Finally... The Joseph Goldstein Episode
One of the first American Vipassana teachers and the co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein, is a highly recognized name to many in western meditation. He has studied and practiced...
25 Sep 20191h 59min
Living on Overtime, David C. Fajgenbaum
David Fajgenbaum, a young, promising medical student, could not have imagined he would become a patient in the same hospital he was serving his residency. After being diagnosed with a very rare illnes...
18 Sep 20191h 10min
Love, Death, Tech and Psychedelics, Jack Kornfield, Meditation O.G.
As far as meditation teachers go, they don't come more highly regarded than our guest this week, Jack Kornfield. Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. H...
11 Sep 20191h 24min
Civility Pays, Christine Porath
For Christine Porath, meditation was one way of coping with a toxic work environment. Her own experience, paired with watching her father suffer a serious health scare tied to his own harmful workplac...
4 Sep 20191h 14min
Doing "The Work," Byron Katie
At 43 years old, Byron Katie was unhappily married, suffered from depression and agoraphobia and was addicted to codeine and alcohol. In fact, she felt so much self-hatred, she slept on the floor beli...
21 Aug 20191h 10min
Sharon Salzberg, A Meditation Master Stares Down Death
World-renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg recently faced a very serious health scare and a true test of her decades of practice. In this very candid conversation Sharon tells us what happened ...
14 Aug 20191h 28min
Patrick Dempsey, Meditation: The Secret to His Success
Patrick Dempsey is not just a pretty face. Sure he's widely known for playing McDreamy, aka Dr. Derek Shepherd, on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, but that hardly scratches the surface. A meditator since the 19...
7 Aug 20191h 9min
Meditation And Loss, Dean Valoras
On March 19th of last year, Dean Valoras' life changed forever. That is the day he lost his teenage daughter Alexandra to suicide. Alexandra was an intelligent, successful, highly-motivated high schoo...
31 Jul 20191h 18min
