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Jim Murphy is a performance coach to PGA Tour, NFL and MLB athletes, a former Chicago Cubs minor leaguer, and the author of Inner Excellence, the book AJ Brown was filmed reading on the Eagles sideline that went on to become a number one New York Times bestseller sixteen years after it was written. Jim Murphy believes we control about two percent of our lives, and that the two percent is your hear...

Cole Hastings is a YouTuber, whose channel grew from self-development into cultural commentary, and the author of the debut novel Echoes Across Infinity. Cole Hastings believes that stories change people in a way advice never will. It took him three years to reach a thousand subscribers, and what finally blew up his channel was telling his own story instead of giving tips. In this conversation, we...

Bob Peck is an Austin writer and former documentary filmmaker, and the author of Original Sin Is a Lie, a book on what the world's mystics have been saying all along. Is spirituality about finding what is true, or finding what feels useful? Bob Peck says it's both. In this conversation, we explore the four deaths he witnessed before age ten and how they sent him to Thich Nhat Hanh while...

Jerry Colonna is the co-founder and CEO of the coaching company Reboot, a former venture capitalist known as the CEO Whisperer, and the author of Reboot and Reunion. Jerry Colonna believes that growing up is the real work of leadership, and that most of us spend years hiding the parts of ourselves we cut off to fit in. In this conversation, we explore the three months he spent behind a locked psyc...

Leif Babin is a former Navy SEAL officer who led a platoon in Task Unit Bruiser during the Battle of Ramadi, co-author of Extreme Ownership, and co-founder of the leadership company Echelon Front. Leif Babin believes the greatest excuse any of us give ourselves is that it is harder for us than it is for other people. In this conversation, we explore the two rejections before he ever became a Navy...

Dr. W. Lee Warren is a practicing neurosurgeon, Iraq War veteran and New York Times bestselling author whose latest book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, teaches how to put your mind in charge of your brain. Dr. Lee Warren believes your mind and your brain are not the same thing, and that the moment you understand which one is in charge, your mental health can get better instead of wo...

Brian Sanders is a filmmaker, health educator and the creator of the Food Lies docuseries who, after watching both of his parents suffer from chronic disease, spent years asking what the human body actually needs, and who now hosts the Peak Human podcast, owns the regenerative meat company Nose to Tail and runs the Sapien Center in Austin. Brian Sanders believes nobody wants to overeat, and yet al...

Eben Britton is a former NFL offensive lineman, a second round pick who played six seasons for the Jaguars and Bears, turned author, yoga teacher, and coach who guides people through meditation, breathwork, and transformational work. Eben Britton spent his whole life chasing "there", an NFL dream he brought to life, and left at 27 with a shattered body and no idea who he was. In this con...

Dom Fusco is a faith driven health creator and endurance athlete in Austin who survived a sudden cardiac arrest at 24, flatlining for two and a half minutes after a mile run on a local track. Pain reveals who you are. Pride covers who you are. Dom Fusco learned both the hard way, numbing college injuries with drinking, chasing achievement, and trying every self-help practice imaginable while feeli...

Owen Fitzpatrick is a social psychologist, keynote speaker, and author of Inner Propaganda, a USA Today bestseller. Qualified as a hypnotherapist at seventeen, he has spent his life studying how beliefs are formed, working as a therapist and executive coach and traveling to North Korea, Afghanistan, and Rwanda to understand propaganda from the inside. He also hosts the Inner Propaganda podcast. Ow...

Hal Elrod is the creator of The Miracle Morning and the SAVERS routine, a keynote speaker, and the subject of The Miracle Morning movie. At 20 he was hit head-on by a drunk driver, died for six minutes, broke eleven bones, and was told he would never walk again. Years later he survived a rare and aggressive cancer. He is still here, and he is at peace. Hal Elrod believes happiness is a fleeting em...

Frances Mei Hardin is an ENT surgeon who left clinical practice, wrote the memoir Surgeon on the Edge, and now leads the Hippocratic Collective, a physician media company bringing the hidden culture of medicine into the open. Frances Mei Hardin spent her whole life becoming a doctor, and it built an identity instead of a person. As an only child, she grew up with her parents' expectation that...

Baron Ryan is a writer and filmmaker whose deadpan short videos built an audience of millions, and whose first feature, Two Sleepy People, was written, shot, and edited in three months. Baron Ryan believes the only thing that ever actually helped him was accepting that he is not special. In this conversation, we explore how giving up on a dream is what finally made it happen, why self-help books f...

Nick Cassano (Nicky Cass) is a comedian and entrepreneur whose sketches reach millions across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Being funny is what built his name, embracing fear is what built his life. Nick Cassano, known to millions as Nicky Cass, argues that everyone carries one core fear that quietly decides what they do and don’t do, and that facing it is what sets everything else free. This co...

It’s never been easier to get advice. So why do so many of us still feel stuck? In this solo episode, I unpack the philosophy behind every conversation I have on Soulture and why I've realized I'm not interested in collecting advice. I'm interested in uncovering lived experience. I explore why stories move us more than expertise, why modern life has left many of us disconnected from...

Charles Eisenstein believes that beneath nearly every modern problem is the same hidden story: separation. From technology and politics to relationships and purpose, we explore how that story shapes our lives, why it may be reaching its limits, and what a different way of living could look like. Timestamps: 00:00 Your Work Isn't Really Yours 04:23 Being Unhappy At Yale University 05:54 Moving...

Some of the biggest changes in life don't begin with a plan. They begin with a feeling you can't explain. Ben Brummell shares how chasing a lifelong dream to Argentina ultimately led him somewhere he never expected. What followed wasn't the life he intended. It was the life he was meant to build. This conversation explores what happens when you stop living from obligation and start...

Two years ago, this podcast was just an idea in my head—a microphone, a computer, and my brother's bedroom. Last month, that same idea took me to Miami for my first podcast trip. In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of that experience and share what it taught me about confidence, momentum, and building something one step at a time. More than anything, this is a reminder that the hard...

Chris Guillebeau introduces a concept I think many of us have experienced but never had language for: time anxiety. We explore why it quietly shapes our choices, why productivity isn't the answer, and how changing our relationship with time can change the way we experience life. Timestamps: 00:00 "I Don't Have Time" 01:03 How Time Differs Around The World 02:21 Time Anxiety 09:...

Kamal Ravikant believes one of the biggest mistakes in personal growth is thinking that understanding yourself will change your life. In this conversation, we explore self-love, identity, success, failure, and why so many people stay stuck despite years of working on themselves. Kamal argues that transformation doesn't come from endless self-analysis. It comes from changing the way you relate...

What happens when you sit down with the man who taught you how to be a man? In this special episode of Soulture, I sit down with my father, Larry Doyle, for a conversation about faith, family, discipline, purpose, legacy, and what it means to live a meaningful life. From lessons passed down through generations to reflections on fatherhood, mortality, health, work, and personal growth, Larry shares...

Mark Sisson spent a lifetime reinventing himself—from elite endurance athlete to entrepreneur, failed TV host, bestselling author, and founder of Primal Kitchen. This conversation explores identity, resilience, business failures, and why the people who create extraordinary lives are often the ones most willing to let go of who they used to be. Timestamps:  00:00 Having A Malleable Identity 03:09 W...

Cory Allen spent years learning how to separate who he was from the stories, labels, and expectations placed on him. We explore why suffering can become a doorway to deeper awareness, how meditation creates space between stimulus and response, and why we're drowning in information but starving for clarity. We also unpack what it means to stop performing an identity and start living with inten...

We live in a world obsessed with content, and in the process, I think we've forgotten the power of storytelling. In this solo episode, I explore why we rush to explain experiences that are still unfolding, the difference between collecting and connecting the dots, and why some of the most meaningful stories in our lives require time, distance, and reflection before they can truly be understoo...

Dacher Keltner explores why awe may be the most transformative emotion we experience. He explains how awe quiets the ego, reconnects us to meaning, and reshapes how we understand things like grief, spirituality, music, nature, and even health. From the loss of his brother to the hidden ways awe changes our inner lives, Dacher reveals how moments of wonder can make us feel more fully alive and more...