Crazy Wisdom

What is the role of stress in elite performance? Julia Dujmovits - Olympic Gold Winner

How do you deal with the anxiety that comes from being on stage? - Joey Greiner: CEO of Woojo

How does meditation help you to find balance while creating something new? Anders Jones - CEO of Facet Wealth

Anders Jones is the CEO of Facet Wealth, a financial management company that works with financial advisors to grow practices, enhance service and plan responsible transitions. He is a daily meditator. Meditation helps him to find balance in the face of rapid change and knowing when to change based on the current circumstances. It also helps him make better decisions and be more empathetic to the people he is managing. You will like this episode if you want to learn more about empathetic ...

How do you stay calm when everything around you is telling you to freak out? - Ruben Harris: Founder of Breaking Into Startups

What is your core emotional value? What is your purpose on this planet? Demian Rosenblatt - Graphic Designer

Demian Rosenblatt is a graphic designer who has done design work for both tech startups and larger organizations. He just recently helped the MTA find their core emotional value and put that into their new branding and design. He has some really interesting insights into how to protect the integrity of the design while interfacing with multiple stakeholders in large organizations. You will like this episode if you want to find out the difference between art and design, if you want insights...

How Meditation Can Help You Connect The Puzzle Pieces of Your Life? - Kari Sulenes of the Atlas Project

Is enlightenment contagious? Andy Richter - Photographer of Yogis

Why you should listen to this episode: Andy started taking pictures of yogis around the world in 2012. Anyone who spends time with people devoted to a yoga practice has a lot of interesting stories to share. Andy does not disappoint. The New York times even did a piece on his work. There is so much valuable info here in terms of yoga's growing popularity around the world. It's like a virus and Andy has a lot of insight into its spread. Andy's voice is so soothing and melodic. Seriously...

Can you view stress as a motivator instead of as a disease? - Keith Rabois of Founders Fund

One of the most powerful lessons I learned from this interview is that Keith is a relentless self-experimenter. Everything he talks about in this interview he has tested on himself. What of the most effective ways to learn is to learn the hard lessons from other people so you don't have to learn them yourself the hard way. Keith offers a lot of wisdom here for you to absorb.Keith suggested the book "The Upside of Stress" to me on our twitter exchange. This book basically says that the con...

How do you act when surrounded by stress and difficulty? - Julia Vasquez

Why you should listen to this episode: Julia has some really great techniques and tips for practicing mindfulness and meditation. She is an experienced teacher and has taught all around the world including in refugee camps. Julia offers some powerful wisdom about how to operate when surrounded by stress and friction. She does not sugar coat her wisdom and if you value truth you will find it here. I've found that many people are unaware when they meet truly compassionate and wise peop...

Does following your bliss lead to more success in work and life? - Bill Tai of Bitfury

Bill Tai is a very successful entrepreneur and investor. Not only is he successful according to external validators of success, but he is also humble and shares his knowledge and brilliance without expectation of reciprocation. It is a rare gift to be both successful and humble, and our conversation contains actionable wisdom to do this. Even though my podcast is primarily about meditation and its effect on creativity, we veered into talking about the history of work and how techno...

This is your Brain on Nature - Julia Plevin Founder of the Forest Bathing Club

Julia Plevin is an author and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Forest Bathing Club in San Francisco. She started studying the mental health consequences that people suffer from when they don't get enough time in nature. After this she decided to dedicate her life to getting people back to a state of nature and thus the Forest Bathing Club was born. (0-10 minutes) Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address We respect your privacy. Than...

Michelle Tsng - Can a robot love a human better than another human can?

She explains how she first got into mindfulness. She says that originally she didn't know what mindfulness was and thought it wasn't that cool. After quitting PayPal she started to look inward. She didn't know what mindfulness was but she did know how to practice self-love and self-care. She used to be really busy all the time when working. Once she quit she loved having the time to practice self-love and a more simple lifestyle compared to the working life. She would learn from people aro...

Aldric Negrier - CEO of ZenVow: Can you build a technology product that supports a meditation practice?

(0-10 minutes) Aldric is a serial entrepreneur from Portugal who owns a 3D printing company which builds 3D printers for designers all over Europe. They also make scans and designs which are all open source and come up with new concepts for 3D printable objects. Its kind of like a research and development company for 3D printing. How did Aldric first get into yoga and mindfulness? Aldric is originally from Mozambique where his mother first introduced him to Yoga. He went to the yoga te...

Corvas Brinkehoff, CTO & Cofounder of Meow Wolf - How does mindfulness set the conditions for creativity?

(0-10 minutes) Corvas is a founder and CTO of Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Meow Wolf is a psychedelic art installation that is a mix between Disneyland and burning man. Corvas runs their technology. Stewart taught Corvas yoga and meditation previously and they discuss how his practice has evolved over the last ten years as he has helped to build Meow Wolf into the thriving business and art collective it is today. Corvas explains how he doesn't think that he would be able to do what...

Francis Pedraza of Invisible Technologies - What do most people get wrong about meditation?

Check out Francis' Company Invisible Technologies (0-10 minutes) Stewart asks Francis: What does meditation mean for you? He says that being in the present is a bad response because it doesn't accurately reflect what the present is. The future merges with the present. He says you can continue to meditate when doing something mundane like thinking, planning, or abstract reasoning. He says that state of meditation is being connected to source or flow. When you are connected to everything...

Hannah Knapp of Within Meditation - How does Meditation help us to evolve as an individual and as a species?

(0-10 minutes) Hannah introduces herself and Within Meditation. Within Meditation studio is in San Francisco and they offer 30 minute guided meditations to people who work in the financial district. Hannah talks about how she teaches beginners and how that is different from teaching more experienced meditators. Beginners have a lot of expectations and they aren't sure what exactly meditation is. This requires Hannah to be more present throughout the meditation with cues to come back to t...

Andrew Murray Dunn, CEO of Siempo, How can mindfulness and software help us to remain more present in times of rapid technological change?

(10-20 minutes) Andrew talks about his struggle with technology starting when he was 12. He grew up in the suburbs and had a sibling rivalry. Technology created a happy space where he could go to get away from these things. Technology helped Andrew connect with others, but the problem was that he was always on. At the time he thought it was great. He accidentally got disconnected from technology for a week and experienced presence and being aware of all the things that were going on wh...

Charlie Huguenard of Meow Wolf - How do you create a Therapeutic Work environment?

Charlie talks about the Meow Wolf working environment and culture. He explains how its this weird progressive culture that actually supports the people working there as opposed to the stiff corporate environment that is present everywhere else. He says there is a punk angst to Meow Wolf that really draws people in. Everyone he works with gives him hugs and genuinely asks him how he is. Charlie talks about the difference between working in the tech world and working at Meow Wolf. Meow Wolf ...

Eric Fisher of Mindful Improv - How do you balance Chaos and Structure?

(0-5 minutes) Eric introduces himself and explains his current passion which is mindful improv. He teaches groups of people how to respond mindfully to social situations. He explains some exercises that he uses at the beginning of class. He talks about how he helps beginners get through initial blocks and past their fears of opening up in front of an audience. Stewart then brings up his experience as a beginner in Salsa and how when we begin anything we are only aware of a small fraction...

Dave Fontenot of Mission Control - What are the benefits of ADD when it comes to making music?

Jeremy Riney - How do you tell the difference between a Psychotic Break and a Spiritual Crisis?

Damian Taggart of Meow Wolf - Creative Flow through Yoga - Episode #1

The Language of Yoga Therapy: What makes it different from other types of Yoga?

Yoga en Espanol: First Yoga Class in Mexico City

Embracing Formlessness in your Yoga Practice