#47 Power, Safety and the Judas Spirit

#47 Power, Safety and the Judas Spirit

Who gets to hold power in relationships or in society? In the pod, Meeks considers the intersection of power, safety and Judas vs. Jesus spirit as it relates to personal and professional relationships and geopolitics. The question of where power lies can best be answered by the Person who created the rules of engagement - of Who, therefore, allegiance is due. Earthly power should likewise be held by the purveyor who plays by the same rules and who uses it to foster safety for a companion, child or society. Sadly this is not the case because most people want power to control rather than to influence. And that is the Judas spirit over the Jesus Spirit. All Rights Reserved | Fair Use | 2025

#46 The Femme Language of Love

In this pod, Meeks gets into the four new love languages for the modern age as experienced in his recent trip to the Motherland. In Kenya, Meeks met friends and suitors that enlightened him on some fundamental cues of romantic relationships with women. These are validation, emotion, containment and challenges. These are new love languages of modernity. While he's not the first to use these terms, his personal witness to the value of applying these actions reveal the love language of femininity. In this episode, Meeks encourages the male listeners - as well as female listeners - to engage in self-introspection then see women for who they are -- i.e., as mutual beings with the same relational goals as men but with different modes of expressing those needs. Enjoy! Fair Use | All Rights Reserved | 2025

#45 Raison d'être

In this new episode of season 6, Meeks takes a circuitous route from an MIT Entrepreneurship event led by Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT, to the current and dire state of medical and financial freedom in the globe, and drops in on the old Roman Republic rights of the people, to tease this idea of our reason for existence. Building on previous episodes that explored "purpose" and "identity," this podcast places the French term "raison d'être" in the school of epistemological thought. In other words, "why are you here?" to quote the movie Gladiator. Do you live to be entertained or for pleasure or is there a Kantian morality, nay a Christian imperative, or reason for being? While this pod doesn't have all the answers, it hopes to inspire you with some. All Rights Reserved | Fair Use | 2025

#44 The Alpha Widow

This episode is of an adult nature. Proceed with caution. An Alpha widow is a colloquially used modern term connoting a woman who has lost or divorced or broken up with an Alpha man and, as a result, has difficulty moving on and forward with future companions because of the damage she's incurred. By the way, men also go through this. In this episode, Meeks applies the movie Vicky, Christina, Barcelona to demonstrate how this dynamic works out with two seemingly different women, who nonetheless fall for the Alpha man and end up being widowed. Though some women bounce back, the effects of being an Alpha widow are often longstanding. So the lesson here is to avoid the pain altogether or at the very least, embrace the dictum: once bitten, twice shy. Fair Use | All Rights Reserved | 2025

#43 Perspective and Proximity

Putting yourself in the other person's Reebok's and being close to them to learn more about their humanity, is what relationship - personal and professional - is fundamentally about. In this pod, Meeks explores how those two concepts - including competence and warmth - should show up in the workplace and in romantic relationships. This idea is actually not new, since Biblical scripture says: "Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself" (Phil 2:3). Need we say more? No, so let's strive to apply what we know to be true. Fair Use | All Rights Reserved | 2025