The Ten Thousand (10,000) Heroes Show

Hey everybody! Today's episode is a debrief: Nate and I talked about the last episode with movement guru Katy Bowman. Nate helps unpack some of the context behind Katy's work, and applies her style of thinking not only to the "health" inflection of the body, but to what it can mean for our potential to pay attention to movement in the way Katy is proposing.   For individuals of course, but also fo...

This week's interview is with Katy Bowman. While Katy is officially a biomechanist, she's best known as an award-winning author who reaches hundreds of thousands of people every month. She has published eight books and been all over TV, but I know her mainly as an incredibly thoughtful and creative person (and friend).   As I was reviewing this interview, I think the thing I was proudest off is th...

  Hey, Ankur here. I really stuck my neck out on this one: Recklessly recording an off-the-cuff definition of a term people have worked on for decades (Teal) Playing that definition live for a personal hero of mine (Jeff Salzman, host of the Daily Evolver, and 10kk #00041) Giving him the microphone to comment on it.   Luckily, it wasn't that bad… But Jeff does a lovely job of providing all the con...

(with apologies to the estate of Lao Tzu…)   I think we're coming to the conclusion of a cycle here. The first solocast I did this quarter was about this notion of the Teal Society.   The second got into the similarities between two seemingly different tools or worldviews: Loving One's Enemies and The Scientific Method, both of which I think we're going to need to assimilate into the core of being...

This was both an easy and tough episode to record.   John Giuliano being one of my mentors and heroes, I could talk about him for days (or more). But to really capture the essence of what he brings us, with his Being, is beyond my ability to share.   But, you know, Nate and I did our best.   We get into Romero, Gandhi, John's history with prisons, the difference between having an orchestrated plan...

My guest this episode is John Giuliano. You've probably never heard of him, but he's a real, true hero. And not just in the sense of knowing how he wants to contribute, but actually in terms of the relationship he cultivates between himself and others.   He gets, on a fundamental level, that this distinction between self and other is an illusion, and therefore, that the whole notions of selfishnes...

So this is the 3rd part in what might be a 4-part series this quarter. In this episode I outline a line of dependence from:   Achieving impossible goals The hidden hard part of planning Maintaining consistency through inspiration and accountability The role of community in accountability   Which should perfectly set us up for the dinner party episode (next week).   I take a couple of detours into...

After some initial roasting and banter, Nate gets down to business and tries to understand what Melvin means by bringing love to the darkness.   That completed, he then interrogates Micah's assertion that we're all artists.   If that's true – if being an artist is YOUR birthright – then what are we all doing with our time (since it's probably not art)?   We get into that and explore how we can eac...

In this episode, I try to unpack the Noah Rasheta episode with Nate. He gives me some lip, including throwing shadows over the whole project last year around Purpose, and questioning whether anybody – including Noah – finds that concept useful. We fight a little bit and make up.    Nate tries to bring it back to Feldenkrais (like he always does), I try to bring things around to Gandhi (like I alwa...

I have two main goals with these solocasts: advancing the mission of this podcast, and getting more interaction with our listener community. So far it's working: I just had a conversation with Jeff Salzman (#00041) about my definition of the Teal Society last time around (#00046).   I thought he was going to body slam me, and maybe he did, but it was surprisingly gentle.   So this time, I'm going...

In this episode, I try to unpack the Noah Rasheta episode with Nate. He gives me some lip, including throwing shadows over the whole project last year around Purpose, and questioning whether anybody – including Noah – finds that concept useful. We fight a little bit and make up.    Nate tries to bring it back to Feldenkrais (like he always does), I try to bring things around to Gandhi (like I alwa...

The first interview of Season 5! The first interview of 2023! I am so excited!   I'm also delighted to have had some really beautiful moments with my guest, Noah Rasheta.   Noah's probably best known as the host of the Secular Buddhism podcast, and an author, and a paragliding instructor. I was really moved by his story – from Dan Greening, a previous guest – and I really benefited from his story,...

I'm trying something new. Szechuan peppers. Just kidding, I've liked those for a long time.   Solocasts. My idea with this project is to explore the relationship between community building (#irl, not just for marketing), learning from opposing/contradictory points of view, and our collective evolution as a society (the codeword is Teal, from the integral philosophy and spiral dynamics people).   T...

This is Ten Thousand Heroes and I'm Ankur Shah Delight.   Welcome back and Happy New Year.   This episode marks the crossing of a threshold. After over 18 months in existence, and our first 80 episodes under our built, I wanted to share my goals for the podcast in 2023, and some first steps of how I think I'm going to get there.   My big, hairy, audacious goal (Thanks Jim) for this podcast is to t...

Matt Coffman is one of my best and oldest friends. It's actually hilarious that it took 44 interviews to get him on the show, and my intention – with you as my witness, dear listener – is that there will never been a gap that long again.   For this conversation, I wanted to flip our normal narrative about purpose on its head, and get into the question of what is stopping the humans (you, me, every...

  This whole season we've been talking about purpose. In today's episode, Nate and I discuss how Amy Robbins's approach to death can influence that sense of purpose   One thing I loved is this specter of "The Life Review" that Amy brings to us. How can anticipating the moment of our death give us insight as to how to live our lives? How can it contribute to our our sense of vision, meaning, and pu...

I know I'm not supposed to have favorites. And I have favorites. And this episode is a little my favorite (so far). Maybe it's just because I had no idea what to expect, and when the psychologist I was talking to (Amy) revealed she speaks to the dead, I was totally thrown off balance… which made the rest of the interview really fun.   My conversation with Amy also really puts my theories and big t...

Ten Thousand Heroes is a show about vision, meaning, and purpose. We seek inspiration from people actively living their purpose and share their insights, tips, and struggles with you.   Today's episode is a debrief. Join our hosts Ankur Shah Delight and Nathan Ramos as they debrief last week's interview with Stephen Jenkinson.   Today we're exploring some of the many concepts that Stephen's interv...

Hey everybody. This was a powerful interview to record. Stephen Jenkinson has quite a presence and it took me from my default jovial nature to a real sense of centering and depth and real-ity.    He invites (demands?) me to question my priorities: death over growth, my ancestors over myself.   If the goal of this show is to participate in your evolution, then this episode is one of our best.   I'm...

    Ten Thousand Heroes is a show about vision, meaning, and purpose. We seek inspiration from people actively living their purpose and share their insights, tips, and struggles with you. Today's episode is a debrief. Join our hosts Ankur Shah Delight and Nathan Ramos as they debrief last week's interview with Jeff Salzman   Nate and Ank unpack Jeff's decision to take on twitter and his contributi...

This is Ten Thousand Heroes and I'm your host Ankur Shah Delight.   Ten Thousand Heroes is about Purpose, Vision, and Inspiration. I see us all as arrows of love contributing to the evolution of human happiness and consciousness, each in our own unique and perfect way.    My conversation today was with Jeff Salzman, who is best known for his podcast The Daily Evolver. We've run into the integral w...

Ten Thousand Heroes is a show about vision, meaning, and purpose. We seek inspiration from people actively living their purpose and share their insights, tips, and struggles with you.   Today's episode is a debrief.   Join our hosts Ankur Shah Delight and Nathan Ramos as they debrief last week's interview with Stephanie Lepp, getting all up into non-violence, personal responsibility, integral phil...

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.   Welcome back! I'm so excited about today's episode. It's one of the ones I wanted to release the day I did the interview, because it was just...

Ten Thousand Heroes is a show about vision, meaning, and purpose. We seek inspiration from people actively living their purpose and share their insights, tips, and struggles with you. Today's episode is a debrief. Join our hosts Ankur Shah Delight and Nathan Ramos as they debrief last week's interview with Dan Greening.   Nate captures his understanding of Agile methodologies and then relentlessly...

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.   Welcome back to 10,000 Heroes.   Our guest today is Dan Greening, a host of the Mindful Agility podcast and an experienced hand at both Agile...