Six Truths and No Lie: Sid Garza-Hillman on PYP 507
Set an example. Don’t be a snowflake (or a bully). Don’t get sucked into social media. Simple advice for challenging times.
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On Mother Teresa, Burnout, and Belonging: Saskia Kremer on PYP 502
Saskia Kremer burned out after spending 13 years tending the sick, dying, and impoverished as a member of Mother Teresa’s order. How did she reinvent herself, and what can she teach us about a meaningful and heartfelt life?
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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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Change is a Break with the Past: Peter Bregman on PYP 483
Is it possible to change other people for the better? Or should we just mind our own business, and concentrate on ourselves?
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The World Needs You to Love Your Work: Alaina Love on PYP 474
Alaina Love wants you to find your passion – and then express it through your most important work. But what is passion? How do we identify ours? And how can we create workplaces that validate and support them?
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Learning to Listen: A Guide to Ethical Mindfulness: Lani Muelrath on PYP 472
My dear friend Lani returns to the podcast to talk about her latest book, Mindfulness, published under the Conscious Care Guides imprint.
We had our usual freewheeling conversation, with some tears and lots of laughter.
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A World in Which We All Belong: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 467
Teju Ravilochan is an entrepreneur who sees problems and envisions grand communal solutions. From the Unreasonable Institute (now Uncharted.org), which he founded, to GatherFor.org, a community based mutual aid accelerator borne from the pandemic), he brings people together to solve problems and explore possibilities.
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Broccoli alone won’t get you to 100: Marta Zaraska on PYP 418
For the last 7 years, I’ve worked to improve human health and wellbeing by focusing on better nutrition, vigorous physical activity, sleep hygiene, and stress management.
Turns out I may have been missing the most important determinants of health – the social ones.
Marta Zaraska has written a book that is fun, fascinating, scientifically sound, and socially revolutionary. In Growing Young, she argues that eating well and exercising are all well and good, but spending time with friends, cultivating a positive attitude, and helping others are far more powerful (and enjoyable!) determinants of health.
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The Practice of Compassionate Self-Care During Times of Crisis: Bojana Jankovic Weatherly, MD on PYP 411
Dr Bojana Jankovic Weatherly is one of my favorite physicians, double board certified in internal and integrative medicine. She has also trained in functional medicine, nutrition and mindfulness.
Dr Jankovic Weatherly is a real stickler for evidence of efficacy, whatever modality she’s exploring or recommending. Which makes her a very reliable podcast guest, especially when talking about topics not fully embraced by mainstream medical practice.
And, she’s a mom struggling to homeschool two children in a New York apartment while working full time from home.
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Training Montage: PYP 390
People are comparing their experience of lockdown as an endless repetition of Goundhog Day, the 1993 Bill Murray movie about a man trapped in the same day over and over again.
What I recall about that movie was, once Bill Murray’s character makes peace with his situation, he uses it to better himself.
Piano. Ice sculpture. French. And lots of other skills and interests
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