Reinvented

In Season 2 of Reinvented, we explored how to design a better life – one that makes you happier, healthier, and more fulfilled.

I hope you enjoyed this season, and stay tuned to learn more about Season 3!

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I speak with Dr. Marisa G. Franco, a friendship expert, about what healthy relationships look like, how friendships help us to know ourselves better, and how to start making better connections.

1:00 – What does a healthy friendship look like?

2:30 – Why friendships matter (and how they help you know yourself)

6:30 – The three types of loneliness

9:00 – How modern society contributes to loneliness

13:30 – How relationships form: Initiate, disclose, expose, affirm

25:45 – Asking for support and intimacy

28:15 – Positive vibes only vs. doing the work

31:00 – How to rebuild friendships

37:30 – Turning inward to make friends

43:15 – The optimal use of technology

46:30 – Quality vs. quantity

48:45 – Where to learn more

Why listen to a podcast episode with an intuitive medium?

Because it’s an amazing opportunity to hear from someone who (literally and figuratively) sees the world differently than we do.

Join me as I speak to Carrie Stiers about the role intuition plays in our lives, how crises can open us up to new ideas, and how she found the courage to design her own life.

2:15 – How Carrie discovered her gift

7:30 – The soul never dies

11:10 – Synchronicity, dreams, and spiritual openings

13:45 – What’s really true?

18:30 – When people turn to mediums for help and how it works

24:30 – Seeing intuition in new places

27:30 – Crisis and opening up to new possibilities

30:30 – Finding a safe community

41:30 – Where to go if you want to learn more

44:00 – Thoughts on healing in 2021

Today, I speak with Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of Learning to Pray. 

You may recognize Father Jim from his appearances on The Colbert Report. You may also have seen the handwritten letter he received from Pope Francis encouraging him to continue his outreach to the LGBT community.  

In this conversation, we talk about the power of prayer and simple ways to incorporate prayer into your life. 

0:50 – What is prayer, why pray, and being called to prayer

5:35 – Prayer as a relationship

10:05 – My (unintentional) experiences with prayer

13:40 – The still, small voice

15:35 – How to pray and the examination of conscience

20:25 – Discernment, Part 1: When is it God talking?

27:15 – Discernment, Part 2: How to choose between A and B

32:50 – How to introduce God and spirituality to children

37:15 – Where to go to learn more

I speak with Dr. Phil Pierorazio, a urologic oncologist, about his experiences with burnout, how things came to a head during the pandemic, and how mindfulness is changing his life for the better, particularly in the workplace.

2:00 – Burnout, feeling directionless, and pressing pause during the pandemic

7:00 – Getting started with yoga

9:40 – Mindfulness revisited

18:30 – Creating your own practice

21:30 – Making changes @ work

34:30 – Routines vs. flexibility

36:15 – Debriefs, time-outs, and after-action reports

42:00 – Holographic thinking

43:45 – How change unfolds over time

The 3 rules of good sleep: (1) conducive environment (2) relaxed mind (3) relaxed body.

To explain more, Heather Darwall-Smith, author of The Science of Sleep, joins the show.

2:20 – Why sleep matters

4:15 – Achieving sleep vs. learning to relax

5:45 – Common impediments to “good” sleep

11:45 – How sleep works

17:00 – Good sleep starts during the day

20:00 – Sleep debts and “social jet lag”

23:30 – Missing your sleep window

27:30 – Winding down before sleep

32:00 – Designing your sleep environment

34:15 – The role of experimentation

39:00 – Sleep crutches

Diets don’t work for most people, but is there (finally) a better way? In this episode, I speak with Josh Hillis, author of Lean and Strong, about how eating guidelines and eating skills can help reset your relationship with food.

2:00 – Do diets work?

6:15 – Are there magical foods?

8:45 – Can you out-exercise a bad diet?

10:00 – Emotional eating

18:30 – The problem with food journals

21:45 – An intro to guidelines and skills

25:00 – Specific eating guidelines and skills

34:00 – What does it mean to be full anyways? And what’s wrong with snacks?

38:00 – How to get started

Tim Anderson is an educator, personal trainer, and the founder of Original Strength, a movement to help people remember how to move well and live better lives. In a nutshell, his job is to help people feel amazing.

In this conversation, I speak with Tim about the origins of Original Strength, how it’s changed my life, the joy of doing strange things in public, and living like a superhero.

We also talk about some of Tim’s favorite sayings, including “It feels good to feel good,” “Start where you are,” and “Be your own chef.”

3:00 – The Original Strength philosophy

4:45 – The road to “wrongville” is wider than we think

9:15 – Does change start in the mind or the body?

11:15 – The five resets

15:30 – “Start where you are”

19:30 – “Good, better, best”

20:45 – “Be your own chef”

24:30 – Doing strange things in public

31:15 – Superman and finding a role model

35:00 – Where to learn more about OS

In this episode, I speak with Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis, about how stepping out of our modern, comfortable lifestyles can dramatically improve our health, happiness, and spiritual wellbeing.

0:45 – Introduction

2:00 – Why write about discomfort?

7:00 – Evolutionary mismatches

9:30 – The mental benefits of discomfort + regaining perspective

14:45 – Not losing newfound insights

17:30 – Quick fixes vs. natural solutions

19:45 – How to start adding difficulty back into your life

23:45 – Boredom and technology

32:00 – Rediscovering the past

33:30 – What you eat doesn’t matters much as why you eat

38:50 – Prevalence-induced concept change, i.e. “comfort creep”

In this episode, I speak with Pete Davis, author of Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing about the dangers of keeping your options open, lessons we can learn from famous “long haul heroes,” and how choosing to commit to something outside of yourself can change your life.

0:45 – Why commitment matters

5:30 – An introduction to Infinite Browsing Mode

12:30 – How commitment makes everything better

16:30 – Vocation and professionalism, i.e. commitment at work

25:30 – Why we’re stuck in Infinite Browsing Mode

30:30 – The importance of compromise and the role of depth vs. substance

35:00 – How to choose where to commit: six types of commitment (citizens, patriots, builders, stewards, artisans, and companions) and specific practices to find your way (lowering the bar, Ignatian discernment, experience)

42:30 – How to maintain your commitments in a world full of browsing

48:30 – Whether you have to “succeed” for commitment to be worthwhile

53:00 – More advice on getting started