Joshua and Ryan talk about trading in our materialistic clinging for transcendent freedom with author, podcaster, and comedian Lisa Lampanelli, and they answer the following questions:
How do you define “humor”? (00:00)
What is the “United States of Avoidance”? (08:26)
When life changes your path, how do you stop clinging to the hope you once had? (14:20)
How do we accept the death of a dream? (15:33)
What do you mean by “daring to suck”? (17:45)
Is it helpful to simply treat our passions as hobbies until they pay the bills? (18:25)
How did Lisa get her start in comedy? (20:18)
When a loved one has passed, how do I honor their final wishes as executor and appropriately distribute the possessions they clung to when they did not leave specific instructions for doing so? (22:46)
How do you stop clinging to the security of a job simply because it pays well? (29:56)
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