Live from Love, Not for Love

On This Walk

This week on On This Walk, we cover a lot of ground — leadership, love, culture, and our walks towards deeper Truth.

My walking partner for today is Ryan Hartley, father of two and host of the globally popular podcast, Always Better Than Yesterday. Ryan has been a featured guest on over 30 podcasts and is regularly invited to speak at events internationally. His podcast is currently listened to in over 140 countries.

Listen as Ryan and I really get into it. We talk about what it means to live from love as opposed to for love. We discuss the influence of society and how it actually makes us feel incomplete and inadequate. We even touch on faith, religion, Christ consciousness, and spirituality. It’s all happening right here On This Walk.

In This Episode

• (04:01) – Evolving into the heart-centered leadership style.
• (11:40) – Changing course and steering into leadership.
• (16:22) – Living from love, not for love.
• (22:39) – Why culture is not our friend.
• (25:50) – What are our desires based on?
• (31:00) – Ryan describes the challenge with the pursuit of happiness.
• (34:12) – Talking about faith and seeing through a Christian lens.
• (41:23) – On relating to the energy that is God.
• (46:12) – Luke on the feeling of being separate.
• (52:39) – Heartset - Loving with all of your minds.
• (58:51) – Reflecting on what it means to be human.
• (1:02:33) – The masculine and feminine views of heart-centeredness.
• (1:04:44) – How the journey has changed Ryan as a father.

Notable Quotes

• “The reason I say culture is not our friend is because sometimes we have to take a step back and go, where are my desires coming from? Because you might say from a heart-centered perspective, should we follow our heart's desire? And I've had to get my head around this. I try every single day to get to Psalm 23, which starts with ‘The Lord is my shepherd. I have all that I need’. And I think that is the perfect scripture to remind myself every single day that in this moment I have all that I need. I do not lack anything. And when I do that, when I truly feel blessed, grateful, appreciative, that I can look around and choose my life, then whatever I do becomes an expression of that love and gratitude.” – Ryan (24:04)

• “Anytime you feel lost, separate or lacking, close your eyes. Breathe, slow down and feel. Feel for that breath that runs through you and runs through all things, all of life. You're a part of that great mystery. Source yourself from that knowing, from that love and connect to that playful, creative, rambunctious, curious, loving, generous, even weird little inner child that you are. And this again, is a practice. This remembering doesn't always happen overnight, but taking the time to feel it, to breathe with it, to touch it within us and around us. Doing this as a practice allows us to remember, it's always been there. It will always be there, and we always have access to it. No need to think your way there. Just feel for it.” – Luke (49:33)

Our Guest

Ryan Hartley is the Chief Heart Officer of Always Better Than Yesterday, a company that develops heart-centered leaders through coaching, consulting, community building, and podcasting. Before that, he served as a local police force for 12 years in a variety of leadership roles. Founded in 2017, Always Better Than Yesterday survived the global pandemic and thrived by helping many leaders and businesses to do the same. He's the host of the podcast with the same name that's listened to in over 140 countries.

Resources & Links

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