Best Howie Jacobson Podcasts (2024)

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Fake It 'Til You Make It?: How Action Can Trigger Transformation: Matt Nagler on PYP 582 1:15:07

16d ago1:15:07

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Behavioral economist Matt Nagler returns to the podcast to discuss the urgent question of whether acting "as if" can lead to genuine transformation. Standard economic theory holds that we have innate preferences, and that life is more or less about going around getting those preferences met. People who like chocolate go to work and make money so th…

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An Autobiography of Trauma and Healing: Peter Levine, PhD, on PYP 581 1:09:06

23d ago1:09:06

1:09:06

“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” - Peter A. Levine Drawing upon healing traditions that go back thousands of years, Peter Levine, PhD has created a method of healing trauma that has the power to revolutionize the mental health field. His modality, Somatic Experi…

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How to Prepare for a Journey of Transformation: Jacquelyn Lane and Scott Osman on PYP 580 52:18

1M ago52:18

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Scott Osman and Jacquelyn Lane have written a very valuable book: Becoming Coachable. It's a blueprint not just for individual, not just organizational, but sustainable planetary success and well being. And if you're thinking of raising your game by enlisting the help of an executive or life coach, it will save you lots of time and frustration. In …

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The Joy of Cooking as an Earth Citizen: Lois Ellen Frank, PhD on PYP 579 1:00:47

2M ago1:00:47

1:00:47

Lois Ellen Frank's most recent cookbook, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: Modern Plant-Based Recipes using Native American Ingredients, offers delicious recipes and shows how embracing Native American food practices and philosophies can help heal our planet. Feeling overwhelmed or hopeless about the environment and our role in its degradation. Frank exp…

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Diversity & Inclusion: Wokeness Run Amok or Simply Good Business?: Sally Helgesen on Plant Yourself 54:15

3M ago54:15

54:15

DEI - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - has been under attack for a while, but the issue came to a head over the recent public kerfuffle regarding the resignations of the presidents of Penn and Harvard Universities. Both women, one Black - they were portrayed on social and right-wing media as tokens, unqualified, and examples of affirmative action…

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How to Make Healthy Vegan Bread: Ed and Natasha Tatton on PYP 577 1:03:10

3M ago1:03:10

1:03:10

Ed and Natasha Tatton are co-owners of a vegan bread bakery called BReD in Whistler, British Columbia. They're also co-authors of BReD: Sourdough Loaves, Small Breads, and Other Plant-Based Baking, a cookbook that capitalized on the pandemic sourdough craze and actually got me measuring and mixing my own starter. It's weird that I never thought abo…

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The Sneak Attack that Makes Cravings Irresistible - and How to Resist Anyway: Glenn Livingston, PhD on PYP 576 1:12:30

3M ago1:12:30

1:12:30

Glenn Livingston, PhD, joins Howie to talk about his new book, Defeat Your Cravings, and shares insights gleaned from coaching thousands of clients on overcoming food addiction and developing a healthy relationship with food. His previous book emphasized the importance of fixing one's thinking about food and intervening in behavioral automation loo…

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Why Rational People Believe Irrational Things: Dan Ariely on PYP 575 1:01:09

4M ago1:01:09

1:01:09

Here's this week's guest introducing himself, and sharing a bit of what happened to him over the past couple of years. "My name is Dan Ariely. I'm a social scientist... I work on behavioral change. And when COVID started, I became very popular. "I got lots of questions from lots of governments... Should we do fines? What about distant education? Wo…

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Can Economic Theory Help You Have a Good Life? Matthew Nagler on PYP 574 1:25:42

4M ago1:25:42

1:25:42

Matt Nagler is a professor of Economics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He’s also one of my oldest friends - and since he was the first person in our friend group to get Intellivision (look it up), we spent a lot of time at his house playing tank battles and other advanced video games. We’ve been talking for a few months …

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A Journey of Healing and Service: Tracy Garrigan on PYP 573 1:26:34

5M ago1:26:34

1:26:34

Tracy Garrigan has been on one wild ride in this life! From being vaccine-injured as a toddler (and no, this isn't an anti-vaxxer episode) to experiencing a miracle healing as a teen to abusing her health as an up-and-comer in the fashion industry in New York City to extreme chronic fatigue and medication dependency to suicidal ideation that she wa…

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Removing Trauma Response with Yes/And Healing: Alun Parry and Yael Zivan on PYP 572 1:07:11

5M ago1:07:11

1:07:11

When Alun Parry stumbled upon the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation, he read everything he could get his hands on that was relevant to therapy, which wasn't much. With the exception of Unlocking the Emotional Brain, by Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic, and Laurel Hulley, no other therapists had shared their understandings or experiences about using th…

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The Anatomy of Life-Changing Conversations: Jon Connelly on PYP 571 1:23:01

6M ago1:23:01

1:23:01

Jon Connelly developed Rapid Resolution Therapy after trying to help his clients with just about every other approach he had been taught. Cognitive understanding brought insight, sometimes, but not relief from suffering. Reliving the trauma again and again, as a form of clumsy exposure therapy, just made people feel worse without leading to improve…

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Overcoming OCD and Anxiety: Robert James on PYP 570 1:07:04

6M ago1:07:04

1:07:04

Robert James is a coach who specializes in helping people overcome debilitating anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I've thrown the term "OCD" around without really knowing what it is. Like a lot of people, I pictured compulsive hand-washing or counting steps or touching banisters - stuff you see on TV and in movies - but didn't really under…

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Does Business Have to Be Icky? Mark Silver on PYP 569 1:09:46

6M ago1:09:46

1:09:46

Mark Silver is the founder of HeartofBusiness.com. For almost 25 years, he's been helping people-who-want-to-make-a-positive-difference-in-the-world-but-still-have-to-earn-a-living to set up, run, and love their small businesses. He's just written a book: Heart-Centered Business: Healing from Toxic Business Culture So Your Small Business Can Thrive…

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Is Your Garden Fertilizer an Animal Graveyard? Erin Riley on PYP 568 1:01:53

7M ago1:01:53

1:01:53

Today’s episode is for anyone who wants to grow a more self-reliant, earth-friendly home garden. Even as a vegan, I routinely used garden fertilizers containing animal byproducts like blood meal and bone meal, as well as chicken and cow manures. It honestly didn’t occur to me that there was an issue, which in hindsight is ridiculous. Erin Riley had…

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My Coaching Evolution: Glenn Livingston interviews Howie Jacobson: PYP 567 1:09:36

8M ago1:09:36

1:09:36

My good buddy The Very Good Doctor Glenn Livingston interviews me about the evolution of my coaching over the past 20+ years. We talk about my origins in very conventional approaches to behavior change, and some of the refinements and changes I've made along the way. We look at the impact of my work with Josh LaJaunie, who helped me shift from maki…

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True Privilege is Growing Up in a Low-Trauma Environment: Momma Kai on PYP 566 1:12:01

8M ago1:12:01

1:12:01

In this episode, Momma Kai shares how to eliminate homelessness and poverty by creating homesteads and affordable housing solutions. While incredibly passionate and optimistic, Momma Kai is also well aware of the many obstacles - social, economic, psychological, legal, and regulatory - in the way of realizing her vision. She shares her experiences …

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Kindness as a Strategy for Revolutionary Change: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 565 1:05:47

8M ago1:05:47

1:05:47

Teju Ravilochan, the founder of GatherFor, returns to the podcast -- and in a big way! GatherFor is an organization that fosters community support and mutual aid among neighbors as a means of improving their lives and coming together for massive cultural, political, and social change. Their work challenges our culture's individualistic mindset by p…

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Deepening Compassion and Connection with Ourselves: Veronica Monet on PYP 564 1:19:00

8M ago1:19:00

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Veronica Monet returns to the podcast to talk about one of her favorite coaching tools, Internal Family Systems (IFS). We began with a brief recapitulation of her story, which we covered in detail in an earlier episode ( https://plantyourself.com/556 ). From growing up in a cult, to the sexual abuse she suffered, to the spiritual guidance she recei…

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Fitness as a Deeply Embodied Practice: Philip Shepherd on PYP 563 1:07:48

8M ago1:07:48

1:07:48

In this episode of the Plant Yourself Podcast, I talk with Philip Shepherd about his new book, Deep Fitness. We discuss the concept of embodiment, which Philip defines as a state in which "the whole of your intelligence comes into coherence with the present." From Philip's perspective, the loss of embodiment is at the core of every human problem, f…

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Helping the Unhoused - and Homeless - Move From Poverty to Prosperity: Momma Kai Sanders on PYP 562 55:49

9M ago55:49

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In today's episode, Momma Kai speaks passionately about her mission to eliminate the outer and inner causes of homelessness. Momma Kai (aka Kara Lynn Sanders) is Chief Bushel Blaster and Chief Emancipation Officer at L.U.V. Enterprises Presents, LLC. This isn't a theoretical conversation; Momma Kai and her 7 and a half year old son are currently un…

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Introduction to My New Life in Spain 45:04

9M ago45:04

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Many of you have expressed curiosity about this new chapter in my life, having just moved to a small but vibrant Spanish beach town. So today, I'm taking you along with me for a walk around my neighborhood to give you some insight into what I've been experiencing and thinking about since arriving and beginning to get settled: My experiences and ref…

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Cultivating Grace Under Pressure: John Baldoni on PYP 560 1:04:15

9M ago1:04:15

1:04:15

I've never really thought about the evolution of leadership until this conversation. But as soon as John Baldoni and I started talking, it became clear to me that what we think of as key traits of strong leaders have changed drastically during my lifetime. According to John, the concept corporate leadership that was different from military "command…

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The Wise Women of Psychedelia: Rachel Harris, PhD, on PYP 559 1:14:08

9M ago1:14:08

1:14:08

I first began learning about ayahuasca as a potential spiritual, psychological and physical healer, around 2003. And at that point, there were very few people who had heard of it. I didn't start learning about other psychedelics as a student until much later -- my introduction to psilocybin "magic" mushrooms occurred around 2012. In those days, the…

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Fasting vs Long COVID: Roger Talbott on PYP 558 1:09:16

10M ago1:09:16

1:09:16

Roger Talbott had just retired from a long career in ministry, and was finally attending to his own body and spirit. He had reduced his stressors, joined a gym, and was even thinking of competing in some 5k races when he caught the flu in December 2019. The symptoms persisted for a long time - around 6 weeks. And then he went back to his workout ro…

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Venerating the Earth Through Wild Yoga: Rebecca Wildbear on PYP 557 1:02:38

10M ago1:02:38

1:02:38

Rebecca Wildbear is an outdoor guide, yoga teacher, and author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth. In her work, she weaves together two strands that have diverged in our current social and political culture: personal growth and environmental / social justice. In our conversation, we cover what Wildbear sees …

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Building a Shame-Free Zone in a Sexually Messed Up World: Veronica Monet on PYP 556 1:14:35

11M ago1:14:35

1:14:35

This is the first of what I hope will be a 3-part series of interview with Veronica Monet. Originally, our plan was to talk about her use of Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a coach. But then I looked her up online and was like, "whoa, there's a lot of other things we need to talk about." Like, her upbringing in a repressive and abusive religious c…

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Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555 53:15

11M ago53:15

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Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he's got a revised edition coming out: Animal Liberation Now, featuring an introduction by historian and Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari. We talked about: How philosophy can be a force for goo…

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Rising Together in the Workplace: Sally Helgesen on PYP 554 1:03:57

12M ago1:03:57

1:03:57

In this episode, I talk with author and leadership expert Sally Helgesen about her latest book: Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace. We discuss the different triggers that women, people of color, and members of other historically marginalized groups may face in the workplace, such as being interrupted or…

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The Art and Neuroscience of Transformational Change: Dr Tori Olds on PYP 553 1:06:15

1y ago1:06:15

1:06:15

I found Tori Olds, PhD thanks to a fortuitous YouTube algorithm. I had just discovered IFS (internal family systems), which seemed like a powerful approach to add to my coaching toolbox. Dr Olds' videos on IFS were informative, wise, concise, well-constructed, and really helpful. So I reached out and asked if she'd be willing to come on the podcast…

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The Badass Vegan: John Lewis on PYP 552 53:37

1y ago53:37

53:37

John Lewis, the Badass Vegan, is making waves with his documentary, They're Trying to Kill Us. Co-produced by basketball star Chris Paul and musician Billie Eilish, the movie explores the intersection of various kinds of violence directed at people of color. And by juxtaposing police violence with the health impacts of easy access to drugs and guns…

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Great Food, Not Education, Will Change Habits: Danny O'Malley on PYP 551 58:00

1y ago58:00

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Danny O'Malley is Founder and President of Before the Butcher, a plant-based meat analogue company that's seeking to change consumer food choices through their taste buds and wallets. Danny cut his teeth in the industry at Beyond Meat, and learned both what to do and what not to do during his stint there. For example, his insistence that Before the…

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The Brave Athlete -- and Screenwriter!: Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson on PYP 550 59:43

1y ago59:43

59:43

2023 Update I'm rereleasing this episode (first time ever in 9 years of this podcast) because one of today's guests, Lesley Paterson, just made the news by winning a BAFTA for screenwriting. So I'm coat-tailing and name-dropping like crazy. And I'm also inviting you to relisten to this episode with the hindsight that Lesley would bring her goal-set…

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How to Market a Vegan Business the Right Way: Sandra Nomoto on PYP 549 1:01:56

1y ago1:01:56

1:01:56

It started with Tofurky, and soy milk, and Boca Burgers. Then the vegan / plant-based lifestyle grew in popularity, and with it demand for more vegan options at the grocery store. Innovations in food tech allowed the market to explode, with vegan cheeses and meat analogues that are practically indistinguishable from the "real thing." Vegans want mo…

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Are We Having Fun Yet?: Mike Rucker on PYP 548 1:02:48

1y ago1:02:48

1:02:48

Mike Rucker is a behavioral psychologist and enthusiastic practitioner of "positive psychology." And one day, it occurred to him that his obsession with maximizing happiness was making him miserable. What was missing in his intensely quantified life was a simple, humble concept; one that he had been able to ignore, even as a positive psychologist, …

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How to Live Based on Values, Not Impulses: Russ Harris on PYP 547 57:27

1+ y ago57:27

57:27

Russ Harris is one of the world's foremost practitioners and teachers of ACT, which is pronounced "act" and which stands for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. His books The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple have popularized this methodology, which was created in the 1980s by Steven C Hayes and colleagues. (You can check out my interview with Stev…

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Preventing Prostate Cancer: Benny Gavi, MD, and Maya Eylon on PYP 546 1:06:05

1+ y ago1:06:05

1:06:05

In medical school, Benny Gavi was taught all about prostate cancer. How to diagnose it, and what medicines and procedures were available to treat it. Years later, he found himself counseling men with prostate cancer, and realized that he had actually been taught only a fraction of what was important. What had been omitted? Well, what it's like to h…

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How to Engage in "Healthy Conflict": Mark Goulston, MD, on PYP 545 58:09

1+ y ago58:09

58:09

Content warning: this episode discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. Mark Goulston, MD, was kicked out of medical school twice before he returned to complete his degree. A…

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Own Your Nervous System: Sukie Baxter on PYP 544 1:10:35

1+ y ago1:10:35

1:10:35

For Sukie Baxter, one of the most effective ways to bring about positive change in the world is to regulate your own nervous system. It's what she calls "everyday activism." As a bodyworker and movement coach, Sukie discovered that some people were practically impervious to healing, no matter what techniques and processed she used with them, while …

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How Palm Oil, Colonialism, and Greed Have Endangered the World: Jocelyn Zuckerman on PYP 543 1:16:21

1+ y ago1:16:21

1:16:21

I've known today's guest since 1977, when Jocelyn Zuckerman and I met in 7th grade at South Orange Junior High. We were in most of the same classes for six years; three years in junior high and three years at Columbia High School. After going our separate ways, we reconnected a decade ago at a high school reunion. I was fascinated to see that Jocel…

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The Sounds of Life: Karen Bakker, PhD on PYP 542 1:03:03

1+ y ago1:03:03

1:03:03

What do you get when you combine a reverential attitude toward the natural world with a high-tech approach to problem solving? You get the story told in Karen Bakker's fabulous new book, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. In it, Dr Bakker writes both sharply and poetically about a w…

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The Inner Work of Age: Connie Zweig, PhD, on PYP 541 57:38

1+ y ago57:38

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Dr Connie Zweig, author of The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, is a retired therapist and climate activist. Her professional work has focused on helping people meet, accept, and integrate their "shadows" -- the parts of ourselves that we don't want to look at or own. As she approached retirement, Dr Zweig began noticing fears and res…

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Design the Long Life You Love: Ayse Birsel on PYP 540 1:16:27

1+ y ago1:16:27

1:16:27

Ayse ("eye-shay") Birsel is an industrial designer, and quite a famous and successful one at that. How famous? Let's put it this way: if you collected industrial designer trading cards, her rookie card would be worth millions. Nicknamed "The Queen of Toilets" for her innovative 1993 design of a combination toilet seat and bidet for the Japanese com…

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Midterms and Energizing Outcomes: Howie Jacobson on PYP 539 57:29

1+ y ago57:29

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Today is the US midterm elections, and there's a lot at stake. Aside from hugely significant policy issues like abortion, healthcare, immigration, criminal justice, and climate remediation, democracy itself is on the ballot. Yet no matter what happens or who "wins" today (whether we find out tomorrow or days or weeks or months from now), it won't c…

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Having - and Being - a Friend at Work: Morag Barrett on PYP 538 1:07:53

1+ y ago1:07:53

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When the Gallup organization started looking at employee engagement - basically, a euphemism for the degree to which people like their jobs or think they suck - they came up with a survey tool comprised of 12 questions. Question 10 went like this: "Do you have a best friend at work?" And much of the corporate world went apeshit over this question. …

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The Virtues of Settling: Howie Jacobson on PYP 537 50:51

1+ y ago50:51

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Today I return to the woods to talk about stuff that's on my mind. Mostly what's on my mind at the beginning is my utter frustration at not being able to get either of my cameras to work with my laptop. You see, I was planning on creating a video episode consisting of me shelling acorns in preparation for turning them into flour. But none of my vid…

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The Seismic Shift in Leadership: Michelle Johnston, PhD, on PYP 536 59:33

1+ y ago59:33

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Erratum: During this episode, I had a brain-fart while trying to recall the conversational Zulu I learned in 2011. The word we were looking for is Sawubona, not Siyabonga. The latter means "We give thanks." Apologies to all Zulu speakers out there... Michelle Johnston, PhD, is a professor of business at Loyola University in New Orleans, and a highl…

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Nature and the Nervous System: Howie Jacobson on PYP 535 40:40

1+ y ago40:40

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Today you and I take a walk in my back woods, and talk about how all change and growth depends on a nervous system that's in alignment with the reality around us in this moment. I share my thoughts on some recent books I've read, including The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary, by Dr Ronald Siegel; Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Sou…

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The Benefits of Qi Gong: Michael Gelb on PYP 534 1:13:59

1+ y ago1:13:59

1:13:59

I first “met” Michael J Gelb in 1988, when I chanced across a copy of his first book, Body Learning, while renting a room in a London flat owned by a piano teacher. At that point in my life, I wasn't interested in the body except as a life support system for my brain, which was the only organ I was truly interested in. OK, that's not totally accura…

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Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior with Ann and Jane Esselstyn 1:08:04

1+ y ago1:08:04

1:08:04

Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn have been teaching, inspiring, leading, and feeding plant-based people for decades. Bold and fierce as well as kind and nurturing, they've helped tens of thousands of people not just take better care of their health, but use that reclaimed health to make a big, positive difference. In their own lives. For thei…

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