The Adam Folker Show: Recent Episodes
Adam Folker
Former Professional Basketball Player Adam Folker dives head first into the messy and sometimes confusing world of Personal Development to help demystify what it means to break free from our conditioning to become healthy, happy, and free. Topics may include mental health, personal development, mindset, physical health, spirituality, relationships, happiness, and overall well-being.
In this Solo episode Adam discusses how to strengthen the connection to your intuition so that you can make better decisions.
Enjoy :)
In this Solo episode Adam discusses the deceiving trap of using spiritual techniques to avoid reality.
Yoga, breathwork, meditation, ecstatic dance, kundalini, connecting with nature, prayer, qigong, chanting, manifesting, etc...
All great stuff.
But if any of it is being used to unconsciously deny and avoid our reality - it can really keep us stuck :)
In this episode Adam discusses relationship patterns and how most relationships are an external attempt at trying to resolve our internal trauma patterns... plus, how to use relationships as an effective training ground to create access points to resolve our internal emotional blockages. Enjoy!
In this Solo episode Adam discusses the downsides of new age personal development and how it can really lead us sideways.
In this podcast you'll discover:
- what Adam learned from a 4 day personal development seminar
- the story of someone who attended a very popular event only to be let down
- how to go beyond surface level concepts to resolve the root issue for good
- how to tell is someone is teaching you horizontal growth
- and more
If you are looking for a more permanent approach to resolving some unpleasant patterns in your life - this is for you :)
Most people confuse Excitement for Happiness. In this Solo episode Adam shares his personal journey to understanding what happiness is (and what it is not). Adam shares his stories from a rural village in Cambodia, to the jungles of Bali, to a journey down the Amazon River in Peru, to finally understanding what deep unconditional happiness is and how to continuously cultivate it in your life. Enjoy!
In this episode Adam and Jonas discuss:
- The Great Pause in Jonas' relationship
- The journey to Emotional Mastery
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Self-Actualization
- The role of our Ego
- Adam's relationship journeys
- Ego deaths and the dissolution of your identity
- Adam's journey to confidence in teaching
- And more...
Thank you for listening!
In this Solo Episode Adam goes through a step by step framework to dealing with your strong uncomfortable emotions. You can use the 3 concepts from this Episode to stop suppressing, denying, distracting, or manipulating your way out of your emotions... so that you can free yourself from repeating undesirable patterns in your life.
In this episode Adam and Jonas discuss:
- What Actually Causes our Emotions (and what to do about it...)
- Developing the Superpower to Consciously Direct Your Attention
- Searching for Validation and Acceptance (Social Media Traps...)
- How to Find Your Purpose
- How to Break Addictions and Finally Meet Yourself
- What Adam Learned from Doing Nothing
- How Jonas Started his Current Business
- The Current State of Spirituality and Who To Learn From
- What is a Real 'Healer'?
Thank you for listening!
In this episode Adam Folker and Jonas Lalehza discuss break ups and endings to relationships, why you might be judging others and what to do about it, the concept of spiritual bypass and why it can be so destructive, emotional addiction and the idea of confusing love/chemistry in relationships with chaos, experiences with couples therapy, unconscious phone usage to avoid feeling difficult emotions, and more.
In this episode Adam Folker sits down with his former college basketball teammate and friend of 10 plus years, Jonas Lalehza, to talk about how the idea of a podcast came to be, fear of other people's opinions, getting past negative core beliefs, practicing celibacy, how to release judgements of others (and of self), and why Adam and Jonas have been plunging in super cold water every day. Enjoy!