The Daily Stoic · 2026-06-04 · 19 min · 3,447 words

What To Do When the World Feels Like Too Much

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. It is a It's just starting to get real hot here in Texas.

So I'm excited to um to get on the road. We're going uh at the end of the week, we're going to the west coast because I've got a talk in Portland and I've got a talk in San Francisco, both much cooler places than than Texas during the summer. You can come see me. You can grab tickets at dailystoiclive.com. Then I've got some other dates, I think in August, uh, I think I'm doing like the Midwest, but in October, I'm going back to

Australia and New Zealand, where not only am I going to be doing some talks, but I'm going to be doing a lot of swimming and uh sightseeing. It's one of my favorite places in the world. Because of those gigs, I did a podcast a couple of weeks ago with Ryan Shelton and Hugh and Josh Van Kulenberg. They gave me a dose of that Australian hospitality. And um

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