45-minute conversations and investigations with today's leading thinkers, authors, experts, doctors, healers, scientists about life's biggest questions: Why do we do what we do? How can we come to know and love ourselves better? How can we come together to heal and build a better world?
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Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen
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4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 Based on 109 reviews
April2015birthclub
5 out of 5 stars
Always thought-provoking
I love this podcast. Elegant, timely, deeply curious and highly inspirational. I look forward to it every week.
KayKB
4 out of 5 stars
Good topics but sometimes lacks rigor
I love the guests that Elise chooses and that she distills the topics into a broader ontological context. She asks meaningful questions, but, I’ve never heard her ask a question that might be contrarian. It sometimes feels a bit goopy, with an unwillingness to question the ideas that are presented and help find a middle ground of what to take and what to leave based on science. I’d love to see her intellectual rigor apply more scrutiny to the topics she chooses, and find a couple questions that feel a bit uncomfortable to ask. It would help make the conversations more meaty and meaningful.
KKApl
5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Elise is a brilliant host. Her interviews get to the topic, in depth, and she is always well prepared and informed . Love her and “Pulling the Thread!”
rantamzy
5 out of 5 stars
What a brilliant show, host and guest cast!
I have been listening to Elise and her guests since the Goop days, and shifted to Pulling the Thread (blindly)… Elise and her guests are a valuable and essential part of my life, past, present and future… They open my eyes to new things and help me understand myself, others around me and the world from a place of education and empowerment… Her newsletter is also sweetly addictive! Xx Rania
Ecbirm
5 out of 5 stars
Gorgeous & thought provoking
I’ve yet to hear an episode that didn’t expand my knowledge & introduce me to a new concept / book / intriguing thought. Thank you Elise
MFMAHW
5 out of 5 stars
Gabor Mate & Elise episode was amazing
The episode was phenomenal. The conversation was so in-depth because Elise has actually carefully and comprehensively read Gabor’s latest book. Even Gabor commented on it. The conversation was so much richer as a result. Phenomenal!
Sheri 888888
5 out of 5 stars
I love this podcast
I look forward to this podcast every week. It’s poignant, thoughtful, enriching, and simply one of the best podcasts out there. Elise is an amazing host. I am so glad she launched this podcast. I learn so much from every heartfelt episode.
BadPlay
5 out of 5 stars
The Best!!
My favorite podcast!!! Elise really engages with her guests and I always learn SO much and am left thinking about the conversations I hear for days and weeks afterwards. This podcast is so NEEDED in our over stimulated, disconnected world. It reminds us of what it means to be human❤️.
etatum22
5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Podcast
I am so happy that I recently found this podcast. After listening to only two episodes, I not only find myself open to deeper connections with the present moment, but my world is opening to new perspectives. It is simply the best. I really appreciate the range of topics covered. And, I love the way that the guests are invited to share their ideas, which I believe goes beyond the average podcast interview. Thank you for bringing this unique podcast into being, you are very much appreciated.
saradoane
5 out of 5 stars
elise is the best!
the most transformative topics
Duty cat
5 out of 5 stars
Fascinating topics
I highly recommend this podcast. Elise does a great job of keeping her pulse on the most stimulating topics of our time and spiritual topics as well. I just love listening to her podcasts and always learn a lot from them.
ELA_85
5 out of 5 stars
Listen to this podcast!!
This is my new favorite podcast. I’m already worried about running out of episodes. This is what chicken soup for the soul wishes it was. Elise is such a thoughtful human and interviewer and I have come away from each episode with new perspective. Highly recommend!!
okaysuzy
5 out of 5 stars
One of the best interviewers
Elise Loehnen is one of the best podcast interviewers today. She’s intelligent, curious, well-informed and gracious. She holds her own with the broad variety of expert guests who speak to the issues that are foremost on our minds, in terms of what it is to be human at this point in time.
SierraDawnT
3 out of 5 stars
I want to love it!
I want to love this podcast so much. The topics and the guests are incredible. However, I cannot get used to the hosts interview style. To me, she sounds disorganized, anxious, rambling, and it creates a chaos that makes me feel on edge. I have tried so many times but cannot enjoy this podcast. However, others may enjoy her style. I wish her all the best.
Rootimus
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is the best!
I love this podcast. Elise always chooses interesting subjects and people to come on the podcast and is simply the best at both interviewing and being incredibly relatable. So happy she decided to have her own show!
bunnybear1989
5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant interviewer
Elise is a brilliant interviewer. I experience so many ah ha moments while listening to this podcast. Elise, thank you for sharing your wisdom and curiosity with us!
redlac.eizzil
5 out of 5 stars
A brilliant collection from a brilliant collector
Elise has a way of connecting and weaving ideas, words, concepts and people that is nuanced and complex whilst remaining elegantly simple. Her questions are rich and wide and allow her guests to go far and deep. She shares of herself where relevant and enough for the podcast to feel personally hers, yet there’s always enough space and time for her guest. She has introduced me to so many great thinkers, authors, movers and shakers. I love following and listening to where she will take us her listeners next and who she will introduce us to.
DvGuts
5 out of 5 stars
One of my faves
Elise you are fantastic. I’ve been following you since GOOP. Was devastated when you left so I went looking for you. So glad I found you! Just finished the episode about Suzanne Samard. Absolutely STUNNING. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for all you do.
arthousecleaner
5 out of 5 stars
My favorite pod
The show makes me feel so human. Sometimes listening to pods like this make you feel so alone and like you are failing . This is very inclusive and loving. Really wonderful and kind. Ty
Kristen for
5 out of 5 stars
Pulling the Thread
Love this podcast. I’ve learned a lot about myself, how to approach big projects more effectively, how to manage my emotions more effectively, how to navigate life more authentically, and how to build a stronger spiritual life and be ok with unanswerable questions. Listening to this podcast is my weekly ritual. I am forever grateful to the host and all the brilliant thinkers, writers and wisdom leaders Elise Loehnen has interviewed on the show. Take a listen!
Bedonna Hayes
5 out of 5 stars
Thank You As Ever
Deep appreciation for Elise and all the soul work she puts into each conversation, her editorial panache, and her openness and wisdom. Love PTT, Mom Grass, and am a huge fan.
LynW11
5 out of 5 stars
Elise for President!
Elise is so smart, insightful and charming and she brings out the best in her guests. I’m a dedicated fan and look forward to following Elise’s content for years to come.
kmslmnop95
5 out of 5 stars
Lucky to listen
Love this podcast for many reasons - the quality of the guests, the honesty of the host, the high caliber ideas, the frequency of episodes, modeling permission to explore without needing to arrive at bulletpointed conclusions about what you now think ...this is a generous offering. What I love most is the natural rhythm of the convos. Feels like you're seated at a booth next to the two most interesting people in the restaurant, and you get to overhear every juicy, brilliant little thing. Feels lucky to get to listen to this.
Mayfrates
5 out of 5 stars
Highly recommend!
Elise has really found her voice with her new podcast! Her questions are thought provoking and super smart and so relatable. I learn something new or gain a new perspective in every episode. Also have found lots of great books as her guests are typically amazing authors!
LeahDancer
5 out of 5 stars
A+
Elise is brilliant. Her choice of guests never disappoints. She engages with her guests in a way where you know she has researched and studied their work beforehand, so the conversations are productive and informative. I have personally grown and evolved by listening to this podcast. She has a gentle way about her and feels like an old friend. Highly recommend!
**km**
5 out of 5 stars
Love this podcast
So enjoy listening to these insightful and meaningful conversations reflecting on the nature of being human and how we connect to ourselves and each other. Thank you, Elise!
Nigma Talib
5 out of 5 stars
Rockstar power
Elise is a rockstar at interviewing and her curiosity and talent make it magic … ❤️
Amanda Cahill - Montana
4 out of 5 stars
So close to 5!
Such rich content- absolutely love the conversation style and the depth of questions. Only weird thing- commercials jump in without any even split second of a segway. The coming back to the conversation is nice with a little music intro, but the cut out is off. Probably just a minor editing issue. It isn’t too big of a deal except it feels so abrupt that one is not sure if there was a glitch since it doesn’t feel like you’re even sure they pick back up from that spot when it comes back. I’m probably over explaining here. Thanks for the great content! Excited to hear more! - fellow Missoulian, Amanda Cahill
Megmeg10
5 out of 5 stars
Raising Consciousness
Elise has a knack for asking fascinating thinkers fascinating questions. Highly recommend!
devstoebs
5 out of 5 stars
thank goodness Elise is back
I fell in love with the Goop podcast because of Elise’s incredible interviews. As woman in my 20s, that podcast was so important to me. Ever since Elise left Goop I have been searching for a podcast to fill the gap. I don’t know how I am so late to finding this new podcast, but as soon as I heard Elise’s voice I was instantly soothed! Thank goodness you are back, please don’t stop making podcasts. The podcast universe desperately needs your interviews 💗💗💗
LisaIsHereForIt
5 out of 5 stars
Incredible answers to life's biggest questions
Elise and her stellar guests give amazing insight into the big questions that matter. Bold, deep, and engaging are just a few of the words I’d use to describe the time you’ll spend with them. Thanks for putting out such a superb show Elise - keep up the great work!
Fraser Listenet
4 out of 5 stars
Living Without Lying (Martha Beck)
While I really look forward to listening to this podcast each week, there are several suggestions I would like to make, Elise. At times, the soundtrack is muffled and listening to the interview can be difficult (excerpts of sentences get completely lost). Better sound production would go a long way. Additionally, each episode of this podcast opens with a long winded intro to an ad for UPromise, and unfortunately, this ad was repeated twice, back-to-back, this week, before the interview with Martha Beck even started. As a loyal listener, is it that important to convey your love of higher education (to an Ivy League school, nonetheless) as a testament to your relevancy as a host? I get it. You’ve stated your background; let’s move on. I agree with an earlier reviewer who also suggested working with a coach who can help you navigate an interesting, thoughtful, prepared interviewing style. Constant interruptions along with repeated responses brings nothing new to what could be an informed, genuine exchange between host and podcast guest.
SweetSisterRay
4 out of 5 stars
Good ideas/guests but needs work
I love the idea of this podcast and the guests are interesting. However, I’d like to offer some constructive criticism to Elise: PLEASE get some coaching on how to properly interview guests. When she asks someone a question, she will often interrupt herself, jam in at least one or two more questions, then go off on a tangent about the question, and then end with a personal anecdote. Guests are often not sure how to answer, given that one clear question wasn’t asked. It’s frustrating to listen to. Plus the ads are irritating.
MichelleMMercedes
5 out of 5 stars
One of the most interesting minds of our times…
The conversations we need to be having and the way we need to be having them. Elise’s authentic curiosity is palpable and her devotion to learning is infectious. Grateful for her voice amidst the chaos.
Krissykrossy
5 out of 5 stars
Super smart host and guests
The one star reviewers on here are bitter adult babies!
Grgtf
5 out of 5 stars
Thank you for coming back Elise
Omg 😊So happy you are back doing podcasts Missed your insights and interesting topics and guests. 🙏
Study Prep
5 out of 5 stars
High Quality Podcast
This is one of my favorite podcasts by one of my favorite hosts! Elise approaches conversations thoughtfully with a unique blend of intellectual and emotional intelligence that is refreshing and inspiring!
Sain 79
5 out of 5 stars
Love her!
Elise comes with some of the most interesting topics! Every single show. I have followed her from Goop to her own show! Absolutely love her.
KimHarmony
5 out of 5 stars
Love this podcast
This is an excellent podcast!!
Stoopsbuddaface
5 out of 5 stars
I love Elise!
I love her voice, her topics, her laugh! I feel bad for Goop…
my1heart
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is amazing!
This podcast will always add value to your life! Love her brilliant guest choices, her thoughtful questions, and the tone of her voice! Don’t miss this podcast!
chelsrg
5 out of 5 stars
❤️❤️❤️
Love!
uber busy working mom
5 out of 5 stars
Enlightening Always
Is it just me or has anyone else changed aspects of their life because of something learned while listening to this podcast? Seriously, I’m rethinking the way I construct my workday and relationship to deadlines, how I consider gender dynamics, and on and on. I always learn when I listen to Elise. If all my friends would listen, it would save me time from teaching them and forwarding all the links to podcasts and books.
ROBAY_D
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is profound
Elise is my favorite interviewer, thinker, and writer. She expands my mind, heart, and spirit each week on this podcast- both with her own insight and the interesting people she interviews. If you are going to listen to one pod- this one is it!!!!
@needranow
5 out of 5 stars
Feels like I found an old friend
I listened to Elise on GOOP…even wrote in saying that she needs her own podcast. I loved and shared every episode. Then poof! I can’t believe it took me this long to find her. After listening to a few episodes already I feel like I’m home again. I’ve grown. Elise has grown, and I am going to spend more time with her. I plan to binge every episode!
Fun2bFancy
5 out of 5 stars
Love
I love Elise & I miss her on the Goop podcast. Excited for all the new content & conversations.. I appreciate & enjoy her curiosity & insightful interviews. Good Stuff & incredibly thought provoking….. I love the podcast so much
Keepn-it-real
1 out of 5 stars
No Thanks
More insane musings from a deranged California liberal. Just because anyone can have a podcast doesn’t mean they should
andreamrozek
5 out of 5 stars
So grateful for this podcast ❤️
I have loved Elise’s interviews since discovering her on the Goop podcast 4 years ago. I started listening as I navigated new motherhood; Elise’s interviews have always given me the feeling of giving something great to myself, leaving me in an inspired and uplifted headspace. The best days were those my child napped long enough for me to listen to a whole episode. I was so sad to hear she’d left Goop but am truly grateful she had the courage to start her own podcast! I’ve been devouring these interviews. I so appreciate her thoughtful, smart questions on such important topics, and love her contagious laugh. Even in the middle of January 2022 and all that that entails, I consistently end these podcasts feeling so truly happy and hopeful. Thank you Elise for all the work you do on this podcast! You are amazing and I am so grateful!
AudreyFred510
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is the best!
I was so bummed when Elise left the Goop podcast. Her interview style is smart, vulnerable, and curious. What a treat to find her hosting her own podcast.
LuisaListener
1 out of 5 stars
Stuff that was already talked about in 2012
These are conversations already done by Gillette-for-men commercials and body positive buzzfeed YouTube videos. If you’re vaguely progressive and consume lib media, you have heard all these ideas before.
Gr8Gatzbi
5 out of 5 stars
Yes!
The conversations we need, today.
wallamercedes
5 out of 5 stars
Highly recommend!
Elise is a thoughtful, intelligent, compelling host who walks us through all kinds of interesting topics and introduces us to some really beautiful minds and guests! Highly recommend!
JeremyGillespie
5 out of 5 stars
One of my faves
I was so sad when Elise left Goop, but as soon as I saw this podcast, I was so excited. She makes me interested in things I never even thought of by asking interesting questions and making the interviews relatable.
JennyClarkeB
5 out of 5 stars
BJ Miller
Great interview, important topic. Thank you!
Jmbs8
5 out of 5 stars
Very interesting
Elise continues to ask relevant soul searching questions and the podcast does not disappoint! It is interesting and stimulating on an intellectual and emotional level. Thank you Elise! I love that I learn something on each episode and have food for thought the rest of the day.
jooliek
5 out of 5 stars
Fan girl
Loved her on Goop, love this as much or more so far
ascott1961
5 out of 5 stars
This is THE podcast I needed .
More coming … I have a lot to say !
CPE64
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is so thoughtful
Elise is so thoughtful, entertaining and smart. She has the best laugh on the planet and asks the questions we all want to know the answers to you. I look forward to each new release and re-listen often. ❤️
caki diehl
5 out of 5 stars
Love it
Elise’s interviews and guests are thoughtful and helpful. Today’s on anger is spot on. Keep going - you are an inspiration. Caki
Kev's Account
5 out of 5 stars
Missed you!
Glad to hear you again!
Cuse7785
5 out of 5 stars
Phew, I found her again!
I have been out of the podcast game for a bit but always enjoyed Elise on the Goop podcast. I started an episode today and was perplexed to not hear her voice. I tried to listen to it but it was just not the same because her voice is comfort in a way. Anyway, I am so happy to have found her in her own podcast realm. CONGRATULATIONS to you!!
KarinaHW
5 out of 5 stars
Love Elise!
So glad shes back.
Sassers1978
5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Elise is an absolutely brilliant interviewer- always armed with profound and insightful questions that lend a nuanced view into our own lives. Each episode feels like it’s own journey into an terrain you didn’t necessarily know existed, but somehow seems to subsequently have a significant impact on our every day lives.
Gforgabriel
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is fabulously mindful, conscious and inspiring ⭐️
Started listening to Elise when she was hosting the Goop podcast and I find her voice to be incredibly soothing. She is always genuinely interested her guests and conversation flow is real. 10/10 recommend ⭐️😎
mountains and horses
5 out of 5 stars
Best interviewer! Best Guests
I’m thrilled that Elise has her own podcast! The most soulful guests and intelligent interviews. Definitely something for me to look forward to each week. I love her connection to the West and her love of horses and the environment. An important voice!
cowbjdfwibibdeSmitty
5 out of 5 stars
Five stars overall for the show but…
Just listened to the show with Dr. Sara Gottfried and am a bit disappointed. First, the early part of the conversation touches on body size/weight being an inaccurate measure of health. Then the conversation focuses on the ketogenic diet and how it resulted in weight gain for the guest, at which point weight gain is framed in negative way. Then the conversation fluctuates back to the original argument of weight not being an accurate measure for health. I found it really confusing and contradictory. Plus, there seems to be a lack of transparency in researchers that are fully bought in to functional medicine, and the fact that it is very much in its infancy. Although functional medicine is exciting and likely the future of medicine, the accuracy and validity of its tools - I.e. genetic tests for individualized health approaches - are still unrefined and lack robust testing and falsification. Functional medicine practitioners often criticize conventional practitioners for subscribing to health and medical practices that lack robust scientific support, however, I find the former falls into the same trap. We deserve better, and it starts with more transparency and honesty from all medical practitioners and researchers. Honestly, transparency, along with continuous questioning of biases and validity of research is at the heart of good science. Not to mention, the privilege of being able to access and afford the tests that functional medicine practitioners recommend is commonly left out of the conversation. Most people cannot afford to pay for the oura ring, or for blood panel and stool tests not covered by insurance, or to have their blood glucose monitored on a regular basis, save for folks with medical conditions that require it.
ZA1981
5 out of 5 stars
Amazing.
So glad you are back. Thank you for the generosity of you sharing… missed your curiosity.
Mum2GandB
5 out of 5 stars
Thoughtful, intelligent, meaningful, profound
Elise is a thoughtful interviewer and each of her interviews is filled with something indescribable that leaves one feeling deeply moved by the subject. I cannot tell you how much I have missed her podcasts. There is just no one like her! When she left Goop she left a void! Suffice it to say, I’d follow Elise wherever she goes and I cannot get enough of Pulling the Thread. Each episode leaves me feeling a bit more intelligent than when I started.
Kara12lee
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is the voice of my unformed thoughts
I have been a fan of her thoughtful interviews since her very first episode co-hosting the Goop podcast. I was so sad to see her go from Goop but this new podcast is worth the wait. Loving every episode. Thank you Elise for your relatable way of presenting scholarly material in a way that people can digest. So many times I hear my own thoughts when listening to you speak but I don’t have your way of putting it all together. Thank you for helping me evolve and grow.
Lexinic
5 out of 5 stars
Soul-stirring conversations that promote thought, feeling, and action
I’m only one episode in, and I loved Elise’s conversation with Loretta Ross. It made me think, at times it made me uncomfortable, and for sure it made me grow. Pulling the Thread is definitely staying on my must listen to list!
ShelbyH76
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is a gift to us all!
Elise’s calm voice is soothing and so are her guest choices. She’s one of the most read, thoughtful, and kind podcasters in the business. I know every episode will bring a new way of thinking, a shift of a lens through which my views will be expanded. ❤️⭐️✨
coco ococococococ
5 out of 5 stars
Finally!
The world needs Elise ! If you love learning, understanding and growing… This is the pod for you.
jenniwalker
5 out of 5 stars
Thrilled!
I’m so happy to have this podcast to look forward to each week. I love hearing from the incredible people Elise shares with us and the conversations are always enlightening and enriching.
Miranda from Columbia
5 out of 5 stars
Thank You
Hearing Elise again has been a breath of fresh air in what has felt like a suffocating time. Her thoughtful and engaging demeanor is unmatched. I would recommend this podcast to all those that want to learn, understand and expand their knowledge on topics we so desperately need to discuss. Loved her on Goop, love her here. She is a force of light and her contribution to the world is nothing less than impressive. Well done.
Diggity1121
5 out of 5 stars
Following Curiosity
It’s taken me a long time to put my finger on exactly why I think Elise Loehnen is the far and away the best podcaster around. The best I can come up with is that she listens intently to her guests, seems to have no agenda when it comes to the interview aside from following curiosity, asks thoughtful, thought provoking questions that seem to make both the interviewee and herself think about things in ways they have yet to, and is somehow funny and approachable throughout. She’s clearly incredibly intelligent and seems to get guests that you wouldn’t normally stumble across on the broader podcast “circuit”. I’m hooked after three episodes (and blown away by the Jamie Wheal interview) and cannot wait to add this to my weekly rotation. Bravo, Elise!
rr__bb
5 out of 5 stars
The best host + the best guests
Elise does an incredible job of finding the most interesting guests, asking them thoughtful probing questions, and bringing her own perceptive thoughts to the discussion. Her podcasts are a master class in curiosity, grace, poise, and humor. More please!
MSM214
5 out of 5 stars
Such a great find.
This podcast is as if a New Yorker article came to life in an interview. High thoughts per minute - so far great guests and a very compelling host. Keep up the good work.
MobFan
5 out of 5 stars
Will follow Elise anywhere (not as a stalker)
Elise asks the questions on everyone’s minds, but perhaps what makes her so endearing is how her ability to listen provides the opportunity for her guests to open up and shine.
hmk22!
5 out of 5 stars
I LOVE ELISE
Her questions are so thoughtful & inquisitive. And the two guests she’s had thus far make me excited for where this podcast is headed and how much I can learn from it. 10/10
Arria-Devoe
5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
So many gems in this premiere podcast not surprisingly. Elise has a gift for making the great thinkers and minds of our time accessible to all by showing how all of our experiences are interconnected even if they don’t at first appear the same. Can’t wait for the next episode!
Jacobsbriere
5 out of 5 stars
Love Elise’s insights as much as who she’s in conversation with.
I am very excited to watch this podcast grow. I was a fan of Elise on goop and so happy she’s back on the mic. She really researches her guests and their work, asking deep questions that engages me in surprising ways.
Zozobutt
5 out of 5 stars
There is no one better than Elise
That re: line sums it up. She asks the best questions, elucidates the hard parts for us and gives us her own experiences and insights. I missed her on Goop. So excited for her podcast! This first one is incredible.
emmafromscotland
5 out of 5 stars
Great Podcast!
I’m so glad Elise has her own show. She’s such a great interviewer because she has a proper conversation and connection with her guests. Can’t wait to hear who else she has on.
christined2222227
5 out of 5 stars
Smart, insightful, thought provoking
Elises interviews are a highlight of my week. Good for both the brain and soul!
LoriBergs
5 out of 5 stars
Lorib
Elise was born to host this podcast! A true thinker, remarkable listener, and enviable interviewer, she moves the conversation forward always delivering the most profound answers from her guests. What I love (and have always loved) about Elise is her ability to make the strange familiar. She did this so astutely at goop and I’m certain she’ll continue to do it here. She can have a conversation with someone you might not have heard of/are intimidated by, and magically, Elise coaxes the information, packages the lessons, and “pulls the thread” right through to you. She makes things that might seem esoteric at first glance appeal to all of us. She brings you gently, warmly, and smartly inside these incredible conversations, peppers them with personal (and often very funny) anecdotes, and seems to do it all instinctively (not a word feels “produced” or inauthentic). I cannot wait to listen to these discussions, and to hear all of the wisdom and insight Elise so generously reveals.
kir423
5 out of 5 stars
Great to hear her voice
Elise is wise, thoughtful, perceptive, and it is great to have her voice back. The quality of her guest list, reading material, and insight are always first-rate; however, it is more specifically the tone, voice, and style she brings to the conversation or interview that makes listening to her unique. She can do something in her listening and relating that In unmatched.
Jdublove
5 out of 5 stars
Elise brings the rich, deep conversations
So stoked for Elise to have her own podcast!! Loved her on Goop and shared her curiosity, appreciative of the questions she asks and the places that she takes listeners to in the conversation. Between the title of the podcast and her first guest, Joy Harjo, I sense we are in for a rich learning. Looking forward to all the future guests and insightful conversations not to mention new vocabulary words cuz she’s word crafty. :) Thx Elise!
bidafay
5 out of 5 stars
exceptional 🙌🏻
Elise is my Oprah 😊. She is intelligent, curious, kind and loves language. I love the style of her interviews. I have learned so much from her on Goop (never missed an episode) so I am thrilled she has her own podcast! I’m excited to see where what topics she will cover. Congratulations Elise!
GalanterJ
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is a great interviewer!
I loved Elise’s on podcasts with goop and I’m excited for her to strike out on her own. If the first episode (and artwork) is any indication, this is going to be my new favorite podcast.
Beautiful balance
5 out of 5 stars
Inspirational, Real
Elise constructs and pulls her conversations in such a way that make you dream big, think deeper, and slow down to express gratitude. Her interviews are the beautiful balance of pointing at difficult events or topics to unearth fear or confusion, all the whole offering consoling reminders and points of hope. She is hands down my favorite interviewer I’ve had the pleasure of listening to for the past few years. I was thrilled she was launching her own!
sarahplainjayne
5 out of 5 stars
My girl crush
I will read anything Elise recommends and I will listen to everything she says.
davidweinrot
5 out of 5 stars
Brings the deep currents into focus!
Bravo Elise! Thank you for creating Pulling the Thread. I enjoyed the first episode with Joy Harjo. It helped create a safe space to consider the deep currents of my inner truth. Great journey and some practical tips too, like “don’t make a mad dash for your phone the moment you wake up; take a moment to just ‘be’”. Look forward to these journeys on the weekly!!
bsg&msg
5 out of 5 stars
Excited for Thursday’s again!
This first episode did not disappoint! What I like about Elise Loehnen is her presence, her ability to listen, to be humble and to really come across as having a genuine interest in what her guests have to say. I am looking forward to the rest of the Pulling the Thread episodes as I know that they will be informative and I will learn something from them!
Bona324
5 out of 5 stars
Prepare to Expand
Listening to Elise’s conversations has expanded me in more ways than I could imagine. From the guests she hosts to the questions she asks I find myself in amazement - constantly reaching for something to write with to capture all the wonderful insights. This podcast is a must!
saraht0908
5 out of 5 stars
She’s back!
Missed Elise’s podcasting from Goop and love her mini interviews and book recs on her Instagram so thrilled she has a new pod! A really insightful and thoughtful interviewer.
Bicoastal Fashionista
5 out of 5 stars
Wonderful, meaningful, multi-dimensional,
I have so missed this voice.
zeropointDL
5 out of 5 stars
Asking the tough questions
Elise always asks the tough questions with humility. Constant betterment and insightful dialogue are key to her interviews.
sierrapi
5 out of 5 stars
Grateful for Elise!
Loved her conversations on the Goop podcast and was so sorry to see her go, but wow! This first episode was so beautiful and moving. Elise has a gift for connecting - and her vocabulary and heart, both of which are expansive, are inspirational to me. I’m so looking forward to future episodes.
Billmose
5 out of 5 stars
Favorite interviewer
So good to have you back Elise!
King Macon
5 out of 5 stars
Elise Loehnen is Back
Loved Elise on the goop podcast and was so excited to hear that she has a new podcaat. Can't wait to listen!
Rejas M
5 out of 5 stars
Brilliant First Episode
Elise is such an engaging and curious host that asks such insightful questions of her guests. I really loved this first episode, absolutely brilliant - can’t wait for what’s to come.
Nancy0707
5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Host!
Elise is a wonderful human being full of curiosity and excitement for life. She carefully chooses her topics and guests. This is an excellent addition to any podcast library! You won’t regret it!
crab🦀
5 out of 5 stars
Pulling the Thread. Elise is the wisest woman I know.
When Elise Loehnen talks, I listen with my full attention and try to absorb all her wisdom. She is incredibly bright, incredibly well read, and incredibly gifted in interviewing a wide variety of people. She reaches the heart of every subject without wasting any time. Listening to Elise is like having a fantastic workout. You will reap major benefits. My favorite time is going on long walks and listening to Elise’s podcasts. You will learn, you will grow, and you will be an intelligent
Lindasans
5 out of 5 stars
Can’t wait!
Super excited for Elise’s own podcast. I love all topics she chooses and the way she listens and asks questions always make her interviews so interesting and deep. Congrats Elise!
JoMoho
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is great
I love listening to Elise because she’s curious, smart, transparent, and honest. She won me over one insomniac night when I got completely engrossed (and sleepy) watching her horse reels on Instagram. You go girl!
Alibesure
5 out of 5 stars
A True THINKER
Elise is that friend you have who ALWAYS seems to ask the exact, right question at the right time, to really dig-deep and get the best out of forward-thinking minds. Just the best person you know you can trust to bring insightful angles to life in general - all in a fun, girlfriends just talking kind of way. Love her, so proud of her.
ChattyPatty245
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is the best
Elise did a smashing job on the Goop podcast and covers topics I would never have found elsewhere. She is so amazing and interesting. Sign me up for anything she does!
hawling_fantods
5 out of 5 stars
Elise is a great, insightful host asking deep questions
I know Elise from the goop podcast and she was incredible. She asked so many deep and thoughtful questions that gave pause and reflection for me and how I move within life. The fact she’s doing her own show now excites me because I know she’ll really deliver value.
SallySalamander1111
5 out of 5 stars
So excited!!!
Can’t wait to hear this!!!!
Podcast information
- Amount of episodes
- 74
- Subscribers
- 153
- Verified
- No
- Website
- Explicit content
- Yes
- Episode type
- episodic
- Podcast link
- https://podvine.com/link/..
- Last upload date
- January 19, 2023
- Last fetch date
- January 26, 2023 2:57 AM
- Upload range
- WEEKLY
- Author
- Elise Loehnen and Cadence13
- Copyright
- © Elise Loehnen. All Rights Reserved.
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- It Begins and Ends with Breath (James Nestor)“Look at how we've convoluted and complicated. The most simple things. Look at nutrition now. How many supplements are we supposed to take? How many grams of fat am I supposed to eat? And then grams of carbs, and then how many grams of sugar is taller? It's insane that we've managed because I think a lot of people don't believe stuff unless it sounds scientific or it's extremely complicated. But nature isn't that complicated. Like why do all of these cultures, the few that are around now, indigenous cultures, they don't have high blood pressure, they don't have heart disease, they don't have diabetes, they don't have anxiety, they don't have panic, they have all have straight teeth. They don't also have any big pharma. Uh, they don't have dentists. They don't need any of this stuff because they are living in an environment in which humans naturally evolved.You and I are not, we're living in an environment that is so different and it's no coincidence that the more we integrate back into nature, the better we get.” So says the brilliant—and endlessly entertaining—James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. While Breath is a mega-bestseller—across the globe, it’s also an award-winning work of science reporting, stringing together seemingly disparate streams of thought and science into a treatise on one of the most significant impacts on our health: The way we learned to breathe. Yep, breathe. James makes the case that our tendency toward mouth-breathing works against our very nature, distorting our faces and jaws, ramping our anxiety, and weakening our immune response…simply because our noses are designed to filter the world on our behalf. I loved our long-ranging conversation, and it was wonderful to be in James’s company again. Let’s get to our chat. MORE FROM JAMES NESTOR: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves James’s Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- In Search of Paradise (Pico Iyer)“There are many places I'd love to see and I know I would learn from. But if I never see them, I won't be sorry. I mean I feel I'm so happy just being here in my little rented two room apartment in the middle of nowhere, Japan where we've been for 29 years. And I would be so grateful if I could spend almost every day here. And again another thing that the pandemic reminded us, I couldn't travel as much as usual. I don't think I really missed it. What I did find was I'd take a walk along the road behind my mother's house and it's in the hills of Santa Barbara and my parents had lived there more than 50 years. I'd never walked to the end of the road just 20 minutes away before. And I did. And I'd look around and there was a golden light of early morning and there's a Pacific ocean in the distance with the sun sentient above it. And I said, this is as beautiful as anywhere. Somebody would go to Capri or Rio de Janeiro to see us right in my backyard. And I'd never thought to look at it before. And so too, with this little apartment, my wife and I just start taking walks in every direction. And we came upon bamboo forests and cherry blossoms, all kinds of wonders. And we'd never in 29 years in this apartment looked around us. And so a reminder that all the beauty of the wonder of the world is right here. If only I have the eyes and motivation to see.” So says the wonderful Pico Iyer, who began his career teaching writing and literature at Havard, before he joined Time as a writer on world affairs. Since then, he has published 15 books, many of which are bestsellers. His books have been translated into over 23 languages, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism to the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. Perhaps known best for his travel writing, his most recent book, The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise, is the culmination of a lifetime of experiences in the outer world, intertwined with a deep and beautiful look at his inner world, as he asks himself, and the reader, how we might come upon paradise in the midst of the reality of our lives. Most of us are steeped in a culture which views paradise as eternally elusive—we live our lives with a deep longing to return to the Eden from which we have been evicted, to a place where the struggles of the human experience melt away. But it is in our struggle that we find paradise, Iyer tells us, if only we have the eyes to see it. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Recalling what we have forgotten… Utopian longings and viable dreams… Creating a life that matters… MORE FROM PICO IYER: The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise and other books by Pico Iyer Pico’s website Watch Pico Iyer’s TED Talks: Where is home? (2013) The art of stillness (2014) The beauty of what we'll never know (2016) What ping-pong taught me about life (2019) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Working with the Power of Earth (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD)“We're aware that we're in an ecological crisis. We are destroying our own ecosystem. We're aware there's loss of biodiversity, these beautiful species going extinct and who is the prime partner for us is the earth. But you go to an ecological conference like they are having now in Egypt and who listens to the earth whereas the voice of the earth herself, she's not heard, she's not asked, nobody asks the earth. And she is this ancient being. And so wise, she has been through mass extinctions before. Indigenous people knew how to ask and how to listen and how to talk to the earth. And that's why a lot of my writings recently are about trying to find a way to reconnect, to regain this way of being present with the earth, of listening to the earth of just being with her. And so her voice can be heard. Because if we don't make that connection, I don't see how we can go forward into a living future.” So says my guest today, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - Sufi mystic, PhD, lecturer and prolific author. I have been reading through his books in a type of fever—they are some of the most powerful, and clarifying, treatises on spirituality—and what this whole experience is about—that I’ve ever read. Vaughan-Lee began following the Naqshbandi Sufi path at the age of 19, guided by Irina Tweedie, who brought this particular Indian branch of Sufism to the West. He eventually became her successor, and moved to Point Reyes, California where he founded the Golden Sufi Center—continuing to expand the reach of his Sufi lineage, making its teachings ever more available to the Western seeker. While he is in retreat as a teacher, he recently launched a podcast, called Stories for a Living Future that is beautiful. His many books provide a detailed exploration of the stages of spiritual and psychological transformation experienced on the Sufi path. More recently, his writing has focused on our spiritual responsibility to the earth, in the present time of transition; awakening our awareness of oneness with the world and all that is in it; and the presence of the amina mundi, or the world soul. Today, Vaughan-Lee joins the podcast to discuss one of his latest books, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, which is a collection of essays from some of our most esteemed leaders across faiths and dimensions, including Joanna Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wendell Berry, Richard Rohr, and Vandava Shiva. As he explains today, we have lost awareness of the sacredness of creation, a loss that has allowed us to abuse an Earth regarded as unfeeling, unknowing matter. This is the spiritual root of our ecological crisis. He implores us to follow the thread that allows us to once again live in direct connection with creation, noting that real change can only happen when we regain our magical consciousness; grow closer to the lumen natura—nature’s light—and allow ourselves to fall in love with the Earth once more. Llewellyn does a remarkable job of placing our human story within the story of the Earth—in turn, he leaves us yearning to rediscover our place within the whole and thereby reaffirm our primal connection with our sacred home. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: A tree is not just timber, it is a spirit… Regaining our magical consciousness.. The great unraveling of present civilization.. Healthy society needs cultural eldering… MORE FROM LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN LEE: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth Seasons of the Sacred: Reconnecting to the Wisdom Within Nature and the Soul and other books by Vaughan-Lee (I love the six-part series on Spiritual Power & Oneness). Stories for a Living Future Podcast Check out The Golden Sufi Center and Working with Oneness To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Where Self Meets World (Dan Siegel, M.D.)“How do we actually with due speed, cuz this is a timely issue, start to live in modern culture, which is taken over the planet. Basically live in a way that is really about the truth of who we are. That we are a me and we are a we, and that if we live that way, we wouldn't treat each other as enemies, we would treat each other as relatives. You know, you don't get along with every relative the same way, but if they're in your family, they're your family. And if we then saw all of nature as the family of nature, you know, we would treat earth not like a trash can, but a sanctuary. And, and we would do this together. And we are incredibly collaborative, we're incredibly creative and yes, we can use competition, but what we can do in our competition is make it so we're competing to really deal with, you know, diseases and famine and all the problems we face. So when you win the competition, everybody benefits.” So says Dr. Daniel Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. As an interpersonal neurobiologist Dan is focused on the creation of self—and his latest book, IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging takes his lifelong pursuit to understand the Venn diagram between personal reality and collective identity even farther: In it, he explores questions of consciousness, the importance of connection, and the world of quantum physics as it relates to our relationship with the external world. For Dan, the science of energy, which animates us all, is the study of the continuum of possibility to probability. MORE FROM DAN SIEGEL, M.D.: IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind Follow Dan on Instagram Dan’s Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Kitchen Healer (Jules Blaine Davis)“I mean, nourishing is truly, honestly, it is, it is, uh, an activism. It is it, the, the minute you are nourished the decisions you make versus when you weren't nourished, they're gonna be really different the way you react to your kids. How we parent, how we are in our, our partnerships or our work. It's like when we're nourished, it's like another, another part of us is being like our truest part, like who we truly are. And so if we can all be a little closer to that, like that, that's the activism I'm tending. You know, it's like that's, that, that really is, that's an advocacy for a culture that's really hungry. A world that really needs us to care for ourselves. It's not just an i it really is a, we, it's a we movement.” So says Jules Blaine Davis, otherwise known as The Kitchen Healer. I met Jules nearly a decade ago, after hearing rumors about this miraculously woman who lived on the other side of Los Angeles: I was told that she could restore a desire to cook, for one. But that her work was actually much deeper than that: That she probed long-held stories we hold about ourselves when it comes to our appetites and their validity, as well as whether we believe we deserve to be nourished. I spent an afternoon with her—walking around her backyard barefoot and telling her about my relationship with food—and left her house deepened, newly dedicated to turning on the fire in my own house, and reclaiming the kitchen as a place where I could be—not as a zone where there was more for me to do. MORE FROM JULES BLAINE DAVIS: The Kitchen Healer: The Journey to Becoming You Follow Jules on Instagram Jules’s Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Processing Our Collective Past (Thomas Hübl)“If you don't change things that we already feel we should change or we feel called to change, if you're holding onto our job alone or to a relationship that is toxic or to whatever, because we are afraid to change, then it becomes stronger and stronger. And when the, the tension is too big, then we call it crisis. Because then the system needs to rebalance itself through a painful process. But there's a conscious version of it too,0 comments0
- On Collaborating With Ourselves (Alexandra Grant)“Now I'm making something that I didn't imagine. It's not going like I imagined, but it's going. And then when you finish the Object Thing book, then it has the power to take you on a journey that you never would have dreamt had you kept the idea in your interior museum. And then that shifts your imagination. You have more, more artwork that's collected in the Interior Museum and but, and then as you grow older, as a maker, You see that distinction, right? The distinction between the beautiful interior museum and the museum in reality of things that you've actually made and done and the stories attached to the making and doing that have changed your life.” I am joined today by my dear friend, Alexandra Grant. Alexandra is a fascinating person and talented visual artist whose work examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media and has been exhibited at institutions across the country: at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the Pasadena Museum of California Art, among others. In 2008, she created the grantLOVE Project, which has raised awareness and funds for various arts nonprofits through the gift and sale of her iconic LOVE artwork. In 2017, she and her life partner, Keanu Reeves, co-founded X Artists’ Books, an artist-centric publishing house, helping artists and readers alike explore the creation of artwork and ideas outside the traditional model of book publishing. If that wasn’t enough, Alexandra is currently leading the first NFT project of the Hollywood Sign for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and is an Advisor to the Future Verse Foundation. She joins me today to meditate on art and love—as we celebrate the release of her book Love: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project. A comprehensive history of the foundation she started fifteen years ago, the book is a visual collection of paintings, prints, sculptures, textiles, jewelry, and architecture gathered by Grant and her collaborators to explore the timeless question, what is love? Our conversation is a peek into our regular walk and talks—a beloved routine through which we have been able to explore, reflect, and build an incredibly meaningful friendship. Today we discuss what it means to be looked at and perceived by the public, especially as the partner of one of the most famous actors of our generation; the inevitable disappointment that results from taking the beautiful ideas in our heads and attempting to turn them into something physical; and owning our native talents in the pursuit of a creative live, whether or not we fit into the conventions of being an artist. You have to create opportunities between the cracks, she tells us. Okay, let’s get to our conversation. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Being in the messy middle… Owning your native talents… Conversing with the past self… Creating opportunities between the cracks… MORE FROM ALEXANDRA GRANT: Love: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project Explore X Artists' Books Check out her website and the grantLOVE Project Follow Alexandra on Instagram To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Living a Committed Life (Lynne Twist)“But a life devoted to something larger than yourself is a life worth living. It's a life that is in recognition of life is given to us, it's given to us so that we can give it, we're blessed so that we can bless. We're born, I think, I can't prove this, but I've experienced it to make the contribution that's uniquely ours to make. And when you find that dharma, that discovers who you are, this is a match for what's wanted in the world. Oh my God. It's so thrilling that I wanted to do everything I could to make that available to people, because it's not only wonderful for you, the world needs us now. The world always did. But now the crises are so deep, so profound, so intense, so everywhere. So in every part of society, in every economic class, in every country, in every language, in every culture, that it's all hands on deck. And what a thrilling time to be alive when it's an all hands on deck moment.” so says my guest today, Lynne Twist. Lynne is a world-renowned visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and sustainability. Her 40-year career has taken her from working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, to guiding the philanthropic efforts of some of the world’s wealthiest families. Her breadth of experience led her to found the Soul of Money Institute, where she has worked with hundreds of thousands of people all over the world on topics such as fundraising with integrity, practicing conscious philanthropy, and creating a healthy relationship with money. Lynne first translated her compelling stories and life experiences into the bestselling book, The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life and joins us today to discuss her newest book, Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself. In the book, and our conversation, Lynne reveals the guiding principles that have enabled her to live as a thought leader and activist, teaching us that a committed life is one worth living: That sometimes the commitment to it alone is enough to ensure it happens. The universe is telling us repeatedly that we are in this together, she says, and in a world that sometimes feels chaotic and devoid of meaning, it’s incumbent that we draw together around what it means to be human. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Taking a stand vs. taking a position… Pain pushes until vision pulls… We won’t think our way out of this… Replacing charity with solidarity… MORE FROM LYNNE TWIST: Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life Check out Lynne’s Soul of Money Institute and The Pachamama Alliance Follow Lynne on Instagram and Twitter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Boundaries We Need (Melissa Urban)“Boundaries don't tell other people what to do. They tell other people what you are willing to do to take responsibility for your own needs and your own feelings and keep yourself safe and healthy. And they actually are, as we've discussed, a gift to your relationship, they make relationships better. And when you turn it around on its head like that, I think number one, that helps people understand all of the benefits to your relationship when each party does take responsibility for how they feel and for their needs. And it also gives you a sense of empowerment. I think people feel like, Oh, I can't set boundaries because what if the other person won't do it or doesn't say yes? And when I tell them, Oh no, no, no, your boundary cannot depend on somebody else. It is only dependent on what you are willing and able to do.” So says Melissa Urban, a woman who can do everything. Not only is the founder of Whole30, she’s a six-time New York Times best-selling author. Her latest is the subject of our conversation today: It’s called "The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free,” which is the result of helping her community navigate through their relationships to…pretty much everything as they begin to fix and adjust their relationship to their own bodies and food. She is a fierce proponent of self-efficacy and a commitment to showing up for yourself in all aspects of life. In our conversation, we discuss what a boundary even means—and how difficult it is for us to address what’s at the root of establishing them, which is our NEEDS. Melissa guides us through relatable scenarios, like with the in-laws or a boss, where boundaries might be missing. And we talk about the qualities of niceness and how they can get in the way of caring for ourselves: Melissa, who is fierce in her directness, distinguishes between the quality of niceness and the quality of kindness in a very profound way. And it all comes to this: We must first be kind to ourselves before we can show up with kindness in the world. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Direct not rude… Boundaries don’t tell other people what to do… Set limits, set expectations… Make the goal showing up for yourself… MORE FROM MELISSA URBAN: The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free Check out Melissa's Website Follow Melissa on Instagram and Twitter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Closet of Inauthenticity (Jessi Hempel)“My childhood was a childhood in the closet. I had some good things. I had some bad things, like living in the closet is, you know, not always terrible. It's simply not the greatest expression of, of who we have the capacity to become, I think. Um, but for my parents, you know, as my father went along in my childhood, he became more and more withdrawn and kept trying to do the right thing, was closeted even to himself. This was a secret he was keeping even from himself for most of my childhood. But it made him kind of a lousy partner. Right. My mother's experience was just a very, very lonely experience. Her life looked on the outside exactly like it was supposed to look, we lived in a nice community. She was married to a lawyer, or, you know, we looked great on a Christmas card, but it felt cavernous, just vacant and left with so much time on her own. Um, she really struggled not to let her memory present her with things to work on. And that led her to be very depressed throughout my childhood.” So says Jessi Hempel, a long-time media and technology journalist, an award-winning host of the podcast, Hello Monday, and author of the new memoir, The Family Outing. Her book is a profound telling of family dynamics, offering lessons on accepting one's truest self. Specifically, it’s the story of a family who comes out of the closet to embrace their queer identities. Even Jessi’s mother, who is straight, lives in a type of closet, Jessi explains, as she nearly became the victim of a serial killer as a teenager—this unconfronted trauma affects her entire family’s life. In our conversation, Jessi shares her journey to emphasize the detrimental side-effects of shame and the non-linear path to liberation. Our conversation explores the value of authenticity and navigating parts of ourselves we have not yet learned to face. She believes that when we“step into ourselves,” culture has the capacity to shift, allowing us all to live more gracefully. Okay, let’s get to our conversation. MORE FROM JESSI HEMPEL: The Family Outing Jessi’s podcast, Hello Monday Follow Jessi on LinkedIn and Instagram To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Recovering Every Part of Ourselves (Richard Schwartz, PhD)“I’m trying to map the territory in the center world, just the way I did with families and the distinction that immediately leaped out was between parts that other systems would call inner children, which, you know, they're very, before they're hurt, they're delightful. They give us all kinds of joy and, and imagination and creativity and playfulness and so on. But once they feel, once you have an experience that leaves you feeling worthless or terrified or hurt, they're the ones that take that in the most, because they're the most sensitive parts of you. And then they get stuck with these, what I call burdens of worthlessness or pain or terror. And now we don't wanna be around them because they have the power to overwhelm us and make us feel all that again and bring us back into those scenes that they literally are living in still. And so we try to lock them away in inner basements, thinking we're just moving on from the memories, sensations and, and emotions of the trauma. Not realizing that we're actually leaving in the dust, the parts of us we love the most when they're not hurt, just cuz they got hurt.” So says Dr. Richard Schwartz, the creator of Internal Family Systems, a transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy that de-pathologizes the multipart personality. Dr. Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and academic in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and later at Northwestern University. It was there that he worked with a number of clients who claimed to recognize that they had several components, or parts, to themselves. This discovery led him to develop Internal Family Systems, also known as IFS. Within his model, Dr. Schwartz argues that our consciousness, or personality, can be broken down into multiple parts, each with distinct characteristics that fall under three categories: exiles, managers, and firefighters. Exiles are the parts of us that experience anxiety, fear, or trauma—often when we’re very young. Our other parts begin to protect those exiles from being triggered by events and experiences. Managers do this by dictating how we interact with the external world and firefighters seek to protect us by pushing us toward distraction to numb our pain. All of our inner parts contain valuable qualities, Dr. Schwartz tells us, but when they are left unattended, they may lead to damaging impulses, causing us to write them off as damaging in and of themselves. On the other hand, when our parts are acknowledged and their needs are addressed, a confidence and openness emerges—what Dr. Schwartz has come to call the Self. It is in this state of Self, that we can begin to heal all of our parts and become integrated and whole. In our conversation today, Dr. Schwartz walks us through the basics of his model and then guides me through an IFS work session. This was very powerful for me. Because the concept sounds heady, I’m glad you can experience the model in action: I hope our work together inspires you to explore the profound awareness made accessible by IFS. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: It is the nature of the mind to have multiple parts… Reconciling with your exiles… My IFS session… MORE FROM DR. RICHARD SCHWARTZ: Books by Dr. Richard Schwartz: No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model Introduction to Internal Family Systems You Are the One You've Been Waiting for: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships Explore the IFS Institute WATCH: Dr. Richard Schwartz Explains Internal Family Systems (IFS) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Decolonizing Wellness (Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins)"We have offered a model, the seven circles, that helps people to understand that it's not just food and fitness, which so many wellness practitioners purport. It's not just diet and exercise. It's not just the way that you look on the outside or the $90 yoga pants that you can afford, or the fancy studio class or the 25 ingredient smoothie that costs $25. You know, those are unfortunately the images that we have now when it comes to wellness. And that's why so many people continue to feel excluded and uninterested in wellness. It seems so superficial. And so what I hope is that we have incorporated all these other elements to show people that not only can they be a wellness person who participates or who practices wellness, but they are already. We are all on this journey to some degree already." So says Chelsey Luger. Luger and her husband Thosh Collins are wellness teachers, authors, and the founders of the indigenous wellness initiative, Well for Culture. Launched in 2013, Well For Culture was established to reclaim ancient Native wellness philosophies and practices to promote the wellbeing of the physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional self. From their exploration and practice, the two have developed a holistic model for modern living which they share with us in their first book, The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well. According to Luger and Collins, these seven circles—food, movement, sleep, community, sacred space, ceremony, and connection to land—are interconnected, working together to keep our lives in balance. In our conversation, we begin to explore these many aspects of health, as Luger and Collins explain how their teachings can be adapted to every life, and how to do so while maintaining respect and reverence for the Indigenous origins of the wisdom and practices they share. We discuss their work to reframe wellness, how to integrate spirituality into movement through intention, and the power of the hollow bone mentality. Healing and wellness is not just a journey of one, they tell us, but rather a journey of family and community: When we take the important steps to heal ourselves, we contribute to the health of all. I was very moved by this conversation, which we’ll turn to now. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Creating a true connection to movement… Misappropriation… Fools Crow and the Hollow Bone Theory… Creating agreements with ourselves around technology… MORE FROM CHELSEY & THOSH: The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well Check out their initiative: Well for Culture Native Wellness Institute Follow Thosh on Instagram Follow Chelsey on Instagram To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Power of Visual Thinkers (Temple Grandin, PhD)“The thing is the type of thinking where you can figure out how mechanical things work. It’s a different kind of intelligence. And I think it's hard for verbal thinkers to understand. And they kind of will look at the shop kids as a dumb kids. Now, fortunately, some states are starting to put it back in. We're having more and more infrastructure things falling apart, like this latest disaster with the water works breaking—you see, a visual thinker can see how it works and how to fix it. And you keep deferring maintenance. I mean, we got wires falling off of electric towers in California and starting fires because they deferred maintenance, but we need all of the different kinds of thinkers. And the first step is realizing that they exist and they need to work together as teams.” So says Dr. Temple Grandin, a New York Times bestselling author, celebrated animal welfare advocate, and one of the world’s most prominent speakers on autism. Temple first came into the public consciousness with her memoir, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, which provided her unique inside narrative and revolutionized how the world understood autistic individuals. Her latest book, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, works to expand our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired even further as she draws upon cutting edge research to demystify the brains of visual thinkers. Our world is geared for verbal thinkers, she tells us, with rigid academic and social expectations sidelining visual thinkers at school and in the workplace—to the detriment of productivity and innovation everywhere. In our conversation, Temple takes us through the three different types of thinkers, and argues that changing our approach to educating, parenting, and employing visual thinkers has great potential to encourage, rather than stifle, their singular gifts and unique contributions. As the number of children diagnosed with autism continues to rise nationally, her call to foster “differently-abled” brains is more important than ever—as she so eloquently says, we need all kinds of minds to solve today’s most difficult problems. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Three kinds of thinkers… Neurodiversity is essential for our survival… Avoiding label lock… MORE FROM TEMPLE GRANDIN: Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Emergence: Labeled Autistic The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition) Visit Temple's Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Being a Good Enough Person (Dolly Chugh)“What I'm positing is, is an ability to grapple with contradiction. So that's the paradox mindset that Wendy Smith, Maryanne Lewis and other scholars have shown that when we're able to sit with two conflicting things in our minds, for example that if we stick with the example in South Africa, it may be true that if I'm a student that my parents and my grandparents participated in actively supported apartheid and that they were also wonderful parents and grandparents, right? Like those two things can be true, and being able to sit with that contradiction gives me. Like emotional limberness to kind of, you know, push my way through the, the emotional slog of this is awful. This is awful. And to sit with terrible things happened, that's the only way you can do it.” So says Dolly Chugh, award-winning social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she is an expert researcher in the psychology of people and goodness. Her first book is the wonderful, The Person You Mean to Be and she just released a second, called, A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change. Both books serve as inspiring, yet practical guides for those of us who seek to be better. A More Just Future builds on Chugh’s first book, which equipped readers with the tools to be “good-ish” people who stand up for their values. In her latest, she offers a guide to reckoning with the whitewashed history of our country in order to build a better future. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in the past, she tells us, and it will take an extra dose of resilience and grit to grapple with the truth of our history and to make the systemic changes needed to mend the fabric of our country. Moving from willful ignorance to willful awareness isn’t easy, leading to uncomfortable feelings of shame, guilt, disbelief, and resistance when we encounter revelations that run against what we have long been told. But it is possible to love your country with a broken heart, she says, imploring us to grapple with contradiction, employing the paradox mindset as we shift from the rigidness of “either/or” to the nuance of “both/and.” EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Wired for consistency… Light vs. heat-based change… Sitting in paradox… Belief grief… MORE FROM DOLLY CHUGH: A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias “How to let go of being a "good" person—and become a better person,” TED Talk Check out Dolly's Website Follow her on Twitter and Instagram “The Truth About Rosa Parks And Why It Matters To Your Diversity Initiative,” Forbes To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- When Women Lead (Julia Boorstin)“But my other favorite thing about the confidence piece, as someone who can be very anxious and nervous myself, is that sometimes it's valuable not to be confident. And there is this piece in the book about how everyone would benefit if, when you're making decisions, you start off in an information gathering stage. And instead of being super confident when you're trying to gather data, you turn down your confidence, be not confident at all, be confused, be concerned, be anxious. Gather all the data, as many differing viewpoints as possible. Once you've figured out the right answer with all the humility that you could possibly have, jack up your confidence and then you execute. And this idea that confidence can be on a dial and there's value in not being confident sometimes is something that I was never taught. And that feels very reassuring to learn,” so says Julia Boorstin, who has spent over two decades as a reporter, working for CNBC, CNN, and Fortune. She’s also the creator of the “Disruptor 50” franchise, a list which highlights private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. Her first book, When Women Lead, draws on her work studying and interviewing hundreds of executives throughout her impressive career to tell the stories of more than 60 female CEOs and leaders who have fought massive social and institutional headwinds to run some of the world’s most innovative and successful companies. Combining years of academic research and interviews, Julia reveals these women’s powerful commonalities—they are highly adaptive to change, deeply empathetic in their management style, and much more likely to integrate diverse points of view into their business strategies. This makes these women uniquely equipped to lead, grow businesses, and navigate crises in ways where their male counterparts don’t seem as gifted. Today’s episode digs into Boorstin’s meticulously researched book as we cover a few of the female tendencies that correlate with great leadership: how women embrace the role of fire-prevention as opposed to fire fighting; their ability to avoid ethical quandaries and group think; and the value of gaining confidence through experience. The monoculture tends to focus on iconic female leaders, she tells us, but there is so much more to gain from focusing on the stories that are not being told, expanding the diversity of images of success for women and men alike. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Female qualities correlate with great leadership… Women as fire preventers… The myth of the confidence gap… Feedback bias… MORE FROM JULIA BOORSTIN: When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them CNBC Disruptor 50 Follow Julia on Instagram and Twitter DIVE DEEPER: “Better Decisions Through Diversity: Heterogeneity Can Boost Group Performance,” Northwestern Kellogg School of Management Study “How the VC Pitch Process Is Failing Female Entrepreneurs,” Harvard Business Review “Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men,” Harvard Kennedy School Gender Action Portal “The Remarkable Power of Hope,” Psychology Today “Language Bias in Performance Feedback,” Textio 2022 Study To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- A Map to Your Soul (Jennifer Freed, PhD)“Well, I think of it like the metaphor of the ensemble in a great musical, like everybody has to know their part. Everybody has to give 2000% and everybody has to really cheer on the other people, doing their part or it just doesn't work. And the way I see the map to our soul, this astrological map is we have free will. So we get to play it at whatever level we choose and certainly cultural influences and patriarch and all kinds of stuff messes us up. But I firmly believe, and I've seen it over and over that if we get the help, we need to uncover our fullest expression, people are humming at their fullest best part, which then allows everyone else around them to rise up.” So says Jennifer Freed, a psychologist, astrologer, and the author of many books, including the just-released A Map to Your Soul: Using the Astrology of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water to Live Deeply and Fully. I met Jennifer almost a decade ago—she was, in many ways, the gateway to discovering my own spirituality, because when she did my natal chart, I felt deeply seen and held. It seemed like a small miracle. Jennifer is also a psychologist and so her perceptions are grounded in life: They are insightful, practical, and actionable while also being profound and deep.This is a hard path to walk. Jennifer brings this same quality to her books—you need only have the most rudimentary understanding of astrology to get a lot out of their pages. They are, in many ways, a workout for your soul, and an opportunity to get to know yourself better. And if you do it with or for people you love, you’ll also get insight into why they do what they do. As she explains, astrology is often confined to our star signs and newspaper tidbits, when it’s so much vaster. In today’s conversation we discuss our moon, our rising, and the elements in our chart, which signify how we respond to our life. If you want, head to astro.com and get a free natal chart so you can understand the presence of air, water, fire, and earth in your own chart—though it’s not necessary. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: We are all known by the planets… Talking about the elements… Don’t spare the necessary pain… The corporatization of spirituality… Sign round-up… MORE FROM JENNIFER FREED: A Map to Your Soul: Using the Astrology of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water to Live Deeply and Fully Use Your Planets Wisely: Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology Check out Jennifer Freed's Website Follow her on Instagram and Twitter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- What Makes Love Last (John & Julie Gottman, PhDs)“I’ve never really figured out how come we stop asking each other questions. You know, we always do that in the beginning of a relationship just to get to know somebody, but then once we get committed, once we get busy, we're busy, busy, then we think, okay, everything is cool over here. I don't need to put energy into it. I'll go to work. And our partners, meanwhile, and we are changing over time. We are changing with history, with politics. We are changing with our whole world as our kids get older. If we have kids as our career changes and we stop asking each other questions, you know, our days become this endless to-do list period. And the only question we ask is, did you call the plumber? Well, yes. Anything else you wanna know?,” says Dr. Julie Gottman. Julie and her husband, John, have dedicated over four decades to the research and practice of fostering healthy and long lasting relationships. The Gottmans are the world’s leading relationship scientists, having gathered data on over three thousands couples to identify the building blocks of love and employing those findings through the training of clinicians and creation of principles and products for couples around the world. Their latest book,The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy, distills their findings to the simple question, what makes love last? Providing readers with a simple, seven-day action plan, the book makes the Gottman’s work accessible to every relationship - no grand gestures, difficult conversations, or multi-day seminars required. I am delighted to be joined by the couple today as we discuss how to build a fruitful dialogue around the perpetual problems that crop up in relationships; filling your relationship piggy bank with small, but daily, positive actions; and committing to an ongoing curiosity about your partner as they grow and evolve. If both people want to do the work, they tell us, many more relationships can be saved than we may think. Lasting love requires good partnership hygiene, tiny interventions over the course of a lifetime, in order to establish a culture of respect, awareness, and rediscovery that keeps things on the rails. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Accepting perpetual problems… Cultivating curiosity… Dawning of awareness… Respecting anger… MORE FROM JOHN & JULIE GOTTMAN: The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy The Gottman Institute - A Research-Based Approach to Relationships Gottman Relationship Quiz - How Well Do You Know Your Partner? Find a Gottman Trained Therapist Follow the Gottman Institute on Twitter and Instagram To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Embracing Uncertainty (Estelle Frankel)“Sometimes you can't see the full path. And so you don't even venture into the unknown, you know, you're unhappy, you know, you need to change, but you're afraid to take the next step because you can't see the whole path. And so what I learned that night in the dark on the trail in Jerusalem when I had left my, first marriage and I was terrified of the unknown is that it's okay. I could see the next step. There was just enough light on the path to take one step at a time. And after I would take a step, I could see the next step. And that became a metaphor for me, for venturing, you know, breaking out of a stuck place and trusting uncertainty.” So says Estelle Frankel, a psychotherapist and author of Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness and The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty. In today’s conversation we explore the dimensions of an ironically, more certain state: That of uncertainty, of not knowing, or being able to control what happens next. Estelle is a deep thinker about questions like this, as well as the intersection between spirituality and psychology, and what feel like essential truths to all of us, regardless of the denomination of our faith. I particularly love the way that she thinks about the polarity of good and evil, and the essential components of each. MORE FROM ESTELLE FRANKEL: Read Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness and The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty Estelle’s Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- When Stress Becomes Illness (Gabor Maté, M.D.)“Where in your life where you're not saying yes, but there's a, yes. That wants to be said where there's some desire for self expression or creativity or way of being that you're stifling because you're trying to stay in an attachment relationship rather than being yourself. So where are you still choosing attachment over authenticity? If the two are in conflict now, ideally we will form relationships with partners and spouses and, and families and friends where we can have both authenticity and attachment. But if that's not possible, this is the challenge for all of us. What are we gonna choose? Are we still gonna choose the attachment or we're gonna go for authenticity. And I'll tell you, health wise, we pay a huge price. If we go for the attachment by stranding authenticity. And so, as we say in the book, the loss of authenticity inauthenticity, it may not have been a choice to the child. It's not like they had a choice in a matter, but authenticity can be a choice to the adult,” so says Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and four-time bestselling author, who joins me today to discuss his newest book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture. With over four decades of clinical experience, Gabor is a sought after expert on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and unraveling the relationship between stress and illness. In his new book, he brilliantly dissects our understanding of “normal,” exploring the role of trauma, stress, and societal pressures play in our mental and physical well-being. Chronic diseases are not interruptions to our lives, but rather manifestations of how we live, Dr. Maté tells us. Very few diseases are genetically predetermined, he says, emphasizing that it is our environment that brings any genetic predispositions we may have to fruition. Starting in childhood, when we begin to disconnect from our authentic selves in order to maintain attachment relationships, most of us live a life where some combination of trauma, emotional pain, and separation from self play a major, yet unexplored, role in our health. Without a grounding in trauma-informed study, western medicine often fails to treat the core wounds that make us sick, leaving us vulnerable to mental illness, auto-immune disease, and addiction. When we recognize our maladies not as independent identities but as bodily expressions of mental suppressions, we can become empowered adults who choose to rediscover an authentic self we lost somewhere along the way. It is only through self-retrieval, Dr. Maté shares, that we can truly begin healing. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Chronic illnesses are representations of our lives…10:00 Childhood wounds…21:00 Addiction as a coping mechanism is response to trauma…42:00 Soul retrieval…48:00 MORE FROM DR. GABOR MATÈ: Read The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture as well as other books by Gabor Maté Explore Dr. Maté's Website Follow him on Twitter and Instagram To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- What Makes Us Whole (Susan Cain)“I think we all have these stories, you know, whether they come through bereavements or betrayals or, or whatever, we, we all have these losses…There's something about having been immersed in this bittersweet tradition and understanding the pain of separation and understanding the desire for a union and understanding that the loves that we lose, that we might lose particular loves, but that we never lose love itself. I think that's like the real thing that's really made me come to a place of peace,” so says Susan Cain, former lawyer and bestselling author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. In her first book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which spent eight years on the New York Times Best Seller List, Cain urged us to hold space for the introverts among us. In Bittersweet, she implores us to hold space for our sorrow and longing. Through research, storytelling, and memoir, her book explores the value of a melancholic outlook on life and what it stands to teach us about creativity, connection, and love. Our conversation moves through many facets of what Cain calls “the bittersweet tradition,” exploring all the ways in which allowing ourselves to experience the cosmic sadness simultaneously opens us up to transcendant ecstasy. We are creatures who simultaneously lose and love, who separate and long for home, who experience the bitter along with the sweet, she tells us, and it is in these extremes that our sorrow and joy have the opportunity to meet, unexpectedly bringing us closer to the sublime beauty of life. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: The ecstasy of engaging with sorrow…14:15 The most fundamental part of our emotional DNA…25:00 Writing your experience…43:00 Opening to a different frequency…54:43 MORE FROM SUSAN CAIN: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Listen to the Bittersweet playlist on Spotify or Apple Music Watch Susan’s TEDTalk: The hidden power of sad songs and rainy days Follow Susan on Twitter and Instagram Check out The Next Big Idea Book Club—a nonfiction subscription book club curated by Susan Cain, Macolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Fallacy of Time Management (Oliver Burkeman)“There seems to be this basic idea that if you make a system including a human life, more efficient, capable of processing, more inputs to put it in like abstract general terms. Well, if that supply of inputs is infinite, all that's gonna happen is that you attract more of them into the system and you end up busier, right? This is Parkinson's law.. It's induced demand with the way when they widen freeways to ease the congestion, it makes the route more appealing to more drivers. So more cars come and fill the lane and then the congestion gets back to what it was before. There's all these different ways in which trying to get on top of something that you can't actually get on top of is futile. And technology seems to offer us that promise, and of course it does help us do lots and lots of really useful things, but it doesn't help us get to the state of peace of mind with respect to our limited natures. It's never going to break through that, that barrier,” so says Oliver Burkeman, feature writer for The Guardian and the New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a book which delivers practical self-help through the lens of philosophical reflection as Burkeman questions the modern fixation on “getting everything done.” We are finite, material creatures who only live so long—about four thousand weeks—Burkeman tells us, yet we are obsessed with cramming more and more “stuff” into our days, aided by time saving technologies that give us the illusion of transcending the ultimate limitation: Our own mortality. Our culture has led us to believe that if we just became more efficient, we could optimize our lives enough to bring about greater happiness. But in an era where busyness has become a virtue, our attempts to drive efficiency ultimately don’t yield more time for the meaningful stuff, but rather heighten our sense of anxious hurry as we face, and are expected to process, an incessant stream of inputs. We can only begin to build toward a meaningful life when we embrace our finitude, he advises us. Rather than searching out shortcuts to arrive at our cosmically significant life purpose faster, Burkeman tells us to ride the metaphorical bus—allowing ourselves to learn and develop at all the stops along the way. The universe is not depending on us to maximize our time, he says, and when we fall victim to the siren’s call of efficiency culture to avoid the annoying parts of life, we miss out on a whole bunch of the meaningful stuff, too. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Why we shouldn’t maximize efficiency…5:18 Instrumentalizing time…15:42 Originality lies on the far side of unoriginality…31:41 Our universal insignificance…40:11 MORE FROM OLIVER BURKEMAN: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking Explore Oliver's Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Touching the Other Side (Laura Lynne Jackson)“What I know is that no one is alone. There's no sense of isolation or sadness or disconnection that I think at times we mistakenly feel here because we get very stuck in the fact that we're in these physical bodies, right? And sometimes we're physically isolated or sometimes I think some of us are so distanced from our own truths and our own inner voice, our own inner wisdom that we get very confused on our life path. And then we feel spiritually distanced from being connected to this great fabric and grid of light that's here. Right? So I think the answer is for all of us here on earth to go deep within, to access our highest path, our true purpose, the connection that's always there. And we can really call upon those on the other side to help us do that because they're still working with us and for us and so forth,” so says Laura Lynne Jackson, psychic medium and best selling author of The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living and Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe. Laura has dedicated her life and career to using her incredible gift, the ability to connect and communicate with the Other Side, to teach all of us how to tap into our intuition, access our higher self, and ultimately embrace the powerful light that burns inside of each of us. Our conversation is both inspiring and practical as Laura guides us through exploring the connection within us. She discusses how to ask for and recognize signs from our Team of Light—her term for the rockstar assembly of our departed loved ones, guardian angels, and the divine, all of whom have congregated on the Other Side to provide us with guidance, love and connection—as well as why we should trust our pull toward connecting with others here on earth. For Laura, we exist to help our souls grow, collectively, whether here on earth or on the Other Side, and when we open ourselves up to be part of the great, eternal chain of light, we move the whole forward. Connection is a gift available for all of us to access, we must simply create the opening for it to flourish. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Signs & communicating with your Team of Light…5:40 Joining the chain of light…20:23 Reframing…42:24 Finding the right medium…51:36 MORE FROM LAURA LYNNE JACKSON: Laura's Website The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe Follow Laura on Instagram and Twitter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Power of Myth to Heal (Kwame Scruggs, PhD)“I tear up at the drop of a hand and got another facilitator who tears up quicker than I do. Uh, but like we tell the youth, the soul would have no rainbow had the eyes, no tears. And so whenever any of the youth tear up or any of the adults, we take the tears and we rub it on the drum so that the tears don't go to waste that reverberate, you know, when we, when we hit the drum. Yeah. So, yeah. So a lot of it's about getting it, you know, dealing with your feelings, you know, like, like me says, and others, if you don't, you know, if you don't deal with your wound, you will continue to wound others. You know? So it's about them identifying how they've been wounded, you know, but, but then, but then also it's that wound that drives. Okay. So you find out what it is your wound is and that what, you know, drive that's one of the reasons why I do what I do.” Kwame Scruggs, born and Raised in Akron, Ohio, spent the first 15 years after high school working for the Goodyear tire company. And then, he took a leap, or decided, in the words of mythologist Joseph Campbell to follow his bliss. He went deep into the works of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Michael Meade, where he came to understand that myth can transform lives—that seeing yourself in the context of a much larger human story can change anything. Ultimately, he received a PhD in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology. Kwame began working with high school dropouts and other at-risk kids across Ohio in 1998, where he led them through myths to the beat of the djembe drum, reconnecting them to a much higher purpose. He ultimately founded Alchemy, where they work with thousands of youth. In 2012, Alchemy won the President’s Committee National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the nation’s highest honor for after-school and out-of-school programs, an award Kwame accepted from the First Lady, Michelle Obama, at the White House. In 2020, the Association of Teaching Artists (with Lincoln Center Education) presented Kwame with their Innovation in Teaching Artistry award. His work is stunning, particularly in its ability to inspire life-changing moments for kids who come to realize the power inherent within each of them, to see themselves as the hero of their own story, and why that story matters. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- Overriding Implicit Bias (Jessica Nordell)“I mean, the idea that we're colorblind or, or gender blind or age blind or something, is ridiculous. I mean, we categorize those things within milliseconds, right? When we see one another, it's part of our our development of our visual processing and our social, our social development. But it's a deep and challenging problem. Like how we create space between the categorization of one another and the evaluation of one another. I think creating that space is what allows us to open the door to a new way of interacting in a more humane way.” So says Jessica Nordell, the award-winning science writer behind THE END OF BIAS: A BEGINNING, which was the culmination of fifteen years of reporting on implicit bias and discrimination in all facets of life. As a frequent contributor to The New York Times, the Atlantic, and the New Republic, Jessica goes beyond delineating all the ways in which our minds unconsciously and automatically filter the world—in ways that are harmful to ourselves and others—to uncover successful interventions. She details, in a stunning way, people, companies, and cultures that have managed to undo unconscious bias, and build something more true and beautiful in its place, whether it’s the way schools assess gifted students, how policing is done, or undoing the long-term and insidious effects of gender discrimination in the workplace. Jessica has a degree in physics from Harvard and a degree in poetry from the University of Wisconsin, which underlines the rarity of her mind and her ability to perceive nuance and complexity: Her book is one that promises healing, and I recommend it to everyone. Meanwhile, this is a fun fact: Jessica is a direct descendant of the last woman to be tried for witchcraft in the state of Massachusetts. I’d be happy to be in her coven, any day. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: We are beholden to our unexamined patterns… Bias, a habit to be interrupted… Ending our notion of out-group homogeneity… The space between categorization and evaluation… MORE FROM JESSICA NORDELL: Jessica's Website The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias Explore more of Jessica's writing on unconscious and implicit bias Subscribe to Jessica's newsletter: Who We Are To Each Other To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
- The Power of the Enneagram (Susan Olesek)“And I just feel that people, I now I have so much more perspective, but at the time, even I felt people who have already had so much adversity in their life. That's a big precursor to how people get behind bars. And then when they're there, I feel like that's the time to heal, but we have such a different mindset in our country and other countries do the same and such a punitive one. And that didn't, that's not how I am organized inside. That's not what feels right in me. And so I think right away, I saw how things could be different, but I also saw just the power of this tool in people's hands who were really starving to understand what was wrong in their lives and thinking there was something wrong with them. And, I just think my approach to the enneagram is that there's nothing wrong with any of us. Enneagram is a map to show us what's so right about us. And it felt like the, the most profound place to be figuring out how to teach it, which is what I was doing,” says Susan Olesek, founder of the Enneagram Prison Project, a non-profit dedicated to sharing the power of self-awareness education using the Enneagram system with those who have been imprisoned around the globe. An unapologetic idealist, and an enneagram Type One for those who are familiar with the system, Susan joins us today to share her compassionate approach to the Enneagram, honed over 15 years of engaging with Fortune 500 executives, corporate teams, schools and those experiencing incarceration. She recently founded The Human Potentialists (THP) a Benefit Corporation with a vision to democratize the Enneagram, and whose mission is guiding people to their highest potential while connecting them to the core of our shared humanity. She views the Enneagram as an insightful tool meant to guide all of us to our highest potential, convinced that people are inherently good and encouraging us to see the possibilities that lie beyond our “personality.” Susan takes us through the potential and pitfalls of each Enneagram type, reminding us that it is vulnerable work to look deeply at ourselves in order to see and break free from the prison of our design. Their public program 9PrisonsONEKey is EPP’s compassionate introduction to the Enneagram will be accepting applications beginning July 29th, 2022. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: Leaning in when we feel resistance… The nine personality types… Seeing the possibilities beyond our personality prison… MORE FROM SUSAN OLESEK: Enneagram Prison Project The Human Potentialists Both Sides of the Bars | Susan Olesek | TEDxWashingtonSquare DIG DEEPER: The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types RHETI: The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices0 comments0
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