You don’t have to live your life the way others expect. All of us face constant pressure to live according to someone else’s rules and expectations—but there is another way. A way to break free from the chains of societal norms and find true happiness.
Welcome, dear listeners, to a very special episode of Actions Antidote! I’m your host, Stephen Jaye, and today we’re marking a significant milestone as we celebrate our 100th episode. But instead of our usual format, I’ll be taking the guest seat to share my journey and the story behind this podcast. Join me as I delve into the depths of my life, discussing the pivotal moments, the diverse pursuits, and the jobs I’ve undertaken along the way.
This 100th-episode celebration is not just about me; it’s about you, our devoted listeners. A huge thank you to all of our listeners for sticking with us and helping make this community so amazing! Here’s to the next hundred episodes of Actions Antidote!
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Celebrating 100 Episodes of Actions Antidote with Stephen Jaye
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Action’s Antidotes today. I’m Luana and I’m your guest host. I’ve been a guest on this podcast for two times and I was so happy when your host, Stephen Jaye, that I will introduce in a minute, came to me to ask me to host this in honor of the 100th episode of the Action’s Antidotes podcast so I’m super happy, so here with me, of course, the host of the podcast.
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Welcome to the show, Stephen Jaye.
Oh, thank you very much, and thank you very much for hosting this 100th episode.
Yeah, I’m so excited. So, now, this episode will be about you and so let’s start about what’s your background story. Can you tell us a little bit about your life before you even like had this podcast?
Yeah. It’s kind of an interesting story and I’m so glad because, after 99 other episodes, to get the chance to share a little bit of my story in the podcast and for anyone out there that’s listening, that’s like, okay, I wonder if you have a story as well or if you’re just kind of showboating — not showboating but telling everyone else’s story. And my background is that I actually originally began loving the weather and studying meteorology in college as well as graduate school because I recognized from a very early age, how, growing up in Long Island, how hurricanes, nor’easters, or even changes in weather, where, let’s say it’s March and, one week, it’s really cold, it feels like it’s still winter and you don’t want to go outside, you don’t want to do anything so you’re stuck inside, and then another week, you get like another weather pattern and it would be like in the 60s or 70s, it will say 15 to 23 Celsius, for anyone international out there listening, and that’s like so much different of a week and so much different of a life experience and I just really wanted to understand the mechanisms, the scientific mechanisms of how that worked out. But, early on in life, of course, I very much was what I refer to living by the script. I had kind of a little bit bought into it. I’d always suspected something a little weird and I’ve always suspected that I was going to have to push against something, even from back when I was a teenager or 11, 12, 13, when you’re first realizing what your true identity is, I always knew that something was going to have to be different for me than what I’m seeing all around me but I didn’t kind of maybe come to the full grips of every single idea, like the way I was being educated, the way I was learning that if you get the answer wrong, you fail the test and you fail, that’s the worst thing that could possibly happen to you and now you have these consequences was not the way to go so I tried to find a more normal, typical career, which, for me, was meteorology in the insurance industry and that’s what I did for the first five or so years after I left school.
Oh, wow. So you started with that, and then what brought you to change careers? I know you’ve had so many careers during your life and that’s beautiful because it really shows how you are leaving the conditioning and following your truth and that means evolving and changing so, from that first career from the first five years, what made you switch and let go of the script and then lead you to where you are now?
Well, my career there stagnated a little bit. They moved me from one group to another, and when they moved me from one group to another, it’s a different boss, even different whole part of the organization and, as a result, it became like different standards, different setups, different ideas about what matters to people, and so what I started to think about was why is it that you work hard in school, you get, whatever, your As, you get your good grades and you try to do as best you can just to throw yourself into a system where some person who is higher up than you by title in an organization can suddenly change what you’re doing aside from that, as well as what your people care about, what time, what your in-office, out-of-office rules are essentially without even knowing who you are and how you work the best. And so this is like one of the things I find a little bit suspicious about some of these really kind of larger organizations is that if you’re kind of just entry level, for lack of a better way to put it, and you’re in this organization, someone who doesn’t know you is setting some sort of weird one-size-fits-all policy or just moving you around and you’re expected to just adjust to it. If it’s a system that doesn’t work as well for you, whether it be what your personality is like, what your circadian rhythm is like, whether you have kids and you want to pick them up after school or, God forbid, actually spend time with them, or even like they would give you bereavement if one of your relatives died but what about spending time with them while they’re still alive, like all this stuff started to like weigh on my head, and then I read this pivotal book called The Art of Non-Conformity by an author named Chris Guillebeau and that kind of made me start thinking that all the stuff I’ve been feeling, that there is another way and that maybe I should start experimenting with trying to see if there’s essentially another way I can orient my life, let alone not buying into this system because it just didn’t feel like a good deal to just work so hard and become an adult just to trade your parents and your teachers for like a boss and maybe some other family structure that’s telling you what to do instead, like what’s that really accomplishing?
Yeah. And, as you said, following the script that you didn’t write.
Yeah.
Yeah. It’s like, okay, you are living the life or this story of somebody else’s that’s not yours so when you realize that, it’s like, okay, I cannot conform here and I have to leave and go into a place where I feel I can be my own person because we live already in a society that tells us to fit into this box or into this mold but that’s not sustainable anymore. And for our generation and the generation that are growing now, that’s something that it’s not there and, yeah, it’s important to, first, as you said, realize, okay, that was a script that the society wrote for me but that’s not my truth. So, when you realized that, what did you do? Did you completely change job or did you started working by yourself? What was your journey like?
So, it was a bit of a seesaw for longer than I care to admit because one of the things that happened was that we still have this need for money, resources, consistency, and stuff like that so I had a little bit of money saved up so I went off on my own. I did some traveling a little bit, did some journeys to Montana, South Dakota, to Smoky Mountain National Park, looking for somewhat of the opposite of what I’d grown up with but still like I hadn’t fully embraced that the real opposite of where I’d grown up in New York would be like, I don’t know, somewhere in rural Indonesia on an island that’s very lowly populated, that would have been the true opposite, a little bit more pricey as far as getting there. And I just didn’t have, at the time, a really viable idea and I didn’t understand what it was like or what was required to have a viable business idea. My first idea was to do some sort of weather travel planning business or something like that and maybe that could have worked, I guess, for many reasons, I just didn’t have what it takes to what it took at the time or what it takes now even to build a business and to build something really that could sustain me on my own so I wavered back. I wavered back into the regular job world, this time in data science for a while, which combined my interest in statistics but that turned out to not be a great fit for me either because, first of all, it was way too much time sitting looking at details in front of a computer and then it was also way more of a computer science type of field than I had thought. I had thought it would be like more statistical analysis. It was way more programming, to be honest, and not that I — it’s just not for me, I’m not trying to throw shade on any particular path. If something works for someone, that’s fantastic. So there was some wavering back and forth and back and forth between jobs and then taking some time to freelance for a little while. I did freelance data science as well as writing work for a bit. And then I decided, it was like about five years ago, a little over five years ago now, when I was like, you know what, I am approaching this all wrong because I am an extrovert, I’m an ENFP on the personality spectrum, and why am I doing this the way everyone else is doing? What everyone else is doing is not working, why am I trying to find work on Upwork?
Yeah. Yeah, exactly, because as an extrovert, you need to connect with people face to face to be able to get inspired even. And as a Sagittarius that you are to astrology, for you, it’s to be out there. Sagittarius, it’s an extrovert, travel, connect with people so that you can learn from them and then you can share the learning. So, when was that pivotal moment that made you change and realize that and then made you start as well this podcast?
So I had been doing this circuit for a little while. I had taken another couple of jobs that I thought would be a little bit different in line, kind of not your standard, and then I kind of had a spiritual experience. Weirdly enough, I had the idea to start the podcast in 2019 before the pandemic happened when I went to a TEDxMileHigh Conference, and for those not aware, TEDx, so there’s a TED conference, it’s in Vancouver, Canada, it’s the big one, it’s really expensive to go but then a lot of local groups in different cities form their own TEDx organizations which are these independently organized ones and Denver has one of the best ones here, TEDxMileHigh. I was at a conference there and there’s some really good speakers, it’s actually really competitive to get in and you have to do eight weeks of speaking coaching before you speak.
Wow.
Yeah, it’s crazy, and I was talking with the other attendees, and this is part of my whole “I’m gonna get out there in the community as opposed to just looking things up online,” and the people, a lot of the attendees, a lot of millennial attendees, especially, would tell me different versions of pretty much the same story, which I summarized to say these TED talks are so inspiring, I’m inspired to do what this person did, I’m inspired to try that or try something new in my life, but then Monday, I’m going to go to work, Tuesday, I’m going to go to work, Wednesday, I’m going to have dinner with my well-meaning but risk-averse friends and family, and before I know it, in less than a week, I’m going to be right back to that mindset and I’m stuck in this job that I don’t really love and in this life that I don’t really love. And so I came with the idea, I said what if I start a podcast where I interviewed people and had it come out roughly once a week so that people can hear a story on a Tuesday, Tuesday is the day I release, and have something pushing them back in that direction right in the depths of the week when people are experiencing the most pressure to think along the lines of, instead of thinking what’s possible in life, what am I stuck with? So I sat on that idea for a while. It was just an idea, I’m throwing so many ideas out of my head, but then 2020, in August, I went on a three-day backpacking trip and this was right in the middle of the pandemic and that’s when I had a spiritual experience that inspired me to actually do it, do the podcast, actually do the research, I needed to figure out how do I record, what microphone do I buy, all that residual stuff and say, “I’m actually gonna put this podcast out and it’s gonna be called Action’s Antidotes,” and 30- to 45-minute episodes. Originally, I was going for 20 to 30 but I started realizing that the conversations would go better if I did record a little bit longer.
Yeah, yeah. And, for me, 20 minutes I speak alone, like I know you’re an expert so I think, yeah, when you have a conversation with the person you want to know more and so I can see like you put it longer. But, yeah, that’s amazing that you had that spiritual awakening and that, like I say, the intuition or spirit, whatever people believe, came through you to make you like, okay, gave you guidance, you are to start this thing and then, after 100 episodes, I believe it’s changed you and it’s transformed you. So, tell us a little bit about the impact of your podcast, how it shaped you and change you and the people you met. I think it’s a huge change, yeah.
Yeah, it’s an amazing community. First of all, when I’m going out there in whatever startup week land, I don’t want to call it, any type of event, it’s actually a lot easier to get to know someone by inviting them to be on a podcast than to just say, “Hey, I’m just some person you met and I wanna grab coffee,” so that ended up being a little bit easier of a way but also I’ve learned so much from the podcast itself.
even though I’m still terrible at marketing, I’ve gotten to learn a little bit more about health, fitness, general wellness, employment, recruiting, I’ve gotten to learn more about astrology and some of these other topics just from interviewing these guests and having these conversations and just kind of taking in and listening and taking in all this information from so many different people with so many different backgrounds in so many different pursuits.
Yeah. Yeah, because it’s like having a conversation with people from different backgrounds, doing different things, and really every person gives you something that you take away from the conversation and you bring home in your life. And, yeah, you had 100 episodes so I’m sure you had so many interesting moments or so many good conversations as well. So do you meet your guests mainly offline and then you invite them to the podcast or do you meet them online mainly?
So it’s actually been a mix. It’s been an interesting journey because people see podcasts, they see a podcast on LinkedIn and some other sites and will say, “Hey, I see you have a podcast. Can I learn more about it?” and then when I see their background, I’ll be like, “Hey, you would be a good guest,” or even though some have blatantly asked, “Hey, I’d love to be a guest on this podcast, I’m looking forward,” but I’ve also met a lot of people offline and so it was a big community centered around Denver where I live where I’ve interviewed — I’d say maybe about half mine have been local and half mine have been elsewhere and most of my elsewhere have been people I’ve met online through one venue or another. And then also, one of the things I’ve gotten a good number of guests at is just introductions, the standard introduction email of the day, I think, is you email two people and then you say, “Person Number One, it was good doing lunch with you, blah, blah, blah, I wanna introduce you to Person Number Two, this is their pursuit,” “Person Number Two, this is why I think Person Number One will make a good connection,” and through getting emails like that, I’ve met probably about maybe a quarter to a third of my eventual podcast guests as well.
Oh, wow, that’s interesting. Yes, yes, because you can give referrals to other people and you can get referrals to get new guests on the podcast. And one thing that I would like to ask, because I know maybe some of your listeners would like to start a podcast or it’s on their plan so what will be one thing that you would have wanted to know before you started the podcast? What could be your advice that, looking back, you can give to your past self or to the new people that want to start a podcast?
Yeah, one of the things I would definitely think about a little bit is the ultimate goal of the podcast. Mine kind of took shape a little bit in that my goal was to inspire people to live the life up to their dreams, to use one of your quotes, to live up to think about their lives to actually take action behind what they really want to do but I had a bunch of other kind of secondary benefits as far as forming a community, getting supporters, people that will hop on panels with me or do other things, look at my content and everything like that. But I think it’s a good idea to kind of really have that ultimate goal of what you want the podcast to do in mind because one of the things if I had been a little bit more true to this is my goal is to reach people, well, then, I should have put more effort right from the beginning in figuring out how to reach people other than handing out my business card or my podcast and putting it on a few sites and putting on LinkedIn. Marketing is not easy. Marketing is something people go to school and get degrees in, learning sales, advertising, marketing, so because there’s so much about human behavior, we all have so much stuff that we need to think about every day, we have so many junk emails, for lack of a better way to put it, of people just randomly promoting some product that you never thought about and it’s all competing for your attention, and so something needs to get that through no matter what you’re building and if I had known, if I had been way more focused on my goal is to reach people because I want people to hear these stories and I want people to be inspired by them and take action toward their own dreams and their own lives, then that would have been a much higher billing than what I put it right from the beginning.
Okay. So what I hear you say, it’s really to have a specific mission or goal before you start the podcast so then you know what are your action steps to take and build and grow your podcast?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, if your mission is to build a portfolio, then you’re going to focus way more on quality and you’re going to put more energy into editing out every little thing.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, so we have to take a look at the past. Now, can you tell us where are you now? What you are up to, what are your goals, what are you working on, your life experiences, where you’re at basically?
Yeah, and it’s kind of weird because I have so many different goals, like I sometimes envy the people who have one goal and they’re like —
Oh, yeah.
— “I wanna 5x my business,” and that’s all they’re working on and that’s it and they laser focus on it. I’ve never been the person that’s been able to do that so, unfortunately, I’m doing a lot of things. First of all, I got my full-time job as a product manager, which is actually a really good field for me after a few changes because that’s kind of got a bit of an entrepreneurial spirit as well as kind of understanding more of the big picture about how companies work and stuff like that. So I’ve been enjoying my engagement for just under a year now with a company called Midigator. I have this podcast, 100 episodes. When I think about marketing for my other pursuits, I’m going to think about how to market this and how to solidify maybe a little bit the relationships I’ve built over the past two years with these 100 episodes, because that’s 100 episodes, that’s probably a little bit over 100 people because I have a few with multiple guests and, obviously, two guests come on twice, so roughly 100 relationships there. And then I have a new business pursuit called Reclaim Your Time. This one, one of the problems I’ve been moved to address for a long time is how much time we’ve come to spend kind of wasting in front of screens, I don’t want to say wasting but it’s not the best use of time, time people spent scrolling through social media, watching Netflix, letting it play and play and play or checking a website, checking email way too many times and I just don’t feel like it’s been really healthy for humanity, especially from a mental health psychological perspective and so I’m trying to get that out there.
And then I’m also working quite a bit on myself on my personal journey to make sure that my own life matches some of the things I want. Click To TweetBeing an extrovert Sagittarius, being a social person in this particular era is always going to be a little bit of an uphill battle because the easiest thing to ever do is turn the TV on and there’s so much battle in just getting people out sometimes, getting people to come to events, getting people to hang out as opposed to just the easiest thing, especially those of you who know a lot of introverts in your life that are like, “I don’t wanna go to the party, I’d just rather stay home and chill,” and stuff like that.
Yeah.
So I’m trying to balance all that out as well as travel, getting into nature and also work on some things I’ve learned about myself through things like human design, which is an offshoot of astrology, as well of understanding, okay, this is what I’m meant to do, this is how I was meant to work and these are the things I need to work on as far as I think the biggest one in that is trusting my instinct, which, oddly enough, requires less screen time because you’re not distracted all the time, being able to be like — and then having an instinct and saying, okay, instead of second guessing it and then never doing anything and ending up in this loop of thought, just I have an instinct and even if it’s something dumb, like my instinct is saying I should go to Wahoo’s Tacos for lunch, which I’m probably going to, but like just let that instinct — yeah, just let that, you know, trusting the instinct, that’s the main thing from the astrology, human design, know yourself standpoint that I’m trying to work on right now.
Yeah. And the thing that I don’t like people put out there about instinct, it’s that you use it just for a big decision but, no, there is a thing that I’ve learned as well in my personal growth, it’s to trust even the little things, like what do you want to eat for lunch today or what do I want to do now? Do I need to work on, I don’t know, my podcast or do I have to go out and spend some time in nature? So this is very important as well. And what’s your human design energy or, I don’t know —
So, yeah, so —
— profile, as they call it?
Yeah, so there’s a main one, which is I’m a generator.
Oh, generator, makes sense.
And then there’s all these discussions, again, the details about like three lines, four lines, six lines and stuff like that and it’s actually quite consistent with my birth chart about seeking truth and trusting instincts and wanting to be out and about and needing to be out and about in nature, in front of people in real life and stuff like that.
Yeah, and generator, it’s really as well that leader quality that you have within you in your birth chart as well. And, for you as well as a Sagittarius, like seeking the truth is so important and I feel like even with this new endeavor, it’s really for you, you are seeking out, okay, so what’s the deep core of this problem that everybody has. Otherwise, we are lying, because now in the era of social media, who is not there spending so much time on TikTok or whatever platform, LinkedIn or email as well, like we are all guilty of that and so I think that this new excessive use of screen needs some handling. What made you start that? It’s because you felt like you were so much on screen or because you see the people not wanting to participate or something like that?
Yeah. So kind of the pandemic brought me over the edge with that and I started the pandemic doing kind of like what everyone did and I’ll just say like getting drunk with my friends over Zoom. I think March, April, May of 2020, we all did that and then we learned what Zoom fatigue was. I don’t think that was a term until maybe sometime in May when we were two months into it and all starting to realize, like, wait a second, this doesn’t work, and then I started excessively, weirdly enough, trying to convince people to meet me up like, “Oh, we’ll meet at the park and we’ll walk six feet apart from each other or we’ll all sit in a circle, we’ll sit six feet apart.” Did it say like two meters in the rest of the world or something like that?
Yeah. Two meters, or I do remember one and a half, now I do remember, but, yeah, I think like between one and a half and two meters you had to stay away, yeah.
Yeah. I actually remember, oddly enough, a tweet I made and I don’t even — my Twitter is deleted from my phone and I don’t even go on it anymore but right at the beginning of the pandemic, I said, I remember typing on Twitter, “This is a perfect manifestation of this era that we have a disease that forces us to stay six feet apart from each other.” It seemed like it was exactly what people wanted. We were already kind of drifting apart from each other. The loneliness, the isolation was already an issue. We already had the anxiety, suicide, depression going up, violence of other kinds too, all that mental health stuff, and the pandemic just kind of took what, it was already up 100 percent, up two to one and raised it another 500 percent or whichever and I was like, oh, my God, this is the point, I’ve known this, I’ve known this is a problem ever since the first time back in like 2010 when I would go out to the bars and someone would be sitting there staring at their phone the whole time instead of interacting with the people and looking like this can’t be good for humanity. I’d known for a long time this isn’t the way it’s meant to be and I was like I need to do something about it. I made my own calculation in 2022. I said, you know what, I don’t want to spend half my waking life in front of screens so if we have 168 hours per week, we spend 56 of them sleeping, if you get the right amount of sleep, let’s be healthy in all sense, that’s 112 left, divide that by two is 56. I want to keep my screen time below 50 hours per week and I managed to do it. I had to make a few adjustments. Luckily, we’ve already had the tracking, the screen time tracking available on our devices thanks to the wonderful work that Tristan Harris and the Center for Humane Technology has done to kind of force Apple’s hands on giving us those screen time measurements and giving us the tracking and the app limitations. Tristan Harris is definitely one of my heroes on this particular journey because all these technology platforms were built purposely to be addictive but it was kind of like, okay, I know what I want from my life, I know this is not natural and this feeling that we’re kind of going in the wrong place, through all this, like author/singer/bicyclist as David Byrne put into an article, I think it’s in the Atlantic in 2017, the one common thing about all of our technologies, whether it be social media, whether it be the automatic tolling booths on the highways or the self-checkout at the grocery store, the one common factor about it all was that they all took a situation where you would interact with another human being and turned it into one where you interact with a machine.
Wow. Yeah, that’s definitely something that culminated with the pandemic but it’s something that was already there, as you say, as you remember from 2010, when, at the bar, you saw the people being on their phone instead of interacting with other people. So, yeah, I’m curious to know, first of all, well done with your goal because I think that I’m so far away from that but it’s something that I’m aware of and I want to cut down at least now that the summer is coming here for me, it’s a good time to, because I love the sun and I love it to be out in the sun so that’s a good way to start this journey. But what about your new program? Can you tell us a little bit about it? What is it, for who it is, and yeah?
Well, it’s taking shape in a few different ways. My first iteration of the program actually is an online course, which is a little bit odd. People have told me it’s ironic but I’m trying to do a mixture of meet people where they are and be on brand so there’s an online course with six stages at www.lessscreentime.com.
Love that.
Yeah, good web address, but also I’m experimenting a little bit going forward with different versions of the program because it’s a really in-depth program because I went a lot through the process that I went through which was like almost a year-long process, to be 100 percent honest, but I’m also experimenting with some groups as well as in-person events. Now, the limitation with in-person events, of course, they’re on brand, is that they end up being limited geographically, so in an in-person event, I’ll have some, for anyone in Denver listening, please take a look at that website, give you links to both the in-person as well as the online course and I’m trying to do that a little bit more going forward but my hope is that once I figure out how to do in-person workshops or in-person check-in groups, I think are the two most likely forms it’s going to take going forward that I’ll be able to bring that to other cities.
Yes. Yeah, that will be amazing. Obviously, online, as you said, you can reach more people which really needs this and it’s on brand because, yeah, it’s an online course and you’re trying to cut down on the screen time but, at the same time, it’s a tool that you give people listening from all over the world to be able to go through that journey that you went on and to really then maybe meet in person with you at one of your in-person events that you will do in the future for this but, yeah, that’s super exciting. And, yes, I think to wrap up here, can you tell a little bit where — I know it’s your podcast but where people can reach out to you and to connect, maybe a guest on the podcast or to support you.
Yeah, for sure. So the podcast has a website, actions-antidotes.com. There’s a contact form there, that will take people to my primary email address, but then with my new business, I actually have an email address that’s a little bit easier to remember and easier to state and that is steve@lessscreentime.com and that’s my contact for anyone that’s interested in — I mean, either way, I’m not going to be really picky about if you email one to contact me about the podcast, you email the other to contact me about the business, whichever it is, but, yeah, steve@lessscreentime.com is where all my inquiries about the business are going to be funneled to.
Yeah. Thank you so much and what’s your last message for this 100th episode of your podcast?
Well, first of all, I want to say thank you to anyone that’s been listening. I want to thank you to anyone that’s listened to my story on top of some of the other stories I’ve shared. In this first hundred episodes, I hope that you’ve been inspired. I hope that everyone that’s tuned in, that’s listened in some capacity has been inspired by at least a couple of the stories. I know different people really to different messaging, different stories, different ideas, but the main point behind all of it is that we, 100 years ago or whatever you want to call it, formed a lot of systems that were very, what I call one size fits all. Oh, you work these hours of the day. We all work the same hours of the day and we wonder why there’s this thing called rush hour, everyone gets stuck in traffic. Or we’re all supposed to raise our families the same way, we’re all supposed to orient our lives the same way. We’re all supposed to orient our relationships the same way and that’s not really the way it is, as you encounter whenever you’re studying astrology, as anyone who studied personality types and anyone who’s looked into career assessments and anyone looking to leadership assessments, coaching, all the other topics that we’ve covered, is that…
everyone is different, everyone’s unique and that there’s a story for you and there’s a story for your group, Click To Tweetwhether your group is your family, whether your group’s your work group, whether your group is like the eight people you went on a 500-kilometer bicycle ride with. It’s like there’s the same idea, it’s like you have your own story and so what works for you may be different than what works for someone else, and so most of our systems, most of our institutions that we have, there’s a saying, we have caveman brains, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. Most of our institutions were built around this idea of a one-size-fits-all solution for work, a one-size-fits-all solution for marriage, a one-size-fits-all solution for family, a one-size-fits-all solution for what’s considered appropriate and inappropriate behavior and the list goes on and on and that that’s not necessarily your truth, that just represents of a plurality at some point in the past, most likely around a hundred years ago, and so, as a result, just kind of go out there and question what you see. If you hear a group of seven people all agreeing with each other, don’t just reflexively agree, think about it. Do I really agree with this? Do I really think what these people are saying are right or are they just all going along? And the more people do that, the more we’ll get new ideas and we’ll all be able to reflect our true selves in our lives and the way we live it and when we do what, how much sun we get, how much fun we get, and where we travel.
Yeah, exactly. Just think about to your own, I hope that this podcast and all your podcast inspire people to come back to their own truth and stop following the script that might not be written for them so, yeah, I think, first of all, congratulations again on the 100th podcast and thank you, everybody, really for listening and thank you for asking me to help you share your story, which I think it’s so key because you are — this is your baby, like I call my podcast my baby. It’s important to as well know about you and your story and where you’re at and I think so many people can relate and get inspired by it, so, yeah, thank you so much and, yeah.
Yeah, and thank you, Luana, for coming on and guest hosting this so I could be interviewed on my podcast.
Yeah, it was my pleasure.
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About Stephen Jaye
Stephen Jaye is the host of Action’s Antidotes. He is a lifelong learner, weather enthusiast who loves the outdoors and is committed to helping humanity reach a new healthier era. Through Actions’ Antidotes, he helps encourage people to follow their passions and bring their lives into alignment with their true selves. Through his full-time job at Midigator he helps people who have already pursued their passions keep their dreams alive through payment protection and chargeback mitigation for merchants. In his new endeavor, Reclaim Your Time, he helps people achieve focus and find time for their passions through overcoming addictive technology from social media to smartphones and television.
He was born on Long Island, just outside of New York City, spent a lot of time in the Midwest and now lives in Denver, Colorado. He has a lifelong interest in weather as well as social sciences such as philosophy and sociology. In his spare time he loves activities like cycling and skiing, and tries to find opportunities to connect with others and share ideas and experiences as much as possible.