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Never live the same year twice — Julian Essolakina on juxtaposition, being comfortable being uncomfortable, and leaving room for magic in the margins.
Julian Essolakina was born in Togo, West Africa, moved to France as a young student, and now works out of Washington, DC — with a recent chapter in Tulsa, where he and David first met. He reads Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Camus for pleasure, moves between languages and continents the way most of us cross state lines, dresses like no one else in the room, and organizes his whole life around one rule: never live the same year twice.
In this conversation, David — psychotherapist and executive coach with 40 years and more than 100,000 conversations in practice — and Julian dig into juxtaposition as a master key to growth: how contrast between cultures, places, and people wakes the soul up, why being "comfortable being uncomfortable" is a superpower you can practice, what the hamster wheel quietly does to a soul, and why you should always leave room in your life for the magic that happens in the margins.
ABOUT DAVID
David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C., is a psychotherapist and executive coach, and the author of The Possibility of You. The David Leifeste Podcast brings the book's message to life — honest conversations about the stories that keep us stuck, and the way back to your true self.
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Conversations on success, meaning, and the possibility of you. Psychotherapist and executive coach David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C., draws on forty years and more than 100,000 conversations to explore how people actually change — through honest interviews and solo field notes on purpose, resilience, relationships, and the quiet decisions that shape a life.