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The Walk - Preparing for my Second Camino
I’m getting ready for a trip that feels both exciting and slightly overwhelming: I'm going to walk my second Camino to Santiago de Compostela! There’s a long list of things that need to be done, deadlines that don’t...
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The Walk - Finding Peace in What I Choose Not to Do
Lately, I’ve been noticing a deeper question underneath everything I do. Not just how I plan my days, or how I manage my energy, but something more fundamental: can I actually trust the rhythm of my life? Because if...
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The Walk - Don’t Let the News Steal Your Hope
The news has been heavy lately. Every day brings new reports about the war in Iran, images of destruction, and stories of people whose lives are suddenly turned upside down. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by it. In...
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The Walk - Between Doomscrolling and Escapism
Sometimes the world feels like a constant stream of urgency. News updates, deadlines, expectations, and worries about things far beyond our control. In this episode, recorded during a quiet walk through the woods on a...
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The Walk - When Protecting Your Evenings Changes Everything
The birds are loud again. The days are getting brighter. And somewhere between winter and spring, I’ve made a decision that is changing everything.
In this week’s episode, I talk about something very...
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The Walk - Lent Without Pressure: Rebalancing Life in Forty Days
On the verge of Lent, I found myself asking a different question than usual. Not, what big project can I launch, or how can I make these forty days impressive, but what actually needs rebalancing in my life right now?...
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The Walk - The Boundary Experiment That Changed My Week
A few weeks ago, I could feel it in my body before I fully admitted it to myself.
My blood pressure was up. My sleep was fragmented. Even at night, my brain was on orange alert. And during the day, I had this nagging...
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The Walk - What Happens When You Actually Slow Down
This week, I realized something I didn’t expect: doing less can actually help you do more.
After weeks of high blood pressure and creeping exhaustion, I finally took a step back to reevaluate how I work. With the help...
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The Walk - How My Body Forced Me to Listen
This week might quietly become one of the most important of the entire year. Not because of a big success or dramatic moment, but because something inside me finally shifted.
After weeks of pushing myself beyond the...
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The Walk - What January Taught Me About Recovery
I had a clear plan for January. It was going to be my month to get away, take a writing retreat, change my surroundings, and recharge after the intense December production sprint. Instead, I stayed home. And I worked....
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The Walk - One Week to Save My Month
This week, I finished something I didn’t think was possible: I wrote 20 podcast scripts in just a few days. That’s about 25,000 words. I recorded and edited a dozen of them. I skipped walks, meals, sleep. I pulled the...
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The Walk - The Crunch of Snow and the Start of Something New
On the Feast of the Epiphany, I kicked off my new daily Dutch podcast Heilige van de Dag with the first episode about the Magi. It’s a year-long journey, telling the stories of saints and martyrs—one per weekday. The...
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