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André Duqum

Host of the Know Thyself podcast, long form conversations on consciousness, healing, and what it means to be human.

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How to Embrace the Emotions You Resist & Find Lasting Freedom | Joe Hudson

Executive coach Joe Hudson joins André Duqum on the Know Thyself podcast for a two hour and sixteen minute conversation arguing that the emotions we refuse to feel quietly run our lives, and that the way out is to welcome them rather than fix them. Hudson lays out his core tools: the three brains of head, heart, and gut, the golden algorithm that explains why the same painful pattern keeps returning, and the reframe that an emotion fully felt turns into its clean form, anger into boundaries, fear into aliveness, sadness into love. Along the way they cover raising kids who never learn they are not okay, the voice in the head, what awakening does and does not solve, the VIEW framework for real connection, and apologies and forgiveness as freedom machines. The conversation closes on AI, where Hudson argues that as machines absorb knowledge work and skill work, wisdom work and emotional clarity are what remain valuable.

HealthPhilosophyCultureJul 29, 2025