The Glo Podcast

Learning about mindfulness doesn’t only happen on a yoga mat or on a cushion. In this episode of The Glo Podcast with Dr. Christopher Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Derik and Dr. Chapple revisit the Buddha’s journey into mindfulness by recalling ancient texts and s...

“It ain’t never too late to discover yourself,” says singer, songwriter, entertainer Storm Marrero. In this episode, guest-hosted by Glo instructor Mark Osmundsen, Storm shares her experiences building her career as a performer in New York City, only to see the pandemic temporarily derail her plans. She describes the resilience she found to take her career in a different direction as she also care...

In the segregated American South, Black women were not allowed to have their babies in white-run hospitals. Black women had their babies at home, assisted by midwives.  Sarahn Henderson was called to the profession of midwifery in 1980. Curious to learn more about her profession and its history, she embarked on a research mission that took her to local libraries and archives of her local Departmen...

In part two of our exploration of mindfulness, Professor Douglas Brooks summons his extensive knowledge of ancient texts to help listeners access a deep understanding of mindfulness and its practices. Derik Mills and Professor Brooks discuss how mindfulness is not just something you’re practicing on your yoga mat. It is a moment to moment practice that you develop every day.  Professor Brooks beli...

Professor Douglas Brooks has long been fascinated by Buddhism and Hindu traditions. He lived in India with his teacher, Dr. Gopala Aiyar Sundaramoorthy, for many years, studying and practicing Srividya, Auspicious Wisdom, and the modern traditions of goddess-centered Tantra. In part one of a two-part episode, Professor Brooks recalls the roots of his fascination with both Buddhist and Hindu tradit...

Elena Brower, Glo instructor, bestselling author, teacher, artist and activist, hosts this episode of the podcast. Her guest is Jeff Rosenthal, co-author of Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community . Jeff is the Co-Founder of Summit, best known for hosting global ideas festivals and events, and is the co-owner, principal designer, and developer of Summit...

Mark Osmundsen has been a teacher on Glo for nearly four years. On this episode of the podcast, Mark Osmundsen hosts Gigi Engle. Gigi as an award-winning, certified sex educator and psychotherapist in training. Her writing regularly appears in publications like Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, L Magazine, Teen Vogue, Glamor, and Women’s Health. Gigi is the author of All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to...

Orly Wahba, educator, entrepreneur, and author of Kindness Boomerang: How to Save the World (and Yourself) Through 365 Daily Acts , believes that kindness is not something you practice once in a while, but instead kindness is a way of seeing the world. She’s a TED speaker whose projects include Dance for Kindness, Project Hope Exchange, and Life Vest Inside.  In this episode of The Glo Podcast , O...

The climate emergency can feel overwhelming, and eco-anxiety can bring on emotional paralysis. But you can feel better-—and do a lot of good—-by taking positive action. Welcome to a special Earth Day edition of The Glo Podcast . Eco-activist Heather White returns to the show to talk about her new book, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet. Heather shares about the ma...

In this episode of The Glo Podcast hosted by Dice Iida-Klein, Alex Artymiak talks about yoga as a process of coming to terms with yourself, a process as demanding in many ways for the teacher as well as for the student. When you teach yoga, both Dice and Alex agree, you teach what you are. Trigger warning. In this episode, Alex briefly shares about how he lost a close family member to suicide.  Li...

Breathwork teacher Jay Bradley discusses how breathwork has helped him heal and helped him heal others. Interviewed by guest host Gustavo Padron, Jay shares what it was like to grow up in a small Canadian town and the impact of being bullied for being gay. Jay talks about how he delved deeply into breathwork after attending a gay men’s group that had a breathwork circle. The experience of doing br...

In this episode, Derik Mills and behavioral change specialist Shahroo Izadi discuss why kindness will help you find yourself and also meet yourself, to see yourself as you truly are. Shahroo discusses why she believes that diets cause more harm than good.  Shahroo Izadi’s first best-selling book, The Kindness Method: Change Your Habits for Good Using Self-Compassion and Understanding , helped read...

In this special edition of The Glo Podcast , Derik Mills hands over the mic to two beloved Glo teachers, Jason Crandell and Dice Iida-Klein. You’ll learn about their development as yoga students and teachers, their favorite and most challenging poses, and their shared connections. Some of those connections are surprising: They both played hockey as kids. Others will help you track into a more prof...

There are many myths about what it means to have boundaries and why we may be afraid or unwilling to set them. Many women, says psychotherapist Terri Cole, are often raised to “be a good girl.” This is the highest virtue many women are raised to offer: Being liked. But when we prioritize other people over ourselves, it leads to a place of anger and bitterness. Terri Cole calls it “the disease to p...

Journalist Beth Macy was moved by the stories she reported about addiction. As she says in her interview with Derik Mills, “I’ve learned to pay attention to things that make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.” In her book Dopesick , she takes the reader into the epicenter of the nation’s opioid crisis. On the podcast, Beth shares her work process and some astounding statistics about the dep...

Lisa Brooks Mills has a conversation with gymnast Katelyn Ohashi about fame, a healthy mindset, body image, the importance of rest, and Katelyn’s current creative endeavors. You may remember Katelyn from her 2019 gymnastics floor routine that went viral. You may have seen her at the ESPY’s or in the ESPN Body Issue. She has been outspoken about having a positive body image, mental health, and the...

Continuing our series of interviews with first responders, Derik Mills chats with Erik Milosevich, a military veteran and retired police officer turned breathwork instructor. We met Erik through photographer, and fellow Glo podcast guest, Robert Sturman (episode #14), who photographed Erik and other military veterans who use yoga as a healing practice for PTSD and mental, emotional, and physical h...

“What should I eat?” can be an emotional question for many of us, particularly during the holidays. In today’s episode, Lisa Brooks Mills speaks with Vanessa Rissetto, a registered dietitian, the co-founder of Culina Health, and the dietician intern director at New York University.  Vanessa shares lifestyle adjustments for healthy eating habits that are sustainable, and how to prepare and support...

Elazar Aslan is the Founder and CEO of Caterfly Solutions, a coaching firm that specializes in helping leaders operate from their peak potential to have a positive and sustainable impact on their businesses and communities. He recently co-authored “Boundless Leadership” with Dr. Joe Loizzo, who appeared on episode 32 of The Glo Podcast.  Today’s episode dives deeper into the kind of self-work auth...

Derik Mills speaks with Dr. Joe Loizzo, co-author, with Elazar Aslan, on their new business book Boundless Leadership. Leadership is traditionally tied to stress and assumptions about stress. Dr. Joe Loizzo, psychotherapist, clinical researcher, and Buddhist scholar-teacher, speaks with Derik about pivoting from stress-fueled leadership styles to a kind of leadership that focuses on co-creating ps...

Best-selling author and founder, Byron Katie, wrote Loving What Is and A Mind at Home with Itself: Finding Freedom in a World of Suffering with co-author Stephen Mitchell. She is the founder of Byron Katie International, an organization that includes the School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California, and she is the host of “At Home With Byron Katie,” a podcast and weekly Zoom sessio...

For over two decades Heather White, the founder and author of One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet , has led organizations to transform environmental overwhelm into consistent, personalized, and positive action. She is an environmental lawyer, writer, consultant, motivational speaker, nonprofit executive, and former Senate staffer.   Heather chats with Lisa Brooks Mi...

Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is the University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, as the Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. She is also the author of How Emotions Are Made and, more recently, Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain, an accessible book about s...

Continuing our series of interviews with first responders, Derik Mills chats with Amber Miskovich, a former medic, firefighter, and paramedic turned yoga teacher and studio owner. We met Amber through the photographer Robert Sturman, who has photographed first responders doing yoga.  In our interview, Amber shares that “first responders, on average, only live five years past retirement.” After lea...

Do you talk to yourself? Don’t worry, we all do. In today’s episode, Lisa speaks with Dr. Ethan Kross, an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and author of the bestselling, Chatter: The Voice in Your Head and How to Harness It. Dr. Kross shares his research in the world of inner chatter and the ways it can be harmful to our relationships, our confidence, and even our creativity w...