Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

This week on "Walk the Talk Show," Waylon rallies for community-inspired love for the mothers and mother figures in our lives—including the mother of them all, big mama, Mother Earth herself.  

" We can do better. We can teach men that real masculinity is based on taking responsibility and being willing to apologize. That's owning something. That's true leadership. It's built on being kind to others." This week on our long-running "Walk the Talk Show" podcast and video series, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the mind-blowing factoid he discovered about the origins of the...

This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the reality of aging and growing older...about how it doesn't match our childhood utopic idea of what being an "adult" may mean, and shares his advice for younger folks who may be realizing that they're surrounded by cynics—and a lack of ethics. Read the full article on Elephant!

Support the Good Wolf. This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about April Fools' Day, why he calls it a holy Buddhist holiday, and shares the reasoning behind why we go hard on the so-called joking on this day each year as a publication. He also offers a reminder for us all about The Man and Big Tech, and how we may not be walking our talk as often as we think we are. Waylon: "When E...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the upcoming No Kings Day on March 28th, 2026, and gives us two small tasks we can do to protect our democracy: 1. Subscribe to real, actual journalism versus social media or corporate media. 2. Show up peacefully to protest this Saturday. Find a protest near you! Our Walk the Talk Show Editor, Molly, will be joining the flagship event being held in...

"Is it okay to feel anger, from a Buddhist point of view?" This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the very real feeling that many people across the United States (and the world) are feeling: anger. Each week Waylon and Molly, our Walk the Talk Show editor, chat about what's going on in the world and what might be of benefit to our Readers on the next Walk the Talk Show episode....

Recently, thanks to Shambhala Publications and our friend Ivan Bercholz, we had the chance to ask Pema Chodron, the wonderful Buddhist teacher I've been lucky enough to know all my life, a brief question. It was Willa and Kelsey's first time meeting Pema! It was a pleasure and an honor and helpful in an earthy way. Dharma is always surprising in how it rings true and surprises my thinking mind. ~...

The thing I'm always trying to explain to my liberal idiot friends is that the climate crisis, global warming, global shawarmaing—whatever you want to call it— doesn't really matter . You know why? 'Cause I'm 51. Even if global warming were true—which, obviously, it's not ; FAKE NEWS!—I'll be dead. So it doesn't matter, right? Right? ~ Read the full article on Elephant: https://www.elephantjournal...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the very real reality that many people in cities across the United States are dealing with the endless, overwhelming onslaught of outright lies, disinformation, political retribution, and loud-and-proud discrimination we are living in during Trump's second term in office. The attacks are never-ending, and they naturally lead to a feeling of overwhelm...

Waylon meets Jeff Fulmer, the author of the book "The Two Prophets," and discusses how this is a book to help millions of readers digest, process, and even enjoy this over-full moment in human history. "Touching on every issue we're all going through in these turbulent times, it's a page-turning adventurous read that's fun, yet serious. You can sit down with a good book, read it, and take in curre...

Waylon catches up with one of our favorite guests: mindful meditator, sangha friend, and feng shui expert Anjie Cho . They discuss how hard last year was, the Year of the Yin Wood Snake, what we should consider at the tail of the Snake year before the official shift into the Horse year, and what we can do to prepare before the Lunar, or Eastern, or Tibetan/Chinese New Year . "It's interesting. No...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the trap of positivity and how it can actually do the opposite of what we think, and result in us turning away from the outside world and instead showing up in the world in a more cold or withdrawn manner. Instead, if we are accepting, and powerful, and courageous, and brave, and vulnerable, by opening up to the world around us as it is—reality—we ca...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about being a new father and the need to provide a livable planet for our children to thrive on for generations to come. Now is the time to resist and not to give our power away, and we can do this by dozens of minute, mindful actions we can take every day, and by being  Buddhist (not religiously) in the sense that we're being kind to ourselves. "We need a...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about not giving up our power. Last week's podcast was on the theme of reclaiming our power, and this week he digs into this a little more in-depth.  Some folks may ask, "Who cares if I do something environmentally-responsible or not?" Well, every little thing does matter to someone or something. And, billionaires' actions matter much more. But, still, too...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about using our collective power for good. "Reclaim your own power—do what you can with where you are, now, starting now. Put more love and healing into our dear world and take out some of the aggression and casual, speedy, destructive selfishness." ~ Waylon H. Lewis

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the 2025 election and the power of small-d democracy in action. "So much to celebrate last night. Meaningful victories for public servants who will serve us and US, across the board. The beginning— just the beginning—of a repudiation of Donald Trump's corruption and willful destruction of democracy. But most of all: a reminder that most of us are goo...

This is a challenge for most of us. Be kind to yourself. We have to work with our own thing—open up, be wakeful and available first, then we can help the world. There is nothing more intimate than working with family. That is a path of meditation or mindfulness. This is our practice.

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents: our 300th Podcast! Waylon speaks with the founder of Boulder, Colorado-based Peak State Coffee, Danny Walsh, about what we should look for in our daily cup of joe and why we might want to re-empower our buying power and support a eco, ethical coffee companies.  Danny Walsh: " When I was going into business, I was like, 'I'm not gonna start just anothe...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about a Buddhist teaching that will always bring you back to the truth, especially when things  are at their hardest and it feels like the world is going to crap. Lean on this notion. "Impermanence is a teaching that reminds us that when we can't find any ground, when there's chaos…that's actually good news because we're living in the truth that there is n...

Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about a Buddhist method to apply toward making decisions in our lives—big, or little. Suggested Reading: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind ~ Shunryu Suzuki Read more about "don't-know mind": https://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/i-dont-know-do-you-know/

We're seeing a lot of talk about being Christian and the Rapture and all. Most of it is missing the point: Jesus' message of compassion was radical for his time, and clearly still is today.

What was your favorite Redford film or two that you'd recommend to others here? RIP, Bob. Thank you, Mr. Robert Redford, for being an iconoclast—an example particularly to so many young men like myself of humor and strength and kindness and integrity in a world of unoriginality, greed, willful harm, and suffering.   Read the full article with more context from Waylon, here, on Elephant Journal: A...

Breathe through the Big Moment. Easier said than done, right? Serious psychological issues, trauma, or deep-seated issues...those require a different approach. But this conversation is an opportunity to talk openly about the Buddhist approach to our everyday stress and anxiety that we're all experiencing—perhaps more in 2025 than ever. "I'm talking about sort of surface everyday stress and anxiety...

Waylon shares a wish for our sweet, sweet (endangered) place in the solar system: Imagine if we could celebrate Halloween without trashing our planet and teaching our children that it's okay to do so.

What we *All* (especially Parents, hopefully) Want. Waylon shares a reminder that while we all want nice air to breathe, healthy water to drink, a stable planet for our children to grow up on, and for our children to be safe...we vote for politicians and support corporations that do the exact opposite. Again and again. "We gotta walk our talk. So that's the name of this video series, Walk The Talk...