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Podcast

Protecting Ourselves from GMOs: Jeffrey Smith on PYP 501

Are GMO crops and microbes safe and effective ways of improving agriculture and feeding our crowded planet, or ticking time bombs that threaten our health and the future of life on earth?

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How to Make Someone’s Day: Howard Prager on PYP 500

How would you like to have a superpower that can positively change the lives of the people around you? It turns out the ability to make someone’s day is almost always available to us. We just need to remember, practice, and cultivate our identity as helpers and delighters.

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Psychedelics as Medicine: Lynn Marie Morski on PYP 499

Many plants and synthetic substances that can profoundly improve our mental and physical health are currently illegal. Lynn Marie Morski is working to change that, by educating healthcare professionals and connecting activists with communities in need of healing.

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The Feeling of Being Alive: Robbie Bent on PYP 498

With effects as profound as meditation and safer than psychedelics, breathwork, cold exposure, and heat exposure can democratize access to heightened and expansive states of consciousness, and better psychological and physical health.

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How to Not Suck on Zoom: Alfred Poor on PYP 497

One reason for Zoom fatigue is the poor quality of other people’s audio and video. Today’s episode shows you how to become a Zoom pro – to influence others more powerfully and to connect more deeply.

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How to Make Your Next Decision: Nika Kabiri on PYP 496

How happy are you with the outcomes of the decisions you’ve made? Would you like to get better at decision-making? Today’s guest shows you how.

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Wearing (and Being) Nature: Jeff Scult on PYP 495

Fast fashion is a disaster. For the planet, for the oppressed workers, and for the souls of those who are constantly exhorted to throw out their clothes and buy new ones. Today’s guest offers an antidote.

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The Only Sustainable Form of Wealth: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 494

How shall we live, on a boiling planet and enmeshed in a civilization that knows only how to use up and destroy all it encounters? Can we find meaning and healing in the shelter of each other, to bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old?

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Your Brain is not a Computer or a Muscle: Annie Murphy Paul on PYP 493

“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” asked two philosophers in 1998. Today’s guest follows the science to give us an unexpected answer.

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Navigating Life with Evidence, Reason, and Compassion: Jamie Woodhouse on PYP 492

What would it look like to extend compassion to all sentient beings? And can we get there through reason, rather than because a deity or prophet told us so?

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