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Inner Work Outer World
by Julia Dyer
Some things in life don't respond to advice. They respond to something older than that. Inner Work, Outer World follows Finnegan — a small, sensitive fox navigating a loud and fast-moving world — through stories that speak to something most of us have never quite had words for. These are not children's stories. And they are not not children's stories. They are the kind of tales that work on you at any age — because they speak to something in us that never stopped being young, and never stopped wanting to understand the world a little more deeply. After the story, host Julia walks through the themes together with you. Not to lecture or instruct — just to gently translate what you heard into your own life, your own patterns, your own inner world. This podcast lives at the intersection of classical Tantra, nervous system science, and the ageless wisdom of myth and metaphor. But it doesn't feel like any of those things. It feels like a conversation wit
Episodes
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The Ones You Get Small Around
There are some people you can't quite be yourself around. Not because they're unkind. Because something in you gets quieter when they walk into the room, and you can't say exactly when it started. The hardest version of this isn't around the people we dislike. It's around the ones we love — the...
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"That One's Yours Now"
For a long time, being useful was how you stayed in the room. But what happens when you're not the one holding things together anymore — when someone just looks at you, and there's nothing to fix, nothing to do with your hands? This episode is about the specific difficulty of being witnessed...
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The "no" that Changes the Room
Have you ever said no to something small and reasonable, and watched someone react like you'd done something much bigger than that? If you've spent your life as the "automatic yes" — the fixer, the one who's good in a crisis — a no doesn't just land as a no. It lands as a rupture. And somehow,...
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The Return
Season 2 opens with Finnegan finding himself back on an old path — at a shelter he built, no longer fitting the way it used to. This episode is about the gap between understanding something and actually feeling it shift. You can know your patterns completely and still find your feet walking the…
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A Quiet Close — Season 1 Finale
Eight episodes. One thread underneath all of them. This is the season finale of Inner Work, Outer World — no Finnegan story, no teaching structure. Just Julia, sitting with you at the close of Season 1, reflecting on what the season was actually about and what it might have been doing in you…
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The Ones Who Know Before They're Told
You walk into a room and know something is off before anyone has said a word. You sense what's underneath what someone is telling you. And somewhere along the way, you were told you read into things — and slowly, you learned to second-guess what you sense. In today's story, Finnegan walks into an...
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Surrounded by People and Still Alone
You can be in a room full of people who love you and feel completely alone. If you're the one everyone turns to — the one who tends, holds, and keeps things okay — this episode is for you. In today's story, Finnegan spends days building a shelter for the creatures of the forest before a storm...
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The Places that Hold us
There are places that have been holding you longer than you know. Before you had language for it. Before you understood what regulation meant, or why certain ground felt beneath your feet. Your body already knew. It has always known. In today's story, Finnegan stays close to home for the first…
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Fine on Paper
You are functioning. You are producing. By every external measure, you are fine. From the inside, it feels like something else entirely. In today's story, Finnegan has been walking toward a light on the mountain since the first morning he opened his eyes. He knows it is his. He has always known....
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The Sneeze That Never Comes
Have you ever chased a feeling you could almost reach — and made everything worse by trying? This week, Julia uses one very undignified sensory experience — a ten-minute almost-sneeze — to unpack one of the most persistent features of human experience: the grasping for completion. In today's...
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The Ground Beneath
Have you ever left a conversation without actually leaving? Still in the room, still nodding — but something in you already gone, already living in a future that hasn't happened yet, already certain the floor is about to disappear? Most of us have a trigger that does this. A topic, a tone of…
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The Voice That Follows You Home
Is there a voice in your head that follows you everywhere? Not dramatic — just quiet, persistent, and always keeping score. Most of us have spent years trying to make it stop. In today's episode, Finnegan discovers something that changes everything — the voice that has been following him through...
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The Ones Who Notice
Have you ever felt like you experience the world a little more intensely than everyone else? Like you pick up on things others miss — the mood in a room, the beauty in small things, the weight of a conversation that's already moved on for everyone else? Most sensitive people eventually decide...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Some things in life don't respond to advice. They respond to something older than that.
Inner Work, Outer World follows Finnegan — a small, sensitive fox navigating a loud and fast-moving world — through stories that speak to something most of us have never quite had words for. These are not children's stories. And they are not not children's stories. They are the kind of tales that work on you at any age — because they speak to something in us that never stopped being young, and never stopped wanting to understand the world a little more deeply.
After the story, host Julia walks through the themes together with you. Not to lecture or instruct — just to gently translate what you heard into your own life, your own patterns, your own inner world.
This podcast lives at the intersection of classical Tantra, nervous system science, and the ageless wisdom of myth and metaphor. But it doesn't feel like any of those things. It feels like a conversation wit
HOSTED BY
Julia Dyer
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Some things in life don't respond to advice. They respond to something older than that. Inner Work, Outer World follows Finnegan — a small, sensitive fox navigating a loud and fast-moving world — through stories that speak to something most of us have never quite had words for. These are not...
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Inner Work Outer World is created and hosted by Julia Dyer.
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