Wanting is one of our most powerful levers for change. Not what you want, but your relationship to wanting itself. In this episode, Joe sits down with AOA facilitator Alexa Kistler (and Brett’s wife) to unpack why so many people are at war with their desires and how ending that war offers a path out of suffering.

They discuss:

• Wanting, craving, and aversion
• Childhood patterns that take us away from wanting
• Identity shifts when you allow yourself to want
• How not owning desire makes you more manipulable, not less
• Why chasing outcomes creates suffering, even when you succeed

Research mentioned:

• Women are more agreeable than men across cultures

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The beliefs you can't question keep you stuck

→ Experiments to find freedom: https://www.artofaccomplishment.com/experiments

Most people never realize their deepest beliefs are holding them hostage. Joe Hudson shares a radical truth from 30 years of coaching the world's highest performers: The moment you stop defending who you think you are, you become truly free.

Highlights:

• The meeting room test: How fear instantly creates either/or thinking

• Stanford's "smart kid" study that changed everything we know about praise

• Why millionaires who believe "I'm successful" often plateau

• The ocean vs. rock metaphor that transforms how you handle criticism

• What actually happens when you realize you're both an asshole AND deeply loving

• The terrifying moment when meaning dissolves—and why it's actually liberation

"A sword attacks the ocean, and the ocean doesn't care."

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Joe let Brett ask him anything at all about his life, and there were SO many questions, but ultimately his curiosity lead him to explore the story beneath the teaching: what was Joe’s path? How did he come to the work that he now shares with the world? Joe started out as a young man whose curious and open spirit blended with a serious rebellious streak that opened up a unique path. A bit of luck, love, and sometimes painful adventuring through the world, shaped him into the Joe we know and love today. Tune in to get a glimpse of the many facets that comprise Joe’s life.

Links:

• Related Episode
  • Tara & Janine on embodiment
• Book: Black Elk Speaks
• Fitz Perls

Send us your questions on Twitter, through our website, or in our Circle community!

Joe on X: @FU_JoeHudson
|Brett on X: @airkistler
AOA on X: @artofaccomp

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