Podcast appearances and mentions of harper wave

Book coach Joelle Hann—aka “The Brooklyn Book Doctor”—joins me to discuss the journey from book idea to finished product. Joelle delves into common obstacles for first-time authors, the transformative nature of writing, and the importance of mindset and resilience.She also shares insights from her Book Proposal Academy and highlights trends happening in the publishing industry, especially post-pandemic. Whether you're stuck at the beginning or seeking to refine your manuscript, this episode provides great guidance on navigating the daunting path to publishing. (This episode was originally released in July 2023.)---------"When people get serious about writing a book and fulfilling this desire to have a book, that voice is really loud. Voice that says, no one wants to hear from you. This is not a good idea. It's already been done before. It's not interesting."---------Key Takeaways* What many writers need is “mindset guidance” and “expectations guidance,” says Joelle Hann.* Developmental editing vs. book coaching: It's not just about refining the manuscript but nurturing the author's confidence and creative process.* Traditional publishing has shifted, especially since the pandemic. Joelle highlights the pressures on big publishers and how it affects new authors trying to break in.* One thing that surprises Joelle—and flummoxes new authors—is that while they bring enthusiasm to the process, they also face a big crash when confronted with their inner demons.* “When you get serious about the thing you want to do, your inner resistance comes and says, hold on a second,” she says. One way around this? Introducing mindfulness and somatic techniques to help authors move past blocks.* As a book coach, Joelle emphasizes the transformative process of writing, which often reveals bigger personal revelations beyond just the book. For those who face down their inner critics, they often discover unexpected resilience—a key to successful authorship.---------"Editors can love a book and think it's phenomenal, still not be able to sign it because they don't have what they call a ‘vision' for the book, which usually means they can't quite see directly how it'll turn into big sales…Now, that said, people are still getting book deals. My clients are still getting book deals. But it can take more work.”---------About Joelle Hann & the Book Proposal AcademyJoelle Hann is a book coach & writer helping authors write their books and proposals, discover their ideas, and harness their creative process. Her clients have been published with Big 5 and independent presses such as TarcherPerigee (Penguin Group), North Star Way (Simon & Schuster), Harper Wave, Workman, Wiley, Sounds True, Shambhala Publications, and more.Joelle's Book Proposal Academy is a live, hands-on coaching program to help writers craft a top-tier book proposal, structure their book, write chapters, and prepare to become an author. Pitch a book that agents and editors are excited to buy!Past clients include authors Jillian Turecki, Sebene Selassie, Amanda Griffith-Atkins, Eileen Rosete, Catherine Simone Gray and more.This six-month program is the fast track to publishing and making book dreams come true. Learn more and apply here. The next cohort starts October 15th.CreditsThis episode was edited and produced by Chérie Newman at Magpie Audio Productions. Theme music is "The Stone Mansion" by BlueDot Productions. Get full access to The Book I Want to Write at bookiwanttowrite.substack.com/subscribe

We're in the midst of a mental health war. Over the last 50 years, we've raised awareness and developed abundant treatment options, yet Americans' rates of depression and anxiety continue to skyrocket (Whitaker, 2015). Today, Elliott and I discuss my reflections on his recent messages about the epidemics of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and addiction. We conceptualize the current mental health landscape as a war for two reasons:  (1) because so many Americans battle psychological concerns and (2) professionals are in the midst of deeply contentious disputes regarding how to best treat clients' emotional distress. Pharmaceutical corporations and many psychiatrists view this issue through a medical model i.e. patients are diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses and are prescribed pills to manage symptoms. But despite an exponential increase in the use of psychotropic medications, the number of Americans filing disability claims due to mental conditions has tripled over the last two decades (Whitaker, 2015). Elliott and I argue that a “medicalized” framework pathologizes reasonable responses to trauma and pain; this frameworks also disempowers clients—which is both an unintended and unfortunate consequence. Furthermore, and very importantly, most pharmaceutical interventions for psychological conditions simply don't work as promised—if at all (Brogan, 2016, 2019; Whitaker, 2015).  Join our conversation to learn the necessary tactics for engaging in this mental health war!   Works Cited Brogan, K. (2016). A mind of your own:  The truth about depression and how women can heal their bodies to reclaim their lives. Harper Wave. Brogan, K. (2019). Own yourself:  The surprising path beyond depression, anxiety, and fatigue to reclaiming your authenticity, vitality, and freedom. Hay House. Spielmans, G., Spence-Sing, T., & Parry, P. (2020). Duty to warn:  Antidepressant black box suicidality warning is empirically justified. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 20. ttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00018/full Whitaker, R. (2015). Anatomy of an epidemic. Broadway Books. Dr. Karin & Pastor Elliott Anderson Website: http://loveandlifemedia.com/ Empowered Dating Playbook: smarturl.it/EmpoweredDatingBook Instagram: @dr.karin | @pastorelliottanderson --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/love-and-life-media/message

Attention attention, ce balado s'adresse autant à la gent masculine et féminine!  D'ici 2025, 12% de la population mondiale sera en ménopause!  On n'en parle pas assez…de façon positive.   On dit même que c'est tabou…  Comme si ce n'était pas normal ou comme si c'était honteux, il ne faut pas trop en parler…et pourtant, on fait quoi quand ça nous arrive ? Si on en parle plus, on saura mieux s'y préparer et mieux la traverser cette transition qu'est la ménopause !  Moi, je veux que ça sorte des tabous, je veux que ça devienne même un sujet digne de fierté chez la femme.   Plus nous en parlerons, plus nous sortirons des tabous et moins nous serons dans l'ombre…     On s'entend, c'est un passage obligé, aussi bien traverser cette période comme relever une mission  et cette mission c'est un mélange d'un peu plus d'introspection mélangée à un peu d'humour, de discipline et de bienveillance !       La ménopause est un moment pour reprendre son souffle, respirer et décider du tempo à adopter pour les décennies à venir.      Vous y êtes ou pas, ne serait-ce pas un bon moment quand même pour faire un bilan, commencer à regarder quel pan de sa vie pourrait avoir besoin d'un peu plus d'attention ?     Références :    Hormones au féminin,  repensez votre santé du Dr Sylvie Demers, éditions de l'Homme, 2009   Documentaire sur Tou.tv,  Loto Méno,  animé par Véronique Cloutier, 2021    Magazine Hors série Véro, octobre 2022   Menopause bootcamp du Dr Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, éditions Harper Wave, 2022     Merci à David Chassé pour la musique originale, composée spécialement pour ce balado   Merci à @chrisp.photog  www.christianperreault.com  photographe Merci aux productions Arborescence Montréal www.productionsarborescence.com  (studios Arborescence) Stéphanie Julien est naturopathe agréée et conférencière  impliquée dans le milieu de la santé naturelle.  www.stephaniejulien.com  Vous pouvez la trouver sur instagram : @lebaladodespossibles     Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Join The Dude Therapist as he talks with Dr. Tracy Denis-Tiwary about anxiety and how to use it as a tool for growth. From the American Dream to systemic issues, we explore the challenges facing young people today and how to feel empowered and resilient. Dr. Tracy shares insights on how to befriend anxiety and use it to enhance our lives, work, and relationships. Tune in for this inspiring and informative conversation! Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur, and author of the book Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You (Even Though it Feels Bad), Harper Wave, 2022. She is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Director of the Emotion Regulation Lab at The City University of New York. As Founder and CSO of Arcade Therapeutics, she translates neuroscience and cognitive therapy techniques into game-based digital interventions for mental health. She has published over 100 scientific articles and delivered over 400 presentations at academic conferences and for corporate clients. She has been featured throughout the media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, Netflix, ABC, CBS, CNN, The Today Show, and Bloomberg Television. Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D.drtracyphd.comBook: Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You (Even Though it Feels Bad)Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer: Arcade Therapeutics WSJ Review Essay: In Praise of Anxiety

SummaryMetabolic syndrome is a medical condition characterized by unhealthy and markedly deranged metabolism. Over 50% of United States adults have metabolic syndrome and another 40% are at risk of developing it (90% of US adults!). Metabolic syndrome is the great killer of our time, a global pandemic, and the leading risk factor for most all major chronic diseases. StoryChronic diseases are contagious. This is because thoughts and behaviors are contagious. As fast food companies, ultra-processed food, soda and other sugar sweetened beverages, and the American lifestyle spreads around the globe, so too does metabolic syndrome. Key Points1 Metabolic syndrome is both caused by and can be cured by the way a person lives their life (behaviors).2. Insulin resistance, unhealthy cholesterol, high blood pressure, and weight gain are symptoms of metabolic syndrome.3. The risk of multiple chronic diseases including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and even cancer is increased in those with metabolic syndrome.4. Avoiding ultra-processed foods, exercising regularly, sleeping adequately, and managing stress are the best ways to prevent and treat metabolic syndrome. References-https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/metabolic-syndrome/diagnosis- Lustig, Robert. Metabolical: The Lure and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. Harper Wave, 2021.- Saklayen MG. The Global Epidemic of theMetabolic Syndrome. Curr Hypertens Rep. 2018 - Lemieux I, Després J-P. Metabolic Syndrome:Past, Present and Future. Nutrients. 2020- Shi TH, Wang B, Natarajan S. The Influence ofMetabolic Syndrome in Predicting Mortality Risk Among US Adults: Importance ofMetabolic Syndrome Even in Adults With Normal Weight. Prev Chronic Dis. 2020.- https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/metabolic-syndrome/symptoms-and-diagnosis-of-metabolic-syndromeIntroduction 2023

Welcome to Episode 146 of Autism Parenting Secrets. Our guest this week is Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel, a Clinical Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. She's developed programs that improve communication in children with autism, including the development of first words, grammatical structures, pragmatics, and social conversation.  She has also developed and published procedures and field manuals used in school districts and by parents throughout the United States and abroad.Dr. Lynn is the author of Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum.Her most recent book, Hidden Brilliance focuses on how often kids and young adults on the autism spectrum are misunderstood and misjudged.   The Secret This Week is…Yes, Your Child IS Brilliant!You'll Discover:Why Standardized Tests Are So Lacking (3:47)The Wrong Thing To Focus On (8:27)Why “Child Choice” Is So Important (11:26)Want You Want To Make More Opportunities For (22:07)The Type of Questions To Focus On (28:41)Why It Needs To Be Fun and Functional (33:36)A Must-Do For An IEP Meeting (37:36)Tips To Improve Peer Interaction (41:36)About Our Guest:Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel, a Clinical Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. She has been active in the development of programs to improve communication in children with autism, including the development of first words, grammatical structures, pragmatics, and social conversation.  In addition to her published books and articles in the area of communication and language development, she has developed and published procedures and field manuals in the area of first words, initiations, self-management and functional analysis that are used in school districts and by parents throughout the United States, as well as translated in other major languages.  Dr. Lynn Koegel is the author of Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum, published by Viking/Penguin and most recently Hidden Brilliance, published by Harper Wave with parent Claire LaZebnik. Lynn Koegel and her husband, Robert, are the developers of Pivotal Response Treatment which focuses on motivation. The Koegels have been the recipients of many awards, including the first annual Children's Television Workshop Sesame Street Award for “Brightening the Lives of Children”, the first annual Autism Speaks award for “Science and Research”, and the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) award for Enduring Programmatic Contributions in Behavior Analysis.  Dr. Lynn Koegel appeared on ABC's hit show “Supernanny” working with a child with autism. Their work has also been showcased on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the Discovery Channel. References in The Episode:Hidden Brilliance by Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnikKoegel Autism CenterAdditional Resources:Take The Quiz: What's YOUR Top Autism Parenting Blindspot?To learn more about Cass & Len, visit us at www.autismparentingsecrets.comBe sure to follow Cass & Len on InstagramIf you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends.

Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist, a contributing columnist for Men's Health magazine, and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His first book, The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-Step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life was published in June 2022 for Harper Wave. Dr. Brown believes we can work together to fight mental health stigma by having open and honest conversations about mental health. He is an advocate for evidence-based integrative care that includes incorporating exercise, mindfulness, meditation, and nutrition with standard-of-care treatments for mental illness. Dr. Brown completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, specialty training in general psychiatry at the University of Texas Dell Medical School, and received an M.D. from the McGovern Medical School in Houston. Prior to his transition to medicine, Dr. Brown studied music at The Juilliard School in New York. Follow Dr. Brown on social media @gregorysbrownmd. ------ Today, we talk about the state of mental health today and how he has seen it change during his practice. We talk about the 5 pillars of self care. We discuss the importance of purpose, balance, and contentment. Dr. Brown's book The Self-Healing Mind is such an important read, giving us tools to help prevent and address our anxiety and depression on a daily basis.

Enjoy catching up with these recent conversations: Maggie Haberman, senior political correspondent for The New York Times, political analyst for CNN and the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about her new book on the former president. Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham talks about his new book, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House, 2022). Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist and author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be (Harper Wave, 2022), offers her guidance on raising kids, including help for parents trying to break harmful cycles that included how they were raised. Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Riverhead Books, 2018), offers her advice about meaningful gatherings -- hosting and "guesting". Many people come to New York City as a form of escape, whether it's escaping small town life, a conservative family, or escaping a dictatorship abroad. Lilly Tuttle, curator at the Museum of the City of New York, joins the show to discuss NYC's history as a place of refuge, and listeners call in to describe why they sought refuge in New York City.   These interviews were edited for timing and rebroadcast; the original web versions are available here: Maggie Haberman on Donald Trump (Oct 6, 2022) What We Should Learn from Lincoln (Oct 19, 2022) Dr. Becky on Parenting (Oct 20, 2022) Gather Around with Priya Parker series (Oct 24, Oct 25, Oct 26, Oct 27) NYC as a Refuge (Oct 27, 2022)

Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist and author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be (Harper Wave, 2022), offers her guidance on raising kids, including help for parents trying to break harmful cycles that included how they were raised.

We are in a constant deluge of noise and information and chat whether it is from our email and social media, or the 24-hour news cycles with its constant announcements of breaking news. Even our households can be filled with noise. Here we explore how to lessen both the exterior and interior noise to hear our own intuition and tune in to our creative gifts. Justin Zorn has served as a senior advisor for Policy and Strategy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He has also served as a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress and is a Harvard-and-Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of wellbeing. Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, nonprofit coalitions, and federal agencies. Marz and Zorn are the cofounders of Astrea Strategies whose purpose is to help businesses, nonprofits, and leaders find creative and enduring solutions in living beyond the noise. They are the co-authors of Golden: The Power of Silence in A World of Noise. (Harper Wave 2022)Interview Date: 6/30/2022 Tags: Leigh Marz, Justin Zorn, noise, intuition, thinking and talking, Johann Hari, attention, flow, Arlin Bronzaft, Andrew Yang, John Maynard Keynes, market forces, Sheena Malhortra, George Floyd, Joyce DiDonato, Jarvis Masters, San Quentin, Cyrus Habib, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation

Justin Zorn has served as a senior advisor for Policy and Strategy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He has also served as a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress and is a Harvard-and-Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of wellbeing. Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, nonprofit coalitions, and federal agencies. Marz and Zorn are the cofounders of Astrea Strategies whose purpose is to help businesses, nonprofits, and leaders find creative and enduring solutions in living beyond the noise. They are the co-authors of Golden: The Power of Silence in A World of Noise. (Harper Wave 2022)Interview Date: 6/30/2022 Tags: Leigh Marz, Justin Zorn, noise, silence, auditory noise, informational noise, noise in our heads, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eric Schmidt, mediation retreat, Mindfulness, poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation

It's summertime, Readers, and that means time to cautiously hit the road, head to the skies, climb aboard (that's what she said). No really. Kelly said that—be sure to laugh during the intro to today's episode. We do hope you are all catching some time to travel this summer, and we have a few tips to keep you worldly but stable. Mostly don't join a cult. You may not even know it is happening. We doubt that though since listening to us keeps you sharp enough to spot a cult miles away–or does it? In today's episode learn how Kelly innocently brings her family to yet another cult experience, this time at a Yellow Deli, a known front for the Twelve Tribes. Haven't heard of TT? Well strap in…ew…and listen up! Thanks always Dash Hounds for your listening love! Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources, dude: Bradbury, Shelley. "They are Evil: Ex Twelve Tribes members describe child abuse, control inside religious cult." The Denver Post. March 3, 2022. shttps://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/03/twelve-tribes-cult-child-abuse/ Parts 1,2, 3. Kelley, Brendan Joel. Into Darkness. SPLC INtelligence Report. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/darkness Montell, Amanda. Cultish, the language of fanaticism. Harper Wave.HarperCollins, New York, 2022. Pacific Standard: https://psmag.com/social-justice/inside-the-twelve-tribes https://www.yellowdeli.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/News---media-website/Women-Survivors-of-Twelve-tribes-community-Yoneq-cult-1395873067405544/ https://gazette.com/life/faith-values/from-manitou-springs-to-the-world-mate-factor-caf-part-of-global-twelve-tribes-community/article_e454eb78-a03a-11ea-b935-031c59ad04a9.html#:~:text=or%20Mennonite%20believers.-,The%20Twelve%20Tribes%2C%20an%20international%20Christian%20group%2C%20operates%20the%20Mat%C3%A9,Factor%20Caf%C3%A9%20in%20Manitou%20Springs.&text=Members%20gather%20for%20worship%20every,a%20TV%20or%20read%20papers.

In today's episode Angela is in conversation with Dr Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, author of 'Future Tense.: Why Anxiety is Good For You (Even Though it Feels Bad). Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D. is a researcher, entrepreneur, and author of the book Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You (Even Though it Feels Bad), Harper Wave, 2022. She is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, Director of the Emotion Regulation Lab, and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Health Technology at The City University of New York, where the mission is to connect researchers, community stakeholders, and technology innovators to bridge the healthcare gap.  Tracy highlights that anxiety has got an (undeserved) bad press: because it feels uncomfortable, we should get rid of it. 'Anxiety as disease' - an idea that has been propagated by the mental health profession for years, is setting us up to failure and stops us from engaging with the useful aspects and gifts that anxiety has to offer us. There is evidence now that the  disease model of mental illness does not work. In the past everyone talked about stress; now we talk about anxiety.Tracy talks about parenting children effectively. Often parents assume that their children are fragile. The opposite is true: children have antifragility.  If you don't strain muscles they will atrophy. The same is true for emotions. Children need to learn the skills to sit with their anxiety and other emotions that they may struggle with.Tracy also discusses the difference between being a perfectionist and a pursuer of excellencism. Excellencism involves setting yourself high standards but not getting overly frustrated if these standards are not met. The conversation ends with Tracy describing the three key principles that you can take away from making anxiety your ally.As PAs Founder and CSO of Wise Therapeutics,  Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary translates neuroscience and cognitive therapy techniques into gamified, clinically validated digital therapeutics for mental health. She has published over 100 scientific articles and delivered over 400 presentations at academic conferences and for corporate clients. She has been featured throughout the media, including the New York Times, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, ABC, ryBS, CNN, The Today Show, and Bloomberg Television.The Relationship Maze courses:What is your argument style? Find out in our short quiz.Struggling with a lot of conflict and arguments in your relationship? Learn about communicating effectively in our Stop Arguing, Start Loving mini course.Learn everything you always wanted to know about building and maintaining  loving relationships in our comprehensive course The Relationship Maze, starting with understanding yourself in relationships to understanding your partner and understanding what makes for a successful relationship. 

On this episode, Emma Kupor, Assistant Editor at Harper Wave, interviews Yana Tallon-Hicks, author of HOT AND UNBOTHERED, available on August 16, 2022. Find show notes here: https://bit.ly/3uxEPKE Visit our website: librarylovefest.com. You can find us on Facebook (@librarylovefest), Twitter (@librarylovefest), and Instagram (@harperlibrary). We also have a voicemail! Give us a call at 212-207-7773.

Is surfing the most addictive sport? How did surfing help a writer with a substance use disorder enter into recovery? What activities can be a form of therapy for you? Thad Ziolkowski is a lifelong surfer, person in recovery, and the author, most recently, of The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery, which was published in 2021 by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins. His memoir On a Wave (Grove/Atlantic) was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003 and his novel, Wichita (Europa Editions) appeared in 2012 to critical acclaim. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure, Interview Magazine and Index. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has a PhD in English Literature from Yale University. Episode website link: ​​https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/thadziolkowski More episode sources & links Sign-up for Design Lab Podcast's Newsletter Newsletter Archive Follow @DesignLabPod on Twitter Instagram and LinkedIn Follow @BonKu on Twitter & Instagram Check out the Health Design Lab Production by Robert Pugliese Cover Design by Eden Lew Theme song by Emmanuel Houston

Julie and Casey chat with Rebecca Soffer, journalist, author, and cofounder of Modern Loss, about the complicated journey and taboo subject of grief. Along the way, they get into how Rebecca found her “dead mom” community and what it taught her, dealing with ambiguous loss, what not to say to people who are hurting, our enormous world-wide moment of collective grief, and how to move THROUGH, not “move on”. Thank you to our Season 3 sponsor, Armoire! If you're ready to try a new look, Armoire's high-end clothing rental service (full of amazing women-owned brands) will hook you up! For 50% off your first month's rental + a free item, go to http://armoire.style/voiceis and use VOICEIS in the referral box!   TOP TAKEAWAYS: Nothing is more isolating that feeling like you have to play “normal” and hide your grief because of the taboo around discussing loss. Because grief affects every corner of your life, it becomes the backdrop for so much of what's going on. The first step to dealing with grief may be simply TALKING about it . . . but there's no “zero vulnerability” way to do that.  There is no “correct” thing to say to someone who is grieving, so you're off the hook for the perfect response, if that's keeping you from reaching out to someone. Particularly, the fear of “accidentally reminding someone” or bringing up their loss is misplaced . . . they know. They remember. That said, anything that smacks of a “fix it” mentality is probably not welcome. Just as there is no correct thing to say to a grieving person, there's no “correct” way — or even time — to grieve. There is room for humor and lightness too. Mini-Lesson: Better things to do when a friend is hurting than “fix it”.   Rebecca Soffer is cofounder of Modern Loss, a global movement offering creative, meaningful, and practical content and community addressing the long arc of grief. She is also coauthor of the book Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief. Beginners Welcome. (Harper Wave, 2018) and an internationally recognized speaker on loss and resilience. She writes regularly across media, including the New York Times, Glamour, NBC, and CNN. Rebecca is a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumna and a Peabody Award–winning former producer for The Colbert Report.   Rebecca and her husband and sons split their time between New York City and The Berkshires. For more information visit ModernLoss.com.  Twitter: @rebeccasoffer @modernloss  Instagram: @rebeccasoffer @modernloss @runningpressbooks Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ModernLoss https://www.facebook.com/rebeccasoffer https://www.facebook.com/RunningPressBooks   

Daniel Holzman has made a name for himself as a prolific and successful chef and operator, most recently at Danny Boy's Famous Original in LA; Matt Rodbard has done the same in the world of food writing, editing, online publishing, and podcasting as the founding editor of TASTE and the author of Koreatown. Now, the two friends and writing partners have concocted a wonderful, singular cookbook Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts.On the publication day of their book, we're delighted to share this conversation, recorded remotely from an undisclosed and unique location somewhere in the City of Angels.Andrew Talks to Chefs is a fully independent podcast and no longer affiliated with our former host network; please visit and bookmark our official website for all show updates, blog posts, personal and virtual appearances, and related information.

Podcast Intro: Immunity refers to an organism's ability to withstand a specific virus or poison through the use of specialized antibodies or sensitized white blood cells. We prefer to sacrifice healthy selections for the sake of saving time in this fast-paced atmosphere where fast foods are abundant. On the other hand, what are the negative consequences of these actions? With many businesses competing with one another, and with the high demand for food relative to the continuous growth in population, companies are now churning out processed and cheap food rapidly. The lack of education and the rise of daily expenses on necessities, such as food, allowed people to compromise. Now, the pandemic accelerated and made things worse. What are the factors and effects that unhealthy food consumption leads to? Tune in as Dr. Emeran Meyer discusses the gut-immune relationship in this episode. What you'll get out of tuning in: What is the “One Health Concept” What is the importance of the soil microbiome for plant and human health What are the mind-gut microbiome system and its role in health and disease What is the key to longevity and good health How the microbiome determines the strength of your immune system and your immune resistance. How to increase the abundance of microbes in your gut. How lifestyle determines your chances of surviving pandemics that are about to come in the future. Links/CTA: Emeran Mayer, MD Instagram: @emeranmayer Youtube Channel: emeranmayermd The Mind Gut Connection book, Harper Wave 2016 The Gut Immune Connection book, Harper Wave 2021 Highlights: Cate talks about the case of Covid and an Elderly with regards to Microbiome Cate talks about perspective, our beliefs influence how we think and how we solve problems. Cate talks about the direct correlation between chronic systemic inflammation and the severity of symptoms Timestamps: 12:26 - Metabolic Syndrome 16:14 - Science and Practice of Mind-Body Interactions 22:23 - Cytokine Storm 27:10 - The “Gut Immune Connection” by Emeran Mayer 28:55 - Why do people fear when they hear “virus or bacteria” 33:41 - Scientific vs. Empirical Evidence 37:05 - Ancient vs. Modern Concepts 40:53 - Learning from the Ancient Sages Quotes: “The fact that today, we see this increasing prevalence of autoimmune diseases and allergies and food sensitivities. Many people think it has a lot to do with the altered interaction we have, as infants in a much more sterile environment. Where we have banned microbes from the time of deliveries, or C sections and sterile hospital environments, to antibiotics early on, prematurely born babies ending up in intensive care units being loaded with antibiotics for four weeks sometimes.” “Early in life in terms of the natural exposure, Homo sapiens have had to their environment, including going through the birth canal, and picking up some of the good bacteria in the birth canal, which helps start to build the baby immune system is even like upon injection, right from the mom's body to then what we do. And if we look back, historically, there was a lot of skin-to-skin contact with newborns. There's a lot of mixing of the environment with the infant. And that helped create a baseline immune system, an innate immune system that was stronger.” “When we look in any indigenous culture, usually there's some relationship with a specific type of traditional fermented foods. And so in ayurvedic medicine, it was always considered to pacify Vata, which is the wind force, which creates the issues primarily in the nervous system first, and then the digestive system second, and it's like the nerves that upset the digestive system, like just being nervous, being anxious, being worried more of the people that are on the lighter side have less consistency with digestive capacity.” “The immune activation happens in the gut. So, these microbes are only microns away from immune cells. And it's the only separation not even from the real physical barrier, but from this mucous layer produced by some cells in the gut in the colon. And so, the margin for error is pretty small, and if you change that mucous layer just a little bit, you will already get contact between microbes and these immune sensors.” “People always talk about how we need to boost our immune system. With COVID-19, it's the opposite. You want to prevent this excessive response. An excessive response happens because the immune cells are programmed in a non-adaptive way in their passage through the gut.” Guest BIO: Emeran Mayer Dr. Mayer is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Executive Director of the G Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience. He has been one of the pioneers in the science and practice of brain gut microbiome interactions with applications in a wide range of diseases in gastrointestinal, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. He has published close to 400 scientific papers and several books and has received multiple awards. In addition to his academic interests, Mayer has a longstanding interest in ancient healing traditions and has been involved in documentary film productions about the Yanomami people in the Orinoco region of Venezuela, and the Asmat people in Irian Jaya. He has recently co-produced the award-winning documentary “In Search of Balance” and is working on a new documentary “Interconnected Planet”. He is a strong believer in Buddhist philosophy and got married in a Tibetan monastery by Choekyi Nyima Rinpoche in Kathmandu. He regularly pursues meditative practices. He has spoken at UCLA TEDx on the Mysterious Origins of Gut Feelings in 2015 and has been interviewed on National Public Radio, PBS, and by many national and international media outlets including the Los Angeles and New York Times, the Atlantic, and Time magazine. He has appeared on numerous podcasts, including Lewis Howes' The School of Greatness, Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory, and Mark Hyman's The Doctor's Pharmacy. He is the author of the 2016 bestselling book The Mind Gut Connection published by Harper&Collins and translated into 16 languages. In his new book, The Gut Immune Connection, Mayer proposes a radical, unifying concept about the chronic non-communicable disease epidemic we are finding ourselves in. He discusses how changes in our diet, lifestyle, and the way we interact with the world during the last 75 years have led to a profound dysregulation of the community of trillions of microbes living in our gut, resulting in a progressive chronic activation of our immune system. This aberrant immune system activation is emerging as the root cause of our current epidemic of interrelated chronic diseases affecting every part of our body. In addition, it makes us more vulnerable to viral pandemics. He uses the One Health concept to explain the intricate interconnectedness between the microbes living in our gut, in the soil, the health of our plants, and our own health.

Sou um dos pioneiros no conceito Biohacking & Otimização da saúde no Brasil. Em minhas palestras, conteúdos, eventos sempre digo que NÓS somos ALGORITMOS! Estamos entrando de vez na era das “tecnologias do self''. O nosso corpo é a mais recente plataforma de inovação.Estamos cada vez mais buscando técnicas para controlar o nosso próprio corpo, pensamentos e comportamento. Percebemos que muitas técnicas individuais e seus significados mudaram ao longo dos séculos. O Google está se tornando cada vez mais consciente do nosso comportamento, nossos verdadeiros desejos, nossos anseios e preocupações (mais conscientes até que nós mesmos). No século 21, as invenções não estarão concentradas em melhorar os padrões de vida das pessoas, mas otimizar as próprias pessoas: de prevenção de doenças para melhorar a biologia humana a atingir o aprimoramento da nossa vida, algo que prolongará ainda mais nossa existência( Hackeando humanos) A principal ferramenta do século 21 é sim nossos corpos, cérebros , intestinos e corações! Desde 2017 venho fazendo conteúdo sobre o tema Biohacking & Health Optimisation, nesse período li vários livros, participei de vários eventos sobre o tema, e resolvi selecionar alguns livros que fizeram a diferença em minha vida. Biohacking lentamente ganhou popularidade recentemente, e sua abordagem mais conhecida vem do livro mais vendido e do guia de estilo de vida de Dave Asprey, “The Bulletproof Diet”. Em suma, a prática Biohacking se concentra em uma relação que sempre cito em meus artigos, há uma clara relação entre” inputs” e ”outputs” no seu corpo, relação que inclui sentimentos, alimentos, hábitos enfim tudo que colocamos em nossos corpos afeta nossos resultados gerais, incluindo tudo, desde concentração até estresse e níveis de energia. #1 Ferriss, Timothy. 4 horas para o corpo. Intrínseca, 2012. #2 Asprey, Dave, e Valéria Prest. Bulletproof: A dieta à prova de bala: Recupere a energia e a concentração e faça um upgrade em sua vida. 1a edição, Bicicleta Amarela, 2016. #3 Asprey, Dave. Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-In Just Two Weeks: 3. Illustrated edição, Harper Wave, 2017. #4 DiClementi, Anthony. The Biohacker's Guide to Upgraded Energy and Focus. Biohacking Secrets, 2016. Siga-me-- Site- www.tiagopereiras.com.br -Instagram –https://www.instagram.com/t1agopereiras/ https://www.instagram.com/tiagopereirascanvas2-Twitter – https://twitter.com/t1agopereiras-Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/t1agopereiras -- Podcast ‘'Always in beta''-- https://open.spotify.com/show/68lweLSna3KOW0Dzqd8Qjr?si=tk3v-AKGRfqFhU4WaENE2g - Telegram- https://t.me/joinchat/H2kyExT956xehPWJIJrneg Google Recompensa: https://googleopinionrewards.page.link/share OYO Hotéis 35%OFF https://share.oyorooms.com/TIAGQ7DOOR?sp=app -Cashback Meliuz- https://www.meliuz.com.br/i/ref_99e1c94b?ref_source=27 Fiverr http://www.fiverr.com/s2/569710a0f3#5 Greenfield, Ben. Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging. Illustrated edição, Victory Belt Publishing, 2020. #6 Ferriss, Tim, e Bruno Casotti. Ferramentas dos Titãs: As estratégias, hábitos e rotinas de bilionários. celebridades e atletas de elite. 1a edição, Intrínseca, 2018. #7 Asprey, Dave. Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever: 5. Harper Wave, 2019. #8 Sinclair, David A., e Matthew D. Laplante. Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to. Unabridged edição, Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019. #9 Lundgren, Magnus, et al.,organizadores. CRISPR: Methods and Protocols. 2015th edition, Humana, 2015. #10 Isaacson, Walter. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon & Schuster, 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/t1agopereiras/support

On this episode, Julie Will, Vice President/Editorial Director at Harper Wave, interviews Matt Rodbard and Daniel Holzman, authors of FOOD IQ, available on February 22, 2022. Find show notes on librarylovefest.com Visit our website: librarylovefest.com. You can find us on Facebook (@librarylovefest), Twitter (@librarylovefest), and Instagram (@harperlibrary). We also have a voicemail! Give us a call at 212-207-7773.

This Day-After-Thanksgiving, some conversations about coming together, across differences: Jay Caspian Kang, opinion writer for The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine and the author of The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021), talks about how he thinks Asian-Americans -- a large and not monolithic group -- fit into American society.  Celeste Headlee, author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism―and How to Do It (Harper Wave, 2021) draws on science and her own experience to offer guidance for having good conversations around issues of racial identity. Childhood friends Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and director emeritus of the Schomburg Center, and Ben Austen, journalist and author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Harper, 2018), talk about their new podcast, "Some of My Best Friends Are...," which examines race and racism through the lens of their interracial friendship. Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, author of Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2021) and editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 (Scribner, 2021), shares some of the best recent poetry, her own and that of other poets, to end the show.   These interviews were edited slightly for time, the original versions are available here: What Does the Label 'Asian-American' Really Mean? (Oct 7, 2021) Let's Talk About Racism (Nov 4, 2021) Race and Racism Through the Lens of an Interracial Friendship (Sep 14, 2021) Tracy K. Smith Reads 'The Best American Poetry 2021' (Oct 13, 2021) Tracy K. Smith Picks the Best Recent Poetry (Oct 14, 2021) Tracy K. Smith Shares Poems From Her New Collection (Oct 15, 2021)

[REBROADCAST FROM September 22, 2021] Chef Mina Stone, who helms Mina's at MoMA PS1, joins us to discuss her latest cookbook, Lemon, Love & Olive Oil, which combines her Greek and Jewish heritage into hearty, citrusy recipes.   CACIO E PEPE–INSPIRED KALE SALAD This is my version of having the idea of a decadent pasta, in salad form. It has the flavor components of a cacio e pepe, set against the backdrop of a hearty forest of green kale. The kale stands up to the challenge, providing a healthy vehicle for the tangy salty cheese, crunchy hazelnuts, and spicy black pepper. Serves 4 to 6 6 cups (400 g) lacinato or curly green kale (about 2 bunches)Extra virgin olive oilJuice and zest of 1 lemonSalt and freshly ground black pepper½ cup (40 g) grated pecorino cheese½ cup (65 g) hazelnuts, toasted (see page 9) and chopped Cut out the thick middle rib of the kale leaves or tear it off with your hands. Layer a few kale leaves on top of each other and cut into bite-size pieces. Repeat until all the kale is done. (Alternatively, you can cut the kale into ribbon-size pieces for a “pasta” look.) Put the kale in a serving bowl and massage it with enough olive oil to coat each leaf. Add the lemon zest, lemon juice, a sprinkle of salt, and lots of freshly ground black pepper. When you are ready to serve, toss the kale with most of the cheese and most of the hazelnuts and garnish with the rest. Finish with freshly ground black pepper and serve. Reprinted from 'Lemon, Love & Olive Oil' by Mina Stone. Design by Urs Fischer. Published by Harper Wave.  

Buenlimón Radio regresa con un corto especial abriendo una nueva temporada. Un trozo del  libro de cocina escrito por nuestra Mariana, titulado Colombiana, recién lanzado por Harper Wave. El libro se sumerge en la tradición rica de nuestra tierra natal, pintando una imagen vívida de la cultura culinaria y las raíces de Mariana.Este episodio se produjo en colaboración con un grupo artístico colombiano, “El Dorado,” hace poco.Buenlimón Radio returns with a short special, as we launch our new season. A morsel of the cookbook written by our own Mariana, titled Colombiana, and recently launched by Harper Wave. The book dives into the rich traditions of our home country, painting a vivid image of its culinary culture and Mariana's roots. This episode was recently produced in collaboration with a Colombian artist group, "El Dorado." ¡Buen provecho!Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Buenlimon Radio by becoming a member!Buenlimon Radio is Powered by Simplecast. 

It's not always easy to have conversations about race and racism. Why is it important to do it anyway, and how can we most effectively talk about it? On Today's Show:Celeste Headlee, author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism―and How to Do It (Harper Wave, 2021) draws on science and her own experience to offer guidance for having good conversations around issues of racial identity.

Celeste Headlee, author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism―and How to Do It (Harper Wave, 2021) draws on science and her own experience to offer guidance for having good conversations around issues of racial identity.

On this episode, Julie Will, Vice President/Editorial Director at Harper Wave, interviews Dr. Traci Baxley, author of SOCIAL JUSTICE PARENTING, available on October 19, 2021. Find show notes here: https://bit.ly/PodSJP Visit our website: librarylovefest.com. You can find us on Facebook (@librarylovefest), Twitter (@librarylovefest), and Instagram (@harperlibrary). We also have a voicemail! Give us a call at 212-207-7773.

Rebecca Soffer is cofounder of Modern Loss, which offers creative content and community addressing the long arc of grief. She is the coauthor of "Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome" (Harper Wave, 2018), which The Strategist named a best book on loss for a younger generation. She has spoken nationally on loss and resilience at Chicago Ideas Week, HBO, Capital One, and Amazon. Her writing has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, Marie Claire, Glamour and NBC. Today we discuss the loss of both of her parents within 4 years. She lost her mom in an accident and her dad to a heart attack at 30 and 34. @modernloss Rebecca is a former producer for The Colbert Report and a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumna. Rebecca lives in New York City and the Berkshires with her husband, two young sons, and labradoodle. "The Modern Loss Handbook," an interactive guide through loss and resilience (Running Press, 2021) will be out soon! Subscribe to the Modern Loss Substack newsletter! Say hi! @dyingoflaughter_podcast / DyingOfLaughterPodcast@gmail.com Do you like this show? Leaving a review on Apple Podcasts is extremely appreciated...I read & cherish every single one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Eric Goodman, the creator of Foundation Training, has developed a system of pain relief that integrates movement and posture, heat, breath and our favorite plant. PS: Be a mensch and share this podcast with anyone you know over 40. This episode is sponsored by Zippz, personalized CBD medicines for sleep and calm created for your body and your condition. Use promo code BRAVE to get your (almost) free sample pack. Happy Zzzzz's.I've devoted a lot of air space to the topic of cannabis and sleep in the last months, and now I want to turn to pain, the #1 condition for which people use cannabis, and introduce you to Dr. Eric Goodman. A former athlete who is no stranger to injury, surgery and rehab, Eric trained as a chiropractor, where he learned anatomy, physiology and treatment. But over time, and as his own pain continued to plague him, he realized that much of what he was taught was insufficient. “We look to the wrong places for solutions—which keeps us from finding immediate relief. “he writes in his upcoming book, tentatively titled Foundations of Health: Harnessing The Restorative Power of Movement, Heat and the Endocannabinoid System To Actively Adapt for a Healthy Life. “Ultimately, it hampers us from living healthy lives…”These realizations set him on a road to create Foundation Training, a method that strengthens the areas around what goes wrong in our bodies so we can find relief and prevent injuries from occurring in the future.Eric and I share the same publisher, Karen Rinaldi at Harper Wave, who a few weeks ago slipped me a pre-publication manuscript of Foundations of Health. The book integrates a decade of research, clinical evidence and patient results into something that goes beyond biomechanics and standard adjustments – it's an integrative approach to pain, especially chronic pain, that makes sense. I gobbled it up.Instead of treating the area where pain occurs, Foundations identifies four factors that contribute to pain alleviation: posture and movement, breath, heat and, you guessed it, cannabis and how it affects the body's endocannabinoid system (ECS). It offers practical methods of optimizing each of these factors, while also parsing common myths and facts: heat vs. cold for injury, rest vs. small amounts (“microdoses”) of physical stress, and how cannabis, properly used, can increase awareness of balance and movement. This enhanced somatosensory perception neatly fits his explanation of “couchlock,” in which you feel the weight of your limbs more than you typically do.This interview also marks Eric's coming out as a cannabis user and advocate. Like many, he harbored concerns that open advocacy could jeopardize his practice, but I predict that it will put him in the excellent company of the growing number of maverick health practitioners who use cannabis can be an excellent adjunct to pain relief with fewer side effects than NSAIDs (Advil, Aleve, Motrin) and opioids. Welcome to the fold, Dr. Goodman!Foundations of Health (tentative title) will be out January 2022. Learn more about ithere.Learn more about Foundation Training hereOr get the Foundation training app, which has all sorts of programs including: weekend workouts; FT for surfers, runners, golfers, office workers, FT and Pregnancy, and a complimentary “Independence from Pain” workout.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To Mariana Velásquez, a native of Bogotá, the diverse mix of heritages, cultures, and regions that comprise Colombian food can be summed up in one simple concept: More is more.   No matter what rung of society, Colombians feed their guests well, and leave them feeling nourished in body and soul.   In her debut book, Colombiana, the award-winning recipe developer and food stylist draws on the rich culinary traditions of her native land and puts her own modern twist on dishes beloved by generations of Colombians.   In addition to offering a unique perspective on Colombian food, Mariana shares the vibrant style of Colombian tablescapes and entertaining. For her, the best meals are never simply about the food on the table—they are an alchemy of atmosphere, drinks, and simple snacks and sweets that complete the experience and make it memorable.   WE DISCUSS: Mariana's journey from Bogota to Brooklyn and the melding of those two distinct cultures and flavors The genesis for her new book Colombiana Her favorite recipes from the book What brings her the most pleasure in life and work What the future holds From the book COLOMBIANA by Mariana Velásquez Villegas. Copyright © 2021 by Mariana Velásquez Villegas. Published by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission. Photos by Gentl & Hyers

No this episode isn't with a nutritionist, Becoming Nourished is about receiving and finally being taken care of. Yes with food, but so so so so so much more. Dr. Sam Rader brings so much wisdom to this episode, if you are a human, and want to level up this episode will give you some tangible tools to do just that.You see, Dr. Sam Rader is a licensed clinical psychologist who has created a new field called Source Code Psychology. Source Code shows us our primary coping styles, where they came from and when, and allows us to get to the root to heal them wholeheartedly. In this episode we dig deep into several coping styles (which without a doubt you have at least one of) and their antidote. Whoa, yes for real for real. Dr. Sam owns Source Code Psychotherapy Center in Los Angeles where she employs and trains a team of therapists. She also has a forthcoming book with Harper Wave publishers on the 12 Coping Styles we adopt during childhood, which helped us then, and hurt us now, and how we can heal. Dr. Sam also is offering a one day workshop called, Becoming Nourished on May 1st that you do not want to miss. You can find out more about Dr. Sam Rader below, but for now, let's get to the episode.https://www.drsamrader.com/https://www.drsamrader.com/becoming-nourished-level-i@drsamraderIf you haven't already left a review wherever you listen to this, please do us a solid and do that now... And if you loved this episode spread the word by sharing it far and wide. Thank you mucho, and stay Savage y'all. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kendra talks with Julia Turshen the author of Simply Julia, which out now from Harper Wave. Thanks to our sponsors! FSAstore.com amazon.com/readingwomen Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Simply Julia by Julia Turshen Julia Recommends In Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefi What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordan Author Bio Julia Turshen is the bestselling author of Now & Again (named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon), Feed the Resistance (named the Best Cookbook of 2017 by Eater), and Small Victories (named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by the New York Times and NPR). Her forthcoming cookbook, Simply Julia, will be out on March 2, 2021. Julia has also coauthored numerous cookbooks and has written for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Food & Wine, Saveur, and more. Epicurious has called her one of the 100 Greatest Home Cooks of All Time and The New York Times has described her “at the forefront of the new generation of authentic, approachable authors.” She sits on the Kitchen Cabinet Advisory Board for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and is the founder of Equity At The Table (EATT), an inclusive digital directory of women and non-binary individuals in food. She’s also the host of the podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On. Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her wife and pets. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Podcast Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In honor of Earth Week, we kick off our series, "Chew It Over: Rethinking Food Waste & Leftovers," with cookbook author Julia Turshen who will help us launch the All Of It Leftover Challenge.  Select one of the recipes below to make for dinner this week, and then turn into leftovers at least once! Tell us how it goes. Send us your photos and tag us on Instagram, and we’ll check in with you at the end of the week to see how it went. The recipes are: Roast Chicken with Onion Gravy, Stewed Chickpeas with Peppers and Zucchini, Ropa Vieja and Red Lentil Soup Dip. They're excerpted from Julia Turshen's new book Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food.   **Roast Chicken with Onion Gravy** Add this chicken to the list of recipes inspired by our volunteer work at Angel Food East. To make it, you cut up a chicken, season it, and roast it in a skillet on a bed of sliced onions and chicken stock. After the chicken is cooked, you set the skillet on the stove, reduce the cooking juices just a little bit, and then stir in mustard and sour cream to make a rich onion gravy without any flour, roux, or anything else that usually causes gravy anxiety. Serve this chicken with mashed or crushed potatoes (they’re a good place to put more sour cream) and steamed green beans. Or with cornbread and cooked greens. Or with noodles and peas. Or with rice and buttered broccoli. Or with warm rolls and roasted squash. You get the idea . . . Serves 4 1 large (or 2 small) yellow onion, thinly sliced into half moons 2 cups [480 ml] chicken stock (homemade, store-bought, or bouillon paste dissolved in boiling water) Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 whole chicken, cut into 8 parts (or 4 bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts or 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs), patted dry with a paper towel 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 8 thin slices 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1/2 cup [113 g] sour cream Preheat your oven to 400.F [200.C]. Place the sliced onion and chicken stock in a large, heavy, ovenproof skillet (I use a cast-iron one for this). Season the mixture with a large pinch of salt and a few grinds of black pepper.  Place the chicken pieces, skin-side- up, on top of the onion mixture and season them generously with salt and pepper. Place a butter slice on top of each piece of chicken and roast until the chicken is browned, firm to the touch, and registers at least 165.F [74.C] on a digital thermometer, about 40 minutes. Use tongs to transfer the chicken pieces to a serving platter and cover them with foil to keep them warm. Place the skillet with the onions on the stove and bring to a boil over high heat. Let the mixture boil for 5 minutes to thicken slightly, then turn the heat to low. Whisk in the mustard and sour cream and season the gravy to taste with salt and pepper. Pour the mixture over the chicken pieces. Serve immediately. **Stewed Chickpeas with Peppers and Zucchini** A late summer go-to during our volunteering shifts at Angel Food East, this light stew of chickpeas, peppers, and zucchini is the best way I know to use up a ton of summertime produce without a ton of effort. Served with a creamy, lemony sauce and couscous, pasta, rice, or quinoa (or any grain), it’s a healthy-and-Hearty recipe that is simple to make and infinitely adaptable, too. Swap out the chickpeas for any type of bean. Have extra peppers? Add them! Have a bunch of tomatoes? Chop them up and throw them in. Dice some eggplant, roast it, and fold it in at the end. Add vegetable stock to this and call it soup. Skip the grain or pasta and use the mixture to fill quesadillas. This is flexible cooking, which is my favorite kind of cooking. Serves 4 For the sauce 1 large handful fresh Italian parsley, finely chopped (a little stem is fine) 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1/2 cup [120 ml] vegan mayonnaise (or regular mayonnaise if you’re not vegan) 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt For the stew 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium red onion, thinly sliced into half moons 4 garlic cloves, minced 2 bell peppers (red, yellow, and/or orange), stemmed, seeded, and thinly sliced 2 tablespoons tomato paste 2 teaspoons dried oregano Kosher salt 2 medium zucchini [about 3/4 pound (340 g)], ends trimmed, cut into bite-sized pieces Two 15-ounce [425 g] cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1/4 cup [60 ml] water 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar To serve Cooked couscous, pasta, rice, quinoa, or any other grain First, make the sauce Place the parsley, lemon juice, vegan mayonnaise, and salt in a small bowl and stir well to combine. Reserve the mixture. Next, make the stew Place the olive oil in a large, heavy pot (like a Dutch oven) over medium heat. Once it’s warm, add the onion, garlic, bell peppers, tomato paste, oregano, and a large pinch of salt. Cook, stirring now and then, until the vegetables begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Stir in the zucchini, chickpeas, water, and another large pinch of salt. Turn the heat to high and when that little bit of water begins to boil, turn the heat to medium-low, cover the pot, and cook, uncovering it every so often to stir, until the zucchini is very soft and the mixture is stew, about 25 minutes. Turn off the heat, stir in the vinegar, and season the mixture to taste with salt. Serve the stew warm over the couscous (or whatever you’re serving it with). Top each serving with a large spoonful of the sauce. **Ropa Vieja**  In my early twenties, I ended up living in a studio apartment in the same building that I grew up in. It was a surreal experience, almost a time loop, and living there allowed me to reconnect to some of the places I went to as a little kid. One of those places was La Taza del Oro, down the block on Eighth Avenue, a very special lunch counter that opened in 1947 and sadly closed in 2015. Along with Casa Adela in the East Village, La Taza del Oro was one of New York’s iconic Puerto Rican restaurants and it served dishes from other cultures too, including traditional Cuban ropa vieja (which translates to “old clothes,” an evocative description of the texture of the shredded beef).  I make this version at home regularly, and while it doesn’t bring back a restaurant I wish was still thriving, it helps me keep my memories of it alive. It’s also just so satisfying and soul-warming (which is why I made it a few times for our local volunteer EMT squad when Covid-19 hit our area). After cooking, shred the beef and store in a container in the refrigerator for up to a week (it’s honestly better the longer it sits). Warm it up in a saucepan over low heat (splash with a little water or stock if it needs some moisture) and then enjoy on its own with rice or sweet, starchy things like roasted squash, fried plantains, grilled corn, or Sweet + Spicy Mashed Sweet Potatoes (page 135). It’s especially great with the Best Black Beans with Avocado Salad (page 62). You could also use this beef for tacos or inside of a pressed sandwich (try it on your next grilled cheese). Serves 6 to 8 1 large yellow onion, thinly sliced into half moons 6 garlic cloves, crushed 2 medium green bell peppers, stemmed, seeded, and thinly sliced One 14.5-ounce [411 g] can diced tomatoes with their juice 1/4 cup [60 ml] yellow mustard ⅓ cup [65 g] raisins 1/2 cup [120 g] pimento-stuffed green olives, plus 3 tablespoons olive brine for finishing the dish One 2- to 3-pound [907 g to 1.3 kg] boneless chuck roast, trimmed of any large pieces of fat or gristle, cut into 3 even pieces 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 teaspoons ground cumin Fresh cilantro, for serving (optional) Preheat your oven to 300.F [150.C]. Place the onion, garlic, bell peppers, diced tomatoes with their juice, mustard, raisins, and olives (hang onto that brine for later) in a large, heavy ovenproof pot (such as a Dutch oven). Mix well to combine. Sprinkle the chuck roast pieces all over with the salt, black pepper, and cumin. Nestle the pieces into the mixture in the pot. Cover the pot tightly with a lid or aluminum foil. Roast the beef until it’s incredibly tender and shreds easily when you poke at it with tongs or a couple of forks, about 3 hours. Add the olive brine to the pot and use those tongs or forks to shred the beef directly in the pot (discard any large pieces of fat as you work) and mix it together with the juices.  Season to taste with salt. Serve warm with cilantro sprinkled on top (if you’d like). **Red Lentil Soup Dip** Even though I wrote a whole cookbook about reinventing leftovers, called Now & Again, I often eat tons of stuff cold, straight out of the container. We all contain multitudes. Enter this dip, which is inspired by leftover red lentil soup that I mistook for hummus one day and stuck a carrot into and ate standing in front of my refrigerator. It was so good that I decided to do it on purpose going forward and cook red lentils as if I were going to turn them into a gently spiced soup, in the spirit of traditional masoor dal, but on the thicker side with less liquid. Serve with raw vegetables, any type of cracker (it’s especially good with papadums), or put a dollop onto a bowl of rice and cooked vegetables and call it lunch. And you can always add a few cups of stock, serve it warm, and call it . . . soup. Makes about 2 cups [480 ml] 3 tablespoons coconut oil (or extra-virgin olive oil) 2 teaspoons garam masala (or 1/2 teaspoon each ground cumin, coriander, turmeric, and black pepper) 1/2 cup [100 g] split red lentils One 131/2-ounce [400 ml] can coconut milk 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoons plain yogurt (or coconut milk yogurt if you’re vegan), for serving  2 tablespoons toasted unsweetened coconut flakes, for serving Place the coconut oil and garam masala in a medium saucepan over medium heat. When the spices begin to smell fragrant, just about 30 seconds, stir in the lentils, coconut milk, and salt. Bring the mixture to a boil, turn the heat to low, cover the pot, and simmer until the lentils are completely soft, 20 to 25 minutes. Season the mixture to taste with salt. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool to room temperature. It will thicken slightly as it cools. Transfer the dip to a serving bowl. Top with the yogurt and toasted coconut and serve immediately. All recipes from the book SIMPLY JULIA by Julia Turshen. Copyright © 2021 by Julia Turshen. Published by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.

We're so excited to be bringing you today's episode of the SuperFeast podcast. Mason sits down for a chat with the innovative and ever inspiring Dr. Molly Maloof for an epic conversation spanning from the highly contentious COVID 19 vaccine to stress, sleep, biohacking, spiritual awakenings, and many relative roamings in-between. The world has had some massive shifts since the last time Dr. Molly was on the show; Dr. Molly opens up about her 2020 spiritual awakening, views on psychedelics, and life in America in a time of COVID. Dr. Molly shows her expertise honing in on the topics of stress, sleep, insulin resistance, and why she utilises technology devices like the Ōura ring to prevent illness and optimise health.   Perhaps what I enjoyed most about this episode, other than Dr. Molly's fascinating technological health insights, was how this conversation flowed despite moments of contrasted views. There was no ideological tribalism, just good conversation; in the name of high quality, investigative thought. Tune in for mind expansion.   "Use these health technology tools to gain awareness, but don't depend on them to function. The real mastery of your body is when you have interoception and know how you feel by listening to your body's signals".   - Dr. Molly Maloof     Mason and Dr. Molly discuss: COVID 19 vaccine; Dr. Molly's journey. Protecting against viruses by keeping stress levels low. How viruses disrupt metabolism and increase inflammation in the body. Self-actualisation and ego transcendence. Cracking yourself open; doing the work emotionally and spiritually. The Ōura ring; heart rate variability and sleep monitoring. Therapeutics devices to monitor stress. What HRV (heart rate variability) says about stress levels. Dr. Molly's approach to treating clients and assessing health. Your muscles are a power pack, and exercise charges your batteries. Chronic Fatigue and burnout. Biomarkers from over-exercising. Insulin resistance; How to recognise and avoid it within your body. Interoception, and why we should all aspire to have it. Biohacking.   Who is Molly Maloof? Dr. Molly Maloof’s goal is to maximise human potential by dramatically extending the human healthspan through medical technology, scientific wellness, and educational media. Her fascination with innovation has transformed her private medical practice, focused on providing health optimisation and personalised medicine to San Francisco & Silicon Valley investors, executives, and entrepreneurs. Molly's iterative programs take the quantified self to the extreme through comprehensive testing of clinical chemistry, metabolomics, microbiome, biometrics, and genomic markers.   Resources:   Molly's Website Molly's Facebook Molly's Instagram Molly's Linkedin Molly's Twitter Maximising Your Human Potential with Dr. Molly Maloof (EP#47)   Molly: (01:18:10) Oh, it's called the Psychedelic News Hour, and it's part of the Psychedelics Club, or the Psychedelic Clubhouse actually. So, my friend Dave [inaudible 01:18:19] and I were the first people to record a podcast on this viral platform, and it just has just blown up. So, we're going to be releasing these recordings this year, and yeah, we record every Friday at 11:30 pacific time. It's just been a joy and this thing I look forward to doing every week, so super fun. Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:01) Molly, mate. Welcome back.   Molly: (00:05) So good to be here, Mason. It's been a while.   Mason: (00:08) Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, it was pre-pandemic when we spoke on the podcast last. But, always feel connected, always tuning in to your great ramblings and sharings and wisdom on Instagram.   Molly: (00:26) I do ramble. I ramble on.   Mason: (00:29) Rambling's good, I like it. It's like it's authentic. Hey, let's talk about, first of all, how are you going?   Molly: (00:34) You know what, I'm starting to actually believe that I know a few things about health despite always questioning myself and questioning everything I know, I'm really starting to feel pretty confident. I just landed a book deal with a really great publisher, Harper Wave, and I'm-   Mason: (00:54) Damn. HW.   Molly: (00:55) Yeah, I know, I'm stoked. I'm just feeling like honestly frustrated about some annoying health issues that have come up, but also really confident that I am just a great medical investigator and I'm good at solving problems, and I can solve anything. So, I'm just like really optimistic, slightly frustrated and very excited about the fact that you may or may not agree with this, but I did get the vaccine, and I'm going to be travelling in April when I'm fully vaccinated, and I haven't been travelling a lot, and I'm going to be going out into the world again. So, I'm pretty stoked about that. But yeah, it was a really hard decision to get the vaccine. I was really unclear whether or not it was the right move. I know these are highly contentious because of how quickly they were able to get out into the market, but I did a lot of homework on them, and I actually personally have worked on a vaccine before. So, even though it seems like this technology is brand new, it turns out that there's been a lot of people working on this for many, many years, and it just seems new to us because we haven't really paid attention to the people in their clinics and the research institutions actually doing the work to lay the groundwork for this.   Mason: (02:09) I will say, have you got your highlight around your process, around getting the vaccine saved? Have you got that saved in your highlights?   Molly: (02:16) Oh, I'm going to save it in my highlight today. Thanks for reminding me to do that.   Mason: (02:20) [crosstalk 00:02:20]. There's one thing-   Molly: (02:21) Yeah.   Mason: (02:22) You say, and it is contentious, but as long as we can all sit down and have a good yarn about it, that's all I really give a shit about is having a good yarn about these things. I really enjoyed watching your process of you get there to decide, and even it's fun watching someone who thinks about these things so deeply talking about you getting one brand vaccine versus the other. Then also, going through the process of getting called out, of going, now you come back and make sure you respect those of us that don't. You did a really good little retraction of a comment, which I think takes a lot of balls. This is going to lead me somewhere else because it's interesting you going, you're going to travel now because you've got the vaccine, and I've gone through the process, I went through it last year in autumn [inaudible 00:03:11] from the Daoist perspective to mourn. And for me, I'm just mourning the fact that I may never travel overseas again, and then gotten to the point where I'm like, "Sweet, cool," I can-   Molly: (03:21) Well, you're living in Australia and it's magical there.   Mason: (03:24) Yeah. It's true.   Molly: (03:26) I'm really jealous by the way. Here's the thing, I'm probably not going to be travelling abroad a lot, even though I would like to. But, you're right, I have done a lot of mourning. I also just, I think we have all done a lot of mourning. I think that just I'm someone who's extremely, pretty used to travelling a lot, so I actually was like... Last year, I was all over the country to be honest with you. I was in Hawaii, LA, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida, and a few trips to Austin, and that felt limited to me. That felt limited. So for me, I understand that I'm not a typical, normal person. A lot of people don't travel very much regularly, but I was travelling almost every week or every few weeks, multiple times a month. And it really caused me to slow down, and it was good for me to slow down, and I needed to slow down, and it was actually highly productive to slow down. But, I have this deep sense of disconnection to a community of my friends all over the country and world that is not being easily replaced by small numbers of close, close friends. Like, I genuinely miss my groups of friends. So, I feel like a massive community deficiency right now, and that's mostly why I'm travelling.   Molly: (04:43) But, going back to the things we were talking about before, yeah, I did save my vaccine story. I'm going to save my vaccine story on my Instagram. I think it's important for people to understand that I'm not pro-vaccines for everyone. I think it's a personal decision. I think autonomy is important, and I think that obviously we could talk for an entire hour on vaccines, and we're not going to do that today. But, the point is that some countries don't have nearly as big as a problem as America does. We are the worst of the worst, and unfortunately because I'm in an environment that's so infectious, I felt like it was the right move for me to make. But, I totally understand if other people in other countries with lower infectious rates don't really want it, and I don't see if you need to get it frankly. I just happen to live in a really screwed up country.   Mason: (05:29) [crosstalk 00:05:29] as I said, the stories are really fascinating, especially with the context that you talk a lot about. You're talking about vitamin D deficiencies and talking about everything else that everyone could be doing for their immune system as well as [crosstalk 00:05:39]-   Molly: (05:39) Yeah, yeah, it's not just about vaccines.   Mason: (05:41) Yeah.   Molly: (05:42) And also, I talk a lot about viruses in general, and I had been talking about viruses for the last few years, and a lot of people don't realise that just living a life of chronic stress breaks down your immune system, and it sets the conditions up for you to be infected with diseases like viruses. So, viruses are particularly just nasty, because they can really disrupt your metabolism, and they can also increase inflammation throughout the body. So, they basically set off all the alarms in the house, and then they unplug your refrigerator so nothing fucking works in the kitchen. So, everything is a mess. I'm taking care of a bunch of patients with chronic viral infections, and I personally just thought that if I were to weigh getting chronic COVID, one in 10 people could get chronic COVID in America, either that versus getting less than one percent chance of getting a side effect from the vaccine, I was like, all right, this is a hard thing to decide, but I chose the vaccine instead. Anyway, we're not going to talk about vaccines all day, but because I know a lot of your audience is like, "Oh my God, already don't trust her because she's talking about vaccines."   Mason: (06:52) Well, I mean, the good thing is I think first... and maybe, but it's also, that's a good opportunity for everyone to have a good little step back and reflection on themselves, and putting out a quick judgement on someone just because they got a vaccine, or likewise, there's probably a lot of people listening who are now trusting you because you did get the vaccine.   Molly: (07:12) It's probably true, yeah. Well, I've seen both ways. I've actually had a lot of people tell me on Instagram, "I don't agree with your opinions on how to manage COVID or treat it or prevent it, but I still listen to you because I actually really like your opinions on a bunch of other things." So, you pick what works for you, and you take what you learn from different people, and you try things on, and then things that don't work for you, you don't have to wear.   Mason: (07:40) That kind of ideological tribalism and extreme judgement , I mean, we've been talking about it a bit at the moment because we're in late summer here versus you going into that transition period into spring. So, from a spleen, soil philosophy or energetic, we're at a time where you kind of start, you come down, you hit the ground, and you start reflecting on where your intellect is serving you, and where it can be tuned up to be like, so you're having high quality thoughts, high quality beliefs that are actually helping you move towards being a better person, high quality ideas and thoughts that are taking you in the direction of being effective at manifesting your intentions or your dreams or whatever it is, just being a better person. So, I think that it's a really good opportunity here, and that's what I'm doing, I'm just really watching whether the quality of my thoughts... I like having judgement , whether my judgement is really basically quality, and taking me towards more of a place where I'm feeling myself... Gosh, what's the word I want to use there? I mean, I don't want to lose myself into an ideology or a set of beliefs, and the vaccines are the area where it's so contentious that people are going to lose their sovereignty or their capacity to stay connected to that observer part of themselves, and they're going to quickly fly off because their spleen's-   Molly: (09:02) It's a tribal decision for a lot of people, you know?   Mason: (09:03) Exactly.   Molly: (09:05) It's like, I'm either in this tribe or I'm not, and if I'm not, then I don't believe anything that this person has to say. And the truth is is that I've seen some great health influencers, in my opinion, have some fairly irresponsible belief systems around certain things that I personally think are scientifically sound. Yeah, at the same time, I'm like, wow, I still respect that person's opinion on nutrition, because they're really good at nutrition, that's what they're trained to know about. So, I really feel like sense making right now is really hard, because there is so much misinformation in the world, there is so much science to work through, there's so many people that you have to choose to listen to. Then, you have to sit and make a decision for yourself and your family. That is a lot of stress for people who maybe didn't have enough biology in high school, or didn't take science classes in college, and it doesn't seem logical or intuitive to them to listen to people who maybe have more experience in that arena.   Molly: (10:08) At the same time, I wish there were more scientists who actually questioned the overall messaging that we've been promoting around this infection, which is like, everyone's been so focused on the science that they haven't focused on the basics of health. They haven't been talking about sleep, they haven't been talking about nutrition, they haven't been talking about exercise, they haven't been talking about community and all these things. There haven't been any really strong strategies for managing the health of our country aside from the things that we know can also inhibit health. So, it's like a really, really complicated time to be alive, because on one hand, we need social interaction, we need to touch people, we need to eat healthier foods, we need to get outside, and we need to have some sense of normalcy. So, I think it's been really hard for people because on one hand you want to follow all the rules, but on the other hand, I still need to maintain my health. Then, you have basically find some sort of middle ground, where the two Venn Diagrams of health and sickness fixing overlap, where you can actually thrive in the midst of adversity. That's what I've been trying to do this whole time.   Mason: (11:23) Well, the trust is all gone. I mean, who's going to trust when they've got authorities going and dragging surfers out of the water. I'm just like, this doesn't make sense, guys. This doesn't make a lick of sense. How can we trust you when you're focusing completely on this? The whole political-   Molly: (11:39) Yeah.   Mason: (11:39) I know, I've been watching how it's working here, how it's working over there, the level of contradiction and [crosstalk 00:11:45]-   Molly: (11:45) It's a mess over here.   Mason: (11:46) Non actual leadership, you know, not these qualities of leadership that we-   Molly: (11:50) Yeah.   Mason: (11:51) I was talking about, before this, I'm reading a bunch of business books and trying to figure out a way to take all those concepts that are going to structure our business without getting past the soul of our business right now. The kind of leadership qualities that you see talked about in all of these books is something that's so not valued for most of the parties that are in power right now. Therefore, why am I going to trust you guys? Then, it's going to create more division. That's not the reason why I'm not taking the vaccine. Personally, I've just got my little core meditation that I have on it, and that's why most of the time, I just shut up on it. I get asked a lot about it, more and more these days I get asked about vaccines and people wanting me to do spiels on the podcast, and I'm like, I've been at that point of my influencer career when I think I have a moral obligation to use my platform to talk about something, even when I haven't gone down enough of a rabbit hole, and haven't sat with it long enough in order to actually feel like I'm justifying... not justifying, but having validity to sway people's opinion based on what mine is.   Mason: (12:57) So, I think I'm enjoying just shutting up. Then, I like listening to people who have gone down deep ends on each side of things, and then watching out for their ideology, and watching how they're just creating more division, or potentially create really good insights right there on the fence. Anyway, I don't know. As I said, I've mourned that I may never travel overseas because I'm not going to get my little vaccine card. I'll accept the consequences and go on laughing and playing otherwise.   Molly: (13:32) I'm going to come visit you.   Mason: (13:33) Yeah, yeah, you can come over here.   Molly: (13:34) I can get to Australia. I have a friend who's a doctor there, and he said he would get me in the country if I needed to get there. I personally would much rather be in Australia right now. My only issue is that all my clients are in America, and so it'd be kind of hard for me to move my business there. But-   Mason: (13:49) You'd just be doing early mornings, very early mornings.   Molly: (13:53) It'd be really hard to do work. I'd have to mess up my sleep schedule, and that's not going to happen. But, I don't know, to get to some positive notes of all this, I do really feel like one of the silver linings of all of this is that there are a lot more people thinking about health-   Mason: (14:12) Yeah.   Molly: (14:12) And thinking about balance and harmony-   Mason: (14:13) For sure.   Molly: (14:14) And thinking about how do I actually maintain resilience in my body and capacity to be able to fight off infections better. And they're more interested in things like Chinese medicine and Ayurveda and alternative medicines, and frankly that's where truly I think a lot of health is made, and modern medicine is mostly the battlefield for people who are ravaged by chronic illness and major illness, acute illnesses. So ideally, you want to be in peace time metabolism with a healthy diet and lower stress levels, and just really properly taking care of yourself. But, the reality is that most of us who are high performers, and a lot of my clients are, really do struggle with stress. I'd say that a lot of people have pretty much nailed nutrition and exercise, but are still unaware that they're over training or that they're overworking themselves or that they're overextending themselves. One of the things, I don't know if you've ever noticed this in people, but I've seen a lot of people who do a lot of the main lifestyle habits that are necessary for creating energy in the body, and you build up this capacity, and you kind of feel like you're unstoppable.   Molly: (15:28) So, you go out and you spend all of this energy doing amazing stuff in the world, and then you find yourself before you know it, starting to burnout and starting to be tired, and starting to feel out of whack and out of balance. I personally experience this multiple times in my life, so I know it's real, but I've also seen it a lot in my clients who are just really successful people, and they're doing everything right, but then the stress hits them over time. And maybe they end up with a really bad virus, and before you know it, they're really not well. So, I think the real challenge of people who want to be high performers is this balance of how do I put my body under stress in order to get stronger but not to break. That's the real aim in a lot of cases. It's actually a pretty big challenge to do that.   Mason: (16:21) This might be a weird segue, but I think just going based on your experience, because you've got a personal amount of experience in navigating that give an inch take a mile. We observe it a lot here. I'm definitely like that. We've kind of identified especially... you'll see, from looking at which organ is the dominant organ. Liver people are always like that. They're just such go getters, and they just can't [inaudible 00:16:55], "Oh cool, I feel kind of okay, I'm going to start a bajillion projects right now, and then burn out." You were saying at the beginning that you're now trusting that you know something about medicine. So, that brings in everything that's like a cliché of [inaudible 00:17:09] whether it's imposter syndrome, but I think that's not the best way to put it because I think there's a... You've now arrived at a point where you've actually grounded in yourself a confidence and an acknowledgement that you know your shit. I say, not through getting through the imposter syndrome, because quite often I think when imposter syndrome is present, that might be a bad quality judgement that you have on yourself, that you're an imposter. But, it doesn't mean the feeling that you might be able to slow down and learn some more and refine the way that you communicate [crosstalk 00:17:44]-   Molly: (17:44) Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah. There's so much I... It's like knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know, and being able to admit when you don't know something. Also, recognising that to be honest with you, I teach at Stanford, and I haven't met a single student who doesn't have imposter syndrome, and they're like the top students in America. So, when I realise that all these really smart, bright people had it, I was like, "I'm done with this shit." We're all really talented. In fact, you don't need to be an Ivy League person to be really talented, but the point I'm trying to make is that some of most successful people actually struggle with admitting that they know their shit, you know?   Mason: (18:27) Yeah, but I think where you will see burnout a lot of the time, and correct me if I'm wrong, if this is your experience, because I'm just talking from my experience. When I am sitting in that, I've got a subtle feeling of imposter syndrome, or if I went to the heart of that, it's probably just saying, "Hey dude, slow down." [crosstalk 00:18:46]-   Molly: (18:45) Yes, totally.   Mason: (18:46) Acknowledge what you really do know, don't worry about trying to prove yourself with all this other stuff, just sit in the knowledge and then slowly just chop wood, carry water and learn what you need to learn. So, I've a few times kind of relate to... I think what's taken me is that needed to prove myself because I'm trying to prove that I'm... yes, dad, I am good enough, or whatever I'm trying to do, and take myself to burnout, that when I came back to reality, go, all right, I'm not an imposter, I do know a lot. Then, I come to terms with a lot of acceptance with where my life is, what options I actually do have based on the knowledge and skill sets that I do. All of a sudden, I felt less likely to go into that burnout cycle. I was curious for you, what you felt those critical moments or tweaks in mindset or activity were that took you from going into that burnout and imposter through yes, you just accepted you knew your shit. But, I watch you grind and work every day so I know it's not just a, "Hey, Molly. Stop feeling that way, you know your stuff." Amazing, I do know my stuff, and know it's perfect. I know that there was a lot of stuff going on in the background.   Molly: (20:04) I think honestly a lot of it's come from just talking to patients. I've had just a lot of really positive outcomes with clients in the last year, and I've just seen their bodies just transform and reverse all sorts of things without any medications at all really. So, to see people get better and be like, "Oh my God, this all works," and just have people tell me regularly, "Man, everything you tell me works." I would hope it does. That really encourages me honestly, that's really helpful, just seeing people get better. Also, I have really worked on my spirituality in the last few years let's say. Really since, let's say, it was about 2019 August when I just was hit with a massive spiritual awakening. Since then, it's been a massive ego just excavation, dissolution, and reconstruction, and just trying to... really, that was really what it felt like. It was really quite painful by the way, and I would recommend everyone go through it if they are ready for the real work of life.   Mason: (21:18) Was yours quite cathartic and sudden? What were you-   Molly: (21:21) Oh yeah.   Mason: (21:23) Deep diving into meditation or plant medicine? Did anything kick it off?   Molly: (21:26) Okay, so the awakening actually was quite interesting. So, I study how to create bioenergetic capacity in the body, and I've been doing a bunch of things that I had been studying, which was fasting. I did a three day fast, I spent a bunch of time in the sunlight because I was charging all my batteries. Then, after I broke the fast with a really healthy California meal in wine country, and then I went the next day and worked out at a gym, lifted weights and did high intensity interval training, and then a sauna. So, all of that is just massive bioenergetic capacity building. Then, at the same time, I was kind of on a date, and I was really attracted to this guy, but it turns out that he was not at all interested in pursuing anything sexual at the time, because he was working through a bunch of his own emotional shit.   Molly: (22:11) So, I was really frustrated sexually. So, there was all of these energetic things combined. Then, I ended up seeing my community at this beautiful dinner after the whole weekend was over. I come home one night, and I just literally in bed... It's so funny even saying this out loud because it's so embarrassing, but it was like... I was thinking about how in the future we're going to have clinics for giving people MDMA and other psychedelics, and I was really just alive with vitality and possibility in the future. I just started having this full body involuntary orgasm. This is so weird, I cannot explain this. This is a crazy experience, how am I going to tell my friend about this? No one's going to believe me. Then, I was like, "Oh shit, this is kundalini awakening. Fuck." Sorry, you [inaudible 00:22:58].   Mason: (22:58) [crosstalk 00:22:58]-   Molly: (22:58) Then, I was like, because I remember one of my friends who's this amazing spiritual woman was telling me about her experience, and only the context from her experience to understand what was happening to me. So, I was like, reading books about this afterwards, and I was just like, "Oh whoa, wait, wait, hold the phone, I don't know if this is actually a good thing." Because the funny thing is, I had kind of been praying weirdly for the first time in a while. To God, I was like, "Man, I just need a taste of enlightenment. There's got to be something more than this existence that I'm living right now." Because I was really struggling before that moment with a breakup and a business readjustment, and a lot of things were changing in my life, and I was really struggling.   Molly: (23:40) I just asked the universe. There's got to be something more to life than this. I wasn't quite depressed, but I wasn't happy. And so, that thing happened and I definitely came out of it excited because [inaudible 00:23:55], that is so cool, this thing just happened. Then, I read about it, and I was like, "Oh no, this turns people's lives completely upside down, and I just don't have time for that. I just don't have time for this." So, luckily, I had a meditation retreat lined up. Then, through that meditation retreat, I actually had a vision of these books I wanted to write, and had this... I snuck a pen and paper in, so I wrote out the entire outline of the book in the retreat.   Mason: (24:21) Very Vipassana.   Molly: (24:23) Very Vipassana right? , yeah.   Mason: (24:24) Oh, it was? Okay.   Molly: (24:28) It was definitely not allowed, definitely not allowed.   Mason: (24:30) Very naughty, yeah.   Molly: (24:30) Super rule breaker, but I mean, I did it anyway. Then, it felt like every time I would come back into the world... After I went on that retreat, I came back into the world, and it just felt like this massively heightened sense of... All of my senses were heightened, and it was almost like too much to take because I was living in The Mission of San Francisco, and there was so much fucked up shit in the street. I'm sorry to cuss, but there was homelessness and drug addicts, and shit all over the sidewalks, and it was just filthy, and I couldn't really handle the energetics of San Francisco at the time. So, I went back to meditation, to another retreat, came out of it, had the same experience, and I was like, "Maybe I'm not supposed to be in San Francisco right now. So, I decided after, let's see, what was it, the second retreat, that I would just take a sabbatical in Maui, and ended up really using that time to really get to know myself again. Those six months were pretty pivotal. Then, right when I was coming out, of all the spiritual transformation, and all this growth, COVID hits. So, I'm like, "Oh God." I was really excited to go back into the world, but I was also like, "Oh God, there's like a pandemic." Yeah.   Mason: (25:46) I remember you, you were sharing a bit then. Because I was kind of in the [inaudible 00:25:52] in the middle of the pandemic and very aware, because we've got Chinese herbs and blah blah blah, all these kinds of things. But, I remember watching people almost pleading with you in your comment section to please come back to reality and learn what's going on.   Molly: (26:05) Yeah.   Mason: (26:09) It was a good living vicariously, for me to live vicariously through you going, "Oh, that'd be so good to just be like, not really, really aware of what's going on in the world right now, and just being still flying up in spirit, and whatever it is, whatever way you want to put it." Then, I remember you getting back and going, "Holy shit, this is real. This is really real."   Molly: (26:35) I know. And to be honest with you, I'm actually really grateful for all the pain and suffering I went through in the last year, because I had an injury, and I had a bunch of hormones dysfunctional because... and I moved back to the Midwest for part of the time, and all of that challenge of literally I had a lot more health challenges in the mainland than I did in Hawaii by like a factor of a 100. It gave me this ability to really develop a deeper sense of empathy for America, and for what people in the Midwest go through. I was like a west coast health guru who preached about health, but really I had kind of lost touch with how hard it is to be healthy in most of the country.   Molly: (27:19) So, by coming back and actually experiencing my world change so dramatically, like what it's like to be isolated, what is it like to eat food that's not in accordance to what I would prefer to be eating, what it's like to be indoors for wintertime, all sorts of stuff that I just wasn't used to doing. I, A, realised that like, oh, I can handle a lot more than I thought I could, and B, it just makes you realise if you don't have perspective of what most people are dealing with, then it's really actually quite hard to really preach about health, because you don't really have any understanding of the average person's life, you know? You have this understand of your optimised version of life, and that's just not the real world for a lot of people. So, it actually I think made me a better doctor, I think it's made me a lot more empathetic, and it's certainly humbled the shit out of me, which has been really, really good for my ego as well I would say.   Mason: (28:22) [inaudible 00:28:22] dig. That's a really good way to put it. I mean, it's a great way to put it because it's not just [inaudible 00:28:29]. It's not just a stagnant moment in time where an ego dies once. It's like, no, it goes on and on, and on and on and on. [inaudible 00:28:37] digs [crosstalk 00:28:37]-   Molly: (28:37) Oh yeah, it comes back, and then we have to dissolve it again, and then it brings back, and then [inaudible 00:28:43] question is how do you find this medium between ideally self actualization and ego transcendence. That's really the goal, you know? And every time I-   Mason: (28:53) What have you been doing to stay grounded?   Molly: (28:55) Huh?   Mason: (28:56) Yeah, sorry, I do want to hear that point.   Molly: (28:58) Oh yeah, yeah, what am I doing to stay grounded?   Mason: (29:00) Yeah.   Molly: (29:02) To be honest with you, my family has been unbelievably supportive and kind. I'm very fortunate my family has some beautiful homes that I've been able to stay in. Basically, instead of being isolated in San Francisco where all my stuff's in storage, I spent a lot of time with family, and that grounded me a tonne. Okay, so fun fact, I hate winter, and I was really quite sad about being here in winter, but I also wasn't... but, it was really bad COVID this year in the... obviously in the winter time, it was quite horrible, so really travelling and moving wasn't an option. So, I started running outside in like subscribe 30 degrees... I guess, what is 30 degree Fahrenheit in celsius? I don't remember.   Molly: (29:48) But, basically, very cold, freezing weather. I started running outside in nature, and it wasn't pretty, and it wasn't particularly fun, but there were some ice storms that made it kind of pretty, kind of beautiful I guess. But, I started running outside, and I was using the cold to actually make me stronger, and I was using the elements as a weighted vest. So, essentially, I was teaching my body to adapt to an environment that it wasn't adapted to. self actualization and ego transcendence.Oh, yeah? The herbies? [inaudible 00:30:45]-   Molly: (30:44) The herbies.   Mason: (30:45) [crosstalk 00:30:45] as well according.   Molly: (30:45) Yeah, I did a lot of mushrooms to be honest with you, a lot of medicinal mushrooms this year. I did some psychedelics as well. So, I did a couple mushroom trips, and I have to admit that it still makes me nervous to talk about it, but I think it's important that people hear that there is a healthy way to ingest psychedelics without hurting yourself. Basically, I really found that when I was really struggling emotionally during the pandemic, being able to fully feel all of my emotions was really, really helpful for just getting me to feel a sense of release. We waddle so much up, and we stay so stoic and strong, and there's a point where you're just like, "I got to feel everything." Feeling everything is definitely something that most people don't try to do regularly, and I think it's actually really important.   Mason: (31:40) Coming from being in San Fran, and that tech bubble, I think that's the interesting thing. I do want to get to talking about psychedelics, but let's maybe chat a little bit now about that extreme of health, about hearing about feeling emotions. So, you've been talking about going to meditative retreats, but in that kind of time, doing things that were quite... even though we've all, not that we've all done them, but a lot of us have done things like that. They're extreme. Likewise, I've been to deep dive 10 day ayahuasca retreats, 10 day meditation retreats. These big things to crack your lack of capacity to get deep and see what's in the way of you feeling emotions and working through them so on and so forth. That's an extreme thing, and then sounds like you've really come back and consolidated your capacity to consistently feel your emotions balanced out with this capacity to stay within, not necessarily even just the tech world, but definitely reading your biological markers, being in that technological [crosstalk 00:32:46]-   Molly: (32:45) Sure.   Mason: (32:45) A capacity to really have high quality intellectual thinking about what is optimal in the body, and helping [crosstalk 00:32:55] as natural as possible, helping yourself and your clients come back to whatever word we want to use, balance homeostasis is optimal.   Molly: (33:02) Sure, yeah.   Mason: (33:03) Let's talk about that, because I definitely... as I kind of shared before we jumped on the podcast, I'm kind of getting into a point where I'm grounding. I'm still quite Peter Pan ish, but I'm really going through that time in the movie Hook where Robin Williams' Pan comes back and really learns to become a businessman. But, I'm trying to do so and not have that step where I completely forget who I am as a child and as that Peter Pan in a creative sense, and stay really integrated. So, I'm at the point where as we were talking about before, I've had so much space to stay completely as a purist when it comes to my health, and now, even though I've always utilised little grounding mats, and little technologies that [crosstalk 00:33:55]... I've definitely resisted the word bio hackers, and I still do, but the utilisation of these whether it's gadgets or [inaudible 00:34:04]. I'm ready to let it support me, because I'm feeling quite connected to who I am, and I've got my chop wood, carry water capacity to stay in nature and feel my emotions. But, I'm ready to feel optimal in this space that's quite unnatural, being in a warehouse, in an office, and running a company like this. It's become more natural, but I don't consider it [inaudible 00:34:28].   Molly: (34:29) Yeah. Yeah, exactly.   Mason: (34:31) And I'd like my wild body, my health to remain kind of wild. So, let's dive in. What I've got myself an Oura ring, let's talk about that, and then let's go through all the other kind of things that your executives and you are doing to stay completely killing it, like killing it.   Molly: (34:53) I appreciate that. So, first off, I really appreciate what you have to say about doing the work emotionally and spiritually. If you aren't in this positive mindset and staying focused on trying to be aware of your emotional state and your inclinations, it's really easy for your health to just go south by just having consistently negative attitude toward the world. So, you've already done a lot of the groundwork of the spiritual and the emotional, and they are very much going to impact your health, but they're not the only things that do, right? So, for a long time, I spent only my focus was on biology, and it wasn't until the last few years that I really started to dig into the mind body connection and the mind, body, spirit connection, and realising like wow, these are other very important pieces of this health puzzle. But, that being said, the biology still matters.   Molly: (35:53) So, I find that for a lot of people who are really interested in natural health, they're doing a lot of really important work, which is maintaining the right mindset, maintaining the right sort of energetic vibration towards their existence to keep them in a state where they're less likely to break down because they have so much positive health capacity from just their general existence and the way that they live their lives. That being said, our bodies are like houses, right? So, think about your body like a house or a car, it's not going to stay pristine forever. Anyone who's ever owned or used a house, rented a house, realises that stuff breaks, things break down over time. You can build a brand new house, and within a few years, something's going to break, right? So, your body is not that much different, right? Unfortunately or fortunately, we are subject to the same laws of nature as anything else so entropy happens or more disorder will happen over time inside the body. And with that, you got to keep tabs on some pivotal biomarkers, and what I would call internal sensations. So, you can gain awareness of what's really going on inside your body. So, there's a few different ways to investigate what's going on inside the body, and the things I mentioned just now were biomarkers so laboratory tests.   Molly: (37:15) So, I've always been a big believer in more labs, better data, that's better health. But, I'm also a big believer that labs are just a snapshot in time. It's like a picture of your body, a picture of your house. It's not also like a perfect picture, it's actually missing a bunch on information, and it's only that one picture in time. So, that's why I'm really into continuous monitoring. So, that's why I like putting the Oura ring on people. I'll even go as far as to have clients were the [inaudible 00:37:44] therapeutics device to monitor their stress continuously through heart rate variability, because a lot of my clients say, "Oh, I'm not stressed out," but then you put one of these on, you're like, "Well, your HRV sucks like most of the day. What's going on at work?" Or "You HRV is really bad at home, what's going on with your relationships?" You can really triangulate where the stress is coming from their life. But then, there's also the qualitative, right? So, the actual sensations that you feel about your life that you need to actually review. So, I have four different questionnaires I give someone on stress for example, but I have literally an entire packet of questionnaires I give each new client to get a baseline qualitative understanding of their health experience.   Molly: (38:25) So, there's the qualitative and the quantitative, and then there's also as part of the quantitative, imaging. So, I never really thought that I would be someone who would recommend imaging to people until I started just getting it for experimental reasons. So, I was in Japan doing some work with a company a couple years ago, and I went through the entire Japanese employer health system, and experienced what it was like to be an employee in Japan and what would happen if you lived there. And they do endoscopes and ultrasounds and x-rays and all sorts of things that you don't do in America, just as precaution, just for screening. I discovered all sorts of interesting findings that were helpful for me to actually have a better understanding of what my body looks like. Then, I got an MRI this last year, and a full body MRI gave me this view of the inside of the body. Let's say you've only had a house that you've only seen from the outside, and then from the inside, you've only got letters about what's going on inside, describing what's on the inside, but never actually seen the inside before.   Molly: (39:27) So, I finally got the view of inside of the house, and I was like, "Oh my God, there's all these weird things that I never knew were there." So, this has always been my aim of my practise, and the aim of my promoting to people, is systems biology is an understanding of the body that comes from multiple levels of how we are designed. So, there's genetics, there's metabolomics, and biomarkers, right? There's the actually physical body. Then, there's the body within a system. So, I'm also looking for my clients about their air quality in their environment. So, I'll literally look up their air quality index where they live, and I'll say, "Hey, so I don't know if you know this, but the air quality index where you live is terrible, and you need to get these air purifiers because you really shouldn't be living there."   Molly: (40:15) Another one of my clients for example lives in a really loud environment, and I said, "Look, I know that you don't think this is an issue, but the decibel level in your neighbourhood is actually really loud, and that's causing your body to experience unsafety signalling." So, it's really about seeing this individual person within the context of their life and in the world. So, that's kind of how I work, and it's actually really, and it's this very bespoke medicine. It's like custom detailing, custom suit making, custom detailing a car. It's not really accessible for a lot of people, but in the future, my brain will be software so everyone will be able to get this.   Mason: (40:58) You get really excited when you go through an MRI and see what's going on. How do you coach people to not freak out when they start learning all these things [crosstalk 00:41:07] negative? Because I'm sure it comes up and it looks like if you're being effective with your clients, you obviously are effective at helping people through that.   Molly: (41:16) Right. So, one of my clients recently discovered he had some kidney dysfunction. According to the national kidney association or whatever, there's like another name for it, it's stage two chronic kidney disease. That sounds really scary, but actually it just means he has impaired kidney function, it's like not perfect. So, it's not serious, but it's something that he should know about. Because if you don't know that you have impaired kidney function, and let's say I get really sick and you're in the hospital, they give you a bunch of contrast, that could actually cause damage to the kidneys-   Mason: (41:49) Contrast, sorry?   Molly: (41:53) Like contrast for a CT for example, it's very necrotoxic. We were thinking about getting him this type of test to check his heart function, and I said, "You know, I don't really know if we should do this because you don't have any real symptoms, this is mostly based on your lab results, and honestly I don't know if your kidney function is good. Let's check your kidney function." So, we look at his kidney function, it's not perfect, and then we look at his MRI, and he actually has some facets of his kidney that are hyper intent signalling, which means that there's been a bit of damage to his kidneys, which he actually has a history of kidney stones, which a lot of people think, oh, kidney stones, no big deal, right? Well actually, if you actually have something blocking your flow of blood or urine, basically the flow of... Blood goes into the kidney, and then it comes out as urine.   Molly: (42:43) So, if you have a stone that's causing this impaired flow, that can actually cause damage. It's kind of like there's a dam that got plugged or something, and there's backflow, not good, right? So, just having an understanding of someone's body can actually help them not freak out about things in the future because they feel like they have this awareness. Okay, like these are my weak points, this is what I should be watching out for. I don't have to necessarily work every one of these things up, but it's nice to have the piece of mind of knowing this is what's going on in my body. For example, in my own case, I had something that could be benign, but I have a family history of colon cancer, and because of that, I ran some extra labs on myself to make sure I didn't have any blood in my stool or any colon cancer markers on my labs. I just did those little extra things to make sure that I wasn't missing something, right? For a lot of people, they would rather just wait until they're broken before they worry about anything.   Molly: (43:50) But, I'm like, "Look, do you really want to wait until things are completely broken before you get help, or would you like to keep up with the maintenance? So, it's the difference between somebody who in their home just regularly does maintenance and fixes things when they start to break, and somebody who just waits until something’s completely broken to get someone to come in and fix it. It's a different perspective, and it's not for everybody, and it's certainly not the way the healthcare system works today. But, I'm a believer in prevention and prediction, and participation and optimising health early versus late.   Mason: (44:23) It makes sense, and I think you nailed it. Because you're using an MRI and this testing that's associated with the modern medical model as we are right now, which if you do find out all this stuff about yourself, and all you've got is modern conventional medicine, that doesn't fill me with much faith. There shouldn't be, because there's no capacity most of the time to go actually get to the bottom of it. But, you're talking about utilising techniques that are within the realm of for lack of a better word, holistic, trying too get to the bottom of it without using drugs and surgery if possible, which is a completely different-   Molly: (44:55) If you can, yeah.   Mason: (44:56) If you can.   Molly: (44:58) I mean, the goal is to try avoid using drugs and surgery if you don't need them, but also to be... the reality is that I have had some clients who just frankly had some weird genetic conditions. I was able to discover these genetic problems that none of their doctors throughout the whole world... They had unlimited funding by the way, and they could literally get to any doctor, and no one could figure out what was wrong with them. So, I said, "Let's do a clinical [inaudible 00:45:25]." And you know what? When I first started ordering these, they were thousands of dollars, and now they're like hundreds of dollars. To be able to have this control at access over your bodily information, to me, this is freedom and power. So, he discovered that there was... He had [inaudible 00:45:45] in his family history. There was some inbreeding very early on. He lived in a country that had a lot of that, and so he's on medication, but the thing is, he's on it for a good reason, and the truth is is that we have these genetic predispositions to disease, but life is what activates those predispositions to express themself as disease.   Molly: (46:09) So, life is stressful, and I used to be this kind of we should just do everything natural and we should just recognise that a lot of chronic diseases are preventable. And the truth is that about 80% of chronic diseases are preventable, but the reality is is that we are experiencing so much stress today that it's really quite hard to be able to truly avoid a lot of these conditions just by the nature of the amount of stress that we're under. So, I'm shifting my attitude a little towards more of a surveillance and prevention attitude through technology, instead of being let's just throw it out and just focus on natural because the truth is is that I have a lot of friends who are vegans and they've still gotten cancer, I have friends who frankly who died way too young, and I wonder if they had maybe been doing some surveillance if they maybe would have caught these things earlier.   Molly: (47:11) So, I've seen a lot of things that I would like to have not seen in people that are supposed to happen a lot later in life happen earlier. I'm starting to accept the fact that our environment is truly very polluted, and there's a lot we don't have control over that I wish we did. So, part of my mission is now trying to really, truly educate people about the reality of existence because it's not the same as it used to be. It's not like even 100 years ago. There's so many more chemicals in the environment than there were 100 years ago. It's astonishing. There's just luckily a newfound interest in preserving the environment and cleaning up these toxic sources from our lifestyles, but for a while, it was very taboo to even talk about the things that are potentially poisoning us.   Molly: (48:00) So, I'm kind of on a ramble and a tangent, but the point I'm trying to make is that there's so many things that are in our control, but there still shit that isn't that we have to pay attention to, and recognise that we can do everything perfect with our lifestyles and still get sick. So, the angle I'm at is the healthcare system is not really there to prevent your disease, even though they say they are. They're really there to make sure that once you're really sick they can help you. If you want to really go out of your way to identify you're getting sick way earlier on than the moment you get diagnosed with hypertension or heart disease or cancer or high blood pressure, or sorry I said that, but or hyperlipidemia or diabetes, you might want to be attending to this earlier on. So, a lot of these things are very slow growing and slow moving, and so you can nip them in the bud when you're young and are actually motivated to change versus when you're older and already set in your ways.   Mason: (48:54) That's a good ramble, just going to give you that [crosstalk 00:48:58]-   Molly: (48:57) Really long ramble.   Mason: (48:59) Yeah, that was. I did enjoy that one thoroughly. Can you go back, even if we get nice little snapshots, the Oura ring?   Molly: (49:08) So yeah, okay-   Mason: (49:10) Purpose, why you like it.   Molly: (49:12) Love the Oura ring because of heart rate variability and sleep monitoring. The main thing I'm looking for with sleep on Oura is just how much time did you actually get in bed, how much rest did you actually get. None of these things are perfect for REM cycles or non REM sleep. You really need to wear a head based EEG monitor to get a truly good assessment of your sleep cycles. Nobody wants to wear those, but that's really the best way to get them. But, this is just quite good for letting you know, how much sleep did they actually get, did they wake up, did they move around.   Molly: (49:49) Then, as I've mentioned, a lot of people are like, "Oh, I'm not stressed out," but then you're like, "What's your heart rate variability," they're like, "I've never really looked." You've got an Oura on. They're like, "Well, I don't know what those things mean." And I look up their Oura, and it's like 20, and I'm like, "Okay, it should be at least 40, optimally 60, you're pretty low. You say you're not stressed out, what are you actually stressed about," and my friends are like, "Oh, I don't know, existential angst because the environment's going to shit and there's forest fires everywhere." And I'm like, "Oh yeah, that's pretty stressful, right?" They're like just realising that they're under stress that moment. So, helping them bring awareness to their stress levels. Then frankly, movement is so important. I mean, gosh, I had to really work hard to get steps in in the last year because of so much isolation and living indoors. I had to actively go outside and just really try to get as many steps in. I bought foot pedals I could use while on calls, like under my desk.   Mason: (50:48) I saw those on an infomercial the other day, they're so funny. I was just going to... I mean, I know they're actually good to sit under your desk. Is that what you mean? The little one under your desk?   Molly: (50:58) Yeah, yeah. Yeah.   Mason: (50:58) It's so funny.   Molly: (50:59) They're so silly looking, but honestly, it's like moving your body is really quite important and sedentary behaviour just sucks balls for health and metabolism. I've literally seen one of my family members go from having pretty normal physique to pretty big belly and no muscle tone on her legs because of sedentary behaviour, too much bread, and alcohol. It's like, look it's all just stress, moves fat to your stomach, okay? It's just the way it works. Cortisol causes central adiposity. Not moving your body wastes your muscles. So, if you waste your muscles, you end up with frailty as you get older, and frailty and bone density loss will kill you faster than anything else because you'll fall and break something and then you're screwed. That's what happens when people get old. They get old and frail, they fall, and they die. It sucks. It doesn't need to be our lives. So, weightlifting is really important. I'm always asking my clients about their exercise regimens, almost everybody doesn't exercise enough, and it's really important to properly learn how to exercise. So, other things that I'm looking at like-   Mason: (52:06) Can I ask there with exercise-   Molly: (52:08) Yeah.   Mason: (52:08) Just quick, I think it's always interesting, because it seems to always be getting refined, and I'd like to hear from you where you see an optimal based on getting the levels that you want, optimal exercise regime.   Molly: (52:24) I think most people should be doing about an hour a day, six days a week. I know that sounds crazy but that's the evidence for all cause mortality lengthening the most. But, that being said, exercise is a stressor, so if you're burned out, chronically ill, or really, really sedentary and really out of shape, you should not just go jump into high intensity interval training and intense weight lifting regimens. You have to give your body time to adapt to greater demands, and that is something that no one talks about even though it's so important and injury is so common when people start exercising. So, it's all about dosing exercise like medicine. You don't just take the big giant dose, you kind of work your way up to the proper dose, and you slowly adapt to this greater demand.   Molly: (53:11) So, I personally think that you need to mix weightlifting and cardiovascular training. A lot of people who are into weightlifting are like, "You don't need cardio." But, guess what? Without cardio, you don't have a strong heart, and without a strong heart, you increase your risk of heart failure when you get older. So, you've got to exercise your heart just like you got to exercise your muscles. Your heart is a muscle. So, I'm a big believer in cardio and... But, not a lot of cardio, and not a lot of chronic cardio. I'm not really into super extended, long cardio sessions because your body just becomes really efficient with that energy when you do too much cardio, and then you end up burning fewer calories, which is not what you want. You want to burn more calories.   Molly: (53:48) So, that's why weightlifting is so important. I do a little bit of high intensity interval training because, like I'm talking 20 minutes, maybe once a week, and that's because that is a very potent signal for mitochondrial biogenesis, that little boom, cause this burst of energy production. But that's again, in a person conditioned to do that much exercise. If you're experiencing chronic fatigue, you're going to have to pace yourself. You're going to have to do a lot less. You have to literally listen to your body until you're able, and mostly walking is what most people should start with. If you're completely sedentary, you should just start walking. Just walk, walk, walk, walk as much as you can. Then, slowly, as your body starts to be able to handle more demands, you can start doing things like body weight exercises, just air squats, pushups, sit ups, things like that.   Molly: (54:36) Then, over time, I mean yoga is another phenomenal thing for everybody. I mean, yoga is just so magical for health. Then, over time, as your body gets stronger, the thing that I try to explain to people is you should be exercising not just for health, but because it gives your body the ability to do more, it gives your body the ability to create more vibrancy and more experience in life. You can do more with yourself, you can hike higher mountains, and you can do more... you can go canyoneering down waterfalls, you can do all sorts of cool stuff with your body that you couldn't do if you were sedentary. So, I'm all about trying to get people back into the mindset they had when they were kids, where you wanted to play constantly, you wanted to go climb trees, you wanted to see what you could do outside. Exercise should ideally be something you look forward to doing, not something that you are like, "Oh, I got to go exercise." I exercise because it's medicine for my brain, and because if I don't exercise, I genuinely don't feel like my mood is good. I just don't feel positive or happy like I do when I do exercise. So, for me, it's medicine for sure. It's definitely medicine for my brain and the ADD for sure too.   Mason: (55:45) Yeah, so good. I mean, that's like [inaudible 00:55:47] are just having consistent every week conversations around how... You've got a four year old, you've got to hone in. Because I know you can make the excuses that there's no time, we're both working full time in the business or spending time with [inaudible 00:56:03]. Then, trying to spend time together with [inaudible 00:56:05]. It's just been nice to feel that progression towards just getting a little bit organised, just go into this calendar a little bit more so, so you can really ensure that you're getting that time exercising, because I think you're right. This is one of the top things I've noticed that's like smashed me in the face since having a kid.   Molly: (56:24) Well, another thing I just want to add about exercise that I think is a new perspective that people don't think about is your muscles are battery packs. They're literally like power packs, they literally make and store charge in the mitochondria, that's why they're red. So, exercise charges your batteries, and not exercising sends the signal to your brain that you don't have high enough demand, and so you stand down regulating energy production. So actually, your body literally adapts to the demands based on the signals it gets. So, when you think about your body and what you want it to learn how to do, if you want to be more powerful with your muscles, you need to do powerful movements. That will increase your ability to create power, right?   Molly: (57:08) So, if you want to have endurance capacity, like yeah, running for two hours a day might be what you want to do, but I wouldn't recommend that because when you do that long exercise you actually start developing really lean muscles and really efficient muscles, and unfortunately that will actually create... Your body is basically sending the signal, okay, I'm going to have to go run for hours in the future, that means I should actually really become really efficient with energy, and you don't really want that if you want to maintain the physique and work as a knowledge worker all day long. So, I'm all for just getting the right amount of exercise, not too much. If you go over an hour of vigorous exercise a day, you can actually impair your immune function. So, too much vigorous intensity exercise is actually very, very bad for your body, and that's why I've seen a bunch of athletes get chronic COVID.   Molly: (58:07) So, over training is also not optimal, which is why I'm like, you want to hit the sweet spot and you want to gradually get there. Let me be frank, it took me many years to go from basically sedentary to working out six days a week an hour a day. It took me literally years, like eight years to get to that point. You do not need to do this overnight. You can do this slowly and gradually over time. Anyone who tries to convince you that you need to start an intense exercise... you start where you're at. Do what works for you, listen to your body. If you feel like you want to do more, do more. But, really listen to your body, and just look at exercise as a signal that you send your brain and your body to produce more energy, and for your brain to produce more neural connections. Exercise increases BDNF in the brain, so it gives your brain more ability to problem solve. So, it's actually really, really good for brain function. I exercise for the functional benefits as well as for the mood benefits and for the physical benefits, and not just for the fact that it's going to make me live longer.   Mason: (59:10) What's your major biomarker to measure whether someone is overexercising?   Molly: (59:17) That's tricky, right? Because a lot of it comes down to... I mean, I'd say heart rate variability is a big one. So, the two big ones you want to look at for exercise... there's a few big ones, right? So, you want to look at VO2 max and that's your oxygen carrying capacity. That's important for cardiovascular exercise. You want to look at your grip strength. You can buy grip strength monitors, but that's like one way to do it, is grip strength.   Mason: (59:40) How are you measuring VO2 as well?   Molly: (59:43) I use an Apple watch, but a company is sending me this home VO2 max monitor. We're now just getting these devices that are able to be done in the home. Usually you need to go to a clinic and do this. But, you can just run for 20 minutes, use an Apple watch, and in about a few runs, it'll start calculating your VO2 max.   Mason: (01:00:02) Right.   Molly: (01:00:03) So, it does, it's pretty cool how it does that. Then,

How did women and alcohol become an feminist tradegy? What does it mean to be sober curious? On this week's episode of Energetically You, Megan Swan touches on a controversial topic- mommy wine culture. Many women have fallen hook-line-and-sinker for the powerful ad campaigns that have taught us that real, powerful, fun, women and essentially mothers drink.  Drinking is a power move.  Drinking is self-care.  Wine is essential to humour and motherhood. “For most women [sobriety] is life changing in terms of their overall physical health, mental wellness and their ability to cope.” The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:   Is alcohol holding you back even though you don't have a ‘drinking problem'? Why is wine not self-care? How does alcohol affect our sleep? How does alcohol affect our energy?   Resources we mentioned: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol,  Ann Dowsett Johnston, Harper Wave, 2013.   “For women, heavy drinking has been normalized. That's dangerous.” by Kimberly Kindy & Dan Keating, December 23, 2016, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-women-heavy-drinking-has-been-normalized-thats-dangerous/2016/12/23/   Thank you for listening! Are you curious to learn more about living alcohol free?    Connect with Megan Swan Social: Instagram Facebook Pinterest   Work with Megan Swan www.meganswanwellness.com

Jeff The 420 Chef, author of The 420 Gourmet: The Art of Elevated Cannabis Cuisine cookbook (Harper Wave, 2016) and host of the “Wake and Bake with Jeff The 420 Chef podcast, is the only cannabis chef in the world that specializes in cooking and baking with specially crafted, strain-specific “Light Tasting” and “Tasteless" canna-butters and canna-oils, created to achieve the health and wellness goals of those who choose to medicate with cannabis. Jeff is the inventor of Culinary Cannabis, odorless smokable cannabis flower, and "tasteless" canna-oil and cannabutter. He rose to prominence as one of the world’s top cannabis chefs by using molecular gastronomy and culinary deconstruction to reinvent the cannabis consumption experience.

If you’re like me, you’re using more cannabis these days. Dr. Julie Holland, psychiatrist and author of the upcoming Good Chemistry, talks about how to use plant substances to encourage connection and heal our heads and hearts in these challenging times.There aren’t many psychiatrists who comfortably use the word “soul” in their work or who speak openly about the extraordinary states of connectedness that substances like cannabis, MDMA, and psilocybin offer -- connection with ourselves, with each other or with the cosmos. But Dr. Julie Holland is not a typical prescription-pushing psychiatrist. She understands that medications like SSRIs and sleeping pills don’t provide pleasure or peace or even truly restful sleep and that they may be actually interfering with the brain’s capacity to fix things in our lives that aren’t working.Her new book, Good Chemistry, is a deep exploration of the neurotransmitter Oxytocin that allows us to trust and bond. It provides a fresh look on how our brains are wired to reward us for being and working together and liberate us from what Julie calls the “epidemic of disconnection and loneliness. (Listeners of this podcast will be familiar with this topic that was covered in Episode 40, “How to Access Your Brain’s Stash of Pleasure Chemicals.”)It may seem like a terrible timing for a book about the biochemistry of connection, given the enforced states of isolation and Zoomification we’re learning to grow accustomed to. But in fact, the timing is perfect for this enlightening and deliciously readable book that explains our hard wired biological and biochemical need for connection. Julie is an entertaining writer and an empath who explains in human terms the biological and psychological reasons we’re all feeling buried under an avalanche of stress, distraction and lack of focus these days and offers some practical, plant based ways of coping. It’s also got some of the best, up-to-the-minute info on cannabis and CBD I’ve read anywhere, all delivered with Julie’s warm hearted sense of humor.I know I’m not alone when I say that mustering motivation is a struggle these days. Just a few weeks ago when this pandemic hit I fantasized about using some of this extra time to finally get fluent in Spanish, start that new book proposal, or read Jane Austin, maybe even Melville. But the Great Pause has turned into the Great Paucity of achievement. Finding focus has been near impossible. The background worrying about my health and that of everyone around me, the existential dread of economic ruin, the daily trauma of watching Trump and the country melt down have resulted in chronic distraction and lack of inspiration. Most days I feel like I’m swimming upstream in a river of tar just to get through my email.This is why I wanted to talk to Julie – to get her take on fortifying our mental health to help us endure the new normal of our COVID and post-COVID worlds. Of particular interest: How can we utilize plant meds to brace ourselves for what is to come? How can they help us replace that distressing “fight or flight” response with the gentler “protect and connect” response or ease our physical or emotional pain? Or even just enable us to view this crazy period with a bit of distance and levity, the power of which is not to be underestimated. As Julie observes in Good Chemistry: “What else can make you stressed? Paradoxically, both being separated from those we love and spending time with those same people. Isn’t life funny? If you smoked cannabis, you’d think so.”So consider this interview your very own free 50-minute hour with one of the smartest, switched on psychiatrists working today.It’s my gift to you, as is this link to advance ordering of “Good Chemistry.” It’s out in June from Harper Wave. It’s a great read.Here's another bonus gift: Molecular biologist Dr. Kevin Spelman tells you how to boost your your immune system with a mix of cannabis meds and herbal supplements. This is great stuff, very next level.

Jeff The 420 Chef, author of The 420 Gourmet: The Art of Elevated Cannabis Cuisine cookbook (Harper Wave, 2016) and host of the “Wake and Bake with Jeff The 420 Chef podcast, is the only cannabis chef in the world that specializes in cooking and baking with specially crafted, strain-specific “Light Tasting” and “Tasteless" canna-butters and canna-oils, created to achieve the health and wellness goals of those who choose to medicate with cannabis. Jeff is the inventor of Culinary Cannabis, odorless smokable cannabis flower, and "tasteless" canna-oil and cannabutter. He rose to prominence as one of the world’s top cannabis chefs by using molecular gastronomy and culinary deconstruction to reinvent the cannabis consumption experience. Jeff is also the Executive Chef of Monica’s House, a cannabis edibles consumption lounge in West Hollywood. Through his creations, Jeff is revolutionizing the cannabis consumption experience. Dubbed “The Julia Child of Weed” by The Daily Beast, The Ganja Gourmet by Newsweek, The King of Edibles by Elite Daily, and one of the world’s top cannabis chef’s by Culture Magazine, a legendary cannabis chef by Cheddar, Jeff The 420 Chef, works with cannabis in ways that no other cannabis chef in the world does. Jeff has been redefining the cannabis consumption experience since 2012 with his "tasteless" cannabutter and canna-oils, edible culinary cannabis, which mimics herbs like oregano, rosemary, and thyme and infused cooking oils devoid of the herbaceous cannabis taste.

See more of Al’s speaking here: https://alvernacchio.com/speaker/Buy Al’s book here: https://alvernacchio.com/for-goodness-sex/Read more about Al: https://alvernacchio.com/educator/A Human Sexuality educator and consultant for over 25 years, Al has lectured, published articles, and offered workshops throughout the country. His work has been featured in “Teaching Good Sex”, a November 20, 2011 cover story in The New York Times Magazine. Al has given four TED Talks, and has appeared on national programs such as NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “1A”. He is the author of For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Young People About Sexuality, Values, and Health published by Harper Wave, a division of HarperCollins.Al earned his BA in Theology from St. Joseph’s University and his MSEd in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and Advanced Sexuality Educators and Trainers (ASET). A native Philadelphian, Al and his husband, Michael, live in the Germantown section of the city.Al currently teaches human sexuality at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA where he serves as the N-12 sexuality education coordinator.

Eve has completed her three day fast and she and her coach, Megan Ramos, discuss how it went.See all the videos of her coaching sessions at fasting.fyi/three and see last year’s 10 day fast at fasting.fyi/tenWe are also excited to announce that Life in the Fasting Lane will be published by Harper Wave in April. You can pre-order now at fasting.fyi/book.

Eve and her coach, Megan Ramos, discuss how day three of Eve’s 3-Day fast is going.See all the videos of her coaching sessions at fasting.fyi/three and see last year’s 10 day fast at fasting.fyi/tenWe are also excited to announce that Life in the Fasting Lane will be published by Harper Wave in April. You can pre-order now at fasting.fyi/book.

Eve continues her three day fast to start 2020. Eve is joined by Meagan Ramos to talk about how it’s going on day two.See all the videos of her coaching sessions at fasting.fyi/three and see last year’s 10 day fast at fasting.fyi/tenWe are also excited to announce that Life in the Fasting Lane will be published by Harper Wave in April. You can pre-order now at fasting.fyi/book.

Eve started the year with a three day fast coached by Megan Ramos. In this episode, Eve and Megan talk about Day 1 of the fast.See all the videos of her coaching sessions at fasting.fyi/three and see last year’s 10 day fast at fasting.fyi/tenWe are also excited to announce that Life in the Fasting Lane will be published by Harper Wave in April. You can pre-order now at fasting.fyi/book.

It’s 2020 and Eve started the year with a three day fast coached by Megan Ramos. But before she ate that last morsel going into her new year’s fasting, Eve took to Facebook Live to talk about her change in attitude about fasting and to answer questions from folks.See all the videos of her coaching sessions at fasting.fyi/three and see last year’s 10 day fast at fasting.fyi/tenWe are also excited to announce that Life in the Fasting Lane will be published by Harper Wave in April. You can pre-order now at fasting.fyi/book

Discover how the freedom of sucking at something can help you build resilience, embrace imperfection, and find joy in the pursuit rather than the goal.What if the secret to resilience and joy is the one thing we've been taught to avoid?When was the last time you tried something new? Something that won't make you more productive, make you more money, or check anything off your to-do list? Something you're really, really bad at, but that brought you joy?Odds are, not recently.As a sh*tty surfer and all-around-imperfect human Karen Rinaldi explains in this eye-opening book, we live in a time of aspirational psychoses. We humblebrag about how hard we work and we prioritize productivity over play. Even kids don't play for the sake of playing anymore: they're building blocks to build the ideal college application. But we're all being had. We're told to be the best or nothing at all. We're trapped in an epic and farcical quest for perfection. We judge others on stuff we can't even begin to master, and it's all making us more anxious and depressed than ever. Worse, we're not improving on what really matters.This book provides the antidote. (It's Great to) Suck at Something reveals that the key to a richer, more fulfilling life is finding something to suck at. Drawing on her personal experience sucking at surfing (a sport she's dedicated nearly two decades of her life to doing without ever coming close to getting good at it) along with philosophy, literature, and the latest science, Rinaldi explores sucking as a lost art we must reclaim for our health and our sanity and helps us find the way to our own riotous suck-ability. She draws from sources as diverse as Anthony Bourdain and surfing luminary Jaimal Yogis, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Jean-Paul Sartre, among many others, and explains the marvelous things that happen to our mammalian brains when we try something new, all to discover what she's learned firsthand: it is great to suck at something. Sucking at something rewires our brain in positive ways, helps us cultivate grit, and inspires us to find joy in the process, without obsessing about the destination. Ultimately, it gives you freedom: the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.Coupling honest, hilarious storytelling with unexpected insights, (It's Great to) Suck at Something is an invitation to embrace our shortcomings as the very best of who we are and to open ourselves up to adventure, where we may not find what we thought we were looking for, but something way more important.Karen Rinaldi is a professional preacher of the gospel of suckitude. Before she found surfing, she sucked at plenty of things, among them skiing, horseback riding (which almost ended tragically), boxing (she doesn't want to talk about it), running, rollerblading, cycling (for which she boasts the least suckiness.) Along with her side hustle of suckitude, Rinaldi has spent 20+ years in publishing and is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012. Her first novel, The End of Men, was the basis for the 2016 feature film Maggie's Plan, directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke. Her book, [It's Great to] Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience and the Stuff That Really Matters, is a non-fiction deep dive into the joys that sucking can bring. Rinaldi's essays have appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Motto, LitHub, Oprah.com among others.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me for any reason on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Discover how the freedom of sucking at something can help you build resilience, embrace imperfection, and find joy in the pursuit rather than the goal.What if the secret to resilience and joy is the one thing we’ve been taught to avoid?When was the last time you tried something new? Something that won’t make you more productive, make you more money, or check anything off your to-do list? Something you’re really, really bad at, but that brought you joy?Odds are, not recently.As a sh*tty surfer and all-around-imperfect human Karen Rinaldi explains in this eye-opening book, we live in a time of aspirational psychoses. We humblebrag about how hard we work and we prioritize productivity over play. Even kids don’t play for the sake of playing anymore: they’re building blocks to build the ideal college application. But we’re all being had. We’re told to be the best or nothing at all. We’re trapped in an epic and farcical quest for perfection. We judge others on stuff we can’t even begin to master, and it’s all making us more anxious and depressed than ever. Worse, we’re not improving on what really matters.This book provides the antidote. (It’s Great to) Suck at Something reveals that the key to a richer, more fulfilling life is finding something to suck at. Drawing on her personal experience sucking at surfing (a sport she’s dedicated nearly two decades of her life to doing without ever coming close to getting good at it) along with philosophy, literature, and the latest science, Rinaldi explores sucking as a lost art we must reclaim for our health and our sanity and helps us find the way to our own riotous suck-ability. She draws from sources as diverse as Anthony Bourdain and surfing luminary Jaimal Yogis, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Jean-Paul Sartre, among many others, and explains the marvelous things that happen to our mammalian brains when we try something new, all to discover what she’s learned firsthand: it is great to suck at something. Sucking at something rewires our brain in positive ways, helps us cultivate grit, and inspires us to find joy in the process, without obsessing about the destination. Ultimately, it gives you freedom: the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.Coupling honest, hilarious storytelling with unexpected insights, (It’s Great to) Suck at Something is an invitation to embrace our shortcomings as the very best of who we are and to open ourselves up to adventure, where we may not find what we thought we were looking for, but something way more important.Karen Rinaldi is a professional preacher of the gospel of suckitude. Before she found surfing, she sucked at plenty of things, among them skiing, horseback riding (which almost ended tragically), boxing (she doesn’t want to talk about it), running, rollerblading, cycling (for which she boasts the least suckiness.) Along with her side hustle of suckitude, Rinaldi has spent 20+ years in publishing and is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012. Her first novel, The End of Men, was the basis for the 2016 feature film Maggie’s Plan, directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke. Her book, [It’s Great to] Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience and the Stuff That Really Matters, is a non-fiction deep dive into the joys that sucking can bring. Rinaldi’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Motto, LitHub, Oprah.com among others.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me for any reason on LinkedIn, Instagram, or via email mark@vudream.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/markmetry/Twitter - https://twitter.com/markymetryMedium - https://medium.com/@markymetryFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Humans.2.0.PodcastMark Metry - https://www.markmetry.com/Humans 2.0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/Humans2Podcast

Karen Rinaldi is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012.   Her first novel, The End of Men, was the basis for the 2016 feature film Maggie's Plan, directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke.   Her book, [It's Great to] Suck at Something a non-fiction deep dive into the joys that sucking can bring. Rinaldi's essays have appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Motto, LitHub, Oprah.com among others.   Brought to you by Haberland Group (HaberlandGroup.com) and Hardy Haberland's Programs (HardyHaberland.com).   This podcast is brought to you by Haberland Group. Haberland Group is a global provider of marketing solutions. With multidisciplinary teams in major world markets, our holding companies specialize in advertising, branding, communications planning, digital marketing, media, podcasting, public relations, as well as specialty marketing. If you are looking for a world-class partner to work on marketing programs, go to HaberlandGroup.com and contact us.   This podcast is also brought to you by Hardy Haberland's Programs. Hardy provides educational programs for high performers who want world-class achievement, true fulfillment, and lasting transformation in their lives. He also provides consulting for established brands and businesses that have generated a minimum of $3 million in annual sales. If you need a catalyst for transformation and a strategist for success at the highest level, go to HardyHaberland.com and apply.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

Karen Rinaldi is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012.   Her first novel, The End of Men, was the basis for the 2016 feature film Maggie's Plan, directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke.   Her book, [It's Great to] Suck at Something a non-fiction deep dive into the joys that sucking can bring. Rinaldi's essays have appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Motto, LitHub, Oprah.com among others.   If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.

In this episode, you’ll learn about how author Sheri Salata’s traditional publishing journey arrived at some fun radical advice for readers. I’ve organized the episode’s “fun nuggets” into two categories: 1) fun nuggets for the publishing journey, and 2) radical “fun nuggets” for a more beautiful life. The fun nuggets for the publishing journey: #1: Get an accountability system for your writing that works for you. #2: Remember that your Rolodex is your best trend on your publishing journey. #3: Realize not even the “big names” have self-doubt when putting their work out into the world. #4: Recognize that writing is a valuable avenue for pulling the gold out of our lives and allows us to process unprocessed emotions. Radical “fun nuggets” for a more beautiful life: #5: Work-life balance doesn't exist; it's about seeking an integrated and holistic life. #6: All of your time is free time because we live our lives from the standpoint of choice. #7: Appreciation is different from gratitude because appreciation is cleaner. About Sheri Salata Sheri is a writer-producer, co-founder of thepillarlife.com (https://thepillarlife.com/) and co-host of the podcast The Sheri + Nancy show. Her current ventures are the evolution of her 20-year career with Oprah Winfrey. Her action-packed days as executive producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show were chronicled in the acclaimed docu-series Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, and she also served as co-president of Harpo Studios and OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. She has been named one of Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business, the Hollywood reporter's women in entertainment power 100, and is one of the 2017 feminist press power award winners. On the podcast, we talked about her fabulous book. The Beautiful No: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation (www.thebeautifulno.com), launched on June 4th with Harper Wave, an imprint of Harper Collins. Sherry is a graduate of the University of Illinois and is living happily ever after in a magical town in northern California.

Karen Rinaldi has worked in the publishing industry for over two decades. In 2012, she founded the imprint Harper Wave at HarperCollins. The feature film Maggie’s Plan, is based on her novel The End of Men. Karen has been published in The New York Times, Oprah.com, Time, LitHub and other publications.  Free Book Dominating Your Mind Connect with Bert Martinez on YouTube. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Connect with Bert Martinez on Instagram. Click here for more episodes.

Most of us focus on pursuing things we’re good at, but what if you like doing something … and discover you’re really bad at it? Karen Rinaldi, publisher at Harper Wave—a book imprint she founded in 2012—finds happiness in being able to surf, even though she does it poorly. Learning to accept her “suckitude” on the surfboard, she says, has helped her be more forgiving of herself in other areas of her life. In her new book, (It’s Great to) Suck at Something, she looks at the gifts she’s gained from embracing imperfection and letting go of the need to succeed at everything. She talks to us about how this has helped her find joy in the pursuit of something rather than in reaching an end goal—and how you can, too.   In this episode, you learn: Why it’s beneficial to try something you might not be good at. How not being good at something can invite kindness from those around you. How sucking at something can help build resilience.

"By sucking at surfing, I was able to get over my fear of public humiliation, right? Because when you surf, you are surfing where everyone can see you wipeout and miss waves. I got really used to being okay with that. Then I realized I could apply that to my writing. I started sharing my writing more as I got accustomed to that and thinking, “Well, the worst thing that happens is somebody sees my writing and they don't like it,” right? I mean, I’ll be okay with that." - Karen RinaldiWhat is something that you do in your life that you suck at...but....you love it?   For me, I'd say it's tennis. I don't suck at stand-up comedy, but it is something that I know is a constant work in progress...and, at the same time, is really exciting to me and hasn't, for some reason, discouraged me. It's actually inspired me and it led me to be better at other things, such as podcasting and thinking on my feet and not having a filter :) We are in conversation with Karen Rinaldi, a professional preacher of the gospel of suckitude. Before she found surfing, she sucked at plenty of things, among them skiing, horseback riding (which almost ended tragically), boxing (she doesn't want to talk about it), running, rollerblading, cycling (for which she boasts the least suckiness.) Along with her side hustle of suckitude, Rinaldi has spent 20+ years in publishing and is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012. Her first novel, The End of Men, was the basis for the 2016 feature film Maggie’s Plan, directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Julianne Moore, Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke. Her book, [It's Great to] Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience and the Stuff that Really Matters, is a non-fiction deep dive into the joys that sucking can bring. Rinaldi’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Motto, LitHub, Oprah.com among others.   To learn more about Karen at http://krinaldi.com. Follow her on Instagram @suckatsomething.

Today’s first guest will help you find success through embracing failure. Karen Rinaldi joins us to discuss how resilience is born from discovering the freedom of sucking at something. It’s Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters reveals the joy in the pursuit rather than the goal. Karen has worked in publishing for over two decades, and is the founder of the imprint Harper Wave at HarperCollins. She has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah.com, Time, LitHub and other publications. Next, Laura Schroff was a busy sales executive when she befriended an 11 year old homeless boy, both of them embarking on a life-changing journey of hope, kindness, adventure, and love. An Invisible Thread is her memoir, showing how the power of fate can help you find your way. Laura is a former advertising executive who helped launch three of the most successful start-ups in Time Inc. history— In Style, Teen People, and People Style Watch. She has been a keynote speaker at over 300 schools, libraries, charities and bookstores..

Karen Rinaldi is the author of It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters. She has worked in the publishing industry for over two decades. In 2012, she founded the imprint Harper Wave at HarperCollins. The feature film Maggie’s Plan is based on her novel The End of Men. Karen has been published in The New York Times, Oprah.com, Time, LitHub and other publications. She lives in New York, New Jersey, and (whenever possible) Costa Rica with her husband and two sons.

Author of Better Apart (released by Harper Wave 2019). Divorce mediator and attorney. Mom to 3.   The Gram: gabriellehartley1 Twitter @elegantdivorce LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-hartley-0b43139/  

UGH. Meditation. Why is it so hard to just sit? I'm chatting with Sukey and Elizabeth about the critical voices in our heads, the ways in which we underestimate ourselves, meditation, and how to get comfortable in our own skin. These sister-in-laws and former founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily, are the authors of the cheeky, soulful, and playfully illustrated Just Sit: A Meditation Guide Book for People Who Know They Should But Don’t (Harper Wave). Also, I am so proud to shine a light on Sukey Novogratz’s work as vice-chair of Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation giving healing support to victims of sexual assualt. We cover it all in this podcast: from silent meditation retreats to sharing a bathroom with six siblings to quitting a pack a day to the best beauty treatment available to mankind. Listen up! About Our Guests: Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz are two of the founders of the celebrated newsletter The Well Daily. Elizabeth is the co-author of Downtown Chic and Home by Novogratz, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Sukey is the executive producer of the acclaimed documentary The Hunting Ground. Join us on Instagram: @atomicmoms, Facebook, and our PRIVATE Facebook page: click here

Karen’s Wild Idea: To share bold, brave, wild stories, both her own and by others through books and essays with the world. Also, to embrace surfing at an older age, a sport that’s taught her why it’s so great to suck at something. Karen Rinaldi is a writer, publisher, and the creator of Harper Wave, an imprint of Harper Collins that has published the work of three past guests: Jaimal Yogis, Mark Lukach and Steph Jagger. Karen has also published books by authors like Dave Asprey of the Bulletproof Coffee movement, Dr. Gundry of The Plant Paradox, and Tony Horton of P90X, to name a few. In addition to her literary life, Karen is also a surfer. She started at age 40, and recently wrote an essay in the New York Times that every surf writer’s mom sent them (including my own) titled, “It’s Great to Suck at Something.” I loved her story, and all of her essays I’ve read. I also don’t have a lot of mentors that are females, writers, publishers, and surfers, so when I find someone like Karen, I have to share her knowledge.  Karen talks about her perspective on surfing, why it’s important to suck at something, the difference between a good adventure and a great story, how to get published, and the books you should be reading. Listen to this episode if:  You suck at surfing (or anything, really). You like trying new things, no matter how good you think you’ll be. You’re an avid reader. You want to write a book and get published. You love the Modern Love column in the New York Times. Your family is important to you. For full show notes, including guest links and books mentioned during the episode, visit: http://wildideasworthliving.com/43

Special Guest: Celeste Headlee Celeste Headlee is the host of "On Second Thought" at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta and has been a host and correspondent for NPR and PRI since 2006. She is the author of the book, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Harper Wave, September 19), a practical guide to the lost art of conversation. Celeste's TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation was listed as one of the most watched TED Talks in 2016 (CNBC) and named the #1 must-watch TED Talk by Glassdoor (with over 11 million total views to date.)  Being able to have productive conversations is a skill—and it's a skill, built on a series of other skills from being assertive to listening to ensuring that we were heard correctly and yes, that we have heard and understood correctly what others are saying. These days, with so much communication relying on electronic screens and emojis, the art of conversation may be at risk. And that's a scary thought. To put ourselves in the frame of mind of taking in the importance of good conversation skills, just think of what happens when poor communication happens—people get the wrong idea, mistakes are made, feelings are hurt and stuff does not get done in the right way. And when conversation is clear and strong and good- progress is made, we feel understood and connected- truly, it can make all the difference. The post How to Talk to Kids about having meaningful conversations that matter with Celeste Headlee appeared first on drrobynsilverman.com.

Today we welcome publisher, writer, editor and author, Karen Rinaldi. Karen is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012, and a senior vice president at Harper Collins Publishers. Harper Wave publishes broad based nonfictions from health and wellness, to lifestyle, to inspiration. While Karen has worked in the publishing industry for over two decades, this is her first time in the role of novelist. Her latest book, The End of Men, is something she worked on for over four years and inspired the story for the 2016 commercial film, Maggie's Plan. Karen is one of those women who might appear to “have it all“ but is not afraid to tell you when she sucks at something. In fact, she encourages sucking at something. So much so, that The New York Times even published her article on why sucking at something is so great. Today we talk about Karen's journey – learning to surf at 40, what it means to “have it all,“ the role of men, authenticity, agency and the liberation of what we have come to know today, as failure. Take a listen!

Special Guest: Celeste Headlee Celeste Headlee is the host of "On Second Thought" at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta and has been a host and correspondent for NPR and PRI since 2006. She is the author of the book, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Harper Wave, September 19), a practical guide to the lost art of conversation. Celeste’s TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation was listed as one of the most watched TED Talks in 2016 (CNBC) and named the #1 must-watch TED Talk by Glassdoor (with over 11 million total views to date.)  Being able to have productive conversations is a skill—and it’s a skill, built on a series of other skills from being assertive to listening to ensuring that we were heard correctly and yes, that we have heard and understood correctly what others are saying. These days, with so much communication relying on electronic screens and emojis, the art of conversation may be at risk. And that’s a scary thought. To put ourselves in the frame of mind of taking in the importance of good conversation skills, just think of what happens when poor communication happens—people get the wrong idea, mistakes are made, feelings are hurt and stuff does not get done in the right way. And when conversation is clear and strong and good- progress is made, we feel understood and connected- truly, it can make all the difference. The post How to Talk to Kids about having meaningful conversations that matter with Celeste Headlee appeared first on drrobynsilverman.com.

Special Guest: Celeste Headlee Celeste Headlee is the host of "On Second Thought" at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta and has been a host and correspondent for NPR and PRI since 2006. She is the author of the book, We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Harper Wave, September 19), a practical guide to the lost art of conversation. Celeste’s TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation was listed as one of the most watched TED Talks in 2016 (CNBC) and named the #1 must-watch TED Talk by Glassdoor (with over 11 million total views to date.)  Being able to have productive conversations is a skill—and it’s a skill, built on a series of other skills from being assertive to listening to ensuring that we were heard correctly and yes, that we have heard and understood correctly what others are saying. These days, with so much communication relying on electronic screens and emojis, the art of conversation may be at risk. And that’s a scary thought. To put ourselves in the frame of mind of taking in the importance of good conversation skills, just think of what happens when poor communication happens—people get the wrong idea, mistakes are made, feelings are hurt and stuff does not get done in the right way. And when conversation is clear and strong and good- progress is made, we feel understood and connected- truly, it can make all the difference. The post How to Talk to Kids about having meaningful conversations that matter with Celeste Headlee appeared first on drrobynsilverman.com.

After two decades editing and publishing best-selling books, our guest today is out with her first novel, a book entitled The End of Men. Karen Rinaldi is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012, and a senior vice president at HarperCollins Publishers. She also writes non-fiction essays and has been published by the New York Times, Time and Oprah Magazine. Karen and I discuss the challenges of writing, publishing and promoting a book. Her insistence that we must all suck greatly at something and the unassailable truths her previous marriages taught her about money For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.

Episode 162: Jaimal Yogis is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Jaimal Yogis is the author of Saltwater Buddha, a coming-of-age memoir about how surfing and the sea helped him transition back to the world after a year in a Zen monastery (now also a documentary film); and The Fear Project, which looks at the neuroscience of fear and courage, using science, mindfulness, and sports to reveal ways in which humans can live more fully. His new book, All Our Waves Are Water  (July, Harper Wave) uses the sea as a metaphor to explore the true self. Jaimal's writing has appeared in ESPN Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and many others. He teaches meditation and creative writing at places like Spirit Rock, Kripalu, 1440 Multiversity, and the Writing Pad. Show notes: Read my post on why I decided to join Beautycounter  HERE and join our FB group Nourishing your Feminine with Skincare and Beauty To learn more about today's show sponsor, you can go directly to Beautycounter and explore their many incredible products! How Jaimal’s troubled state got him into surfboarding and eventually to yoga and meditation Jaimal's realization of the connection between the waves of the water and one’s breath, with breath being similar to the wind of the ocean. Travel and novelty stretch our brain, our heart, and our comfort zone. We all long for happiness, truth, and love. We have our own ways of finding them. But though each path looks unique, all lead to somewhere very similar. The Tibetan Worldview, and how it affected Jaimal. Serenity is honoring one’s emotion, surviving the waves and letting them come through. The practice of Tibetan tradition is about getting used to different kinds of life’s waves and to be accepting of it. ANGER, ANXIETY, and SADNESS from a previous podcast with Suzanne Heyn are also kinds of waves. Feel them, sit in them, and let them run their course so they can pass through when ready. VULNERABILITY as my approach to connect with people. It is the most courageous thing that one can do. What is true courage and how does it differ from bravado? It’s not courage when you try to cover up an insecurity. Learn more about this from Jaimal’s book, The Fear Project. Our bodies are like layers of emotions that we hold in, and whether it’s meditation/yoga/therapy, there are ways to peel those back. There is not a difference between nervousness and excitement, it’s only the stories you tell around it. The benefit of fear and adrenaline. When you feel everything is becoming a routine, remind yourself: What is it that I love to do? What is it that I am passionate about? Must read: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Connect with Jaimal: Website Facebook Instagram Twitter Get Jaimal's book HERE [Tweet "Life is like water. When you learn to ride the waves of life, you will find yourself to be okay."] {COACHING} Ready to break limiting beliefs + Take your self-worth to the next level? Apply for my 1:1 coaching HERE. {RETREAT} Want to join me in August for a LIFE-CHANGING trip to Mexico City? I M P A C T Join me, this August 3-8 2017 as I lead a group of men and women on a 6-day experience in impact work, reflection, and cultural immersion. First, we’ll spend two days revitalizing a primary school by repairing damaged infrastructure, painting murals, planting gardens, teaching English, and playing games with the students. I N T E G R A T I O N Then, we will head to the jungles of Tepoztlan, Mexico: known as birthplace of the ancient Mayan God Quetzalcoatl. Here we’ll take two days to reflect and reconnect, with a carefully-crafted agenda of meditation and yoga, Mayan Sweat Lodge ceremonies led by a local Shaman, chakra therapy pools and a walking labyrinth meditation, hikes into the hills and healthy meals shared onsite. I will be joining the trip as a facilitator,

Today Gina has a conversation with author Jaimal Yogis who shares his insights on surfing, life, anxiety, and joy. Learn how you too can find joy in the struggle!  Find Our Guest Jaimal Yogis here: http://www.jaimalyogis.com/allourwaves/ His books include Saltwater Buddha and All Our Waves Are Water: stumbling toward enlightenment and the perfect ride, is being released by Harper Wave    To learn more go to: What is anxiety?http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/    

Today Gina has a conversation with author Jaimal Yogis who shares his insights on surfing, life, anxiety, and joy. Learn how you too can find joy in the struggle!  Find Our Guest Jaimal Yogis here: http://www.jaimalyogis.com/allourwaves/ His books include Saltwater Buddha and All Our Waves Are Water: stumbling toward enlightenment and the perfect ride, is being released by Harper Wave    To learn more go to: What is anxiety?http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/    

Jaimal Yogis’ Wild Idea: To run away from home as a teen and learn to surf in Hawaii. Then, join a Buddhist Monastery. Next, head to head to Columbia Journalism School and become an award-winning journalist, and then the award-winning author of Saltwater Buddah, the best seller The Fear Project (where Jaimal surfed Maverick’s), Turtles Don’t Surf (an illustrated kids books), and soon to be released book, All Waves Are Water, due out by Harper Wave this July of 2017. As a teen, Jaimal ran away from home to Hawaii where he found surfing. He also learned to meditate. This path lead him to life as a journalist and writer. The author of the science-based book, The Fear Project and memoir Saltwater Buddah, Jaimal has a brand new book, All Waves are Water that talks about surfing, God, mindfulness and love. It’s an important read for the era and Jaimal gives us a sneak peek into the story. Listen To This Episode If: - You need a dose of mindfulness, or are curious about the practice. - Love the ocean and/or surfing. - Are curious about being a writer. - Want to know how to scientifically conquer fear to do things like surf giant waves or commit to something big. - Have ever read one of Jaimal’s books. For full show notes, including guest links and books mentioned during the episode, visit: http://wildideasworthliving.com/10

Hold the phone. Stop the presses. We are, officially, IN THE DOUBLE DIGITS. When you’re creating one new pod every three weeks, getting to double digits feels like forever – so, to me, this is a huge deal (we’re heading towards the 6-month mark!). Especially because of this one little not-so-secret: I was scared out of my mind to start this podcast. I had a smidge of sound editing experience under my belt, had NO clue how to record with someone over Skype, and forget about even getting the tech stuff up and running. This podcast has taught me to be ballsy and just make things happen – because once you’re ballsy a few times in a row, it starts to get easier and easier.I will say, it’s a lot easier to be ballsy when you’ve got people in your corner. And today’s guest is a super special one, because she has been in WANT’s corner since literally the very first email conversation we had (she was actually the person who told me, “You HAVE TO START A PODCAST” and never let me forget she was waiting for it). She’s now become a dear friend of mine, a woman I admire endlessly – and, well, you probably already listen to her podcast religiously. Jessica Murnane is the wellness Wonder Woman behind JessicaMurnane.com, host of the wildly popular One Part Podcast, and, the MOST exciting, author of a soon-to-be released full-on plant-based cookbook with Harper-Wave in 2017! If Jessica looks familiar, it might be because she’s been on WANT before. After being diagnosed with Endometriosis and receiving a pretty crazy ultimatum from her doctors, Jessica decided to try overhauling her diet to see if she could heal herself naturally. Fast forward to today, and Jessica now has zero of those debilitating endometriosis symptoms and follows a full-on plant based diet. In this episode we talk about the HUGE thing on Jessica’s mind lately, something I don’t think we talk about nearly enough in our culture if even at all: letting go of the past and what that actually looks and feels like in the body. We also talk endo, mendo (yup), listening fiercely to your body, and Jessica’s refreshingly honest take on motherhood. (This episode also contains a little bit of quasi-gangsta-rap-language, so if you’re sensitive to that, you’ll be getting fair warning beforehand.)Show Notes:JessicaMurnane.comOne Part PodcastJessica on WANT (“Positivity is…”)FacebookTwitterInstagramSnapchat: @JessicaMurnaneEndometriosisEndo in men0 to 100/The Catch Up – DrakeOn Never Wanting To Be Pregnant (from jessicamurnane.com)Jessica’s octopus platesAnd just for fun: Watch Drake Perform At A Bar Mitzvah

On this week's 51%, would the story change if told by women? We spend time with best-selling author Elizabeth Lesser. Then we travel to meet an “Extreme Cowboy” as it's called, though she's a woman. Dr. Sharon Ufberg returns with her 51% segment Force of Nature. This time, she interviews Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York, and best-selling author. Her latest book is Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes. Dr. Sharon Ufberg is co-founder of the personal development/wellness company, Borrowed Wisdom, in California. Armchair traveling seems the safe thing to do during a pandemic, so let's do it. Let's go abroad, to meet a woman who has been at the top of her sport, trying to defend her title as Israel's “Extreme Cowboy” champ or cowgirl … cowperson? That's our show for this week. Thanks to Tina Renick for production assistance. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock. Our theme music is Glow in the Dark by Kevin Bartlett. This show is a national production of Northeast Public Radio. If you'd like to hear this show again, sign up for our podcast, or visit the 51% archives on our web site at wamc.org. And follow us on Twitter @51PercentRadio This week's show is #1642. Photo Courtesy of Harper Wave.