Grappling with her daughter's trans identification was but one step in Stoic Mom's positive disintegration, leading her to truly sort out her values intellectually and grapple emotionally with what it truly means for an individual to live up to her unique potential. In this episode, she continues a conversation she's been having with Jessie on her own podcast, the Stoic Mom project, exploring Jessie's notion of "the paradox of weirdness" and the new counterculture, the meaning of virtue, the problems with mental health diagnosis as identity, and the role of gender in our culture.

• StoicMom Project Podcast: Butterflies Becoming
• StoicMom Project Podcast: "You're a Wizard, Harry" - A Conversation for the Abstract-Intense
• StoicMom Project Podcast: Perceiving a Higher Path - Jessie Mannisto Interviews StoicMom
• StoicMom's personal life philsophy (paywalled)
• Weirdos of the World, Unite: Jessie and Eliza Mondegreen chat about weirdness, confidence, and gender with Benjamin Boyce
• stoicmom.substack.com: see tab for member community
• Theme music from TELL YOUR STORY music by ikson™

Julian Adorney is fighting our toxic political culture, both by striving to understand polarizing issues intellectually and with nuance, and also by confronting the deep and challenging emotions that are at the root of some of our most hostile rifts.  We explore the role of community, mentorship, and faith (or at least some kind of "north star"), the process of sorting out what we value and why, and follow a tangent toward mental health.

• @Julian_Liberty on Twitter
• Julian's articles at the Foundation for Economic Education
• Braver Angels, the depolarization org at whose conference Jessie and Julian met
• Monica Guzman's book, I Never Though of It That Way (sponsored link)
• Theme music from TELL YOUR STORY music by ikson™
• Header by Pete Lindforth from Pixabay

Alasdair Gunn and Jessie reflect on Genspect's conference in Killarney, Ireland.  What does the experience of meeting online friends in person tell us about living well in the digital age, especially as people who sometimes privilege our minds over our bodies?

• Check out the program for Genspect's next conference, November 4-5, 2023 in Denver, Colorado, USA