The Truth About Interconnectedness: Why Every Choice Matters
Release Date: 05/29/2025
Ethan Brown: The Truth About Beyond Meat from the Man Who Built It — Rebuilding the Broken Food System
SuperLife with Darin Olien
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The Hidden Energy Crisis Behind Artificial Intelligence
SuperLife with Darin Olien
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Fasting: The Healing Power of Not Eating
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this deeply personal solo episode, Darin Olien unpacks one of the most ancient and powerful healing practices known to humanity: fasting. From the perspective of cutting-edge science, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine, Darin breaks down how abstaining from food—done correctly—can reset your biology, boost longevity, and unlock your body’s natural healing intelligence. Drawing on the work of pioneers like Paul Bragg and modern fasting experts like Dr. Valter Longo, Darin shares his own experiences with water-only fasting and explains how it’s helping him prepare for stem...
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Alysa Conger: How Ignoring Your Intuition Could Be Destroying Your Life
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this soul-expanding episode of the SuperLife podcast, Darin sits down with Dr. Alysa Conger—a psychic medium, intuitive coach, and somatic therapist—to explore a radical truth: we all have the ability to access intuition and psychic gifts—if we’re willing to listen. Alysa shares her powerful story of personal loss, her father's suicide, and how it became the catalyst for her life’s mission to reconnect people to their deepest selves. Together, Darin and Alysa unravel the societal disconnection from intuition, how modern life has numbed our innate abilities, and why we’re more...
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How Air Conditioning Is Quietly Breaking Your Body and the Planet
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this eye-opening solo episode of the SuperLife podcast, Darin Olien unpacks the hidden dangers of air conditioning—one of the most commonly used yet most overlooked fatal conveniences in modern life. From skyrocketing energy consumption to its surprising impact on human health, Darin explores why our obsession with creating the perfect indoor climate is quietly undermining both personal wellness and the planet. Darin reveals the history of air conditioning, its contribution to climate change, and how our increasing dependence on temperature control is desensitizing our natural ability to...
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Jeff Turner: How Music and Creativity Heal Trauma
SuperLife with Darin Olien
SuperLife Podcast: Turning Pain into Purpose with Jeff Turner In this powerful episode of the SuperLife podcast, Darin sits down with Jeff Turner—a poet, musician, and freestyle artist who transformed a childhood marked by pain, dysfunction, and foster care into a life of profound purpose and connection. Jeff’s story is a raw, soul-shaking journey through trauma, resilience, and the healing power of music. From losing his childhood family to battling on street corners, to watching a friend die in front of him, Jeff’s path is a masterclass in transmutation—turning pain into fuel,...
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The Hidden Dangers of Sparkling Water
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this solo episode of the SuperLife podcast, Darin Olien pulls back the curtain on one of the most popular "healthy" beverage trends—sparkling water. From its surprising origins to its hidden impact on your teeth, gut, and kidneys, Darin explains why that fizzy drink might not be as harmless as you think. He breaks down the science behind carbonic acid, body pH, and the systemic strain sparkling water can put on your health over time. Darin also shares actionable solutions for how you can hydrate smarter, including his favorite ways to upgrade your water naturally. This is an essential...
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Dr. Michelle Jorgensen: Your Mouth is the Gateway to Your Health
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this powerful and practical episode, Darin sits down with biological dentist and functional health pioneer Dr. Michelle Jorgensen, who shares the truth most dentists never tell you: your mouth is a mirror of your entire body’s health. After mercury poisoning nearly ended her career, Michelle embarked on a radical healing journey—becoming a patient, a student, and ultimately a healer in the truest sense. Together, Darin and Michelle expose the shocking gaps in traditional dentistry, from hidden oral infections and toxic root canals to how your mouth affects your brain, heart, and gut....
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The Sunscreen Lie: What They Never Told You About Sun Safety
SuperLife with Darin Olien
We’ve all heard it: wear sunscreen to stay safe. But what if the very thing we’re told is protecting us is actually doing more harm than good? In this eye-opening solo episode, Darin Olien breaks down the dark truth behind conventional sunscreens—from hormone-disrupting chemicals and blocked vitamin D to reef destruction and dangerous misinformation. Backed by scientific research and a passion for holistic wellness, Darin reveals how sunscreen has become a fatal convenience, lulling us into a false sense of safety while quietly impacting our health and the planet. If you’ve ever...
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Danette May: You’re Not Broken—You’re Just Disconnected (Here’s How to Reconnect)
SuperLife with Darin Olien
In this soulful reunion, Darin welcomes back his dear friend Danette May—bestselling author, superfood entrepreneur, and transformational leader—for a no-filter conversation about life, healing, and the power of curiosity. From building empires out of hardship to connecting with Indigenous wisdom and preparing for massive sound healing gatherings, Danette shares her most vulnerable lessons and biggest inspirations. This is a reminder to get off the path, go barefoot, and follow your inner compass—even when it doesn’t make sense. What You’ll Learn: 00:00 – Why Darin...
info_outlineIn this powerful solo episode, Darin Olien takes you on a deeply personal, poetic, and science-backed journey into one of the most essential — and overlooked — truths of our time: we are not separate from nature. We are nature.
From Yellowstone’s trophic cascades to the microbes in your gut, Darin weaves together quantum physics, ecology, indigenous wisdom, and modern biology to reveal the truth of our profound interconnectedness. Every choice we make — what we eat, how we shop, what we wear — sends ripples through the web of life.
This episode isn’t just about the planet. It’s about your soul. It’s about understanding that what we do to others, animals, and ecosystems, we do to ourselves — biologically, emotionally, and spiritually.
What You’ll Learn:
00:00 – What if everything truly is connected?
01:00 – Why harming the planet harms your body
01:50 – Yellowstone wolves & trophic cascades
02:40 – The Earth's $125 trillion ecosystem services
03:30 – How pollution weakens nature — and us
04:20 – Your body is a living ecosystem
05:00 – The cost of sanitizing away our immunity
06:00 – Mirror neurons, empathy, and brain resonance
07:40 – Cambridge Declaration on animal consciousness
08:30 – Factory farming, antibiotic resistance, and emissions
09:15 – Indigenous wisdom: “Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ” – All are related
10:00 – Quantum physics and David Bohm’s implicit order
10:30 – Aligning with the web of life through action
11:30 – What your food, clothes, and chemicals say about you
12:45 – Endocrine disruption and teenage hormone crashes
14:20 – Earth as a living organism: Steiner and Gaia theory
16:30 – Why biodynamic farming mirrors natural harmony
18:00 – How your small choices affect the planet
20:00 – Meditation, stillness, and nature as healing
21:30 – Why ego wants to disconnect — and how to stop it
22:30 – Every choice generates life… or cuts it off
23:30 – The ripple effect of conscious living
24:30 – Your lettuce, your sunlight, your sacred connection
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Find More From Darin:
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Website: darinolien.com
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Instagram: @darinolien
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Book: Fatal Conveniences
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Podcast: Superlife
Key Takeaway:
“Every decision you make either aligns with the system of life… or cuts you off from it. There is no separation — only the illusion of it. You are nature. You are the web. And your choices ripple through it all.”