Seven Steps to Smile
Episodes
12. How to Use Compassion as a Superpower
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textCompassion often gets framed as being soft, forgiving, or endlessly patient. That’s not what this episode is about.This is a conversat...
11. How to Make the Bad Days Count (Low-Capacity Strategy)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSome days, you just don’t have the same energy, focus, or emotional space that you usually do. You still care. You still want to show ...
what to do when you're doing enough (it doesn't feel like it)
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere’s a strange place you can end up in where you are genuinely trying. You’re showing up more often than not, doing what you said...
How to Trust Yourself Again (After You've Broken Promises to Yourself)
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAt some point, we waver in the belief of our own plans.Not because we don’t care — but because we’ve made promises to ourselves we...
Stop Asking ‘What Should I Do This Year’ (Ask This Instead)
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode DescriptionEvery January we ask the same question: What should I do this year?New goals. New plans. New pressure.This episode explores why tha...
The Mental Bandwidth Problem
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feelings of overwhelm and scarcity hijack our thinking all the time. When we feel like we don't have enough time, money, love, or anything that w...
Becoming the Best You (The Identity Loop)
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The person that you believe you are is the person that you become. The stories that we keep telling about ourselves give meaning to our behaviours and...
When to Ask Why?
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Asking "Why" is how we make sense of the world; it's how we find meaning and make connections within our uncertain world. But asking ...
Win with Less Effort (The Effort Heuristic)
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We love to overvalue things that feel harder. That's the effort heuristic. Join me as we learn more about how this mental shortcut is secretly sh...
The Hidden Costs of Loss Aversion
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A short, powerful episode on how we are being limited by a hardwired aversion to loss. Makes sense right? Nobody likes losing! But it could be holding...
The Importance of Attention
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we talk about the importance of attention. How can you regain control of your attention in a world full of distractions? When should you no...
Episode 1 (Rambling Intro)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, I'm Shravan. In this completely unstructured introduction episode, I touched on my own background, why I started the podcast, and why it&apo...