YNB Podcast

Whitney Wheelock is not your typical spiritual teacher. He worked at the Federal Reserve Bank, sold wine for a billion-dollar conglomerate, married his childhood babysitter at 21, got divorced at 26 — and then left America to find deeper meaning. What followed: 10 years living with a Tantra guru in India. But not the the kind of Tantra most people think of. Not candles and intimacy workshops. A ri...

Nathan Maingard is a musician, hippie, psychonaut, coach and father. Nathan went through iboga, Vipassana and ayahuasca ceremonies with the Huni Kuin - and came out the other side as a dedicated husband and father. In this conversation, we talk about what happens when you stop running from stillness. We go deep on feminism, the manosphere, Andrew Tate and why both extremes are symptoms of the same...

Robert Paddock is a millionaire, investor, entrepreneur – and one the most inspiring men I’ve ever met. Not because of his success in business, but because of how he shows up in life as a husband, a father and a man who has done the work. I’d been looking forward to this episode for a very long time and its already one of my all-time favorites.  If you’re tired of superficial self-development, thi...

Francis Michael is an award-winning actor and director, and one of the most quietly inspiring humans I’ve met. He’s appeared in productions like The Crown, Eye in the Sky, and The Widow, and is also the founder of the Queer Writers Incubator. This conversation goes far beyond identity labels or surface-level self-development talk. Francis speaks about the tension between who he was taught to be an...

Rob Bennett might be the wildest therapist alive. He’s 77 years old, works as a psychedelic therapist – and plays dark techno at one of Berlin’s most iconic clubs. But his story starts decades earlier in apartheid South Africa. In this conversation we go all the way back:  Rob growing up as a white kid under a racist regime, secretly supporting the ANC, losing friends to state violence and eventua...