The Soul Podcast - Tools For a Joyful Life
Join your host, Stacey Wheeler as he uses a blend psychological insights and spiritual wisdom to guide listeners in discovering their true selves. The show is focused on helping people navigate the challenges of existential crises and shifts in consciousness by exploring how understanding the ego, psychology, and spiritual growth can lead to deeper self-awareness and personal transformation. Personal and spiritual evolution should be enjoyable and entertaining. That's what The Soul Podcast aims for. Coaching: Book a free 30-minute discovery call here.
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In this episode of The Soul Podcast, I dive into The Deep Need for Authenticity with Carl Jung’s timeless reminder: “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
What if you could wake up every day wrapped in unshakable inner calm, overflowing with genuine vitality, quiet confidence, deeper connections, and true freedom—no more chasing approval?
We explore how subtle childhood adaptations quietly pu...
In this episode I invite you to notice how everyday frustrations—like a missed flight or bad traffic—can ruin your mood, and why the real issue is often the story you tell yourself about them. We explore the difference between fleeting happiness and steady, resilient joy built through kinder inner dialogue. I share neuroscience-backed insights on rewiring your brain and a simple, powerful tool that takes just min...
In this episode I invite you to tune into that quiet inner restlessness—the subtle “something’s off” feeling that lingers even when life looks perfect on the outside. We explore true personal integrity as the deep alignment between your authentic inner truth and how you live every day, drawing on Jung’s ideas of wholeness, my own story of leaving a draining role, and simple steps to notice where you’re out of syn...
This episode's a bit different, folks. Today, I'll take you on an epic journey undertaken by a man whose adventures were made legendary by the author Daniel Defoe in his classic book, Robinson Crusoe.
It's a story that illustrates the importance of trusting your intuition—and how, sometimes, it's the difference between life and death.
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In this episode, explore the quiet power of true emotional freedom: moving beyond faking "I don't give a damn" about others' negativity to genuinely letting it go.
Discover the difference between defensive toughness and real inner peace, why pretending drains you, and practical tools—like body scans, shadow work, energy practices, and boundary-setting—to build self-worth and reclaim your energy...
In this episode, I explore the uncomfortable truth that the chains holding us back are often in our own minds—and we defend them more fiercely than anyone else.
Drawing on psychologist Mattias Desmet’s concept of “mass formation” (a form of collective hypnosis), I break down the four conditions that make societies vulnerable to propaganda, real-world examples of how it takes hold, and why we sometimes become its strong...
In this episode I explore how a simple personal motto can guide your life's purpose toward kindness and fulfillment, inspired by a guest's reflections on making small positive impacts. Discover why grand ambitions aren't necessary—instead, everyday decency with family, friends, and others can create lasting ripples. I'll share insights on crafting your own motto to shape daily choices and redu...
In this powerful episode, I sit down with my terminally ill friend Jerome for a raw, spiritual exploration of facing mortality. Together, we share profound insights on how a terminal diagnosis reshapes one's view of the world, relationships, and spiritual expansion. You'll also find heartfelt guidance on having meaningful conversations with dying loved ones, emphasizing love, letting go, and finding bea...
November and December can be a beautiful and joy-filled time of the year. But for some, these months can be challenging. In this episode I look at the spiritual growth that is offered to us in the final months of each year. I offer thoughts to help you expand... and ideas to help you get through the challenges.
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In this episode I explore how knowledge, experience, reflection, and intuition combine to foster personal growth and reshape our beliefs. Sharing a childhood anecdote and timeless quotes, I invite you to tune into your intuition and apply it more intentionally in your daily life.
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards...
In this episode, I dive into William Blake's wild take on perception and imagination, tying it to Robert Lanza's Biocentric Universe Theory that puts your consciousness at the heart of creating reality, space, and time. Pulling from quantum physics, dreams, and meditation vibes across religions, I'll get you questioning if you're the real architect of the cosmos - and share a simple trick to t...
In this episode, Stacey shares a moving real-life encounter with a stranger in a wheelchair who, with two playful words—“Nice legs”—delivered a profound gift of perspective on a morning when his own aching knee felt heavy. Through this tender exchange, he explores the transformative power of self-enhancing humor, the choice to rise rather than shrink in the face of loss or pain, and how a single moment of connect...
In this episode I dive deeper into epigenetics, revealing how ancestral traumas and experiences leave chemical imprints on DNA that shape our instincts, behaviors, and even intuition across generations, backed by groundbreaking mouse studies. I guide you through a powerful 4-step ritual to pause, trace, release, and rewrite these inherited echoes, empowering you to honor your intuitive mind as a sacred, adaptable...
In this episode I explore the hidden world of emotional inheritance—those unconscious fears, patterns, and traumas passed down through generations that quietly shape our choices, using a simple cupboard habit as proof that even tiny actions carry ancestral echoes. I guide you through science-backed ways to uncover and release these invisible burdens, so you can reclaim your freedom and author a lighter legacy.
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This episode is about something extraordinary that happened on the way back from the moon in 1971.
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"We explore not because it is required but because it is who we are as a species."
– Carl Sagan.
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In this episode I look at how media propaganda messes with what we believe and how we see the world. I show how media narratives are often driven by money or power. I dive into three examples of news stories that changed societal perception -but were all lies. These stories, going all the way back to the 1800s stick around for generations, shaping how we think.
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In this episode, I explore how beauty and joy surround us, but we must practice opening our hearts to receive them.
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“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes you’ll find, you get what you need.” -Mick Jagger
“I don’t care too much for money. Money can’t buy me love.” -Paul McCartney/ The Beetles
"I think everybody should get rich and famous and...
We've all felt it; that moment when we're overcome by the beauty of a moment. Maybe it's in the vastness of nature or maybe at the birth of a child. The joy crashes in and envelopes us. But what about the small joys and beauty found in the moment? Are you able to let those in?
In this episode I talk about how to be more open to the beauty of the moment -and how to make joy a daily practice.
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In this episode, I explore how the fear of living, as William James called the "favorite disease of the twentieth century," holds us back from our true potential. I dive into the terror of failure, judgment, and losing joy, using inspiring stories of Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, and Steve Jobs to show how courage breaks these chains. With insights from Carl Jung’s "shadow" and Anaïs Nin’s wisd...
In this episode I address the current state of America as of September 20th, 2025.
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