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Light Watkins, 'Simplify the Approach'
Episode 145
"There was more snowstorms than meditators in Alabama when I was growing up," said Light Watkins, who started a career as a working model before swit…
7 years, 7 months ago
Spring Washam, 'What Was Creating All This Suffering?'
Episode 144
Spring Washam was on a meditation retreat when she felt herself falling apart, so much so that she picked up "the red phone," screamed out "HELP." Th…
7 years, 8 months ago
Scott Edelstein, When Spiritual Leaders 'Stray'
Episode 143
Spiritual leaders often have great influence over their followers but there are times, author Scott Edelstein says, when some leaders will use their …
7 years, 8 months ago
Jeremy Richman, 'There Is Hope in Helping'
Episode 142
Jeremy Richman remembers his daughter Avielle as a fun spirit with "this unbelievable smile that she would just give out to anybody," who was as happ…
7 years, 8 months ago
Alison Wright, World-Traveling Photographer
Episode 141
Her body badly broken in a horrific bus crash in Laos, Alison Wright was still trying to breathe as she realized that she may not make it out alive. …
7 years, 8 months ago
Scott Norton, The Condiments Guy Who Meditates
Episode 140
Since invading the condiments market with Sir Kensington's, a line of ketchup, mustard and other spreads, company co-founder Scott Norton said medita…
7 years, 8 months ago
Diana Butler Bass, 100 Days of Gratitude
Episode 139
Author and religion scholar Diana Butler Bass has tried on many forms of Christianity, from growing up Methodist to becoming an Evangelical Christian…
7 years, 9 months ago
Dr. Stephanie Sarkis, Meditating While Having ADHD
Episode 138
Stephanie Sarkis, an author and expert in ADHD, anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder and chronic pain, brings a unique perspective to her work…
7 years, 9 months ago
Roshi Joan Halifax, 'Turning Towards the Suffering'
Episode 137
Roshi Joan Halifax came to New York City by way of New Orleans in the '60s with a thirst to engage in social justice, protesting "everything related …
7 years, 9 months ago
Sally Kohn, 'We Need to Fix Hate'
Episode 136
It was around the time she decided to go on her second meditation retreat that Sally Kohn, a gay, Jewish, community organizer turned political commen…
7 years, 9 months ago