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E15 / Behind the Mask with Ashanti Branch
Listen now (45 mins) | Discipline, adulthood, intimacy and the range of deep connection, giving room to explore someone’s thinking, the power of…
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E11 / Generative Action with Fernando Desouches
Listen now (45 mins) | The New Macho, the limitations of progressive masculinity, sustainability in marketing, leading through service, generative…
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E17 / Addiction and Obsession with Charlie Engle
Listen now (75 mins) | Running, long distance, integration, getting bored, body management, the natural elasticity of our conscious experience…
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How physical fitness supports my creativity and my work as a writer
How physical fitness at age 53 supports my creativity and my work as a writer—with pilates, body weight conditioning, calisthenics, trail running…
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Earning my bread
On work, money, and escaping the machine from the inside
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I never thought I'd be writing the words: "My Morning Routine" — and, Everything Cookies
'coffee', read, exercise, meditate, work → breakfast, ~coffee... everything cookies
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Less Warrior, More Clown
Resistance, slaying dragons, eating shame, the false Grail, bus work, and Jackass S03E01
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E01 / Safety, freedom, leadership—and Jed's a millionaire, with Adam Gayner
Listen now (32 mins) | Safety, freedom, inviting the shadow, expression, leadership, group work, and growth in relationship.
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I'm Here To Tell The Truth
An Ordinary Disaster: My entire book-length memoir, serialized as a work in progress right here on Substack
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E06 / Psychosis, Diagnosis and Gnosis with Anthony David Adams
Listen now (47 mins) | Coming around to our fathers, the emergence of self, becoming a man, going from psychosis to diagnosis to gnosis without…
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Thinking of AI as an intuition machine
Why there's a "6" on my palm, the meaning of "Decide Nothing," cave art, AI-assisted inner work, DALL-E, Jaron Lanier's "data dignity," Captain Rob, and…
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E05 / Alchemy, purpose, and love with Bob Conlin
Listen now (42 mins) | Alchemy, eating the shadow, creating a conscious relationship with fear, the illusion of purpose—and how we find it along the…
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