Today's main contributor is Parneet Pal.

An educator, science communicator and wellbeing expert working at the intersection of business, lifestyle medicine (including nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental and emotional health) and behaviour change.

A Harvard and Columbia trained physician, Parneet looks for the connections and interdependence within human and planetary systems that makes them resilient and regenerative. 

Her work is focused on solutions for business leadership that architect the future of an equitable society: a wellbeing economy where health is the default.

https://www.parneetpal.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/parneetpal/ 

Parneet’s book recommendation: 

David Egelman - Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives

Today's main contributor is BJ Miller.

Co-founder of Mettle Health, and also well known for his time at Zen Hospice Project, BJ Miller, is an author, speaker, and a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician. 

Author of the book A Beginner’s Guide to the End, (Co-written with Shoshana Berger), BJ has featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Sunday, as well as giving his own very well received TED talk, and he feature in the Netflix academy award winning short documentary, End Game.

BJ’s book recommendation: 

John Dewey - Art As Experience

Today's main contributor, Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. A psychologist, author and speaker, Elisha has published extensively, and is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and blogs, including the bestselling books Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-compassion, and The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life, he has been featured in Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, amongst others.

Elisha is the co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles, and gives free weekly teachings online on his YouTube channel ‘Elisha Goldstein PhD’.

If people want to get in touch, they can look into the personal group mentorship program called Uncover the Power Within. 

https://www.mindfullivingla.org/ 

https://www.youtube.com/c/ElishaGoldsteinPhD

https://elishagoldstein.com/uncover-the-power-within/

Elisha's book recommendations: 

Thich Nhat Hanh - The miracle of Mindfulness

Steven Pressfield - The war of Art

Today's main contributor, Lawrence Torcello, holds the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology where he specialises in social political philosophy and moral theory.

Described on Twitter as a moral and political philosopher, his current research interests focus on democratic theory, liberalism, and issues of climate justice. Recent work explores the moral implications of global warming denialism and other forms of disinformation.

Current projects investigate the practical consequences and ethical responsibilities implicit to democratic citizenship in morally diverse societies, particularly in the domains of medicine, education, animal welfare, the environment, and political discourse.

Lawrence is currently working on a book examining the moral and epistemic requirements of liberalism.

Lawrence’s book Recommendations:

Michael E Mann - the New Climate War

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Today's main contributor is Pico Iyer, travel journalist and author.

Pico is a regular contributor to Granta, The Financial Times,  and the New York Times amongst others, and has written many books on travel and the human soul, Video night In Kathmandu, The Art of Stillness, The Man Within My Head, and his biography of the Dalai Lama, The Open Road, to name but a few. His new book, The Half Known Life, once again offers a journey across the planet and into the depths of consciousness.

Giver of Ted talks and perennial outsider, he is most comfortable and at home in the cracks between other cultures.

Pico's book recommendation: 

Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind: Beginner’s mind