Josh Lewis is a CPA who lives in Tulsa and works for the Oklahoma State Auditor's Office. A former candidate for City Auditor with over a decade of experience in auditing governments, Josh has a unique and practical perspective as an outside observer of politics put into practice. For more, please visit his site: Saving Elephants. Please rate us on…

Dean Graves is a spiritual teacher, author, and podcaster with over two decades of experience in meditation and mindfulness instruction. He has conducted numerous workshops and group sessions on self-healing and personal growth, guiding many individuals on their journeys toward greater self-awareness and enlightenment. He also produces an internati…

Indra Rinzler is a lifetime spiritual seeker. He’s a healer, teacher, and offers life readings for clients. Astrology and the Enneagram of Personality are the main modalities that he shares. He’s been studying astrology and spirituality for fifty years. He first learned of the Enneagram of Personality in 1999. He uses these two modalities individua…

Joel Bouchard is a doctoral student in psychology, a multi-instrumentalist record producer, author, painter, Army veteran, business leader, local government official, and host of the philosophy podcast From Nowhere to Nothing. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at mikeyopp.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to discu…

After 19 years practicing law, Jesse Cohen has returned to his artistic roots. As founder and executive director of Mount of Angels, he oversees the vision and strategy of the foundation, which provides resources and mentorship for young artists in the LA area. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at mikeyopp.com This is a pub…

Stephanie Chevrier is a visual artist living on the west coast of Canada. She began exploring death, consciousness, and the afterlife several years ago, and after noticing positive shifts in her life, she became passionate about sharing her research with a wider audience. She encourages all of us to approach one of the greatest mysteries of life wi…

Adam Zuckerman is Founder of Buried in Work (www.BuriedinWork.com), a company focused on easing the burden of estate planning, the tasks surrounding end-of-life activities, and estate transition. He is an Eisenhower Fellow, an attorney, an MBA, and has a background that spans multiple industries, including finance, consumer package goods, clean ene…

Dr. Luyi Kathy Zhang is a certified integrative life coach and hypnotist & hospice/palliative care doctor. She combines the wisdom learned from caring for dying patients with the science of brain change to help high achieving women of color rediscover the joy of being themselves. She also helps people to clear their limiting beliefs, dismantle perf…

Lisa Sugarman is an author, a nationally syndicated columnist, a survivor of suicide loss, a mental health advocate, a crisis counselor with The Trevor Project, and a storyteller with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She writes the syndicated opinion column It Is What It Is and is the author of How To Raise Perfectly Imperfect Kids A…

Kat Albrecht is a police detective-turned-pet detective, mystery and nonfiction author, and inspirational speaker. Since 1998 she has trained professional and volunteer pet detectives (including dogs trained to track lost pets) through her online pet detective academy. You can read her quirky and fascinating stories at Armed Robbers 2 Airedales. Pl…

Joseph Khasho is a Board member of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, a non-profit affiliated with Dr. Jeffrey Long founder of NDERF.org. NDERF.org is a publicly available website that aggregates and disseminates near-death experiences (NDEs) from around the world. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at mikeyopp.c…

Eric Kaplan is a writer and philosopher who has written for Futurama, The Flight of the Conchords, The Big Bang Theory, and Young Sheldon. His philosophy book, Does Santa Exist? deals with ontology, logic, mysticism, and the philosophy of religion. His comedy philosophy podcast “Terrifying Questions” (with Taylor Carman of Barnard College) is avail…

Emerson Souza is an Organizational Psychologist by trade, working as a government consultant in the field of Human Capital, Human Centered Design, and Tech Integration and Development. He's an overtly curious person with a profound interest in people. For example, he went to five colleges, intentionally, to diversify the type of people he could mee…

Seph Deitlen is a human potential activator and a new thought leader. He is also a conscious filmmaker, content creator, certified hypnotherapist, angel psychic medium, and energy healer. He facilitates courses and events that empower others to access higher levels of consciousness through communication with their angels and the quantum field of in…

Psychic medium Jaime Lynn is a distinguished 4th generation Psychic/Medium, certified and tested for her exceptional abilities. Beyond her psychic gifts, she is also a Medical Intuitive/Energy Healer, Clairsentience/Empath, Clairvoyant, Clairaudient, and a seasoned paranormal investigator. Holding an MBA and an alumna of Michigan State University, …

Cyrus Zavieh has worked for more than 30 years in New York City’s busiest hospitals as an administrator, and on weekends he is CiDO the Clown. He became CiDO 25 years ago after visiting sick children and geriatric patients during his time off. He has taught and traveled all over the world helping to spread the art of clowning. Please rate us on App…

Curtis Chin is a co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City and served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. He has screened films at over 600 venues in 16 countries and has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the De…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Preston Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he found out that his friends, family, and coworkers were having dramatic encounters. He has since authored hundreds of articles and 32 books on the subject, 10 of which are Amazon UFO bestsell…

Brian Barrick is an active duty servicemember in the United States Navy. An avid toy collector, he spends much of his free time participating in and supporting that hobby. He’s travelled all over the globe and seen many things but still loves to come home and relax with an iced tea. He lives in San Diego, California. He’s a tragically young widower…

Eric Thurston was raised in Indiana then moved to Wyoming where he worked on a cattle ranch. When it started snowing in August, he headed south and fell in love with Arizona. He then spent a year reading the classics and journaling, went to ASU, got married, and had kids. He worked in the printing industry then taught special education for 20 years…

Tarek Taha is an engineering leader with more than 25 years of experience in the Transportation industry. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas. After nearly dying from a lung infection that spread to his brain, Tarek’s life took a turn, and he has begun to investigate self-awareness and growth. He…

Edward Martin is the Vice President of Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, the oldest operating pet cemetery in the world and a business his family has owned and operated since 1974. As a teen, Ed spent his summers working at Hartsdale and after college he dabbled as an attorney and Certified Public Accountant but eventually returned home to Hartsdale which he…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Sam and Mike talk about arguing, marriage, impasses, how to tell children they are wrong even if they’re right, and Sam drops a work story that might get him canned…By Mike Oppenheim and Sam Oppenheim

Colin Finch is a Humanist (non-religious) Funeral Celebrant. He has been doing this for 4 years, carrying out 2-3 services per month. He finds Celebrant work incredibly rewarding from an emotional perspective, but the downside is being exposed to grief on a regular basis, so he maintains self-awareness to protect his mental health. His unique appro…

Bob Lement has produced thousands of shows and is a pioneer of online media. He co-hosts StaticRadio.com and was one of the first 50 podcasts on Adam Curry's original list of podcasts at the beginning of the now-famous media format he coined. Bob has also been interviewed by traditional media outlets over the years in the US and abroad about produc…

Dayle Adams began formulating an idea to enable people to leave behind information, memories, and messages after the suicide of a great friend. She felt that regardless of how people died, there was information that could be helpful to those left behind. When her Mum was diagnosed with dementia, she realized how unprepared people were, including he…

Brie Smith is responsible for overseeing all operations and services at Return Home, a death care facility, where she ensures that every process is optimized and organized. She is also the “voice” of Return Home, delivering their message of sustainable death care to both traditional media and social media alike. She has been a licensed funeral dire…

This week’s Coffin Talk features one of the five most influential people I’ve ever had the privilege of learning from. Her name is Tiffany Chan, and she’s a Master Akashic Healer, and her life story is fascinating: After working with the World Economic Forum, she was crossing a busy street in South Africa and was nearly killed by a car. This wake-u…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Barbara Nelson combines her own psychic sensitivity with knowledge of paranormal activity to "follow her own leads" and validate information with various paranormal investigating tools. She and her husband Mark have investigated high-profile paranormal sites across …

Vin Jensen is a split personality who publishes under the name Ien Nivens. His available works include The American Book of Changes, a re-imagining of the ancient divination system known as the I Ching, and a novel called Tangible Angels. He is currently working on a trilogy of Mesopotamian stories called the Books of Shinar, dealing with the destr…

In 2009, David Ross converted from Atheistic-Satanism to Catholicism. In 2016 he launched Catholic Versus (CVS) Podcast, where he interviews guests of all walks of life in order to share various perspectives on faith and philosophy. He lives in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with his beautiful wife Anna, and their 5 wonderful house-plants who shall rema…

Jay Gordon Cone has spent the past 35 years supporting leadership development and organizational change. His current focus is helping leaders deal with uncertainty and complexity. Jay is on a mission to put a little daylight between people and their assumptions. He’s a founding partner of the consulting firm, Unstuck Minds. Please rate us on Apple …

Dena Oppenheim was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. She then lived in seven cities in five states before moving to Arizona where for the last 14 years she has lived in the same house in Scottsdale, the longest ever in one home. Her beliefs and reflections have changed as easily as her residences, but her inner core is always steadfast in trying t…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Sam and Mike talk about being raised “Jewish” by two meditating hippies in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 90s, and how that panned out as they enter their forties and raise families of their own. It’s philosophical and silly, and we do not spend even one second o…

Mark Christopher Nelson is a talented psychic medium who discovered his ability following the murder of his father. His father appeared to him after the funeral, and Mark asked him to stay away. However, 25 years later, his father returned, showing Mark that he could see and hear spirits. Now, Mark works as a psychic medium and paranormal investiga…

Josh Larsen is the co-host of the radio show and podcast Filmspotting, author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not!, and editor/producer for Think Christian, a website and podcast exploring faith and pop culture. He’s been writing and speaking about movies professionally since 1994. A veteran of the Sundance, Toronto, and Chicago International Film F…

Scott Homan was raised in Wisconsin and recorded two indie albums with his bands while being influenced by The Jehovah’s Witness religion. He left and went on to run camera and sound for a local news station while studying photography, film, and digital media. Today he runs Banana Island Films and has made an incredible documentary about his and ot…

Nahreya Seoane is a wife, mother of 2, and a teacher of 15 years, specializing in Special Education and English Language Arts for grades 7-12. In her youth, her biracial background, upbringing below the poverty line, and depression kept her hyper-aware of her marginalized status, leading to self-consciousness and generalized anxiety. To counter and…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com My brother Sam is back on the show to discuss the history of Halloween, and how weird our culture has become when it comes to kid safety and rules and fun… Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe at mikeyopp.com We released this a day early, for Halloween,…

Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell is the Intuitive Business Coach™ who leads her clients to Live Life on FIRE for the Ultimate Successful Life with peace, joy, and fulfillment! Lynita has built an award-winning law firm and publishing house, is a #1 Bestselling Author, CPA, an ordained New Thought Minister, and recognized nationally as an outstanding commu…

Amrit Evans was born and raised in San Francisco and is the manager of SF Puppy Prep, a training school for puppies. Amrit grew up as a Sikh in the 3HO community but slowly faded from the practices by her twenties. In her free time, she is a gamer, athlete, dog-mom, singer, and spends time with family and friends. Please rate us on Apple and Spotif…

Melissa Maker is a pediatric physical therapist living and working in the SF Bay Area. She is a lifelong equestrian who has combined her many passions in life by working at a therapeutic horseback riding program for more than 25 years. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at mikeyopp.com This is a public episode. If you’d like…

Greg Wilker lives in Marin County California where he does his best to remain present for his three children. He is a producer/host of two podcasts – one of them with a friend – and is slowly working on a third. Greg is renewing efforts to create a career as an entertainer/performer… and one day will die. As of this writing, he doesn’t know when th…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Please rate us on Apple and/or Spotify and subscribe! Mike welcomes back long-time friend, “favorite roommate ever,” and two-time guest Pepe Guzman to the show. They talk about social revolutions, breakfast cereals, why bank tellers have boring jobs but count as blu…

Daelontae Marshall is the owner of Bio Balanced Organics, a company motivated by his deep-rooted belief in the power of nature’s ability to provide holistic well-being. Recognizing the need for providing education on herbs and their transformative potential, Dee was inspired to create a company dedicated to providing high-quality organic herbs that…

Krista Melanson is a dating coach helping women find lasting love and navigate the online dating scene! She is a recovering Chef who struggled through dating and found her Perfect Partner. Now she is helping others stay the course without giving up - she’s a drill sergeant, cheerleader, virtual BFF supporting women in any way they need it! Contact …

Matthew Garnier is the author of Swept Up: Lessons from the End Times, a memoir about his church-focused, home-schooled upbringing in the 90's and what he carried from the experience into adulthood. Whether writing, podcasting, or shooting films and videos, Matt takes a comedic angle in his analysis of human behavior and tries to extract valuable l…

Jay Boyle is 75 years young and happily married to the love of his Life, Lenora Spatafore Boyle with two children, Grace 37 and David 34. After returning to America from Vietnam, he went to college, learned to meditate, and became a wholesale, colored gemstone dealer. It was a difficult business to succeed in, but his career took off after he learn…

In 1973, Jim Krag spent time with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, learning to teach Transcendental Meditation, then returned to university training in 1980 and became a medical doctor in 1986. He completed his psychiatry training in 1990 at University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, where he still lives. He has extensively studied the concepts of reincarna…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Brother Sam is my brother. He’s not a colleague from a cult or anything weird like that. Although, I guess you could consider us cult-brothers, since we do come from the same home with the same leaders we called parents who told us how to behave and then we left tha…