Between the Ears Podcast

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  #9 Q&Q — What Health Habit Would You Change? 07.08.2026 4min

  Welcome to Episode 9 of Between The Ears, host Arnold Beekes’ Q&Q format designed to help listeners unlock and use their own uniqueness. This episode’s question asks listeners to identify one health-related habit, whether it’s food, drink, sleep, or even the people they spend time with daily, that they’d like to change, starting small rather than aiming for a big overhaul. Arnold pairs it with a quote on the danger of comparison: ”If you care what other people think, you will become the same. You will never raise beyond,” unpacking how constant comparison, especially through social media, caps us at merely matching others rather than embracing our own uniqueness.
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  #8 Principles to Upgrade Your Brain (Part 1) 06.08.2026 11min

  Welcome to Episode 8 of Between The Ears. In the first half of a two-part series, host Arnold Beekes shares three foundational principles for taking ownership of your brain and improving your brain fitness. Arnold makes the case for genuinely thinking for yourself rather than memorizing and adopting the opinions of teachers, religious leaders, doctors, or bosses; approaching life with a beginner’s mind so you notice what familiarity has trained you to overlook; and learning to see beauty in small, everyday moments rather than only in rare, once-in-a-lifetime experiences. The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring how Swiss farmers cut pest damage in half simply by planting wildflowers between their crops.
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  #7 Q&Q — What Do You Need to Feel Safe? 05.08.2026 3min

  Welcome to Episode 7 of Between The Ears, the first in host Arnold Beekes' new Q&Q format: a question and a quote designed to help listeners unlock and use their own uniqueness. This episode's question invites listeners to sit with what they truly need to feel safe, whether mentally, emotionally, physically, socially, or otherwise, and to take real time (a few days, or the weekend) to reflect rather than answer immediately. Arnold pairs it with his own quote: "Your life starts when you stop copying others," challenging the habit, reinforced by school and social media alike, of measuring ourselves against other people instead of discovering what's genuinely our own. Topics Covered Introducing the Q&Q format: a question to ponder and a quote to inspire This episode's question: what do you need to feel safe? The many dimensions of safety: mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, environmental, social Why school conditions us to copy and memorize rather than think originally How social media reinforces constant comparison with others This episode's quote: "Your life starts when you stop copying others" The invitation to discover and use your own uniqueness About Arnold Beekes Arnold Beekes is the host of Between The Ears, a podcast built around the idea that your inner state creates your outer reality. Having lived in five different countries, Arnold draws on his own experiences to help listeners build a better life between the ears, one episode at a time. Connect with Arnold Beekes🧠 Inner Fitness for Modern Life: https://braingym.fitness/🧠 Inner Leadership Training for Ambitious Leaders: https://www.brainathletes.club/🧠 Innovation Mindset for Exponential Change: https://www.innovationathletes.club/🤝 Join our free Brain Health community: https://www.skool.com/brain-fitness-7070🔗 https://bio.link/beekes   🎙️ Edited and Produced by The PodFather Network LLC🌐 https://roycoughlan.com/   #BetweenTheEars #QandQ #InnerState #PersonalDevelopment #SelfDiscovery #Uniqueness #Reflection #PodfatherNetwork #BrainFitness
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  #6 Causes of Mental Dis-ease 04.08.2026 16min

  Welcome to Episode 6 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes explores what he calls ”mental dis-ease” rather than mental illness, rejecting the idea that most people struggling with anxiety, depression, or stress have something medically wrong with them. Instead, Arnold walks through four factors he sees as the root causes: the stress of living two lives (meeting others’ expectations versus living authentically), a fear-based societal environment amplified by media and corruption, heavy smartphone and social media use, and reduced sunlight exposure. The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring a Canadian woman’s story of rescuing a crow and being unofficially adopted into its flock.
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  #5 Three Starting Points for Brain Fitness 03.08.2026 11min

  Welcome to Episode 5 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes lays out three foundational starting points for making brain fitness a daily habit, just as most people already do with physical fitness. Arnold defines brain fitness as choosing your uniqueness, learning continuously, handling challenges well, and contributing to a better world for all, and walks through why so many people struggle with this given rising rates of anxiety, stress, and burnout. He covers why your current state isn’t your fault but is your responsibility, introduces the idea that we function with three brains (head, heart, and gut) rather than one, and explains why shifting from external to internal control is essential for genuine wellbeing. The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring a family of beavers that solved a persistent flooding problem in West London.
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  #4 Uniqueness 02.08.2026 14min

  Welcome to Episode 4 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes explores why uniqueness matters and why our systems, from education to capitalism, work to suppress it in favor of predictable sameness. Arnold breaks down why copying someone else’s ”successful” method rarely works, walking through why trying to replicate someone else’s results can leave you capped at a fraction of their success, and shares Scott Adams’ alternative: rather than chasing being the best at one thing, become very good at two or more things and combine them. The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring the story of Italy’s expanding forests and the ecological and social renewal following them.
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  #3 Identity 01.08.2026 15min

  Welcome to Episode 3 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes tackles the topic of identity, exploring why so many of us mistake our roles, labels, and job titles for who we actually are, and how that mistaken identity quietly limits us. Arnold draws on real examples, from people who lose their sense of self after being laid off, to a group of refugees in Uganda who introduced themselves by that label alone, to show how easily we box ourselves in with words like ”I’m a nurse,” ”I’m a Christian,” or ”I’m a refugee.” The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring the simple practice of talking to strangers and a Paris exhibition reuniting Nazi-looted artworks with their rightful owners.
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  #2 Good Enough 01.08.2026 16min

  Welcome to Episode 2 of Between The Ears. Host Arnold Beekes explores why so many of us carry the persistent feeling of not being good enough, tracing it back to how conformity gets enforced through conditional love and approval, from parents and teachers to bosses and friends. Arnold breaks down why this feeling is a tool, not a truth, and makes the case for recognizing it, rejecting it, and finally accepting that you are already good enough exactly as you are. The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, featuring a story of neighborly kindness during a power outage and an animal therapy program using donkeys to help psychiatric patients in France.
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  #1 Live Your Own Life 01.08.2026 11min

  Are you living your own life, or someone else’s? In this debut episode of Between The Ears, host Arnold Bekus explores how from childhood onward, we’re trained to meet the expectations of parents, teachers, and eventually bosses, until ”being good” simply means doing what someone else wants. Arnold explains why living two lives at once, someone else’s during work hours and your own in the evenings and weekends, is a major source of chronic stress, and why that stress can eventually show up as back pain, burnout, or depression. He invites listeners to start looking inward instead of outward to figure out what they actually want, and to take back control of their own behavior. The episode closes with the show’s signature segment on everyday beauty, including a story from Nanaimo, Canada, where a young boy’s persistence in knocking on doors in the middle of the night helped save his father’s life.