Deep Sit Podcast
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA podcast about living with meaning, purpose, and a heightened sense of present-moment awareness in the pursuit of wisdom.
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15 - Yael Shy - Listen to Yourself
March 22, 2018 12:36 - 57 minutes - 53 MBI have a wonderful guest on today and I'm very excited to share this conversation with you. In thinking about the message of today's conversation I was reminded of a comment I recently heard Jack Kornfield make when he was interviewed by Tim Ferriss. They were talking about Tim's recent silent meditation retreat and the benefits of them, and seeking out master teacher to help with your practice. I'll admit, taking a few days for silent retreat, even a few weeks, months maybe, sounds prett...
14 - Daron Larson - Don't Try to Be Mindful
March 08, 2018 20:51 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBToday on the show we are going to hit mindfulness head on and talk about how we might be getting tripped up by the practice, and how, according to my guest, we might be doing it wrong. Now don't interpret that as a judgement or criticism, but more like permission to take some of the pressure off. I know that over the years of practicing sitting meditation, I've had times where I get a little caught up in the practice, looking for it to do something for me, or I'm watching my meditation str...
13 - Atz Kilcher (5/5) - Getting On With It (and a Bonus!!)
February 23, 2018 15:17 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBCongratulations, you made it to part 5, the final segment of my epic interview with Atz Kilcher. And while each episode stands on its own, it makes sense to start from the beginning to hear it in sequence to get a full understanding of his journey and the range of wisdom you can glean from his life experience. This episode is a great wrapper for everything we've talked about. I called it "Getting on With It" because for one, that's how Atz ends this segment, but also because for every ...
12 - Atz Kilcher (4/5) - The Victim & Resolution
February 22, 2018 17:12 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBToday is Part 4 of my interview with Atz Kilcher, and after 3 hours of digging deep into the conflict and trauma that Atz has work so hard to overcome in his life, we finally find his Mother, Ruth. I found it interesting that it took us this long to talk about her, but even more interesting when Atz told me he originally intended to write his new memoir, Son of a Midnight Land, about her. But maybe just as it took us 3 hours to finally talk about her, he needs more time to dig into the c...
11 - Atz Kilcher (3/5) - PTSD
February 21, 2018 15:47 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBWe've made it to the half way point in my interview with Atz Kilcher, and after two and a half hours you might expect we'd be getting close to wrapping up, possibly running out of things to talk about. Not the case here, everything up until this point was really just a warm up. As we enter hour three of our conversation we address PTSD, a debilitating mental and emotional disorder that has gone by many names in history, but is perhaps just now getting the attention it deserves in society...
10 - Atz Kilcher (2/5) - Generosity & Rejection
February 08, 2018 15:10 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBToday I continue my interview with Atz Kilcher. This is Part 2 and is where Atz really started to help me personally. I don't know if I mentioned this in the intro to Part 1, but my experience sitting with Atz for a day was life changing, and I don’t say that lightly. I don't do this podcast to report the news, or simply deliver someone else's message. My main objective when I sit down with someone is to learn and find the guiding wisdom that I can integrate into my own life. It soun...
09 - Atz Kilcher (1/5) - Hard Work
February 05, 2018 17:05 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBPart 1 - Hard Work: Today I'm kicking off my interview series with Atz Kilcher. I felt like I sat down with someone, who at the age of 70, with perhaps nothing left to prove, is on the brink of discovering the true or perhaps ultimate meaning and purpose of his life. Atz is the son of Alaskan homesteaders, gaining unexpected fame late in life on reality TV on the series Alaska: The Last Frontier, and of course he is father to Jewel Kilcher, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of...
08 - Shinzen Young - Arrive Where You Started - Pt 2
January 26, 2018 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBArrive Where You Started - Part 2 Today I have someone very special on the show, one of the most respected and well-known teachers of mindfulness and meditation. His name is Shinzen Young, and his recent book, The Science of Enlightenment, immediately caught my attention because I've never thought of enlightenment in scientific terms before, and of course what really turned me on to meditation was how neuroscience has captured what happens in the brain. Given that the word enlightenment ...
07 - Shinzen Young - Arrive Where You Started - Pt 1
January 25, 2018 17:36 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBArrive Where You Started - Part 1 Today I have someone very special on the show, one of the most respected and well-known teachers of mindfulness and meditation. His name is Shinzen Young, and his recent book, The Science of Enlightenment, immediately caught my attention because I've never thought of enlightenment in scientific terms before, and of course what really turned me on to meditation was how neuroscience has captured what happens in the brain. Given that the word enlightenment ...
06 - Normal is Overrated - Pilar Gerasimo
January 09, 2018 14:53 - 1 hour - 107 MBFrom the moment we sat down for this conversation, my guest today gave me a sense of genuine inspiration to be a better person, to be a more authentic person, living with gratitude, acceptance, and grace. Her name is Pilar Gerasimo, and many of you know her as the founder of Experience Life Magazine, which she ran for 15 years. But now she has embarked on some new ventures including a wonderful podcast called The Living Experimentwith her co-host Dallas Hartwig, she has developed a concept...
05 - Part 2 - If You Do Right, You Feel Right - Ryan Wolfington
December 18, 2017 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBThis is the first interview in a special series spotlighting the Inspiring Children Foundation. I'm starting off the series with co-founder Ryan Wolfington. Ryan and I met during a social hour of the Mindful Leadership Summit in Washington DC where I was doing interviews for the Meditate This! Podcast. I'm standing at my table just cleaning up and putting away my mic, and this lone wolf appears out of the crowd and asks what I'm up to, and the next thing you know we've been standing there ...
04 - Part 1 - If You Do Right, You Feel Right - Ryan Wolfington
December 18, 2017 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThis is the first interview in a special series spotlighting the Inspiring Children Foundation. I'm starting off the series with co-founder Ryan Wolfington. Ryan and I met during a social hour of the Mindful Leadership Summit in Washington DC where I was doing interviews for the Meditate This! Podcast. I'm standing at my table just cleaning up and putting away my mic, and this lone wolf appears out of the crowd and asks what I'm up to, and the next thing you know we've been standing there ...
03 - SPECIAL - In Their Own Words - Inspiring Children Foundation
December 18, 2017 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBIn Their Own Words - An Introduction to the Inspiring Children Foundation Today we are kicking off a series of interviews spotlighting an amazing organization called the Inspiring Children Foundation. You are going to hear from a group of inspiring individuals, many of whom are just teenagers. But let me be the first to tell you that these "kids" have wisdom beyond their years. The Foundation was started by Ryan Wolfington and renowned Las Vegas tennis coach Marty Hennessy, and is...
02 - I Was That Homeless Guy - Mark Horvath
December 11, 2017 16:35 - 1 hour - 90 MBToday on the show I bring you someone who is bound to put a smile on your face because of his positive attitude and terrific sense of humor, but he will also challenge you to consider your relationship to what is perhaps one of the most uncomfortable and perplexing problems we face across the globe. Mark Horvath isn't just an advocate for homeless people, he was that homeless guy, and he's now well-known for starting a non-profit media company called Invisible People, which through video of...
01 - The Pillars of Meaning with Emily Esfahani Smith
December 05, 2017 15:29 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBMy guest today is Emily Esfahani Smith, author of the book The Power of Meaning. As a matter of fact, Emily was the first person I invited as a guest on this podcast and this interview really sets up the perfect framework for what's to come. Pay special attention here as the pillars that support a meaningful life, as Emily defines them, come up time and again in the guest interviews that follow. I spend quite a bit of time talking to Emily about self-transcendence, which I saw as a com...