Via Stoica is a podcast dedicated to Stoicism as a lived philosophy and a practical way of meeting modern life.
We draw from ancient texts and apply them to real challenges, emotional reactivity, discipline, purpose, relationships, and adversity.
This is not about abstract theory. It is about practice, with attention to what is within our control.
Each week, we explore Stoic themes through reflections, practical topics, and interviews.
The views expressed are my own and for informational purposes only.
Learn more at viastoica.com.
Can You Be in the Moment? Waiting as a Stoic Practice
Living in the moment sounds like a cliché until you spend a long train ride home from London to the Netherlands and decide to stop counting the stations. In this episode of the Via Stoica Podcast, recorded indoors after I chose not to record on a walk, I share what changed when I stopped watching the clock and asked what was being asked of me.
Welcome to the Via Stoica Podcast, the podcast on Stoicism. I had just finished a trip that took me from Carnuntum to Montaigne's country and on to London, and then I sat alone on a train with hours ahead of me and a delay on the way.
The central question is why waiting gives us so much frustration and anxiety, and my answer is that we hang our attention on a future moment and lose the one we are in. On that train, I could count down the stops or choose what to do with the ride, so I looked out of the window, watched the other passengers, and let the countryside pass until I had arrived. We look at expectancy and the clock, the Stoic question of what our task is right now, the dichotomy of control applied to a waiting room, and why being present does not mean being efficient.
In the second half, I walk you through a short practice. You recall a moment when you were waiting and wanted to be somewhere else, write down the facts, note how you felt, ask what you added to it, and then sort what you can and cannot control. You can try it now or the next time you sit in a waiting room.
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3 Nov 2026
Do You Follow Your Own Advice? The Stoic Art of Otherizing
Do you follow your own advice, or only give it? This episode of the Via Stoica Podcast looks at how to practice what you preach, using a Stoic practice called otherizing: seeing your own situation as if it happened to someone else.
Welcome to the Via Stoica Podcast, the podcast on Stoicism. I recorded this one on a walk in Portugal and finished it at home after I met a friend and chose time with them first, a small example of Stoic philosophy as something you live, not just talk about.
It is easy to tell a friend that a broken cup is nothing and much harder to say it about your own. I ask whether teaching what I have not mastered makes me a hypocrite, and I share what I notice when I teach the pause on a Stoic walk and then catch myself adding judgments to my own bad moments. Epictetus gives us a simple way to create distance from a hard moment, and Seneca shows why even a teacher takes the medicine he recommends. I also talk about stepping out of my comfort zone, one step at a time.
Listen for a three-step exercise: recall advice you gave, recall advice you received, then ask what you would tell someone in your own situation and whether you can follow it. This episode invites you to bring the advice you give so freely home to yourself.
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27 Oct 2026
A Stoic at Mont Saint-Michel: The Lessons of the Tides
The tides around Mont Saint-Michel rank among the biggest in Europe, and the story of how people once tried to outsmart them holds a lesson about living with nature. In this episode of the Via Stoica Podcast, recorded at the foot of the abbey, I look at what happened when a causeway let visitors reach the island at any hour, and what it took to undo it.
Welcome to the Via Stoica Podcast, the podcast on Stoicism. The causeway kept the sea from flowing through the bay, silt piled up, and the island slowly stopped being an island. Restoring the tides took about twenty years of work and a new bridge that lets the water move freely beneath it.
The Stoics asked us to live in accordance with nature, which covers both the world around us and our own nature. We reflect on what happens when we bend a place, or ourselves, to our standards and desires instead of working with how things are, and how much simpler a modest life becomes once we stop fighting a rhythm that was already there.
This is a short, reflective stop on a trip through France, and an invitation to ask where you might be rushing something that only needs time.
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