Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Banafsheh Sayyad: Being 100 Percent Present and 100 Percent Fully Gone

What does it mean to be fully here and fully surrendered at the same time? Tami Simon speaks with Banafsheh Sayyad—master Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, transformational teacher, and founder of...

21 Apr 55min

Tian Dayton: If You Grew Up with Addicts, Healing Is a Discipline

Are the patterns you formed surviving a chaotic childhood still running your life today? Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Tian Dayton—trauma expert, psychodramatist, and author of Growing Up with Addiction—...

14 Apr 1h 1min

Peter Russell: Meeting Exponential Change with a Quiet Mind

The world is accelerating faster than the human mind was built to handle. So what do we do with that? Tami Simon speaks with Peter Russell—physicist, consciousness pioneer, and author of How to Medita...

7 Apr 1h

Cody Cook-Parrott: Attention is a Creative Act

What happens to your creativity when your attention is fractured—and what becomes possible when you reclaim it? Tami Simon speaks with writer, artist, and movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott about...

31 Mars 57min

Robin Wall Kimmerer: What Does the Earth Ask of You Today?

What if the natural world isn’t a warehouse of resources—but a landscape of gifts? Tami Simon speaks with Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, and enrolled member of the Citiz...

24 Mars 58min

Anne Lamott & Neil Allen: Write Toward the Really Real

What if the secret to better writing isn’t more technique—but more truth? Tami Simon speaks with beloved author Anne Lamott and her husband Neal Allen—writer, spiritual coach, and author of Good Writi...

17 Mars 1h 3min

Shi Heng Yi: The Shaolin Shift: This Is It

What does it take to truly master yourself—not just your body, but your mind, your roles, and your relationship to suffering? Tami Simon speaks with Shi Heng Yi, a 35th generation Shaolin master and a...

10 Mars 1h 3min

[ENCORE EPISODE] Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace, and Human Friendship

An encore presentation in honor of Coleman Barks, who passed away on February 23, 2026. Tami Simon speaks with Coleman, a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic, Jelaluddin ...

5 Mars 1h 2min