Ethical Adulthood with Andrea Fiondo

About Ethical Adulthood with Andrea Fiondo

Ethical Adulthood with Andrea Fiondo explores non-duality, yoga, meditation, music, sacred texts, culture, and the ordinary work of meeting our lives with humor, compassion, clarity, responsibility, kindness, and respect for the reality we actually share. These are spoken reflections from a yogi who has stepped off the path. Season 1 explores the five capacities that form the foundation of this podcast. How do we stay humane, grounded, and accountable when ethics are thin, certainty is collapsing, and maturity is rarely rewarded? Here, we stay close to what we can actually see, live, test, suffer, repair, and recognize together. Season 2 explores ethical adulthood through music. Each episode uses a song as a doorway into one of the capacities we need to navigate modern life with integrity: the ability to tolerate uncertainty, repair relationships, live with loss, hold power responsibly, question our own certainty, and stay connected to what is real. Drawing from artists as diverse as Bill Withers, Joni Mitchell, Indigo Girls, Fleetwood Mac, Jason Mraz, Chicago, Rush, Carly Simon, and others, these reflections look beyond self-improvement and into the ordinary work of becoming a mature human being. The songs become case studies. The lyrics become stories. The music becomes a mirror. This is not a nostalgia podcast. It is an exploration of what these songs still have to teach us about love, responsibility, freedom, belonging, grief, courage, and the complicated task of sharing a world with other people. Recorded in Detroit, these episodes invite listeners to think more deeply, listen more carefully, and practice the difficult art of growing up without growing hard. Season 1 introduced the five capacities that form the foundation of Ethical Adulthood. Season 2 asks what those capacities look like in real life. Season 3 begins with a look at an old map—the 7 Chakras—but through a developmental lens. Then the 0th capacity is named and discussed—the capacity for complexity. Season 3 then explores one question: What happens when we mistake the map for reality? For thousands of years, human beings have created maps to explain personality, morality, suffering, spiritual growth, and God. Some have endured for centuries. Some have shaped civilizations. Rather than asking whether these maps are right or wrong, we’ll ask: What truth did they preserve? What did they help us see? What did they make harder to see? From Hippocrates and the Four Temperaments to the Buddha, Krishna, Dante, and Jesus, we’ll examine some of humanity’s oldest attempts to understand ourselves—and what ethical adulthood asks of us today.

Publisher

Andrea Fiondo

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Apr 2026

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Ethical Adulthood: The Atlas of Our Lives | Metaphysics

   Send us Fan Mail Every map of human life assumes something about reality. The chakra map, the four temperaments, astrology, the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, and the teachings of Jesus each begin with a different understanding of what we are and how the world works. Even “I follow science” leaves room for different metaphysical views. In this episode, I ask what metaphysics is, share the beliefs I currently hold, and explore what happens when someone else’s view of reality makes us uncomfortable. ...

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   13 Sept 2026

   Ethical Adulthood: The Atlas of Our Lives | Disciples of the Eternal by Adyashanti

   Send us Fan Mail Inspired by Adyashanti’s book, Resurrecting Jesus, and specifically his 2-CD set, Disciples of the Eternal, I'm exploring his interpretations of Judas, Peter, Mary Magdalene, John, and Pontius Pilate as five archetypal responses to Truth. As you listen, consider the episode’s questions for yourself: Does this map illuminate somthing for you? Does it help you navigate? Or is Adyashanti wide of the mark? Watch on the Ethical Adulthood channel on YouTube—or through your podcast ...

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   12 Sept 2026

   Ethical Adulthood: The Atlas of Our Lives | Buddhism

   Send us Fan Mail We would like reality to consult us before making any major decisions. It does not. In Season 3, Episode 13 of Ethical Adulthood, I explore the map the Buddha left us: the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. What can these ancient teachings offer people with jobs, families, mortgages—and seventeen electronic devices that all require updates on the same afternoon? We begin with the traditional story of Siddhartha Gautama, then explore suffering, craving, impermanen...

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