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Smartphones, apps and devices as designed are addicting. In this episode, Anthony shares his experience as a mentor on an Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) week-long silent meditation retreat with 47 teens. Through conversations with teens and no access to phones for a week, he gains a deeper understanding of how 'smart' tech is impacting their mental health.

To create a culture of care we must disrupt and dismantle racism. In this podcast episode, Anthony (Director) responds to three anti-racism reflections: 1) Describe a time that I noticed a racist idea within my consciousness. How did I respond? 2) Describe the most recent example of racism I noticed within our society – a racist idea, policy, or behavior. 3) Describe a time when I interacted with another person or a group of people, were witness to a racist idea, behavior or action and remained neutral.

There is infinite potential for gratitude to change the world. In this story, Anthony (Director) shares his unique journey of piloting an Evolving Minds program for a MOM's Organic Market grocery store. We hear how his negative perception of a manger changed in less than 15 minutes from practicing this simple and yet transformational gratitude technique.

It helps to know that you're not alone. Anthony, Director of Evolving Minds, shares his  mental health story.

This episode, Anthony announces an incredibly exciting initiative with MOM's Organic Market, Mindful Grocery Stores. The first program of its kind, in the world. 

This episode, Anthony explores an essential mindfulness theme, Interconnection, through the eyes of a coffee bean, and how our simplest of actions, such as drinking a cup of coffee, or shopping at the grocery story, lead to significant environmental impact. 

This episode Anthony shares six lessons learned from launching a non-profit in 2020: 1. Thoughtfully respond 2. Follow every breadcrumb 3. No work on the weekends 4. We are all fundraisers 5. It's a marathon, not a sprint 6. We are a start-up

This episode, Anthony talks about the imperfections of fundraising - the stress, internal doubts, reactivity, and provides a window into what it was like launching Evolving Minds' first ever fundraising campaign, Rooted in Resilience (at the time of this recording a few thousand dollars had been raised, a month later, the campaign raised over $12,000). Anthony also speaks about the fundraising process, some frustrations with a culture of unsolicited advice giving and offers words of validation to keep going and pushing within the chaos. *Please note: There was an error at the time of recording, so the audio quality is not as high quality as previous or future recordings. Please enjoy our imperfection.

As we build, scale and innovate, we often forget about our own mental health. This week, Anthony discusses how he re-prioritizes his mental health day by day.

“We don’t know where we came from, we don’t know where we’re going, and yet here we are in this moment.” This week, Anthony explores how to be self aware and offers strategies to make self-awareness a habit. He also discusses how he is using these awareness skills within his growing Evolving Minds team.

“Whatever you can do to re-prioritize your mental health, I want to encourage you to do so.” This episode Anthony addresses the burnout he’s been experiencing, how to work through it and strategies to prevent burning out.

“What are the three greatest challenges you’re facing in this moment?” In this episode, Anthony shares the three greatest challenges that he is going through. He begins by questioning the core of oppression and ends with the lack of deep community. Keeping in mind that challenges can change depending on where you are in life, what are your greatest challenges you’re facing?

“I love every single day of this journey of creating and building.” This episode celebrates the exciting, new strides Evolving Minds is making. New changes and projects inevitably bring stress, but Anthony recognizes that the team has been overcoming these obstacles together.

Ever been curious about the behind-the-scenes of a mindfulness teacher? In this episode, Anthony shares his frustrations with not-so-neighborly birds and their relationship with his blue Yeti microphone. He also spotlights some good news: receiving the Do Good grant, Evolving Mind’s new partnership with Vitalize, and Evolving U.

A discussion on how to be an anti-racist.

**this podcast episode talks about suicide “Everywhere that you go - the grocery store - the gas station - the bus - the people around you, you have no idea what they’re going through. And they may be, it is likely, that you interact with someone throughout your day that may have experienced suicidal ideation in the past, may currently be experiencing, or may in the future experience it.”

'How can you put mindfulness and wellness videos on a platform of 0 to 60 seconds?'

"What you see online is only 10% of what's really happening in-person"

"If you could do one thing, everyday, for the rest of your life, what would it be?"

"Your mental health is your #1 priority"

"The more time that I spend online, the less I'm fully focused with everything that I'm doing.."

'Imagine if we had a different youth mindfulness teacher on our livestream every week.'

"How can we bring the practice of mindfulness to all of these social and contextual factors... the intersectionality of identities. How do we have these conversations? And how do we do the least amount of harm possible?"

“If for some reason the water plant shuts down, I’m gonna create a contraption that collects water that rains off my roof...”

“One by one they started to get a message from the school board, the governor, that schools were closing down for the next two weeks..”

"Talking to someone about suicide or suicidal ideation is not going to plant a seed or an idea that does not already exist..."

"He started playing voicemails and you could feel the love in their voices..."

"Our vision is this..."

"If our mind is wandering 50% of the time..."

"It was quite a challenge to offer after care mindfulness..."

"This human being that I talked with asked me I think a profound question that we don't often get to answer..."

"What is Evolving Minds...?"

"So I can sense some kind of emotions within me as I relay this to you.. a little watering behind the eyes..."

“You just want to care and you have to think all these different business and legal things that are a little unknown to us as a group...”

“I’m even noticing in this moment a little judging or worrying about how I started out this session...”