Between the Ears Podcast

About Between the Ears Podcast

Your inner state creates your outer reality. Between The Ears is a show about the mental and emotional world we all carry inside, and how understanding it can transform the life we live outside. Hosted by Arnold Beekes, each episode explores a single idea for building a better life between the ears: taking back control from the expectations of parents, teachers, bosses, and everyone else who has quietly been driving your behavior, learning what you actually want instead of what you have been told to want, and lowering the chronic stress that comes from living two lives at once. Every episode closes with a moment of everyday beauty, a small true story of kindness, courage, or compassion, because what you notice and appreciate shapes your inner state just as much as what you think. If you are ready to stop living someone else's life and start living your own, this podcast is for you.

Publisher

betweentheear

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Aug 2026

Latest episode

31 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Oct 2026

   #44 Creativity: The How

   In this follow-up to the what of creativity, Arnold Beekes covers the how, starting from the fact that our creativity is suppressed from a young age, so the first step is allowing yourself to be creative again. He lists what you need. A question, meaning what you are researching or trying to make visible. A lot of different dots, the topics that inspire you, which don’t have to relate to your question, and he gives the example of Alexander von Humboldt and Jules Verne, whose novels drew on Humboldt’s descriptions. Time, because deep insights take time to digest, and he describes reading a book on human nature and needing a few years to feel in his body that we are foremost emotional beings and not rational ones. Patience and sleeping on an idea for a night or a few. Falling in love with the problem, not the first solution. Space in your head, because with a closed hand you can’t receive anything. Iteration, checking whether you’re still excited by what you created. Chaos, since structure can come at the end. And removing expectations, stigma, status, money and ego, plus the pressure from inside and outside. The episode closes with an everyday beauty story from a vineyard in Sacramento, California, where researchers installed 25 barn owl nest boxes to deal with a gopher and vole infestation. By the following year 18 breeding pairs had moved in and fledged 66 young, and over three breeding seasons the owls consumed an estimated 30,000 rodents. Arnold cites a cost of about 34 cents per rodent for the nest boxes against about eight dollars for trapping, with no poison building up in the food chain.

2. 

   30 Oct 2026

   #43 Honesty Hurts, Hearts and Heals

   Host Arnold Beekes explores how honesty, even when painful, leads to personal healing and transformation, sharing his own journey of accepting limitations to find new possibilities.

3. 

   29 Oct 2026

   #42 Creativity: The What

   Arnold Beekes defines creativity as connecting diverse interests in novel ways, emphasizing presence, boredom, and reality acceptance for innovation.

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