Name: Silence Mode
Uploaded: 2026-10-14T07:27:40+00:00
Description: 🎙 Silent Mode Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Tom Sö What happens when the noise finally stops? For years, Tom Sö knew how to keep moving. Work harder. Chase succe…

🎙 Silent Mode

Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Tom Sö

What happens when the noise finally stops?

For years, Tom Sö knew how to keep moving.

Work harder. Chase success. Make more money. Push through whatever was happening internally and keep going.

From the outside, that can look like ambition.

From the inside, it can become exhausting.

Eventually, Tom reached a point where pushing harder was no longer working. The life he had built could not quiet what was happening underneath it.

And then came a sentence that changed his trajectory:

“I need help.”

Season 24 of Other People’s Shoes, Lost & Found, explores the things we lose that cannot be replaced by simply buying another one—identity, purpose, hope, direction, faith, or even our sense of who we are.

Tom’s story brings another possibility into that conversation:

What if we become so surrounded by noise that we lose the ability to hear ourselves?

In “Silent Mode,” Tom and I explore the road from striving and suppression toward vulnerability, meditation, healing, stillness, and learning to relate differently to the thoughts constantly competing for our attention.

Because sometimes getting found does not require another answer.

Sometimes it requires enough silence to finally hear the question.
🧭 GUEST INTRODUCTION

Tom Sö is the founder of MiddleWave® and the owner of Awakened Energy Healing.

For more than a decade, Tom has worked in areas including trauma healing, meditation, energy work, mindfulness, and spiritual growth. His own journey through emotional struggle, meditation, and seeking help has shaped the way he now works with others.

MiddleWave® was created around a challenge familiar to a lot of us:

How do we quiet a mind that never seems to switch off?

Tom’s work focuses less on eliminating thoughts and more on changing our relationship with them creating enough space to recognize what is happening internally and respond with greater awareness instead of simply reacting.
🧭 EPISODE DETAILS

In “Silent Mode,” Neil and Tom explore:

🔇 What happens when external success does not match what is happening internally

🏃 The danger of believing the answer to every problem is simply to work harder

💰 What chasing money and achievement can provide and what they cannot

🫀 The moment Tom finally acknowledged that he needed help

🧠 Why our thoughts do not necessarily have to control our attention or our decisions

🧘 How meditation became part of Tom’s journey toward stillness and greater self-awareness

🤝 Why asking for help can be an act of strength rather than weakness

🌊 The thinking behind Tom’s MiddleWave® approach to meditation and mind training

🔁 How patterns, conditioning, and mental noise can quietly shape the way we experience life

👟 What it means to spend less time lost inside our own heads and become more present for the life happening around us

And underneath the entire conversation sits a question:

When everything inside us is demanding our attention, what might we discover if we stop long enough to listen?
🧭 MEMORABLE TAKEAWAY

Silence is not the absence of something. Sometimes it is where we finally notice what has been there all along.

We spend a lot of life trying to turn the volume up.

More achievement.

More productivity.

More distraction.