The Ronan Levy Podcast

Raghunath Cappo (@raghunathyogi) is the punk who became a monk.

A teen in search of meaning, Ray Cappo fled his suburban Connecticut enclave for New York City—and found community among the misfits of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He fell in love with punk rock, so he started a band and a record label. By the late 1980’s, Youth of Today had thousands of fans, cementing Ray as a leading voice and trendsetter at the bullseye of hardcore culture.

However, a growing existential itch led Ray to call it quits. At just 22, he walked away from his band and label and decamped for India—a spiritual pilgrimage that led him to the holy village of Vrindavan where he would become Raghunath.

Ultimately Raghunath returned to the States. Now married with 5 kids, he leads spiritual quests throughout India, teaches yoga training in upstate New York at his Supersoul Yoga and Farm. 

This is the incredible story of a modern day yogi who has a lot of wisdom to share around how we can improve our lives through connection and service.

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Mike Brcic is an entrepreneur, adventurer, writer, and family man in Toronto with a penchant for world travel.

After selling his company Sacred Rides in 2019 (the AirBNB of adventure mountain biking) 

He went into a deep existential search for meaning and a journey to find new practices that would raise his consciousness and self awareness.

Today he runs Wayfinders, where he works with impact-driven entrepreneurs through courses, workshops, consulting, and of course, travel adventures.

In this podcast we talk all about connection. Connection to the self, the planet, other human beings, and the great mystery that is life.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Dr. Jack Feldman @jacklfeldman is a neuroscientist, the David Geffen School Chair in Neuroscience, and a Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at The University of California Los Angeles.

If you are a fan of Andrew Huberman and the “physiological sigh” you can thank Jack’s research for making that a thing.

We’ve never really explored breathing in depth on this podcast but if you do a little bit of digging you’ll see that our breath is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing our state of mind.

In fact, my biggest psychedelic experience so far involved zero substances but only my breath. So I brought Dr. Jack Feldman on to discuss everything we need to know about breathing and the brain for our mental and physical health.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Ben “Doc” Askins, PhD (Hon.) has an eclectic background with degrees in Outdoor Education, Intercultural Studies, Physician Assistant Studies, and Divinity. 

I wanted to bring him back on the podcast after his last visit was an audience favorite so he could share his ideas on how to live a good, long life.

Doc has nearly two decades of experience practicing and teaching wilderness, tactical, and expeditionary medicine in the military.

In civilian life, he is a Psychiatric Physician Assistant with an evidence-focused and integrative approach to mental health that includes extensive experience providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, medicine management, and spiritual direction. He is certified with the Multidisciplinary Association on Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. 

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Dr. Jordan Shallow aka The Muscle Doc (@the_muscle_doc) is a chiropractor, strength and conditioning coach, powerlifter, and founder of Pre-Script and RX’D RADIO.

Jordan works with teams, companies, and individuals on biomechanics, sports performances and injury risk management.

In this episode we discuss the role of intuition and feeling in fitness, the dangers in putting too much faith into scientism as a belief system, and what evidence-based living really means.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start, whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

Laura Gassner Otting is an executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author who inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo by helping people think bigger and accept greater challenges.

She is the author of three books, including Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should… and What to Do About It, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life, and Mission-Drive: Moving from Profit to Purpose.

I brought her on the podcast to discuss how we define success as so many of us are taught at a young age that happiness will come from achievement only to realize that perhaps there is more to life.

We discuss her early political career, best practices for hiring and making yourself attractive to talent scouts, the state of the self-help industry, and what it looks like to change paths.

This podcast is brought to you by Cizzle Brands, a company that I helped start, whose mission is to elevate the game in health and wellness by replacing all of the unhealthy sugary and fattening foods in our cupboards with healthy nutritious alternatives.

Our first product is Cwench Hydration which has been formulated to be the world’s healthiest and best made hydration drink.

For a 20% Off coupon code visit CwenchHydration.com and enter LEVY20 at checkout.

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Sanjay Singhal is an entrepreneur who filed for personal bankruptcy at 31 and later sold Audiobooks.com for $56 million in 2016. This venture capitalist, author, and restaurateur has really done it all.

Today he focuses on philanthropy after creating the Nikean Foundation in 2019 to fund mental health research, focusing on novel psychedelic therapies.

Now at 58 years old he has started a popular blog SanjaySays.co where he passes on all of his life lessons and raw unfiltered thoughts.

Chris Van Loan II is a video marketer, content strategist, and he also just so happens to be the producer of this show.

In my life I have never met anyone so committed to the craft of podcasting or someone who believes so fervently in the power of podcasts to move a generation and raise consciousness.

We talk in this episode about relaunching the show as A Good Long Podcast, how the medium is changing, and how to grow your audience without sacrificing your ethics and remaining true to yourself.

Head over to www.instagram.com/chrisvanloanii to connect with Chris

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Dr. Sherry Walling is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, best-selling author and mental health advocate. Her company ZenFounder provides mental wellness resources for leaders as they navigate transition, loss, and conflict.

She is the co-author along with her husband Rob Walling of a book called The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Keeping Your Shit Together as well as her recent book Touching Two Worlds: A Guide For Finding Hope In The Landscape Of Loss.

This conversation is a wonderful reminder that whether it is business or life or loss stressing us out, we are all just doing our best to keep it together. 

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What is this feeling of “awe” and what role does it play in our lives?

Dacher Keltner is the Founding Director of the Greater Good Science Center, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.



He is also the scientific advisor behind Pixar’s Inside Out & Inside Out 2!

I brought Dacher on the podcast because for much of my life I cut myself off from feeling the full depth of my emotions and he’s spent much of his life studying how we can understand and practice tapping into all that life has to offer emotionally.

In this episode you’ll learn how you can create more awe and wonder in your own life to live a richer experience in your good, long life.

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