Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time

More than twenty years ago, in a room full of financial advisors learning to breathe before they talked about money, Clayton encountered something that quietly changed the course of his life. The man leading that room was George Kinder. Today they are back together. George Kinder is one of the most original thinkers in the intersection of financial planning, contemplative practice, and human freed...

What if the most important thing about competing had nothing to do with the score? Emma Allen grew up with a tennis racket in her hand and a philosophy professor for a father, which turns out to be a combination that changes everything about how you approach a game, a loss, a career, and a life. She competed professionally, traveled with her father and brother as her coaching team, and learned som...

He had done everything right. The preparation was solid. The earlier rounds had gone well. And then came the moment that changed everything. Not a missed note. Not a technical failure. A thought. Someone told him he was the only candidate left. And somewhere inside, a voice said you have already won. The performance fell apart. Not because his hands forgot what to do. Because his attention had alr...

There are things inside us that words cannot reach. Noemi Beres discovered this at her father's bedside in 2019. As he moved through his final weeks, she sat beside him cutting and pasting, working on collages in the dark. Not because it seemed like the right thing to do. Because it was the only thing that helped. The colors disappeared. Everything went black and white. And somewhere in that proce...

MAGIC IN THE MOMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE: https://tinyurl.com/9vj477f6 In the summer of 2021 Simone Biles walked away. The greatest gymnast who has ever lived. The entire world watching. Her team counting on her. And she stepped back and said I need to take care of myself first. The reaction was enormous. And Clayton has been thinking about that moment ever since. In this fifth and final installment o...

MAGIC IN THE MOMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE : https://tinyurl.com/9vj477f6 When was the last time you walked into a situation completely sure you knew how it was going to go? How often were you actually right? In this fourth installment of the summer series, Clayton goes deep into chapter four of his new book Magic in the Moment, a chapter called The Beauty of Beginner's Mind. And he opens it with a stor...

When was the last time you got an invitation to a reunion and felt something you were not quite expecting? Not your polite reaction. Your actual gut reaction. Whatever it was, it tells you something. And that is exactly where this episode begins. In the third installment of the summer series, Clayton goes deep into chapter three of his new book Magic in the Moment, a chapter called Why Connectedne...

What is the last thing you told yourself you would start once things settled down a little? That is exactly where this episode begins. In this first installment of a special summer series, Clayton goes deeper into the ideas at the heart of his new book, Magic in the Moment, Mindfulness in Real Time. Not reading it word for word, but using each chapter as a starting point for the kind of conversati...

What is the last thing you told yourself you would start once things settled down a little? That is exactly where this episode begins. In this first installment of a special summer series, Clayton goes deeper into the ideas at the heart of his new book, Magic in the Moment, Mindfulness in Real Time. Not reading it word for word, but using each chapter as a starting point for the kind of conversati...

Every episode of this show starts the same way for you. You press play and a finished conversation appears. The music rises on cue. The pauses sit where they should. The moments that matter rise to the top. Today Clayton flips the microphone around. Jon Goehring of StoryTrust Media has been inside almost every episode of this show, not as a guest but as the person who sits alone with the raw recor...

Late night. Cross County Parkway. A flat tire. A really nice suit. And then three strangers pulled over. In this solo episode Clayton returns to a moment from the mid-1990s that he has been carrying for thirty years without quite having the language for it, until a recent episode of the podcast Hidden Brain and psychologist Amit Kumar's research on kindness finally gave it a name. What Kumar found...

Picture a rowing eight at full speed. Eight people. One boat. Every blade entering the water at the same instant. Nobody pulling harder than anyone else. The whole thing moving like a single organism. Now here is the question worth sitting with. What is actually happening inside those eight people? Frank Rowe has spent a lifetime asking a version of that question, first in the boat and then in the...

Three guests. Three very different stories. One thread running through all of them that took three conversations to fully see. Hans Andreas Weygoldt spent 15 years running a family business while quietly losing himself inside it. Ray Arata has devoted more than 25 years to helping men lead from the heart, and yet the hardest work of his life turned out to be something he had never taught anyone el...

Before you say a single word, people are already reading you. Not your resume. Not your title. Not your carefully prepared talking points. You. The way you carry yourself, the energy you bring into the room, the invisible caption floating above your head that is the accumulated echo of every interaction, every expectation, and every unspoken belief you have ever carried into a conversation. Jake S...

In 1979, Clayton's body answered before his mind had a chance to weigh in. He could not sleep for two nights. Not anxious, sleepless nights. Alive ones. In this deeply personal solo episode, Clayton shares a story he has carried for over 40 years, one that asks a question most of us quietly avoid: what has your energy been trying to tell you that you have not yet been willing to hear? This is not...

What business are you really in? And who are you really being while you run it? Those two questions sit at the heart of this rich and wide ranging conversation between Clayton and Kaihan Krippendorff, author of six books, founder of Outthinker, podcast host of Outthinkers, and one of the most original thinkers working at the intersection of strategy, identity, and human potential. Kaihan opens wit...

Two strangers. A pile of Legos. No talking. And their heartbeats started to synchronize. That is not a metaphor. That is what the data showed. And according to neuroscientist Dr. Michael Platt, it works every time, but only when both people have genuinely arrived. When both people are truly present. In this solo compilation episode, Clayton weaves together three conversations from the Magic in the...

What is the irreducible value of human presence in a world where machines can process information faster than any human brain? And what happens to our capacity for genuine connection when artificial intelligence is constantly running in the background? These are the questions Dr. Janine Stewart has dedicated her career to answering, and this conversation may be one of the most timely and urgent Cl...

What happens when the creative spark is never the problem? When beginning feels electric and the middle feels like dark water? When the gap between who you intend to be on a project and who you actually show up as starts to feel a little too familiar? That is the question Clayton sits with in this rare and deeply honest solo episode, one of the most personally revealing he has recorded. Clayton is...

Most of us come to stillness the hard way. Through exhaustion. Through loss. Through a moment when the body finally demands to be heard. Rich Roe spent decades as an elite personal trainer working with celebrities, rock stars, and Fortune 500 executives. He has spent four days and nights on the face of El Capitan. And what he discovered both on the wall and after the workout is that the path inwar...

Every high performer knows it. Every leader who has walked into a room that mattered knows it. Every person who has ever cared deeply about something knows it. That voice. The one that arrives not in the quiet but in the loudest moments, when the stakes are highest and the doors are about to open, asking: what if you blow this? In this solo episode, Clayton revisits three conversations that togeth...

What would it look like if men actually led from the heart? Not as a slogan. Not as a corporate initiative. As a daily, lived, embodied practice? That question has guided Ray Arata for over 25 years, and in this rich and deeply personal conversation, Clayton and Ray go somewhere that most leadership conversations never reach. Ray is the founder of the Better Man Movement and author of Showing Up,...

What do you do when the voice in your head sounds almost reasonable? Almost wise? Almost like it has your best interests at heart? In this rare and deeply personal solo episode, Clayton shares a story he has never told on the podcast before. A business dinner. Colleagues he respects. Wine flowing naturally around a table. And a quiet internal voice making a very persuasive case for just one glass....

In this fascinating and deeply grounded conversation, Clayton sits down with Hans Andreas Weygoldt, breathwork facilitator and emergence coach, whose personal journey from a successful but hollow career to a life of presence and purpose is as compelling as the science behind the work he now does. For 15 years, Hans Andreas ran a family business. From the outside, everything looked fine. On the ins...

What holds you together when the ground shifts? Not the coping strategies or the to do lists. Not the breathing exercises or the carefully laid plans. Something deeper. The thing that is still there when everything else has been stripped away. That is the question at the heart of this solo episode, and Clayton brings four remarkable voices together to help answer it. Not tidily. But truthfully. Gr...