We have replaced God with Google, spirituality with self help, and prayer with scrolling, and we call it progress. Gen Z now spends 7 hours and 43 minutes a day looking at a screen. That is 122 days a year, gone, and the self improvement industry those same people turn to for an answer is worth 46 billion dollars.

Danny Morel built a career in business before walking away from the idea that success alone was enough. He is an author and a spiritual teacher, and the voice behind The Higher Self, and he spends his year between the Dominican Republic and Austin.

In this conversation with Brogan Garritt-Smith he makes his case: that personal development has become a way of outsourcing your own power, so the guru is always going to let you down and the answer was never in the book or at the event; that feeling stuck in life is not a sign you need another course, it is the predictable result of looking outside yourself for twelve years; that the midlife crisis is not a breakdown but a spiritual awakening arriving late; that the disconnection is by design, because the people selling you the cure are the ones who need you searching; that you can go through anger and let it go in ninety seconds rather than carry it for a lifetime, and most people carry it for a lifetime because nobody ever told them; that your self worth was set by how much love you received, not by what you earn, and that whatever anyone calls self love starts there; that the work the inner child needs cannot be done in your head, which is where everyone tries to do it; and that British children now spend more time indoors than inmates do in prison.

Brogan says she has been doing this dance of self development for twelve years, and what she thinks it actually takes.

We are being told that the way out is one more book, one more ice bath, one more guru.

Says Who?

He explains:

Why the guru is always going to let you down, and what outsourcing your power costs you
Why you feel stuck in life after years of personal development, and what the stuckness is actually telling you
Why a midlife crisis is a spiritual awakening nobody prepared you for
How to let go of anger in ninety seconds, and why almost nobody is ever taught it
Where self worth is set, and why no amount of money moves it
What inner child healing needs that no course can give you, and where people look instead
How to find your purpose when you have spent a decade asking an algorithm
What screen time is doing to a generation, and the number nobody adds up

Chapters:

0:00 Living In Fear As A Society
0:58 We Replaced God With Google And Spirituality With Self Help
1:56 Why Your Phone Keeps You Spiritually Disconnected
6:23 The Cost Of City Life, And Feeling Stuck In It
10:44 The Midlife Crisis As A Late Spiritual Awakening
13:13 Money Is Energy, And It Mirrors Your Self Worth
20:02 Self Love, And Where Your Self Worth Was Really Set
23:14 How To Let Go Of Anger In 90 Seconds
29:18 The 46 Billion Dollar Self Development Industry
33:18 Find Your Purpose, With No Destination To Arrive At
37:07 Fear Is Love, Distorted
40:58 Phones, Partners, And Switching Off The News
44:00 Inner Child Healing Is A Process, Not A Fix
45:03 Parenting Tips For Protecting A Child From Your Wounds
46:34 Screen Time, And Children Indoors More Than Inmates
51:42 Define Success And Happiness For Yourself

Says Who? with Brogan Garritt-Smith. New episodes weekly.

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