The Upside of Apocalypse | Lama Rod Owens
We're now entering year three of the pandemic, and even though we're in a very different stage of the game, there are still so many questions: Is it safe or ethical to return to "normal"? How do you d...
11 Mar 20221h
Is It Possible You Are Irrational About COVID? | David Leonhardt
As we enter year three of the pandemic, the psychology of COVID is no less complex or consequential. This episode features one of the most prominent chroniclers of the pandemic, David Leonhardt from t...
7 Mar 202255min
Compassion Is the Ultimate Tool for the Truly Ambitious | Paul Gilbert
Dr. Paul Gilbert OBE is a professor of psychology at the University of Derby, Founder and President of The Compassionate Mind Foundation, the founder of Compassion Focused Therapy, and in 2011 was awa...
2 Mar 202251min
A Serious Case for Humor | Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
A common denominator among all of the great meditation teachers is a sense of humor. They take the teaching seriously, but they don't take themselves seriously. So perhaps there's a link between human...
2 Mar 20221h 7min
Become an Active Operator of Your Nervous System | Deb Dana
We don't think about it this way, but as we move through the day, the various moods we inhabit — excitement, engagement, aggression, fear, dejection — they're all dictated by, or correlated with, our ...
28 Feb 202259min
Climate Change as an Opportunity | Bhikkhu Anālayo
Today's guest makes an extremely convincing case that there are many self-interested reasons to look squarely at the reality of climate change. Bhikkhu Anālayo, who is originally from Germany, is a re...
28 Feb 202255min
There's No Part of Your Life You Can't Make More Awesome | Jeff Warren
It is very easy to think about your meditation practice as being quarantined to those minutes when you're dutifully sitting down with your eyes closed. But actually the point is to turn your whole lif...
23 Feb 202259min
The Elephant in the Meditation Room | Christopher Ford
Today's episode is the culmination of a long search to find a countervailing force: a Buddhist Trump supporter. This search was born out of the Buddhist impulse to find the other side. What is talked ...
21 Feb 202238min
