Intention, Mortality + Living a Full Life ft. Benoit Kim
SUCH A FUN EPISODE! 🌈 Join me to talk with Benoit Kim about a vast array of meaningful topics everything from…
🐬 reckoning with our own mortality to…
🪷 navigating the crumbling of our identities + embracing big change to…
🫧 polarity + duality in this reality of ours to…
🐬 intentional living, psychedelic experience and much more
Come join us on this audio adventure!
MEET BENOIT KIM [HE/HIM] ~
Benoit Kim is a Penn-educated former policymaker turned therapist, US army veteran, and host of Discover More - an independent podcast for thinkers seeking valuable life stories with practical mental health insights
Born in Paris, France, and lived in South Korea and China before migrating to the United States at age 15. A third culture kid (TCK) and a poor polyglot (3.5 languages)
Benoit pivoted early into the non-profit and policy sector from the private sector upon graduation, then committed to Teach for America (AmeriCorps program) teaching in inner-city Philadelphia before taking a military leave from this commitment and graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education due to 2017 near-deployment
In this 2017 near-deployment to the North-South Korean border, he experienced his first major depression and had to acknowledge that perseverance does not always prevail, which catalyzed his venture into mental health. He then worked in the policy sector for a few years before recently pivoting into the clinical field as an aspirational psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist
Lastly, he started the Discover More podcast 3 years ago by simply leaning into his curiosity and the show has since been featured on Top Apple Podcasts 200 chart x2 in 2022, and recently became a top 2% globally ranked podcast in all categories [Go Benoit! 🎉]
CONNECT WITH BENOIT
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DiscoverMorePodcast/featured
On the web: https://www.discovermorepodcast.com/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discovermorepodcast/
On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discover-more/id1478666639
FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~
some of my favorite lines of conversation that came up in this episode [with approximate timestamps!]:
Learning to live with and have compassion for your ego [10-20 min]
Letting our identities crumble to discover who we really are [20-30 min]
Reflecting on mortality as a tool to embrace change [30-40 min]
The magic of being able to name our experiences through language [50-60 min]
Connecting with the core beliefs behind our intentions and words [50-60 min]
The power of community to help us human [60-70 min]
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~
BIOLOGY OF BELIEF BY BRUCE LIPTON, PH.D.
WIZARD WITH A DUMP TRUCK WORKOUT PROGRAM
DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~
0:00 - 10:00 ish:
Intro things + the opening of Wizard With a Dump Truck next Friday!
Benoit’s experiences flirting with death
How flirting with death brought Benoit to psychotherapy
10 - 20:00 ish:
Reealllly letting the idea of our own mortality into our hearts
The universal human struggle of wanting to feel in control
Meaning making in hindsight as a false sense of control
Learning to live with and have compassion for your ego
20 - 30:00 ish:
Polarity + duality in this reality
Identity + values in political discourse
Letting our identities crumble to discover who we really are
30 - 40:00 ish:
The often jarring experience of big change
Reflecting on mortality as a tool to embrace change
The experience of mental health struggles
Benoit’s hyper-intentional approach to life
Finding balance between trying to control life and going with the flow
40 - 50:00 ish:
Exploring what intention really is
Escapism as an intentional tool to navigate human life
Discerning between avoidance and intentional coping
50 - 60:00 ish:
Language as a reflection of unique cultural concepts
The magic of being able to name our experiences through language
Connecting with the core beliefs behind our intentions and words
60-70:00 ish and beyond:
Exploring our core beliefs
How core beliefs and intentions impact psychedelic experiences
Intention as a potential tool to make meaning of future events
Biology of belief book!
The power of community to help us human
How to connect with Benoit!
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