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Cultivating Goodness
Tristen Synclair
39 episodes
18 hours ago
Welcome to the audio version of TristenSynclair.com, where we're pursuing the best version of ourselves so we can better fulfill our purpose. From one-offs to topical conversations with friends, we're going to unpack everything from relationships and trials to health and wellness while maintaining a growth mindset. There's a lot to cover, so let's embark! This is for you; this is for me. Let's pursue Christ together.
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Welcome to the audio version of TristenSynclair.com, where we're pursuing the best version of ourselves so we can better fulfill our purpose. From one-offs to topical conversations with friends, we're going to unpack everything from relationships and trials to health and wellness while maintaining a growth mindset. There's a lot to cover, so let's embark! This is for you; this is for me. Let's pursue Christ together.
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Self-Improvement
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Episodes (20/39)
Cultivating Goodness
How to Stay Away From Sin

If you’re back to doing something you promised you’d stay away from, here are a few points to help you in your effort to try again.


  1. Set yourself up for success (2:37)
  2. Focus your attention elsewhere (4:46)
  3. Surround yourself with those on a similar mission (6:38)

Read the blog post here. For more resources, check out...

  • How to disable Safari
  • How to Stop Thinking About It
  • How to Break a Cycle
  • When You Feel Guilty for Being Blessed

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know here.

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3 years ago
10 minutes 29 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
How to Be a Good Friend

It is natural to want good friends, but relationships are two-sided. If you want good friends, you have to be a good friend.


  1. Choose carefully (0:55)
  2. Be faithful (2:55)
  3. Build on honesty (4:43)
  4. Connect emotionally (6:24)

Read the blog post here. For more resources, check out...

  • 7 Signs of a True Friend
  • True Friends Will Offend You
  • How to Long-Distance Friendship

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠here⁠.

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3 years ago
11 minutes 51 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Our Story for His Glory, Part 3

If you feel buried, crushed by the hardships of life, join Elise and me for this conversation on how such a state is actually the prelude to much success. An arrow has to be pulled back in order to be shot forward. Let's take a look at where suffering takes us.

  • Our Story for His Glory, Part 1
  • Our Story for His Glory, Part 2

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠here⁠.

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3 years ago
38 minutes 8 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
How Do You Know if You Love Someone?

Loving someone is a pursuit each of us undertakes at some point, to the extent that the sincerity of our feelings can be hard to discern.

  • You look for them in a crowded room (1:10)
  • You want to be with them (2:32)
  • They are home to you (3:58)
  • You know just how messed up they are (5:47)
  • You let them know just how messed up you are (7:44)
  • You genuinely desire to serve them (10:47)
  • You can’t hate them for breaking your heart (12:23)
  • You wish nothing but the best for them (14:54)

Read the blog post here.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
17 minutes 35 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Our Story for His Glory, Part 2

To anyone who is hyper-aware of their weaknesses, there is more to the story. Yes, you are a fallen and broken individual, but that is how God shines all the more brightly through us. If your self-deprecation/self-awareness see-saw could use some balance, join this conversation where Elise and I discuss how our weaknesses actually bring about strength.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
32 minutes 15 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
How You Should Talk

At the end of the day, you can either focus on what tears apart or what holds together. It’s all about perspective.

Read the article here.

  • Stop Talking & Do Something
  • How to Be a Well-Rounded Person
  • 4 Truths You Can Depend On

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
7 minutes 40 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Our Story for His Glory, Part 1

If you feel like you are falling down a dark pit, don't close the book. There is so much more to your story if you just keep reading. The darkness you are facing is not a final destination you're settling into, but a season you're passing through. As Elise and I discuss in this episode, there is so much glory that can come from the darkness of our stories. Just keep reading.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
32 minutes 49 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Annoying People Are a Godsend

Did you know the person or circumstance that is driving you up a wall is actually providing incredible insight to your soul?

  • When Money Goes Bad
  • What Does It Mean to Be Mature?
  • How to Break a Cycle
  • 4 Ways to Be Happy

Read the blog post here.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
6 minutes 6 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Taking a Break From Social Media

It's proven quite trendy to unplug from social media, but many times a break can lead to a vicious cycle. To those who are not deleting their accounts, how can you make the most of a social media detox?

Additional Resources:

  • My blog post
  • Influence-ish podcast
  • Sadie Robertson podcast
  • Take control of your tech life

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
15 minutes 37 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
7 Signs of a True Friend

It can be easy to identify friends, but what differentiates them from one who sticks closer than a brother?

  • Prioritizes you (1:07)
  • Pushes through hard times with you (4:11)
  • Opens up to you (6:17)
  • Knows you better than yourself (8:23)
  • Doesn’t always agree with you (10:12)
  • Doesn’t have to have “fun” (11:55)
  • Is unaffected by distance and time (14:35)

Read the blog post here. Additional resources:

  • How to Be a Good Friend
  • True Friends Will Offend You
  • How to Choose Your Inner Circle

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
19 minutes 35 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Social Media Pros + Cons

The negative side effects of social media are a hot topic in today's digital age, so let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture. There are two sides two this coin: the strengths of social media and the weaknesses we need to guard.

Additional Resources:

  • My blog post
  • Influence-ish podcast
  • Sadie Robertson podcast
  • Take control of your tech life

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
15 minutes 33 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
How to Get Over Depression

Practical ways to alter your surroundings and simultaneously improve your mindset.

  1. Eat...well (1:04)
  2. Go to sleep (3:30)
  3. Get together with friends (4:58)
  4. Take a shower (5:31)
  5. Rearrange your room (5:59)
  6. Go outside (6:36)

Read the blog post here. Additional resources:

  • Yonanas
  • How to Fight Your Battles
  • How to Stop Thinking About It
  • 4 Ways to Be Happy

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
9 minutes 32 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Relationship RED FLAGS & Advice

Buckle up for this episode as Julia and I dive into relational red flags, advice, and the ultimate purpose of it all. There is no sugar coating here!

  • Overprotectiveness (0:47)
  • Another "half" (3:01)
  • Flipped prioritization (9:16)
  • Immaturity (11:10)

Read the blog post here and listen to another version of this podcast here.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
16 minutes 42 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
I Chose Loneliness

Most people will form circles you won’t be involved in, and that’s okay. You don’t need a lot of friends, just a few you can trust.

Read the blog post here.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
12 minutes 28 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Stop Trying to Be Perfect

In this part two episode, Heide and I are tackling the ins and outs of perfectionism.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.” -2 Corinthians 10:3-6

More resources:

  • Part 1: How to Stop Overthinking
  • The beauty of silence
  • How to Stop Thinking About It
  • Continual surrender playlist

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
9 minutes 21 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
How to Fight Your Battles

To the one battling heartbreak, loss, anxiety, depression, or any other trial: this is for you, and this is for me.

Read the blog post here. Other resources:

  • My continual surrender playlist
  • "Surrounded (Fight My Battles)" by Michael W. Smith
  • 6 Reasons Why Bad Things Happen

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
9 minutes 20 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
True Friends Will Offend You

One of the purest forms of love is found in telling your friends things they don't want to hear. That's what "brutal honesty" is: saying what is hard so growth can occur. True friends care more about their friend's character than their feelings, an idea Julia and I walk through via our personal experiences.

  • Read the blog post
  • 7 Signs of a True Friend
  • How to Be a Good Friend

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
16 minutes 12 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Christians Should Consume Secular Content

The Holy Spirit is not limited to Christian media, so we can reap biblical truths even if that was not the creator’s intent.

  1. God is not limited to Christian media
  2. To come alongside nonbelievers
  3. To improve our arguments
  4. Perchance Christian content is wiped

Links & Resources:

  • Is your faith an ice cube or ice cube tray?
  • Secular content in a sermon example
  • 6 Reasons Why Bad Things Happen
  • How to Be a Well-Rounded Person
  • How to Prepare for Persecution
  • 4 Ways to Be Happy
  • Fairy tales are the ruins of the Gospel

Read the blog post here.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
10 minutes 35 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
How to Stop Overthinking

In this part one episode, Heide and I are tackling how to break seemingly endless thought cycles in relation to overthinking.

  • What does it mean to "take every thought captive?" (00:50)
  • How to stop thinking about ____ (1:29)
  • Discerning between God's voice and Satan's lies (3:53)
  • How to change your emotions (4:17)
  • Hope for seemingly unbreakable cycles (6:10)
  • Why God allows us to go through hard times (8:16)
  • The social cure to overthinking (9:59)
  • Why you should (sometimes) not listen to music (13:13)

More resources:

  • Taking every thought captive: https://rickthomas.net/how-to-take-every-thought-captive-the-battle-for-your-mind/
  • The beauty of silence: https://tristensynclair.com/the-beauty-of-silence/
  • How to stop thinking about it: https://tristensynclair.com/how-to-stop-thinking-about-it/
  • 6 reasons why bad things happen: https://tristensynclair.com/the-purpose-of-pain/
  • Continual surrender playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2EmPEzWM4i40XC68KRbHdI?si=59da00e0e1ac4156
  • 5 lessons I learned from a hard season: https://tristensynclair.com/5-things-i-learned-from-a-hard-season/
  • Want to feel better? Do this: https://tristensynclair.com/want-to-feel-better-do-this/
  • Your music controls you: https://tristensynclair.com/your-music-controls-you/
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3 years ago
15 minutes 22 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
10 Things I Learned From My Ex

Never regret a relationship. There is always a silver lining and beauty that comes from ashes.

  • You know you love someone when…
  • If you love someone, let them go
  • The most beautiful people are others-centered
  • Don’t rush something you want to last forever
  • We have to treasure every moment
  • There is beauty in silence
  • The point of pictures is to remember
  • What you need in a future spouse
  • You just need to go to bed (depression, feel better, thinking)
  • God is Love and He loves me

Read the blog post here.

If you'd like to dive further into something specific, let me know ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

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3 years ago
13 minutes 38 seconds

Cultivating Goodness
Welcome to the audio version of TristenSynclair.com, where we're pursuing the best version of ourselves so we can better fulfill our purpose. From one-offs to topical conversations with friends, we're going to unpack everything from relationships and trials to health and wellness while maintaining a growth mindset. There's a lot to cover, so let's embark! This is for you; this is for me. Let's pursue Christ together.