# Off Track: Are You Listening To The Wrong Voice? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lit-luca-s-insight-track-6825862/off-track-are-you-listening-to-the-wrong-voice Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/lit-luca-s-insight-track-6825862/off-track-are-you-listening-to-the-wrong-voice.md Podcast: [LIT- Luca's Insight Track](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lit-luca-s-insight-track-6825862) Published: 2026-06-19T13:41:22+00:00 Episode link: https://podeo.co Audio file: https://media.podeo.co/episodes/MTIwNTM4/audio.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lit-luca-s-insight-track-6825862/episodes/off-track-are-you-listening-to-the-wrong-voice Duration seconds: 996 ## Resource Welcome back to Off Track, the space where I speak unscripted, unfiltered and straight from the heart. No guests, no scripts, just honest reflections shaped by real conversations and real life.   This week’s episode was inspired by my conversation with Dr. Afnan Alghamdi, one of Saudi Arabia’s pioneering voices in psychology and mental health. Our conversation explored everything from loneliness and growth to identity and healing, but three questions stayed with me long after the cameras stopped rolling. Questions that, if I’m honest, many of us are probably trying to answer in our own lives.   Here are those three questions behind this episode:   1️⃣ Do We Grow More Alone Or With Other People? Dr. Afnan believes healing happens through connection, community and being around people who truly understand what we're going through. I agree. But I also know that some of the biggest breakthroughs in my own life happened when I was completely alone. No distractions. No opinions. Just honest reflection. Growth, I’ve realised, often requires both. The support of others and the courage to sit quietly with yourself.   2️⃣ Is Growth More About Unlearning or Learning? We spend most of our lives trying to learn more. New skills, new knowledge, new experiences. But some of the biggest transformations come from letting go. Letting go of old beliefs, outdated habits and versions of ourselves that no longer fit. The older I get, the more I realise that growth isn't always about becoming more. Sometimes it's about becoming less. Less fear,  less ego and definitely less performance.   3️⃣ Is Experiencing Pain Really Necessary? None of us actively seek pain, but when I look back at the moments that shaped me most, they usually came from periods I wouldn’t have… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lit-luca-s-insight-track-6825862/episodes/off-track-are-you-listening-to-the-wrong-voice/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/lit-luca-s-insight-track-6825862/off-track-are-you-listening-to-the-wrong-voice.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.