<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Wyrd Ones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dispatches from a neurodivergent magician questioning everything he was taught. 
For the wyrd ones ready to stop hiding and start activating. <br/><br/><a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/podcast</link><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:17:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/5116115.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><author><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></author><copyright><![CDATA[D. Christopher Armstrong]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[risewithchristopher@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:new-feed-url>https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/5116115.rss</itunes:new-feed-url><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dispatches from a neurodivergent magician questioning everything he was taught. 
For the wyrd ones ready to stop hiding and start activating.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:name><itunes:email>risewithchristopher@substack.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Spirituality"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Education"><itunes:category text="Self-Improvement"/></itunes:category><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/><item><title><![CDATA[My Permission Slip]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Three days into a desert retreat, an indigenous man handed Christopher a staff of authority. Permission to speak the language, sing the songs, serve the medicine. It felt like everything he'd been waiting for.</p><p>In this episode: a former Catholic priest turned medicine keeper, a live translation between two worlds, and the moment Christopher was told the truth. Nobody can give you permission except you.</p><p>He got the staff anyway. Then watched it turn into a toy the second he got back to a rented room in Phoenix.</p><p>This is the story behind the wound the Trace named: unsponsored authorship. Why the mission was never the problem. The permission was.</p><p>Run it yourself: <a target="_blank" href="http://trace-the-pattern-now.lovable.app">trace-the-pattern-now.lovable.app</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/my-permission-slip</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:207405668</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:49:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207405668/53a8d58d50b9cbb9c3354e542bda96bb.mp3" length="13768874" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>1147</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/207405668/d22f162b31315e4b182159a6f70252e6.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Time My Friends Tried to Exorcise Me on LSD in Guatemala]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>This episode is about channeling, possession, inherited wounds, and why I'm finally done waiting until it feels safe to show up.</p><p>I tell the story of the night my friends threw me in a lake on LSD in Guatemala to exorcise what they believed was a demon. What actually happened is more complicated and more interesting than that.</p><p>From there: the sensitive kid who learned to shut it down. The Armstrong lineage and how many of them probably hid the same gifts to survive. Six years of only accessing the channel when high enough to stop policing myself. And what changed a month and a half ago that hadn't changed in six years.</p><p>This is episode two of For the Wyrd Ones.</p><p><strong>Links mentioned:</strong></p><p>The Wyrd Ones community: <a target="_blank" href="http://thewyrdones.com">thewyrdones.com</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://risewithchristopher.thrivecart.com/earth-mission/">Earth Mission Oracle</a></p><p>Field Transmission video at the dolmen site: [YouTube link]</p><p><strong>Topics covered:</strong></p><p>QHHT hypnosis</p><p>Mayan land and why the setting matters</p><p>What channeling actually is: speaking in tongues, moving energy with voice, receiving from beings without bodies</p><p>Astrology and how it shows us our path.</p><p>Why most channeling online feels unvetted and what protocol actually means</p><p>The Earth Mission Oracle and reading the code underneath your life</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/that-time-my-friends-tried-to-exorcise</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:206698427</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:51:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206698427/8353e65fae88f442a8100a4116f464b2.mp3" length="11361116" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>947</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/206698427/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Will Find Your Purpose Where You Find Your Happiness]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Last episode I hit pause on a movie because it was mirroring my own nervous system back at me and I couldn't take it. This episode I finish it, and I finish the thought.</p><p>Like Stars on Earth follows a dyslexic kid getting punished by a system that has no room for how his mind actually works. Sound familiar. I talk about what happened when I sat back down to watch the ending: a new teacher walks in, sees the kid for what he is instead of what he's failing at, and everything shifts. Einstein, Edison, da Vinci, all named as men who couldn't read or write the way the system wanted either.</p><p>I connect that straight to my own frustration with funnels, pipelines, and selling things I hate building. Why the world isn't built for neurodivergent people, why that's not a flaw, and why the outliers are the ones who actually move humanity forward. Also: my 4am biphasic sleep experiment, why I don't believe in Darwinian evolution, and why I built an AI dictation system so I can work the way Voltaire and Agatha Christie did instead of the way productivity culture tells me to.</p><p>www.thewyrdones.com is live. Links below.https://risewithchristopher.thrivecart.com/earth-mission/</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/you-will-find-your-purpose-where</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:206389654</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206389654/775f907410de1c0f225274309e5538ad.mp3" length="8746467" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>729</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/206389654/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Stars on Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Watched Like Stars on Earth (Taare Zameen Par) tonight. A kid getting punished for being wired different. Had to stop halfway through.</p><p>Started crying, and it wasn’t really about the kid. It was about me at that age, the version of me that got good at performing instead of falling apart. High achiever. Competent. No one had to yell at me because I’d already learned how to make myself acceptable.</p><p>Take away the structure and the systems now, and I watch myself fall apart in real time. Even mid cry, some part of my brain was already trying to turn it into content. That’s the sickness. Monetizing your own grief before you’ve even felt it.</p><p>This one’s unedited.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/like-stars-on-earth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:206199580</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206199580/f272e9a63075c149d8b0878147807316.mp3" length="8496319" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>708</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/206199580/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[They Built a City Over the Old Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Standing on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, surrounded by obelisks, monuments, and an unfinished Parthenon, I didn't see a park.</p><p>I saw a circuit board.</p><p>In this audio I walk through what Calton Hill actually is, what it was before the Enlightenment got hold of it, and what was deliberately overwritten when they planted monuments to rational philosophy, military victory, and imperial science on top of an ancient Celtic sacred site.</p><p>We cover:</p><p>Why Calton Hill was a sacred node long before anyone built anything on it</p><p>What the monuments are actually doing energetically</p><p>What the Gaelic animist culture actually believed, and why it got called barbaric</p><p>The direct line between the Highland Clearances and the template for "normal" intelligence</p><p>Why the weird ones, the too sensitive, the too much, are the direct descendants of what got erased</p><p>What's shifting now and where we're being called</p><p>A full companion article goes deeper into the mechanics, the history, and the other sites I walked through on this trip. Coming soon.</p><p>If this landed, subscribe and share it with someone who has always felt the land differently.</p><p><strong>Transmission over.</strong></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/they-built-a-city-over-the-old-magic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:203530217</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203530217/0edcb55fc3bccc2c13b1756ebba53e0a.mp3" length="10257624" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>855</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/203530217/c2d840b8caacd053ed2d2dc22b3ae8c9.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grid is Shifting]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/the-grid-is-shifting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:203264781</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:58:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203264781/b3bd73e0db7e3d05074473fa77a6429c.mp3" length="11481067" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>718</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/203264781/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Lift a Family Curse]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/how-to-lift-a-family-curse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:202834255</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:14:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202834255/4da79aa2748bf45b28663eb15978f0c4.mp3" length="6979647" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>436</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/202834255/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What If He’s Not Crazy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[ <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/what-if-hes-not-crazy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:202413507</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:51:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202413507/61f8106b7656db2e08cd0aa340e6d196.mp3" length="7697283" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>481</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/202413507/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop White Knuckling]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>I recorded something real today. Then it disappeared.</p><p>I shifted from frustration to trust. It showed up at 2:33am.</p><p>Turns out that's the whole model.</p><p>Listen to find out what I mean, and why I'm building something for people who are done forcing.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/stop-white-knuckling</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:201122159</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:40:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201122159/e4a33ee24c46b359e11646b580d3a4ca.mp3" length="1666939" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>83</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/201122159/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink Your Shadow]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><strong>I</strong>n 2020 I was introduced to urine therapy. Since then, most mornings, I drink at least some of my own urine.</p><p>I know.</p><p>This episode is not here to convince you of anything. It is here to give you two honest voices in genuine dialogue so you can think for yourself.</p><p>I recently started aging urine again after nearly two years of traveling made it impossible to maintain the practice. While lying in the sun after a dry brushing and aged urine topical session, I decided to go deep on this. Properly. With both the ancient wisdom and the modern science in the room at the same time.</p><p>So I asked my AI to become two separate characters.</p><p><strong>Prana:</strong> a practitioner steeped in the Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi and Ayurvedic tradition. Decades of lived practice. Speaks from experience, ancient text, and energetic understanding.</p><p><strong>Dr. Sona:</strong> a biochemist and integrative health researcher. PhD, read the literature obsessively, did a year in an Ayurvedic ashram and came out genuinely changed. Skeptical but not dismissive.</p><p>They do not always agree. Sometimes they surprise each other.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><p>What is actually happening inside a jar of aging urine and what those crystals, the oily film, and the black particles mean from both perspectives</p><p>The stem cell question: what the tradition says, what the biochemistry actually supports, and why the truth is more interesting than the claim</p><p>Why the best medicine is bitter and what that means physically, emotionally, and energetically</p><p>The dry brush, aged urine, sun protocol: what each step does and why the sequence matters</p><p>Consuming the shadow: how this practice is the most visceral and honest form of shadow work available, and what Jung and modern neuroscience both have to say about it</p><p>Why society shuns this, who benefits from your disgust, and why structural indifference is more insidious than conspiracy</p><p>How to actually do this if you want to experiment responsibly</p><p><strong>References and rabbit holes:</strong></p><p>Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi: the original Sanskrit text on urine therapy</p><p>John Armstrong, <em>The Water of Life</em>: the most accessible Western entry point into the practice</p><p>Research on epidermal growth factor in urine</p><p>Spermidine and cellular regeneration research</p><p>Psychoneuroimmunology and emotional biochemistry: Candace Pert, <em>Molecules of Emotion</em></p><p>Urea in dermatology: pharmaceutical applications and wound healing research</p><p><strong>A note before you dive in:</strong></p><p>This is an experiment. I am a 3/5 Manifesting Generator. Experimenting is literally written into my design. I try things, I report back, I do not pretend to have all the answers.</p><p>This is not medical advice. This is not a protocol I am prescribing. This is one weird human sharing what he actually thinks about and acts on, using AI as a dialogue partner to hold the complexity honestly.</p><p>Do your own research. Question everything including this. The goal is never for you to believe me. The goal is for you to think.</p><p><em>This is The Wyrd Ones. For the ones who were told to be normal and never quite managed it.</em></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/drink-your-shadow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:199880628</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199880628/83a293acbabcb593ab5da02321f68834.mp3" length="20688469" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>1293</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/199880628/cca02782f2f9de81dc3cec5728f9f5ed.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World As It Is Can't Be Fixed. It Must Be Rebuilt. — Audio Essay]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>Prefer to listen? Here's the full essay in audio form. Read version is here if you want the footnotes and the rabbit holes.</p><p>Find the original here:</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/the-world-as-it-is-cant-be-fixed-8e1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:198711671</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:29:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198711671/bcb33cbb54c6f023327672fe7d3f2b6f.mp3" length="16812734" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>1051</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/198711671/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re not disordered...]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>This isn’t just a podcast.</p><p>It’s a transmission.</p><p>A remembering.</p><p>If you’ve ever felt like the clown in the office, the misfit in the family, the one whose nervous system just couldn’t take the lies—this is for you.</p><p>In this episode, I explore:</p><p>* The nuclear initiation of Earth’s awakening</p><p>* The deep pain and sacred purpose of not fitting in</p><p>* Why the system was never built for people like us—and why we’re not here to fix it, but to <strong>mutate it</strong></p><p>* How your difference is not a diagnosis, but a design</p><p>“No, my friend, you are not disordered. You are gifted.</p><p>You simply haven’t been taught how to use your gifts.”</p><p>Whether you’ve been labeled ADHD, autistic, depressive, or just too intense—this is your reminder that you’re not alone. You’re one of us.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/youre-not-disordered</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:171725282</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:25:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/171725282/ca67b5bc834e779a5a717a5a1416922a.mp3" length="19447130" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>1215</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/171725282/4aae3849904d9580f3ade98beb2fe44b.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[🎙 The Slow Hike: Breaking the Pattern of Doing]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>After a mountaintop vision quest, I chose not to push...</p><p>but to slow down.</p><p></p><p>In this audio from the Pyrenees, I reflect on:</p><p></p><p>Breaking the habit of constant doing</p><p>Listening to nature’s rhythm</p><p>A quiet moment of clarity about my father’s biggest regret</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the deepest transformation comes when we <em>stop trying so hard</em>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/the-slow-hike-breaking-the-pattern</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:166980390</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:00:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166980390/52d189c548fb0e5423df6fb86d7a4b4b.mp3" length="6813897" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>568</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/166980390/db794eaf3fd9e13ff5604151b45dfacd.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the World Took From You (and How to Get It Back)]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>This came through raw after a powerful breathwork session.</p><p>We live in a world that conditions us to abandon our childlike wonder—to toughen up, shut down, and perform. But the truth is… that part of you never left. It’s still there, waiting.</p><p>This is a vulnerable share about the cost of growing up—and the invitation to come back home to yourself.</p><p>🎥 Watch the video above.</p><p>👉 Ready to reclaim your Innocence? <a target="_blank" href="https://risewithchristopher.thrivecart.com/breakthrough/">Book a 1:1 Breakthrough Session</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/what-the-world-took-from-you-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:166319454</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:08:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166319454/75ed3580755466a6938d59007329012d.mp3" length="5643419" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>353</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/166319454/03a3127504c1cbb6df3f6850ec584aeb.jpg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Do I Belong?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>As I wandered through the misty streets of Bilbao, I felt something stirring in my bones — not just admiration for the Basque people and their enduring sense of identity, but a deep yearning of my own. The Basque fight to preserve their language, culture, and independence ignited something in me that I didn’t quite have a name for… until now.</p><p>This episode isn’t just about Spain. It’s about identity, exile, and the aching desire to belong — to a people, a land, a story.</p><p>In this voice note, I speak from the heart about growing up in a cultural void in the deserts of Arizona, disconnected from both my ancestral lineage and the Indigenous land beneath my feet. I share how being placed in “gifted and talented” education pulled me even further from my peers, and how my Irish roots whisper a history of emigration, loss, and resilience.</p><p>As globalization swallows up the old ways and cultures homogenize in the name of progress, I ask — what are we losing? And what does it mean to reclaim a sense of identity in a world built on forgetting?</p><p>Take a walk with me. Listen. Reflect. And maybe — just maybe — feel a little less alone.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://thewyrdones.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">thewyrdones.substack.com</a>]]></description><link>https://thewyrdones.substack.com/p/where-do-i-belong</link><guid isPermaLink="false">substack:post:166019158</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Armstrong]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:08:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166019158/f420012215644d6e7fac734b7938e5d8.mp3" length="9906930" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Christopher Armstrong</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>619</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/5116115/post/166019158/b938ad26ce2190551e41cf4338a0dfc9.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>