About

I came to Stoicism because someone mentioned a podcast and I was curious enough to give it a try. I stayed because I needed it.

I’ve been a leader for over 25 years, and for most of that time I was doing it on instinct and willpower. When life got hard in the way that life sometimes does, neither was enough.

Stoicism gave me something I couldn’t find anywhere else. It’s not a framework or a set of rules. It is a philosophy on how to live life. It has daily practices, deep insights, and reasoned arguments that have taught me to make sense of the world and my place in it. It has given me more control over the things that are actually mine to control, my thoughts, my choices, my responses, and to let go of everything else. It has helped me live with joy and pain together.

That’s what this is about. I’m not an expert or a philosopher. I’m someone who found something useful and has spent seven years putting it to work. If you’re trying to make sense of something right now, a setback, a season of life that isn’t going the way you planned, a feeling that you want more control without becoming more controlling, you’re in the right place.

This is The Stoic Leader. Pull up a chair.