{"podcast":{"title":"DIVO- TED Talks","slug":"divo-ted-talks-7078694","podcast_index_feed_id":7078694,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f5806128/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.divowellness.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41088314/41088314-1714338251494-cb76eabe93d9b.jpg","author":"Nicholas Wade Kimps","episode_count":192,"summary":"Modern life is overwhelming, disorienting, and moving faster than most of us can process. This show is for people who are tired of just pushing through it. Each episode blends ancient wisdom with the realities of everyday life to help you slow down, see more clearly, and find your footing again. Less noise. More clarity. A steadier way to live in your body and your mind. I'm Nicholas Kimps, founder of DIVO Wellness in Greensboro NC, and I've spent years helping people restore harmony in their bodies and their lives. This is where I think out loud. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T06:17:05.308551+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divo-ted-talks-7078694"},"episode":{"title":"What Meaning Are You Giving Your Life? | DIVO- Ted Talks","slug":"what-meaning-are-you-giving-your-life-divo-ted-talks","published_at":"2026-04-29T15:23:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divo-ted-talks-7078694/what-meaning-are-you-giving-your-life-divo-ted-talks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divo-ted-talks-7078694","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicholas-wade-kimps/episodes/What-Meaning-Are-You-Giving-Your-Life---DIVO--Ted-Talks-e3il8bf","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f5806128/podcast/play/119234351/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-29%2F407c2f67-9a11-7b42-966b-0a28bb10676b.mp3","summary":"Sometimes the story you keep living inside is the very thing making your life feel smaller than it actually is. ⸻ Quote from the Episode “You are the meaning maker.” ⸻ Description Meaning is a powerful thing because most of us don’t realize how much of it we are making all day long. We inherit meanings. We absorb them from culture, family, society, age, gender, success, failure, money, beauty, usefulness. Then one day we look around and think life itself is the thing holding us in place, when really we may be relating to life through a story we never stopped to question. A conversation with a client in Dublin opened this whole thing up for me. She was talking about being a woman of a certain age, and yet in the photos I saw, she looked radiant. Illuminated. Powerful. And there she was, telling me all the reasons she could not be what she already looked like she was becoming. Then I realized I do this too. We all do, in some way. Yoga and Ayurveda remind us that we are not passive inside the meaning of things. Ahamkara, the I am maker, is always assigning, naming, identifying, deciding. The chair can be something to sit in, or it can be something to stand on so you can change a light bulb. The object did not change. The meaning did. That is where our power starts to come back. ⸻ A Map of Wisdom Here are some of the places we go together in this talk: ✦ The Story You Keep Repeating ✦ Arguing Against Your Own Radiance ✦ You Are the Meaning Maker ✦ Ahamkara and the I Am Maker ✦ The Villain Can Become the Hero ✦ When Life Feels Meaningless ⸻ Markers on the Path (00:00) - The Conversation That Opened the Door (02:16) - When We Argue Against Our Own Radiance (03:01) - You Are the Meaning Maker (07:03) - Life, Art, Theater, and Interpretation (09:28) - Ahamkara and the I Am Ma…","meta_description":"Sometimes the story you keep living inside is the very thing making your life feel smaller than it actually is. ⸻ Quote from the Episode “You are the mean…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":861,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/divo-ted-talks-7078694/episodes/what-meaning-are-you-giving-your-life-divo-ted-talks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divo-ted-talks-7078694/what-meaning-are-you-giving-your-life-divo-ted-talks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}