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Hey Jacob, Hi Scott
by Jacob Nordby Scott Stabile
Writers Jacob Nordby and Scott Stabile sharing their uncut take on living in the world as sensitive people – keeping open hearts, learning, growing, and loving. Tune in and join the conversation.
Episodes
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Episode 55: Influence vs. Control – and how to walk with strength and compassion in a world at war
It’s been a minute! Jacob and Scott are back after a six-month hiatus with the first episode of Season 3. After a fairly brief catch-up, they don’t waste much time before diving into the deep end and discussing the collective response to the war between Israel and Palestine. How do we keep our...
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Episode 54: Poisonous Caterpillars in New Orleans, How to Use the Healing Power of Pleasure, and Developing a Powerful Sense of Safety in Life
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about giving and receiving feedback, and how easy it is to get triggered by someone’s experience of you, and to shut down to feedback even from those closest to you. They discuss the importance of looking at what you value in your life — in both an...
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Episode 53: Triggers, Patterns, Authentic Self Expression, and How Not to Throw Out Your Best Self While Growing and Shedding
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about giving and receiving feedback, and how easy it is to get triggered by someone’s experience of you, and to shut down to feedback even from those closest to you. They discuss the importance of looking at what you value in your life — in both an...
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How to steal joy from uncomfortable situations with a key question
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about Scott’s rough entrance into New Orleans and his attempts to jibe with the Mardi Gras vibe, even though drunken crowds are decidedly not his thing. They discuss the importance of honoring where you are, and at the same time not being bound to…
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Episode 51: Enough light for the next step on the path
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the ways in which they’ve been navigating despair and overwhelm in recent months. For Jacob, keeping steady with his daily journaling practice has been a consistent source of grounding. For Scott, remembering to bear witness rather than become the...
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Episode 50: Developing meaningful rituals, community, and the truth of "this too shall pass"
In this conversation — the 50th episode of Hey Jacob, Hi Scott! — Jacob and Scott talk about the importance of community, and the power within each of us to create community in our lives, whether in person or online. Sometimes, when we’re in compassionate communion with others, we are most able…
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Episode 49: Processing the funk when things feel destabilizing and overwhelming
In this conversation, Scott talks about the funk he’s been in, the loneliness he’s been feeling, and how his mind has had the reins for days and is hellbent on making him miserable. The friends talk about feeling destabilized and how difficult it can be sometimes, even if you’ve got all the…
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Episode 48: How to empower ourselves with good questions, choices, and five-minute actions
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the shift from "Can I …?" (or "Why can't I ...?")to "How can I…?" – and the way in which the latter question automatically assumes a yes and invites into play our creativity and imagination. They talk about conditioned responses versus authentic...
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Episode 47: Living with a scarcity mindset robs you of the life you are meant to live – and what to do about it
*Note: The previous episode 47 was deleted due to Scott’s audio disappearing at the 10-minute mark. This is the rerecorded episode 47. In this conversation, Jacob and Scott take a deep dive into creating more abundance in our lives — financial, spiritual, creative, emotional, and every other type...
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Episode 46: Shamanic Journeys, the Life-Changing Medicine of Abundance and Gratitude, and more
In this conversation, nearly six weeks after their last episode, Jacob and Scott catch up on their final weeks of summer and talk about rituals for heading into the Autumn Equinox. Jacob takes us through his recent plant medicine journey in the City of Rocks in Idaho, detailing some wildly…
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Episode 45: Holding space, owning our private hypocrisies, and centering in our souls to navigate a destabilized human era
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about what it means to hold space for others – and yourself – in an honest way, and how doing so elicits not only more depth of connection but also a more authentic and heart-centered response. They also discuss the importance of owning our hypocrisy, as...
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Episode 44: Breaking out of jail – how self-discovery opens the door to self-acceptance and freedom
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the difference between trying to fix yourself and working to accept yourself, quirks and all. They discuss how the self-help culture makes it easy to get lost in the desire to change ourselves, when what serves us better is acknowledging who we...
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Episode 43: How to live through the apocalypse
In this episode, Jacob and Scott talk about the time we’re living through as an actual apocalypse, or an “unveiling,” as the word used to be defined. They ask the question, whether we see the world as crumbling or as flourishing, who do you want to be within it? How do you want to show up in your...
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Episode 42: Living into the experiment of real miracles, weird forms of prayer, and taking care of our whole self parts in difficult times
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about their relationships with prayer, and how and why they use it in their lives. From there, they take a deep dive into miracles, with practical ideas about how to stay open to the possibility of and create miracles in your life. They discuss the power...
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Episode 41: grappling with Uvalde, making the possible changes and working toward what seems impossible but important, and reclaiming moments of sanity
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about guns in America, the situation with endless mass shootings, and what paths, if any, there are to healing the current divide regarding gun control. They discuss how to take care of ourselves when the world feels especially brutal, and how to hold...
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Episode 40: the problem of purpose, the keys to inner sanity are already in your hands, and managing cognitive dissonance
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about chewing mastic gum to open your nasal passages and strengthen your jawline (yes, it’s a thing). They talk about the pressures of purpose and the liberation that comes from seeing one’s purpose as whatever it is that’s happening at the moment, even…
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Episode 39: Moving kindly and with humanity through depression; dealing with the inner war; and a guided meditation with Scott at the end
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about what depression can look and feel like for the two of them, and what they do when they’re feeling depressed and/or hopeless. They discuss bringing radical acceptance to the experience of being human and seeing how different life can feel when we’re...
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Episode 38: What to do about abortion, our problem of evolving ethics, and antidotes to fear
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about Scott’s experience with the current New Mexico wildfires and holding space for beauty within tragedy and heartbreak. The friends share their views on abortion and the cognitive dissonance we can all feel when discussing our convictions regarding...
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Episode 37: Balancing empathic reactions, choosing from a clear place, and how breathing will fix anything in your life
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about empaths and highly sensitive people and the need for regular “hygiene” in order to balance out our empathic nature. They discuss returning to one’s innate wisdom and lived experience when it comes to finding the tools that help us recharge and feel...
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Episode 36: What you resist persists, Scott's eating "way too much garbage," and Jacob's preternaturally large head
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about what do to with feelings of hopelessness, and how to know, not that it’s always possible, whether you’re rooted in deep acceptance or deep denial (They can look the same.). They discuss the “come-down” from transformative experiences and how tricky...
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Episode 35: The paradox of seeking the highest good in life, plant medicine, breathwork, and more
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott take a deep dive into Scott’s breathwork training and the healing power of the breath. Scott relates some of his experiences during his sessions, including connecting with both of his parents who died when he was fourteen. The friends shift from breathwork to...
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Episode 34: On boundaries and learning to be in relationship with the bumpy, quirky, weird fuckers we all are
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott take a deep dive into friendship and relationships in general. As heartbreaking as it can be to part with a close friend, why do we not have any break-up rituals for it? The friends talk a lot about boundaries, what they actually are, and how to enforce them,...
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Episode 33: Breathwork, Kundalini Erections, and the Spiraling Nature of Inner Growth
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott almost talk about sex but don’t … until the end when Jacob tells a story that references his enormous erection. Who knew? Aside from sex, they dive into the different ways our fears can prevent us from showing up in our authenticity, especially when our truth...
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Episode 32: If you’re tuned to the rock channel, don’t expect to hear R&B
It’s been a couple of months, but Jacob and Scott are back with their first episode of Season 2. In this conversation, the friends talk about the stories we tell about ourselves, how important it is to become aware of them so we can extract ourselves from them, and the necessity for committed...
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Episode 31: Glow Sticks, Faux-Fur Boots, and High Jumps – Happy New Year
In this New Year’s Eve conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the New Year, and specifically what intentions they hold going into 2022. They discuss remaining fluid as we try new things, not locking ourselves into habitual patterns unless of course, those patterns continue to work for us. They...
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Episode 30: Practicing New Spells – Language, Feelings, and Aligning with Our Longings
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the difference between “I am” and “I feel” when talking about how we’re feeling, and learning to be present with our emotions without becoming them. They talk about not being committed to things playing out the same way they often played out in the...
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Episode 29: Practicing the Art of Belonging – to Ourselves
What does it mean to find a way of belonging – and a feeling that we belong in our own lives? In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the social constructs that create the false notion of separation, and the importance of moving beyond us vs. them thinking. They discuss the direct...
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Episode 28: Choosing and living into your worth
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about self-worth, and how it affects our willingness to put our art/work into the world and ask for money in support of it. They talk about the energy of scarcity and how that naturally limits the opportunities for abundance, and ways in which giving and...
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Episode 27: Amazing wisdom barfed all over you
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the difference between being responsive and reactionary. How can we grow in our truth without needing to turn others into enemies? How can we connect to the humanity in everyone, even those we vehemently disagree with? They discuss using questions…
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Episode 26: Tell me the truth, as long as it’s what I want to hear
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about healthy and unhealthy communication, and the struggle to be as honest as we feel called to be with those we love, and with ourselves. Do we really want the truth, even when it’s something we don’t want to face? They discuss the power of listening...
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Episode 25: Psilocybin, Paradoxes, and the Incredible Complexity of Living Through a Renaissance Era
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about a recent plant medicine journey Scott took in Austin and the ways in which it opened him up to the expansiveness of his masculine and feminine energies (and everything in between). This led to them discussing sexuality and gender and the growing...
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Episode 24: Now is the new black
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about befriending the present moment. The future is an illusion, and the past is no longer, so all we ever have to work with, to be with, is the present. The now. The friends discuss the power of playing witness to your thoughts, remembering that you are...
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Episode 23: The Uncomfortable Magic of Uncertainty
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about cognitive dissonance, the ease with which we disregard information that goes against our ingrained understanding of things, or of ourselves. They talk about the importance of not being so fixed in our ideas, in holding space for openness, in being...
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Episode 22: You’re a hypocrite and I am, too
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about hypocrisy, about the ways in which we have a tendency to judge others for doing the very things that we ourselves do. They discuss the importance of being honest with ourselves if we really want to grow, and taking ownership of our hypocrisies when...
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Episode 21: We're all f*cked so follow your heart
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the importance of honoring your soul, despite the fears and insecurities that push you to do otherwise, despite a lifetime of conditioning and the expectations of others, despite the ease with which we can choose to pretend and play small. They…
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Episode 20: Medicine In a World of Pain
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the collective grief and overwhelm so many of us are feeling in the wake of tragedy after tragedy, and how to stay sane in a world mired in insanity. The friends discuss Scott’s past month camping across the country and the many gifts given to us...
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Episode 19: Getting naked, stripping codependence, and talking to shadows
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about feelings of unworthiness, and the importance of distinguishing between what is real and what is true. So often what we believe to be true is in fact a distortion of our mind. They discuss nudism, and conditioning as it relates to what could be...
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Episode 18: Life as a dynamic, intuitive jungle dance with the universe
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the importance of choosing yourself over the expectations of others, and the challenges of other people’s opinions and projections when you make choices that align with your truth. They discuss the importance of listening and allowing, rather than...
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Episode 17: Is it My Intuition or the Voice of Fear?
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott do a deep dive into intuition. What is it and do we all have it? (Yes, we do.) How do we know whether it is our intuition or our fear guiding us? What tools can we use to strengthen our connection to the intuitive voices within us? They discuss the innately...
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Episode 16: You Are Not a Machine + Real Life Magic + Surrender Avenue
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about choices, about the belief systems we build around the choices we make, and how we can stop limiting what is possible for ourselves and instead open ourselves up to the boundless imagination of life. Jacob shares a beautiful story reflecting on a...
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Episode 15: Growing Deep Healthy Relationships
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott dive into the complexities of relationships, and the need in sustainable relationships — whether romantic, platonic or familial — for honest communication and a desire to grow together. The friends draw on their own experiences in past relationships to...
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Episode 14: The Power of Yes
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the ways in which we can curate our choices to create more peace, or joy, or meaning in our lives. They discuss the importance of giving yourself over to the energy of YES when it comes to your relationship with yourself, and thereby inviting in…
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Episode 13: Crooked Teeth and Hairy Backs
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about body image, and their personal relationships with their bodies. They reflect on how we’ve all been conditioned to see only certain bodies as beautiful, and how difficult (seemingly impossible) it can be to transcend this harmful conditioning....
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Episode 12: Creativity, Commerce, Success, and a Radical Reorientation to the Inner Voice
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about the many aspects of sharing oneself, either creatively, spiritually, or from a healing perspective. They look at the need to focus on the specific gifts you feel called to share, rather than on how many people respond to those gifts, or how they...
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Episode 11: To Forgive or Not To Forgive
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott take a deep dive into forgiveness. Does everyone deserve forgiveness? Is it a necessary part of healing? How do we (if we even want to) forgive the unforgivable? Scott shares his process of finding forgiveness for the man who killed his parents, and by doing…
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Episode 10: You have a right to be here
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about dealing with loneliness and disconnection, particularly during this time in our world where there is such uncertainty and so many calls for separation and divisiveness. They reflect on core questions like “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?” and the...
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Episode 9: Finding Courage at the Crossroads
*This episode was recorded at cabins in the woods on both ends! There was a tech glitch near the end but we cleaned that up as well as we could, you'll just miss the usual sign-offs. In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about… * the rollercoaster of thoughts that play through our minds *...
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Episode 8: Cabin Fever
In this conversation, Jacob and Scott talk about… * the things our minds tell us when we need a break from productivity * i.e., you don’t have value if you’re not working * i.e., you are worthless period * the healing power of creating daily practices * the impact of the Industrial Revolution on...
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Episode7: Yes, rest for the weary
In this episode, Jacob and Scott talk about the importance of rest in a world bent on productivity, as well as their respective understandings of what God is, and how the divine manifests in our beings and in our world. Happy Full SuperMoon in Scorpio! Here’s what Scott read today, from Braiding...
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Episode 6: The Powerful Space Between Stimulus and Response
In this episode, Jacob and Scott talk about… * the teachers we choose and the expectations we place on them * the shift away from the guru/disciple paradigm * their respective experiences in their cults * our proclivity to put our teachers on pedestals as better than * the inherent pull of...
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Writers Jacob Nordby and Scott Stabile sharing their uncut take on living in the world as sensitive people – keeping open hearts, learning, growing, and loving. Tune in and join the conversation.
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