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E10 / Everyday Flow with James Brown
Listen now (52 mins) | Flow, presence, Vedic meditation, intuition, fatherhood, adoption, giving things up, moving past alcohol, freedom, discipline…
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E20 / Pilates for Men with Sean Vigue
Listen now (58 mins) | Health and fitness in our fifties, being yourself, flow, fitness for kids, getting outside, joy through movement, and... those…
What I'm Reading — April 2023
How Rick Rubin lost 130lbs, Jaron Lanier, Amy Jay, Sarah Fay, Holly Whitaker, Toni Bentley, Daniel Duane, Lyle McKeany, Soaring Twenties, Minda Lane…
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How I confused "discipline" with getting told what to do, and learned to love self-discipline
Redefining discipline—from someone else's bullshit story about something you can never have enough of, to something that comes from inside oneself, and…
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Guided Meditation: Breathing Colorful Attention
A 13-minute guided meditation based on breathing colorful attention
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Guided meditation: Patterns of Nature
A 6 minute meditation on integrating the shapes and patterns of the natural world
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What I'm Reading, Nov 2022
Maia Szalavitz, Liz Goldwyn, John Paul Brammer, Tim Kreider, Holly Whitaker, Connor Beaton / Mantalks, Bill Maeda, Jamie Wheal, and Bill McKibben on why…
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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Adventure Doesn't Happen by Accident
Don't leap—practice at the edges
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Why I Don't Use Psychedelics
I'm a supporter, and I've been there, but now I find the whole psychedelic thing to be...less interesti. There are many ways to sweet cosmicity⁠, and…
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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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What I've Learned from Ten Brothers and Teachers
Adam Gayner, Roddy McDowell, Lucas Krump, T Callahan, Bob Conlin, Anthony David Adams, Robert Ellis, Kenyon Phillips, Noah Rainey, and James Brown on…
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