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
Can Meditation Prolong Your Life?, Dr. Peter Attia
Editor's Note (February 2026): Since this episode was first published, documents released by the Department of Justice have revealed Peter Attia's connection to Jeffrey Epstein. We find these revelati...
28 Aug 20191h 30min
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
Escape from Zombieland, Koshin Paley Ellison
Human beings are wired for social connection. Sadly, thanks in large part to the internet, mobile phones and social media, we are seeing an increase in social isolation. Zen teacher and psychotherapis...
24 Jul 20191h 30min
