Your Assumptions Challenged: Podcast Companion

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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June 29, 2025 11 mins

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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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June 26, 2025 13 mins

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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

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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June 22, 2025 14 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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April 5, 2025 21 mins

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our Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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April 5, 2025 10 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

Podcast Companion to Your...

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

Podcast Companion to Your...

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

Podcast Companion to Your...

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December 16, 2024 10 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 


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December 16, 2024 13 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 


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December 15, 2024 15 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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December 5, 2024 9 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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December 5, 2024 7 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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December 4, 2024 17 mins

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Your Assumptions Challenged: Chapter Preview

  1. Forewarning
  2. A Drop of Awareness is Not Enough
  3. Your Lava of Rage
  4. Unconditional What? 
  5. Beyond Boundaries
  6. Life’s Conditions as a Living Phenomenon
  7. House of Walls
  8. Self Image: The Last Fortress of Resistance
  9. The Default is Trust
  10. A Word or Two About Compromise
  11. You Can Have a "Yay" but Not a "Yes" Relationship 

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