Clark Strand is an American author and lecturer on spirituality and religion.  He is a former Zen Buddhist monk and was the first Senior Editor of Tricycle:  The Buddhist Review.  He is also the author of many books including The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary and Seeds of a Birch Tree:  Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey

In this episode, Eric and Clark discuss a few of his books in addition to his exploration of the many spiritual traditions.

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Clark Strand and I Discuss Haiku and Other Creative Spiritual Practices and …

• His book, Waking Up to the Dark:  The Black Madonna’s Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse

His exploration of many spiritual traditions

Self power and other power

The circular notion of spiritual life rather than linear notion of progress

How a bead/rosary practice represents the circular nature of spirituality

The “hour of God” or “hour of the wolf” when awake in the night

Haiku and the tradition and forms of this type of poetry

Translation of haiku is “playful verse”

How profound meanings can come through from this playful art from

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Fariha Roisin is an Australian Canadian writer whose work frequently covers her identity as a queer, south Asian Muslim woman as well as self-care and pop culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice,and other publications. She has written a book of poetry (How To Cure A Ghost), a journal (Being In Your Body), and a novel (Like A Bird).

In this episode, Eric and Fariha discuss her non-fiction book, Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind.

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Fariha Roisin and I Discuss Wellness Culture and …

• Her book, Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

The way her severe childhood trauma has shaped her entire life

That we are shaped by the trauma of our families and ancestors

The factors that weave into how we need to heal

The importance of looking at and into the darkness for ourselves

Being alive IS the journey of self-discovery to show up as a fairer, kinder version of yourself

How discomfort is undervalued

That unraveling is the nexus for change in life

The difficult path of healing will give you your life if you follow it

How achieving or ascension can be a trauma response

What it means to become a more whole version of yourself – where every part of you is allowed

The idea of taking only what you give

How healing requires being present with yourself 

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How to Overcome Childhood Trauma with Michael Unbroken

Donna Hylton on Healing and Hope

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Sharon Salzberg is one of the worlds best know Buddhist teachers and a leader in meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She teaches both intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the profound cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion (the Brahma Viharas). She is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

In this episode, Eric and Sharon discuss her book Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.

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Sharon Salzberg and I Discuss How to Bring Lovingkindness to Your Life …

• Her book, Real Happiness At Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.

Lovingkindess is the fundamental sense of connectedness to ourselves and each other

Compassion is recognizing the universal vulnerability of ourselves and each other

The fundamental teaching of “everyone wants to be happy“

Remembering that it’s never to late to make a change

How the mind is naturally radiant and pure

The “visitors” that obscure our mind

The essential question of asking what we really need to be happy

How mindfulness is about training to find “the place in the middle”

Balancing repression and indulgence in our emotions

Whether Buddhism teaches that desire is the core problem

Making decisions from a “climate of wisdom”

The four types of enemies (outer, inner, secret, and most secret)

How to deal with these enemies

The importance of setting intentions

Watching our thoughts like an elderly person watches children in a park

How the difference between happiness and misery depends on where we place our attention.

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Martin Aylward has practiced meditation intensively since the age of 19, spending four years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. He’s been teaching worldwide since 1999, leading retreats and courses in mindfulness, meditation, and inner freedom. Martin co-founded the Mindfulness Training Institute with Mark Coleman, which runs year-long professional mindfulness teacher training in Europe and the U.S.

In this episode, Eric, Ginny, and Martin discuss his book, Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness.

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Martin Aylward, Ginny, and I Discuss How to Embody Awareness and …

• His book, Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness

The habits of “Grabby Mind”, “Resistant Mind”, and “Check Out Mind”

The good news that can learn to meet our experience more kindly and more spaciously

How aging can be humiliating or humbling depending on how much we try to hold on to our younger self-image

The distinction between what is true vs. what is useful to focus on

How to recognize and work with the deficient age gap

The way our life experiences are stored in our bodies

Sometimes meditation isn’t quite psychological enough. It can help dissolve inner states in the moment but further understanding is needed in order for them to really resolve

Waking up, growing up, showing up, cleaning up

No rehearsal, No replay

Inhabiting this moment is the best way to prepare for the next moment

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Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the world’s #1 Executive Coach, a Top Ten Business Thinker for eight years, and was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Award for Leadership by the Harvard Institute of Coaching. Marshall is the author or editor of 41 books, that have sold over 2.5 million copies, translated into 32 languages, and listed as bestsellers in 12 countries. 

In this episode, Eric and Marshall discuss his book, The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment

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Marshall Goldsmith and I Discuss How to Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment, and …

• His book,  The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment

The every breath paradigm in learning to lose regret

Understanding the importance of asking for helping

Some of the barriers that hold us back

Differences between being comfortable and being fulfilled

Problems that arise when we are too attached to outcomes

The 3 A’s:  action, ambition, aspiration

How both finding meaning and enjoying the process leads to happiness

Obligations and how they relate to our values

The practice of daily questions that takes 3 minutes

Remembering that aking change is easier when you have support

The value in asking”Did I do my best to….”questions as they force you to take responsibility

How it’s more challenging to make the effort in our personal life than our professional life

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Susan Cain is an author who has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Her record-smashing TedTalk has been viewed over 30 million times and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks. Susan is the author of the book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, which spent seven years on the New York Times Best Selling List and has been translated into 40 languages..

In this episode, Eric and Susan discuss her new book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.

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Susan Cain and I Discuss How to Become Whole Through the Bittersweet and …

• Her book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Why some people really love sad music 

How brokenness points in the direction of transcendence

How to know if you tend towards a bittersweet state of mind

Why do some people turn pain into something beautiful and in other cases people are broken by life’s difficulties

The way of “even so”

Union between souls when sorrow is shared

Understanding the messiness and unpredictability of grief

The mystery of bittersweet 

The divine nature of longing

How longing is different from craving

Being open to great states of transition as gateways in our life

Moving on vs. Moving forward

Poignancy 

What it means to turn in the direction of beauty

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What does the future hold? And how do we make sure we're making the best decisions for ourselves? In today's episode with David Christian, you will discover answers to these questions and much more!

"What are the skills involved in trying to think about the future? To construct future stories that are closer to the truth than other future stories? Because if we don't do that. We die." - David Christian

David Christian is a distinguished Professor of History at Macquarie University and Director of the school's Big History Institute.  David co-founded the Big History Project with Bill Gates and has delivered keynotes at conferences around the world, including the Davos Economic Forum.  His Ted Talk has been viewed millions of times and he is the author of many books and articles.

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Also From the Interview with David Christian...

• His book, Future Stories:  What's Next

The questions leading him to write about the future

How we are always thinking about and telling ourselves stories about the future

Thinking about the philosophy and science of time

The two metaphors of time being like a river and a map

How time is an important concept for complex entities

Punctuated equilibrium refers to trends from the past to predict changes in the future

How time is experienced in 3 ways:  natural, psychological, and social time

The best predictions of the future depend on finding the most powerful trends of the past

The four possible scenarios for the future of humanity

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David's Website

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Jessica Nordell is an award-winning author, science writer, and speaker known for blending rigorous science with compassionate humanity. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and many others. She is the recipient of a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television, was named a Best New Poet by Tracy K. Smith, and was a 2022 featured speaker at SXSW.

In this episode, Eric and Jessica discuss her book, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias.

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Jessica Nordell and I Discuss How to Overcome Unconscious Bias and…

• Her book, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

What bias is and how prevalent it is

Her personal experience being on the receiving end of another person’s bias

Homophily

The implecations of prejudice being a habit and a result of conditioning

How labels and categorizing plant seeds of bias

Ways to lessen the impact of categories on our perspectives

Why being “color blind” can be so harmful to people (despite the well-meaning approach)

Taking on more and broader perspectives helps us better understand the world

Seeing the groups we don’t belong to as just as complex as our own group

The fundamental attribution error

The role of empathy in dissolving biases

Hyper-objects

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Josh Peck is an actor, comedian, podcast host and author who began his career as an actor in the late 90s, originally rising to prominence for his role in the sitcom Drake and Josh. He has had a successful acting career ever since, appearing in films like The Wackness and 13. He is also the voice of Eddie in the Ice Age franchise.

In this episode, Eric and Josh discuss his book, Happy People are Annoying

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Josh Peck and I Discuss The Challenges of Searching for Happiness with Josh Peck and…

• His book, Happy People are Annoying

How we can be self centered even when we don’t think highly of ourselves

How any asset in excess can become a defect

Learning to let go of the thing that feeds your ego

His unhealthy relationship with food

What doing drugs felt like to him

Learning there was nothing from the outside world that would fix his inner self

Entering the twelve step community

How addiction creates suffering for the entire family unit

Religion and spirituality is about reimagining ancient truth

The challenge of learning to enjoy things fully,even if it doesn’t work out

Asking what are you willing to let go of that stands between you and happiness

Why he titled the book “Happy People are Annoying

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Sonya Curry is an entrepreneur, educator, founder of the Christian Montessori School of Lake Norman, as well as the co-host of the Raising Fame Podcast. She is the mother of Stephen, Sydel, and Seth Curry and often speaks of her experiences as a mother, educator, and Christian, sharing testimony about her faith in parenting and education. 

In this episode, Eric and Sonya discuss her book, Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose.

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Sonya Curry and I Discuss Fierce Love and…

• Her book, Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose

The phase of her life when she was sure she didn’t want to get baptized in the Christian church

How she had “everything” as the wife of an NBA player, and still wasn’t fulfilled

What brought her to a relationship with God

Looking at her life as a series of chapters

The Montessori pillars she carries with her today that informs how she lives

The subtle ways unhealthy comparison starts in us very early in life

How she handles the rivalry that comes up between her sons from time to time

She shares her story of having an abortion and why she did that largely for her daughter

Her experience as an empty-nester

The experience she had at a vegan meditation and yoga center

That God delivers us through things, rather than out of them

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