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The Commune Podcast is where we explore the ideas and practices that help us live healthy, connected, purpose-filled lives. Each week host Jeff Krasno speaks with teachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, and storytellers on topics related to personal and societal well-being — from nutrition and integrative medicine to spirituality and personal growth to environmental regeneration and civic engagement. In addition to being a podcast, Commune is also an online course platform with more than 100 f ...
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How to Tell Stories to Children

How to Tell Stories to Children

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From the authors of How to Tell Stories to Children comes a podcast that supports parents, teachers, and grandparents who want to engage in the intimacy and excitement of storytelling at home. Our work has been endorsed by Dr. Jane Goodall, New York Times bestselling authors and parenting guides Steve Biddulph, Kim John Payne, Bill McKibben, Richard Rohr, Charles Eisenstein, and many more. Warning! This is not a collection of children's stories. It's about empowerment. It is about finding yo ...
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Fatherhood is the biggest rite of passage in a man’s life, and our biggest opportunity to grow up, wake up, and to learn who you actually are. This podcast is intended to be a lightning rod to call men to action, to create community, and to set a new tone and standard for what fatherhood means.
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Inner Pathways

Inner Pathways project

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Check out our inspiration for your journey towards a regenerative lifestyle. This is a collection of stories, interviews, practices, meditation and tips to inspire innovative approaches in learning for sustainability. With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
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Low Tox Life

Low Tox Life 2016

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Hello! Welcome to the Low Tox Life podcast - the place to bring your low tox life to life across all low tox pillars: Food. Body. Home. Mind. Planet. We cover it all to support you and your goals with some of the best minds in the world joining me each week. I'm Alexx Stuart, your host, and in 2009 I coined the term 'low tox' and started lowtoxlife.com. From there I've created 10 courses and had 2 books published (Low Tox Life and Low Tox Life FOOD; I've written countless research articles a ...
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Joyful & Unapologetic Unfolding. This podcast w/Capri & featured guests can feel something like talking with an old friend and also, at times, a cue for reflections of self. Themes you can expect: Honesty, Humor, Women’s Health, Living in Harmony with Seasons, Self-Development, Feminine Wisdom, Motherhood, Free birth, and Terrain Model of Health (vs germ theory) and our God-given rights as humans. Capri is an "elder millennial" with a background in business, psychology, acupuncture, yoga, an ...
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Money only matters if it helps you live a life you love. On the podcast, we interview remarkable people and share strategies for mastering money and living a meaningful life. Topics include money, entrepreneurship, investing, mindfulness, philosophy, and more. Hosted by Grant Sabatier, Author of the international bestseller Financial Freedom, Creator of MillennialMoney.com, and CEO of the holding company MMG Media Group.
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Join Peter for deep and often provocative dives into the wide open wonder, and potentially revolutionary implications, of authentic Spiritual Awakening in our Tipping Point Times. Peter is a spiritual guide and the co-founder of a thriving contemporary experiment in spiritual awakening and collective emergence based in Portugal called The Awakened Life Project. He is the author of the book The Fire of the Heart, leader of the Awakened Life Men's Collective and founder of EvoLusa: Toward an A ...
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Today we are featuring an excerpt from the Commune course Political Hope with philosopher, teacher, public speaker, and author Charles Eisenstein. This course was filmed during the election season of 2019 and, rather than feeling out of date, still offers potent insights into why real political change can feel so elusive — and what we can do about …
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Show 400 - How did we get here!? Well, it took a few people to get this show to where it is today and I’ll list them below because if you’re reading this, you’re one of them. In the show today, I’ve chosen 4 excerpts from past shows that weave together in funny ways, once I listened to them all in a row… 10 or so minutes from each of these deep-fro…
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Ben Rawlence is an award-winning writer, activist and co-founder of Black Mountains College, Wales. He has written extensively about the human consequences of environmental catastrophe in Africa, and later turned his attention to similar issues in Europe and the Arctic. Ben's research led him to focus on building institutions that promote new ways …
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The most common question I get that comes up is about how to “clean” mold!? (Pro tip: switch to saying remove not ‘clean’ or ‘kill’.) Michael Pinto has been in the business of identifying harmful hazards in the home from mould to asbestos, to lead and more, for over 40 years, and now semi retired, I cheekily thought he might have time for me to dat…
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We spend more than 100 billion dollars every year on supplements, but do we know if they are even benefiting our health? In this episode, Dr. Mary Pardee digs into the science on top supplements, so you can know which to pick, and which to skip. Empower yourself with the information you need to cut through the noise and streamline your supplements …
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Rabbi Sharon Brous is the founding rabbi of IKAR, a Jewish community in Los Angeles, and the author of The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Heal Our Hearts and Mend Our Broken World. In this conversation, Rabbi Brous emphasizes the importance of “sacred encounters,” people truly see and hear each other's stories, particularly in times of grief or pai…
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A love story with a bit of a biohacking twist. Commusings are thoughtful essays and short-form reflections on spirituality, philosophy, health, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com This podcast is supported by: Moon Juice Use c…
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As with all things, I believe in finding people who can help us navigate the nuanced way forward - is there a way our kids can healthily grow up in public? Devorah Heitner PhD has been asking this with curiosity both as a parent and a researcher and in today’s show, we unpack exactly that question. Her book “Growing up in Public” is a must read so …
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We finish our four-part series from the Peace Initiative for Israel and Palestine hosted at Commune Topanga with a unique conversation between Mohsen Mahdawi and Aharon Dardik. Facing each other just a few feet apart, Mohsen and Aharon practice sharing the most empathetic version of the other’s life. As Jeff sits quietly between them, he is struck …
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We continue our four-part series from the Peace Initiative for Israel and Palestine hosted at Commune Topanga by featuring Aharon Dardik, a Columbia student and activist. After moving as a child from Oakland, California, to a settlement in the West Bank, Aharon witnessed Israeli occupation and militarism firsthand. Aharon conscientiously objected t…
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Camila Moreno is one of civil society's foremost experts on climate policy, and her critical analysis of carbon metrics, digitalization and corporate power is unparalleled. Coming from social and environmental movements in Latin America and her native Brazil, Camila has attended all the COP climate negotiations since 2008. She has written _Carbon M…
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We continue our four-part series from the Peace Initiative for Israel and Palestine hosted at Commune Topanga by featuring Mohsen Mahdawi, a passionate activist and bridge-builder at Columbia University, currently in his senior year. Mohsen underscores empathy as the foundation of his work for justice as a path to peace, especially in understanding…
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At the end of August, Jeff hosted a summit at Commune Topanga called the Peace Initiative for Israel & Palestine. This week-long mini-conference gathered Palestinian and Israeli/Jewish campus leaders from Columbia University, Brown University, and UCLA as well as a number of Middle East historians and professional mediators. The goal was to engage …
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Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a wildly popular online course that teaches precise practices to manage yourself as you navigate life. The course is a favorite of many high performers in the business world, but it is applicable and effective for parents as well. Jonny has a cohort of his program coming up on October 7th 2024,…
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Did you know the heart contains 40,000 neurons and sends more messages to the brain than vice versa? In this episode, author Kimberly connects modern research around heart-brain coherence with ancient wisdom from the Vedas, among other spiritual traditions. Together, she and Jeff discuss how emotional awareness and heart coherence can create more m…
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Did you know there are four people in every relationship? Who you are. Who they are. Who you think they are. Who they think you are. This excerpt from Dr. Gabor and Daniel Maté’s online workshop, Starting Fresh, is focused on helping parents and adult children transform stuck dynamics — but their wisdom applies to all relationships. Watch an additi…
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Did you feel like kids connected with kids and adults with adults regarding food? Separate times, separate tables, dumbed-down ‘fun’ food? This week we are talking food and little people - Toddlers to be specific given the wonderful Luka from Book to Food has a new book available for pre-order and soon for real “Toddler to Table”. It is a stunner o…
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Resisting categorization, Alnoor works towards the healing of culture, people and the living world, bringing spirituality, politics and place-based work into dialogue with one another. He co-founded The Rules – a global activist collective and thinktank for economic alternatives. He also co-founded the post-capitalist community Tierra Valiente in C…
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Dr. Zach Bush doesn't keep his ideas in a neat ideological box. Instead, paints a sweeping picture of our interconnected world — one in which topics such as regenerative farming, bio-engineering, government policy, and the human microbiome are all intimately linked. And while he candidly points out missteps at many levels, he also offers a hopeful …
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It wasn’t long after my entry into “mythopoetic masculinity” back in 2015 that I came across the Minnesota Men’s Gathering, a yearly event that began in 1984 by Robert Bly, author of Iron John. The organization has released a trove of stories & lectures on their Youtube channel from celebrated teachers such as Bly, Lewis Hyde, Martin Prechtel, Mart…
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From meditating monks to Navy SEALs, cold water exposure is used in many formats and communities to build mental resilience while boasting impressive physical benefits. Similarly, heat therapies have been utilized around the world for millennia, including saunas in Finland, onsens in Japan, and sweat lodges in Native American culture. By the end of…
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Being a teen is harder than ever before and it’s showing in the stats and research. BUT, this is not about going down the fear road, nor is it all about crying “it’s social media” as an over simplified solution. We also need to do a LOT more to diversify the ‘success’ picture during school years, help them matter, feel the love and find themselves …
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We know our emotions greatly affect our overall well being, but we aren't always in touch with our heart's true desires. Enter Danielle LaPorte — a poet, speaker, author, and creator of The Desire Map. Tune in for some spiritual perspective on what it means to move and live from the heart. This episode originally aired on May 14, 2019 Watch Daniell…
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According to Dr. Austin Perlmutter, many solutions we’ve been pitched for brain health are actually making things worse. But he shares good news, too: There’s so much we can do to change our brains for the better, from the content on our phones to the food on our plates. Because as Dr. Austin emphasizes, what we consume determines the quality of ou…
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Iain McGilchrist is an Oxford literary scholar, and a doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience. A champion of holistic thinking, Iain’s tour-de-force book The Master and His Emissary, along with his more recent The Matter with Things, have transformed academic and popular understanding not only of the human brain, but also of the importance of a funda…
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Jeff muses on what you never want your doctor to say... followed by a seredipitious meeting in a rose garden. Commusings are thoughtful essays and short-form reflections on spirituality, philosophy, health, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter a…
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Why do more people suffer from mental illness now than ever before? In this episode, Dr. Gabor Maté and Jeff discuss the premise that disease in our society is actually a normal consequence of a toxic social system driven by short-term profits over long-term human health. This episode originally aired on September 8, 2022 Watch Gabor’s two Commune …
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If you’ve been confused about hormone testing - this week’s show is here to help. @drleahhechtman PhD, takes us through hormone testing options for age, stage and situation, as well as things that impact the accuracy of a test. We cover: Saliva, Urine and Blood testing - when which one or all are helpful and for whom. What reference ranges are base…
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In today’s episode, female longevity leader Kayla Barnes highlights how you can “hack your home” to support overall well-being. This includes what you can do, room by room, to reduce toxin exposure as well as which simple (and some not-so-simple) gadgets can make a difference in how you feel and how long you may live. This podcast is supported by: …
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We’re now a month out from our next cohort of The Deep Masculine, a 3 month online journey for men that weaves together mythology, somatics, ritual & brotherhood. I invited my collaborator Deus Fortier to reflect on our initial journey which we launched earlier this year and completed in June. At its core, The Deep Masculine seeks to repattern men'…
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Tennis is about losing. It’s about moving on, staying present, and constantly believing in yourself. And these qualities can be applied to life. Commusings are thoughtful essays and short-form reflections on spirituality, philosophy, health, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign…
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As promised: Part 2 is here, with microbiologist @kiranbiome and it is a deep dive into the mechanism for “leakiness” of our body’s barrier functions. He took my nightclub bouncer and ran with it and I think you’ll find more empowerment when it comes to understanding and working with issues related to: Leaky Gut Leaky Skin Leaky Brain …as we explor…
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