The Michael Ostrolenk Show

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Jenny Wade Ph. D, a professor with the Integral and Transpersonal Psychology doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, developmental psychologist, and researcher. Dr. Wade details how she transitioned from a traditional career in marke...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Abby Hand, a Preconception Health Consultant based in beautiful Austin, Texas. Abby describes her early-career journey through the conventional medical world, an overall chalenging experience that led her to approach her own pregnancy from a different, holis...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Dayna Martin, public speaker, parenting coach, and author of three books on peaceful parenting and unschooling. Dayna speaks about her path to natural childbirth and peaceful parenting, which derived from learning to trust her own inner wisdom. From childbirt...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host. Shout out to Dr Stuart Sovatsky, a scholar of Kundalin Yoga. I am working with Stuart on an online class to be launched soon on his book “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality" (...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Dr Irene Cop, founder of the Stress to Success S.H.I.F.T. Institute, which helps purpose-driven high achievers shift from stress to success in all areas of life. Dr Cop details her own experience with childhood trauma and catastrophe burnout. After much expl...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Sean Sessel, head of The Oculus Institute (https://www.oculusinstitute.com/) and a voracious learner with a fervent belief in the ability of the individual to better themselves. Through the Awaken Program (which shows people how to escape burnout jobs and cr...

A beautiful song produced by my friend Christos Galanis in honor of my best buddy Cleona the Bulldog who transitioned to be with Gd last year.

Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Paola Zuazua, a scholar of epigenetics, naturopathy, functional medicine, consciousness and autobiographical modalities, and pre and perinatal psychology and health. Zuazua discusses her own exploration of these topics, including from interest of the health...

Ostrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, author of “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach" (https://www.amazon.com/Treating-Trauma-Addiction-Sense-Polyvagal/dp/0367408120). Winhall details her history with treating trauma and addiction and how she came to understand addiction not as a disease but as a means of coping with trauma. Addition occurs, Winhall...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Thomas R. Verny, a psychiatrist, writer, lecturer, and academic. Dr. Verny is the founder of PPPANA (now APPPAH), served as its President from 1983 to 1991. Verny was founding editor of the Pre- and Peri-Natal Psychology Journal of which he is presently A...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Diana Hill, a modern psychologist, mom, yoga teacher, and co-author of ACT Daily Journal: Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Hill discusses the primary emotion systems from her book – caring, drive, and threat – and the frequent activation of threat and drive systems from the structures of our culture. She details 6 core practices that...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Carri Bailey, a certified CannaDNA Endocannabinoid Coach and Cannabis Advocate. She studied biological science at Rowan College and has a background in holistic health. Epigenetics and the endocannabinoid system became her focus after genetic testing reveale...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human" where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Esme and Terence, the authors of “Tigress and Dragon of the Hundred Lifetimes: An Erotic Memoir of Sacred Consorts.” Esme (Tigress) lives a mermaid's life by the sea and writes poetry and prose to heal and inspire herself and others. Terence (Dragon) lives a...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Cherionna Menzam-Sills, student and educator of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology/Therapy, Continuum (a mindful movement practice), and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy globally. Dr. Menzam-Sills has authored two books, The Breath of Life: An Introduction Cran...

Ostrolenk speaks to professional photographer Beau Simmons and Army Rangers Dan Blakeley and Tom Amenta about their new book “The Twenty-Year War: A Photo Journal Dedicated to Veterans of the Global War on Terror and Their Stories.” In the book, American combat veterans open up about their military service, the hard realities of combat, their transitions post-military, and what it’s like to find p...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with returning guest Brent Gleeson, a Navy SEAL combat veteran with combat tours to Iraq and Africa. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling a...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Alexsys Thompson, MLC, BCC is a best-selling author of the book “The Power of a Graceful Leader: Flow, Integration and Alignment,” a keynote speaker, executive integration coach, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Her work is guided by her life’s missi...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Today’s guests are Curt Cronin and Jamie Wheal. From Navy SEAL Tier One Operator to entrepreneur, Curt has a track record of making the impossible possible. He creates an energetic force field of coherence for teams to drop into flow and high performance. Curt received his MBA at...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Cara Bradley, a leading authority of mental fitness who has led thousands through her signature strategies to work and play in flow. She shares body-based trainings with Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and premiere college sports teams. Her work focuses on...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Vicki Starr. Vicki devoted herself to her family and her career. She also participated in multiple physical challenges including marathons, six Ironman races, the Boston Marathon, Ultramarathon and SEALFIT's 20X. At 45 years old as an empty nester and not fin...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human" where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Today’s podcast format differs from most on our show and is a dialogue between Ostrolenk and Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence, and a Creative Emergence Coach. Ostrolenk and James discuss: - How James brought improv and integral theater into a salon space -...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Ostrolenk speaks with Pilar Geroseemo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, “The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World.” She is best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Li...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Today I speak with Mansal Denton "Little Beaver," the founder of Sacred Hunting, host of the Mansal Denton Podcast, and the subject of an upcoming documentary BELOW THE DROP, which explores our relationship to life and death through hunting. Feeling insecure in early life, he chas...

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Today I speak with Wendy Taylor, a career coach who helps each client identify their unique gifts and value proposition and find a job where they can express their full potential and be well rewarded for it. Wendy brings a rare combination of experience to her practice. She has de...

Welcome to The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Today I speak with Dr. Melissa Petersen, an expert in thriving, and a best-selling author, speaker, and thought leader in epigenetics and precision longevity. Dr. Petersen is also the host of the Igniting Limitless Podcast, an advisor to Heads Up Health Technologies, and the founde...