The Barefoot Hustler

About The Barefoot Hustler

The Barefoot Hustler offers explorative conversations with inspiring creatives, visionaries & entrepreneurs that are challenging the status quo and paving their own route to success and happiness. Deep thinkers who are hustling from a grounded and aligned place. Each episode is packed with their wisdom on their journey from 'fitting in' to finding what they truly love to do and many other nuggets of insight into how you can do the same. A place of deep & courageous self-discovery and bold & aligned action, in order to find your unique expression and purpose in this often chaotic world.

Publisher

Sejin Gunaridis

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Apr 2022

Latest episode

25 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

52 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Aug 2026

   #52- What Happens When You Stop Chasing Enough?

   Hello beautiful soul fam. After a wild five months of gut issues, eczema, deep shadow work, and an ayahuasca journey, I came face to face with a pattern I didn’t realise was running so much of my life. For the creatives, entrepreneurs, leaders, seekers and big hearted humans who are building beautiful things, but can feel the quiet exhaustion of always needing to become more. In this solocast episode, I share the personal story behind one of the biggest realisations I’ve had this year: I share insight around the hidden fuel behind ambition, why proving can be so seductive, and what starts to change when one can cultivate a deeper sense of safety within. If you’ve been craving a way to create, lead and live that doesn’t leave your burnout, this one’s for you. Enjoy fam. Chapters (00:00) Big Life Update (00:42) Why Proving Hurts (03:41) Cracks In The Armor (05:39) Deadly Box Deep Dive (08:30) Bottom Up Healing (12:15) Unconditional Self Therapy (15:49) The Black Stallion Vision (20:41) Meeting The Four Horses (25:24) Ayahuasca Prep Reset (28:04) Peace In The Nothingness (30:00) The Proving Pattern (31:39) Costs Of The Treadmill (34:52) A New Way To Create (37:53) Practical Steps To Shift (40:51) Closing Question And Invite Connect with me Free downloadable guided experience HOW TO SAY NO (http://sejingunaridis.com/how-to-say-no-1 ) Storyteller 3-day intensive details (http://sejingunaridis.com/storytellers-1 ) Website (https://www.sejingunaridis.com/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/i.am.sejin) Substack (https://sejingunaridis.substack.com/ )

2. 

   5 Jul 2026

   #51- How to Stop Performing & Come Back to Your Real Life with Atlas Talisman

   Hey Barefoot hustlers, Today I’m joined by the wildly brilliant Atlas Talisman for a conversation on what it means to stop acting and start living. Atlas is a game designer, theatre director, embodiment and performance artist, and self-described “crash test dummy for the human heart.” He is the founder of Open World Theatre, a body of work that brings together ritual theatre, sensory training, social experimentation, embodiment and public displays of humanity to help people interrupt inherited patterns and rediscover the brave, strange beauty of being fully alive. At the heart of this episode is a question that feels both ancient and urgent: how much of our life is actually ours, and how much of it is a performance we were taught to repeat? This episode is for the seekers, artists, facilitators, rebels, feelers, performers and anyone who senses there is a more truthful, courageous and beautiful way to be human. You’ll walk away with a new lens on aliveness, social conditioning, self-expression, and the quiet ways we can begin to choose reality over performance. Enjoy fam, this one is philosophical, poetic, confronting and deeply alive. Chapters: (00:00) Episode Intro (03:17) Stop Acting, Start Living (06:47) What Is Open World Theatre? (10:30) Primal, Story and Soul (13:17) How Modern Life Steals Presence (18:23) Beyond Transactional Society (22:02) What It Feels Like To Be Truly Alive(27:17) Naming The Invisible Mask (30:47) Game Design, Reality and Life On Rails (35:52) Public Displays of Humanity (39:17) Street Work vs Exposure Therapy (43:17) Honesty, Aggression and Spiritual Bypass(46:17) Society As A Cult (50:17) Sensitivity, Heartbreak and Sacredness (53:17) Dancing Between The Sensory and The Mystery (56:37) The Power Of Not Knowing (58:57) Control, Surrender and The Cliff Edge (01:01:47) Practical Tools For Coming Alive (01:05:17) Seeing The Meta Scene (01:09:47) Solo Travel, Identity and Fisheye Awareness (01:12:02) May Your Life Be The Signature Of Your Soul (01:14:02) Where Atlas Is Still Scared Of Aliveness (01:16:17) Final Reflections and Where To Find Atlas Connect with Atlas: Website (https://www.openworldtheatre.com/) Open World Theatre (https://www.openworldtheatre.com/) Atlas' personal Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/atlas_talisman/) Connect with me: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/i.am.sejin/) Website (https://www.sejingunaridis.com)

3. 

   1 Jun 2026

   #50- What if Pleasure is the Path Home with Quinn Kush

   Hello beautiful soul fam. Today we’re opening the Berlin archives for a tender, spicy and deeply alive conversation with the deliciously wise Quinn Kush. Quinn is a Somatic Intimacy Educator, Pleasure and Embodiment Facilitator, and the founder of Tender Core, a body of work devoted to reclaiming touch, intimacy and pleasure as pathways back to self-love. At the heart of this episode is a simple but powerful truth: pleasure is not separate from self-love. It is one of the most direct ways into it. Not as a cute idea, but as something we learn to feel, build and sustain through the body. Together, we explore pleasure and sexuality as gateways into truth, creativity and wholeness, especially when we’re willing to meet taboo, shame and early conditioning with curiosity instead of collapse. Quinn shares what actually creates safety, how to move towards true embodied consent, and how her own journey through addiction, rock-bottom moments and devotion transformed hedonism and suffering into deep self-intimacy. We also unpack touch as a human need, consent as a life practice, people-pleasing, inner dom energy, relationship anarchy, queer liberation, and why slowing down enough to feel is one of the most rebellious things we can do in a world addicted to speed. You’ll leave with practical at-home rituals, delicious resources, and a whole new lens on how to love, touch, relate and live with more safety, sensation, freedom and truth. Enjoy fam, this one is nourishing for the soul. Chapters: (02:45) Queer Berlin Welcome (02:55) What Is a Pleasure Artist? (03:53) Pleasure Versus Eroticism (05:44) Eros Beyond Mechanics (07:13) Tender Core Origins (08:07) Touch, Shame and Healing (11:26) Why Pleasure Work Matters (15:17) Freedom, Barriers and Safety (18:39) Creating Safe Containers (20:20) Presence, Breath and Sensation (23:03) Group Witnessing and Play (27:00) Consent as a Life Skill (30:09) Consent in Real Time (31:46) People-Pleasing to Inner Dom (32:24) Why Devote Life to Pleasure Connect with Quinn: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/quinnkcore/) Website (https://www.tendercore.com.au⁠) Connect with me: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/i.am.sejin/) Website (https://www.sejingunaridis.com⁠)

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

163 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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