Connect With Jody
26 years in finance, depression, and the practice that changed everything without requiring a new life. S3 EP8
Midlife burnout recovery does not require a retreat, a sabbatical, or a life you cannot afford. This guest conversation with Jody Arran Brooks, Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach, and Tom Cronin will change how you think about stillness.
Tom spent 26 years in finance and speaks honestly about depression, panic, and addiction. What he found was not an escape. It was a practice that works in the exact life you are already living.
In this Season 3 episode on Trust, one of the Nine Principles of Authentic Living:
- Why stillness is not a luxury reserved for people who have already escaped
- What 26 years in finance taught Tom about the cost of ignoring the inner world
- How the practice that changed everything is available inside a full life
- Why midlife reinvention may not require a new beginning, only a different attention
Tom Cronin
Tom Cronin spent 26 years in finance, building a career in an industry that rewarded performance and punished stillness. In his late twenties, chronic anxiety, depression, and addiction brought him to a breaking point. Meditation changed the direction of his life, yet he stayed in finance for nearly two more decades while practising what he had found. In his mid-forties, he left to share a form of stillness that belongs inside ordinary, pressured lives, not outside them. Tom Cronin is the founder of The Stillness Project and the creator of Vedic meditation training that has helped thousands of people find stillness in daily life.
Connect with Tom | https://www.tomcronin.com
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