Episode 100 - The Bestest Bits So Far!

hey there angel and jenny aka renny aka the wonderful co-host of the renny show Congratulations on this marvellous milestone, which is testament to consistency, dedication and continued curiosity, all tenets that are bedrocks of my own ethos.

I was honoured to be a guest back in your first quarter and to now be sharing in this moment with you, even digitally from halfway across the world, is another reward for me, one I won't forget.

You say you love participating in dangerous, darkness-illuminating conversations.

So what does one of those look like?

That is a great opening question.

Now, first of all, I just want to share my gratitude again for being here and being invited to be part of your show.

And I hope that the conversation that we begin today, which may start, I know, at a very regular and, you know, an ambling pace.

But as we continue our relationships with each other, may even delve into some of that danger and some of those embracing the darkness places.

But ultimately, I think what I am alluding to when I say that is I think that a lot of the conversations that we have in our current Overton window say, or in the mainstream, um, our conversations, which are kind of kept within a safe, uh, space or within like, uh, uh, yeah, that standard deviation belt, but it doesn't allow for us to really dig into the nuances of who we are as individuals or even to better understand our societies, understand why we do the things the way that we do.

And so for me, conversations, which with people particularly lean into what I suppose, yeah, Jung would refer to as our shadow and what I just kind of, I suppose, affectionately refer to as embracing the darkness.

I'll come back to that.

Yeah.

other types of uh yeah conversations which i think like move us as a human family on i think what i would say is that conversations is how we better know ourselves and each other because it gives not only ourselves context but context to other people context is then what gives us the opportunity to find empathy And empathy, I think, is the root to our humanity.

So ultimately, conversations and that journey into those conversations is the making of who we are.

And so I'm trying to spend as much of my time, both professionally and personally, like kind of burrowing down that hole so I can better know myself, better know people around me so I can be a better servant to myself, to my family and to society.

Wow.

I absolutely love that.

And I love how you bring the empathy into that.

There needs to be more of that in the world, I think.

And having these conversations that really do challenge us, put us outside the comfort zone.

People often say the magic happens outside the comfort zone.

That's where it's a great place to be.

And I think it's too easy to stick with the safe, the comfortable, the boxes that we're used to, you know, and to challenge that, to challenge those boundaries and have those difficult conversations.

Yeah, absolutely fantastic.

I'm right with you on that.

hey there angel and jenny aka renny aka the wonderful co-host of the renny show Congratulations on this marvellous milestone, which is testament to consistency, dedication and continued curiosity, all tenets that are bedrocks of my own ethos.

I was honoured to be a guest back in your first quarter and to now be sharing in this moment with you, even digitally from halfway across the world, is another reward for me, one I won't forget.

You say you love participating in dangerous, darkness-illuminating conversations.

So what does one of those look like?

That is a great opening question.

Now, first of all, I just want to share my gratitude again for being here and being invited to be part of your show.

And I hope that the conversation that we begin today, which may start, I know, at a very regular and, you know, an ambling pace.

But as we continue our relationships with each other, may even delve into some of that danger and some of those embracing the darkness places.

But ultimately, I think what I am alluding to when I say that is I think that a lot of the conversations that we have in our current Overton window say, or in the mainstream, um, our conversations, which are kind of kept within a safe, uh, space or within like, uh, uh, yeah, that standard deviation belt, but it doesn't allow for us to really dig into the nuances of who we are as individuals or even to better understand our societies, understand why we do the things the way that we do.

And so for me, conversations, which with people particularly lean into what I suppose, yeah, Jung would refer to as our shadow and what I just kind of, I suppose, affectionately refer to as embracing the darkness.

I'll come back to that.

Yeah.

other types of uh yeah conversations which i think like move us as a human family on i think what i would say is that conversations is how we better know ourselves and each other because it gives not only ourselves context but context to other people context is then what gives us the opportunity to find empathy And empathy, I think, is the root to our humanity.

So ultimately, conversations and that journey into those conversations is the making of who we are.

And so I'm trying to spend as much of my time, both professionally and personally, like kind of burrowing down that hole so I can better know myself, better know people around me so I can be a better servant to myself, to my family and to society.

Wow.

I absolutely love that.

And I love how you bring the empathy into that.

There needs to be more of that in the world, I think.

And having these conversations that really do challenge us, put us outside the comfort zone.

People often say the magic happens outside the comfort zone.

That's where it's a great place to be.

And I think it's too easy to stick with the safe, the comfortable, the boxes that we're used to, you know, and to challenge that, to challenge those boundaries and have those difficult conversations.

Yeah, absolutely fantastic.

I'm right with you on that.