The Wisdom Is Already Within You - On Coaching, Recovery, And Coming Home

Podcast Season 2, Episode 3 - with Darren Lyons - 2/11/2026I’m really glad to welcome Darren Lyons back to Design Review. And I knew when we started talking again that this conversation was going to go somewhere good. Darren and I met through our Jungian life coaching program at CreativeMind University - where we got to know each other deeply, coached each other, and discovered just how much our paths overlapped. He is such a grounded and quietly wise man. And what he’s building with Lyons Life Coaching (LLC, LLC ;-)) is something the world genuinely needs right now.In this episode, we talk about the people Darren works with - high performing professionals who have achieved much on the outside, but are quietly running on empty on the inside. People who know they want more, but feel like there is nothing left in the tank to get there. We talk about slowing down in a world that only rewards speeding up. About the difference between doing and being. About addiction - not just to substances, but to work, to screens, and to busyness itself - as a way of avoiding the present. We talk about trees. About yin and yang. About Winnie the Pooh and Taoism - and about why, if you could have figured it out yourself, you already would have.This episode is truly a conversation between two people who have done the work and are still doing it.I think you’ll feel that.Connect with Darren: www.linkedin.com/in/darren-lyons-54584891/Engineering Your Life: www.engineeringyourlife.net