Place in the World During a routine morning dog walk, I noticed something I had walked past many times before. But this time, I stopped and contemplated a new perspective. There, in the middle of a beautifully managed bush reserve, a massive gum tree had crashed down, flattening everything in its path despite all the careful human planning and maintenance by Council staff. It remi...
Are you interested in finding your passion? Well, the problem is popular advice to "find your passion" doesn't work; it's fundamentally flawed and can be very frustrating. Research shows that over 80% of adults don't know what their passion is, yet we're told we should. The truth is passion isn't something you find - it's something you develop through experiment and experience. You can't have passion for something you've never done. In this episode, Rob shares from personal ...
In this episode, I talk about my trip to Great Barrier Island, about 95km from Auckland, visiting friends who ditched their corporate lives in their late 50s for a simpler existence. No TV, no news, no social media, and definitely no traffic noise – just the natural world around us. Walking along the coast on day two, I found myself sitting on rocks, watching the tide move seaweed around beneath the surface. It got me thinking about how rare these quiet moments are in our everyday lives. Let'...
Personal growth advice often presents a single "right way" to approach life's challenges, but there are actually multiple valid paths for everything from relationships to career development to self-improvement. Key Points • The difference between "the way" versus "ways" of approaching life situations. • When people claim to have found "the way" it may be due to immaturity, limited experience, or having an agenda. • With age and wisdom comes broader understanding of multiple valid approaches...
If you’re a human being - and I’m guessing you are - then you have lots of relationships. And while many might be healthy, enjoyable and good chances are there are one or two that have some kind of stress, or are not as good as you’d like. Maybe, there is one that has just broken and you’d still like to see it mended. In this episode, I talk about how important relationships with my birth mother and my Dad went through a cold or even non-existent phase, but both are now wonderfully warm, enga...
Join Rob Bialostocki, highly experienced teacher, presenter, and life coach, as he shares everyday stories, insights, and practical ideas in a chatty, conversational style.We focus on personal evolution, navigating life's challenges and transitions, and living a life that matters to us, to others, and to the world we all live in.No fluff or bs here —just simple, real-world advice backed by decades of experience, psychology and practical philosophy, and a light sense of humour.Friendly, credible and useful.
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