A Surprisingly Effective Way to Deal With Your Inner Critic

This episode is a mix of the technical, the practical, and the delightful. We're talking about a meditation technique that can impact relationships, your biases, and how you handle things such as lyin...

19 Aug 20201h 21min

The virus has exploited so many weaknesses of our culture. But having exposed the weaknesses, such as inequities and reckless individualism, could the current crisis lead to a fundamental shift for hu...

17 Aug 202059min

Today we have a master class in resilience. My guest is George Mumford, who has overcome some towering difficulties in his own life, including an addiction to drugs. He went on to become a legendary m...

12 Aug 202056min

This week on the show, we're exploring the interrelated themes of grit and resilience -- both massively resonant and relevant issues in the era of Covid and BLM. Today, my guest is Angela Duckworth. S...

10 Aug 202054min

At a time when work has become more challenging than ever, we're going to explore one myth and one revelation. The myth -- which many of us, myself included, have consciously or subconsciously incorpo...

5 Aug 20201h 8min

In this episode, we take a simple, useful, and down-to-earth stroll through one of the most confounding -- but liberating -- concepts in Buddhism. On the one hand, Buddhists tell us the self is an ill...

3 Aug 202052min

Buddhists don't tend to shy away from talking about body parts -- but usually it's more along the lines of meditating on things like spittle, defecation (otherwise known as poop) and the inevitable de...

29 Jul 20201h 2min

I don't know about you guys, but my sleep has suffered quite badly during the last few months. Today's guest really got me thinking about this issue in a whole new way. First, he normalizes the sleep ...

27 Jul 20201h 18min