The Ten Thousand (10,000) Heroes Show

What did this episode awaken in you? Don't be shy. https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow   Using the last 10 minutes of Deepa Iyer's episode as a springboard, Jeff and I investigate what an integral and inclusive reaction to the culture wars around race would look like. I take the opportunity to tell a story from the Salt March pilgrimage I did, and to share a little bit about my own personal healing...

What did this episode awaken in you? Don't be shy. https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow   Ank tries something new this time: recounting myths. One is a story of King Minos and corruption (with a little bestiality thrown in for good measure) and the other of "incomplete" faith in Krishna, and whose dinner gets interrupted…   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh....

What did this episode awaken in you? Don't be shy. https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow   This is Ten Thousand Heroes and I'm Ankur Shah Delight.   10kh is here to provide inspiration, intimacy, and maybe even a little bit of guidance, as to what it means to live a truly purposeful life, and how we each can get there in our own individual way.   Today's episode is with photographer Rik Nagel. In 202...

  What can I do today to build the life of my dreams?   Matt, Nate, and I host a goals workshop every quarter, to help our members make the most progress towards their goals.   On March 25th, for the first time, we are opening up part of the Q2 Goals Day Workshop to our 10,000 Heroes listeners.   We will each present on different aspects of quarterly goal setting, and how to align your actions wit...

What did this episode awaken in you? Don't be shy. https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow   We did it! We hosted our first ever live event for the podcast. People came from all over the country and hung out to some really inspiring music!   If you missed it, here's the recording. And don't miss the next event… sign up to get updates at http://momentumlab.com/podcast !   Also, I was really excited to h...

What did this episode awaken in you? Don't be shy. https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow   I'm continuing the thread Jeff Salzman laid out for me last week, and investigating what is GOOD and BEAUTIFUL about the "Red" level of development. Specifically: Anger, Adrenaline, and the Warrior mindset.   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Podcast website: http:...

    Today's episode is a brief investigation of what it takes to respond out of compassion instead of out of pain. Nate is asking and I'm giving mostly unsatisfactory responses. By the third attempt though, it gets to something useful for him.   On this topic especially – dear listener – we would love to hear your thoughts…   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@1...

What did this episode awaken in you? Don't be shy. https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow   Deepa Iyer is a veteran of social change movements, dating back at least 20 years to post 9/11 hate crimes. In this interview we take it way back and trace the throughline of justice and belonging from Deepa's childhood to today. We then present Deepa's Social Change Map, offer some approaches to quenching burn...

Today I'm going to make the experiment a bit personal. If I'm here to be my fullest most integrated self, and live up to my potential, then Jeff Salzman would probably tell me I had to integrate ALL the wisdom and ALL the learning from every stage of our human journey, both personal and societal.   In fact, that's exactly what he told me in this episode, and he gave me some hints on how to to do i...

Nate and Ank explore the powerhouse tour de force round of amazement that was Ashanti's episode a few weeks ago, and Nate takes the opportunity to get deeper into what Ank is actually trying to do, both on this episode, this podcast, and with human interaction in general…   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Podcast website: http://momentumlab.com/podc...

Ring the bell! This is a new kind of episode and one that I'm really excited about – because this podcast is about building a community of purpose, and community takes interaction.   So it's our first off-the-shelf community response to an episode. Joanna Cutler "called in" and left her take on the Katy Bowman episode. It's short, it's sweet, it's thought provoking – everything a listener call-in...

  In today's show, I got a real education.   I thought talking with Josh would focus on the benefits of living in community – and we got there, alongside his own uncommon childhood and what he took from it – but we really started with the history of home ownership in the US, which I knew absolutely nothing about.   Fascinating. Sordid. Creepy. And just a few key points are enough to explain so muc...

  One of my unconscious obsessions is community. Basically: I love hanging out.   (And I'm good at it)   So I'm getting a few people whom I love, I admire, and I've learned from to share their wisdom around building community with me. And the first one is today's episode with Shilpa Jain (Who was on in the first season of this show).   Here are the questions I posed to Shilpa at the outset:   1) W...

Part of our ongoing conversation with Jeff Salzman is how to integrate multiple points of view, so we can learn and include as we go through life instead of just Rejecting Things We Don't Like.   Jeff highlights for us how that integration often happens: through Boredom. He gives an example from his own life if getting Bored with his own perspective, and letting that open him to other ways interpr...

This episode is about reconciling opposites. In this case, planning and relaxation. I introduce a tool I use called the Chain of Inspiration, which helps me connect the uninspiring actions I might have to take in the near term with what really calls to me in terms of action and results in the long term.    We use the Chain of Inspiration concept regularly in Momentum Lab with profound results. Rem...

This interview is about lemons, lemonade, and murder.   When Jan Canty's husband of 11 years was murdered (decades ago), it turned her life upside down and inside out. But she ended up taking that energy, harvesting it, and used it to save her own life (first from depression, then from cancer), and has now dedicated her life to providing resources for homicide survivors, and education for the resp...

  So this is a bit of a strange episode. It's a kind of gratitude meditation, in public. Which I've never really done before! But the idea is to take the theory Matt laid out in the pro-active gratitude episode and lay it out with respect to the bread. To go deep and acknowledge all those factors that conspire to make our lives possible.   And to do so not just when they go wrong (oops I broke my...

  In today's episode, Nate gives us the harrowing download of his supposedly fun vacation on a Mexican sandar. We enter into themes of (ir)responsible travel and the legacy of imperialism, and receive some good storytelling from Nate.   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Podcast website: http://momentumlab.com/podcast Momentum Lab: http://www.momentuml...

  In this episode Ankur interviews Ashanti Branch, founder of the Ever-Forward Club (based in Oakland) and prophet of bringing emotional literacy to young men.    As I relistened to the episode, Ashanti's path (and passion) seem even more radical to me: the dominant narratives around "what to do with" young men who are not on the success track seem to be Prison ("Tough Love") and Shape Up and Go T...

  The whole point of the Teal Society project is this gambit that every side, every perspective, is holding on to a fragment of The Truth. And that this Truth, this Right Thing, exists, and we can find it if we put together our puzzle pieces in just the right way.   So I thought of the most contentious and heart-rending issue out there – at the center of the culture wars – and asked Jeff to give "...

  For this week's supposedly "solo" cast I'm going to share a perspective from my friend (and Momentum Lab co-founder) Matt Coffman on gratitude. And then next week I'm going to give an example of proactive gratitude based on my daily sourdough bread practice.   Proactive gratitude is really deep and really transformative. Pay attention to this one. Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.co...

If you've been listening to the show for a while, you probably know that I have a lot of blind spots.   Sports. Movies. Pop music. Etc.   In today's episode, I get an unexpected education about Oprah, en route to getting to what purpose is for my guest, Robyn Miller Brecker.    I love this interview because on the face of it, Robyn and I are coming from very different cultures. And at the essence...

I'm back with one of my greatest heroes this week, John Giuliano. I did a big long interview with John a couple of weeks ago (#00053), and my goal now is to have little conversations like this one on a regular basis.    I got John's take on the solocast I did on Gandhi's letter to Hitler (#00049) – and the connection between the scientific method and gandhi's non-violence. It was perfect timing, a...

Please join us for a musical cocktail hour that brings creativity, music, and spirituality together with a trio of 10,000 Heroes Alums.   Micah Lapidus and Melvin Myles, an amazing interfaith duo from Atlanta, will play, sing, and hang out with us. Check out their 10kh interview and their TED talk .   As a special treat opener, multi-instrumentalist Joe Bridge will perform a song of hope from his...

We're getting into it this time – love, value, service, and the meaning of life – through a 5 minute introduction and a wild hypothesis I have of our potential for happiness and contribution.    It's a sensitive topic, so I'm going to work in some sourdough bread to take the edge off….   En garde! Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Podcast website: htt...