Episodes

How Crows are Like People – DavoShow033 I don’t like crows. And it’s teaching me about something I don’t like about myself. I really dislike crows. Which is a bit weird because I admire them for their smarts. Crows and their cousins the ravens are some of the most intelligent birds, as some remarkable studies have shown. I admire their intelligence. But I really don’t like crows. Crows are mean. They gang up on my favorite birds (the raptors and owls), they hunt in packs, they fuss a lot. ...

How Aware Are You of Your Ability to Choose? This episode is about thoughts, sounds, consciousness and how these things influence our ability to choose. Show Notes from DavoShow032 Viktor Frankl wrote about in Man’s Search for Meaning that Nazi concentration camps were much harder for some folks than others. I briefly mention what my tinnitus hearing problem has taught me about my perception of reality. (More on that later.) What Is The Davo Show? Examples from Living Life to the Fullest C...

Joy Stacking Makes Your Life Better – DavoShow031 I went for a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway the other day and realized I was having a Joy Stacking experience. Show Notes Maximize your experiences by “Joy Stacking” them. My old, new car… a 140k mile, manual, seal gray 996 911 C4S. My favorite drive of all time is the Blue Ridge Parkway. One joy was an indigo bunting an uncommon, beautiful blue bird. What Is The Davo Show? Examples from Living Life to the Fullest Connecting with Nature a...

Mating Woodpeckers Remind Me of Life’s Ultimate Focus What Is The Davo Show? Examples from Living Life to the Fullest Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors Music and Rhythms David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound Listen to This Episode 030 Subscribe to this Show at Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast You can find all of the Davo Show Episodes here… http://DavidBourne.com/davo/ Rough Transcript [0:16] That is Pileat...

What’s the Purpose of Listening? Ask Kevin Kelly. In his most recent book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier, Kelly has a great quote about how and why we should listen. It’s not the conventional idea, as you might have guessed. What’s Your Answer to The Question? Why do you listen? How do you listen? Maybe the best question is this…How do you like to be heard? What Is The Davo Show? Examples from Living Life to the Fullest Connecting with Nature and the Outdo...

My life is so much better because I’m paying better attention to small things. Today, I noticed some large white magnolia flowers in my yard. As I went in closer to hear, smell, and touch the tree, I remembered viscerally how much I loved them in my childhood. What would cause you to deeply connect? What did you love to do as a kid? What would bring back strong, pleasant memories and emotions for you? Are you taking time to do this regularly? Show Notes Yesterday’s Episode on Frederick B...

Are You Listening to Your Life – TheDavoShow027 If we want our lives to get better, we have to stop distracting, and make the effort to change. I came across this quote today and realized it’s a good explanation of what I’m trying to do with this podcast experiment. “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analy...

I’m Confronting A Limiting Belief To See What Happens I have a limiting belief about using video for this Davo Show Project. I think video is going to be too hard to use and it will mess up a good thing. The irony is that I’m great at video. I have 35 plus years working with it. The problem is that my standards don’t match the time and energy I have for this project. So there’s friction between two parts of me. One part wants to use video because it’s fun, because I love it, and because it...

Have You Ever Taken an Outdoor Shower? I love them,. And I’m not sure why. But, I have a theory… IONS Listen to This Episode 025 What Is the Davo Show? A short-form audio podcast A place to experiment with ideas, sound and quick podcast production. Where Can I Find The Davo Show? You can find all of the Davo Show Episodes at http://DavidBourne.com/davo/ Subscribe to this Show at Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast Rough Transcript [0:13] Hey folks, it’s David Bourne ag...

The Davo Show from the Beach! What Is the Davo Show? A short-form audio podcast A place to experiment with ideas, sound and quick podcast production. Mostly, I create sounds from nature or music. But sometimes I’ll post an audio file that just doesn’t fit anywhere else in my online ecosystem. Where Can I Find The Davo Show? You can find all of the Davo Show Episodes at http://DavidBourne.com/davo/ Subscribe to this Show at Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast Unedited Tra...

What I Learned Being Coached By A Millions-Earning Coach Today In this episode, I cover how and why I got coached by Rich Litvin, a world-class coach today. But more importantly, how I came to see that I’m still hiding from something I deeply care about. So it’s time to make some changes. What Do You Want to Change in Your Life?? What do you want to bring into the world but still struggle to manifest? What are you waiting for? What’s keeping you from believing that you can get what you wa...

How we all have an Antagonist inside of us, and it’s not all bad. Yes, the Antagonist archetype within us can cause us grief. But, learning to appreciate what it is trying to do for us is a great first step towards acceptance of all our parts. Show Notes An unusual appearance of the Great Crested Flycatcher Jill Bolte-Taylor has taught me a lot about the four parts of the brain, one of which is represented here by the Antagonist archetype. Listen to This Episode 022 Where Can I Find The Da...

The Hidden Meaning Behind This Short Podcast Project Two days ago I was getting coached and the true significance of this project came up. This podcast project is really about my love of nature, tech, connection and life itself. I’m sharing the things I love in a fun, interesting, and simple way. Making these recordings every day is a way for me to share my love with the world. How are you doing that? Episode Highlights – TheDavoShow-021 My inspiration for recording was an “uncommon” pine w...

What are You Struggling to Put Out into the World? Do you have a project that you want to get off the ground, but can’t? Do you know why you are struggling? What thoughts or excusing are you using to hold you back? I’ve been asking myself these same questions. Check out this podcast to learn how iteration, curiosity** and a desire to learn and grow have all come together. Highlights From DavoShow-020 Reflections on this podcast, the gear I’ve used to make it and how much I love tweaking th...

Learning What You Love Will Help You Not Kill It. This is what I’m learning about this short form, audio project… The iterations of doing it over and over for several days now is teaching me that the things I love are worth building on and protecting. What do I need to protect it from? My own fears that it’s not living up to some higher standard that says it needs to be something else. What do I love about it? I love the simple nature of it, being inspired by something in nature, and reflect...

How Your Work is Like an Oak Tree Through the Seasons The four seasons. The four parts of the brain. The four stages of an oak tree’s lifetime. A dormant seed in Winter, A new sprout in Spring, A sapling in Summer, Leaves Falls, Winters waits, And all over again If the tree survives. Your thousands of idea iterations. Like thousands of acorn falling. Most will die. Some survive to live on and fruit again. Show Notes My earlier Jill Bolte Taylor episode covers how Mind, Body, Hear...

How Jill Bolte-Taylor Can Help Your Personal Growth – Davo Show 017 “She gave us this big promise that we could tap into that right part of our brain which gives us that connection and that sense of belonging to the universe, which, frankly we’re missing a lot these days in our modern culture.” -DB Show Notes Jill Bolte-Taylor is a neuroanatomist who suffered from a massive stroke in 1996, but lived to share about her experience. Her work has been significant to me for the last decade. In h...

On Hope – Episode 016 of the Davo Show This weekend, I heard Bishop Kimberly Lucas give a very powerful message about Hope and it inspired me to share my own short story of Hope. When I was in my 20s I did a lot of personal growth work around the grief of losing both my dad and my best friend at an early age. I realized that if I stripped away everything in my life, at the bottom of everything I found a foundation of Hope. I’m so glad I did, because the alternative would have been Despair. ...

Episode 015 of the Davo Show If you want to grow personally, you’ve got to work at it. As I said earlier many times, it’s Drip by Drip that an ocean fills. Belief also plays a huge part. For me, it’s constantly accepting that I’m full of limiting beliefs that hold me back. It’s a little hard to accept, but there are parts of us that want to keep playing small. These parts mean well, but in the end they will kill our spirits if we let them. For example, I had a very full day of errands and...

Episode 014 of the Davo Show The supreme importance of personal growth Working towards my Personal growth is the most important thing I do. My life has gotten better and better because I’ve tried to make it better. Drip by drip oceans fill Incremental change over time makes huge differences. How can we continue to grow, little by little, day by day so that we feel like we’re making progress? By taking lots of small actions on a regular basis. Progress is huge for us. When we feel like we...

Connecting More Often and Faster Through Short Podcasting I’m rebooting my short form podcast, The Davo Show with some new back-end improvements to make things better and faster. The end goal is connecting more often and more deeply with nature with exploration, but especially with the inner exploration of the human heart and mind. (This is what coaching with me is all about, by the way.) How Are You Connecting More Deeply, Inside And Out? Are you traveling soon? Where are you going? Why ...

A Podcast Inspired by a Connection to the Wild Geese Call Recently in my backyard, I caught an old familiar sound of some wild Canada Geese flying by. I was inspired to reflect on what that sound meant to me and how we can become more aware of our connections to meaningful things. Later that day, I wrote a poem to explore the idea further. The Echo of Wildness – Poem That echo. Yes, I know it. Yes! Yes! Wild geese! Reaching, Reaching, Back, Deep. Into memory. Into association. Reson...

In Darkness Our Leaders Must Point to The Light This week is the last week before Winter Solstice. So the days are short and the nights are long. People need reminding that the light is going to come. That’s why I recently asked my head life coaching instructor, Martha Beck to answer these questions. Questions for Martha Beck: To Where are We all Going Dear Martha, Thank you for the space you give. Limitless. How do we, In these days of darkening Winter, Find the Light Of What is to C...

Are you taking the time to look within? I am, and it’s working. Inspired by the Landscape Before Me Last night, as the sun was setting, I made this short recording in my backyard. As I was thinking about all the creatures and celestial wonders I have seen and heard in my yard, I realized they were not the only things that I have found there. Uncovering My Future in The Forest The most important thing I have found is an idea. The idea that there is something big that I am meant to do with m...