The DPO Project

This week Zi and Vindesh discuss how pride and shame are one and the same.  Zi describes how these feelings can create a vicious cycle and lack of self-ownership  Shame hinders your ability to improve yourself.  They get into the topics of the day where this dynamic is played out and why it's so important to know yourself.  

This week on The DPO we reflect on those moments that happen that forever change our lives.  Zi and Vindesh discuss the ramifications of being reactive and how the ego can hijack our logic and emotions.  This episode includes a challenge.  A challenge to better understand yourself and how to choose to respond to life’s storms.  What moment changed your entire life’s trajectory causing that one day to feel like an entire year? Zi warns not lament in regret, but to understand the lesson.

This week Zi and Vindesh explore what it means to express the truth in your heart.  Zi shares his experiences working with people who are faced with a life changing illness and must find a way to endure.  There is a commonality between them and what he’s seen work is that love carries you all the way.

This week Zi and Vindesh tackle a topic that most of us have said in our life, "common sense is not common."  Zi shares his experience when he switched from an iPhone to Android and how Apple is brilliantly highjacking our brains.  What does this mean for humanity? We have more access to information than ever before, but with that comes a consequence.  This new tech boom could be affecting our brain development, and they talk about what longterm effects may come of this wave.

This week Zi and Vindesh explore the topic of how to find yourself.  Zi discusses how the digital landscape has created an “anti-hero” narrative and how the rise of influencers can cloud your development to self-realization.  What if we get canceled? Zi addresses the downward spiral that happens when you buy into movements that don’t actually support your well being.  These “digital warriors” and “twitter tyrants” are often times not even real humans, yet they inspire mass political agendas.  We talk about how to opt out of what does not serve you.

This week Vindesh and Master Zi discuss the scientific view behind the buddhist brain.  Now that there are more studies confirming the validation of ancient philosophies and medicines, we realize that the brain controls more of our reactions and responses than we thought.  Zi talks about how the brain creates neuromaps, which you can think of as our own programming code.  They share different strategies to unlock and take control of the patterns our brain has created.  

This week we welcome guest Marianna Newsam, founder of MNO Therapy, who is a Pediatric Physical Therapist.  Master Zi and Vindesh have fun asking about her experience of working with young children and seek to understand what happens in those early years of development.  Marianna and Zi both share their opinions of brain development in the child and adult mind.  They offer tools and resources to help us and children learn practical life skills.

This week Master Zi and Vindesh explore the different ways of measuring intelligence.   Zi discusses I.Q. versus E.Q. and why being empathetic is missing in today's society.  Zi and Vindesh refer to the words of Buddha as they navigate what modern day intelligence really looks like and ways to cultivate it in our daily life.    

We're back on track here at the studio! Today Zi and Vindesh explore what happens when you're "disappointed."  Sharing from their own experiences, Zi describes how he navigates disappointment and what he's learned from working with clients.  Vindesh asks Zi for his advice on handling challenging relationships.  

This week Zi and Vindesh explore the meaning behind life milestones.  Our millenial guests Jonta Hall and Rob Stone join the conversation by asking what rights of passage look like during this era.  Zi and Vindesh discuss their coming of age experiences and how those moments shaped their character and relationships.