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Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)
January 20, 2022
- 53:24
Today’s guest is Elizabeth Lesser, bestselling author of classics like Broken Open, and co-founder of the Omega Institute, an...
Unblocking the Creative Self (Julia Cameron)
January 13, 2022
- 50:06
“Are you doing something that brings you joy? Are you doing something that brings you fulfillment? Do you take yourself seriously when...
The Guru in Our Own Minds (Mark Epstein, M.D.)
January 6, 2022
- 52:44
“But the true guru, you know, the Buddha came and turned all that inside out. You know the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths and the...
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Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)
January 20, 2022
- 53:24
Today’s guest is Elizabeth Lesser, bestselling author of classics like Broken Open, and co-founder of the Omega Institute, an...
Unblocking the Creative Self (Julia Cameron)
January 13, 2022
- 50:06
“Are you doing something that brings you joy? Are you doing something that brings you fulfillment? Do you take yourself seriously when...
The Guru in Our Own Minds (Mark Epstein, M.D.)
January 6, 2022
- 52:44
“But the true guru, you know, the Buddha came and turned all that inside out. You know the Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths and the...
Struggle is Real—Suffering is Optional (BJ Miller)
December 30, 2021
- 48:43
“My goal isn't to not be afraid, my goal is to have a relationship with fear. So I presume fear is going to be part of the picture. So...
Where Should Work Fit in Our Lives (Anne Helen Petersen & Charlie Warzel)
December 23, 2021
- 52:24
“Like family relationship has obligations that go both ways. Hopefully there's unconditional love there, but it's also the, like your re...
Why Don’t We Believe Women? (Deborah Turkheimer)
December 16, 2021
- 44:28
“Outside the legal context, I'm urging readers and listeners in this case to think very deliberately about whether that high standard of...
The Reprioritization of Relationship (Lori Gottlieb)
December 9, 2021
- 49:48
“I think what COVID did was it really made people realize that the state of their emotions, the state of their relationships, all of...
Solving the American Gun Crisis (Ryan Busse)
December 2, 2021
- 54:08
“The NRA and gun owners then signified, you know, the sort of comradery, responsibility, safety, sort of a bygone, I don't know, sort of...
My Spiritual Teacher & Yeshua Channel (Carissa Schumacher)
November 24, 2021
- 1:26:05
Since she was a little girl, Carissa Schumacher has always seen and spoken to dead people. She pushed all of that aside, went to Brown...
How to End Zero-Sum Thinking (Heather McGhee)
November 18, 2021
- 57:50
Heather McGhee is a designer of, and advocate for, solutions to inequality in America. We discuss her New York Times bestselling book,...
Navigating an Addictive Culture (Anna Lembke, M.D.)
November 11, 2021
- 42:53
“We are living in a world that primes us all for the problem of addiction. So even though some people come into this world more...
What Our Anger Teaches Us (Harriet Lerner, Ph.D)
November 4, 2021
- 57:06
“I think it's very important to mention also, Elise, that even if a woman feels permission to be angry, that anger is such a tricky...
Where Did the Patriarchy Come From? (Riane Eisler, PhD)
October 28, 2021
- 53:11
Our guest today is Dr. Riane Eisler, social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, attorney and internationally bestselling...
Healing Male Depression (Terry Real)
October 21, 2021
- 54:31
“Before our boys have learned to read, they have already read the stoic code of masculinity and are conforming to it.” says Terry Real,...
Women, Food & Hormones (Sara Gottfried, M.D.)
October 14, 2021
- 59:49
Our guest today is Dr. Sara Gottfried - a Harvard educated doctor, scientist, researcher, mother, and seeker with 25 years of experience...
The Legacy of White Feminism (Kyla Schuller)
October 7, 2021
- 1:01:19
“There's a fantasy in argument, in Lean In, or Girlboss style corporate feminism that says, once you have women in charge of your...
Finding the Line Between Savoring and Saving (Jamie Wheal)
September 30, 2021
- 1:02:46
Jamie Wheal is the founder of the Flow Genome Project, a organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance, and...
Calling In the Call-Out Culture (Loretta Ross)
September 23, 2021
- 52:08
“Do you want to continue to live out the patterns of your childhood? Or do you want to make different choices? Are you programmed or are...
Building the House of Knowledge (Joy Harjo)
September 16, 2021
- 50:21
“Humanity is messy, each of us starts with ourselves, it's horribly messy and then multiply that times millions. And that's an...
Introducing: Pulling the Thread
August 30, 2021
- 03:46
45-minute conversations and investigations with today's leading thinkers, authors, experts, doctors, healers, scientists about life's...