How to Become More in Touch with the Body
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Our relationship to our own body is, in a lot of ways, mediated by a pervasive sense of shame that our culture perpetuates. What insights about the body does this shame prevent us from seeing? Today’s guest, Kim Vopni, has built an unconventional career and she’s done it by fearlessly breaking these taboos and creating a dialog about things like incontinence. More about Kim Vopni Now when I think of the word coach, hockey comes to mind. Other people might think of coaches they’ve had for various sports, or perhaps a life coach or an executive coach. But have you ever met a...
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What the Stories Behind Tattoos Reveal About Our Inner Lives
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This week we learn about tattoos and the stories behind them. Ad man Drew Plotkin is covered in ink, and each tattoo tells a story about an important moment in his life. More about Drew: Drew Plotkin has spent the majority of his adult life helping to build brands that sell beauty and personal care products to the masses: weight-loss systems, workout devices, skin and hair care products, hair loss prevention, and cosmetics. The founder of his own ad agency, he has directed commercials starring the likes of JLO, Cindy Crawford, Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, and a...
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How to Bake Your Way to Self-Realization
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The holiday season is upon us and this week’s guest, Clare Gustavsson, says that the best gift we can give is ‘one hour of nonjudgmental listening’. We learn more about how this expression of curiosity not only allows others to express themselves without holding back but allows us to look at ourselves in a more honest way. But you could also just buy yourself some of Clare’s mouth-watering baking creations () More About Clare Gustavsson: Clare has toured and performed as an opera singer and actress worldwide, including roles on roller skates, and in multiple pieces with the Mark...
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What the Act of Creating Music Teaches Us About Life
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How does the act of creating music help inform us how to live in harmony with our body and soul? Duff and Matt interview Marco Benevento to learn about the process of creating a record. Duff speaks about Aurobindo’s thoughts on the discipline of music as education for the soul. More about Marco Benevento Benevento is a hallucinatory keyboard wizard, songwriter, and all-around musical artist. An accomplished solo artist as well as a member of the Grateful Dead tribute band Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Benevento released his latest album this spring. Check out Marco Benevento’s...
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How to Find the Center of Your Own Existence, with Jazz Musician Jonathan Kay
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This week we learn about how the pursuit of musical knowledge transformed into a spiritual journey. Jonathan Kay an internationally recognized cross-cultural jazz multi-instrumentalist. In search of non-western ways of musical knowing, he moved to Kolkata, India for 10 years and formally studied North Indian Raga music, innovating its expression on the saxophone as well as the rare 21-stringed instrument, the bora israj. Kay’s time in India, however, did not just transform his thinking about music but also his thinking on being. At the moment, Jonathan is a PhD student in the department of...
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How Chunk the Groundhog Teaches Us to Keep An Open Mind
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Jeff Permar went from trying to evict Chunk the Groundhog from his garden to raising funds for his family’s dental work on social media. Yes, you read that right! It all started a few years ago, when everything in Permar’s organic garden was getting eaten. He suspected that the culprit was living under his shed, so he installed a motion-detection camera to find out. It turned out it was a groundhog. Who seemed to know that Permar was watching. Because he would grab whatever he was going to eat and then eat it, staring right into the camera. Everything Permar tried to keep the groundhog –...
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Living with a Death Sentence
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On the same day in 1985, the following three things happened to Andy Cumming, in this order: He found out that his testicular cancer, for which he’d been undergoing chemo treatments for five years, was gone, for good. He proposed to his girlfriend. He’d been waiting until he was in the clear, because he didn’t want to saddle her with a dying husband. That afternoon, he found out that he’d gotten HIV through a blood transfusion he received for his hemophilia. How does your worst day stack up against that? But that was almost 40 years ago. Today, he’s still alive and even survived a...
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Is the Future Analog?
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For years we were promised a digital utopia, where technology or the algorithm would allow us to optimize ourselves into a state of permanent satisfaction. After spending some time being shut in during quarantine with all the digital tools we wanted, it seems like people are more eager to unplug than ever. To quote this week’s guest, David Sax, “The digital future was finally here and it f****** sucked”. Duff and Matt speak with Sax about where human interaction is more important, the convenience of technology and his new book, The Future is Analog: How to Create a More...
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How To Find The Funny In Everything
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Today’s guest comes to us courtesy of Tinseltown. The funny side of it. The REALLY funny side of it. Owen Burke is a comedian and producer who has worked with Comedy Central’s Drunk History and FunnyorDie. He tickles people for a living. He's pretty much a tickling expert. Owen talks about how doing improv comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre helped unlock his creative freedom, what it was like to pitch “The Art of the Deal: The Movie” to Johnny Depp and how to find the funny in everything.
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The Near Death Experience: Jeremy Down
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For the first part of his life, you would have described Jeremy Down as an artist, musician, and creator. He fronted bands, traveled with the art collective DrawnOnward, and lived a good life. But a near death experience in 2001 - after a canoe capsized during a winter paddle, he got hypothermia and his brain pretty much shut off – revealed the layers of consciousness and spiritual balance needed for happiness, and he has spent the last few decades taking deep breaths and seeking deeper truths. Check out Jeremy Down's Website: https://www.jeremydown.com
info_outlineThe holiday season is upon us and this week’s guest, Clare Gustavsson, says that the best gift we can give is ‘one hour of nonjudgmental listening’. We learn more about how this expression of curiosity not only allows others to express themselves without holding back but allows us to look at ourselves in a more honest way. But you could also just buy yourself some of Clare’s mouth-watering baking creations (https://www.instagram.com/clarelicious_delicious/?hl=en)
More About Clare Gustavsson:
Clare has toured and performed as an opera singer and actress worldwide, including roles on roller skates, and in multiple pieces with the Mark Morris Dance Group. She’s been an artist manager, a teacher of voice, dance, and fitness, and is the founder and chief baker of a custom baked goods company. She’s worked in a range of fascinating industries, with a unifying passion to help, entertain, and guide people to live their best life and perform at their maximum potential. Ultimately these varied interests and experiences led her to group and individual coaching and psychotherapy. She’s a certified professional coach, a certified Gestalt therapist, and a licensed psychoanalyst in the State of New York. She has worked with everyone from homeless youths in New York City to women leaders in Saudi Arabia.
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