Radical Responsibility Podcast

In this Radical Responsibility episode, I chat with Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist, educator, and author who specializes in understanding the mind-body connection. She is well known for her best-sellers The Willpower Instinct and The Upside of Stress. Her latest book, The Joy of Movement, explores why physical exercise is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxie...

Today in my Radical Responsibility podcast, I chat with Dr. Richard Davidson a professor of psychology and psychiatry, founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds, neuroscientist, and author. He is best known for his groundbreaking work studying emotion and the brain and is also a leading, international speaker for conversations on well-being including the World Economic Forum. In this co...

In this Radical Responsibility podcast, I chat with Dr. Laurie Leitch, clinical trainer, psychotherapist, researcher, organizational consultant, and creator of the Social Resilience Model. She is also a social entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Threshold GlobalWorks (TGW) and the Trauma Resource Institute (TRI). She also has extensive experience with collective capacity resilience building in diverse...

In this RR podcast, I chat with Dr. Pat Ogden, psychotherapist, renowned innovator in somatic psychology and leading expert in working with the body to resolve trauma. She is well-known for developing Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-oriented approach to help patients process traumatic memories and manage their threat responses. We talk about the importance of our body's experiences in dealing w...

In this podcast, I speak to Tiokasin Ghosthorse, a Lakota peacemaker and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is well known as the founder, host, and executive producer of his well-established indigenous voices radio show “First Voices Radio ”. With his vast indigenous wisdom, he shares with me how this pandemic is actually a moment of enlightenment offered to us by the Earth. He also shares his wisdom w...

Today in this Radical Responsibility podcast I speak to Tami Simon, the founder of Sounds True. At age 22 (over 30 years ago) Tami started a small publishing business with the intention to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Now, as North America’s leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings, Sounds True has twice been nominated as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United Stat...

On this Radical Responsibility episode, I chat with Dr. David Treleaven, writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. David is also very well known for his best-selling book "Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness" and has worked closely with leading universities and institutions to offer Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. We discuss the four components of his...

In this first episode of a three-part series, I chat with one of our most popular guests on resilience, Dr. Rick Hanson. As a neuropsychologist and author of 6 books on the topic, Rick is the authority on self-directed neuroplasticity. Given his vast knowledge, he is incredibly humble and grounded in how he shares insight into the three neuroscientific features of a resilient brain, and how resili...

In this week's Radical Responsibility podcast, I chat with Rhonda Magee, a well-revered Professor of Law, Mindfulness Teacher, and Author of her award-winning book "The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness". Rhonda has also been recognized internationally as an innovator, storyteller thought & practice leader in integrating mindfulnes...

In this Radical Responsibility podcast, I interview Dr. Dan Siegel, Founder of the Mindsight Institute, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Also, as the author of 13 books (4 bestsellers), we discuss his vast insight on how to integrate our minds for better well-being and resilience throug...

In this Radical Responsibility episode, I interview Tara Brach a meditation icon with over 4 decades of meditation teaching experience. As a clinical psychologist, Tara has a unique ability to blend Western psychology with her Eastern spiritual practices, Tara is also a best-selling author of 4 books. She chats to me, about the trance of unworthiness and how it impacts the racial divide in our soc...

I am joined by John Macadams, a dear friend, colleague, and member of the Shambala Buddist Community. With over 25 years of experience in the Hollywood film industry and as a volunteer Buddhist chaplain in LA county sheriff’s jails, John shares about the conditions of prison and his insight into radical responsibility and transformation, even in the toughest of environments. In this podcast we fur...

I’m joined by Miles Kessler founder and director of the Integral Dojo and non-profit organization Aikido Without Borders in Israel/Palestine. As an American teacher of Aikido (6th Dan Aikikai), meditation, and Integral Practice, Miles discusses his challenging journey to becoming more mindful and finding his authentic self amidst the different contexts of his original American culture, his learned...

In this podcast, I am joined by Eric Jukelevics, a photographer, videographer, marketer, and contributor to The Mankind Project and The Event. Eric shares how “showing up” in life has got him to where he is as a creative entrepreneur, an actively involved dad, and a Muay Thai. We also discuss: What got Eric into the personal evolution work, how scared and small he showed up in the world before his...

I am joined by Alan Anderson, a teacher and student in the Shambala Buddist Community for 30 years, and the Founder of Arts and Mindfulness for Academic Progress (A.MAP) where he taught music and mindfulness. Alan courageously recounts a painful and shameful time, 8 years ago, when he had failed many people in his life, including his Shambala Community. He shares how even with all the shame and lo...