Oct 8, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
Back in the Circle's first guest. Meet Brian Porter, The friend behind the shows name. Brian and Joshua discuss mindfulness and how it has shaped their lives for the better. Through lived experience…
And it's interesting hearing you say that, like, in, in description of how it came to be because using terms like mindfulness and stuff, like, that wouldn't have been our vocabulary back then.
Like, we were just basically essentially trying to find a way out of suffering, you know what I mean? Like, you're going along in high school, everything seems good, you know, you have a relationship, and all of a sudden, like, you break up and it's like it's the end of the world.
You know?
And so I think that was maybe, not the breakup itself, but just, you know, just the trials and tribulations in j- even just a high schooler's life, I think we were always just looking for a way out, you know? Which I'd say that's probably one of the number one common human characteristics is we all wanna suffer less and experience more joy.
And the younger we are, uh, well, uh, maybe this is not always has to be true, but the younger I, that I was, I had less access to good information.
And so there were all kinds of fruitless searches, you know, a, a lot of them where you thought, "Oh, I'll just, I'll do this," whether it was religion, uh, partying, relationships themselves.
True.
I'm so happy." You know, not know- not even being aware that the, the honeymoon phase was a real thing, which I think maybe more young people are aware of these days because of the internet.
Right.
That's true.
We didn't have the internet
Yeah.
Yep.
And even then we didn't know what it was.
And it's interesting hearing you say that, like, in, in description of how it came to be because using terms like mindfulness and stuff, like, that wouldn't have been our vocabulary back then.
Like, we were just basically essentially trying to find a way out of suffering, you know what I mean? Like, you're going along in high school, everything seems good, you know, you have a relationship, and all of a sudden, like, you break up and it's like it's the end of the world.
You know?
And so I think that was maybe, not the breakup itself, but just, you know, just the trials and tribulations in j- even just a high schooler's life, I think we were always just looking for a way out, you know? Which I'd say that's probably one of the number one common human characteristics is we all wanna suffer less and experience more joy.
And the younger we are, uh, well, uh, maybe this is not always has to be true, but the younger I, that I was, I had less access to good information.
And so there were all kinds of fruitless searches, you know, a, a lot of them where you thought, "Oh, I'll just, I'll do this," whether it was religion, uh, partying, relationships themselves.
True.
I'm so happy." You know, not know- not even being aware that the, the honeymoon phase was a real thing, which I think maybe more young people are aware of these days because of the internet.
Right.
That's true.
We didn't have the internet
Yeah.
Yep.
And even then we didn't know what it was.
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