Season 3 is the Season of Change. Before the season proper begins, Ed and Paul set the table: why every conversation from the first two seasons kept circling back to change, the question-driven format that will carry Season 3, and the new Discord where you help decide what Episodes 3–7 are about.

Join the Discord and shape the season: https://discord.gg/5CU3xW4AD
Get your questions in by October 13.

TIMESTAMPS
00:05 Welcome to the mini-sode / episode zero / pint-sized Thought Partners
01:30 "I'm Ed." "And I'm Paul." What the show is, and why we call it our arena
02:30 Season 3 is the Season of Change: the through-line we found in Seasons 1 and 2
03:54 Every guest was living through big change, and how people wrestle with it
05:31 The first question: "Once we get through this, things go back to normal, right?"
06:50 A question-driven season, and why we don't want to write all the questions ourselves
07:22 The Discord: how you shape Episodes 3 through 7
08:36 "We may have buried the lede": the community is already forming
10:17 How to add a question, upvote one, or tell us who we should be talking to
11:08 Four starter questions, read aloud
12:18 Paul picks one: "What are you pretending to be fine with?"
13:53 What we hope the Discord becomes, and what we don't want it to be
16:41 Curiosity beats being right
18:46 The ask: questions due October 13
19:49 Take care of yourself and each other
19:55 Thought partners out

THE FOUR STARTER QUESTIONS

1. What have you stopped waiting for?
2. Who did you have to become to keep up, and do you like that person?
3. What's the one thing you refuse to change, no matter what?
4. What are you pretending to be fine with?
   Upvote one, or add your own, in the Discord.

COMING UP
Oct 6: Episode 1, "What if normal doesn't come back?"
Oct 13: Episode 2, with Kyle Nelson and Deb Peters
Episodes 3–7: shaped by your questions

Hosted by Ed Buchanan and Paul Tonden. Music: "Momentum," an original theme for Season 3.