Odyssey & Alchemy: Men's Inner Transformation and Depth Psychology with Martin Prihoda

What happens when you stop choosing between the sacred and the worldly? You get David Nichtern.

Grammy-nominated songwriter. Four-time Emmy winner. Buddhist teacher for over 50 years. David wrote "Midnight at the Oasis," played with Jerry Garcia and Paul Simon, and spent two decades studying under the legendary Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Today he runs Dharma Moon — a global platform training the next generation of mindfulness teachers.

In this conversation, Martin and David go deep on what meditation is actually for, the nature of consciousness and the self, why creativity and commerce aren't in conflict, and what 50 years on the cushion teaches you about business, relationships, and being alive.

They cover:

• Why most people get meditation completely wrong
• The Buddhist psychology of the six realms — and why we all hoard something
• "Unambitious presence" — the most underrated concept in mindfulness
• How pressure is a privilege and what the cauldron of difficulty actually produces
• Why bullshit walks in business — and how dharma makes you a better entrepreneur
• Leaning into living, all the way

This one moves. Philosophy, laughs, real talk about money, creativity, and what it means to keep evolving past 50.

Visit: dharmamoon.com
AlchemyNow: alchemynow.ca

Nervous system dysregulation is not a personal failure — it's often the result of trauma, overwhelm, and survival patterns that never got the support they needed. In this episode, Julie Brams, a licensed marriage and family therapist and eco-psychologist, shares how trauma therapy and nervous system regulation can support real recovery.

We explore how to recognize nervous system dysregulation in your own life, why healing often requires both inner transformation and reconnection to the natural world, and what recovery can look like when we stop pathologizing pain and start listening to the body. With over 30 years of clinical experience, Julie offers a grounded perspective on eco-psychology, self-love, and the mind-body connection — and why nature itself may be the most overlooked tool in trauma recovery.

A conversation about what real healing asks of us, and what it gives back.

Connect with Julie:
Website: juliebrams.com | experiencelemental.com
Instagram: @juliebramslmft

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more people find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

What if your voice was broadcasting the state of your nervous system — and you didn't even know it? In this episode I sit down with Alexander Fredericks, founder of ToneWell and a man who has spent over two decades bringing other people's ideas to life across music, cleantech, neuroscience, and wellness technology. What started as a mission to save his wife's health became a decades-long journey into frequency, resonance, and the body as signal.

We cover a lot of ground in this one — from navigating dyslexia and touring the world as a music executive, to building a platform that reads your health through a 30-second voice note. But the conversation that emerges is really about something deeper: how men suppress, perform, and lose themselves — and how the voice is one of the most honest things about us.

In this episode:

• Why your voice reveals what your mind hasn't admitted yet
• The science of frequency, resonance, and voice biomarkers
• The performance mask — where it comes from and what it costs you
• Imposter syndrome, ego death, and knowing your own value
• "If you can see it, you can be it" — and why fake it till you make it is a fraud
• How stress physically changes your voice
• Speaking from the diaphragm vs. speaking from fear
• Entrepreneurship as initiation

Chapters: 0:00 — Intro 0:36 — Dyslexia, music, and finding his path 3:20 — Touring in the nineties — pirate ships and Rand McNally maps 10:44 — The methodology behind 50+ product launches 16:11 — "If you can see it, you can be it" 27:21 — How a health crisis led him to frequency medicine 35:06 — The voice as mirror — what it reveals before you admit it 43:34 — How ToneWell actually works 51:43 — The performance mask and men's suppression 1:07:02 — Authentic voice vs. consumer voice 1:13:27 — Using your voice to regulate your nervous system

🎙️ Odyssey & Alchemy is a podcast about self-examination, inner transformation, and the kind of wisdom that only comes from actually doing the work.

Subscribe: Try ToneWell: tonewell.co AlchemyNow — Guided meditations for the whole family: alchemynow.ca

#voicebiomarkers #menswork #nervoussystem #entrepreneurship #tonewell #selfleadership #mindfulness #stressmanagement #odesseyandalchemy

What happens when a nurse trained in evidence-based medicine becomes a target of black magic — and survives to heal others?

Shaman Sondra Bailey spent years bed-bound, stripped of her home, her career, and custody of her child. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong. The tests came back clean. What they missed — and what Western medicine has no language for — was a deliberate, sustained dark energy attack orchestrated by someone she trusted.

In this raw and eye-opening episode, Sondra walks us through the invisible architecture of suffering: what black magic actually is, how it works, and how most people are living with its effects without ever knowing it. From generational curses to soul fragmentation, entity attachment to spiritual warfare — this conversation goes places most podcasts won't.

In this episode:

• What black magic actually is — and how it differs from Hollywood mythology
• Signs and symptoms most doctors misdiagnose as anxiety or depression
• How generational curses operate across family lines — addiction, illness, poverty, divorce
• Soul retrieval: what a fragmented soul is and how you get it back
• Jinn, reptilians, and the beings operating just outside our visible spectrum
• Archangel Michael — who he is, how to call him in, and why religion kept this from us
• Portals, phones, TVs, and why social media may be more than just an algorithm
• Simple daily practices to cleanse your energy and protect your home

Sondra is a Certified RN, Reiki Master, and Shamanic Practitioner affiliated with the Porch Creek Nation. She works with clients worldwide.

🔗 Find Sondra at shamansondra.com | @ShamanSondra on Facebook & TikTok

Odyssey & Alchemy explores the journey inward and the transformation that unfolds from it — conversations with inspiring voices in physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. Hosted by Martin Prihoda.

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Tags: black magic, shamanic healing, spiritual warfare, energy healing, soul retrieval, Archangel Michael, generational curses, entity attachment, Reiki, spiritual protection, ancestral trauma, jinn, shamanism, inner transformation, nervous system, mental health, spiritual awakening, podcast

From bullying to breakthrough: Dr. Scott Glassman reveals how subconscious healing and nervous system rewiring became his life's work. In this deep-dive conversation, the psychologist and author of A Happier You unpacks the neuroscience of inner transformation, shares his personal battle with depression as a teenager, and explores what it actually takes to rewire your brain for lasting happiness. Perfect for therapists, coaches, and men committed to real psychological and spiritual growth.

Topics covered:

• The negativity effect and how to reverse it
• The 7 pathways to happiness from A Happier You
• Why gratitude is the highest ROI wellbeing practice
• Self-love as the foundation of all flourishing
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Motivational Interviewing
• The psychological dangers of AI dependence
• How to parent teenagers in the age of social media
• Limited reparenting — healing your inner child
• Creativity as a spiritual practice
• Viktor Frankl, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle & the wisdom of the East

🔗 Learn more about Scott: https://www.scottglassman.com 🔗 A Happier You — order the book: https://www.amazon.com/Happier-You-Seven-Week-Positivity-Resilience/dp/1684037859 🔗 Scott's fiction podcast Stories from Elsewhere: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-elsewhere/id1876366786 🔗 Work with Scott one-on-one: https://www.scottglassman.com/thrive

#PositivePsychology #Happiness #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #ScottGlassman #AHappierYou #PersonalGrowth #Wellbeing #OdysseyAndAlchemy

Insomnia isn't a sleep problem — it's a nervous system problem. Sleep guru Alison Anandi Francis spent 15 years battling chronic insomnia while running a successful business — until yoga nidra, breathwork, and Ayurveda changed everything.

That discovery became Sleepology by Anandi®, her root-cause methodology integrating Ayurveda, breathwork, yoga nidra, and modern sleep science into a complete system for lasting rest.

In this episode we go deep on why high performers can't switch off, what your nervous system actually needs to power down, and why tactical sleep fixes almost always fail. Anandi breaks down her personal wind-down routine, what HRV tracking reveals about your lifestyle, the truth about sleeping pills, and the single most important shift you can make starting tonight.

If you're exhausted, wired, or waking up at 3am — this one's for you.

Guest: Alison Anandi Francis | thesleepguru.co.uk | Book: Breathe Better Sleep Better

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Odyssey & Alchemy is a weekly long-form interview podcast on inner transformation — men's work, spirituality, mindfulness, and depth psychology — hosted by Martin Prihoda, author of The Weary Traveller. Deep, unhurried conversations with therapists, teachers, yogis, and healers, for men ready to do the inner work.

📖 The Weary Traveller: [book link]
🌐 martinprihoda.com | alchemynow.ca

What does embodied spirituality actually look like in practice? Martin Prihoda sits down with Naomi Jason — medical Qigong therapist, ritualist, dancer, and co-founder of Dance Temple — to explore what it means to come home to the wisdom of your body.

Naomi has spent her life helping people reconnect with themselves through movement, ceremony, and embodied practice — and this conversation covers the full territory: conscious dance as therapy, the witness state, ego and identity, masculine and feminine balance, and the deep human longing for wholeness, belonging, and transformation.

They also go into the loss of initiation in modern culture — what rites of passage once gave us, especially men, and what its absence costs everyone now.

If you've been living from the neck up, this episode is an invitation back into the body.

Guest: Naomi Jason | Dance Temple [links]

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Odyssey & Alchemy is a weekly long-form interview podcast on inner transformation — men's work, spirituality, mindfulness, and depth psychology — hosted by Martin Prihoda, author of The Weary Traveller. Deep, unhurried conversations with therapists, teachers, yogis, and healers, for men ready to do the inner work.

📖 The Weary Traveller: https://a.co/d/0ikfCpNb
🌐 martinprihoda.com | alchemynow.ca

Men's work is how a man stops performing masculinity and starts healing it. In this episode, Martin Prihoda sits down with Boysen Hodgson for a raw conversation about men's work, shame, and authentic masculinity — and the healing power of brotherhood.

Boysen reflects on the early experiences that shaped his view of what a man should be, the cost of living behind a mask, and how men's groups moved him from performance into honesty, connection, and purpose.

They explore modern masculinity and men's mental health, the hidden emotional burdens men carry, why initiation matters and what its absence costs us, anger as a doorway rather than a defect, and what actually happens when men learn vulnerability in the company of other men.

If you're a man wondering whether there's more underneath the roles you play — this conversation is a place to start.

Connect with Boysen Hodgson: [guest links]

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Odyssey & Alchemy is a weekly long-form interview podcast on inner transformation — men's work, spirituality, mindfulness, and depth psychology — hosted by Martin Prihoda, author of The Weary Traveller. Deep, unhurried conversations with therapists, teachers, yogis, and healers, for men ready to do the inner work.

📖 The Weary Traveller: [book link]
🌐 martinprihoda.com | alchemynow.ca

Jungian psychotherapist and executive coach Dr. Melinda Fouts, PhD on shadow work, narcissism, feminine power, dream work, and the blind spots that keep high performers stuck.

With over 30 years coaching CEOs and founders across the globe, Dr. Fouts brings depth psychology into the boardroom. We cover Carl Jung, the "emotional operating system" installed in childhood, why James Bond is the wrong archetype, the real difference between therapy and coaching, how to work a dream (not interpret it), integrating the masculine and feminine within every leader, Rumi's three gates of speech, and the one question every entrepreneur should be asking themselves weekly but isn't.

Dr. Melinda Fouts is a Forbes Coaches Council contributor, IAOTP Lifetime Achievement recipient, and author of Cognitive Enlightenment and The Bridge to Transformation.

Find Dr. Fouts:

Web: successstartswithyou.net

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: Dr. Melinda Fouts, PhD

Topics: Jungian psychology, executive coaching, Carl Jung, shadow work, dream work, narcissism, feminine leadership, depth psychology, entrepreneurship, consciousness, personal transformation.

What if the most powerful therapeutic breakthrough of our time has been hiding in plain sight for 40 years? Jonathan Robinson — psychotherapist, bestselling author of 14 books, and one of the world's longest-practicing MDMA-assisted therapy guides — has sat with over 600 people at their most open, most vulnerable, and most human. In this conversation, we explore how MDMA dismantles fear, floods the brain with oxytocin, and creates a learning window that accelerates healing in ways traditional therapy simply can't match. From a 92-year-old trauma survivor sleeping through the night for the first time in 87 years, to couples rediscovering intimacy after years of silence — the results speak for themselves.

In this episode:

• Why MDMA works where two years of couples therapy fails
• The neuroscience of fear removal and heart opening
• How to find a qualified guide and stay safe
• Integration techniques that make breakthroughs last
• Why Jonathan believes MDMA is the medicine this polarized age needs most

🎙️ Jonathan Robinson | MDMAtraining.net | Book: Ecstasy for Couples

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