Category: Podcast

My guest on today’s podcast is Adam Siddiq who believes in using energetic discipline to optimize your soul, life and emotions to achieve peak performance and leave a positive impact on the world. If you’re listening to this show, you’re probably the type of person who’s enlightened enough to know that the healthy response to being cut off in traffic isn’t to succumb to shallow road rage, but rather to plug into forgiveness, understanding, and calm. But let’s be realistic: that’s far easier said than done. Adam brings incredible value to our conversation today, partly in his explanation of how he approaches this sort of everyday aggravating situation from an elevated response rather than letting himself fall into a reactive state.

Are you confused about what kind of diet to follow? Harvard educated psychologist Melanie Joy helps shed light on this controversial issue and how to choose a path that creates better health and aligns more with our basic human values. She even has tips for meat eaters to support a more sustainable lifestyle in a non-judgemental way. Dr. Joy explains how carnism, an invisible belief system or ideology that conditions us to eat certain animals affects all of our lives. Listen to this episode as we discuss taking back your power by choosing what you want to eat and making this a better planet regardless of your diet.

Sam Morris, my guest on the show today, after being paralyzed in 1999, was determined not to be the victim of his circumstances. Would you be angry? Resentful? Bitter? All of those are understandable human reactions, but shifting your perspective can turn that injury (or any other tragic accident) into a gift and a catalyst for change in your life and the lives of countless others. Facing his physical paralysis head-on allowed him to see other kinds of paralysis (such as mental or emotional paralysis) for what they are, and to help others overcome them through his Zen Warrior Training. In fact, Sam now experiences more vitality and clarity than he had before his accident. We talk about all that and more in this conversation.

Imagine a world in which just about everything about you (from your location to what you do online to everything on your TV) is tracked by various machines and companies and is then sold — after you willingly give away your rights to this information. A world in which there’s a second version of the internet, full of people selling nefarious services. A world including innumerable people ready to steal your entire online identity and then ransom it back to you.

Did you know there’s technology that can detect pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer for just three cents in only five minutes?  Or that we’re increasingly able to modify our DNA? There have been incredible advances in diagnostic technologies, nanorobots, and the function of genes, all working towards saving lives.

Today our conversation is with Jack Andraka about his love of science, how persistence paid off for him, and about the future of medicine. Prepare to be charmed by the 20-year-old wunderkind, who was only 15 years old when he invented groundbreaking cancer-detecting technology. Jack is also the author of the book Breakthrough, on the faculty at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, a TED speaker, and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Listen in to this thought provoking episode.

If you’re concerned about aging, turn your attention to your telomeres. These protective caps of our chromosomes play a key role in aging, and can even indicate how your body might react when faced with the common cold. While we don’t yet fully understand every aspect of telomeres, it’s clear that our everyday choices can affect their length, and that making good choices can help you keep them as long as possible.

Elissa Epel, today’s guest, is an expert in the field. She co-wrote the The Telomere Effect with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering telomerase. Elissa, an associate professor at UCSF, explains in this conversation how certain behaviors and experiences can impact telomere length. She talks about stress, for example, which affects telomeres differently depending on the kind of stress. She also offers insight into how to protect yourself from premature cellular aging through mindset and lifestyle choices.

We’re constantly bombarded by pathogens and toxins, and fortunately the immune system offers a defense against them. However, most of us are compromising our own immune systems through poor lifestyle choices, often without even realizing we’re doing it.

Dr. Susan Blum, who wrote The Immune System Recovery Plan, knows the ins and outs of the immune system, and is intimately familiar with the types of lifestyle choices and behaviors that negatively impact it. In this conversation, she discusses several important topics at length, including inflammation, food sensitivities, lipoprotein particles and cholesterol, statins, and much more.

If you know much about pain management, body alignment, and chronic pain relief, chances are you’ve already heard of the Egoscue Method. This exercise therapy program, which was developed by Pete Egoscue, is globally acclaimed for treating chronic musculoskeletal pain and offering safe, effective, permanent relief from chronic pain.

As the creator and developer of the method, Pete — who I have the pleasure of introducing as today’s guest — knows it intimately and understands exactly how it works. I first learned about the method from Tony Robbins, and am thrilled to be bringing the creator himself to you in this conversation. As you’ll hear, he’s so intimately familiar with pain that he’s able to bring me relief with no information except that I have a sore finger. To hear how he did this, as well as to learn about tips and techniques you can use to keep yourself fit, healthy, and pain-free, you’ve got to tune in!

The role of genetics in health is absolutely fascinating, but can also seem overwhelmingly complex. On the show today we have Kurt Johnsen, the vision keeper and co-founder of Simplified Genetics, to break down some of those barriers of complexity and explain how our individual genes affect how our bodies react to things like diet, exercise, and even concussions.

Karen Hoyos was a victim of domestic violence who overcame incredible adversity to reach where she is today — and, in fact, sees her past struggles as a blessing, as she explains in this episode. She has become a celebrity coach and speaker with over 25,000 graduates from her seminars. Her impressive list of clients includes Harvard University, the United Nations, the New York Times, and many more. All this came from letting go of control and giving in to faith, and she explains in this conversation how all of us can make space for miracles and transformation.