The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life.

By Dallas Hartwig and Pilar Gerasimo

What's The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life. about?

Join Dallas Hartwig and Pilar Gerasimo for this series of smart, rollicking, no-BS conversations about healthy, happy, conscious living — plus real-life "experiments" to help you discover the practical shifts that work best for you.

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The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life. episodes:

04.21.2023
Episode 121: Psychedelics
This week we’re talking about psychedelics — the consciousness altering substances, and the extraordinary moment they are having in our culture at this time. We explore the reasons that popular interest in psychedelics has risen dramatically in recent years...
03.03.2023
Episode 120: Nutritious Movement with Katy Bowman
This week we're talking about Nutritious Movement, the brainchild of our brilliant friend, biomechanist, fitness expert, and best-selling author Katy Bowman. Katy's term "nutritious movement" refers to the type of movement that nourishes, educates, shapes, energizes, and repairs us in...
02.15.2023
Episode 119: Pandemic Era Discoveries
This week, we're talking about Pandemic Era Discoveries. Last winter, after two years spent in various forms of social isolation, Dallas and Pilar met up at an improvised San Diego studio to catch up live and in person. We compared...
01.03.2022
Episode 118: Optimize with Brian Johnson
This week we’ve got a special guest episode with Brian Johnson, the creator of Optimize and the Founder + CEΦ of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation. Brian has spent half of the last twenty-five years as a Founder/CEO and the other...
12.16.2021
Episode 117: Afro Flow Yoga with Leslie Salmon Jones and Jeff W. Jones
This week, Pilar talks with special guests Leslie Salmon Jones and Jeff W. Jones, co-founders of Afro Flow Yoga. Leslie and Jeff created Afro Flow Yoga in 2008, fusing a new blend of expressive movement and rhythmic music from their...
09.29.2021
Episode 116: Kitchen Whisperers with Dorothy Kalins
This week Pilar talks to a special guest — James Beard award-winning journalist, author, and food legend Dorothy Kalins. Dorothy is the founding editor of Saveur magazine and Metropolitan Home. She's also a celebrated cookbook creator and the author of...
01.18.2021
Episode 115: Make Time with John Zeratsky
This week on The Living Experiment we bring you an episode that has been a very long time coming — a special guest episode with New York Times bestselling author John Zeratsky. John is the co-author — with Jake Knapp...
12.30.2020
Episode 22: (Another) New Year
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about the concept of the New Year — from meaningless consumer hype to contemplative pursuits that really can make a difference. We explore the potential pros and cons of leveraging the New...
10.15.2020
Episode 114: Midlife
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about Midlife — that fun and potentially funky moment when you realize you might well have fewer years ahead of you than you've already put behind you. It's a clarifying moment for...
08.31.2020
Episode 113: Mini Update from Pilar
Life continues to be weird. So we are just rolling with it. This week on The Living Experiment, Pilar offers some updates and options for folks who want to stay connected and who are eager keep experimenting through the rest...
08.27.2020
Episode 112: Rewilding with Daniel Vitalis
This week on The Living Experiment, Pilar interviews a special guest, hunter-gatherer and rewilding enthusiast Daniel Vitalis. Daniel is a well-recognized advocate for what's known as rewilding, a term that he points out means very different things to different people....
08.06.2020
Episode 111: Moving Forward
This week on The Living Experiment we're talking about Moving Forward in this unusual time in history. Thanks to COVID-19, we're still recording from a distance. Since we were last in the studio though, and even since the last time...
06.29.2020
Episode 110: Autoimmunity with Dr. Terry Wahls
This week our guest is Terry Wahls, MD, a physician and scientific researcher best known for her groundbreaking work reversing autoimmune diseases — including her own disabling case of multiple sclerosis, which for a time had her confined to...
05.06.2020
Episode 109: Health Transformation with Dr. Frank Lipman
This week on The Living Experiment, our guest is Dr. Frank Lipman, one of the world's leading integrative physicians, a thought leader and innovator in the realm of disease reversal, and the author of a bunch of books, including...
04.14.2020
Episode 108: Functional Medicine with Dr. Jeff Bland
This week on The Living Experiment we have an extraordinary guest, functional medicine pioneer Dr. Jeffrey Bland. Dr. Bland is something of an international legend in functional medicine circles. A preeminent scientist dedicated to systems thinking, and a thought...
03.13.2020
Episode 107: The 4 Season Solution
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Dallas’s new book, The 4 Season Solution, which is now available in bookstores everywhere! In addition to recapping the central themes of the book, and hearing about the response it...
02.18.2020
Episode 106: Chronic Disease Reversal
This week on The Living Experiment we're talking about chronic disease reversal. Over the past decade there's been an emerging clinical awareness, with increasing research support, that many diseases we've been told are progressive and incurable can in fact often...
12.20.2019
Episode 105: Biometric Devices
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about biometric devices — the appeal these fascinating little gadgets hold and the distractions they can present. From Fitbits and Apple Watches to Muse Headbands and Oura Rings, we evaluate the ways...
11.29.2019
Episode 104: Trauma 2
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking, once again, about trauma - this time with internationally renowned trauma expert Dr. James Gordon. Pilar talks with Dr. Gordon about his new book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After...
11.12.2019
Episode 103: Love
This week on The Living Experiment we’re talking about Love — the romance, the heartbreak, the profound sense of connection that most of us are after. Both our desire for love and our struggles to navigate it are some...
10.30.2019
Episode 102: Trauma 1
This week on The Living Experiment Pilar interviews a very special guest, clinical therapist and author Resmaa Menakem. We're talking about trauma, the effect it has on us as individuals, and also the impact it has on us in...
10.21.2019
Episode 55 (Rerun): Autumn
Last week, after nearly a year away working on our books, Dallas and Pilar returned with a brand new "We're Back" episode of The Living Experiment. Soon, we'll be back again with a second new episode of the season. But...
10.09.2019
Episode 101: We're Back
This week on The Living Experiment, we return from a nearly one-year recording hiatus with a report from the outer limits of book writing and creative life. Dallas unpacks the contents of his forthcoming title, The 4 Season Solution. And...
04.12.2019
Episode 2 (Rerun): Healthy vs. Hot
Happy Spring, everybody! It's that time of year when our bodies come out of hiding, and when it seems like everybody has a plan for improving them. Bikini body workouts, beach-ready diets, perfect tan tips, the whole bit. So we...
02.14.2019
Episode 42 (Rerun): Intimacy and Connection
This week on The Living Experiment, in celebration of Valentine's Day, we bring you a replay of the third in a series of four special guest episodes featuring teachers from Lafayette Morehouse. For more background on this series, check out...
02.01.2019
Episode 17 (Rerun): Winter
Every season has its gifts, but we live in a culture that prefers to celebrate the bright, "go-go" energy of summer. Without the haven of a winter recovery cycle to replenish us, though, we get depleted, overstimulated, and overwhelmed. So...
12.27.2018
Episode 22 (Rerun): New Year
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about the concept of the New Year — from meaningless consumer hype to contemplative pursuits that really can make a difference. We explore the potential pros and cons of leveraging the New...
12.11.2018
Episode 62 (Rerun): Holidays
There’s so much merriment, so much anticipation, and yet … the holidays can also feel like a lot of pressure to perform, to conform, to consume. Here, we share our thoughts on navigating this season with your sanity and sense...
11.06.2018
Episode 100: Break
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about taking a Break — the value of choosing to pause a project or commitment, and the factors you might consider in doing so. We share the reasons, after 100 episodes, close...
10.30.2018
Episode 99: Healthy Deviance 2
This week on The Living Experiment we’re talking about Healthy Deviance (again!), so we’re calling this episode Healthy Deviance 2. First, we explore the evolution of Pilar's notion of Healthy Deviance, reflecting on how it has taken ahold and become...
10.16.2018
Episode 98: Coping
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about coping — the base level, essential things we do to get through our days, particularly when we’re under pressure and stress. In a world that can lead us to feel helpless,...
10.08.2018
Episode 97: Introvert Extrovert
This week on The Living Experiment we're talking about Introverts and Extroverts — from the different ways these two distinct types show up in the world to the sometimes perplexing ways they can relate. In the process we unpack our...
10.02.2018
Episode 96: Motivation
This week on The Living Experiment we’re talking about Motivation — the force that gets us to do, accomplish, and change the things we want to. And the force that sometimes fizzles without our really understanding why. So here, we...
09.25.2018
Episode 95: Meditation
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about Meditation — its near-countless benefits for body and mind, and also the real and perceived barriers that keep many from embracing it. From the challenges of making space for a regular...
09.18.2018
Episode 94: Enneagram
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about the Enneagram — a personal wisdom tool that has been transforming lives and relationships for thousands of years. The Enneagram is generally thought of as a personality typing system, and it...
09.11.2018
Episode 93: Weight Loss
This week on The Living Experiment we’re talking about Weight Loss — the myths, the methods, and the massive struggle it represents for the majority of Americans today. Starting with our own frustration with the muddled messages often broadcast on...
09.04.2018
Episode 92: Quitting
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Quitting — the importance of knowing when to do it, and the stigma that so often accompanies that decision. From jobs and relationships, to projects and attachments, we talk about both...
08.27.2018
Episode 91: Childless by Choice
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about being Childless by Choice. That’s a decision that an increasing number of people are making these days, so the assumption that any given person is hoping to someday "get married and...
07.31.2018
Episode 90: Questions
This week on The Living Experiment we’re talking about Questions — the value of asking more of them, and the potential of making inquiry a regular life practice. Rainer Maria Rilke once advised a young poet to "live in the...
07.23.2018
Episode 89: Suicide
This week on The Living Experiment we’re talking about Suicide — the fact that it has become tragically more common in recent years, and some reasons we think that might be. We also talk about how we personally view suicide,...
07.16.2018
Episode 88: Orthorexia
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Orthorexia — an eating disorder in which a person becomes so obsessed with what they think of as “healthy” eating that they over-limit their diet and become unhealthy as a result. ...
07.09.2018
Episode 87: Fats
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about Fats — the role they play in healthy eating, and the fact that a lot of what we've been told about them is all wrong. From the healthy fats your body...
07.03.2018
Episode 86: Supplements
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Supplements — why you can’t rely on pills and powders for all your nourishment, and why you still might want to take some anyway. We cover the value that both multis...
06.25.2018
Episode 85: Imposter Syndrome
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Imposter Syndrome — that disconcerting sense you may not be entirely worthy or qualified to be doing whatever it is you are doing, and that accompanying sense of dread that it’s just...
06.19.2018
Episode 84: How We See The World
This week we’re talking about How We See the World. This episode started out as an answer to a listener question — and then morphed, evolving into a big rambling conversation about hope and doubt, energy and attention, agency and...
06.13.2018
Episode 83: Conscious Language 2
This week on The Living Experiment, by listener request, we’re doing a special guest episode follow-up on the topic of Conscious Language, a subject we originally addressed way back in episode #66. Joining Pilar this week is Cat Thompson....
06.05.2018
Episode 82: Libido
This week on The Living Experiment, we’re talking about Libido — the nature of our drive for sensual and sexual contact, and the variables that can affect it, for better or for worse. We start from the assumption that a...
05.29.2018
Episode 81: Functional Medicine
This week on The Living Experiment, we're talking about Functional Medicine — a systems-based approach to addressing the fundamental causes of disease and distress. Both of us have been immersed in the functional medicine movement for years — Dallas as a...
05.01.2018
Episode 80: This Messy Magnificent Life , Part 2
This week on The Living Experiment, we bring you Part 2 of Pilar's conversation with New York Times best selling author and teacher, Geneen Roth. Geneen has been teaching and writing about conscious eating and living for the past 30...
04.24.2018
Episode 79: This Messy Magnificent Life, Part 1
This week on The Living Experiment, while Dallas is off on adventures, Pilar has a very special guest: Geneen Roth. Geneen has written close to a dozen terrific books, including Lost and Found: One Woman's Story of Losing Her Money and...

What's The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life. about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life. episodes:

Episode 121: Psychedelics

Episode 120: Nutritious Movement with Katy Bowman

Episode 119: Pandemic Era Discoveries

Episode 118: Optimize with Brian Johnson

Episode 117: Afro Flow Yoga with Leslie Salmon Jones and Jeff W. Jones

Episode 116: Kitchen Whisperers with Dorothy Kalins

Episode 115: Make Time with John Zeratsky

Episode 22: (Another) New Year

Episode 114: Midlife

Episode 113: Mini Update from Pilar

Episode 112: Rewilding with Daniel Vitalis

Episode 111: Moving Forward

Episode 110: Autoimmunity with Dr. Terry Wahls

Episode 109: Health Transformation with Dr. Frank Lipman

Episode 108: Functional Medicine with Dr. Jeff Bland

Episode 107: The 4 Season Solution

Episode 106: Chronic Disease Reversal

Episode 105: Biometric Devices

Episode 104: Trauma 2

Episode 103: Love

Episode 102: Trauma 1

Episode 55 (Rerun): Autumn

Episode 101: We're Back

Episode 2 (Rerun): Healthy vs. Hot

Episode 42 (Rerun): Intimacy and Connection

Episode 17 (Rerun): Winter

Episode 22 (Rerun): New Year

Episode 62 (Rerun): Holidays

Episode 100: Break

Episode 99: Healthy Deviance 2

Episode 98: Coping

Episode 97: Introvert Extrovert

Episode 96: Motivation

Episode 95: Meditation

Episode 94: Enneagram

Episode 93: Weight Loss

Episode 92: Quitting

Episode 91: Childless by Choice

Episode 90: Questions

Episode 89: Suicide

Episode 88: Orthorexia

Episode 87: Fats

Episode 86: Supplements

Episode 85: Imposter Syndrome

Episode 84: How We See The World

Episode 83: Conscious Language 2

Episode 82: Libido

Episode 81: Functional Medicine

Episode 80: This Messy Magnificent Life , Part 2

Episode 79: This Messy Magnificent Life, Part 1