B-RAD with Brad Toews
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B-RAD with Brad Toews
Go to the root. Engage in an experience of words, music, ideas, and stories with the B-RAD Podcast. An invitation for you to step off the familiar path where together we can be radical in our becoming.
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50 episodes
50 - Source to You
My wife and I have been working with the dōTERRA essential oil company for the last seven years.
When first introduced to essential oils...
49 - Imagine That
I love language. I’m a reader, a writer, a person who loves ideas.
I recently watched Tolkien and loved this line from the movie.
Language...
48 - Unknowing God
Like many people who grew up in a religious context I was taught the purpose of our faith, the meaning of life in fact, was to know God.
Not onl...
47 - Past Lives
I recently had the opportunity to take a trip back to where I grew up in central Alberta.
My immediate family members no longer live there and s...
46 - Something to Say
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price to pay for living a lie. - Cornell West
Sometimes I'm not sure what I wa...
45 - Back-to-School for Adults
As the father to three kids, September is marked with back-to-school energy.
Something about the shift in season, summer turning to fall and kid...
44 - Follow You
I’m a learner. I LOVE learning. I’m constantly reading, writing, listening, digesting and assimilating things I’m interested in learning. To be engage...
43 - When Marriage is a Let-down
Have you ever been disappointed by your spouse, partner, child, parent, or friend?
Perhaps nothing stings as much as the disappointments we face...
42 - Find your Frequency
This spring I attended a meditation retreat hosted and taught by Dr. Joe Dispenza.
A fan of his work, it was amazing to experience, in person, t...
41 - Make Some Noise Drew Brown
Drew Brown is an award-winning singer-songwriter, music producer and a friend of mine from way back. We have a shared history of being involved in con...
40 - A Meditation: Fools Rush In
For my previous episode Elvis the Theologian, I recorded my own piano playing as part of the background musical track. A first for the B-RAD Podcast.<...
39 - Elvis the Theologian
When I was ten years old, I fell in love with the movie "The Princess Bride. After seeing it in the theatre, I must have watched it almost a dozen tim...
38 - The Enneagram with Liv Lacroix - Part 2
Your personality creates your personal reality.
This is the second half of my two-part interview with personal friend, Enneagram Coach and Facil...
37 - The Enneagram with Liv Lacroix – Part 1
Learning about the Enneagram was a light-bulb moment, or rather many moments for me, in my self-discovery and becoming.
The Enneagram, like no o...
36 - Let your Yes say No
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power, our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so t...
35 - I am Not Sorry
With a world population on the cusp of eight billion people (unbelievable!), I sometimes wonder if my single life matters. One person out of eight bil...
34 - Free Your Inner Guru with Laura Tucker
Laura Tucker started her professional life as a school teacher before transitioning to the private sector working in training, sales, and coaching.
33 - Here, but not Here
Time can be a considerable source of stress for us in many ways.
I grew up with an antique clock in my home that was wound up, by hand, once a w...
32 - Addiction to Approval
I have an addiction. I'm addicted to approval.
I’ve never attended an AA meeting, or had a close friendship with someone in those circles, but m...
31 - Originality is Overrated
There's a lot of pressure in our culture to be original. And the self-actualization subculture isn't any better. It's probably worse.
Do you hav...
30 - This is B-RAD
I turned forty the same week of launching this podcast, and in honour of that milestone birthday I set a goal of releasing forty episodes this year. I...
29 - Knowing What's Unknown
John Maxwell, renowned leadership expert, New York Times Bestseller List author, well-known speaker and septuagenarian says that as he has matured, th...
28 - Obviously
The story by David Foster Wallace goes like this; there are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the oth...
27 - Goodness Me
The phrase "good enough", which is so ubiquitious in our culture, implies that there is something better than good. Perfection, something without flaw...
26 - I am Human
Labels aren't bad, they're necessary for making our way through the external world. Imagine navigating city streets or an airport terminal with no lab...
25 - Smart Water
Water covers 71% of the earth's surface. The average adult body is 60% water. A human can survive for weeks without food, but she'll live mere days wi...
24 - All in One
Rudolf Steiner, who lived from 1861 to 1925, is remembered and revered as a prophet of renewal, asking and answering the question how do we create sys...
23 - Home Body
Home - What does it mean? Where is it?
There is a sense of safety and security attached to the idea of home.
The dictionary definition of...
22 - That Four Letter Word
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." - Marianne Williamson
I grew up think...
21 - Chew On This
Chewing is an integral part of our experience with food. How we chew has biological and psychological affects on our whole body.
After watching...
20 - Whose Line is it Anyway?
We have all been given a script in life. We are born into a culture, a community, a family that follows certain rules and norms. This script forms and...
19 - The Art of Good
Jorey Tessier has a passion for youth and wanted to work in a capacity where he could encourage and influence young people. So he decided to be a teac...
18 - The Sum when Some Givesome
Have you ever had an idea to create something great that had the potential to make a significant change in people's lives?
In this podcast I int...
17 - The Curse of Comfort
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy...
16 - Hurts Like Hell
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis
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15 - The Best Game in Town
"You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you're outscored." — John Wooden
My kids love playing the game Shotgun....
14 - The Little Things aren't so Little
“Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to t...
13 - What Lies Beneath
Guillaume Néry is a record-breaking freediver. In his fascinating TED Talk, he explains the life-transforming experience of the freedive. His diving a...
12 - Dying before you Die
We often think of life as preceding death. First you live and then you die. But death also precedes life. It's a circle, not a line.
The rhythm...
11 - The Madness of Being Self-Made, Part 3
I talk a lot about becoming on this podcast, "be-radical in your becoming". This becoming is a metaphysical journey, where we explore the fundamental...