The Better Human Project

By Ryan Munsey

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March 06, 2018 BHP 011: Darlington Martor | Anything Is Everything
Born into the chaos of civil war and genocide in Liberia, Darlington Martor’s childhood gave him a unique perspective on life, gratitude, and being a better human. While his experience may seem extraordinary to us, it’s an all-too-common story for many families around the world. And Darlington is one of the lucky ones – he [...]
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1h 39min
February 27, 2018BHP 10: Caveman Coffee | Personal Growth + Social and Digital Footprints
Tait Fletcher and Lacie Mackey may go down in history as some of the best guests to ever appear on the Better Human Project.
This was an incredible conversation with some amazing humans.
Tait, Lacie, Ryland and I spent nearly 2 hours drinking coffee in the BHP RV on a beautiful Sunday morning in Venice, California discussing coffee, business ethics, personal growth, my book – F*ck Your Feelings, and managing social media and our digital footprints. The best part…we recorded it all!
Show Notes: Better Human Project #10 with Tait Fletcher and Lacie Mackey of Caveman Coffee
Tait’s reaction to reading my book, F*ck Your Feelings and how it hooked him right away. (4:07)
Ryan explains states and traits, the process of writing his book and where the inspiration came from. (11:05)
It’s all kindness and practice. Meditation experiences with Ram Dass and the importance of clearing your mind to understand it all. (19:50)
Create a discipline and do that throughout your whole life. How to pick your thing and become the master of it. (30:08)
If you cannot take care of the eco-system of your body, how can others trust what you are saying? Practical ways to improve yourself and people skills needed to succeed. (38:20)
Important to know what a tool is and what is you. Learning the art of balancing the doing. (41:40)
Pirate your life back. The message behind their brand and how that carries over to the Caveman Coffee business standards. (53:00)
Success strategies. The importance of working directly with the farmers to provide the highest quality products to the consumer. (1:14:40)
What is your convenience costing you? The value of voting with your dollar and supporting the things you love. (1:19:08)
Tait & Lacie’s Top 2 Tips to Be A Better Human (1:31:30)
Travel and read – If you want success, you need to immerse yourself in the culture to the best of your ability.
Taking care of yourself to improve your performance in all aspects of your life.
Top 2 Tips To Do Better as a human being: Taking responsibility for your own surroundings/digital footprint, staying quiet and doing the work on you. (1:44:25)
Featured Guest
Caveman Coffee Co.
Tait Fletcher (@TaitFletcher) · Twitter & Instagram
Lacie Mackey (@lacie_mackey) • Instagram
Related Links/Products Mentioned
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Book by Malcolm Gladwell
Decisions Are Emotional, Not Logical: The Neuroscience behind Decision Making
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance – Book by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) – IMDb
Most Plastic Products Release Estrogenic Chemicals: A Potential Health Problem That Can Be Solved
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman – Book by Yvon Chouinard
History of Patagonia
Get ready. Amazon-Whole Foods deal will change how you buy food forever
The Development of a Market for Sustainable Coffee in The Netherlands: Rethinking the Contribution of Fair Trade
Little Moo’s Gourmet Market
Welcome To Rebeccas Natural Food
Unprecedented drought over tropical South America in 2016: significantly under-predicted by tropical SST
The Kite Runner – Book by Khaled Hosseini
People Mentioned
Malcolm Gladwell (@Gladwell) · Twitter
Chris Dancy (@chrisdancy) · Twitter
Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis) · Twitter
Steven Tyler (@IamStevenT) · Twitter
Duncan Trussell M.D. (@duncantrussell) · Twitter
Ram Dass (@BabaRamDass) · Twitter
Jack Kornfield (@JackKornfield) · Twitter
Trudy Goodman (@TrudyGoodman) | Twitter
Al Gore (@algore) · Twitter
Lindsey Mathews (@trainerlindsey) • Instagram
Mark_Sisson (@Mark_Sisson) · Twitter
Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) · Twitter

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1h 54min
February 27, 2018 BHP 10: Caveman Coffee | Personal Growth + Social and Digital Footprints
Tait Fletcher and Lacie Mackey may go down in history as some of the best guests to ever appear on the Better Human Project. This was an incredible conversation with some amazing humans. Tait, Lacie, Ryland and I spent nearly 2 hours drinking coffee in the BHP RV on a beautiful Sunday morning in Venice, [...]
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1h 54min
February 20, 2018BHP 009: The Renegade VC Fund | ICA Fund Good Jobs
Fund Good Jobs is a non-profit, impact investment firm focused on creating jobs and economic opportunity for the San Francisco and Oakland area inner cities.
You read that correctly – they’re a non-profit investment firm. We like to call them Renegade VC’s.
You may recognize a few of their higher profile, successful investments: Blue Bottle Coffee, Impact Hub-Oakland, and Numi teas.
Sean, Rasheed, Kot and the rest of the Fund Good Jobs team are truly working to be better humans and do better for their community as they invest in education, employment, and infrastructure for the people and businesses striving to do more.
What You’ll Learn About Business, Investing, and Entrepreneurship from the Fund Good Jobs crew on the Better Human Project:
Meet the team from ICA Fund Good Jobs: Sean Daniel Murphy, CEO; Rasheed Mitchell, Investment Associate and Kot Hordynski, Director of Marketing & Impact (4:03)
How ICA is pairing up small businesses with impact investors to create greater economic activities for families in the Bay Area. (6:01)
From bike messenger to Director of Marketing and Impact. How to land your dream job and profit from your passion. (9:11)
The renegade VC approach: betting on people. (10:45)
How ICA has impacted the San Francisco Bay Area through their investments (13:15)
Why capital is not as important as many new businesses think, and what you really need to know about investing.(17:30)
The #1 way ICA mitigates risk and protects the positive outcome of any mission. (21:02)
Why charity is so important to ICA. (24:20)
What makes ICA Fund Good Jobs stand alone as the top non-profit VC group? (26:35)
How can we measure truly impact?. (28:03)
Your success and/or failure has a far greater impact than the employees that work there. When is it the right time to invest or accept funding? (34:15)
How ICA helps entrepreneurs overcome their 2 biggest hurdles: managing cash and managing people. (38:48)
Profit is an opinion, cash is a fact
How to identify the areas you need help/don’t understand and seek advice/ask questions
The importance of social capital and its impact on people’s lives. Why we need to “build the ecosystem” by getting out and talking to people. (50:14)
ICA’s Top Tip to Be a better human: (54:58)
Having empathy and being relentless
Listening more than you speak and trusting your instincts
Taking more chances on people and to keep things in perspective
Featured Guest
ICA Fund Good Jobs
ICA Fund Good Jobs (@ICAFundGoodJobs) | Twitter
Related Links/Products Mentioned
Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness – Harvard Business School
revolution foods | feeding good –
Former ICA Fund Good Jobs company Blue Bottle Coffee strikes major deal with Nestle.
Community development financial institution
BHP 005: Mind Pump Media | Building A Business Empire – The Better Human Project
Growth Strategies by ICA Fund Good Jobs Education
ICA Fund Good Jobs Launches First of its Kind ‘Good Jobs Accelerator’
People Mentioned
Michael E. Porter (@MichaelEPorter) | Twitter
Blue Bottle Coffee (@bluebottle) • Instagram
Jose Corona
Michael C. Bush (@MBushGPTW) · Twitter

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1h 5min
February 20, 2018 BHP 009: The Renegade VC Fund | ICA Fund Good Jobs
Fund Good Jobs is a non-profit, impact investment firm focused on creating jobs and economic opportunity for the San Francisco and Oakland area inner cities. You read that correctly – they’re a non-profit investment firm. We like to call them Renegade VC’s. You may recognize a few of their higher profile, successful investments: Blue Bottle [...]
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1h 5min
February 13, 2018BHP 008: Lindsey Matthews | BIRTHFIT
BIRTHFIT founder and CEO Lindsey Matthews joins us on the Better Human Project to talk BIRTHFIT, hormones, relationships, movement practices, posture, and more.
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What You’ll Learn from Lindsey Matthews on Episode 8 of the Better Human Project Podcast
Health begins on the inside.
The 4 pillars of BIRTHFIT and how Lindsey used them to recover from her own setback
Why everyone, especially expecting mothers need to start a movement practice.
The power of breath and the McKenzie Protocol.
The industrialization of the birth process – and how women can explore their different options for the birth they want
The misconceptions about pre-conception
Planning your training, nutrition, and even your workflow to match the phases of your monthly cycle
Mastering the different areas of life: work, home, relationships, and more – “you are going to grow and evolve and it’s up to you to put energy into it to make it continue.”
Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization: what is it and how finding DNS was the missing piece and light bulb moment for Lindsey in her personal and professional evolutions
“Right now our society is doing a piss poor job on both sides of the mountain.” The struggles women face postpartum and how BIRTHFIT is tackling this problem.
“Change is not going to occur until we start speaking with our money.” – find out what we can do right now to drive the changes we want to see.
Lindsey’s #1 Tip To Be a Better Human: It starts with your mindset, embrace a growth set mindset in everything that you do.
Lindsey’s #1 Tip To Do Better: Getting out of your own story and going into the story of the person through their own eyes.
Strong women build strong babies who build a better world.

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February 13, 2018 BHP 008: Lindsey Matthews | BIRTHFIT
BIRTHFIT founder and CEO Lindsey Matthews joins us on the Better Human Project to talk BIRTHFIT, hormones, relationships, movement practices, posture, and more. [iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6253823/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/657354/custom-color/c42538″ height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] What You’ll Learn from Lindsey Matthews on Episode 8 of the Better Human Project Podcast Health begins on the inside. The [...]
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February 06, 2018BHP 007: Josh Mantz | Overcoming Trauma Through Human Connection
Josh Mantz died in 2007.
15 minutes later, through life-saving CPR, defibrillations, and injections of adrenaline, medics were able to regain a pulse a save give Josh a second life.
Since then Josh has been a relentless advocate for his military brethren – and non military trauma survivors – in the quest to reduce the stigma of asking for help and to highlight the real issues underlying the suffering that is part of the human condition.
In this powerful interview Josh shares his personal story and how the power of human connection can help us all overcome the guilt and shame that underpin our experiences of trauma.
Josh is a truly exceptional human being and we’re incredibly grateful to share this episode today. Enjoy.
Show Notes: Josh Mantz & The Beauty Of A Darker Soul
We have a natural tendency to compare ourselves to others. Trauma does not discriminate.
Josh tells the story of when he got shot (was medically flat lined for full 15 minutes!) and the survivor’s guilt that came from it.
The real trauma is not getting hurt; it is the threat of getting hurt.
How understanding the truth behind the trauma is even more important, than going through the experience itself.
There is a stigma around the word stigma. Why Josh wrote the book to take a reader on a journey to connect to it in their own way.
Emotional bandwidth and the capacity to expand your own. What is the place all this is coming from? He tells the story of his new career path and the speaking tour he did.
Our greatest power is in our vulnerability.
The kettlebell of life analogy. If we operate from inside ourselves first, if we can learn how to re-visit the present moment and drive power first from that place everything we do in life becomes more powerful!
The separation of mind and body. Josh describes how he had to accept the death of his old self, to fully live in the present moment.
Adaption of a daily practice and its importance to win your day.
Top 2 Tips To Be a Better Human:
To have the humility in our lives, that someone may know more about things than you.
Have the courage to be vulnerable, suffer productively.
Featured Guest
Darker Souls Website – The Truth Behind Trauma
The Beauty of a Darker Soul: Overcoming Trauma Through the Power of Human Connection – Joshua Mantz
Related Links/Products Mentioned
Better Human Project is Creating tools for Self-Development and an Inspired Life
Overcoming Moral Injuries | Joshua Mantz | TEDxSantoDomingo –
Fasciotomy
Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness
Canticle to the Cosmos – Brian Swimme
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
Ayahuasca
People Mentioned
Brian Swimme
Greg Glassman (@CrossFitCEO) | Twitter
Mark Divine (@MarkDivine) · Twitter
Viktor Frankl

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1h 11min
February 06, 2018 BHP 007: Josh Mantz | Overcoming Trauma Through Human Connection
Josh Mantz died in 2007. 15 minutes later, through life-saving CPR, defibrillations, and injections of adrenaline, medics were able to regain a pulse a save give Josh a second life. Since then Josh has been a relentless advocate for his military brethren – and non military trauma survivors – in the quest to reduce the [...]
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1h 11min
January 30, 2018BHP 006: The Better Human Project Explained
This should have been episode 001 of The Better Human Project podcast.

It wasn’t and we can’t change that. But today, on Episode #6, I chat with BHP co-founder, Ryland Hormel in our effort to communicate the vision we share for the Better Human Project.

A few of the topics we cover:
Meet co-founder Ryland Hormel
The idea of #BeBeter & #DoBetter
The why
The how
The what
How we’re making our Impact
Support Levels and What Our Patrons Get
Future collaborations and possibilities
Our Patreon-only Bonus episode 1 is up
Special thank you to Evolution HPR and Dry Farm Wines for their early and huge contributions to our charitable efforts
If you have any topics, guest or causes you want us to showcase, let us know. Email [email protected]
Learn how you support The Better Human Project on Patreon and make an immediate impact in your community.
Social Media Links
Ryland on Instagram @ryhormel
Ryan on Instagram @ryanmunsey_

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FAQs about The Better Human Project:

How many episodes does The Better Human Project have?

The podcast currently has 231 episodes available.