Joe Sanok — Living on the Road, Opening to Heartbreak and Parenting as a Single Dad

04/15/22 • 38 min

In Episode 49, Brett interviews Joe Sanok, a business consultant and productivity researcher who, until recently, lived full-time in a camper with his wife and children. When he and his wife decided to uncouple, it changed both Joe’s and his children’s lives in a big way. Learn how Joe used his meditation practice and other self-exploration tools to allow his world to unfold beautifully through surrender to reality as it was rather than clinging to what he thought it should be.

Joe’s latest book is "Thursday is the New Friday,” a book about the four-day work week. He’s also the host of the Practice of the Practice podcast.

"As soon as the sun came up at 5:30, I was wide awake. And so to say, I'm awake, what can I do to ground myself to be the dad I want to be? To be the person I want to be? To be the business owner I want to be? My strongest meditation practice started then and it came from a place of need rather than a place of, 'I should be doing this.'"

What We Discuss in Episode 49:

2:48 The pivotal moment that changed the direction of Joe’s life.

9:40 Finding an internal locus of control and how it allows things to naturally unfold.

12:22 Parenting as a single dad in the midst of a major life transition.

18:46 Teaching nuance, healthy rewards and handling difficult emotions to children.

24:59 Boosting creativity and productivity by adopting a 32 hour-or-less work week.

29:09 Why slowing down is the first step to productivity.

32:06 Showing children how to find their own purpose without pattern matching to their parents.

**Full transcript can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/AoAEpisode49

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Joe’s latest book is "Thursday is the New Friday,” a book about the four-day work week. He’s also the host of the Practice of the Practice podcast.

What We Discuss in Episode 49:

2:48 The pivotal moment that changed the direction of Joe’s life.

9:40 Finding an internal locus of control and how it allows things to naturally unfold.

12:22 Parenting as a single dad in the midst of a major life transition.

18:46 Teaching nuance, healthy rewards and handling difficult emotions to children.

24:59 Boosting creativity and productivity by adopting a 32 hour-or-less work week.

29:09 Why slowing down is the first step to productivity.

32:06 Showing children how to find their own purpose without pattern matching to their parents.

**Full transcript can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/AoAEpisode49

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Previous Episode

Limiting Beliefs: The Hidden Rails That Guide Our Lives

In this episode, we talk about limiting beliefs and how they run our lives, affecting our capacity to be with ourselves and live the life we want. We discuss how to find them, see through them, and discover what happens when these beliefs are no longer running the show.

“It's about being able to integrate new knowledge. And if you can't integrate new knowledge because you think you have the whole story, you're limited. Period.”

What We Discuss in Episode 48:

2:51 Defining what limiting beliefs are and how they can impact your life.

12:27 How welcoming or resisting a situation shifts both your interpretation and experience of it.

17:15 The notion that integrating multiple perspectives creates better solutions.

22:14 The three general categories of limiting beliefs.

24:06 How to see through the limiting perspective by discovering it in reverse.

34:30 One of the most common limiting beliefs and questions to ask yourself to determine what relationship you have to it.

**Full transcript can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/AoAEpisode48

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Connection: A State Beyond States

We talk a lot about connection in this podcast — connection with ourselves, our emotions, our relationships and with the world around us. It’s essentially what we’re pointing to in every topic we discuss. In today’s episode, we talk about why that is, and how orienting toward connection in all aspects of our lives facilitates sustained expansion, increases our capacity, and puts us in touch with something bigger than ourselves.

“And the truth is that you're being in connection with yourself and others is not dependent on anybody else because being in connection with what is doesn't require anybody else.”

What We Discuss in Episode 50:

2:13 Defining connection as a "meta state" or a state that encompasses all states.

17:31 How being connected affects productivity and effectiveness in a team.

23:39 The physical sensations in your body that let you know you're in connection.

28:45 How to be with tension and still feel deeply connected to yourself.

32:48 Why connection is all internal and completely within your own locus of control.

38:16 How to drop back into connection when things get tough.

**Full transcript can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/AoAEpisode50

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