60 Mindful Minutes

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode100/   Description There's something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares how her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence by adopting the ancient...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode99/   Description The idea of stepping away from life and work for months or a year seems pretty impossible, maybe even radical. But in his book, The Year Off: The Anti-Budget Solution to Mastering Your Money and Following Your Dreams, author Steve Larsen challenges the idea that we're stuck or that...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode98/   Two-Day Silent Retreat details: https://kristenmanieri.com/octobersilentretreat/   Description "The right question asked at the right time can be life-changing" author Jennie Lee writes. Questions are like doorways, leading us into deeper aspects of our introspection and self-discovery. In her...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode97/   Description We are a culture of workers, often preferring to work longer hours, work in off-hours, waive vacation time and bring work home instead of leaning into leisure. How did we become so uncomfortable with idleness and so obsessed with productivity? Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing:...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode96/   Two-Day Silent Retreat details: https://kristenmanieri.com/octobersilentretreat/   Description In her book, Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, science journalist Marta Zaraska offers a research-driven case for why optimism, kindness and strong social...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode95/    Description Human development, which crosses psychology, biology, neuroscience and sociology, asks: why are we the way we are? This was one of the questions that drove four researchers to study thousands of people from birth to midlife in the US, Great Britain and New Zealand. In their new book, The Origins...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode94/   Description With so many techniques and advice offered and available, it can be easy to forget that the most impactful and universally available parenting tool is our presence. In The Present Parent Handbook, author and psychotherapist Tim Dukes, Ph. D. encourages us to acknowledge the dilemmas...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode93/   Description Imagine learning to design your identity based on your desired future self rather than who you have been in the past. Through his book, Personality Isn't Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy offers practical, science-based insights for how we go through the process of personal-reinvention...

Description Karla McLaren, M.Ed., author of Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion, joins us for a live author Q&A with listeners of 60 Mindful Minutes. In this interactive workshop, Karla guides participants through her Conscious Questioning exercise, which uses 11 questions to allow us to better understand our anxiety.      Guest Bio Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-wi...

As I wrap up season three, I'd like to invite you to listen, either again or for the first time, to my conversation with Karen Maezen Miller. We first spoke back in the middle of March when Covid-19 cases were climbing and the world was going into lockdown. These days, cases in the US are higher than ever but lockdowns are far in the rearview mirror. These are STILL turbulent times. I'm sharing th...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/08/11/transforming-conversations-about-race-with-amanda-kemp/   Description It's understandable that we approach conversations about racism with a degree of trepidation. But this week's guest wants us to be less afraid about talking about race. Drawing on her academic study, teaching experience, and li...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/08/04/how-to-wander-with-intention-with-erika-owen/   Description Have you ever been walking home from work and unexpectedly took a different path just to curiously explore your neighborhood? Or have you been on a vacation and walked around a new city with no destination in mind? Then chances are, you'...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/07/28/how-to-make-a-difference-in-the-world-with-colin-beavan/   Description How many of us feel the need to make a difference in the world but have no idea how and where to start? In his book, How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World, Colin Beavan shines a light on one pa...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/07/21/how-to-give-a-good-apology-with-molly-howes/   Description We all mess up, we drop the ball, say the wrong thing and hurt someone's feelings. But how many of us know how to effectively apologize and make amends? In her new book, A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right, writer and therapis...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/07/14/our-beauty-contracts-with-jeanette-johnson/   Description When we are unconscious to it, our belonging can be very conditional in this culture. Our unchallenged beauty contracts impact how we treat ourselves and others. As the founder of J's Everyday Fashion, one of the internet's first-ever budg...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/07/07/lean-in-with-love-with-stephanie-vanzytveld/   Description Stephanie VanZytveld is the author of I Am Gold Dust (And You Are Too): Mindfulness and Authenticity in the Workplace. This week on 60 Mindful Minutes, we tackle all sorts of topics, including racial injustice, mindfulness at work, authen...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/06/30/the-genius-of-anxiety-with-karla-mclaren/ . We'll be hosting a special author Q&A with Karla McLaren on Thursday, August 13th 2020. Details here: https://kristenmanieri.com/author-qa-karla-mclaren/ .  Description In her new book, Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion ,...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/06/23/the-power-of-ritual-with-casper-ter-kuile/   Description This week we're joined by Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices. While they share some of the same DNA, rituals are distinct from habits. To put it simply, repetition without int...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/06/16/a-mindful-life-with-aria-campbell-danesh-and-seth-j-gillihan/   Description Written from friend to friend, A Mindful Year offers a series of contemplations on living every day life. In their book and in this podcast episode, Aria and Seth invite us to make space for mindful reflection to reconnec...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/06/09/chemistryofcalm/   Description Anxiety and stress can overshadow all the joy and well-being in our lives. But it doesn't have to be this way. In this episode, Henry Emmons, MD, author of The Chemistry of Calm, shares his holistic approach to creating more emotional resilience.   Guest Bio Henry E...

For episode homepage, resources, free downloads and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/06/03/intuitive-eating-with-elyse-resch/   Description We are each born with an innate knowing as a guide to what we eat. However, we often lose this inner connection. Author Elyse Resch has spent her career helping people reconnect with the wisdom for eating intuitively. In her co-authored book, The...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/05/26/creating-an-intentional-family-culture-with-melissa-chris-smith/     Description For over a decade, Chris Smith has been helping entrepreneurs create clarity around how they share their story and their message about what they do in the world. Now, he's joined forces with his wife, Melissa, to cre...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/05/19/living-to-listen-with-andrew-forsthoefel/ Description Andrew Forsthoefel is the author of "Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time," a memoir he wrote after spending 11 months walking by himself across the country. On his backpack was a sign that read, "Walking to Liste...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/05/12/embrace-the-ways-youre-weird-with-olga-khazan/   Description Most of us have felt like an outsider, or that we just didn't fit in, at some point in our lives. In her book, Weird: The Power of Being of Outsider in an Insider World, author and staff writer for The Atlantic, Olga Khazan considers th...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/05/05/why-we-struggle-with-mike-mchargue/ Description We are a flawed and mysterious species. On one hand, we're extraordinary. No one is like us. No one has been given the gifts we brought into the world. We are exceptionally unique and special, capable of amazing things. And also… we fall down, procr...