About

The Practical Stoicism podcast started out Tanner Campbell’s personal attempt to get more in-line with his own Stoic practice, it was never intended to become an Apple Podcasts Top 10 Philosophy podcast, nor was it intended to become the second most listened to Stoicism podcast on the planet. But it became those things anyway, and that prompted him to build something more broadly meaningful for the cosmopolis. In November 2022 Tanner founded Practical Philosophy which is now the containing entity of Practical Stoicism, Practical Cynicism, and Practical Buddhism.

Practical Stoicism aims to provide its listeners with entertaining, meaningful, and practical Stoicism content that passes academic muster. We feel, strongly, that the miscommunication of Stoicism writ large across the internet has a profoundly negative effect on young men (vis a vis red pill masculinity) and is off-putting to women (because red pill interpretations of Stoicism are rightfully off-putting).

Fortunately, we do not need to take on activist positions in order to do this. We simply need to present actual Stoicism, the philosophy and ancient school of virtue ethics, honestly.

Our team is constantly growing and is made up of a great mix of academics, passionate philosophy communicators, and committed practitioners. Without them, there’s no mission, there’s no vision, there’s not nothin’.