In this episode, we sit with a lifelong student Austin Gates, whose path is shaped by devotion to practice, inquiry, and community. From contemplative psychology to meditation instruction, research, student organizing, and even Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, he reflects on what it means to remain a student throughout. Through stories of study, service, and embodied practice, this conversation becomes an invitation to meet challenge not as failure, but as initiation into deeper learning.

Visit his youtube channel:

The Rad Futurist

The Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality:

https://charisinterspirituality.org

And their Naropa University partnership:

The Keating-Schachter Center (KSC) for Interspirituality at Naropa University

The Zendo project, the company we discussed that sets up at festivals:

https://zendoproject.org/