Vibe Sesh Podcast

We called this one Unsupervised. Accurate.

Cisco and I started talking about self-love and curiosity. Then Michelle and Marcella joined us, and the conversation went everywhere: growing up online, learning to trust yourself, cats versus dogs, grief, gratitude, and finding people you can be yourself around.

Somewhere between the jokes and the existential questions, strangers started feeling like friends.

Highlights:

* Knowing your worth versus feeling it: Cisco opens up about why recognizing his abilities doesn’t always translate into confidence.

* Curiosity is sexy: how asking real questions opens the door to connection.

* Cats, dogs, and boundaries: a pet debate gets surprisingly personal.

* Is there hope? Marcella describes how connecting with the room changes her answer.

I’d been watching Eben Britton’s clips before I ever became the Vibe Samurai. Here was this former NFL lineman who could talk about football, writing, and God with the same intensity. Then I heard him say that at his lowest, he still feels like “the chubby little awkward kid with bad teeth.”

I wanted to meet that kid.

Vibe Sesh #35 is a conversation about the boy who learned to push through pain, the man who made a career out of it, and what happens when life asks for a different kind of strength.

Highlights

* The big, sensitive kid behind the NFL player, and what football gave him beyond a career.

* Why a teenager drawn to Bret Easton Ellis chose to study creative writing on his way to the NFL.

* What happens to your identity when the thing you’ve built your whole life around disappears from your calendar.

* What being understood in an Al-Anon meeting and later seeking treatment taught Eben about accepting help.

* How the discipline that got you onto the field can follow you into meditation, breathwork, and even healing.

* What masculinity looks like when you can protect the people you love and let them see you struggle.

Getting judged is uncomfortable. Letting that stop you from living? Much worse.

Bruno and Cisco open the stage for an unpredictable night of honest conversation about self-worth, relationships, reinvention, and the courage to look a little ridiculous. A conversation about divorce takes a Buddhist turn, and a young inventor arrives with plans for human wings. Naturally.

In this episode:

• Climbing Cringe Mountain: putting yourself out there even when your family, your followers, or your own brain think it’s embarrassing.

• Becoming someone new: alter egos, visualization, and Cisco’s honest struggle to turn self-awareness into action.

• Starting over after 27 years of marriage: Santino shares his experience of divorce, dating, and rebuilding his life in public.

• Freedom, peace, and partnership: what do we actually want from relationships, and does love have to follow the traditional script?

• Letting go of outcomes: Buddhism, impermanence, and learning to choose people who choose you.

• AI excitement and anxiety: creative tools, online backlash, deepfakes, and a future that feels increasingly strange.

• Human wings and flying cities: a young inventor shares ambitious ideas, including a city that changes its lights to protect baby turtles.

No script. Plenty of detours. Bring your curiosity and your climbing gear.

Are you choosing someone you love, or someone your friends would envy?

Game God Goldie joins us for a funny, candid conversation about dating, self-respect, reinvention, and fatherhood. His rule, “I like who likes me,” gets us questioning what settling really means. I bring my own Wall Street dating history into the conversation. Apparently, self-discovery comes with receipts.

We also explore the difference between looking successful and enjoying your life, the stories we tell ourselves, and what changed when his son became his priority.

A few highlights:

• “Isn’t that settling?” Why being wanted deserves a place in your standards.• “That wasn’t the top.” Goldie challenges my assumption about the most successful chapter of his life.• “I’m part of the problem.” A candid moment about online gender wars.• “I know I’m going to have nostalgia about today.” Learning to appreciate your life before it becomes a memory.

And when asked which moment he’d choose to live on repeat, his answer brings the conversation home.

Summary:Jai Long has been an electrician, a café owner, an award-winning wedding photographer, an educator to thousands of creatives, and a podcaster with millions of downloads. Now he’s the author of Make Your Break. He calls his willingness to reinvent himself his superpower. In this Vibe Sesh, we dig into where that superpower really came from: growing up with nothing to lose, teaching himself to read and write as an adult so he could one day write a book, and learning how to move through the world by watching people closely. We talk about why reinvention never gets easier but does get more familiar, why money only amplifies who you already are, why heaven might be right here, and how to find the small crack of light that tells you to keep going. Jai also opens up about his own current plateau, and the conversation turns into live, two-way coaching between two creators looking for their next break.

Highlights:

* The crack in the wall: why a 2% chance of success beats a 100% chance of doing nothing

* How he enrolled himself in high school at 15, alone, on a BMX, using one loophole

* His first wedding as a photographer: he’d never been to one, didn’t know how to use the camera, and left right after the kiss because he didn’t know there was a reception

* Money as an amplifier: why it doesn’t change people, it just makes them more of who they already are

* “We kind of live on heaven”: why he left the religion he grew up in and what he believes now

* Why the door that scares you most is usually the one you’re supposed to walk through

* How he cracked the publishing industry by starting his own publishing house

* Why reinvention never gets easier, but recognizing the pattern gives you hope

* His advice to new creators: don’t rush to monetize, keep giving until you’re undeniable

* His “eternal loop” moment, and the idea of a business where everyone wins

Make Your Break, Jai’s new book, is out now for pre-order. It’s for anyone ready to stop waiting for opportunities and start creating them. Get your copy at

https://jailong.co/

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We started with Psycho-Cybernetics and the stories we tell ourselves. Then I found myself asking whether the freedom I built my life around is now keeping me from something I want.

Naturally, we also questioned what orchestra conductors actually do, got philosophical about Kung Fu Panda, and met an industrial design student who made a humble pen sound fascinating.

A few highlights:

• When an epiphany becomes a rut: Can the realization that changed your life eventually hold you back?

• The human role in AI: If the machine plays the instruments, what does the conductor contribute?

• Tai Lung and the blank scroll: What happens when the recognition you’ve chased your whole life doesn’t give you what you expected?

• Seeing the world through a screen: Alex describes knowing places he’s never visited, and wanting to finally experience them himself.

Full conversation attached. Come hang out with us.

Catherine Grace joins Bruno and Cisco for a funny, intimate conversation about the parts of ourselves we learn to hide, and what happens when we finally let them be seen.

From secretly practicing witchcraft with her mother to finding her voice online, Catherine shares her experiences with intuition, healing, Burning Man, and synchronicity. Along the way, Cisco opens up about creativity and self-doubt, Bruno explores surrender and relationships, and Catherine gives both hosts live tea leaf readings.

Afterwards, Catherine told us it was the first time she had ever felt fully herself online. This one was special.

• A hidden family tradition: books under the bed, rituals in the woods, and Chinese food with the coven while Dad was away.

• Finding her voice: stepping into public life after years of secrecy, and confronting death threats and people-pleasing.

• Real-life Hogwarts: attending mediumship college with her mother to study psychic art.

• Cisco’s creative breakthrough: music, beatboxing, self-image, and the gap between having something to share and believing it counts.

• Creativity beyond the numbers: Bruno opens up about viral highs, quiet stretches, and learning to keep creating.

• Burning Man and belonging: freedom, vulnerability, and experiences that changed Catherine’s relationship with her body.

• Synchronicities without homework: can an extraordinary coincidence simply be a magical moment, without an instruction attached?

• Alignment and surrender: doing what you love, taking small steps, and staying open to where life leads.

• Live tea leaf readings: reflections on relationships, creative direction, family, and giving yourself permission to rest.

Josh Terry Plays joined Bruno, Cisco, and Benoit for Vibe Sesh #29, and the conversation went places none of us expected.

Josh went to college at 15, dreamed of becoming a rock star, and once played in five bands at the same time. He also learned what happens when “aim high and try harder” becomes advice you follow until you break. We talk about the loneliness behind that period, why doing less finally helped him move forward, and what he means by “benevolent order enables positive chaos.”

Then we get into the Josh you might not expect from his videos: deeply feeling, surprisingly woo-woo, and funny as hell. We explore whether a dream can change shape without dying, how AI can reveal our patterns, and why guys hear a profound conversation and still ask, “Okay, but what’s the protocol?”

Highlights:

* Going to college at 15 and losing his childhood social world

* The rock-star dream, five bands, and learning to pull back

* “Giving up on your dreams” without giving up on what matters

* How structure can make room for play and surprise

* Systems versus surrender, with Bruno and Benoit pushing back

* AI as a tool for creativity, coaching, and pattern recognition

* Why positive guidance teaches more than simply saying “don’t”

* Huberman, optimization, and the birth of “chillmaxing”

SUMMARY

Bruno and Cisco open the stage to the audience, and the conversation takes on a life of its own. What begins with cannabis, fear, and the seven levels of consciousness becomes a raw exploration of suffering, self-talk, brain trauma, purpose, AI, and learning to trust who you are becoming.

HIGHLIGHTS

• The seven levels of consciousness• Whether suffering is necessary for personal growth• A former championship football player coaches Cisco through self-doubt• The Chinese farmer, disciplined openness, and refusing to judge life too quickly• Gratitude, positive self-talk, AI, quantum physics, and the wisdom of strangers

What happens when a professional poker player spends twenty years studying probability, human behavior, risk, and incomplete information, then points that same mind at consciousness?

You get Preston Lee.

In Vibe Sesh #27, Preston takes us from underground poker games and winning a World Series of Poker bracelet to fatherhood, meditation, psychic channeling, higher-dimensional consciousness, and his attempt to reverse-engineer luck.

But underneath all the cosmic weirdness, this became a deeply human conversation about learning to trust yourself, allowing emotions to move through you, finding your purpose, and closing the gap between understanding an idea and actually embodying it.

We also witnessed a genuine breakthrough with Cisco, welcomed Will into the Vibe Cauldron, explored whether Gen Z needs alcohol to escape the pressure of constant surveillance, and asked what the first conscious AI might ask itself.

Highlights

* How Preston identified weak poker players within minutes

* What poker taught him about emotional regulation

* Winning a WSOP bracelet after losing twenty tournaments in a row

* Why becoming a husband and father began his spiritual transformation

* The broccoli that convinced him the universe might be listening

* Luck as the action that increases your future expected value

* Why awareness without embodiment changes very little

* Preston’s psychic reading of Cisco’s purpose and hidden strengths

* Why people need spaces capable of holding their full range

* Sultar on technology, self-expression, addiction, and the future

* Preston’s haunting answer to the eternal-loop question

This one traveled from poker tables to artificial intelligence, through the center of the Earth, past an interdimensional consciousness, and finally arrived at silence.

Just another evening inside the Vibe Cauldron.

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