Ari in the Air

Welf is the founder and CEO of Potential, an app that helps you be intentional with your phone. To quote their team "Technology can be designed to change your behavior. That's called persuasive tech, and there's a trillion-dollar industry successfully using it against you. We believe technology can and should help us do the things we truly want to do. The kinds of things that we know are good for...

Schuyler is an embodiment coach and a deep feeler. She's back on the podcast to talk about ways back to embodiment, from where we, and our world, is currently at. This is a great talk, enjoy. SUPPORT THIS SHOW ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/ariintheair Philosophical Coaching w/ Ari https://www.ariintheair.com/coaching/ Schuyler's Website https://www.artofemergence.com

Jacob is the host of the SenseSpace Podcast, and we met at The Stoa. In this episode, which was recorded for his show, I get to rant about a bunch of awesome stuff ranging from the ellusive muse of inspiration, to what storytelling means to me, to a bunch of other stuff. He is a great conversation partner and I really enjoyed this talk. SUPPORT THIS SHOW! https://www.patreon.com/ariintheair Philos...

Jayson Gaddis is a global leader in relationship education. He is the founder of The Relationship School and the author of the new book Getting To Zero - How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships. He is also an outdoor enthusiast and podcaster. He lives in Boulder Colorado with his wife and two children. In this episode, we talk about his book, it's lessons and how they have l...

Danielle holds a Phd in philosophy and is a Philosophical Coach. In this episode, we dive into what exactly that is, what it looks like in practice and why it is so helpful to people. Our conversation was spurred by the inception of my own philosophical coaching practice, which I'm offering intro calls without financial obligation for the next 60 days. You can email me for a scheduling link at Ari...

Malcolm Ocean is a fellow Game B thinker - a title that we address right off the bat in this episode. We get into some really nice things - how much energy is in the differences in our perspectives, how that energy, if left unorganized can destroy shit, how our differences in perspectives can and do give us another dimension of depth in our relationships and how this is what it is to become a supe...

Schuyler is an embodiment and empathy coach. She's a Yogini. She is very wise and is so much fun to talk to. We had an amazing time diving into what embodiment really is, how to deepen our embodiment, how embodiment relates to climate change (woah, right?), what embodied parenting looks like, how children's embodiment is different that adults, and why embodiment today is punk rock as fuck! Its suc...

AJ is a lighthearted shame educator and the author of Discomfortable, a book about getting more comfortable with shame and other uncomfortable emotions. This episode contains a big revelation for me, about how to move and manage my own emotions. Super great episode, Thanks AJ!!! AJ's site - https://www.discomfortable.net SUPPORT THIS PODCAST! For as little as $5/month! https://www.patreon.com/arii...

Alex is the lead singer of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. He's also an outspoken thinker on philosophy, spirituality, and he's a keen cultural observer. He's funny, he's ecclectic and he's wise. We had a fucking blast talking - all while he was in the bath - and we got to some really cool places together. This is a great episode, I think you'll love it. Support this show on Patreon! https:/...

Arran in a friend, and the host of The Golden Shadow Podcast. He returns to the show today to discuss everything about intimacy. What it really is, where it lives in our bodies and what it means for our lives and for our relationships. Its a great talk. Support this podcast! 100% Listener funded! https://www.patreon.com/ariintheair Bonnita Roy's presentation - referenced in this episode and highly...

Jim is back for the 3rd time. He's the host of The Jim Rutt Show, an amazing podcast, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, a complexity research institute. On this episode, we talk about his new game, Network Wars, available on iOs and Android, what it is and why he made it. We talk about GameB and how we transition from GameA to a regenerative way of living in relationship to the ea...

Rob is a coach who deals profoundly with mindfulness and identity. His personal story is powerful and inspiring and today he shares with me what he has discovered for radically changing perspective, through awareness, and has called the Fundamental Shift. He walks me through it and I have a very interesting experience. This is a great talk and Rob and I will be recording again soon. Rob's website...

Jacob is the host of SenseSpace, a podcast on dialogue and sensemaking. In this episode, we go on a beautiful, metaphoric walk together into a number of really tasty topics. I was integrating a recent acid trip, so LSD gets brought up a number of times, and the nuggets of wisdom I had seem really delicious now, as I listen back to the recording. We talked for a while before recording, which I'm co...

Lubomir's film, In Shadow here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j800SVeiS5I Watch it before listening to get the most from this talk and to witness what is a real masterpiece of mythic, artistic storytelling. Lubo is a illustrator and animator, as well as a director of films. His In Shadow has been viewed nearly 5 million times on Youtube, and for good reason. It is a relentless cultural observat...

Dr. Annie is back - she's a psychologist and a women's mountain bike coach and today we discuss the differences in socal conditioning in men and women that lead to the different sensitivities surrounding fear, experiences with fear in sport, and ultimately how we learn things differently. We also talk about the utility of single gendered groups for coaching and community, and the transformational...

Daniel is a Toronto-based philosopher and productivity coach. He's very thoughtful and he's been on this show 3 times now; each of which are very insightful, engaging and earnest. In this episode, we talk about his quote that "All your goals are just shitty proxies for tribal belonging." which I really like and resonate with. I share with him my idea for what community really is - real relationshi...

Gregg is a psychologist of the highest degree. He's a deep thinker and has mapped out a profound understanding of existence. Today we talk about wisdom - what it is and how to get it, use it and share it. We talk about balance - how to balance our own desires and intuitions with the outside world and other people's expectations of us. This was a very helpful conversation for me, I hope it is for y...

Jordan is one of the most insightful cultural observers alive. He has uniquely described to us the 'Deep Code' of our culture, in an incredibly nuanced and articulate way. He has been one of the biggest intellectual influences in my life in the last 3 years and I've been looking forward to this conversation for that entire time. I'm so pleased to say that this conversation went, almost instantly,...

Yes, that's right. Fuck greatness so that you can set yourself free to be filled up by what is right in front of you. Fuck greatness so that you can feel the joy that comes with being right where you are. Fuck greatness so that you can escape the hell of constantly comparing yourself to others. Set yourself free. Please support this podcast by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/ariinthea...

How to Party? Strange subject, but it might be more nuanced, helpful and healing than you ever imagined. I tell my tale of how I learned how to party, what the basic elements are, and how you might make a party for yourself that helps you connect with yourself and others, reflect on your life, be filled with gratitude and shake off the stress of your life. Party on! Support this podcast on Patreon...

I want to share the most profound resources that I've found on the path towards improving my relationships - all of them. As I gain more insight towards this aim, I'm constantly amazed at how it illuminates my relationship with myself. I hope this is helpful. Please support this podcast by becoming a patron. www.patreon.com/ariintheair Daniel's Blog - Guidelines to support the quality of dialogue...

I'm back from a paragliding competition and my mind has been running nonstop thinking about the analogies between the gaggle of paragliders working together to fly fast and the human cooperation on earth. In this episode I explain a lot of my thoughts around these analogies and how I think our perspective about our own success can radically alter how we contribute to rising the tides for all boats...

We all have a shared thread of..... trauma. It is trauma that makes us take our first breath. It is trauma that shapes our psyches, our personalities, and ultimately, our relationships. We are amidst an epidemic of denial to this fact. We are constantly, collectively, repressing this fact that we have trauma, which cuts us off to this shared thread of humanity. We repress our emotions, downplay ou...

I have had a deeply introspective spring, and at a wedding or two, I've had seemingly strange pieces of advice arise in me. In this episode, I go through some of these pieces of wisdom and elaborate on them. Don't let your divorce ruin your wedding. Your wounds have made the best parts of you. Strange at first, profound to ruminate on. Lots of my own experience in here.

Marianne Van Dijk from Cup of Empathy joins me to discuss Nonviolent Communication, an approach to communication based on principles of nonviolence. It is not a technique to end disagreements, but rather a method designed to increase empathy and improve the quality of life of those who utilize the method and the people around them. It is a framework for communication that has changed my life and t...