Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

The Connection between Vegan & Feminist & Toxic Masculinity & Consent isn't just a woke joke. It's obvious. Waylon Lewis talks with Ethan Bishop about …. "So, someone I work with sends me amazing videos from around the interwebs all the time. And the other day she sent me one of yours. And first of all, I want to thank you for it 'cause in this speedy, crazy age of social media, you tied in like 1...

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features : Waylon Lewis is back with his award-winning video series and podcast. He's starting out with three mindful tips each week. Want to ask a question, or submit a mindful tip? Comment on YouTube , or DM @waylonlewis on Insta .

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features : Let's talk The End (?!) of Democracy with Kelly Krout. Waylon Lewis talks with Kelly Krout, aka Kelly for Arkansas, about, you know, partisanship, the end of democracy, mindful use of social media, how to empower children to ask questions and get inspired, and transgender rights. Waylon:  "What the heck inspired you—a mom of seven boys—to, you know,...

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis features: Waylon Lewis sat down to talk with Carmen Pratt, on vegan/climate crisis issues. She's a young activist/influencer and she's both inspired, and knowledgeable, and fun to talk with and listen to.   Follow Carmen on Instagram for continued climate crisis news and ways you can get involved.   May it be of benefit!

Get Andy's Book: https://bit.ly/3vvBUR7  An Elephant-approved must-read. In Grappling, Andrew Horning helps you identify the best man you can be in a rapidly evolving world. By focusing on intrapersonal and interpersonal elements, Andrew provides you with practical tools for navigating today's complex issues and balancing masculinity with accountability. Learn how to utilize compassion and courage...

Sarah Wilson is a mindful entrepreneur, sugar quitter, climate queen, activist, and New York Times bestselling author. Her new book, "This One Wild and Precious Life," is a soul exploration through the complexities of climate change, Covid, racial injustice, our loneliness and our disconnection from ourselves and the life we ought to be living. Writing while hiking the world for three years, she s...

Waylon and Elephant reconnected with famous writing teacher Natalie Goldberg about the practice, the way, of Haiku. It's far more than three simple lines—but it's far less, too. We touch on finding your voice, Allen Ginsberg, Hemingway, Zen, and mortality. Read the article & watch the full video: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/03/waylon-talks-with-natalie-goldberg-writing-teacher-extraordina...

Yesterday, I got to talk (and listen) with one of the world's greatest writing teachers. Writing, at its heart, is not about writing—but about listening, about finding our voice, about being of benefit—a spiritual path of catharsis, of turning confusion to wisdom. I fell in love. She listed three key simple, repetitive practices to this path of listening. Read an excerpt of her new book: https://w...

Empathy transforms stress and difficulty and even suffering into joy, generosity, and love. ⁠ Empathy is the world's most transformative emotion—and we can write our way to it. 💔❤️ Write your Heart Out with us this fall. Our full, live, original, classic Elephant Academy is back and is $200 off through September 13th with code SHAREYOURHEART: elephantjournal.com/academy Join our Maitri: How to Fa...

Just had the honor to talk (listen) with Sharon Salzberg, a wonderful teacher of Loving-Kindness, or Maitri, or Metta—how to make friends with ourselves, so that we might enjoy empathy and be of real benefit to this world, instead of drowning in self-hate, pre-judgement of others, and war with our world. 📕 Get her new book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World: https://www.sha...

Elephant's weekly Community Gathering—July 17, 2020. Join Elephant's (free!) weekly Gatherings live and become a part of the conversation and community on Fridays at 10 a.m. MST: http://elephantjournal.com/gathering The weekly mindful round-up of articles and resources mentioned in the meeting: It's my Birthday today. Guess how old I am?  ~ Waylon H. Lewis: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/07/...

This week, we hosted Liz Plank, one of our world's most delightful, insightful, and incisive Feminists, as part of our Elephant Gathering & Elephant Camp (part of Elephant Academy). Waylon talked with Liz Plank about feminism, gender equality, her book,  For the Love of Men , toxic vs. mindful masculinity, and how we can all join in actively in a movement to be of benefit to this world. In additio...

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." ~ Senator Cory Booker Read: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/06/if-america-hasnt-broken-your-heart-you-dont-love-her-enough-senator-cory-booker/ Support Elephant and Independent Media. When you subscribe, you'll get to read unlimited articles, and see fewer ads. It's $3/month: elephantjournal.com/subscribe This Friday, we're off...

"Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned." ~ #JaneElliott Here's the full video and the landmark exercise featured on Oprah and in classrooms across America—watch and be humbled, awaken your heart, share and educate: elephantjournal.com/2016/01/if-you-know-you-arent-racist-watch-this-blue-eyed-brown-eyed-test 🖤 Additional articles referenced: • " I am Black. T...

"It takes bravery to feel because it's unpleasant. It's scary. If you're like me at all, you might feel unempowered—which is actually a good thing for me to feel. I should not feel empowered. I should feel like learning. I should feel like listening. But that doesn't mean that I should step back. We need to all be allies." ~ Waylon Lewis Watch the full video, "I'm a white male. I'm the same age as...

Join us this Friday, free 🙏👉Waylon Lewis hosts an hour of writing, meditation, and community with 7,000 good humans from around our world. Register at elephantjournal.com/retreat to save your spot. For last week's full video, search "Quarantine Over? Instead of reverting to 'Normal,' let's evolve to This" on YouTube.com/elephantjournal.

This Friday, join us for our Elephant Retreat: elephantjournal.com/retreat ⁠ One hour of community connection, Q&A, and a little meditation. ⁠We're talking: 10 Basic Salves for Burn-Out & Everyday Depression.  Bring your own ideas. Bring a friend. Let's show up for each other. You have to register, but it's free: elephantjournal.com/retreat to join Waylon Lewis for an hour of live community and co...

This is a continuing part of Elephant's (free) Community Retreat: Dear Elephriends, Thank you for showing up—we're doing this for free, and it costs us time and effort and real money—so your showing up in the midst of your life makes it all make sense. If so inspired, text or DM a friend so we can get to 7,000 good humans, next week: elephantjournal.com/retreat (I see this growing to 10s of 1000s...

This Friday, join us for Elephant's (Free) Community Retreat: elephantjournal.com/retreat ⁠ One hour of community connection, Q&A, and a little meditation. ⁠We're talking: The Root of Overwhelm & How to Befriend it. Bring your own ideas. Bring a friend. Let's show up for each other. You have to register, but it's free: elephantjournal.com/retreat to join Waylon Lewis for an hour of live community...

This Friday, join us for Elephant's (Free) Community Retreat: elephantjournal.com/retreat ⁠ One hour of community connection, Q&A, and a little meditation. ⁠We're talking: How to Show up for Your Sweet Self (whether you're Quarantined Alone or with Others).  Bring your own ideas. Bring a friend. Let's show up for each other. You have to register, but it's free: elephantjournal.com/retreat to join...

Dear Mindful Community,   Thanks, you, for joining. May we use that hour to invest in good loneliness, ugly letting go, less busyness and laziness, and, yes: love in service.   Don't forget to read my favorite poem—it's timely, now. 👉 https://elejrnl.com?p=233043   We'll do it again next Friday, and if it continues to be inspiring and fun and if you invite one loved one, and it continues to grow...

Write your Heart, Serve our World. As part of Elephant's (free) Community Retreat, Waylon talks about the Ideas of Love vs. Moments of Love, & the Four Kinds of Love...Inspired to join us for two more Fridays? Go to elephantjournal.com/retreat to join these Elephant trainings, free. Dear Mindful Community, Thanks, you, for joining. Nearly 4,000 of you, from all over our globe...offering up your sp...

Everyone's suddenly doing webinars. We're spending more time online than ever. But if all we do during this Coronavirus time is find a new way to create busy, we'll have lost this once-in-a-lifetime chance to connect through boredom and busyness into our hearts, into active empathy, active love, into making a real change. You can do it.⁠ Thank you for joining—from all over the world! That was so j...

In honor of this strange worldwide moment, when many of us are socially distanced (you better be), we're offering a free, introvert-friendly community gathering every Friday. You can view after the fact if the time doesn't work for you. Feels like a good time for community. We'll do a brief meditation exercise, a longer community talk/Q&A, and a brief find-your-voice/write-your-heart-out exercise....

"There are going to be people and families—there already are—who are in desperate, desperate straits. And it's easy to judge other people until we feel it and we actually are brave enough to look at them. So it's not macho to go out and buy guns right now. It's macho to help a food pantry. It's macho to help our fellow citizens. It's macho to take care of yourself. That is true strength." ~ Waylon...