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UnJaded Jade
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Hii everyone, welcome back!


Today, we are talking about Finding Your Casual Magic through what it means to live a good life!


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I’m here today with Adam Lind - content creator and author extraordinaire of Floating Home: Lessons from a life less ordinary! 

Adam lives an alternative lifestyle on a houseboat and has explored sooo many alternative lifestyles along the way. I’m so excited for you to enjoy this episode!


Timestamps:


0:00 Introduction (How I found out about today’s guest)

2:08 Friendship with the 1930s Looking Actress (Reacting to Your Casual Magic)

3:42 Meeting people in a new language: Lingoda Sponsor

5:06 Take a Minute? A Meditation for Living Freely

7:35 What Makes Someone Choose an Alternative Lifestyle?

13:48 Adversity: What can we do with it? (Avoid Toxic Positivity)

19:35 Can you hold a grudge AND heal?! The Secret of Forgiveness

21:43 Self-Development Doesn’t Work Without This (Compassion & Gentle Nihilism)

27:20 How Did Adam Start Travelling to India? Playing with the Boundaries of Life

31:30 How to Break Out of Echo-Chambers & Disconnect (What’s Better? Hitchhiking 1000 Times or Just Smiling at Strangers?)

36:40 Our Dysregulated Society: The Impact of Micro-Rejections, Evolving Too Fast & The Real Dangers

41:43 Advice for Travelling: Acknowledging Barriers to Feeling Safe

45:33 The Beauty of those First Steps: Strangers are Friends You Haven’t Met Yet

47:30 How Do You Want to Feel? Chase Feelings, Not Things

48:48 Off-Grid Living: Embracing a Community (While Naked!) Healed Me

54:48 Communal Living vs Traditional Living vs Alternative Living: What works for you?

1:04:00 What If THIS Is It? This HAS to Be Enough: The Joy of Enough

1:08:50 Make the Mundane Sacred: Rituals for the Everyday 

1:11:23 Why Are You Travelling to Runaway From Your Life? The Powerful Perception of Freedom

1:14:23 The Reminder of Real Connection (Adam’s Casual Magic)

1:17:22 Outro & Journal Prompt


Find Adam Online! ✨

Instagram: @adam.floatinghome


📚 Pre-order Adam’s wonderful book, Floating Home: Lessons from a life less ordinary: 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Floating-Home-Lessons-life-ordinary/dp/1526683520 

Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/floating-home/adam-lind/9781526683526 



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Journal Prompt🖊️

This week, I want to ask you…

  • Even when it feels uncomfortable at first, what are the benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone?
  • Which areas of your life could benefit from more exploration?
  • What are 3 small shifts you can make in your daily routine to create internal freedom?


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This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade


Podcast Development: Francesca Georgiou

Theme Music by Francesca Lu

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