The Michael Ostrolenk Show

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. Today I speak with Ruth Culver who is an IFS somatic psychotherapist based in Brighton, UK. She works with adults and teenagers, in groups and individually, with a particular interest in trauma, attachment and resilience. We discuss her Survive/Thrive Spiral graphic which integrat...

Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today I speak with Luba Vangelova (http://www.lubavangelova.com/), a co-founder of several pioneering, mixed-ages co-learning groups for independent learners, including The Hub (https://thehub.community/), and author of numerous articles on the future of le...

Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today I speak with Andy and Kacy Panfil, from fierceplanetadventures.com: a married couple on a mission to inspire 1,000,000 people to live a life of purpose, passion, and self-mastery through the Unbeatable Mind Operating System. Andy and Kacy describe how...

Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today I speak with Antero Alli, author of two books advancing Timothy Leary’s 8-Circuit Brain model: “Angel Tech” published in 1985 and “The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body”, published in 2009. Alli discusses his work wit...

Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today I speak with Dr. Leslie Ellis, a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (https://www.amaz...

Ostrolenk, host of The Emergent Human, speaks with Brian C. Muraresku, an alumnus of Georgetown Law, member of the New York Bar, and author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. Muraresku’s book is a groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics played in the origins of Western civilization. Muraresku discusses what drove his interest in researching psychedelics...

Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today I’d like to welcome back Ryan Frisinger, an interdisciplinary specialist operating at the intersections of medicine, consciousness and culture. Following my last call with Frisinger, in which we explored the complex relationship between humans and ani...

Welcome to the Emergent Human, with Michael Ostrolenk where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today’s guest is Ryan Frisinger, an interdisciplinary specialist operating at the intersections of medicine, consciousness and culture. Ostrolenk and Frisinger discuss the complex relationship of humans and animals, including the ownership of animals and th...

Diego de Soto, social entrepreneur and writer, guest hosts today’s #ORadio show during which De Soto interviews Jim Turner, Cofounder of the Transpartisan Review (http://www.transpartisanreview.org/) and Board Chair of Citizens for Health and Voice for HOPE. Turner begins by discussing the Solution Voters Strategy (http://www.transpartisanreview.org/beating/), a method to identify and mobilize ‘so...

Ostrolenk speaks with Patricia Karnowski, who has been helping women get pregnant naturally for more than 19 years. She has a masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City. Karnowski discusses the path that led her to this work and her experience with women around the globe. Despite cultural differences, she’s come to learn that there is...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Dominguez, Chief Growth Officer at the WHY Institute. Dan discusses his career path prior to the WHY Institute, his desire to spend time with his family and to serve others, and how those experiences led him to find his WHY in life. Discovering your WHY in life, Dominguez details, is the first step in self-awareness. Knowing the WHY of family, friends, and co-workers can...

Ostrolenk speaks with Johnathan Lang, an Iraq War Veteran and Natural Movement Coach who loves helping folks find more meaning, health, and wholeness in their lives. Lang details the life events that led him to the path of coaching, including his service in Iraq, though which experiences with both death and love taught him the importance of living a life that constrains evil and harnesses good. Hi...

Ostrolenk speaks with Hans Skulstad, a Sports Performance Coach and licensed therapist. Skulstad discusses the path that took him to a career in sports performance and how he has integrated skills and concepts from traditional sports psychology, EMDR, Neurofeedback, Heart Rate Variability Training, and systemic concepts into his practice. He details methods to shift out of negative body and mind s...

Ostrolenk speaks to Martin Ucik, author of "Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men” and “Sex Purpose Love.” Ucik details how he discovered Integral Philosophy, and his journey to discover meaningful relationships, sex, love, and passion. Discovering the three things that lead to happiness - healthy relationships, healthy body and mind, and purpose – has inspired his work in teaching and writing....

Ostrolenk speaks with Mark Divine, a retired Navy SEAL Commander, founder of SEALFIT, Unbeatable Mind Academy, and Kokoro Yoga. Drawing from Divine’s newest book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams, Ostrolenk and Divine discuss leadership during VUCA environments. Divine details the seven core principles of leadership including Trust, Courage, Respect, Growth, E...

Ostrolenk speaks with Andrew Lautz who is a Policy and Government Affairs Manager with National Taxpayers Union. They discuss NTU’s new paper entitled “Reforming the OCO Account: A Better Deal for Taxpayers, Watchdogs, and the Military.” (https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/reforming-the-oco-account-a-better-deal-for-taxpayers-watchdogs-and-the-military) The paper includes Ten OCO Reform Optio...

Ostrolenk speaks with Owen Marcus, author of A Man’s Guide to Masculine Emotional Intelligence, has developed programs that bring together mindfulness, somatic psychotherapy, and the science of emotional physiology. Marcus’ work focuses on men’s emotional intelligence and its connection to the physiology of the body. He further details the benefits to stress reduction and creating fulfilling relat...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Anita Sanchez, author of the international award- winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, Simon & Schuster. Dr. Sanchez is a visionary woman of Mexican American and indigenous Aztec heritage, a consultant, trainer and speaker who guides journeys into the Amazon rainforest to support business, families, and indigenous cultures. Dr. Sanchez...

Ostrolenk speaks with Josette and Ba Luvmour, educators who have started several holistic education schools, a holistic learning center for families and children, and many whole-family immersion programs. They also work as Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University, in the IMA program in Social Sciences, Concentration in Transformative Learning. Josette and Ba begin by discussing how their work revolve...

Ostrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, MSW, a psychotherapist in private practice and Director of Focusing on Borden (http://www.focusingonborden.com/), a center for teaching focusing and focus-oriented therapy. Jan discusses what brought her to the work that she does, her experience with knowing how to listen, and her use of the Felt Sense, the internal bodily awareness that functions as a connection...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Lara Pence, a licensed clinical psychologist who serves as Chief Wellness Specialists for Spartan, and hosts the weekly podcast Spartan Mind. Dr. Pence and Ostrolenk discuss LighfBox (https://www.drlarapence.com/lighfbox) a creation of Pence’s that includes 180 cards of prompts, intentions, and questions designed to spark curiosity, drive self-awareness, and initiate chan...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Mickra Hamilton, Co-Founder and CEO of Apeiron Zoh Corporation (https://www.apeironzoh.com/), a precision performance ecosystem that curates limitless expression of human possibility. Mickra is also a decorated retired Colonel who spent 30 years in the USAFR as a Systems Strategist and Human Performance Subject Matter Expert. Dr. Hamilton informs a new paradigm of what is...

Ostrolenk speaks with Joseph K. Grieboski, a social entrepreneur, founder of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy, and internationally recognized expert in religious freedom, national security, counter-extremism, human rights, and conflict transformation. Grieboski discusses what led him to the work that he does, the values he aspires to, and the importance of bringing all parties to the ta...

Ostrolenk speaks with Amanda Jade Fiorino, a Mythic Medicine Guide, agent of the Feral Feminine, writer, poetess, and mother. Fiorino’s work supports people in cultivating soul-routed pathways of participation and psychospiritual resiliency and resourcing. She discusses how she came to work in this field and her desire to approach human development from a holistic approach, helping people to becom...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Dee Joy Coulter, a nationally recognized neuroscience educator known for her unique ability to present complex ideas in clear and humorous ways that are useful for her audiences. Dr. Coulter discusses COVID-19 and the cognitive complexity that would be necessary to adequately deal with the pandemic. Most importantly, it would require a body-mind connection that allows us...