Get Obsessed : With Living Your Best Life
Jun 18, 2026 · 12 min · 10 segments
Host Mika Altidor continues a Get Obsessed podcast conversation with Stefano Siciliano, using the life of 1800s abolitionist John Brown to question claims that today is the worst time in history. Mika…
Stefano SicilianoGuestI discovered John Brown, and he lived during a time of extreme hardships, and there was civil unrest happening.
And as I was digging, Stefano, it felt like they lived through more hardship than we're living through.
The mortality rate for children was extremely high, so it was normal for, you know, babies to, to die early and also for women to die during childbirth.
And he also lived during a time where, of course, slavery was legal, but he felt in his heart that slavery was wrong, and he saw people using the Bible to justify slavery.
But he felt that this was such a important cause, and he wrestled into that life, and he fought for it.
How do you kinda help people that think that life sucks? Like, this is, like, the worst time to be alive in human history.
But when I look into John Brown's, that time period of the 1800s, uh, with the hardships they've had, it was more difficult.
How do you help people to kind of realize that they have an opportunity? If you're alive right now, you have more of a opportunity than you're aware of.
I discovered John Brown, and he lived during a time of extreme hardships, and there was civil unrest happening.
And as I was digging, Stefano, it felt like they lived through more hardship than we're living through.
The mortality rate for children was extremely high, so it was normal for, you know, babies to, to die early and also for women to die during childbirth.
And he also lived during a time where, of course, slavery was legal, but he felt in his heart that slavery was wrong, and he saw people using the Bible to justify slavery.
But he felt that this was such a important cause, and he wrestled into that life, and he fought for it.
How do you kinda help people that think that life sucks? Like, this is, like, the worst time to be alive in human history.
But when I look into John Brown's, that time period of the 1800s, uh, with the hardships they've had, it was more difficult.
How do you help people to kind of realize that they have an opportunity? If you're alive right now, you have more of a opportunity than you're aware of.
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