Life is a Festival

It’s not only leaders within festival culture who can teach us to create a life like a festival. Today’s guest is a spiritual master in the arts of human blossoming although she herself no longer uses that title. Zhenzan Dao is the founder of a deeply erotic spiritual tradition, MogaDao, an evolution of Taoism that offers an astonishing array of technologies to support human liberation. From DH La...

It’s 8am on January 1st, and David Block serenely paints on a large collaborative canvas in the sun drenched third floor of San Francisco’s iconic Clock Tower. He has just produced the most audacious event of his career so far, Slow Down New Years Eve, and after its resounding success, David paints. David is an artist. He performs electronic music as The Human Experience and has collaborated with...

Is it possible to design a world that works for 100% of humanity without succumbing to the dismal anxiety of impending climate collapse? Amanda Joy Ravenhill thinks so, and in part, it’s about the stories we tell. Amanda is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute based on the work of the famous futurist, ecologist and creator the geodesic dome. She is also co-founder of Project...

Rebecca Jean is the founder of Nourish Inc., a nutrition company she created from her experience successfully treating an autoimmune digestive disorder with food as medicine. The multimillion dollar business she founded now serves 3 million meals of healthy food in the workplace each year, employing over 300 people, but even during times of enormous success she has continued to battled with her ow...

Today I’m speaking with Brad Burge, the Strategic Communications Director of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies. The nonprofit MAPS was founded in 1986 to bring life enhancing psychedelics through the regulatory system to legitimize their use as prescription medicine. On the podcast, Brad and I talk about harm reduction, his own experiences with entheogens and festivals...

Today I’m speaking with Gustaf Tadaa, futurist, public speaker and co-creator of The Borderland, the Scandinavian regional Burning Man event. I met Gustaf a few months before I attended The Borderland in 2016 and I have been fascinated with the event and this man ever since. Unique amongst global gatherings, the Borderland is almost entirely decentralized. That means that it is absolutely up to al...

Join me for a series of conversations exploring our collective wisdom to inspire a bold courage for life. Deeply grateful for the truly festive theme song: “Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi] by DJ https://soundcloud.com/atish

Today I’m speaking to Mikey Lion, renowned House DJ and co-founder of the popular Southern California micro festival Desert Hearts. Mikey talks about Sober October, using his platform to promote personal growth and the secret psychedelic inspiration for Desert Hearts. Remember, “Life is a Festival, only to the wise.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson