Levitate with Ryan Nell

New York Times bestselling author, thinker and therapist Resmaa Menakem wants to help us heal from racialized trauma. But to do so we're going to need to "embrace the suck" and "do the reps". In this furious, funny, heartfelt and provocative conversation, we sit down with him to find out how.

Love tea ☕️? Meet Emilie Holmes, the founder of Good & Proper Tea. Emilie is a woman on a mission to bring better tea to more people. And she is well on her way to achieving it.

Richie Bostock (The Breath Guy) is a man on a mission. He wants to change the way we think about the breath. And he might just do it. On his way to becoming The Breath Guy, Richie survives an early brush with depression, embarks on a breathwork odyssey across 5 continents, treks with The Ice Man, and journeys inwards towards wholeness. With him we explore the mind-blowing science of breathwork, rewiring the nervous system, hacking into the immune system, and opening the lid of consciousness. We discuss some startling similarities with the mystical experience of psychedelics and meditation, the emotional experience of appearing on national TV, speaking in front of large crowds, making an app, writing his first book, and Richie's passion to make breathwork accessible to all.

Charlie Dark, the Run Dem Crew founder, DJ, musician, poet, father, speaker, mentor, yogi, and all-round renaissance man, lays bare the challenges of parenthood, starting something huge from your kitchen table, making music, turning 50, falling in love with running, creating a community, mental health setbacks, the '90s rave scene and present day clubbing, collaborations with big brands, getting it right with social media, viewing vulnerability as a superpower, exploring gentrification, loving meditation, recovering early dreams, and more in this wide-ranging conversation with Levitate founder and podcast host Ryan Nell.

Lydia French is the founder of The Brighter Times, a home for good news with a mission to transform journalism (and perhaps the readers) for the better through positive news stories and upbeat illustrations. We chat about what she worries about and is optimistic about for our children and our children's children, the empathy gap, the environment, climate activism and denial, technology, the importance of play, celebrating victories and welcoming failures, the struggle to stay positive, gratitude practices, strong women, creative design collaborations with the WWF, and much much more!

Suze Yalof Schwartz is the effervescent founder of Unplug Meditation and responsible for bringing meditation to the masses. We chat about her journey from East Coast fashion editor to West Coast meditation studio owner, her desire to reinvent the meditation field, her personal run in with stress and the challenge of finding balance, her bestselling book, her meditation app, her advice and thoughts about what makes for the best teachers. We also discuss Suze’s thoughts on Levitate, her teacher training programme, her future plans for Unplug and lots more.

Katy Trost is a superstar executive coach, Forbes contributor and chronic pain survivor. We chat about her early travels, her passion for coaching leaders, her experience with fibromyalgia, and how she healed herself from her chronic pain. We also discuss the loss of her mother, her relationship with social media, her time management system to supercharge your productivity and much more.

Ryan Nell is the podcast host, meditation teacher and founder of Levitate - a meditation & wellbeing community for people with busy minds. In this short trailer we highlight what the show is all about, we introduce Ryan, and we announce some of the inspiring guests that we've already interviewed for the show.