Omni Mindfulness

What would you do with an extra hour today? AI can give it to you. But saved time fills right back up unless you decide what it's for. This short episode shares five ways to keep the time AI saves you, plus one practice for your next AI session. It includes research from Gloria Mark of UC Irvine on attention and distraction. 1. Decide what the saved time is for 2. Keep, eliminate, simplify, a...

Be More Intentional: The Pause That Changes Your Day Omni Mindfulness Podcast | Episode #290 A solo talk with host Shilpa Lewis Before the next notification. Before the next AI tool. Before saying yes because everyone else is doing it. Pause. Technology promises to make life easier, but sometimes more options simply mean more decisions, more distractions, and more overwhelm. In this short solo epi...

What if the next chapter of AI isn’t really about artificial intelligence at all—but about what these increasingly capable technologies ask us to cultivate in ourselves? In this solo episode of the Omni Mindfulness Podcast , Shilpa explores the possibility of a different kind of Renaissance: not an AI Renaissance, but a human one . As AI becomes increasingly capable of helping us write, create, an...

🎙️ Beyond the Conversation: How AI Can Turn Connection Into Community A Conversation with PodGlue Founder Junaid Ahmed What if one of the most powerful things AI can help us build isn’t more content—but stronger human connection? In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Junaid Ahmed , founder of PodGlue, longtime creator and podcaster, and someone I first came to know through the Smart Passive Inc...

When the Signal Becomes a Choice — Amplify Authentically with AI™ A solo podcast episode with host Shilpa Lewis What does it mean to stay authentically yourself when the tools are this powerful? In this solo episode, Omni Mindfulness Podcast host Shilpa Lewis reflects on a month of conversations about authenticity, creativity, expertise, and discernment in the age of AI. Throughout August, Shilpa...

🎨 The Artist’s Eye: Can AI Express What Only Humans Embody? (Part 2) — A Conversation with Bosko Hrnjak (Epi. # 286) AI can recognize patterns, analyze images, and help us create. But AI has never lived a human life. In Part 2 of my conversation with multidisciplinary artist Bosko Hrnjak , we turn the artist’s eye back toward the human. Through stories of artistic practice, the Salton Sea, sensor...

🎨 The Artist’s Eye: Can AI Develop a Critical Eye? (Part 1) — A Conversation with Bosko Hrnjak (Epi. # 285) What happens when an artist who has spent decades developing his eye asks AI to critique his work — without telling it who made it? In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, multidisciplinary artist Bosko Hrnjak brings a critical lens to AI and finds himself genuinely surprised — even “wowed...

🎙️ The Listening Signal: What Happens When AI Can Make the Music? What happens to human creativity when AI can make the music? For musician, educator, producer, and Music Mindfulness founder Josh Brill , that question goes deeper than whether AI-generated music is good or bad. https://www.joshbrill.com/mission-1-1 After nearly four decades with music, Josh has come to see creativity as something w...

In this episode of the Omni Mindfulness Podcast, Shilpa Lewis speaks with digital strategist Paul Culshaw about a growing challenge for founders and experts online: the legibility gap — when real expertise exists but isn’t clearly recognized in the digital world. Paul has spent more than 25 years in digital marketing, working across SEO, online strategy, and visibility systems. Today he helps solo...

The Cost of Disconnecting from Your Human Signal: What Happens When You Stop Listening to Yourself A Conversation with Inner Authority Guide and Author Catherine Crestani What happens when the life you've worked so hard to build no longer feels like your own? In this episode, I sit down with Catherine Crestani—inner authority guide, speaker, and author—to explore what happens when we override...

The Wisdom in Your Bones: The Money Lessons a Grandmother Passed Down That Wall Street Never Could A Conversation with Certified Financial Planner and Wealth Coach Therese Nicklas What if your relationship with money didn't begin with your first paycheck... but with the stories you heard around the kitchen table? In this episode, I sit down with Certified Financial Planner™, Certified Money C...

Decoding the Blueprint for Human Longevity: What Your Body, Relationships, and Daily Routine Are Already Telling You A Conversation with Author and Traditional Naturopath Allison McCune Davis What if longevity isn't something we discover decades from now... but something we're quietly building today? In this episode, I sit down with traditional naturopath, author, and wellness educator A...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode This is it. Day 7. The final clue. Today's clue is Now. Clarity lives in the present more than in prediction. The deepest, most immersive practice of the series — a warm golden sun visualization that moves healing waves through every cell of your body, arriving fully in the only moment that has ever held all the clues. Right here. This breath. Now. Thank...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode Anger. Frustration. Old heaviness. When we're inside the cloud — we can't see the clues. Today we soften it — just 1%. Day 6 of the Surprisal Meditation Challenge — today we clear just enough of the emotional cloud for intuition's light to come back through. Today's clue is Trust. Trust grows one honest moment at a time. Physicist Thomas C...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode It arrived once, softly. And then the mind rushed in. Day 5 of the Surprisal Meditation Challenge — the most still practice of the series. Today we go deeper and deeper within until the noise settles and the whisper has room to be heard. Today's clue is Whisper. The whisper is the clue. Using box breathing, a progressive body relaxation sequence, and the...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode That repeated word. That song that found you. That conversation you didn't plan. Not coincidence — your intuition using the world as a mirror. Day 4 of the Surprisal Meditation Challenge — today we follow the emotional clues your outer world is constantly reflecting back. Today's clue is Emotion. Emotion is information when it is met with awareness....

Share your Thoughts about this Episode Have you ever felt someone's presence before they spoke? That's not imagination. That's information. Day 3 of the Surprisal Meditation Challenge — today we explore the science of your heart's electromagnetic field and tune it from the inside out. Today's clue is Magnetism. What pulls or repels you carries information. Your heart gener...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode Your body knows before your mind has words for it. Day 2 of the Surprisal Meditation Challenge — today we treat your emotions and sensations not as problems to fix, but as a live weather report from your intuitive body. Today's clue is Body. The body often notices before the mind explains. We scan from the soles of your feet to the crown of your head, la...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode Your intuition hasn't disappeared. It's just buried beneath the noise. Day 1 of the 7-Day Surprisal Meditation Challenge starts here — with one simple practice: settle the mental snow globe and notice what lives underneath it. Today's clue is Presence. Patience to pause is the gateway to presence. Using 4-4-4-4 box breathing and a simple somati...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode The Uncomfortable Truth About Clues: Learn to Notice Them by Decreasing Entropy (Epi. #272) A solo episode with Shilpa Lewis, founder of Omni Mindfulness™. What if your intuition has been speaking all along — and the only thing standing between you and hearing it is noise? This month's conversations with Mari Smith, Katharine Giovani, and Rizwan Virk rev...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode What if life isn’t something to figure out… but something to follow? In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Rizwan Virk — computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author — to explore a different way of navigating life. We talk about intuition not as something abstract, but as a series of clues — showing up through hunches, patterns, and synchronicity — guidin...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode In this episode of the Omni Mindfulness Podcast, Shilpa Lewis speaks with intuitive advisor and author Katharine Giovanni about the role intuition plays in navigating an increasingly complex digital world. As artificial intelligence continues to expand what machines can do, our human ability to sense, reflect, and trust our inner guidance may become more valu...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode In this episode of the Omni Mindfulness Podcast, Shilpa Lewis speaks with social media pioneer Mari Smith about intuition, self-knowledge, and staying authentically human in an increasingly AI-driven world. Often called the “Queen of Facebook,” Mari has spent nearly two decades helping entrepreneurs and businesses navigate the evolving landscape of digital co...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode The Uncomfortable Truth About Intuition: You Already Know — You Just Don’t Trust How You Know It (Epi. #268) In this closing episode of April’s exploration of intuition, Shilpa brings together the threads from recent conversations on the show — including insights from Derek Rydall and movement educator Lavinia Plonka — to explore a deeper question: What does...

Share your Thoughts about this Episode The Intelligence of the Body Somatic Awareness, Pattern Recognition, and Intuition A Conversation with Lavinia Plonka (Ep. #266) What if intuition isn’t mystical — but a skill we can train? In this episode, I’m joined by Lavinia Plonka , movement educator and longtime teacher of the Feldenkrais Method®, to explore how awareness of the body can deepen our abil...