Unobstructed
Derek MacDonald
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Rediscovering Analog Joy
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about rediscovering joy. It's a topic that friend of the pod, Caleb Walker, brought up recently. Specifically, he’s seeing an uptick in a trend called…
The Other Side Of Shame And Fear
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about getting out of your own way—about being caught between shame, fear, and the path to finally feeling clear.The same week I got sober I also started a…
The Trouble With Treating Jobs Like Trophies
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is about trade-offs.Caleb Walker and I recently chatted about the pitfalls of polished social media profiles (he's the Managing Director of Digital Strategy…
Why I Wrote About Male Loneliness
This episode of The Unobstructed Podcast is a personal reflection from Derek MacDonald on self-discovery, communication, and personal growth.I get into my self-inflicted social isolation as well as…
Pitfalls Of A Polished Social Media Profile
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Caleb Walker and I chat about the crotchety complexities of social media. Specifically, with regard to personal identity. His perspective was especially…
Talking About Suicide Saves Lives
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Derek and Rachael have an important conversation about mental health and substance abuse. More specifically, we talk openly about the stigma surrounding…
Taking Up Space Without Apologizing For Existing
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Rachael and Derek talk about how words like "whatever" and "sorry" impact relationships. The conversation looks closely at the role of gender and societal…
When You're Having An Off Day, Take The Day Off
In this episode of The Unobstructed Podcast, Rachael and Derek chit chat about the cultural imbalance of personal and professional lives.The big question: can we cool it with the rush to add more…
The Alpha Male Antidote
This episode dives deep into emotional vulnerability, the societal expectations of masculinity, and how suppressing ourselves impacts our personal and professional lives. The conversation explores…
Pay Off Your Time Debt Using A Simple Reframe
In our latest episode of the Unobstructed Podcast, we dive into the relationship between time management, productivity, and personal identity.If you only ever try to fix what you’re bad at, you might…
Changing What You Accept For Yourself With A New Type Of Storytelling
Instead of living the lives we want, we end up doing what we think we should. In this episode of the Unobstructed Podcast, Derek and Rachael dive into the power of overcoming the limits you give…
How Childhood Dreams Predict The Person You Become
In this episode of the Unobstructed Podcast, hosts Derek and Rachael take a nostalgic journey back to their childhood dreams and explore how those early aspirations have influenced their career…
On Letting Things Break
I knew unsubscribes and lost clients would come with sharing more of my true self online. But it was a necessary step toward removing the many masks I’d picked up and glued onto myself over the…
The Most Important Skill For Becoming A Better Collaborator
The difference between trying to be funny and opting to be vulnerable is a super fine line. And humor is a defense mechanism at its core.In this episode, Rachael and I talk about the improv rule of…
The Overlooked Half Of 'The Let Them Theory'
Friction is the best teacher we’ll ever have, but the hardest to accept. It acts like a mirror. And our level of growth depends on our willingness to look at our own reflection.The Let Them Theory…
Learning How To Be Yourself Instead Of Staying Quiet
It’s not your responsibility to manage how others perceive you.Most people won’t realize how much you filter yourself. At least, I’d hoped they wouldn’t. And it worked for a while. They might not…
Digging Out Of Content Fatigue With A Different Approach To Posting
There’s a kind of exhaustion that comes from pretending to show up. You post because you’re “supposed to.” You rearrange your words to be seen a certain way. You aim for engagement, but not…
The Invisible Tech Tax On Solopreneurs
Before I ever made a dollar as a solopreneur, I’d spent hundreds and hundreds of hours breaking things in tech tool settings.No, not on purpose?Ok, that’s not entirely true…I definitely do like to…
The Art and Science of Becoming Happier
It started with building a simple spreadsheet. It wasn’t fancy or complicated (ok, that’s not entirely true. But it doesn’t need to be… I just had fun building it that way). Truly I just wanted a way…
Part 3 - What They Don't Tell You About Sobriety In The Workplace
This is Part 3 of our conversation on sobriety in the workplace.Sober-curious conversations don’t always take place with bold bravado. Actually, I can say with a lot of confidence that they don’t.…
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Unobstructed has published 34 episodes since January 2025, covering topics in Education, Philosophy.
Unobstructed is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 43m.
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