The Primalosophy Podcast

Henry Shukman (@mountaincloudzencenter) is an appointed teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and is the Guiding Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He has an MA from Cambridge and an MLitt from St Andrews and has written several award-winning books of poetry and fiction. His essays have been published in The New York Times, Outside, and Tricycle, and his poems have been published in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Sunday Times (UK), and London Review of Books. He has taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, UBS, Esalen Institute, Colorado College, United World College, and many other venues. He has written of his own journey in his memoir One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.

Connect with Henry Shukman:

https://www.mountaincloud.org/

https://www.instagram.com/mountaincloudzencenter/

http://originallove.org/

https://www.amazon.com/One-Blade-Grass-Finding-Memoir/dp/1640092625/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Kim Scott is the author of Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair as well as Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. She co-founded two companies that help organizations put the ideas in her books into practice. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. Kim previously held leadership roles at Apple and Google. Earlier in her career Kim managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.

Connect with Kim Scott:

Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

https://kimmalonescott.com/

https://twitter.com/kimballscott

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Suzanne O'Sullivan is an Irish neurologist working in Britain who is the winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize. She won for her first book, It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness, published by Chatto & Windus in 2015. The book also won the Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize. In her latest book, The Sleeping Beauties, Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan investigates psychosomatic disorders, traveling the world to visit communi­ties suffering from so-called mystery illnesses. 

Connect with Suzanne O'Sullivan:

https://twitter.com/suz_osullivan

https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Beauties-Stories-Mystery-Illness/dp/1524748374

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Catherine Gildiner is a American-born and Toronto-based memoirist, novelist, and former psychologist. In her latest book Good Morning, Monster, she focuses on five patients who overcame their personal trauma, a process Gildiner defines as being heroic.

Connect with Catherine Gildiner:

http://www.gildiner.com/

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Morning-Monster-Therapist-Emotional-ebook/dp/B084M1M1DZ

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery. She’s producer and co-host of “Emerging Form,” a podcast about the creative process. Previously the lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight, she’s an Ideal columnist at Wired and a regular contributor to The Washington Post and The New York Times. Her work also appears in publications including Discover, Popular Science, Slate, Consumer Reports, New Scientist, Men’s Journal, Runner’s World, NPR, Smithsonian, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Aschwanden is a lifelong endurance athlete, having been a high school track star, collegiate cycling champion, and elite Nordic skier.

Connect with Christie Aschwanden:

https://www.goodtogobook.com/

https://christieaschwanden.com/

@CragCrest

LastWordOnNothing.com

https://emergingform.substack.com/

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Luke Burgis (@lukeburgis) has co-created and led companies in wellness, consumer products, and technology. He’s currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship and also teaches business at The Catholic University of America and is author of a new book, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, the philosophy of French polymath René Girard

Connect with Luke Burgis:

https://lukeburgis.com/

https://twitter.com/lukeburgis

https://www.instagram.com/lukeburgis/

https://www.facebook.com/LukeBurgis/

https://www.amazon.com/Wanting-Power-Mimetic-Desire-Everyday/dp/1250262488/

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Pete Davis is a civic advocate from Falls Church, Virginia. He works on projects aimed at deepening American democracy and solidarity. Pete is the cofounder of the Democracy Policy Network, a state policy organization focused on raising up ideas that deepen democracy. In 2015, he cofounded Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities. His Harvard Law School graduation speech, “A Counterculture of Commitment,” has been viewed more than 30 million times.

Connect with Pete Davis:

https://petedavis.org/

https://www.facebook.com/ThePeteDavisDispatch

http://twitter.com/peteddavis

https://www.instagram.com/peteddavis/?hl=en

Get the book - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982140909

Podcast Info:

https://www.nickholderbaum.com/

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

Twitter: @primalosophy

Instagram: @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Doug Brignole is a former winner of Mr. America and Mr. Universe bodybuilding competition, with a 43-year trajectory in the sport. He is also an expert in BIOMECHANICS, and the author of a ground-breaking new book called "The Physics of Resistance Exercise", which is turning the traditional weight training paradigm upside. Doug is the first person in the history of the fitness industry to outline the 16 biomechanical factors which determine the value of an exercise -- allowing us to evaluate the productivity, efficiency, and safety of each exercise. This allows us to select only the best exercises, and skip the exercises that have low value.

Episode Links:

Doug's website:

https://dougbrignole.com/

Doug's book:

https://dougbrignolebook.com/product/the-physics-of-resistance-exercise-print-book-non-autographed/

Doug's Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/dougbrignole/?hl=en

Doug's Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/DougBrignole/

Podcast Info:

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

(T): @primalosophy

(IG): @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Kate Leaver is a journalist, editor and author of Good Dog: Celebrating the dogs who change and sometimes even save our lives, published by HarperCollins. She researches, writes and speaks about her dog, a rescue Shih Tzu called Bert, and the health benefits of having a pet. Her first book, The Friendship Cure, was about connection and loneliness. Kate previously worked as a senior editor for Cosmo, Pottermore and Australia’s biggest women’s website. Her work has been published by The Guardian, British Vogue, Glamour Magazine, The Telegraph and The Independent. She also works in editorial strategy and media relations for brands like Bumble, Peanut and SnapChat. Her favorite interviews include Nicole Kidman, Eddie Redmayne, Jon Ronson, Susie Orbach, Roxane Gay and Andrew Solomon. Her first ever job was as a professional fairy and she once won a poetry competition judged by Les Murray with a three-course limerick about MasterChef. 

Connect with Kate Leaver:

https://kateleaver.com/gooddog

https://kateleaver.com/

https://twitter.com/kateileaver

http://instagram.com/kateileaver

Connect with Nick Holderbaum:

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

(T): @primalosophy

(IG): @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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Michael Spitzer is Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. He has written about a huge range of music, from Beethoven to American indie, and is interested in how music intersects with other disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, and anthropology. His previous books include Metaphor and Musical Thought, Music as Philosophy, and A History of Emotion in Western Music: A Thousand Years From Chant to Pop. The Musical Human has been translated into ten languages, and has an audio-book read by Daniel Levitin. It was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in April 2021, read by Simon McBurney.

Connect with Michael Spitzer:

[email protected]

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

Connect with Nick Holderbaum:

Nick Holderbaum’s Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods

(T): @primalosophy

(IG): @primalosophy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A

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