Soulful Impact with Brooks Barron

Hey everyone, This will be the last podcast episode I publish before my upcoming paternity leave, as Ashley and I prepare to welcome our second daughter! 🥳 Thank you so much for being part of the first season of this podcast. Hosting the show has already been so enriching and expansive for me, and it feels like we are just getting started. I’m looking forward to being back at it in the fall/winte...

Kelly Wilde Miller is a creative mentor, author, and soul-driven entrepreneur whose journey has been profoundly shaped by her quest to find authentic expression and deep belonging. I first met Kelly in May 2021, when she embarked on a Vision Quest with Animas Valley Institute—an experience that opened a transformative path toward manifesting her soul’s gifts through creativity. In this episode, Ke...

Marie Janicek is an intuitive movement, pleasure, and embodiment guide who combines her deep expertise as a physical trainer with a profound personal and spiritual journey. After participating in my 2022 Vision Quest program, Marie has stepped powerfully onto a path of embodying soul—described beautifully by her as living as a "magical, mythical being." In this episode, Marie opens up about how em...

Watch this episode on YouTube . Jerry Colonna is a world-renowned and highly sought-after executive coach. After a successful early career in venture capital and private equity, he found his calling in coaching. Known in some circles as “the CEO whisperer” or “the Yoda of Silicon Valley,” he brings a depth of soul-rooted presence, love, and fierce advocacy for the disinherited and the unseen. How...

Watch this episode on YouTube . Ross Geiger is Co-Founder & President at Ciro, a YC-backed tech startup. His LinkedIn says he is “On a journey to understand & elevate the craft of Sales.” And he participated in the 2024 Soulful Impact Vision Quest . If that combination makes you raise an eyebrow, you’re not alone. Ross is a unique and deeply multifaceted individual. Which is part of why I...

Watch this episode on YouTube . Today’s episode features my good friend and nervous system specialist, Jonny Miller . Jonny is the host of the Curious Humans Podcast and founder of Nervous System Mastery , Jonny is the host of the Curious Humans Podcast and the founder of Nervous System Mastery — a 5-week bootcamp to cultivate calm, boost resilience, and increase aliveness. I often talk about how...

Watch this episode on YouTube . Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and soulful impact happens when we slow down enough to live and lead from the deeper truth inside. We are so addicted to speed in our culture. It’s the water that we swim in. This is especially the case in the world of entrepreneurship — i.e. “Do More Faster” or “Move Fast and Break Things.” I love going fast when that’s what is calle...

Watch this episode on YouTube . I’ve loved recording all the podcast episodes I’ve done so far. But I have to say, this one left me feeling incredibly alive. Rebecca Wildbear is a Senior Soul Guide at the Animas Valley Institute , a psychotherapist, and the founder and creator of Wild Yoga , an organization that leads programs and retreats to help people connect with their bodies, dreams, and wild...

Watch this episode on YouTube . I’m so excited to share this new conversation with my good friend, colleague, and guide Quddus Philippe. Quddus is a sound facilitator, psychedelic guide and the founder of Sound Sanctuary Academy . Surrounded by the instruments he calls his “bandmates”, he guides individuals and groups through life-changing sound and psychedelic experiences. He is based in Amsterda...

Watch this episode on YouTube . Our bodies might be the most powerful and important tool we have as human beings when it comes to the journey of remembering our deeper truth and living in alignment with our souls. In modern culture, which is still largely dominated by the ego, we are often conditioned to create a really unhealthy relationship with our bodies. We see our bodies as limited, we criti...

Watch this episode on YouTube . Welcome to Soulful Impact , a newsletter and podcast exploring a new definition of impact. My guest on today’s episode is Scott Britton . Scott was a co-founder of Troops, a successful tech startup that was acquired by Salesforce in 2022. He’s now the author of a popular newsletter called Consciousness: The Doorway to Human Evolution and the host of the Evolution. F...

Alex Olshonsky is the philosopher and writer behind the popular Substack newsletter Deep Fix . He’s also the Co-Founder of Natura Care Programs (a novel non-profit harnessing psychedelics to support addiction recovery), a somatic therapist, and an executive coach. Most recently, Alex is the creator of Life Not Wasted , an awesome online course which charts a path for all of us to enjoy a fulfillin...

Jim Dethmer is Co-Founder of The Conscious Leadership Group , one of the most successful and sought-after executive coaches in the world, and one of my closest and most treasured mentors. In this conversation, I get Jim’s take on the meaning of soul and what it might look like to create Soulful Impact in our lives. Jim is incredibly skilled at distilling deep wisdom into practical and relatable te...

In this introductory episode, I share about the philosophical orientation and purpose of this podcast: To explore a new definition of impact. Perhaps our greatest potential for making positive impact comes not by focusing exclusively on external results and trying to control ourselves and the world to be a certain way, but instead from paying close attention to the place within ourselves from whic...