In this podcast episode, we continue our discussion on moral reasoning. After laying out the groundwork in the first part of this discussion, we dive deeper into moral foundations theory and break down the characteristics of each foundation. Finally, we round out the discussion, closing on the wisdom process.

In this podcast episode, we sit with Joe Jackowski to discuss the foundational ideas and philosophers behind moral reasoning.

My guest today is long-time friend Joe Jackowski on today's episode. It was mostly us catching up with the pandemic.

We have not had a lot of time interacting with each other cause he still is living near the University of Michigan. So this was when he was home for the Christmas break, roughly. We got to catch up on what we're reading and thinking about recently.

For Joe, he's been doing a lot of reading with Erich Neumann and Camille Paglia. Much of this conversation is around—both their bodies of work and what he's been reading in their different writings or ponderings.

We get into different ideas about how humanity has built systems for itself and how. The systems elaborate over time, starting straightforward and archaic to us now, modern people.

Claudia is someone who prefers to go by many hats. By day, she works as an adolescent/young adult mental health therapist in private practice. Outside of her professional career, she enjoys sports/exercise, dinners with friends, and, above all, TRAVEL. 2019 was the year of battling several major health conditions while still trying to live life to the fullest.

Andy Vasily is a leading educator who has taught at International Baccalaureate schools in 5 different countries over the past 18 years. He completed his teaching training in education and psychology at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.

In today's episode, we are back again with our How To Train Your Mind series covering movement or how to move well. This may seem counterintuitive to some. How does moving the body help people train their minds? As with many aspects of training the mind, being able to move well allows you to build awareness of the body and, by extension, the mind when you're not in a training environment. From my own experience, I've found that as a beginner, there is resistance when training. Your body is not accustomed to the movements. As you gain experience, the activity can become more internal in the sense of how nuanced that movement feels. A movement practice also becomes a place where you can push yourself to failure that is, for the most part, safe. For me, moving well allows me to become comfortable with failure at a personal level but still be able to try again.

"Your philosophy is the foundation to align your thoughts to who you are, not coupling them to what you do."

The purpose of doing deep work is to align your thoughts, words, and actions. Aligning those three components forms the bedrock of how you think. The story that you're telling yourself.

Nick Buegel and Erich have a conversation about training the mind. In this episode, we go deep into how to train mindfulness. Mindfulness can be interchanged with meditation, but we use the word mindfulness to make it a skill-based practice. We try our best to get very practical from our own lives on how we have used mindfulness. We want to make mindfulness accessible to as broad an audience as possible.

Joe Jackowski is back on the show! We recap what Joe has been up to over the summer and the upcoming school semester.

Dr. Eric Fretz is a faculty member at the University of Michigan ( https://umich.edu/), teaching at the University of Michigan in the Psychology Department, the School of Education, and the College of Engineering, and teaches the LSA core course for the Minor in Entrepreneurship. Dr. Fretz has completed two Bachelors's degrees, two Masters degrees, and a dual Ph.D. in Education and Psychology. Retired from 20 years of active and reserve service as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy. He began his career on USS CHOSIN (CG-65), deploying for the first Persian Gulf War and qualifying as Fleet & Special Evolutions OOD, Gas Turbine EOOW, and Surface Warfare Officer. His military career included three deployments to the Persian Gulf, from Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom. He closed out his career with a year-long mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq, serving in the Multi-National Corps – Iraq, assigned to the 'Army's 18th Airborne Corps in 2008. While in Iraq, he also started a scout troop and built a camp for Iraqi youth around Victory Base. He has earned over 30 military awards, including the Bronze Star Medal and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

This conversation can be seen as a continuation of the previous episode, Meaning, Power and Virtue, as we are still exploring the topic of meaning. We start today's conversation by articulating the importance of writing and some of the tools we use to structure what we write.

We discuss the psychology of meaning using history to understand power, responsibility, and connecting with the social world.

Joe and Erich have a discussion built around relationships, which morphs into how we connect. We talk about removing the buffer between the outside world and ourselves. When we remove the buffer, we allow meaningful moments to happen spontaneously.

Nicole Davis, a former 2X Olympian and now a mindset coach, shares her insight into the psychological framework of being a high performer. We cover mindfulness, learning, and many more!

In this podcast episode, Joe returns with another conversation after completing the semester. The conversation turns into evolutionary psychology, with the starting point centering around talking about Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. Joe read this book for one of his classes this semester.

In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Claudia Skowron. Claudia is a Mental Health Therapist specializing in adolescents and young adults. In this wide-ranging conversation, we cover many areas of mental health and ways of helping. One place we talk about is how the culture's openness has started to remove the stigma of speaking out about our mental battles. Aside from her work as a Therapist, Claudia is an avid traveler, usually somewhere else in the world every other week.

In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Diana Fornaris. Diana grew up in Elk Grove Village, IL, and studied Therapeutic Recreation and Spanish with a minor in Psychology at The University of Iowa. To complete graduation, she moved to Baltimore, MD, for a Dual Child Life & Therapeutic Recreation summer Internship at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital. Upon completion, she worked as a full-time Child Life Specialist in the Infant and Early Childhood Unit at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital for a year and a half. Although rewarding, the job grew to be something she found emotionally challenging. On top of that, she was battling severe depression and anxiety, later to find out it was bipolar type 1 disorder.

Joe is back for Thanksgiving, and we catch on what’s been happening in the last few weeks. Talk about our current projects as the semester comes to a close! Please enjoy my conversation with Joe Jackowski!

In this episode of the podcast, Joe and Erich have a relaxed conversation, recapping what we did over the summer and talking about upcoming classes or any other exciting ideas on our minds.

Erich is joined by his brother Nick and Joe Jackowski. Joe attends the University of Michigan in the psychology program. Joe wanted to talk about topics he's been studying and bring everyone along for the ride.