Work Life Play Podcast

Hosted by Aaron McHugh

Join me as I have real dialogues with good humans entrepreneurs, artists, heretics, authors, liberators, adventurers, and innovators, who achieve the impossible and prove that we can live, lead and succeed as wholehearted people.

Featured Episodes

Below are some of my favorite and most popular episodes from the Work Life Play podcast. They embody the spirit of wholehearted living and will encourage, challenge, and inspire you.

Alastair Humphreys

Microadventures: Great Escapes Out Your Front Door with Alastair Humphreys Episode #38

Alastair Humphreys says “If you are too busy, too stressed, or too tired for an adventure. Then you are the perfect microadventure candidate.

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Fully Alive with Ben Moon Episode #150

Ben Moon is guided by sheer joy and a deep appreciation for being alive. Cancer survivor, photographer, and good human.

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Nir Eyal

How to Deal With the Root Cause of Your Distraction with Nir Eyal #182

I’ll be the first to admit. I can be easily distracted. Ping, blue dot, check email, etc. Nir Eyal named my interference as pain management. “Unless we deal with the […]

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Morgan Snyder

The Path to Restoring the Heart of a Man with Author Morgan Snyder #183

Morgan Snyder is more than my guest today. Our sixteen-year friendship is an anchor I repeatedly tether myself to for hope, truth, and joy. Our transformative reciprocity began when we […]

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Latest Episodes

The Integrity of Yes and NO

Friends, I’ve been thinking. I’ve been thinking about the slippery slope, the slippery slope of…as humans, as leaders, we find ourselves in a place progressively over time far from where […]

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To Be Lists

Friends, and I’ve been thinking. I’ve been thinking about to-do lists versus to-be lists. One of my mentors these last few years introduced me to the idea of a to-be […]

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Ten years of living forward

Today I want to share something more intimate with you about pain and living forward. Earlier this year, my family and I we honored the 10-year anniversary of our daughter […]

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Pierce the veneer of outside things

Friends, today what’s on my mind is piercing the veneer of outside things. Ernest Shackleton, infamous Antarctic explorer, at the turn of the century, the 19th century, did this expedition […]

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Dream bigger dreams

Friends, I’ve been thinking, I’ve been thinking about dreaming bigger dreams. A friend of mine sent me a poem in the mail, a prayer over the summer. I’ve kept, keep […]

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The world needs more wholehearted humans

Friends, I’ve been thinking about what does the world really need? Our world is pretty complex, complicated place these days, no matter what part of the globe you live on. […]

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