Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

By Tami Simon

Religion & Spirituality

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Tami Simon, Founder and Publisher of Sounds True interviews spiritual teachers, visionary writers, and living luminaries about their newest work and current challenges—the growing edge of their inner inquiry and outer contribution to the world.

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Stephen Aizenstat: Increasi...

11.28.2023

When we’re children, we’re encouraged to use our imagination. Yet over time, we tend to leave the imagination behind and emphasize logic and rational thinking. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Pacifica Graduate Institute founder Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., about ...

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge episodes:

11.28.2023 Stephen Aizenstat: Increasing Your Imaginal Intelligence When we’re children, we’re encouraged to use our imagination. Yet over time, we tend to leave the imagination behind and emphasize logic and rational thinking. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Pacifica Graduate Institute founder Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., about ...
11.21.2023 Moshe Gersht: Standing in Certainty During an Uncertain Time Responding to an undeniable inner impulse for deeper understanding and purpose, Moshe Gersht left behind a successful career as a musician to study the Torah in Jerusalem. Today, he writes and teaches about the connections between Judaism, mystical wisdom, the ...
11.14.2023 Lama Rod Owens: The Path of the New Saint To be a New Saint is to move into a direct relationship with suffering—our own and that of the world—and make a commitment to disrupt that suffering in any way we can, for as long as it takes. In this ...
11.07.2023 Justin Michael Williams, Shelly Tygielski, and Mario Van Peebles: How We Ended Racism The end of racism—really? When your eyes stop rolling, tune in to this podcast to hear why it's actually possible—in our lifetimes—to free our society from systemic racial oppression and injustice. In part one of this episode of Insights at ...
10.31.2023 Nataly Kogan: Living in a Friendly and Joy-Filled Universe What brings you your greatest joy? How do you access your inner "awesome"? Nataly Kogan has made it her life's work to help people overcome burnout and break free from endless busyness. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Nataly ...
10.24.2023 Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth: I’m Here For Love "If we as a world ever got even a hint of the incredible love with which God loves us, we would be living in such a different world than we do now." These are the wise words of Mpho Andrea ...
10.17.2023 Andrea Gibson: Facing Mortality and Being Adored and Cherished by the Universe Great poets expand our view—of ourselves, of each other, and of the entire universe. Andrea Gibson was named Colorado's 2023–25 Poet Laureate for their celebrated verses on love, LGBTQ issues, spirituality, mental health, social justice, and more. In this podcast, ...
10.10.2023 Stefani Goerlich: Understanding Kink and Advocating for Its Cultural Redemption You're kinky but your partner is vanilla. Or maybe it's the other way around. Perhaps you've always known; perhaps you just found out. So how do you talk about it? And what happens next? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks ...
10.05.2023 Katie Horwitch: Reimagining Being Positive and Fearless Shifting out of negative self-talk isn't easy. Sugar-coating, "sending love and light," faking-it-till-we-make-it, and other forms of false positivity can do more harm than good. In her book, Want Your Self: Shift Your Self-Talk and Unearth the Strength in Who ...
10.03.2023 Thomas Hübl: Alchemizing Individual, Ancestral, and Collective Trauma Visionary teacher Thomas Hübl is leading the way toward a new era of trauma healing on the individual, ancestral, and collective levels. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Hübl about his new book, Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our ...
09.28.2023 Jamie Della: Crafting a Wise and Magickal Life Mystery and misunderstanding surround the practice of magick and witchcraft. In the decades since she chose to publicly "come out of the broom closet," author, priestess, healer, and Xicana witch Jamie Della has made it her mission to help others ...
09.26.2023 Spring Washam: Partnering with Ancestors for Support and Liberation Our collective human family faces unprecedented challenges—but we need not face them alone. We can call on the living spirit of our ancestors to collaborate on the creation of a more just and peaceful world. In this podcast, Tami Simon ...
09.19.2023 Megan Devine: Acknowledging Our Grief and Carrying What Can’t Be Fixed When we suffer a serious loss, we come face-to-face with the fragile nature of this world. Yet in today's culture, we often try to avoid or deny the deep emotions associated with losing the people and things we love. In ...
09.12.2023 Matt Gutman: Conquering a Lifetime of Panic Attacks 28% of Americans will experience a panic attack in their lifetime. Some researchers say that number is closer to 50%. Renowned ABC News correspondent, Matt Gutman, never felt afraid when assigned to active and dangerous war zones. Yet when he ...
09.05.2023 Gladys McGarey: Activating Our Life Force with Love At the ripe young age of 102, physician, author, and great-great-grandmother Dr. Gladys McGarey maintains an active consulting practice and in 2023 published her most recent book, The Well-Lived Life. Widely considered the mother of holistic medicine, Dr. Gladys is ...
08.29.2023 David Spiegel: Self-Hypnosis for Well-Being The practice of hypnosis is considered by many people within and outside of the medical profession to be useless, dangerous, or both. Yet studies are showing how hypnosis offers us a reliable, remarkably powerful therapeutic tool for managing pain and ...
08.22.2023 Tami Simon: Being a Spiritual Entrepreneur A magazine article about Sounds True founder Tami Simon referred to her as a “spiritual entrepreneur.” At first, Tami wasn’t sure about the label. Yet over time, she came to appreciate and embrace it. Today, the art of spiritual entrepreneurship ...
08.15.2023 Jeremy Hunter: Untaught Essentials for Business Humans How do you transform your mind, and how do you do it in real time amidst the challenges of work and life? How do you remain openhearted and generous in a competitive or even cutthroat environment? These aren’t usually the ...
08.08.2023 Maggie Smith: Writing in a Way That Is Brave, Real, and True Bestselling poet Maggie Smith has a gift for embracing the complexity of our human experience—and for writing about it with piercing intensity, clarity, and beauty. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Maggie about her approach to her craft and ...
08.01.2023 Light Watkins: Putting Your Heart-Voice into Action What is spiritual minimalism? How do we “declutter” ourselves so we can hear and take action on the voice of our hearts? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with meditation teacher and author Light Watkins about his new book, Travel ...
07.25.2023 A.H. Almaas: Love in Its Boundless Dimension We come into this world with a basic trust in the goodness of life. And our trials, tribulations, and traumas cover up that trust, or shatter it completely. In this discussion of his new book, Nondual Love, Tami Simon speaks ...
07.18.2023 Andrew Holecek: Reverse Meditation Your mindfulness practice worked! You calmed your mind and felt the deep, inner bliss that meditation brings. But, asks Andrew Holecek, what do you do with these beatific states when your world is falling apart? Where's your meditation practice then? ...
07.11.2023 Chris Bache: Diamonds from Heaven: Exploring the Mind of the Universe What is the meaning of life? Can we really understand the nature of time and space or the structure of the universe? Is reincarnation real? Get ready for an extremely edgy episode of Insights at the Edge! Listen in as ...
07.04.2023 Shamini Jain: Healing Ourselves at This Time — The Benevolent Challenge What is the future of health and healing? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Shamini Jain about her vision of the medicine of tomorrow, where not only the physical aspects of who we are but also our emotions, ...
06.27.2023 Friedemann Schaub: Becoming the Empowered Leader of Your Subconscious Mind The subconscious mind has a critical role in our lives—a role that it’s always busy fulfilling. But it also has a problem, explains Dr. Friedemann Schaub: “It pretty much does whatever it started to do early in our lives.” In ...
06.20.2023 Three Black Men We know that we're living in a critical time in human history. We know that we can no longer say, "It's not my responsibility." What is it that this time begs us to see? In this podcast, Tami Simon joins ...
06.13.2023 Sherianna Boyle: Energy in Action “Focus on your thoughts.” That’s the first instruction most of us receive when we begin to explore the practice of manifestation. Sherianna Boyle has a different suggestion: focus on your emotions. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Sherianna about ...
06.06.2023 Tony Schwartz and Kimberly Manns: The Reckoning: Seeing More and Feeling More Who could you become if you fully allowed yourself to accept what you really want and go for it without reservation? What’s standing in your way? With their audio learning program, The Reckoning, celebrated leadership consultants Tony Schwartz and Kimberly ...
05.30.2023 Melissa Bernstein: Finding Meaning and Creating from Light Through the wonderful, timeless toys she has created with her husband and their company, Melissa & Doug, Melissa Bernstein has sparked a brilliant imaginative light in the lives of thousands of children (and their parents!). Yet before the runaway success ...
05.23.2023 Stan Tatkin: In Each Other’s Care Dr. Stan Tatkin is uniquely talented at helping couples shift from being in each other's faces to being in each other's care. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks to the innovative therapist and author about his new book, In Each ...
05.16.2023 Rainn Wilson: Standing for a Spiritual Revolution How do we reimagine society and build it anew upon a foundation of love, unity, and compassion? This is the central question Rainn Wilson explores in his new book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution. In this podcast, ...
05.09.2023 Mark Nepo: The Half-Life of Angels How do we know our own authenticity? How can we return to our hearts when we find we’ve left them? As we evolve and change along our journey, how do we relate to the “former selves” in our past? In ...
05.02.2023 Jon Kabat-Zinn: Befriending Pain Current statistics tell us that 20% of the US population has some form of chronic pain, defined as severe discomfort that has continued for six months or more. That’s more than 50 million people. Jon Kabat-Zinn has received international acclaim ...
04.25.2023 Lorna Byrne: Knowing Yourself as a Spiritual Being There is a material world we can touch with our hands and see with our eyes. And as Lorna Byrne assures us, there is also a spiritual world that is just as real—one that most of us have forgotten how ...
04.20.2023 Ruby Warrington: Women Without Kids Whether or not to become a parent is a central question in life. There are many factors that influence the decision, some of which are out of our control. Yet foregoing motherhood, for any reason, can lead to painful stigmatization ...
04.18.2023 Elissa Epel: The Stress Prescription How can we live without the sense that our value is measured by achievements and productivity? What kind of attitude and skills are needed today to deal with the stress so many are feeling? In a nutshell, what does it ...
04.11.2023 Zenju Earthlyn Manuel: Opening to Darkness Darkness is an inseparable part of life. Yet instead of resisting it or trying to eradicate it, as society would often have us do, how can we use darkness as fodder for our growth and evolution? In this podcast, Tami ...
04.06.2023 Andrea Owen: Speaking with a Damn Good Coach Andrea Owen is an author, global keynote speaker, and professional certified life coach who helps high-achieving women master their confidence and resilience. But as she puts it, “I was not born an evolved person.” In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks ...
04.04.2023 Mara Glatzel: What Do You Need? We all have needs. Yet why is it so difficult to honor them? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Mara Glatzel about her book, Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty, and how we might ...
03.28.2023 Rachel Macy Stafford: The Soul Shift to What Really Matters In her new book, Soul Shift, Rachel Macy Stafford offers a practical approach to navigating a culture of distraction and depletion to find your way back to what delights your heart, makes you feel alive, and brings you peace. In ...
03.23.2023 MaryCatherine McDonald: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong For centuries, we’ve been taught that being traumatized means we are somehow broken—and that trauma only happens to people who are too fragile or flawed to deal with hardship. Instead, says Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald, the trauma response proves our spirit ...
03.21.2023 Iain S. Thomas & Jasmine Wang: Can AI Answer Life’s Biggest Questions? Mention to someone the words “artificial intelligence,” and chances are you’ll get a very emotional response. For some, the thought of AI triggers fear, anger, and suspicion; for others, great excitement and anticipation. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with ...
03.14.2023 Paulina Porizkova: Aging Beautifully We're all beautiful in different ways. To see this beauty in everyone around you only takes a little kindness and patience. This is just one of the many deep insights you'll hear in this podcast with author and former supermodel ...
03.07.2023 Sará King: Liberatory Technology from the Future We live in an age of astounding technological wonders. Yet there is great fear and uncertainty around where it’s taking us all. The multitalented Dr. Sará King is a neuroscientist, education philosopher, public speaker, and codirector of Mobius, a nonprofit ...
02.28.2023 Daniel J. Siegel: IntraConnected: Discovering MWe (Me + We) We may have a mental understanding that all of life is one inseparable whole, yet how do we actually feel into this reality? And how do we relate to others and the world from this felt awareness? Dr. Daniel J. ...
02.23.2023 Emilia Elisabet Lahti: Sisu: Embodying Gentle Power How do we find the strength to keep going when it feels like there’s nothing left inside of us? The Finnish philosophy of sisu shows us a new way to look at power and perseverance—not as force and domination but ...
02.21.2023 Sarah Blondin: Heart Minded Is your heart asking you for a more meaningful conversation? Are you longing to engage a different kind of awareness than the thinking mind? Sarah Blondin is beloved by millions for her online guided meditations that invite us to come ...
02.16.2023 Valerie Gangas: In Deep Shift When our lives are unexpectedly overturned, how do we regain our footing and make something new and better of ourselves? In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with author Valerie Gangas about her book, In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of ...
02.14.2023 Connor Beaton: Men’s Work What does it look like to connect to our own masculinity, our own masculine core, in a healthy way? How as men do we welcome the parts of ourselves we dislike the most? Where can we find the validation and ...
02.07.2023 Melody T. McCloud: Black Women’s Wellness Dr. Melody T. McCloud has written a first-of-its-kind, truly groundbreaking book that serves as an indispensable guide to help Black women lead healthier, happier lives. Black Women’s Wellness: Your “I’ve Got This!” Guide to Health, Sex, and Phenomenal Living sheds ...

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