Your Assumptions Challenged: Podcast Companion
These companion podcasts expose you to perspective-shifting insights from TheProfessor L. Fontaine's book, Your Assumptions Challenged, edited by Nicole King. Each episode features an engaging, AI-generated dialogue that systematically and rigorously analyzes key insights of TheProfessor's core messages. Through these accessible discussions, listeners can explore new ways of understanding their daily experiences and challenging their established assumptions. Like the book itself, these podcasts are designed for depth rather than speed. Each episode reveals new layers of understanding with repeated listening, allowing insights to crystallize over time. While the conversations are immediately engaging, their full value emerges through reflection and repeated engagement - each listen bringing fresh perspectives to light. These podcasts serve as a companion to each of the Your Assumptions Challenged chapters, enriching the reading experience by making complex ideas more approachable through conversation. Rather than consuming multiple episodes in succession, listeners benefit most by giving each discussion time to resonate and integrate with their own experiences. Special Series: These podcasts also feature a Special Series that extends TheProfessor's fundamental approach across diverse topics. While exploring varied subjects, the Special Series episodes maintain the same penetrating inquiry that defines TheProfessor's way of examining life: questioning our most basic assumptions about what we consider "normal" or "right," revealing how our culturally inherited beliefs often work against us, and challenging the automatic responses we mistake for truth or common sense. Whether addressing contemporary issues, timeless questions, or unexpected connections, each Special Series episode demonstrates TheProfessor's core insight that our default patterns of thinking are often the very things keeping us trapped and creating our own misery.
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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
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Podcast Companion to Your Assumptions Challenged by TheProfessor L. Fontaine, edited by Nicole King
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Podcast Companion to Your Assumptions Challenged by TheProfessor L. Fontaine, edited by Nicole King
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Why do most of us think understanding ourselves means learning how to deeply feel our emotions? This episode explores TheProfessor's radical teaching that you already possess the most powerful tool for self-discovery—your everyday life itself. Discover how your ordinary experiences become an extraordinary telescope for seeing.
Podcast Companion to Your Assumptions Challenged by TheProfe...
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This episode explores TheProfessor's blunt challenge to stop treating life like something you can save for later. Discover why waiting for the "right" conditions—the perfect job, relationship, or timing—means missing the life that's already happening right now.
Podcast Companion to Your Assumptions Challenged by TheProfessor L. Fontaine, edited by Nicole King
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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
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Why do some connections feel instantly amazing but disappear at the first sign of trouble? This episode explores TheProfessor's striking analogy comparing relationships to artificial flavor versus the real fruit—one offers quick satisfaction but no substance, while the other requires patient cultivation but provides lasting nourishment. Discover why emotional liking isn't built on...
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Why do some relationships feel overwhelmingly intense while others feel completely flat? This episode explores TheProfessor's brilliant analogy comparing emotions to salt—essential for flavor, but destructive when excessive. Discover why it's not about finding perfect balance but identifying what's proportionate to each unique situation.
Podcast Companion to Your Assumptions C...
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Why do we feel defensive when someone points out something unflattering about us, but eagerly absorb compliments? This episode explores TheProfessor's teaching about the crucial difference between genuine self-discovery and the performance-based self-promotion that dominates our culture. Discover why most of us aren't actually trying to know ourselves but are instead selling an im...
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What if the "you" you think you are is just an edited highlight reel of 1-5% of your actual life experience? This episode explores TheProfessor's radical teaching about the nature of self and identity. Discover why your direct experience of being you is constant, but the conceptual "myself" you've constructed is actually a series of former selves you've sh...
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What if your entire sense of identity is actually a collective inheritance stretching back through generations? This episode explores TheProfessor's profound teaching about how we become who we are—not only through our own creation, but through absorbing influences from family, society, and the entire history of humanity. Discover why blaming your parents misses the bigger picture, how...
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What if your entire sense of identity is actually a collective inheritance stretching back through generations? This episode explores TheProfessor's profound teaching about how we become who we are—not only through our own creation, but through absorbing influences from family, society, and the entire history of humanity. Discover why blaming your parents misses the bigger picture, how...
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What if everything you think you know about memory, intention, and even your own identity is fundamentally incorrect? This episode explores TheProfessor's radical reframing of human nature. Discover why you're not a collection of separate parts fighting each other, but rather a unified, constantly morphing organism that absorbs experiences like food—becoming part of who you are wi...
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What if everything you've been taught about anger is wrong? This episode challenges fundamental assumptions about where anger comes from and why we stay trapped in blame cycles. Through careful analysis of TheProfessor's controversial perspective, explore the difference between anger and hostility, the hidden costs of the victim mentality, and why moving forward requires letting g...
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Why do we default to fighting when it rarely gets us what we want? This episode explores our cultural obsession with conflict and reveals why "fighting your way to harmony" is impossible. Through analysis of TheProfessor's insights, discover the hidden costs of treating fighting as strength and explore alternative approaches that actually create the outcomes we're seekin...
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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
Podcast Companion to Your...
Resonate? Speak to you? Hit home? Tell us.
Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
Podcast Companion to Your...
Resonate? Speak to you? Hit home? Tell us.
our Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
Podcast Companion to Your ...
Resonate? Speak to you? Hit home? Tell us.
Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
Podcast Companion to Your...
Resonate? Speak to you? Hit home? Tell us.
Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview
- Forewarning
- A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
- Your Lava of Rage
- Unconditional What?
- Beyond Boundaries
- Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
- House of Walls
- Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
- The Default is Trust
- A Word or Two About Compromise
- You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship
Podcast Companion to Your...
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