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 Juli 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 Juli 20191h 30min
Stress Better, Modupe Akinola
We all encounter stress, but what we sometimes overlook is that stress can be useful, it is, after all, built into us by evolution. Our guest this week teaches how to distinguish between good and bad ...
17 Juli 20191h 43min
Inveterate Fretter, Accidental Buddhist, Sylvia Boorstein
If there was such a thing as a mind-ectomy or a mind transplant, our guest this week, Sylvia Boorstein, tells us she would have had it, confiding, "I need a mind that doesn't make up worries about som...
10 Juli 20191h 12min
