Brian Lagerstrom shows people how to make food on YouTube. But he's also a chef in the real world.

"You can make world class dough with a bowl and a spoon. Truly. That's all you need."

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The James Webb Space telescope—decades in the making—finally launched from Earth recently and promises to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. Who better about this milestone in astronomy than astronaut veteran of 5 space flights and former NASA science administrator, John Grunsfeld.

Grunsfeld became known as the Hubble Telescope's repair man, logging more than 58 hours in 5 space walks and three repair trips to the Hubble before being the last person to touch it in 2009.

We talk about the risks of space flight, and I ask John how he felt flying in the space shuttle after the 2nd total crew loss in the 2003 Columbia accident.

"The weakness of the shuttle which we always known is the heat protection. You're enveloped in a 2000 degree plasma. If that thermal protection is compromised then it's a very bad day."

Would we solve the environmental crisis that we face if world leaders had the chance to see the earth's fragile bubble from space, the way John has?

We talk about how human emotions play a role in scientific research bias and the astonishing speed of technological development of the last 200 years.

And finally I ask this NASA insider for the honest truth about UAPs.

Note: If you love astronomy you'll also want to listen to my interview of Nobel Laureate and Science Director for the James Webb telescope, John Mather, in Season One.

Today on The Soul of Life I speak with Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie, a short story that is the first work of fiction to sweep the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy awards. Ken is the author of an epic fantasy series called The Dandelion Dynasty, in which the heroes are engineers, not wizards.

Some of Ken's stories have been adapted for animation or film, and AMC is making a TV show based on his stories in The Hidden Girl.

Liu is trained as an attorney and worked as a software engineer. His work translating many Chinese sci-fi authors into English has helped many of these authors become huge successes in the U.S., most notably Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, which Netflix just announced it acquired with several other books for what is rumored to be close to $1B.

Ken says his fiction often projects East Asian history and culture onto the backdrop of the modern American Empire and says our traditional association with Roman History in the U.S. is an artificial rigidity he hopes to bend.

"We just have a refusal to accept that the story of America includes Asian voices," says Liu.

Finally, Ken speaks about one of my favorite subjects—how our mind and our sense of Self or Soul—is actually a continuous construction process.

I ask Ken to do a little experiment with me and reflect on his own mind's construction process listening to me read back to him some of his own writing.

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Dave Ungrady has been a man on a mission to tell the story of University of Maryland Basketball star Len Bias, who died of a cocaine overdose two days after he was drafted to the Boston Celtics in June 1986. He's the author of Born Ready: The Mixed Legacy of Len Bias.

Next week Len Bias will finally be inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame.

For a long time leadership within University of Maryland athletics and some of the larger basketball world looked at Bias' death simply as a story of tragedy and wanted to move on. But Ungrady has long sought to tell the story of Bias' legacy as a player and as a lesson for young athletes today.

Ungrady is set to release a new documentary and podcast series to coincide with Bias being inducted into the NCAA hall of fame.

We talk about the comparisons between Bias and Michael Jordan. No doubt the NBA in the era of Jordan would have been even more vibrant with Len Bias.

We discuss former U.S. Drug Zhar Robert DuPont's statement that Len Biases overdose from cocaine was the single most important date in U.S. history of drug abuse next to the founding of AA.

Bias also become a word used by journalists to describe the even bigger story unfolding beneath the Len Bias personal tragedy—Bias as in racial bias that became law when, just months after Len's death, congress enacted harsh mandatory minimum sentences for possession of crack with paltry sentences for possession of cocaine.

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I speak with Dr. Kristin Neff, the person perhaps most responsible for researching the effects of self-compassion.

She is the author of the 2011 bestselling book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and her newest book, Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive.

Kristin and I talk about what she calls fierce self-compassion and how anger can be compassionate, and other questions like:

• Why are men better at self-compassion than women?
• What we do find is there's a small but consistent gender difference that actually favors men.
• Does the fact that women tend to score lower than men on self-compassion has an impact on the salary gap between men and women.
• Is there a link between so-called "compulsive caretaking of others" and autoimmune disorders and some kinds of cancer?

Kristin leads us in a self-compassion meditation, and I ask her about the infectious positivity and compassion of the television series character, Ted Lasso, played by Jason Sudeikis.

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I speak with Father Isaac Keeley, Trappist monk and Director of the Spencer Brewery at St. Joseph's Abbey in the Central Massachusetts town of Spencer (my hometown).

The Trappist monks of Spencer have lived a life of solitude and prayer on a 2,000 acre farm with a modest business selling jams, preserves, and handmade ceremonial garments. But 10 years ago the brothers of Spencer started researching ways to raise their income significantly.

"We know there are 6 monastic breweries in Belgium, one of whom has been doing it since the 1580s. So we said well they've been doing it that long, there must be some compatibilities between the rhythms of monastic life and brewing."

I asked Fr Isaac how they fit in the demands of running an industrial scale brewery with the contemplative life of the monastery.

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Today I speak with Jaime Clemmer, author of Heartbroken, But Not Broken, which offers readers an intimate recounting of how she got through any parent's worst nightmare–her son's sudden death at the age of 10.

Clemmer shares the details of her unfettered grief to offer license to anyone struggling to tell their own story. She invites you to walk with her. Her path is complicated and sacred, as is the case with most grievers.

Hearing her story, together, we can effectively mourn with those who mourn and comfort those who are in need of comfort. We can be present for people in their sorrow.

Jaime's story is also a testament to us all that there are no bad emotions. There are no bad parts of us in our mind. When we can have a relationship to our feelings and embody them they can be productive and a vital part of having a balance mind and body.

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Today I speak with Dr. Patrick Oliver about the only drug approved currently to treat suicidal ideation: Ketamine.

"Where this works is literally in making connections in the brain."

Dr. Oliver is an emergency room physician that left the ER to start his own Ketamine infusion clinics because he saw a need that no one else was filling to offer life-saving treatment to people with severe depression. He says he was incredulous of the results a colleague was seeing of Ketamine for acute suicidality until he visited the clinic himself and saw for his own how "the depression just seems to go away."

We talk about how Ketamine works in the brain. "It's not an hallucination. But it does alter a person's experience of their sight, sound, sensation."

Dr. Oliver strongly believes that psychiatry's current standard of care—offering Wellbutrin or Zoloft or Paxil to patients with acute suicidality—is dead wrong. "After I saw it I couldn't not do it. Nobody was helping these patients," he says.

We discuss misconceptions some people have about what depression really is and discuss the safety of Ketamine even in treating severe depression that's co-occurring with substance abuse.

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How did fish evolve to walk on land? What are the details of how that process happened?

Today on The Soul of Life I speak with Neil Shubin, the 2004 co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, a fish fossil that is the first evidence of so-called bridge animals with features that show the evolutionary transition between swimming fish and land mammals.

Shubin is the author of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body and Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.

Neil guides us through a fascinating tour of the history of the human body. We talk about the remarkable building blocks inside DNA that are common to all living things, which is the topic of Shubin's latest book Some Assembly Required.

"A lot of biology means using the old to make the new."

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Today on The Soul of Life I speak with Dr. Lou Lucas, chief of Palliative Medicine at the Nebraska and Western Iowa Veterans Health Care Systems.

As a palliative medicine doctor, Dr. Lucas is trained to pull together all of the specialists that might be caring for a patient with a life threating disease and implement a cohesive treatment plan that cares for body, mind, and soul.

She gives special attention to the well established link between mental health and physical health and the role of spirituality in healing.

"Most people have a lived experience that there's something bigger than I am. I am part of something. There is more to live than the things you can count and categorize."

I ask Dr. Lucas to explain the mind-body connection and stress and not just their role in autoimmune disorders like gastrointestinal problems, arthritis, migraines, nerve damage, and even some cancers—but how to utilize the power of the mind to transform and heal the body.

Lou introduces me to a new word she invented about a year ago: Paleodelic.

"Paleodelic means to relieve suffering by revealing the mind."

She is basically combining palliative medicine with cutting-edge psychedelic treatments that rapidly accelerate a person's development of peace and acceptance with their identity and gives them lasting mental and emotional flexibility in the face of fear and stress.

And finally Lou affirms something you're familiar with me covering frequently on The Soul of Life which is the powerful and life-changing effects—similar in many ways to a psychedelic journey—of using Internal Family Systems as a psychotherapeutic and spiritual tool.

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