The Michael Ostrolenk Show: Recent Episodes
Michael Ostrolenk
Today's guest is Gloria Celeste, CEO & Founder of Lavender Moon Spaces.Bio:With 10 years of experience in real estate, sales and construction management, Gloria combined her passion for altnertative living with real world solutions. Beginning with her successful business, Lavender Moon Spaces, she built off-grid van and bus conversions for 5 years before re-branding and launching the business as a New Earth Agency to offer alternative living solutions to her community.Links:lavendermoonspaces.comIG: lavendermoonspaceshttps://www.instagram.com/lavendermoonspaces?igsh=YWowd291aDEwcXRx&utm_source=qrTIMELINE0:00 Introductions, Gloria discusses her experience during a recent Vipassana retreat14:09 Michael asks Gloria to describe further the relationship between emotion and sensations in the body28:00 Gloria gives some examples of the impact of and benefit of the Vipassana retreat35: 20 Gloria discusses her sustainable home business, lavender spaces. Minimalism/nomadic life, starting custom van-life business45:38 Michael asks Gloria to describe various types of alternative living situationsWe will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.I would like to welcome back Max Borders, a Futurist, author, and speaker who lives in Austin, TX. His books include “After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals “, “ The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse” and “The Decentralist: Mission, Morality, and Meaning in the Age of Crypto”TIMELINE0:00 Life Force Sponsor Information1:33 Introduction / What is a Futurist, and what are the two primary threads of Futurism?10:30 How did this approach to life develop for you, what were your influences?15:29 Can you walk us through some of the challenges you feel we’re facing, and how these can be understood as opportunities?21:12 Michael and Max get into a discussion about the balance between local power and the risk of it being easily captured.27:19 Max discusses examples of how technology can rapidly shift power, through examples like Uber and Bitcoin.40:42 Michael invites Max to share about the breadth of what he’s written about and also how viewers can connect more with his work if they’re interested in learning more about it. Max also shares some of what he’s learned from Vedic traditions, including the conviction that we should not look to derive our morality from politics.We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your hostOne of the three pillars of the Emergent Human podcast is optimizinghealth. Part of my own process in doing so is being a member of anorganization known as Lifeforce. I joined Lifeforce after reading the book “Life Force” by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in order to get the support I needed to take my health to the next level. I am happy to announce that Lifeforce is now a show sponsor. Lifeforce’s membership provides you with at-home diagnostics, access to functional medicine doctors, health coaches, advanced nutraceuticals, hormones, and peptides. Lifeforce creates a customized plan tailored to your goals and blood work results to help you optimize your health. Their diagnostic is one of the most affordable, convenient and comprehensive blood tests out there. If you’ve been looking for a more personalized approach to improve your health in the new year, check out Lifeforce at https://www.lifeforce.com/ and use code EMERGENTHUMAN15 for 15% off your first purchase.I would like to welcome Amiel Handlesman on today show to discuss his work on embodying the self-authoring mind in everyday conversations. Amiel helps leaders navigate complexity and grow as human beings. His clients use new conversation microhabits to make clear commitments, deliver what they promise, and do this with more ease. As a writer and speaker, Amiel frames complex challenges like democracy, climate change, diversity, and “race" as practice fields for self-authorship. He has written five books including Practice Greatness, Reimagining American Identity, and How to be an Anti-race Antiracist. His free online mini-course, Nine Ways to Make the Ask, helps you use the Enneagram to make skillful requests. Amiel holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and two sons.https://amielhandelsman.comhttps://amielhandelsman.com/9-ways-to-make-the-ask/https://amielhandelsman.medium.com/We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDITIMELINE0:00 Introductions and sponsor info2:10 Michael asks Amiel about the kinds of deep questions that he’s been wrestling with since a very young age, and what that journey has looked like for him.9:25 How do you discern who is the right mentor or teacher to follow at a particular time?11:41 Michael invites Amiel to walk us through ‘The Self-Authoring Mind”, which is a way of developing one’s own capacity for following your authentic path. vs ‘The Socialized Mind’ which is living out other people’s ideas of how you should live your life.20:29 Amiel describes the differences between states, stages, and peak experiences, and then shares why this matters. They then begin to discuss the art of listening and conversing.31:43 Amiel begins to break down the different ways in which he works with his clients, starting with develop the capacity for speaking as well as working with emotions.44:12 Michael asks Amiel to share about the range of clients he’s worked with, followed by giving some examples of the kind of work he does with supporting clients’ listening capacities.1:01:15 Amiel concludes by describing an online mini-course of his - ‘9 Ways to Make the Ask’ - that he co-teaches, as well as some of his books that are available to purchase.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.One of the three pillars of the Emergent Human podcast is optimizinghealth. Part of my own process in doing so is being a member of anorganization known as Lifeforce. I joined Lifeforce after reading the book “Life Force” by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in order to get the support I needed to take my health to the next level. I am happy to announce that Lifeforce is now a show sponsor. Lifeforce’s membership provides you with at-home diagnostics, access to functional medicine doctors, health coaches, advanced nutraceuticals, hormones, and peptides. Lifeforce creates a customized plan tailored to your goals and blood work results to help you optimize your health. Their diagnostic is one of the most affordable, convenient and comprehensive blood tests out there. If you’ve been looking for a more personalized approach to improve your health in the new year, check out Lifeforce athttps://www.lifeforce.com/ and use code EMERGENTHUMAN15 for15% off your first purchase.Prime grew up in Texas, where he attended the Marine Military Academy. A few years later he would enter the Marine Infantry before advancing as a MARSOC Marine Raider, with a specialty as a Marine Corps Water Survival Instructor. He uses tools and techniques, which he brings from this background, as well as what he has learned from training thousands of individuals and teams to create personal breakthroughs. His F.R.E.E. Your Mind Guidebook is the result of these findings, in which a framework was created to coach world class athletes, business executives, and military Special Operations candidates looking to perform at a higher level. He is the co-founder of the Underwater Torpedo League and Deep End Fitness. Prime currently resides in Carlsbad, CA.LINKS:https://www.primehall.com/https://utlnation.com/https://www.deependfitness.com/We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your hostToday’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/. Today’s guest is Nicole BerschbackCole Berschback is co-founder of Total Potential, an author, Unbeatable Mind Coach, Registered Dietitian, and certified yoga instructor. She has spent the past 20 years working in health and wellness. Several formative events led her to a deep passion for families and all that is possible when we approach the family as an opportunity, not an obstacle. She supports group and 1:1 coaching to help individuals experience the best of themselves with the people they love most. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and three amazing children.Links:http://www.thetotalpotential.comWe will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
The Emergent Human Presents: Gina Worful on Creating Health from a Cellular LevelGina's Info:Personal empowerment is my passion! The greatest challenge to long lasting health is navigating the overwhelm and noise and breaking through self sabotage.My greatest strength is empowering people to know and trust their body from the inside - out. We might do this through creating a tailor made nutrition program based on their unique biochemistry or give them the method to eliminate food cravings and break through self sabotage.From this place of connection and trust with their body, health becomes effortless and empowering.My innovative courses teach people how to:- create health from a cellular level, instead of band-aiding symptoms- trust their body's wisdom to make food choices, instead of using a restrictive diet- easily overcome stress eating and food cravings, without using willpower- create confidence and self trust that will last a lifetimeExpertise: registered dietitian, weight loss success, personal empowerment coach, mindful eating, intuitive eating, health optimization and performance, food cravings coachLinks:https://www.instagram.com/gina.worful/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ginaworful/https://www.mygutsyhealth.com/gina
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host. Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today: https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/ Today’s guest is Victoria Rose. Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide.. LINKS:- Website: https://luminousbirth.earth - IG: @luminousbirth - Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings - Email address: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com - Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center - Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com - APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.comWe will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your hostToday’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.comToday’s guest is Victoria Rose BIO & LINKS Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide. She has apprenticed with elder and birth pioneer Barbara Essman, founder and director of The Sacred Birthing School on Kaua’i Hawaii - with whom she’s completed several trainings and certifications in conscious conception, pregnancy and birth, birthing the next generations, and conscious death. She’s an active member and student of APPPAH, the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Victoria has been studying ancient tradition amazonian medicine for nearly a decade, which has included spending extensive periods of time living and working alongside her beloved master teachers and their families in the Peruvian jungle. Among her vast experience sharing the healing of this wisdom tradition around the world, she’s had the privilege of working as a ceremony and retreat facilitator at Riosbo Research and Healing Center located in the heart of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve along the bank of the Nanay River in the Amazon rainforest, where the first-ever government-funded scientific research studies looking at the impacts of Ayahuasca on mental health and DNA expression are being hosted. Victoria is the founder of Luminous Birth - a living transmission that directly supports the highly sophisticated beings that are currently incarnating on planet earth. Luminous Birth an authentic weaving of modern scientific discovery and ancient wisdom and exploration of the prenatal origins of human and societal health. Victoria works predominantly online, supporting women and couples all over the world to navigate the psycho-spiritual dimensions of birth. She provides radical birth preparation and education that equips them to conceive, grow, and birth their babies IN LOVE, free of industrial obstetrical mediation and intervention. One of her main areas of work is guiding adults back to transcribe the living memories of their own birth and pre-birth, conception and pre- conception experiences, in order to reclaim the energetic excellence of their own true essence, remember their power and purpose, and revitalize their health, life, work, and relationships. She believes this is the work of our time: coming back into right-relationship with nature, and consciously engaging as active participants in our lives. Victoria is a whole-hearted believer that in order to create a new world we must birth a new humanity, and we must remember the that health of women determines the families, which determines the health of communities, and therefore the health of our world. We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your hostToday’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com Today’s guest is Melanie Sliwka Her passion and mission is to guide humanity to better health and happiness and reduce suffering. She believes that this can be accomplished through physical and mental training and trials. Supportive fueling, recovery, and self-care are at the heart of these efforts. Through the actions of Unbeatable Mind training and SEALFIT, she has been witness to thousands of people doing just this, living better lives. Living lives of service, passion, and health aligned with each person’s unique offering. She started her journey as the CEO of the first Crossfit equipment company, The Garage Gym Store. For the past 12 years, she has trained and worked with many Navy SEAL team guys, thought leaders, and top-performing executives. This experience has given her the unique mental and physical mentorship to help her assist others in this unique journey of an uncommon life.- Kids Food Fight Inc. Owner and CEO. https://www.kidsfoodfight.com/- Functional Medicine Practitioner, Medmel.com- Author of 6 weeks to Cleaner Eating.- Certified Unbeatable Mind Coach- KOKORO Yoga certified trainer- KOKORO 29 GraduateWe will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host. Today’s guests are Dr Stuart Sovatsky and Victoria Rose. Today is a trialogue on re-sacralizing conception, pregnancy, birth and family life. Shout out to Apeiron Center for Human Potential which just launched our Limitless Body: A 16-Week Weight Loss Program, for those who’ve tried everything and are ready to finally achieve and sustain their desired results:https://www.more-being.com/limitlessbodyToday’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.comVICTORIA'S BIOS & LINKS:Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide. Victoria has been studying ancient tradition amazonian medicine for nearly a decade, which has included spending extensive periods of time living and working alongside her beloved master teachers and their families in the Peruvian jungle. Among her vast experience sharing the healing of this wisdom tradition around the world, she’s had the privilege of working as a ceremony and retreat facilitator at Riosbo Research and Healing Center located in the heart of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve along the bank of the Nanay River in the Amazon rainforest, where the first-ever government-funded scientific research studies looking at the impacts of Ayahuasca on mental health and DNA expression are being hosted.• Website: https://luminousbirth.earth • IG: @luminousbirth • Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings• Email address: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com • Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center • Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com• APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.comSTUART'S BIO & LINKS:Receiving its top Club Scholarship, Stuart was degreed in Religion & Ethics from Princeton University in 1971 with a thesis on Nietzsche & Advaita. He was first in the US to bring yoga to incarcerated youth & to the homeless mentally-ill, schools and police departments in the mid1970s & was first choice to clinically-direct the Ram Dass Prison Ashram. He is the author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy, Words From The Soul, Advanced Spiritual Intimacy, The History of Yoga in America in the Columbia University Desk Reference on Eastern Religion [contract] & over forty yoga & clinical articles & chapters & was interviewed by the Science Editor for The New York Times on kundalini-tantra. His academia.com articles are commonly in the top 1% of 23million. https://princeton.academia.edu/StuartSovatskyhttps://tinyurl.com/ydhzw8srhttps://www.stuartsovatsky.com/Facebook https://tinyurl.com/ya5rw4yo • Website: https://luminousbirth.earth • IG: @luminousbirth • Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings• Email address: birthingluminousbeings@gmail.com • Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center • Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com• APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.comWe will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today. https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
Dr. Roger Jahnke , OMD, is one of the most respected luminaries in the fields of evidence-based mind-body practice, wellness, integrative medicine, and Chinese medicine for self-transformation. He has dedicated his professional life to sharing the ancient holistic empowerment and healing traditions of China, distilled for contemporary times. As the director and chief instructor of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) in Santa Barbara, California, Dr. Jahnke and his IIQTC colleagues have trained over 3000 Tai Chi and Qigong Teachers and Practice Leaders internationally. With 35 years of clinical practice as a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and 10 research tours to China’s temples and sacred mountain sites, Dr. Jahnke has emerged as a key spokesperson for and master teacher of Tai Chi, Qigong, and mind-body practice. His first book, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques to Release Your Body’s Own Medicine, delivered a revolutionary guide to self-care with simple medical Qigong practices, adaptable for every lifestyle. His second book, the groundbreaking The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi, distills the best practices drawn from 25 traditional and modern forms of Tai Chi and Qigong, and offers guidelines to tailor a personal wellness and empowerment regimen to each individual's unique needs.
INTERVIEW CONTENT: 00:00 Intro 01:50 Life history/Background 08:30 Subjectivity/Objectivity and Science 10:55 Childhood/Upbringing 14:00 Influence of Alan Watts, Yin/Yang, Duality, Integration, Acceptance 20:43 History & Corruption of Chinese Medicine; The Three Treasures (Physical Self, Mental/Emotional Self, Transcendental Presence); Mind & Heart are One 32:35 Channels and Organs; Mapping organs and associations; Consciousness; Choices, Cultivation and Trauma; Integrating Body/Mind/Spirit 37:55 Easiest first thing is Breath Practice; Breath as Biohacking 41:00 Where to follow Roger and find more info
LIST OF RESOURCES FOR DR. JAHNKE AND THE INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL QIGONG AND TAI CHI (IIQTC) – Both free and fee….
Free Resources Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi - http://instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org/ Facebook Community - https://www.facebook.com/TaiChiAndQiGongWay/ Facebook Interactive Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/taichiqigongway Qigong Library (videos, keynotes, articles) online - https://healthaction.infusionsoft.app/app/page/the-tai-chi-and-qigong-way YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/TaiChiAndQigongWay/videos
For Fee Discounted for Podcast Audience - Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Library - https://healthaction.infusionsoft.app/app/page/medical-qigong-video Discounted for Podcast Audience - Breath Medicine Video Library - https://9mm4bsz2.pages.infusionsoft.net/ Amazon.com The Healer Within Kindle & Paperback - https://www.amazon.com/Healer-Within-Traditional-Techniques-Meditation/dp/0062514776 Amazon.com The Healing Promise of Qi Hardcover - https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Promise-Qi-Creating-Extraordinary/dp/0809295288
We close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
A shoutout to my mentor, colleague and friend Stuart Sovatsky, a scholar of kundalini Yoga and author of “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality”
Ostrolenk speaks to Christos Galanis (MFA) who is an interdisciplinary artist and human geographer who has spent the past 15 years or so tracking, and making visible, the various ’spells’ through which colonialism, human-supremacism, and narcissism inhabit and inhibit relationships - both individually and culturally. His recently launched business - Kairos - helps clients to integrate more meaning and beauty into their lives through individualised ceremonies and rituals. In addition to his academic publishing, lecturing, and ethnographic field-work, he also brings years of experience teaching workshops on walking, play, performance, kink, and eco-sexuality. A practicing Animist, he is a graduate of Stephen Jenkinson’s Orphan Wisdom School, and is completing a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
LINKS: Website: www.christosgalanis.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christmas7
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
BOOKMARKS: 00:00 Intro
01:30 Christos' life-path, describing a spiritual awakening in his early 20s and a moment of grace one morning
06:30 What led from there to working with ceremony and ritual through Kairos, focusing on humans' capacity for creating beauty
10:30 Describing temporality as medicine and the meaning of time as Kairos, Chronos, and Aion in Greek.
15:15 Christos describes contexts where tuning into Kairos supports significant beginnings, endings, and transitions in life. How to slow down and allow your being to 'catch up' with what has already transpired in your life, where perhaps you didn't have the time and space to properly mark it
22:55 Christos shares the story of a significant rite of passage that he undertook, travelling to Spain to walk a pilgrimage to support the transition of a close family member's spirit who died tragically
26:40 Christos describes how his walking and movement practice is central to his maintaining a link to receiving input from Creation, which then serves as a source for the seeds of ceremonies and rituals.
30:30 Christos uses an example from Michael's own life to walk through what it might look like to work with Kairos with a prospective client. He describes how he supports the client to 'tune-in' to the un-rational, embodied intelligence that is Kairos in order to discover what the proper way to proceed might be. Christos also describes the importance of community and gathering together to witness, and to share stories.
36:40 Michael asks Christos to describe his relationship with beauty and how it's central to his work with ceremony and ritual. Christos then recounts a youtube video which documents a chimpanzee in a state of awe and exuberance as he interacts with a waterfall.
43:02 Michael and Christos discuss how important it is to bring more ceremony and ritual into our lives, especially for those who are not connected to any of the major world religions or ancestral traditions. Christos describes how ceremonies also ground us in place and connect us to our corners of the world and also to our non-human neighbours.
49:03 Christos gives info for how to reach him and work with him
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Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.
Ostrolenk speaks with Frederic Lowen, who is a psychotherapist, Bioenergetic therapist and Executive Director of The Alexander Lowen Foundation. He also is manager of Lowen copyrights and son of Alexander Lowen, M.D. the creator of Bioenergetic Analysis.
Frederic talks about his path to become a bioenergetic therapist which included a thirty year or so break from the somatic therapy world to purpose business interests including solar energy.
Mr. Lowen discusses the history of Bioenergetic therapy which goes all the way back to Dr Wilhelm Reich who provided therapy and instruction to his father Dr. Alexander Lowen in the 1940’s in the United States.
Frederic explains the Bioenergetic model and how it is implemented in the therapeutic setting to include assessing character structure, the clients biography and working with the energy of the body as well as its physical structure. He concludes with a discussion of the Alexander Lowen Foundation and its various educational and therapeutic offerings
You can learn more about the Alexander Lower Foundation-
https://www.lowenfoundation.org/
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today. https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
Ostrolenk speaks with Steven Kessler, a psychotherapist who has studied many different healing modalities and maps of personality, including the Enneagram (with Helen Palmer), NLP, energy work, Thought Field Therapy, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques or tapping). For 20 years he has been a student of Lynda Caesara, studying Character Structure, the direct perception of energy, and shamanism in the lineage of Grandfather Two Bears and the Southern Seers tradition. He is the bestselling author of The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity.
- https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Patterns-Understanding-Developing-Emotional/dp/B08T42G1S7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Z4TXVZ1KTYCB&keywords=steven+kessler+the+5+personality+patterns&qid=1655469985&sprefix=steven+kessl%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1 )
During the interview Steven takes us through the developmental tasks a person needs to master, both in utero and during childhood, and the consequences of failing to master each of those tasks. He outlines the safety strategies we adopt to try to feel safer during that time and how each safety strategy develops into a pattern which becomes part of our personality. He then discusses how our personality patterns shape our interactions with others and the value of getting out of our personality patterns and returning to simply being present in the moment.
The 5 Personality Patterns https://the5personalitypatterns.com/
A shout out to my colleague Abby Kreitler Hand, an epigenetics coach who does Preconception health coaching which focuses on optimizing the health of both parents, before becoming pregnant. This may involve improving sleep, correcting nutrient deficiencies, balancing body systems, managing stress, increasing fitness level, reducing inflammation, and even removing exposure to chemicals, medications and other substances that may impede health and fertility. Check out her work at handwellness.com
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/songwriters Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks to Deirdre Fay who is the author of “ Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body, and Heart to Feel Secure in the World” And “Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery: Simple, Safe, and Effective Practices for Therapy. “They discuss the importance of being embodied, some of the cultural and psychological obstacles to doing so and how to overcome them. Deidre also discusses her story, her training and experiences and what led her into the field. You can learn more about Deirdre’s work below
www.Dfay.com
www.dfay.com/safeguide (free safe guide access)
"Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World"
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Safely-Embodied-Organize-Secure/dp/B095QWH1S6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Deirdre+Fay&qid=1651761278&s=audible&sr=1-1 (Amazon book link)
"Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery: Simple, Safe, and Effective Practices for Therapy"
https://www.amazon.com/Attachment-Based-Yoga-Meditation-Trauma-Recovery/dp/0393709906/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Deirdre+Fay&qid=1651761278&s=audible&sr=1-2-catcorr (amazon book link)
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today. https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writer Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks to Raja Selvam Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist who developed Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP). He’s the author of “The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Guide for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes
Raja speaks of his early traumas and their effects on him and how his subsequent path through multiple Western and Eastern healing modalities (mainstream approaches of Intersubjective Psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology, somatic psychologies of Bioenergetic Analysis, Bodynamic Analysis, and Somatic Experiencing, bodywork/energy work systems of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Polarity Therapy, affective neuroscience, Yoga, and the spiritual approach of Advaita Vedanta) led him to develop his science-backed and body-based approach of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) and its core clinical strategy of the practice of embodying emotions to shorten treatment times and improve cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical, energetic, relational, and spiritual outcomes in all therapy modalities and in daily life
To learn more about his work, visit his website, read his book, and join his online professional training program: - (Google books) https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Practice_of_Embodying_Emotions/ZhLhDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+Practice+of+Embodying+Emotions&printsec=frontcover - (Amazon link) https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Embodying-Emotions-Improving-Behavioral/dp/1623174775/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+practice+of+embodying+emotions&qid=1652502794&sprefix=the+practice+of+embodying+%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1 (available trainings/ application) - https://integralsomaticpsychology.com/ - https://integralsomaticpsychology.com/what-is-integral-somatic-psychology/
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today. https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human" where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk and co-host Sardot speak with biophysicist Dr Beverly Rubik about her work in studying and researching the human biofield. Dr Rubik talks about her research into the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on the cells, the human biofield and therefore the totality of the human biological systems.
She also talks about her novel research into devices claiming to offer some degree of protection against EMFs. Part of Beverly’s work, which she discusses, was as a Member, Program Advisory Board, Office of Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), 1992-94 where she worked to make official the concept of the biofield. Dr. Rubik also discusses biophotons, live blood cell analysis and various spiritual practices that strengthen the human biofield.
You can learn more about her work;: www.frontiersciences.org www.brubik.com
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Jenny Wade Ph.D, a professor with the Integral and Transpersonal Psychology doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, developmental psychologist, and researcher.
Dr. Wade details how she transitioned from a traditional career in marketing to one where her research of consciousness forms the basis of leadership. Dr. Wade also speaks of her work in altered states during sexual experiences, and how her own experience prompted her work in this field. She’s found that the experience of altered states during sex are much like that of mystical experiences, in that most people have a similar type of experience. Interestingly, the experience is only minimally related to orgasming and for most who have experienced altered states during sex, it has prompted a subsequent spiritual journey. Dr. Wade is now also focusing her work and research on prenatal consciousness and the experience of life between lives. To learn more about her work, visit her websites, read her book, and be on the lookout for her upcoming publications: · Wade Mindsets (developmental theory): http://wademindsets.org/ · Transcendent sex: http://www.transcendentsex.org/ · https://www.millenniumschool.org/ · https://www.millennium.org/ · https://hbr.org/2022/05/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-peer-support-groups/ · Physically Transcendent Awareness - A Comparison of the Phenomenology of Consciousness Before Birth and After Death: https://www.newdualism.org/nde-papers/Wade/Wade-Journal%20of%20Near-Death%20Studies_1998-16-249-275.pdf · Two Voices from the Womb - Evidence for a Physically Transcendent and a Cellular Source of Fetal Consciousness:https://storage.googleapis.com/stateless-newearthnation-org/university/2018/01/Two-Voices-Wade.pdf
Another Shout out to Dr Stuart Sovatsky, a scholar of Kundalin Yoga. I am working with Stuart on an online class to be launched soon on his book “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality."
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Abby Hand, a Preconception Health Consultant based in beautiful Austin, Texas. Abby describes her early-career journey through the conventional medical world, an overall chalenging experience that led her to approach her own pregnancy from a different, holistic, avenue. She found her pregnancy experience to be overwhelmingly positive and healing and she contrasts this with experiences she had while working in the conventional system. Determined to help support a healthier health care system, Abby founded Hand Wellness, which specializes in helping women and couples prepare for pregnancy through positive lifestyle change and health optimization. Abby guides clients using biometric tracking and epigenetic data, and incorporates current research, traditional medicine, and natural philosophies into her coaching. In her conversation with Ostrolenk, Abby details how she works with clients, including her approach to diets, sperm health, physical activity, stress reduction, and more.
To learn more about Abby and her work, visit her website (handwellness.com), finder her on Instagram (@handwellness), or send her an email (Abby@handwellness.com).
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dayna Martin, public speaker, parenting coach, and author of three books on peaceful parenting and unschooling. Dayna speaks about her path to natural childbirth and peaceful parenting, which derived from learning to trust her own inner wisdom. From childbirth through parenting, Dayna details how society and its institutions focus on obedience and control as the key objective. Conversely, she coaches from a partnership approach, where everyone’s needs and human connection are prioritized . Discussing her own children’s development, Dayna details how she found ways to engage her children in activities that met their interests and curiosity. To learn more about natural childbirth and radical unschooling, visit Dayna’s website (https://daynamartin.com/), where you can find her books and learn more about her coaching and resources.
Shout out to Keith and Michelle Norris from Paleo FX . Paleo f(x)™ 2022 – APRIL 29 – MAY 1, 2022! Uplevel your wellness with Life-Changing Talks, Interactive Physical Experiences, and Connections that bring you all the magic of Paleo f(x)™ https://www.paleofx.com/
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfD
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.
Shout out to Dr Stuart Sovatsky, a scholar of Kundalin Yoga. I am working with Stuart on an online class to be launched soon on his book “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality" (https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Spiritual-Intimacy-Tantric-Sensuality/dp/1620552647/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TE95K0CN3GR1&keywords=stuart+sovatsky&qid=1650200375&sprefix=stuart+sov%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1)
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Today’s guest Keith Norris, the co-author with his wife Michelle of “Primal Uprising: The Paleo f(x) Guide to Optimizing Your Health, Expanding Your Mind, and Reclaiming Your Freedom." (https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Uprising-Optimizing-Expanding-Reclaiming/dp/B08ZVQTY2W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SVCWQHNJALER&keywords=keith+norris&qid=1650210200&sprefix=keith+morri%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1)
Today is a special episode of the Emergent Human where we will be discussing the upcoming PaleoFX (https://www.paleofx.com/paleo-fx-event/) conference which is APRIL 29 – MAY 1, (https://www.paleofx.com/paleo-fx-event/). Paleo FX speakers include Mark Sisson, Ben Greenfield, Dr Paul Saladino, Dr. Dan Stickler, Dr. Zach Bush, Jamie Wheal, Mickra Hamilton Ph.D., Dr. Dan Engle, Josh Trent, Morris Brossette and many others.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr Irene Cop, founder of the Stress to Success S.H.I.F.T. Institute, which helps purpose-driven high achievers shift from stress to success in all areas of life. Dr Cop details her own experience with childhood trauma and catastrophe burnout. After much exploration and learning, she took this life-altering experience and turned it into a path to helping others heal, foster self-love, and ultimately redefine what success means.
Dr. Cop’s comprehensive background and expertise spans both Eastern and Western medicine, holding dual doctor degrees as a Medical Doctor and Doctor of Chiropractic, with extensive training in acupuncture, neuroplasticity, elite performance psychology, stress management, and resilience. To learn more about her and her work, visit the links below:
Website: https://drirenecop.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.irenec Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.irenec/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drirenecop/ The Stress to Success S.H.I.F.T. Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-stress-to-success-s-h-i-f-t/id1561226627 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFTN-EU3umbz_0d0GFwk_Bw/videos Free workbook, Awakening Awareness Around Your Success Blocks: https://drirene.life/workbook Free Avenger Stress Style Quiz: https://drirene.life/avenger
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Another shout out to Frederick Lowen from the Alexander Lowen Foundation’s Center for Bioenergetic Analysis who I am now working with as part of my own personal development work. https://www.lowenfoundation.org/
Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Sean Sessel, head of The Oculus Institute (https://www.oculusinstitute.com/) and a voracious learner with a fervent belief in the ability of the individual to better themselves. Through the Awaken Program (which shows people how to escape burnout jobs and craft careers that truly inspire them), Sean has found a means of enduring impact working with over a thousand different people.
Sean discusses how his interest in helping people craft their dream careers grew out of his strength of absorbing, processing, and transmitting information and his deep interest in esoteric studies. He details five types of jobs: 1. A toxic work environment; 2. An unfulfilling job; 3. A bridge-job (short-term enjoyable); 4. A calling job; 5. A destiny/optimal career path. Through his framework (find first what do you love, then what the world needs, then how do you make money with it, and finally develop how do you get good at it), he helps his clients get to at least a calling job.
Sean aims to ensure potential clients start with the best-fit program for their current situation. To find out more about his work, visit www.oculusinstitute.com/purposequiz. The quiz will let you know where you fall on the metrics of career fulfillment, financial success, and internal alignment and recommend which program is best for you.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Shout out to Frederick Lowen from the Alexander Lowen Foundation’s Center for Bioenergetic Analysis who I am now working with as part of my own personal development work: https://www.lowenfoundation.org/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
A beautiful song produced by my friend Christos Galanis in honor of my best buddy Cleona the Bulldog who transitioned to be with Gd last year.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Paola Zuazua, a scholar of epigenetics, naturopathy, functional medicine, consciousness and autobiographical modalities, and pre and perinatal psychology and health. Zuazua discusses her own exploration of these topics, including from interest of the health of her children. When working with clients, she guides them through the importance of the history of their ancestors, cellular memories, and a healthy biome. Zuazua offers personalized approach and tailored guidance to her clients. To learn more about her work, visit her website: https://www.paolazuazua.com/.
Shout out to Daniel Luper from the Apeiron Center for Human Potential Epigenetics Academy. I work with Daniel in the Academy and last week he, using an NLP technique, got me to quit drinking coffee. It was a very interesting experience and has worked to date.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
Ostrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, author of “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach" (https://www.amazon.com/Treating-Trauma-Addiction-Sense-Polyvagal/dp/0367408120). Winhall details her history with treating trauma and addiction and how she came to understand addiction not as a disease but as a means of coping with trauma. Addition occurs, Winhall explains, naturally when individuals do not feel safe and are unable to socially engage. We also live in cultures that do not support engagement and grounding, which is further detailed within the five stages of oppression in Winhall’s book. Lastly, Ostrolenk and Winhall discuss practices for transitioning out of fight, flight or freeze states to grounded self-regulated and socially engaged states.
To learn more about Jan Winhall’s work, visit her website: https://janwinhall.com/. Also check out the Integrating Addiction and Trauma Treatment on the USABP FORUM https://usabp.org/event-4574720.
Shout out to the Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health. If you are interested in birth psychology and health check them out https://birthpsychology.com/.
Today’s show is brought to you by the Somatic Psychotherapy Today. https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Thomas R. Verny, a psychiatrist, writer, lecturer, and academic. Dr. Verny is the founder of PPPANA (now APPPAH), served as its President from 1983 to 1991. Verny was founding editor of the Pre- and Peri-Natal Psychology Journal of which he is presently Associate Editor. Dr. Verny is author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child with John Kelly, Pre-Parenting with Pamela Weintraub. In total, he has written eight books including the recently published The Embodied Mind and over 47 scientific papers. Dr. Verny discusses what inspired him to pursue a career in Pre- and Peri-Natal Psychology, including clients’ accounts of early memories that called into question mainstream thinking on the topic. Dr. Verny also details the disproportionate medical focus on the brain, while memories are also held throughout our body. Greater focus on the rest of the body will improve our capacity to understand and treat disease, introspection, and – ultimately – our free will.
To learn more about Dr. Verny’s work and the relationship between epigenetics, quantum biology, consciousness, microbiome, hypnosis, out of body experiences, microtubules, and heart transplants, check out his new book “The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies” and visit his website: https://www.trvernymd.com.
Shout out to retired Navy SEAL Dr Kirk Parsley (https://docparsley.com/ ) for introducing me to Dr Dan Sticker and Mickra Hamilton from Apeiron Center for Human Potential a few years ago. It has been a really good two years working with them. (https://apeironzoh.com/)
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Diana Hill, a modern psychologist, mom, yoga teacher, and co-author of ACT Daily Journal: Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Hill discusses the primary emotion systems from her book – caring, drive, and threat – and the frequent activation of threat and drive systems from the structures of our culture. She details 6 core practices that support personal evolution and progress: compassion, self-care, and intentional use of time; being present; cognitive defusion; acceptance; perspective taking; values; and committed action. Dr. Hill’s work and daily journal serves as your psychological flexibility guide, offering practical, science backed and integrative strategies to help you skillfully adapt to life’s challenges.
To learn more about Dr. Hill and her work, visit her website: drdianahill.com, get her book (https://drdianahill.com/book/), follow her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/drdianahill/), and check out her podcast: Your Life in Progress (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-in-progress/id1551417652).
Shout out to Dr Melissa Petersen and The Human Longevity Institute. Thank you Melissa for inviting me to teach in your new certification program. https://optimizedhealthsolutions.lpages.co/precision-longevity-certification-emergent/.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/songwriters Stuart Davis - Fall Awake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTgx3TIhYs.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human” where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Carri Bailey, a certified CannaDNA Endocannabinoid Coach and Cannabis Advocate. She studied biological science at Rowan College and has a background in holistic health. Epigenetics and the endocannabinoid system became her focus after genetic testing revealed her own rare genetic makeup. Carri shares how that experience led her to discover the medical benefits of cannabis. She discusses the different types of cannabis and how each can be leveraged for various health benefits. She also discusses new versions of CBD and the research underway, as well as the value in ensuring cannabis is grown chemical-free.
How to learn more about how you would process various aspects of the plant and what plants they should be using, visit Carri’s website (https://carribailey.com/), find her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/carribaileycannadna), or reach out to her at carribailey@yahoo.com.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Another shout out to Dr Dan Sticker and Mickra Hamilton from Apeiron Center for Human Potential ( https://apeironzoh.com/ ) my partners along with coach Curt and Meagan in co-leading the Apeiron Zoh Master-Mind group called the Arete Collective ( https://www.lifeofexcellence.io/main-zoh ).
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human" where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Esme and Terence, the authors of “Tigress and Dragon of the Hundred Lifetimes: An Erotic Memoir of Sacred Consorts.” Esme (Tigress) lives a mermaid's life by the sea and writes poetry and prose to heal and inspire herself and others. Terence (Dragon) lives a dragon’s life and enjoys his time in the forests and mountains communing with nature.
Esme and Terence offer their insight into what is possible for us for us as human beings, in relationships with ourselves and others. They discuss intimacy, and the pathway to achieving it through presence, vulnerability, and sovereignty. They also detail their experience with practices to build and recirculate sexual energy, induce transpersonal experiences and how their practices have changed their outlook on life – encouraging more fun in every day moments.
To learn more about their work, visit their website (https://www.tigressanddragon.com/) and read their book (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tigress-and-dragon-of-a-hundred-lifetimes-esme/1139723742)
Shout out to Dr Dan Sticker and Mickra Hamilton from Apeiron Center for Human Potential ( https://apeironzoh.com/ ) my partners along with Curt and Meagan in co-leading the Apeiron Zoh Master-Mind group called the Arete Collective (https://www.lifeofexcellence.io/main-zoh).
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Cherionna Menzam-Sills, student and educator of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology/Therapy, Continuum (a mindful movement practice), and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy globally. Dr. Menzam-Sills has authored two books, The Breath of Life: An Introduction Craniosacral Biodynamics and, recently, Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryological Potential and Prenatal Psychology.
Dr. Menzam-Sills opens with what led her to explore alternative methods of healing and the role that intuition played in guiding her towards Pre- & Perinatal Psychology. Dr. Menzam-Sills developed her own education path and was influenced by the work of many, including William Emerson and Ray Castellino, and Continuum founder, Emilie Conrad. Through her work, Dr. Menzam-Sills has guided patients through deconstructing past contractions and rebuilding. She draws on body work to help induce a state that allows them to go back to their pre- and post- birth experiences and details the importance of a field of safety and cellular memory.
To learn more about Dr. Menzam-Sills and her work, visit her websites: - www.birthingyourlife.org - www.resourcingyourlife.org Dr. Sills offers courses, mentoring, and workshops. She is also offering a monthly course guiding people through her book Spirit into Form. To learn more, visit https://courses.resourcingyourlife.org/course/spirit-into-form-being-with-the-book/. And to learn about an Experiential Training for Practitioners, visit http://www.birthingyourlife.org/our-journey-here-training/.
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/
Ostrolenk speaks to professional photographer Beau Simmons and Army Rangers Dan Blakeley and Tom Amenta about their new book “The Twenty-Year War: A Photo Journal Dedicated to Veterans of the Global War on Terror and Their Stories.”
In the book, American combat veterans open up about their military service, the hard realities of combat, their transitions post-military, and what it’s like to find purpose and create new lives.
In the interview they discuss what it was like to create the book which included visiting 42 states in 61 days, traveling 16,000 miles. The book includes 71 unique veteran voices. The conversation is wide ranging and includes Dan discussing three phases of leaving military service which include Phase one: Out of the Fight; Phase two: No Uniform, Now What?; and Phase three: Self-Reflection. He acknowledges, though, that this is not necessarily everyone’s path. Beau speaks of his learning to move beyond the self and serving something bigger than oneself as a result of the road trips to visit the 71 vets. Tom discusses his inner work to help heal from combat.
The interview also includes a discussion on taboo topics, the need for tribe, and invisible wounds. They also discuss specific interviews and what they meant to each of the three creators. They end the conversation with the lessons they want the listening audience and hopeful book buyers to take away from the book.
To purchase the book visit https://twentyyearwar.com/
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Ostrolenk speaks with returning guest Brent Gleeson, a Navy SEAL combat veteran with combat tours to Iraq and Africa. Upon leaving SEAL Team 5, Brent turned his discipline and battlefield lessons to the world of business and has become an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, and acclaimed speaker and consultant on topics ranging from leadership and building high-performance teams to culture and organizational transformation.
Gleeson has recently published a new book - "Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life”, and he begins by detailing two of his own difficult experiences which taught him to embrace the suck. The psychology of mental fortitude and resilience, Gleeson details, are key to a growth mindset. He details how acknowledging obstacles and overcoming adversity can foster successful relationships, and the path towards this entails doing something difficult every day and engaging in 360 reviews. In Gleeson’s experience, the best leaders learn to crave feedback, and they understand the value of making decisions based on a set of values.
To learn more about Brent Gleeson and his work, read his newest book is titled “ Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life”, and visit his websites https://takingpointleadership.com/ and http://www.brentgleesonspeaker.com/.
In other short updates:
Shout out to my colleagues Dan Cerrillo and Chriss Smith at Spartan 7; which is Leading the way in executive protection, tactical and mental readiness training, and continued rehabilitation support for veterans. https://www.spartan7inc.com/.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/. Our guest today is Brent Gleeson
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Good Wyrd” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZhRgUdHurA&list=PLATF5eWSVEAN4_DXjORbLYaiy34H98HIv&index=2
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Ostrolenk speaks with Alexsys Thompson, MLC, BCC is a best-selling author of the book “The Power of a Graceful Leader: Flow, Integration and Alignment,” a keynote speaker, executive integration coach, and member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Her work is guided by her life’s mission to create safe spaces for souls to show up.
Alexsys shares stories of her own experiences and the experiences of those with whom she’s worked closely; she discusses how these experiences have grown her understanding of graceful leadership. She has found that most leaders know how to lead intellectually, but few now how to lead from a grace-center, the energy force around the heard. She has helped clients discover ways to break negative coping strategies and become more approachable. Alexsys shares the 6 Tents of Graceful Leadership: Integrating: Mind, Body and Soul; Evolving: Alignment of Soul and Self; Transparency: Self and Others; Connecting: Self and Universe; Co-Creating: Innovative; and Compassionately Powerful in All Things. She also offers thoughts on post-conventional living and the balance of evolution and revolution.
To learn more about Alexsys Thompson and her work, visit her websites at www.alexsysthompson.com and https://ubuntuasafehaven.com/, and find her book on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Graceful-Leader-Alexsys-Thompson/dp/1544504985).
In other short updates:
Check out The Arete Collective Mastermind brought to you by Apeiron Zoh. We will be launching our second cohort in July. If you are interested in body/mind and spiritual growth with a great community, it could be a good fit for you https://www.lifeofexcellence.io/main-zoh
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today’s guests are Curt Cronin and Jamie Wheal.
From Navy SEAL Tier One Operator to entrepreneur, Curt has a track record of making the impossible possible. He creates an energetic force field of coherence for teams to drop into flow and high performance. Curt received his MBA at combined programs from the London School of Economics, New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the HEC School of Management in Paris. Curt graduated fifth in his class from the United States Naval Academy and has been awarded two Bronze Star medals for combat valor and three Distinguished Meritorious Service Medals.
Jamie Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind, and the Pulitzer-nominated global bestseller Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work. He is the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance.
Ostrolenk speaks with Curt and Jamie about the questions they’re seeking to answer through their work, including how we live a life of meaning in an era of increasing uncertainty and how to cultivate a societal transition to a future that works for everyone. Curt offers insight into the collective and community mindset of the military, and how we might bring these lessons to civilian life and business. Jamie offers cathartic techniques and technologies that are open source and support the human transition that can get us to a better space. They also discuss undigested grief, what it does to our capacity to relate to one another, our current state of divergent narratives on global events, and Curt and Jamie’s ten suggestions. To read Jamie’s book, visit https://www.recapturetherapture.com/, and to learn more about their work check out www.flowgenomeproject.com.
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Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Cara Bradley, a leading authority of mental fitness who has led thousands through her signature strategies to work and play in flow. She shares body-based trainings with Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and premiere college sports teams. Her work focuses on building awareness of body-mind states, regulating the nervous system and priming the gut-brain connection for optimal wellbeing and performance.
Cara discusses her early experiences of mind-body connection and her fascination with human potential. She details the exercises one can undertake to wake up, show up, and shine, and she highlights how these practices can positively affect relationships and daily activities. Cara also discusses what it means to be present, and the importance of treating oneself with love and kindness.
Cara is the author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine, founder of the award-winning Verge Yoga Center, and host of the On The Verge podcast. www.carabradley.net. To learn more about Cara and her work, and explore how you can work with her, visit her website.
In other short updates:
Check out The Arete Collective Mastermind brought to you by Apeiron Zoh.. We will be launching our second cohort in July. If you are interested in body/mind and spiritual growth with a great community, it could be a good fit for you https://www.lifeofexcellence.io/main-zoh. Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Vicki Starr. Vicki devoted herself to her family and her career. She also participated in multiple physical challenges including marathons, six Ironman races, the Boston Marathon, Ultramarathon and SEALFIT's 20X. At 45 years old as an empty nester and not finding the depth of meaning in her physical challenges, she began a spiritual path of self-discovery.
Vicki chronicles the life experiences that led her to the path she’s on now, including the loss of her father, understanding her own trauma versus generational trauma, and the power she found in breathwork. Through her work, Vicki seeks to serve women, tapping into what lights their souls on fire. Vicki is offering a Soul Journey Retreat in Costa Rica from November 11-16. To learn more about this retreat and to explore opportunities to work with Vicki one on one, visit her website at https://hotforholistics.com/.
In other short updates:
Shout out to Will Brink and his new coffee booster called “Alpha Joe”. It has creatine for its neuroprotective properties as well as cocoa. I am enjoying it and have been experimenting with it for a few weeks now. It goes great with my Misha’s coffee. Check it out at https://secure.alphajoecoffee.com/alphajoe-coffee-booster44921902?page_hash=home
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Savoring Samsara” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYdI19XKJY.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human" where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today’s podcast format differs from most on our show and is a dialogue between Ostrolenk and Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence, and a Creative Emergence Coach. Ostrolenk and James discuss:
- How James brought improv and integral theater into a salon space
- The Integral Theory and Spiral Dynamics
- SEALFIT
- The idea of Emergence and its importance to both Ostrolenk and James
- Stability versus progress and, relatedly, security versus safety
- Different types of birth
- The value of group work when serving as a leader and when engaging as a participant
Tune in again soon to hear more conversations between James and Ostrolenk.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Ostrolenk speaks with Pilar Geroseemo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, “The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World.” She is best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, and also served as top health editor for The Huffington Post and as visiting faculty for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment and teaches online courses through her digital learning platform, Healthy Deviant Academy.
Pilar discusses societal expectations and how her own experience with such at a younger age drove her to be less happy and less healthy. Gaining inspiration to change her experience, she learned the importance of experimenting with one’s comfort zone, developing practices that keep one aware, and the value of taking a break. Pilar notes that it is statistically more likely that a person is unhealthy than it is that they are healthy. She expresses hope for the possibility of creating a better way of living on this planet.
To learn more about Pilar’s book and the courses that she teaches, visit her website www.healthydeviant.com. You can get a free book preview and take the "Are You a Healthy Deviant?" quiz there.
In other short updates: Shout out to my friend Dr Melissa Peterson author of “Codes of Longevity: Learn from 20+ of Today's Leading Health Experts How to Unlock Your Potential to Look, Feel and Live Life Optimized to 120 and Beyond https://codesoflongevity.com/ for having me speak at her Longevity conference on my transpartisan work.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Good Wyrd” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZhRgUdHurA&list=PLATF5eWSVEAN4_DXjORbLYaiy34H98HIv&index=2
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today I speak with Mansal Denton "Little Beaver," the founder of Sacred Hunting, host of the Mansal Denton Podcast, and the subject of an upcoming documentary BELOW THE DROP, which explores our relationship to life and death through hunting.
Feeling insecure in early life, he chased a woman to Europe, which led him to prison. Struggling with shame and confusion of what it meant to be a man, he found his calling with the sacred art of hunting. He now desires to share this practice with more men. Mansal details hunting as a connection with nature, how he began leading hunts as a sacred practice, the process of engaging in a sacred hunt, and the healing and transformation he has observed from participants.
To learn more about Mansal’s work and participating in a sacred hunt, visit www.sacredhunting.com.
In other short update:
Shout to my friend Erwan Le Corre founder of MovNat for his new breath work retreat. June 7-11 2021 (only 5 spots left!) November 29 -December 3 2021. Yelapa, Mexico https://www.naturalmovement.com/holdyourbreathretreat?utm_source=MovNat%C2%AE+True+Nature%E2%84%A2+News&utm_campaign=6499fa3d8e-Newsletter+-+05%2F06%2F21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e4dca9b1e-6499fa3d8e-380152881&mc_cid=6499fa3d8e&mc_eid=9635a41c02.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Savoring Samsara” www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYdI19XKJY.
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today I speak with Wendy Taylor, a career coach who helps each client identify their unique gifts and value proposition and find a job where they can express their full potential and be well rewarded for it. Wendy brings a rare combination of experience to her practice. She has deep knowledge of human development through every stage of development into adulthood and knows how to guide her clients in developing the specific mindset, traits, and skills needed to succeed in the jobs that will best express their potential.
Wendy speaks about career resilience and her experience in helping clients achieve it. She details the importance of the overlap between great teaching, great parenting, and great management, and how it’s key to know her clients mind-body-spirit practices. People often come to Wendy when they are ready for the next step in their career, and she takes a holistic approach to helping them find a career that fits for their whole life.
To learn more about Wendy and her work, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendytaylor/
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Shout out to my friend Dr Melissa Peterson and her new book “Codes of Longevity: Learn from 20+ of Today's Leading Health Experts How to Unlock Your Potential to Look, Feel and Live Life Optimized to 120 and Beyond https://codesoflongevity.com/ Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI
Welcome to The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today I speak with Dr. Melissa Petersen, an expert in thriving, and a best-selling author, speaker, and thought leader in epigenetics and precision longevity. Dr. Petersen is also the host of the Igniting Limitless Podcast, an advisor to Heads Up Health Technologies, and the founder of the Human Flourishing Institute.
Her clinical training and background include a Licensed Doctor of Chiropractic & Epigenetic Human Performance Success Coach, with a Board Certification in Holistic Health and a Masters in Wellness Leadership and Performance. Pair this with her past fitness and television career in the world of professional wrestling and you get a powerhouse that is on a mission to uplift, inspire and ignite people around the globe to express greater states of health, wellbeing and human flourishing for generations to come.
Dr. Petersen discusses the human body and her study of it, her personal experience with her mind-body connection, and the value of giving your body time to heal and recuperate. She also discusses trauma and the role of reclaiming one’s power. She also details the importance of setting clear intentions and viewing your actions as feedback towards that intention. Dr. Petersen also discusses her work in longevity, which is about thriving at every stage, and what we can do individually and collectively to support our longevity.
To discover what is possible for you or to learn more about Dr. Melissa and the ways to connect, visit www.DocMelissa.com and check out her book at www.CodesofLongevity.com.
In other short updates: Check out Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Their mission is to support and promote human potential from the very beginning of life by providing global education to professionals and families about emerging evidence in prenatal and perinatal science and birth psychology that babies are conscious and aware and have their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences before, during, and after birth. Learn more at https://birthpsychology.com.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Savoring Samsara”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYdI19XKJY
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.
Today I speak with Ruth Culver who is an IFS somatic psychotherapist based in Brighton, UK. She works with adults and teenagers, in groups and individually, with a particular interest in trauma, attachment and resilience. We discuss her Survive/Thrive Spiral graphic which integrates Internal Family Systems with Polyvagal theory. She breaks down both systems and how they are useful in working with trauma. We also touch upon Constellations work as well as intuitive drawing.
To learn more about Ruth’s work check out https://calmheart.co.uk/ . For a video about the Survive/Thrive Spiral visit https://youtu.be/GlNhFXMOQpM
Today’s show is brought to you https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/ Shout out to former U.S. Navy SEAL Chriss Smith’s new Trident Mindset online program. Trident Mindset is an online mindset training program created by Navy SEALs, intelligence operatives, and neuroscientists https://www.tridentmindset.com/
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Savoring Samsara”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYdI19XKJY
Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living.
Today I speak with Luba Vangelova (http://www.lubavangelova.com/), a co-founder of several pioneering, mixed-ages co-learning groups for independent learners, including The Hub (https://thehub.community/), and author of numerous articles on the future of learning for media outlets such as The Atlantic and the NPR/PBS MindShift websites.
Vangelova discusses conventional education, specifically how the approach does not adapt to the various needs and skills of individual children. She details alternative models in which children are a part of the selection process of their learning. In response to concerns often raised about alternative methods of education, Vangelova notes that children, with rare exceptions, have an innate drive to learn the skills required to be productive members of a community. Key among the benefits is that children are responsible contributors to their own educational process, fostering drive, ownership, and self-determination.
To learn more about Vangelova and her work, visit The Hub (https://thehub.community/) and her website (http://www.lubavangelova.com/). You can also find additional resources at https://alternativestoschool.com/.
I’d like to give a shout out to my friend Erwan Le Corre and his new online program called MovNat® Mobility is a revolutionary four-week program built with simple, practical movements that can be applied to your everyday life. https://movnat.thinkific.com/courses/movnat-mobility
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI.
Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living. Today I speak with Andy and Kacy Panfil, from fierceplanetadventures.com: a married couple on a mission to inspire 1,000,000 people to live a life of purpose, passion, and self-mastery through the Unbeatable Mind Operating System. Andy and Kacy describe how their story began 10 years ago when they met and began adventuring together, discovering their shared love for the mountains and the healing power of nature. After both working 15 years in the corporate world, their lives were changed when they discovered the Unbeatable Mind. In 2019, they sold their possessions and hit the road for adventure to share their story with the world, and they are now focused on sharing the Unbeatable Mind system and principles to help others find their potential. Through our conversation, Andy and Kacy share how Unbeatable Mind helped them through their own personal discovery and growth. They have prioritized passion over comfort and learned to value of flexibility and adaptation with what comes their way. They encourage others to write their own story and set the path they want in life, as it is theirs alone to live. Andy, a licensed UM coach and Kacy a coach in training, share their stories and these powerful ideas through Fierce Planet Adventures (https://fierceplanetadventures.com/ ) - a podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fierce-planet-adventures-podcast/id1545831429) , website, and social media platforms - as well as 5 Mountain Coaching (https://fierceplanetadventures.com/5-mountains/).
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website (https://www.cosperscafidi.com/).
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Savoring Samsara (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYdI19XKJY).”
Lastly, I want to recognize that we lost a good man named Joseph K. Grieboski who was a social entrepreneur, founder of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy, and internationally recognized expert in religious freedom, national security, counter-extremism, human rights, and conflict transformation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgNcp--Wc0&t=18s&fbclid=IwAR0nfglh2ZxSYSqjAfsLu-nc4UvpA-jtxdYrS3OtxczCN2fOoMCZy18lO7g).
Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living.
Today I speak with Antero Alli, author of two books advancing Timothy Leary’s 8-Circuit Brain model: “Angel Tech” published in 1985 and “The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body”, published in 2009.
Alli discusses his work with the 8-Circuit Brain model, which has been endorsed by Timothy Leary and by Robert Anton Wilson. The 8-Circuit Brain model posits eight interactive functions of Intelligence: physio-biological intelligence of survival, emotional-territorial intelligence and the will to power, symbolic-conceptual intelligence of intellectual acuity, social-moral intelligence and empathy with others, somatic intelligence of body wisdom and capacity for bliss, psychic intelligence of the self-aware brain and CNS, mytho-poetic intelligence of the planetary entity and DNA Matrix, and quantum-nonlocal intelligence of the mysterious singularity.
Alli provides an overview of the first four circuits, the survival circuits, which focus on humans’ physical, emotional, spatial, informational, social, moral, and sexual intelligence required to survive on the planet. Alli then discusses the upper circuits, the post-survival circuits. There are various methods that can bring a person to experience the upper-level circuits, and Alli describes the benefits and potential drawbacks of each circuit, depending on the level of engagement
To learn more about Antero Alli and his work, visit The Eight-Circuit Brain (http://verticalpool.com/8circuitbrain1.html) and Vertical Pool Films (http://www.verticalpool.com/dvd.html).
I’d also like to provide a short update: My friend Jan Winhall new book now available for pre-order: “Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach”. https://janwinhall.com/book/
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Savoring Samsara”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYdI19XKJY
Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living.
Today I speak with Dr. Leslie Ellis, a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (https://www.amazon.com/Clinicians-Guide-Dream-Therapy-Implementing-ebook/dp/B07S2T5MJ4) and offers many training opportunities in embodied, experiential dreamwork based on her book.
Dr. Ellis discusses the value of engaging clients in dream work, as it helps point out salient emotional concerns, helps limit biased conscious editing, provides new perspectives on issues, and can serve as a diagnostic tool. Dreams often pick up on things which affect us during the day, even if we are not consciously aware of it. Dr. Ellis details how one could understand key life events through paying attention to trends in dreams and lends theories on how dreams may be predictive of future events. She also discusses indigenous populations’ approaches to dreaming and theories on how the world may be dreaming through us.
To learn more about Dr. Leslie Ellis and her work, visit her website (https://drleslieellis.com/).
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Fear of Light” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzbIDsRY4Lc&list=OLAK5uy_mW1RAF2NUfbntN5SjtP9N99kDbD1EYHvc&index=6. And I’d like to give a shout out to my coach and teacher Amanda Jade Fiorini and a wonderful piece she wrote entitled “Grief as an Ally of Emergence” (https://www.wildearthmedicine.com/post/grief-as-an-ally-of-emergence?fbclid=IwAR2VGwOB3-Wn2wbgzy3Vk_zK8p_IJzqRmE49PqTlPEVoGH8MLFtRMe0725Q).
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today (https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/).
Ostrolenk, host of The Emergent Human, speaks with Brian C. Muraresku, an alumnus of Georgetown Law, member of the New York Bar, and author of The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. Muraresku’s book is a groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics played in the origins of Western civilization. Muraresku discusses what drove his interest in researching psychedelics and what led him to travel the globe in search of this story. The importance of this research, Muraresku explains, lies in our inheritance of Greco-Roman traditions as the foundation of our Western civilization. Muraresku also details the evidence behind the use of psychedelics by spiritual seekers in Ancient Greece, in the Roman Empire, the Pagan Continuity Hypothesis, and the transition of the Pagan Roman Empire to a Christian Empire. Lastly, Muraresku discusses what this research has meant for his own faith journey and his continued work on the topic through a follow-up book and documentary series.
To learn more about Brian C. Muraresku, visit his website and social media
Other updates: - Apeiron Zoh just launched a new master mind group called The ZOH (Life) Arête (Excellence) Collective which is a community of co-creators, thinkers, performers and finders committed to experiencing a life of excellence, integrating a systems-based body, mind and spirit approach to greater “BEING”
- Shout out to Katherine Studley’s company “The Only Consultant,” Ostrolenk’s new marketing company. You can find them on Instagram on @The_Only_consultant
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website.
Today’s show featured music by Stuart Davis, Already Free.
Welcome to the Emergent Human with Michael Ostrolenk, where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living.
Today I’d like to welcome back Ryan Frisinger, an interdisciplinary specialist operating at the intersections of medicine, consciousness and culture.
Following my last call with Frisinger, in which we explored the complex relationship between humans and animals, Frisinger dives into human habitats. Frisinger discusses transitions from vernacular architecture to modern structures and the value of using local materials. Drawing on Curitiba, Brazil as one example, Frisinger details how an existing model/framework can be creatively adapted for more functionality, sustainability, and enhanced for user experience.
Frisinger offers some recommendations for creating a space that is more conducive to health and happiness: · Think about the space that you want · Think about what it is you want to do and how to make your space conducive to doing those things · Incorporate plants into the environment for the relationship for cleaning the air and caring for a living thing
To learn more about Ryan Frisinger, visit his website (kosmicanimal.com/) and visit his health center (xenogenesis.co/about-us/).
Resources from today’s show:
· Trees/Reforesting o The Man Who Planted Trees-Jim Robbins o Archangel Tree Archive (https://www.ancienttreearchive.org)
· Architecture/Urban Design o http://www.bldgblog.com/ o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRD3l3rlMpo o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haKh9mCk3xk o https://boiseplanning.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/the-curitiba-experiment/ o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDp55lHfJSA o https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/parametric-design o https://www.arup.com/perspectives/parametric-design-for-better-buildings o https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/zaha-hadid-greatest-works-slideshow
· Analog Agroforestry o https://www.analogforestry.org/espanol-sistemas-agroforestales-en-mexico-son-un-paso-hacia-la-forestaria-analoga/ o http://www.earth-matters.nl/7/12497/duurzaam-20/regenerative-analog-agroforestry-in-brazil.html
· Silva Pasture o https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2018/06/six-key-principles-for-a-successful-silvopasture/ o https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/silvopasture/
· Health o The Mythic Imagination: The Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892815744?pf_rd_r=45E5SEMZXGZSGVNB2FCN&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee
Today’s show was brought to you by: Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the northern Virginia area. To learn more about Scafidi and his work, visit www.cosperscafidi.com.
I’d also like to give a shout-out to Kenny Kane, owner of Oak Park Fitness (oakparkla.com) in L.A., who connected me with Matt Nichols a breathing coach. To learn more about Matt and his work, visit www.breathewithmatt.com.
Thank you to Stuart Davis for the music featured in this podcast www.stuartdavis.com/.
Welcome to the Emergent Human, with Michael Ostrolenk where we explore optimizing health, embodied spirituality, and post-conventional living.
Today’s guest is Ryan Frisinger, an interdisciplinary specialist operating at the intersections of medicine, consciousness and culture.
Ostrolenk and Frisinger discuss the complex relationship of humans and animals, including the ownership of animals and the ethics of eating meat. Frisinger details the complexity of meat consumption, including the importance of animal protein in human diets, the ways in which killing animals has evolved in the modern world, and how we can feed the large number of people who live on this earth.
Frisinger encourages listeners to use higher levels of consciousness to entertain the idea that our pets have a complex emotional life that cannot be fully understood by humans. This can assist in humans endeavor to walk a fine line between being caretakers and allies while understanding there is limited room on earth for all animals to roam free. Lastly, Frisinger offers that humans can consider how our own reproduction affects other species.
Frisinger recommends a few actions humans can take to foster a loving relationship and support their animals: - Look at your animals diet and consider the value of raw foods - Recognizing your animal's environment and what they love to explore - Appreciate your animal's space and try to learn their needs
To learn more about Ryan Frisinger, visit his website (https://kosmicanimal.com/) and visit his health center (https://xenogenesis.co/about-us/).
Resources from today’s show · Longevity Summit: Ostrolenk speaks about The Longevity Summit https://www.thelongevitysummit.com/registration?fbclid=IwAR1xvRSgvcL7xDUbc-iGr26NfeBAIV_a3iCcaoJ7zZO2SWtn8kN6nDD1nwY · The Spell of the Sensuous https://www.amazon.com/Spell-Sensuous-Perception-Language-More-Than-Human/dp/0679776397 · The Omnivores Dilemma https://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/01430385 · The Sexual Politics of Meat https://caroljadams.com/spom-the-book · The Banality of Evil https://www.amazon.com/Banality-Evil-Hannah-Arendt-Solution/dp/0847692108 · Books by Derrick Jensen https://derrickjensen.org/ · The Animal that Therefore I am https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Therefore-Perspectives-Continental-Philosophy/dp/082322791X
Today’s show was brought to you by: · Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the northern Virginia area. To learn more about Scafidi and his work, visit https://www.cosperscafidi.com.
Thank you to Stuart Davis for the music featured in this podcast https://www.stuartdavis.com/.
Diego de Soto, social entrepreneur and writer, guest hosts today’s #ORadio show during which De Soto interviews Jim Turner, Cofounder of the Transpartisan Review (http://www.transpartisanreview.org/) and Board Chair of Citizens for Health and Voice for HOPE. Turner begins by discussing the Solution Voters Strategy (http://www.transpartisanreview.org/beating/), a method to identify and mobilize ‘solution voters’ – citizens who focus their vote on solving the world’s problems rather than solely engaging in the left-right duopoly of politics. Turner also discusses the Transpartisan Matrix (http://www.transpartisanreview.org/the-transpartisan-matrix/), a four-square matrix that acts as a multidimensional political spectrum within which each voter falls along a range of right-to-left and freedom-to-order on any given issue. Turner details how solution-oriented voting can allow voters to more comfortably articulate their views in the context of solutions, rather than forced into a right-left dichotomy. De Soto and Turner also discuss the relation of this work to Maslow and the hierarchy of needs. Turner discusses several issues through this framework including acupuncture, vaccines, national debt, and more.
Ostrolenk speaks with Patricia Karnowski, who has been helping women get pregnant naturally for more than 19 years. She has a masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City. Karnowski discusses the path that led her to this work and her experience with women around the globe. Despite cultural differences, she’s come to learn that there is a near universal lack of understanding among women about their own body and fertility. When helping clients become pregnant, she focuses on their body holistically, and when creating custom-made formulas, she reviews and analyzes your health history to gain an understanding of exactly how your body works. Karnowski also discusses her own transition to minimalism and the Van Life movement.
To learn more about Patricia Karnowski and her work go to https://fertilityformulas.com/.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Dominguez, Chief Growth Officer at the WHY Institute. Dan discusses his career path prior to the WHY Institute, his desire to spend time with his family and to serve others, and how those experiences led him to find his WHY in life. Discovering your WHY in life, Dominguez details, is the first step in self-awareness. Knowing the WHY of family, friends, and co-workers can also help facilitate an environment of greater collaboration and understanding. After discovering your WHY, the WHY Institute can help you further discover your HOW and WHAT, to put your WHY into action. To learn more about the WHY Institute, and learn your WHY in five minutes, visit https://www.whyinstitute.com.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Johnathan Lang, an Iraq War Veteran and Natural Movement Coach who loves helping folks find more meaning, health, and wholeness in their lives.
Lang details the life events that led him to the path of coaching, including his service in Iraq, though which experiences with both death and love taught him the importance of living a life that constrains evil and harnesses good. His journeys through Colombia, New York, and China then influenced his development of his mindful movement practice. Lang has been coaching for over 10 years, and he holds certifications in a variety of body-mind disciplines, including MovNat (https://www.movnat.com/), Animal Flow, and Movement Origins. He is now living and working outside of Medellin, Colombia, and he shares his experience in collaborating with Colombian professional soccer players on MovNat, and his work in creating a dedicated retreat and research center for the integration of Natural Movement with permaculture, ancestral medicine, and other transformational psycho-technologies.
To learn more about Johnathan Lang and his work, you can find him on Instagram @ thereconjohn, and you can reach him for Holistic Lifestyle Coaching, or any other purpose, at jal@mindfulandmoving.com.
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: https://www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Hans Skulstad, a Sports Performance Coach and licensed therapist. Skulstad discusses the path that took him to a career in sports performance and how he has integrated skills and concepts from traditional sports psychology, EMDR, Neurofeedback, Heart Rate Variability Training, and systemic concepts into his practice. He details methods to shift out of negative body and mind sets and practices in arousal control, which leads to increased focus and can even result in more positive personal relationships. Skulstad is the owner of the Center for Sports and The Mind, which provides sports psychology tools to athletes at every level. He has also developed Mental Strength training cards that provide important knowledge, tips for effective self-talk, and daily drills to develop and strengthen the relationship between mind and body.
You can learn more about his work by going to centerforsportsandmind.com and visiting his youtube channel by searching his name. You can also follow him on twitter @ 2ChallengeMind. He also is the owner of Foundations Counseling Services and continues to work with clients who need help overcoming the challenges that life inevitably brings including grief and loss, trauma, and relationship issues.
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Ostrolenk speaks to Martin Ucik, author of "Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men” and “Sex Purpose Love.” Ucik details how he discovered Integral Philosophy, and his journey to discover meaningful relationships, sex, love, and passion. Discovering the three things that lead to happiness - healthy relationships, healthy body and mind, and purpose – has inspired his work in teaching and writing. Ucik discusses his own purpose: the drive to help others cultivate healthy relationships. In doing such, one must appreciate the complexity of people and that they bring to the table different value systems; key to cultivating healthy relationships, Ucik argues, is a shared purpose.
To learn more about Martin Ucik, visit www.integralrelationship.com
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Ostrolenk speaks with Mark Divine, a retired Navy SEAL Commander, founder of SEALFIT, Unbeatable Mind Academy, and Kokoro Yoga. Drawing from Divine’s newest book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams, Ostrolenk and Divine discuss leadership during VUCA environments. Divine details the seven core principles of leadership including Trust, Courage, Respect, Growth, Excellence, Resiliency, and Alignment. He also discusses how emotional leadership is a prevalent gap in leadership, and its absence leads to a lack of authenticity and trust. Humility is a key characteristic required among leaders seeking to foster natural emotional leadership and team building.
To learn more about Mark Divine’s work, visit www.markdivine.com, as well as www.sealfit.com and www.unbeatablemind.com for integrated leadership and intense training on mental clarity, increased focus, physical fitness, and increased awareness. Find his newest book “Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams,” available wherever books are sold.
Today’s show is brought to you by Resilience Parenting: Raising Resilient Children in an Era of Detachment and Dependence, a great book by Chris and Holy Santillo. You can learn more about their book and global travels at http://fivebackpacks.family/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Andrew Lautz who is a Policy and Government Affairs Manager with National Taxpayers Union. They discuss NTU’s new paper entitled “Reforming the OCO Account: A Better Deal for Taxpayers, Watchdogs, and the Military.” (https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/reforming-the-oco-account-a-better-deal-for-taxpayers-watchdogs-and-the-military)
The paper includes Ten OCO Reform Options;
Low-Hanging Fruit: OCO Reforms for the FY 2021 NDAA
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Re-establish the Wartime Contracting Commission:
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Ensure that OMB and DoD finish work on revised criteria for DoD’s OCO budget
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Require DoD to give Congress and OMB a plan for transitioning all existing enduring costs funded through OCO to the base budget:
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Require DoD budgets to break out enduring costs funded through OCO:
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Require five-year projections of all OCO costs:
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Prohibit OCO/GWOT spending on base activities in the State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill:
Turning the Corner on OCO: Long-Term Reforms
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Enforce the existing definition of “contingency operation”:
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Institute more aggressive caps on OCO funding, with a declining cap year to year until OCO is nominal or zero:
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Require DoD to establish an OCO reserve, funded through Congressional appropriations year to year, for use on actual contingency operations:
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Remove the OCO/GWOT designation, forcing Congress to instead fund operations through supplemental appropriations and/or “emergency” designations:
You can follow NTU on twitter @NTU and Andrew Lautz @andrew_lautz
Ostrolenk speaks with Owen Marcus, author of A Man’s Guide to Masculine Emotional Intelligence, has developed programs that bring together mindfulness, somatic psychotherapy, and the science of emotional physiology. Marcus’ work focuses on men’s emotional intelligence and its connection to the physiology of the body. He further details the benefits to stress reduction and creating fulfilling relationships and purposeful lives.
To learn more about Owen Marcus and his work, visit EVRYMAN’s website: https://www.evryman.com.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Anita Sanchez, author of the international award- winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, Simon & Schuster. Dr. Sanchez is a visionary woman of Mexican American and indigenous Aztec heritage, a consultant, trainer and speaker who guides journeys into the Amazon rainforest to support business, families, and indigenous cultures.
Dr. Sanchez begins by detailing her own life journey, and the role that forgiveness, spirituality, science, and gratitude have all played. She also discusses the importance of unity, noting how the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting this more than ever. Drawing upon the lessons of her elders, Dr. Sanchez discusses listening and how it is key to healing. Dr. Sanchez concludes with advice on routines that the audience might use to start and conclude their days, focusing on gratitude.
To learn more about Dr. Sanchez’s work and find her book, visit https://foursacredgifts.com/.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Josette and Ba Luvmour, educators who have started several holistic education schools, a holistic learning center for families and children, and many whole-family immersion programs. They also work as Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University, in the IMA program in Social Sciences, Concentration in Transformative Learning. Josette and Ba begin by discussing how their work revolves around focusing on how children organize the world, describing the broad stages of childhood development. Josette and Ba further note that the providing a nourishing environment for a child can also nourish a parent’s environment growth and development, providing parents with greater purpose, meaning, and strength. They further discuss the long-term values of this approach, including the fact that when children feel valued – as their approach teaches – they are more likely to step into social justice roles.
To learn more about Josette and Ba Luvmour and their work (https://luvmourconsulting.com/), listen to their podcast Meetings with Remarkable Educators (https://www.remarkable-educators.com/) and read their books (https://www.amazon.com/Ba-Luvmour/e/B001K8E2E6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1).
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Ostrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, MSW, a psychotherapist in private practice and Director of Focusing on Borden (http://www.focusingonborden.com/), a center for teaching focusing and focus-oriented therapy. Jan discusses what brought her to the work that she does, her experience with knowing how to listen, and her use of the Felt Sense, the internal bodily awareness that functions as a connection between the mind and body. She also discusses a Polyvagal informed model for treating addiction (https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/addiction-from-the-bottom-up-a-felt-sense-polyvagal-model-of-addiction/) she created and the six keys of her clinician model (https://www.focusingonborden.com/model): addicted, chaos, rigidity, play, integrated, stillness.
Winhall is also the author of Understanding and Treating Addition with a Felt Sense Experience Model and In Emerging Practice In Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Innovative Theory and Applications (https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Practice-Focusing-Oriented-Psychotherapy-Applications-ebook/dp/B00J2EA0Q4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jan+winhall&qid=1589750025&sr=8-1). To learn more about Jan Winhall, visit her website (https://www.focusingtherapy.org/for-clients/find-therapist/ms-jan-winhall/).
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Lara Pence, a licensed clinical psychologist who serves as Chief Wellness Specialists for Spartan, and hosts the weekly podcast Spartan Mind. Dr. Pence and Ostrolenk discuss LighfBox (https://www.drlarapence.com/lighfbox) a creation of Pence’s that includes 180 cards of prompts, intentions, and questions designed to spark curiosity, drive self-awareness, and initiate change. The cards can be pondered alone or discussed with loved ones. In a world inundated with to much noise and not enough space for contemplation these cards inspire the readers to be curious and think deeply.
To learn more about Dr. Pence and Lightbox, visit her website (https://www.drlarapence.com/) or find her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/drlarapence/). When ordering Lighfbox (https://www.drlarapence.com/lighfbox), enter ORadio into the coupon redemption area for 20% off.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Mickra Hamilton, Co-Founder and CEO of Apeiron Zoh Corporation (https://www.apeironzoh.com/), a precision performance ecosystem that curates limitless expression of human possibility. Mickra is also a decorated retired Colonel who spent 30 years in the USAFR as a Systems Strategist and Human Performance Subject Matter Expert. Dr. Hamilton informs a new paradigm of what is possible for human flourishing and purposeful evolution. She begins by detailing how she got into the work that she does, and the rationale for integrating ancient wisdom and cutting-edge technology into her work approach. Dr Hamilton also discusses her work on restoring systems equilibrium through acoustic research, harnessing the power of sound to not only heal from combat trauma including TBI’s but to reach toward an optimized human system. To learn more about Dr. Mickra Hamilton, visit her website (https://apeiron.academy/dr-hamilton/).
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Ostrolenk speaks with Joseph K. Grieboski, a social entrepreneur, founder of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy, and internationally recognized expert in religious freedom, national security, counter-extremism, human rights, and conflict transformation. Grieboski discusses what led him to the work that he does, the values he aspires to, and the importance of bringing all parties to the table. Grieboski starts his day with the Ignatian Daily Examen (https://jesuits.org/Assets/Publications/File/The_Daily_Examen.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3A8t46l1aVHbzbOWrrYZ9GA_UcGnQwiBTF7AEyzg945xxKYEC-HnWAbAY) and participates in the Rumi forum (https://rumiforum.org/). He also offers his thoughts on what the focus of theologians should be, and the place of women in the church – now and historically. To learn more about Joseph Grieboski, visit his website www.grieboski.com
Today’s show is brought to you by Sponsored by Synergy Float Center. A premier flotation therapy center located in Old Town Alexandria. When you take the time to slow down, amazing things can happen. Take care of yourself by booking a float, sauna or one of our other many services today. Book online at https://www.synergyfloatcenter.com or call 571-319-0355.
Ostrolenk speaks with Amanda Jade Fiorino, a Mythic Medicine Guide, agent of the Feral Feminine, writer, poetess, and mother. Fiorino’s work supports people in cultivating soul-routed pathways of participation and psychospiritual resiliency and resourcing. She discusses how she came to work in this field and her desire to approach human development from a holistic approach, helping people to become familiar with their eco-concentric circles of belonging. Fiorino also details how dream work, shadow work, somatic ecology, dance, and movement all inform her approach.
To learn more about Amanda Jade Fiorino and her work, visit https://www.wildearthmedicine.com/amanda-jade-fiorino and https://www.wildearthmedicine.com/feral-lunatics.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Dee Joy Coulter, a nationally recognized neuroscience educator known for her unique ability to present complex ideas in clear and humorous ways that are useful for her audiences. Dr. Coulter discusses COVID-19 and the cognitive complexity that would be necessary to adequately deal with the pandemic. Most importantly, it would require a body-mind connection that allows us to approach ideas as complex systems, to have the foresight to anticipate and plan for such events. While we are likely to walk away from this pandemic having cultivated new skills, our society will also need to hone higher order thinking to better prepare for likely similar future events.
To learn more about Dr. Dee Joy Coulter, view her work on embraceyourbrain.com, where you can listen to her podcasts and read her blog. You can also check out her book – Original Mind – on her website.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Merete Holm Brantbjerg, psychomotor-trainer and co-creator of Bodynamic Analysis, a somatic psychotherapy tradition developed in Denmark. Brantbjerg speaks about her approach, Relational Trauma Therapy, which combines psychomotor skill training and systems oriented work with the goal of establishing systems in which mutual regulation of what has been held in dissociation can happen. She details how parts of the body go absent and how we can reactivate those parts, including strategies that only allow for short-term access versus long-term, sustainable access.
Brantbjerg leads body psychotherapy trainings and workshops in Scandinavia, London and Holland and maintains a private practice for therapy and supervision in Copenhagen. To learn more about her work, listen to her podcasts on https://soundcloud.com/brantbjerg and listen to her at the Embodiment Conference (https://theembodimentconference.org/) in October. You can access her latest article here: Widening the map of hypo-states: a methodology to modify muscular hypo-response and support regulation of autonomic nervous system arousal (https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2019.1699604). And you can access more articles on www.moaiku.com under Literature.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Kirk Parsley, MD, a former Navy SEAL turned physician, turned physician for the SEALs, turned health and sleep optimization consultant and performances enhancement coach. Dr. Parsley discusses the importance of managing and minimizing stress, for which adequate sleep plays a key role. Managing stress not only benefits the individual, but the wider society, as it allows us to relate in a more humane way to one another, and better approach situations. Dr. Parsley also comments on the difference between chronic and acute stress, the issue with sleeping aids, and the importance of a sleep ritual.
To learn more about Dr. Kirk Parsley and his work, including his books and podcast, visit https://www.docparsley.com
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Ostrolenk speaks with Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations (https://www.livingroomconversations.org/), an open source effort to build respectful connections across ideological, cultural, and party lines while embracing our core-shared values. Blades details the purpose and process of Living Room Conversations, though which 2 people invite 2 friends into a six-person structured conversation on a given topic. Participants focus not on talking points, but rather each person’s relationship and experience with the topic. The goal is not to change each other’s minds, but to listen to each other and appreciate alternative views. We’ve lost part of our human to human connection, Blades communicates, and it is through mutual respect that we can begin problem solving.
To learn more about Living Room Conversations, visit their website (https://www.livingroomconversations.org/) and find them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/LivingRoomConversations/). Living Room Conversations is also offering resources to help people stay connected during this time of physical distancing (https://www.livingroomconversations.org/coronavirus-resources/).
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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray, an award winning dance movement therapist and a somatic/human rights psychotherapist. Dr. Gray has worked for many years with people who have survived human rights abuses, war, and torture. Dr. Gray details how various educational and career experiences, and ultimately her time in Rwanda, drove her decision to pursue her degree in Somatic Psychology and Dance/Movement Therapy. Dr. Gray details her creation of Restorative Movement Psychotherapy, a clinical counterpart of the Poto Mitan IHaitian Creole for “Center Post/Place) Trauma and Resiliency framework, and how her experiences have evolved her view of the body politic and the ways in which we dehumanize the body. The intersection of spirituality and science, of humans and the Earth, and humans and animals are a few of the spaces in which Dr. Gray is increasing her work. To learn more about Dr. Gray, and her numerous programs, visit her website (https://ambergray.com/) and visit her on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/amber.e.gray.9).
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Dan Grazier on the latest failures with the F-35: My conversation with Dan, Jack Shanahan Military Fellow, Center for Defense Information Straus Military Reform Project at POGO on his new report entitled “Uncorrected Design Flaws, Cyber-Vulnerabilities, and Unreliability Plague the F-35 Program”. In our interview Dan discusses the four lowlights from the director of operational test and evaluation’s report including · The gun for the Air Force’s version not only can’t shoot straight, but breaks the aircraft when fired. · There have been no appreciable improvements in the program’s overall reliability since 2016. · The entire F-35 system remains vulnerable to cyber threats. · The simulation facility necessary to fully test the aircraft and train pilots remains unfinished.
Visit Dan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.grazier.9?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARBssbVfNGJQI06XIVY7H_mFL8PeINfTVTarcyDNxuOHzONBxijiMDy5KVnnDgV0Wk7rjoC0wRtPM2h0&fref=mentions
And read his paper at: https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/03/uncorrected-design-flaws-cyber-vulnerabilities-and-unreliability-plague-the-f-35-program/?fbclid=IwAR3MjtF2kzdA1Raub2-8VKENITLtgtPCQIAZ2C-ye5t0kXKwDj9kETy5CtA
Ostrolenk speaks with Chris Jones, owner of Synergy Float Center, www.synergyfloatcenter.com. Following his 26 years of military service, Jones discovered the value of holistic healing to combat PTSD while in Peru. Floating was recommended to Jones, and after trying it when back in the United States, he found it led to numerous personal health benefits. Jones decided to open his own Float Center, a business plan he developed while also earning his MBA. Jones now operates the Synergy Float Center in Alexandria, VA. He also started and runs a non-profit, National Float It Forward Association (www.nfifa.org). To learn more about Chris Jones and his work, visit www.synergyfloatcenter.com, and check out his advisory business, Stay Salty Consulting, at synergyfloatcenter.com/interested-in-opening-a-float-center/.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Jim Turner, President of the National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy and a lawyer who has worked on health and food freedom issues. Turner offers that most arguments are bifurcated, leaving little room for agreement. Rather, issues should be seen through the transpartisan matix, which categorizes opinions both on their left-right nature and on their freedom-order nature. Turner presents how one might approach fundamental disagreements around food, technology, and vaccines through this lenses. Turner also discusses how many policy decisions concerning how society is going to run are made by an individual special interest within that society, and the negative impacts that this has.
To learn more about Jim Turner and his work, visit citizens.org and transpartisanreview.org.
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Ostrolenk and Gary Collins, host of Your Better Life podcast (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/category/ybl-podcast/) and TheSimpleLifeNow.com, speak with Abel James, the Fat Burning Man (https://fatburningman.com/). James discusses his journey through the world of health and nutrition, including lessons learned and how the scene has evolved over time. Having observed some players stay true to their goals and others sell out, Ostrolenk, Collins, and James reflect on the positives and negatives of the ongoing work in the health and nutrition sector. James concludes with his thoughts on how ancestral principles have influenced his path and the importance of authenticity in work that ultimately impacts peoples’ health. To learn more about Abel James, visit his website The Fat Burning Man (https://fatburningman.com/) and check out his new book Designer Babies Still Get Scabies (https://www.amazon.com/Designer-Babies-Still-Get-Scabies/dp/1099353092).
Ostrolenk speaks with Gary Collins, whose unique background in military Intelligence, the US Diplomatic Security Service, Department of HHS, and FDA, bring a multidisciplinary approach to his work on health and financial freedom. Collin details the ways that people unconscious spend money, and how money is an answer to freedom. Gary discusses how in various aspects of our lives we spent money due to social pressure and consumer based values. Collin also describes how you can eat healthy for roughly a third of the cost of eating out, and how health, finances, and freedom are intertwined. Gary is the creator of The Simple Life website (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/) and best selling books series (https://www.amazon.com/Gary-Collins/e/B009MSJDD6?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1581862430&sr=8-2).
To learn more about Collins' work, read his newest book The Simple Life Guide To Financial Freedom: Free Yourself from the Chains of Debt and Find Financial Peace and visit his website The Simple Life (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/).
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Ostrolenk speaks with Retired SGT. Jonathan Lubecky, a disabled Combat Veteran who served in Iraq from 2005-2006 and as a US Marine from 1995-1999. SGT. Lubecky suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a mortar impacted near him in Iraq in early 2006, and developed PTSD that exasperated the effects of his TBI. Although attesting that the US Army’s recognition and treatment of TBI and PTSD has improved over the past decade, SGT. Lubecky struggled to find adequate treatment. After five unsuccessful attempts to take his own lift, SGT. Lubecky discovered a clinical trial in MDMA, which led to significant benefits and healing. SGT. Lubecky details his experience in psychedelic psychotherapy and the ways in which he believes it could shift the mental health paradigm.
Ostrolenk speaks with Chris and Holly Santillo of Five Backpacks Family (https://fivebackpacks.family/). Nearly a year ago, Chris and Holly sold most of their worldly possessions and took themselves and their three children on a journey across the US and Asia. Holly and Chris tell their tales of their travels, from visiting friends in the States, to following the silk road and walking across the border from China to Kyrgyzstan, training in the Shaolin Temple in China, and collaborating with an English school in Russia. Chris and Holly highlight the value they found in exploring local areas in each country and investing in the culture.
The Five Backpacks Family will soon set off again, this time traveling to Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand, after which they will plan their next journey.
To learn more about Chris and Holly and their family’s travels, visit their website (https://fivebackpacks.family/).
Ostrolenk speaks with Jeff Grant, Coach, Ultra Endurance Athlete, and author of several books on mind training and running. Grant discusses how he transitioned from a corporate lifestyle to coaching athletes to finish some of the toughest events on the planet, including desert and mountain ultra-marathons, Ironman Triathlons, SEALFIT Kokoro and long-distance open water swims. Grant also details his own experience with nutrition, weight, internal work, and teaching across the globe.
To learn more about Jeff Grant and his work, visit his website (Hillseeker.com) and follow him on Instagram (@Hillseeker). Also check out Grant’s books Hill Running: Survive and Thrive (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/395246676X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) and Flow State Runner Activate a Powerful Inner Coach's Voice(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3952466700/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1), and be on the lookout for upcoming publications.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Erwan Le Corre, founder of MovNat, a forward-thinking approach to fitness that educates people to physical capability for the real-world. Natural movement is a philosophy, practice, and lifestyle based on humanity’s ancestral roots. Le Corre discusses his pathway to developing MovNat, including the skills encouraged of him in childhood and his early resistance to conventional systems. Le Corre also details the differences between gym-based training and real-world training that teaches the whole body how to operate in its physical surroundings. Le Corre and his international team of instructors hold training workshops around the world, where participants rediscover, practice and master the movement skills of their nature-dwellling ancestors.
To learn more about his work and become certified visit his website https://www.movnat.com/. Online training is also available. And read his book "The Practice of Natural Movement." https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Natural-Movement-Reclaim-Freedom/dp/162860283X/ref=asc_df_162860283X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=270645996404&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6556103316151703395&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007541&hvtargid=aud-829758849484:pla-549422445978&psc=1
Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, a rolfer and body worker https://www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, a marriage-family therapist for 44 years and author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy (https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Spiritual-Intimacy-Tantric-Sensuality/dp/1620552647), Words From the Soul (https://www.amazon.com/Words-Soul-Spirituality-Psychotherapeutic-Transpersonal/dp/079143950X), and Your Perfect Lips (https://www.amazon.com/Your-Perfect-Lips-Spiritual-Erotic-Memoir/dp/0595375871). Their conversation arises from Dr. Sovatsky’s commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of the psychiatric-medicalization of life's challenges which risks missing the full picture of their aliments and potential. Dr. Sovatsky discusses the maturation of character that comes by meaningful engagement with the stress and struggles in life, but not to over-focus on these events in the healing process. Rather, progress can be made through highlighting the client’s continued efforts, week by week, and focusing on positive events, compassion, and the bestowing meaningful admiration, not merely “mirroring” the client’s experience.
To learn more about Dr. Sovatsky and his work, find him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stuart.sovatsky.
Today’s show is sponsored by Synergy Float Center (https://synergyfloatcenter.com/).
Ostrolenk speaks with Joan Davis, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, a Hakomi Sensorimotor Trauma Psychotherapist, and author of Origins: a body-based approach to developmental evolutionary process from preconception to standing. Davis describes her own background and what life experiences drove her engagement in self-exploration; she further details how she learned and practices body-mind centering, Hakomi, authentic movement, and pre and perinatal training. Davis details some of the content of the 9 spirals of her book Origins. To learn more about Joan Davis and her work, visit her website at https://www.gorsehill.net/books/origins/.
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today: https://www.somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Joe Gagnon, an entrepreneur, bio-hacker, CEO of Performance Tea, CEO of Sparkcentral, and author of Living the High Performance Life, An Ordinary Joe’s Guide to the Extraordinary. Gagnon describes the importance that curiosity has played in his life, and how he ultimately decided to travel down the path his life is now on. Highlighting the pillars of his book – life, learning, and fitness – Gagnon discusses the importance of volunteering and how fitness and health are integral in helping others and in his own life. To learn more about Gagnon and his work, follow him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/THPLife), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thehighperformancelife/), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheHighPerformanceLife/) and visit his website http://www.thehighperformancelife.net/. You can also find his book at (https://www.amazon.com/Living-High-Performance-Life-Extraordinary-ebook/dp/B079ZSKZ8H/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Living+the+High+Performance+Life%2C+An+Ordinary+Joe’s+Guide+to+the+Extraordinary”&qid=1573163829&sr=8-1) and find Performance Tea at https://www.performancetea.com.
Today’s show was sponsored by Synergy Float Center. To learn more about their work, visit: synergyfloatcenter.com.
Ostrolenk speaks with Charlie Deist, a writer and radio producer, regular guest host of The Bob Zadek Show (http://www.bobzadek.com/), and master level MovNat trainer (www.movnat.com/). Deist discusses the importance of primal intelligence in fitness, including the value in engaging with stresses from our natural environment and exposing ourselves to the elements.
His newest publication is a guide to "Elemental Biohacking" offering a natural method of Vitality, Resilience, and Connecting to Your Deep Nature using earth, fire, air and water. The PDF is free to new subscribers to his weekly newsletter on holistic, functional fitness. To learn more about Charlie and his work, visit his website (anaturalmethod.com), find him on MovNat (https://www.movnat.com/find-a-trainer/), follow him on Twitter (@Chdeist), or email him at chdeist@gmail.com.
Today's show is brought to you by Resilience Parenting (https://fivebackpacks.family/).
Charlie Deist, filling in for Bob Zadek, interviews Michael Ostrolenk on The Bob Zadek Show. Below is Deist's summary, and also find the interview on The Bob Zadek Show website (http://www.bobzadek.com/past-shows/2019/6/20/michael-ostrolenk).
Michael Ostrolenk is host of the #OShow - a show exploring individual and social transformation. In this show, producer Charlie Deist asks Michael about his expertise in transpartisan politics, cybersecurity, the dangers of foreign meddling in elections, and the physiological component to disagreement.
Ostrolenk speaks with Doctor Diaz, a Sports Psychology Consultant with a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Diaz focuses on teaching peak performance and mental wellness, primarily to athletes, through an embodied mind and body approach. Under high levels of stress, the human nervous system feed behavioral patterns that disrupt learned skills, resulting in under-performing. Conversely, an integrative mind and body therapeutic approach is designed to manage emotions to alleviate the overwhelmed nervous system. In so doing, athletes learn to shift stress-related body sensations to a felt sense awareness that promotes increased focused, resilience, and, consequently, improved performance. To learn more about Dr. Diaz and his work, visit his website (http://sportsmentaledge.com/) and his Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SportsMentalEdge/). Today’s show was brought to you by Somatic Psychology Today. To learn more, visit their website (https://www.somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/).
Gary Collins of The Simple Life interviews Michael Ostrolenk.Below is Collins' summary, and also find the interview on his website (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/e9/).
In this episode, I interview Michael Ostrolenk. Michael is a Master Coach/ Head Instructor at the Unbeatable Mind Academy and host of the Michael Ostrolenk Podcast. He is a licensed psychotherapist. Ostrolenk completed his MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University and his BA in government at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He did post-graduate training in somatic psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies and health psychology through the Health Medicine Forum. Ostrolenk is certified in Spiral Dynamics and Wade Mindsets. He graduated from SEALFIT’s 3 Week Academy and Kokoro Camp 10.”
Your Better Life Topics Discussed: A little about Michael What is SEALFIT A bit about the human mind and how it works Understanding the mind of the sociopath and psychopath Our broken system and how it affects our mind Understanding and using mindfulness Why forced “labeling” is stupid How all humans are not the same Understanding the primal lifestyle Bettering yourself by shutting out the noise
Ostrolenk speaks with Sheila Weinberg and Bill Bergman, from Truth in Accounting, which offers comprehensive analysis of government fiscal data on the federal, state, and local government level. Weinberg and Bergman express the importance of this analysis, noting that citizens don’t have the financial information needed to be knowledgeable participants in their governments. Truth In Accounting publishes information to inform citizens of the Unites States’ true financial state, including debt clocks available on their website (https://www.truthinaccounting.org/about/our_national_debt): one debt clock highlights the reported national debt of 22 trillion USD, while another clock includes figures excluded in the former, including liabilities of owed social security (around 35 trillion USD) and Medicare (around 50 trillion USD). Lastly, Weinberg and Bergman discuss the audit of the Department of Defense, detailing how the audit is conducted and the audit report cards that Truth in Accounting compiled for each DOD entity. To view this information, visit their website visit their website at: https://www.truthinaccounting.org, and to learn more follow them on Twitter @truthinacct, Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/truthinaccounting/), and Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/truthinaccounting).
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Lara Pence, a licensed clinical psychologist, who also serves a chief Wellness Specialist with Spartan Race.
Dr. Pence discusses how she became a clinical psychologist and how her approach to working with her client’s has evolved over time. She also discusses how she transitioned to working with individuals, including professional athletes, who struggle in their relationship with food. Dr. Pence dives a little deeper into her experience treating individuals with eating disorders, the role of shame in driving this disorder, and her approach to helping individuals shift their mindset to help their recovery. Lastly, Dr. Pence discusses methods beyond talk therapy, including the importance of somatics and incorporating friends and family into treatment. To learn more about Dr. Lara Pence and her work, visit her website https://www.drlarapence.com/, follow her on Instagram @drlarapence, send her an email lara@drlarapence.com, and find her on (Spartan and unbeatable mind).
Today’s show is sponsored by Rolfer and body worker Cosper Scafidi. To learn more about his work, visit his website https://www.cosperscafidi.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Serge Prengel, LMHC and author of Inspirational Fables: Bedtime Stories for Your Inner Child. Prengel details his experience guiding clients away from operating with a reactive mind, which is a primitive way of responding to stimuli. His view is that the mind can respond in a more positive and constructive way, and the body is involved in the process of response. Prengel discusses examples of relationship dynamics, in which one person plays the role of a pursuer and the other person plays the role of the distancer, which intrinsically involves fear and reactivity. Not only is the mind responding in these situations, but the body is as well. Prengel also details how he supports clients to see these reactive patterns and the steps towards change, which must involve an environment of safety. To learn more about Serge Prengel, visit his website www.proactivechange.com and read his work on www.proactivemindfulness.com.
Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today https://www.somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence and founder of Quantum Leap Business Improv. Michelle is an applied creativity catalyst, facilitator, and coach who has worked with diverse organizations – including Microsoft, PBS, NIH, Deloitte, Pepsi, and NOAA among others – using whole-brain and somatic creativity, including applied improvisation, to support better leadership, collaboration, and business development. James details the benefits of improv, its natural order, and the value in a “yes, and” approach. She also discusses body-centered practices in her work, which help clients to embody a concept, or move non-habitually opening up creative potential and emergence. To learn more about Michelle’s whole-brain approaches, visit her website www.creativeemergence.com, read her blog https://creativeemergence.typepad.com/, and be on the lookout for her book Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator’s Guide to Cultivating Creativity.
Show sponsor Resilience Parenting (https://resilienceparenting.info/).
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Marianne Brandon and Dr. Abraham Morgentaler. Dr. Brandon is a clinical psychologist and diplomat in sex therapy, and Dr. Morgentaler is an international authority on men’s health and a pioneer in the treatment of testosterone deficiency in men. Both doctors are the authors of several books. Ostrolenk, Mortentaler, and Brandon discuss the importance of physical health in sexual satisfaction; the role that stress reduction, self-care, and optimal weight play in one’s sex life; myths around pre-mature ejaculation; and how to promote continued sexual excitement in long-term relationships.
To learn more, follow them on Twitter (@DrMorgentaler; @DrBrandon), visit their websites (http://www.drbrandon.net/about/; https://menshealthboston.com/about-mhb/meet-our-team) and find their books on Amazon: · Testosterone For Life (https://www.amazon.com/Testosterone-Life-Recharge-Vitality-Overall/dp/0071494804) · Why Men Fake It: The Totally Unexpected Truth About Men and Sex (https://www.amazon.com/Why-Men-Fake-Totally-Unexpected/dp/0805094245/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%A2+Why+Men+Fake+It%3A+The+Totally+Unexpected+Truth+About+Men+and+Sex&qid=1564347426&s=books&sr=1-1) · The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships (https://www.amazon.com/Viagra-Myth-Surprising-Impact-Relationships/dp/0787968013/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%A2+The+Viagra+Myth%3A+The+Surprising+Impact+on+Love+and+Relationships&qid=1564347456&s=books&sr=1-1) · Monogamy: The Untold Story (https://www.amazon.com/Monogamy-Untold-Story-Love-Psychology-ebook/dp/B003ZK5CHI/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%A2+Monogamy%3A+The+Untold+Story&qid=1564347562&s=books&sr=1-1) · Unlocking the Sexy in Surrender: Using the Neuroscience of Power to Recharge Your Sex Life (https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Sexy-Surrender-Neuroscience-Recharge-ebook/dp/B00HS9FNMQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%A2+Unlocking+the+Sexy+in+Surrender%3A+Using+the+Neuroscience+of+Power+to+Recharge+Your+Sex+Life&qid=1564347584&s=books&sr=1-1) · Reclaiming Desire: 4 Keys to Finding Your Lost Libido (https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Desire-Keys-Finding-Libido/dp/1605298263/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%E2%80%A2+Reclaiming+Desire%3A+4+Keys+to+Finding+Your+Lost+Libido&qid=1564347618&s=books&sr=1-1)
Show sponsored by Synergy Float Center (synergyfloatcenter.com/).
Ostrolenk speaks with Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) J.C. Glick, a partner with MVP Development Group and a Partner Emeritus with Kenning Associates. Glick is the co-author with Dr. Alice Atalanta Ph.D of “Meditations of an Army Ranger: A Warrior Philosophy for Everyone”. Glick begins by discussing the premise of the book, noting the ways in which modern day Americans have lost the lessons of philosophers and warriors of the past. Ostrolenk and Glick discuss the four separate books within “Meditations of an Army Ranger”: (1) Think Differently; (2) To have and to be; (3) Leadership; (4) Elite. To learn more about J.C. Glick visit him on Twitter (@jc_glick) and read about his work as a consultant (https://www.mvpdevelopmentgroup.com/)and look for his book on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0998848514/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0). Show sponsored by Synergy Float Center (https://synergyfloatcenter.com/).
Ostrolenk speaks with Twila Brase, RN, PHN, author of Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records. Brase is also the co-founder and president of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. (https://www.cchfreedom.org). Brase details for the audience the ways in which electronic health records threaten citizens’ privacy and quality healthcare treatment. Specifically, HIPAA – which is referred to as a notice of privacy but acts as a notice of information disclosure – is one key concern, as is the possibility of the National Patient ID. This electronic data system not only forces patients to have their data connected and shared, but it also requires significant time from health care providers who must sacrifice time with the patient to engage in this data collection. To learn more about Brase, read her book (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Brother-Exam-Room-Electronic/dp/1592987060; BigBrotherInTheExamRoom.com) and visit the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom website (https://www.cchfreedom.org/). To tell Senators and President Trump to oppose the National Patient ID legislation, contact McConnell here https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact and Trump here https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Chris Preble, Vice President of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at Cato Institute and author of Peace, War, and Liberty. Preble begins by discussing our Founding Fathers’ vision for U.S. Foreign Policy, specifically the Constitution’s called for a standing Navy, but the ability to raise an Army. This is an important distinction, meant to limit the United States’ tendency to go to war; a deviation from the U.S. Government’s current interpretation and use of war powers. Washington in his Farewell Address warned of alliances and the internal disputes of foreign countries and how we rectify this with the territorial expansion common of the U.S. at the time. Preble and Ostrolenk further discuss the now permanent war state reflected in our current approach to foreign policy and the costs to American of this approach. To learn more about Chris Preble’s work, visit Cato’s website (https://www.cato.org/) and find his book at (https://store.cato.org/book/peace-war-and-liberty).
Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Cerrillo, veteran of the SEAL teams, master training specialist at Navy Special Warfare Center, and founder of Spartan 7 Executive Adventures. Cerrillo discusses the program that he runs training people both in person and online to become Navy SEALS, focusing on mental toughness and physical endurance. In addition to his work training future SEALS, CCerrillo help found and operates a humanitarian response team, which assists in response and rehabilitation following catastrophic shocks or in prolonged crises. Further, Cerrillo works with fellow SEALS to combat PTSD, drawing off of his own struggles and successful recovery. His mission now centers of helping fellow brothers overcome their trauma, letting them know that he too has been there, and that treatment is possible. To learn more about Dan Cerrillo and his work, visit https://www.spartan7adventure.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Nancy Eichhorn, PhD, teacher and editor of Somatic Psychotherapy Today. They discuss what is meant by somatic psychotherapy and how practitioners use the movements and functions of the human body to holistically understand how humans experience themselves. Eichhorn details her educational and personal experience that led her to focus on somatic psychotherapy and several key educational opportunities for others to study this practice. Ostrolenk and Eichhorn also discuss the importance of touch and how U.S. culture unfortunately rejects the practice of human touch. Eichhorn further discusses their magazine and its objective of facilitating discourse on topics within this field. To learn more about this magazine visit https://www.somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/, and check out their special for the July issue.
Ostrolenk welcomes back Gary Collins to speak about his book Living off the Grid. Collins discusses what led him to live off the grid and his strategy to doing so. Touching upon several chapters in his book, Collin’s details building a home off the grid, ways to approach power, water, and sanitation, and the nuance to be considered before buying a tiny home. Collins doesn’t regret his decision and notes that although mistakes were made in his journey, tremendous lessons were learned. To learn more about Collins or seek him as a consultant, visit his website (https://www.thesimplelifenow.com/). You can also find his book on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Going-Off-Grid-How-Book/dp/1570673543).
Ostrolenk speaks with Cathy Reisenwitz, a San Francisco-based writer. Reisenwitz is a self-described sex-positive libertarian feminist, and she dives into her journey to each of these identities. Reisenwitz chronicles how she came to identify with libertarianism, her thoughts on the neoliberalism movement, the importance of safety nets in economic growth, and the role of affordable housing. Reisenwitz also discusses sex positivity, and her realization that that there is no one way to have sex, be in love, or be married. To learn more about Reisenwitz, visit her blog at https://cathyreisenwitz.com/ and find her articles at The Bay City Beacon https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Chris and Holly Santillo, parents of the Five Backpacks Family (https://fivebackpacks.family/). Chris and Holly are soon to journey around the world with their three children, traveling through the U.S., Russia, Asia and elsewhere. Their decision arose from a desire to world school themselves and their children, learning about other cultures and better understanding themselves and the world in which they live. The Santillos discuss how they planned for this trip and how they aim to balance spontaneity and planning. They hope that this journey will inform how they live when they return. The Santillo family sets off on their journey on Monday, April 22. To learn more about them and follow their adventure, visit their blog at https://fivebackpacks.family/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Gary Collins, author of many books including The Simple Life: Guide to Decluttering Your Life. Collins details his personal transition away from a maximum consumption lifestyle and what he has come to learn from this experience, namely the need to focus not only on decluttering physical possessions but also one’s mind, health and finances. Collins also discusses the importance of focusing on the why of our actions, the importance of personal relationships, and focusing on the things that matter. To learn more about Gary Collins, his work as a coach, and his books, visit his website at thesimplelifenow.com.
Ostrolenk speaks with Holly and Chris Santillo, authors of Resilience Parenting. Holly and Chris detail their professional journeys as a teacher and martial arts instructor, respectively, and their journey as parents, both of which have inspired the authorship of their book. The book focuses on how to raise children that are strong, adaptable, and have the ability to recover from setbacks. Holly and Chris detail three pillars - learning, service, and integrity - which are key to raising a strong and resilient child, and they provide examples from their own lives on how parents can operationalize these pillars. To learn more about Holly and Chris and their work, check out their book (https://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Parenting-Resilient-Detachment-Dependence-ebook/dp/B07NNRWG28/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=CHRIS+SANTILLO&qid=1554144034&s=gateway&sr=8-1).
Ostrolenk speaks with Marc Lesser, who is internationally recognized for pioneering in mindful leadership and creating exceptional business cultures. Lesser founded and was CEO of 3 companies and is the author of 4 books. Ostrolenk and Lesser discuss Lesser’s journey to mindfulness and his most recent book: Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader (https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Practices-Mindful-Leader-Monastery/dp/1608685195). Lesser discusses the transformation many businesses have undergone from prioritizing machine-like efficiency to requiring collaboration and creativity, which has opened up space for mindful leadership. Ostrolenk and Lesser discuss a few of the seven practices, including Love the Work, Do the Work, and Keep Making it Simpler. To learn more about Lesser and his work, visit his website (https://www.marclesser.net/) and check out his book (https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Practices-Mindful-Leader-Monastery/dp/1608685195).
Ostrolenk speaks with Mandy Smithberger, Director for the Center for Defense Information at POGO (https://www.pogo.org/). Smithberger details their newest report Brass Parachutes: The Problem of the Pentagon Revolving Door (https://www.pogo.org/report/2018/11/brass-parachutes/). The report highlights the ways in which the military industrial complex conflates what is in the best financial interest of defense contracts and large budgets with military effectiveness and what is in the best interest of tax payers. Smithberger provides several examples. This includes ethical loopholes such as the fact that senior officials face few limits and lobbying that restricts that are overly narrow and miss behind the scenes work. To learn more about Smithberger’s work and POGO’s new report, click on the links above.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Jake Desyllas: author, investor, entrepreneur, and host of The Voluntary Life Podcast (https://thevoluntarylife.com/). Desyllas discusses his journey to change his career path and discover the principles by which he truly wants to live. In doing this there were numerous challenges but also numerous rewards. Desyllas also details how travel has played a role in his life and choices, how he became a minimalist, and how he has approached parenting. To learn more about Dr. Desyllas, visit his website and check out his books listed below.
Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Job+Free+Jake+Desyllas&ref=nb_sb_noss) Becoming an Entrepreneur (https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Entrepreneur-Freedom-Fulfillment-Business-ebook/dp/B00JLTUFSS/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=become+an+Jake+Desyllas&qid=1551482785&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0) Negotiate for Mutual Profit (http://www.jakedesyllas.com/work/#/negotiateformutualprofit/)
Ostrolenk speaks with Nancy Parrish, executive director of Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), an organization that build’s women’s political power to advocate for security and peace with justice. One of their key pieces of work is the coalition United Against Nuclear War, https://www.wand.org/united-against-nukes-campaign, in collaboration with Beyond the Bomb, Win Without War, Peace Action, ReThink Media, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Union of Concerned Scientists, and others. This collation aims to stop nuclear war, specifically through a call for no first use and advocating that the President should not have unilateral authority to launch nuclear weapons. Parrish discusses why women can so successfully engage in peace and security topics, highlighted by their 16 resolutions for United Against Nuclear War in 14 states. To learn more about WAND, visit their website (https://www.wand.org/) and follow them on social media (Twitter @WomensAction; Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WomensAction/) .
Ostrolenk speaks with Wendy Jordan, Senior Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense (https://www.taxpayer.net/). Jordan discusses ongoing efforts to ensure the Pentagon passes an audit and the reasons it is important to ensure the Pentagon is spending money efficiently and in the way directed by Congress. The structure of the Pentagon makes this a challenging endeavor, but one that can and should be completed. Jordan details the agencies within the Pentagon that have completed clean audits and the steps required to ensure the remaining branches and agencies also do. Jordan also discusses other key DoD reforms more broadly. To learn more about Wendy Jordan and her work, visit Taxpayer.net.
Ostrolenk speaks with Jake Laperruque, Senior Council for the Constitution Project at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) (https://www.pogo.org/). Laperruque recently wrote Securing our Elections: How States Can Mitigate the Potential Damage of Hacked Voter Registration Roles (https://www.pogo.org/report/2018/11/election-day-under-attack-how-states-can-mitigate-the-potential-damage-of-hacked-voter-registration-rolls/). Ostrolenk and Laperruque discuss the risks of malicious hacking that our voter registration systems face, and how to proactively ensure future hacking does not occur. Laperruque discusses best practices at the state and federal level to minimize the possibility of malicious hacking and contingency plans for if voter registration databases are hacked. To learn more, read the above-mentioned report and visit POGO’s website.
Ostrolenk speaks with Stefanos Sifandos, facilitator of transformational growth. Sifandos details his career path to coaching, specifically his personal transformation from a life that felt void of depth and quality relationships to one that is full of personal connections and growth. Through this transformation, Sifandos reflected on his past and began to understand the ways in which men often isolate themselves internally and distract themselves externally. Sifandos taught himself to instead be reflective, conscious, and take personal responsibility. Sifandos translated these lessons into the curriculum of his many programs, noted below. To learn more about Sifandos and his work, visit his website and learn about his programs: Reclaim Your Kingdom, Leadership of Self, How to Create Harmony, Vulnerability is the New Black, Conscious Relating, Conscious Warrior, and Chaos to Clarity.
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Ostrolenk speaks with Steve Foerster, writer, technologist, educator, and President of New World University, based in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Foerster discusses how he became involved with online higher education and how his experience working with international students drove the development of New World University. Foerster further details the educational opportunities through New World University, specifically their one year certificate, two year diploma, and three-year Bachelor of Science in International Business Leadership. The University also plans to add similar programs in Economics and Public Policy, Information Systems, and Education. Foerster also notes the educational process through New World University and the low costs. To learn more about New World University, visit their website at https://newworld.ac/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, long-time psychotherapist, author, and scholar of Kundalini Yoga. Sovatsky describes successful spiritual based therapeutic approaches including the overarching approach to aim for what is ideal in human relationships rather than what seems likely. With this ideal in mind, he guides clients through changing their mental and emotional states to reconnect to their 'beloved' , before trying to solve a problem. This is coupled with love, gratitude, and compassion, and has proven successful in many cases.
To learn more about Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, find him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stuart.sovatsky and https://princeton.academia.edu/Stuart.... Also check out his books Advanced Spiritual Intimacy (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162...), Words from the Soul (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/079...), Your Perfect Lips (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...), and Eros Consciousness and Kundalini (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089...).
Ostrolenk speaks with John St. Claire, a musician, teacher, and Master Healer, trained in many modalities. St. Claire speaks of his private healing practice, using crystals and sound, which helps clients change their lives physically, mentally, and spiritually. Ostrolenk and St. Claire discuss Ostrolenk’s experience with non-ordinary states of being during his session with St. Claire and the successes St. Claire has seen his clients achieve through this practice. To learn more about John St. Claire and his work, visit his website.
Ostrolenk speaks with Cosper Scafidi, a Structural integration Certified Advanced Rolfer® and a board member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute. Scafidi chronicles what led him into Rolfing®, which is soft tissue manipulation and movement education aimed at improving body alignment and function. Scafidi also discusses the transformations that can occur from Rolfing, both physically and psychologically, and the various approaches to this work over time. Lastly, Scafidi details his approach and successes he’s seen with his clients. To learn more about Cosper Scafidi and his work visit his website.
Ostrolenk speaks with TJ Ferrara and Sean Lake, who started Bubs Naturals (https://www.bubsnaturals.com/collections/all). This business was born out of a desire to provide funding to the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation (http://www.glendohertyfoundation.org/). Glen Doherty was a Navy SEAL and one of the four Americans killed in the terror attack in Benghazi in September 2012. The Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation was created to honor Glen’s life and principals through providing special operations professionals with educational opportunities to transition to civilian life. Ferrara and Lake chronicle how they discovered collagen as a supplement , their eventual first product, and worked to develop a clean, good-tasting version. To learn more about BUBS Naturals supplements and purchase their products that supports the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation with 10% of every sale, visit their website or find it on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/BUBS-Naturals-Grass-Fed-Collagen-Peptides/dp/B071JJCB4S?th=1).
Ostrolenk speaks with Norie Huddle, environmental & peace activist, author, social entrepreneur. Norie tells how she "retired" at age 25 to do "only what makes absolute sense to her for the rest of her life." She currently lives in Ecuador where she and her husband are building the Garden of Paradise (www.gardenofparadise.net) and won world's first lawsuit defending the Rights of Nature (https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/worlds-first-successful-rights-of-nature-lawsuit-2/). In her recent TedX talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DTi9fXf_g) Norie describes the urgent need to transform human civilization rapidly and how to do this. To learn more about Norie's work, visit her websites http://gardenofparadise.net/Home.html andhttp://bestgame.org/, and read her books: Return to the Garden (https://www.amazon.com/RETURN-GARDEN-CHRONICLES-ELEANOR-Book-ebook/dp/B0098OC3LI), Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan (https://www.amazon.com/Island-Dreams-Environmental-Crisis-Japan/dp/0870470272), and Surviving: The Best Game on Earth (https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Best-Earth-Norie-Huddle/dp/0805238719).
Ostrolenk continues his conversation with Dan Grazier, Jack Shanahan Fellow with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), on the F-35. The F-35 is back in the news following two key events: its bombing missions in Afghanistan and a crash in South Carolina. Grazier updates the audience on current production levels of the F-35, as well as the ongoing issues with its operations, noting that although many issues are known, simulations are insufficient at providing insight into the F-35’s capacity against enemy aircraft. Grazier also touches upon why the F-35 remains the wrong aircraft for many of the US’s operational needs as it is built for too narrow of a purpose. Grazier concludes on lessons learned upon which he hopes we can build more successful aircraft programs.
Van Orden speaks to Ostrolenk about his endeavors to inspire reform within the American Legion, specifically, to motivate the leadership to police up their ranks and call to task members who lie about their service in order to make the Legion a place where younger veterans will join in greater numbers. This goal is to decrease the isolation of veterans and stop the epidemic rate of suicide in the community.
To learn more and get involved in the effort, read the articles Orden references (https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-navy-seal-questions-american-legion-vetting-process-has-speech/article_33421836-4428-5111-aa03-f57be6f01194.html; https://taskandpurpose.com/exclusive-american-legion-in-turmoil-as-top-exec-resigns-over-background-questions/), and visit militaryphony.com.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Lacey Chittle, a functional medicine specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chittle explains functional medicine, a root-cause approach to treating medical conditions. Chittle's own experience with autoimmunity, IBS, chronic pain and fatigue lead her to discovering the immense benefits of functional medicine, an experience that inspired her to practice functional medicine in treating her patients. Chittle also discusses the transition of conventional medicine towards adopting the approaches of functional medicine. To learn about Dr. Chittle's work, visit her website at www.drlaceychittle.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Sempai Jessica Lara, one of the chief instructors at Potomac Kempo in Alexandria, Virigina. Lara details her background in martial arts and how her mother and father have inspired her career. Lara also speaks to her experience teaching women’s self-defense classes, the importance of situational awareness, and the techniques and strengths women can use during self-defense situations. To learn more about her upcoming workshop or other lessons, visit the Potomoc Kempo website https://www.potomackempo.com/ or follow them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PotomacKempo/).
Ostrolenk speaks with Brent Gleeson, Navy SEAL combat veteran and accomplished entrepreneur, author, and acclaimed speaker. Gleeson begins by detailing what led him to join the Navy and how the lessons he learned from that experience were instrumental in his success in business. He now uses these lessons to guide business leaders in developing successful work environments. Gleeson describes some key challenges faced by business leaders today, and how they can overcome these to cultivate a culture of resilience and openness. You can learn more about his leadership philosophies in his weekly columns on Inc.com and Forbes.com and visit his website at www.brentgleesonspeaker.com. His book TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change (https://www.amazon.com/TakingPoint-Principles-Leading-Through-Change/dp/1501176781), will be published by Simon & Schuster on February 27, 2018.
Ostrolenk speaks with Stew Smith, Special Ops Team Coach at the US Naval Academy, former Navy SEAL, and author of several fitness books. Ostrolenk and Smith begin by discussing Smith’s recent book Tactical Fitness For the Athlete Over Forty, one of Smith’s best-selling books that focuses on increasing strength and avoiding injuries. Ostrolenk and Smith also discuss the many training programs he has designed for various fitness tests, from beginners' programs to successful fitness throughout your career. Among all the factors that contribute to success in completing training programs, Smith notes, is will to persist and improve. Smith has written 10 published books and nearly 40 self-published books. To learn more about Smith and his work, visit stewsmith.com and stewsmithfitness.com and follow him on twitter @StewSmith.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy. Sovatsky will soon be leading a four-day spiritual retreat entitled The Heartpath of Enlightenment through Sacred Music. In line with the topic of the retreat, Sovatsky speaks on music and the power of meditation and gratitude. The retreat will include musicians Partha Bose- Sitar and Indranil Mallick- Tabla. To learn more about Sovatsky’s retreat, visit https://registrations.amrityoga.org/allevents/sangeet-bhakti-sadhana-retreat/ or reach out to Sovatsky on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stuart.sovatsky.
Ostrolenk speaks with Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. Ostrolenk and Preble discuss the recent passage of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) without provisions for BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure). Preble details the common arguments against BRAC – which likely resulted in its lack of inclusion in NDAA – and the reasons these arguments hold little weight. Even in the event of large-scale military growth, the military would still have nearly 20 percent excess capacity. Secondly, contrary to the claim that maintaining unnecessary military bases protects local communities from economic harm, the repurposing of bases often spurs greater economic activity. Preble concludes by discussing the likelihood of base realignments and closures in 2018 despite the lack of inclusion in NDAA, and the other efforts being undertaken to allow the U.S. military to more efficiently deploy resources while maintaining its war-fighting capabilities. To learn more about Preble’s work, visit Cato.org.
Ostrolenk speaks with Jim Turner, co-founder of The Transpartisan Review and co-author of Voice of the People. Ostrolenk and Turner begin by discussing how people are withholding themselves from politics, and the changing nature of our society that has led to this. Although a partisan culture flourishes in DC, this is contrary to the transpartisan way in which many communities conduct themselves. This leads them to a conversation on the changing sources of information, and how Americans are currently operating within these changes. To learn more about Turner's work, check out The Transpartisan Review (https://www.themaven.net/transpartisanvoice) and read his book (https://www.amazon.com/Voice-People-Transpartisan-Imperative-American/dp/0615215262).
Ostrolenk speaks with Russ Greene, Director of Government Relations and Research for CrossFit, on potential regulations that threaten CrossFit operations and more broadly on how these legislative actions represent the regulatory capture prevalent in our country. Since its founding in 2003, CrossFit has grown to encompass 14,000 gyms and affiliated business, all of which are broadly permitted to set their own rules of operation. Legislation has since been proposed that requires personal trainers to have licenses to operate that excludes CrossFit credentials as a qualifying license. This would require CrossFit trainers to obtain licensing from the competitors who are lobbying for this legislation. Greene further explains the role of the food and beverage industry behind the advocacy for this legislation, and how it has resulted in regulatory capture of the organizations – including the CDC – who are tasked with protecting the American consumer. To learn more about Russ Greene's work, follow his blog at: therussells.crossfit.com.
Ostrolenk continues his conversation with Dan Grazier, Jack Shanahan Fellow with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO, on the F-35. The United States Government continues to purchase F-35s at an alarming rate, including plans to purchase 94 F-35s in fiscal year 2018, despite the fact that the design is incomplete, numerous operational issues have been identified, and the operational testing period has not yet started. The handling of the acquisition of F-35s runs in stark contrast to the A-10, which was purposely designed to be a ground attack aircraft, making it effective and well regarded. Now, with discussion not only for additional F-35 purchases, but the possibility of its replacing some A-10s, the American people should be concerned about the safety and effectiveness of their armed forces, as well as the waste of their taxpayer dollars.
To learn more about the F-35 and what the Project on Government Oversight, visit their website and read the following articles:
http://www.pogo.org/ http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2017/f35-continues-to-stumble.html http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/congress-hypnotized-by-plane-that-cant-get-off-the-ground/ https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/us-air-force-must-retrofit-108-f-35as-434241/ https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/us-considers-non-combat-rated-subset-of-f-35-fleet-441248/
Ostrolenk speaks with Mattie Duppler Springer, a former Hill Staffer, Public Policy Consultant, and Yoga Instructor. On October 6, Springer will be competing in GORUCK Tough (https://www.goruck.com/tough/), in which contestants carry rucksacks for 10 to 12 miles through various terrain. Springer, who will be competing for the first time, explains how she came to sign up for GORUCK Tough, and what she is looking forward to gaining from the experience. In additional the the physical and mental benefits, Springer and her team are fundraising for Third Option Foundation, the only organization focused solely on the needs of the operators from the CIA's special operations community. To learn more about Third Option Foundation, visit https://www.thirdoptionfoundation.org/, and to follow the race, follow them on twitter @GORUCK.
*Update: Springer successfully completed GORUCK Tough.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dennis Stoika, creator and Chief Instructor of Modern Era Warriors, an integrated, reality-based defense and fitness program. Stoika discusses his career history in the FBI, law enforcement, and the Marine Corps, and the training he received throughout his career that led him to create Modern Era Warriors. Using an integrated approach, his program includes mental training, physical readiness, nutrition, martial arts, and gun and knife use. Stoika teaches in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and has future plans to offer workshops in other areas. To learn more about him and Modern Era Warriors, visit his website: http://www.modernerawarriors.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Greg Amundson, athlete, author, speaker, and founder of Satvana Yoga, Krav Maga Santa Cruz, CrossFit Amundson and Faith Works Ministry. Amundson chronicles what led him down the path he has followed, starting with inspiration from his father, a career in law enforcement, and the teachings of God. Ultimately, it was moments in his life that taught him to focus inward that inspired him to write. Amudson discusses his books, their teachings, and the inspirations behind each. From his most recent book, Firebreather Fitness, he explains the importance of practicing a concept called First Words. To learn more about Greg Amundson and his integrated teachings on mind, body, and spirit, visit his website: https://gregoryamundson.com/ and http://faithworksministries.net/.
Ostrolenk speaks with James Scott, a Senior Fellow and co founder of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology and the author of more than 30 books (https://www.amazon.com/James-Scott/e/B01IPLQKSQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1) on health IT, energy sector cybersecurity, nation state cyber espionage, and more. He advises to more than 25 congressional offices, caucuses, and committees on cyberwarfare and cybersecurity, as well as to NATO and federal agencies including the DoE, NSA, HHS, NASA, NIST and others. Scott chronicles what led him to this field and the areas in which the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology advises. Ostrolenk and Scott discuss various cyber attacks, the various threats different nation states and non-state actors pose, and what the American government is doing to prevent cyber attacks. They discuss the need to break down silos between government agencies and even within government agencies. They also discussed the Cyber Shield Act (http://icitech.org/icit-analysis-the-cyber-shield-act/). Lastly, Scott answers listeners’ questions on cyber security
To learn more about James Scott and his work, visit icitech.org, follow him @ICITorg, and look for his books on amazon.
Ostrolenk speaks with Kurt Couchman, Vice President of Public Policy at Defense Priorities. Ostrolenk and Couchman discuss the United State’s current military operations around the world and what Congress should do to reclaim its war powers. The 2001 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force (AUMF) remain the basis for many military operations, although Congress has not given authorization to the President for military action in countries such as Syria and Iraq. Couchman further details the pros and cons of having a sunset clause on the current AUMFs versus repealing and replacing. Lastly, Couchman discusses Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) and possible new rounds of BRAC. To learn more about Kurt Couchman and the work of Defense Priorities, visit their website at www.defensepriorities.org.
Ostrolenk speaks with Michael Jaco, a 24-year veteran of the elite US Navy SEAL TEAMS and former Security Officer for the CIA. Jaco now shares his knowledge in books and a two-day course on unleashing intuition. Jaco speaks on how he learned through his ample experience to hone his intuition, and how everyone has the capability to do so. By reaching a higher level of consciousness, a person can develop greater intuition and teach the body to overcome states that seem insurmountable. Jaco teaches these skills through his course and his books. To learn more, visit his website (http://www.unleashingintuition.com/) and check out his books (https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Warrior-Lessons-Unleashing-Potential/dp/0615514693/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492611396&sr=8-1&keywords=MICHAEL+JACO; https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Warrior-Past-Lives-Remembered/dp/1497521262).
Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Cerrillo, a certified U.S. Navy Master Training Specialist who spent over 14-years on active duty, 13-years of which were spent within Naval Special Warfare Command’s. Cerrillo is the founder and owner of Spartan Seven: The Ultimate SEAL Adventure, designed to teach participants the combat skills, leadership, and mental toughness all SEALs possess. Cerrillo details how the program was developed, and its similarities and differences with other SEAL programs. In Spartan Seven, participants not only receive firearm and hand-to-hand combat training, but also learn the importance of land navigation and communication. For people who wonder what it would have been like to live a warrior life, Spartan Seven provides the opportunity to experience this and learn warrior skills. To learn more about Spartan Seven, visit them on Facebook (www.facebook.com/UltimateNavySealAdventure) and on Instagram at @spartan7adventure.
Michael Ostrolenk — a leading expert in the field of transpartisan public policy, program director and master coach for SEALFIT’s Unbeatable Mind Academy — has a world of fascinating insights on how best to integrate Eastern and Western notions of self in order better to flourish as a human being on individual and grander scales.
Ostrolenk speaks with Lynnette Bukowski, founder and executive director of LZ Grace Warriors Retreat, and the wife of a Veteran Navy SEAL. Lynnette talks about her personal experiences, her husband's journey to assist fellow Navy SEALs, and how this led her to start LZ Grace. LZ Grace provides a place of respite for warriors and their families, through activities, rest, and interaction with others who have shared similar experiences. To learn more about LA Grace or donate, visit their website: http://lz-grace.com/about.html. You can also follow them on twitter @LZ_Grace and read more about Lynnette's work on her blog: gracebeyondgrace.com.
Ostrolenk speaks with Justin Goddard, Director of Neuro-fit Systems Australia. Goddard first discovered Neuro-fit at its base in Los Angeles as he and his wife were looking for programs to help their own daughter recover from autism. While many other programs and treatments sought simply to manage autism, Neuro-fit became a key component to the recovery piece by recalibrating the way the brain and body communicate with each other. Goddard discusses his daughter’s condition before treatment, and the progress she’s made since Neuro-fit improved the efficiency of her neuro-pathway development through movement. Having been witness to the profound impact the program had on their daughter, Goddard decided to bring Neuro-fit back to Australia.
To learn more about Neuro-fit, visit their website at Neuro-Fit.com, their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/neurofitsystems/, and learn more about their protocol at https://neuro-fit.wistia.com/medias/qe3n4cslgr.
Michael Ostrolenk is interviewed as a part of the American Citizens Summit, a free online event featuring respected political leaders, grassroots visionaries, business pioneers, change agents and advocates who are leading the way to actualize the full power of democracy by building bridges across divides.
Michael Ostrolenk is interviewed as a part of the American Citizens Summit, a free online event featuring respected political leaders, grassroots visionaries, business pioneers, change agents and advocates who are leading the way to actualize the full power of democracy by building bridges across divides.
Ostrolenk speaks with Michi Iljazi, Communications and Policy Manager for the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA). The TPA is a non-partisan, non-profit advocacy group that works on issues that impact American taxpayers. Focusing on Pentagon spending, Iljazi speaks about why so much money is wasted in defense spending and how the misallocation of resources makes America less safe. Iljazi further discusses programs that are significantly overfunded, why the Pentagon should not be considered a job-creation program, and why all Americans should care about auditing the Pentagon. To learn more about the TPA, visit their website at www.protectingtaxpayers.org and follow them on Twitter @Protectaxpayers
Ostrolenk speaks with Nan Swift, Federal Affairs Manager at the National Taxpayers Union (NTU). Swift speaks about the projects she works on through the NTU to achieve legislative outcomes favorable to taxpayers. Her recent work includes collaboration with Taxpayers for Common Sense on defense spending. Swift also elaborates on the Budget Control Act and the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund. Lastly, she discusses how throwing more money at the Pentagon does not make us more safe and how beneficial an audit would be.
To learn more about Swift's work and NTU, visit www.ntu.org
Ostrolenk speaks on transpartisanship and how prioritizing the ends over the means can be an efficient way to collaborate. In working across the aisle, it’s likely that others agree with the ends you seek, but may not agree on the means. If you are curious and flexible to compromise on the means, it is often possible to obtain the ends that both parties desire.
Ostrolenk speaks on transpartisan leadership and focuses on the importance of inner development for the next generation of leaders. Inner development refers to an individual’s ability to cultivate emotional and intellectual intelligence, develop skills in effective and efficient thinking, and seek to understand other’s world views. Ostrolenk expresses that in addition to developing for one's own leadership, true leaders also aim to train the next generation of leaders.
Ostrolenk talks about the three general purposes of transpartisanship: humanizing the political process, finding common ground, and creating space in the body politic for new ideas to emerge.
Ostrolenk speaks with Shihan Richard Romero, founder of Seichou Karate Dojo. Shihan Romero tells of his education in martial arts and Japanese language and culture. After competing in the Kyokushinkai-kan World Championship, Shihan Romero decided to continue his career in karate through teaching. He discusses the disciplines offered at Seichou Dojo, which, in addition to karate, include language, culture, and weaponry training to name a few. Shihan Romero also discusses the methodology behind his teaching, and why yoga and meditation are incorporated in to his karate practice.
To learn more about Shihan Richard Romero and Seichou Karate Dojo, visit his website at: Sdojo.com.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, an osteopathic physician, who focuses on the interface between memory, cognition, brain health, and obesity. Dr. Lyon discusses our circadian rhythm, and how our current nutrition and feeding practices are often at odds with it. She further elaborates on how modern triggers to eat impact our circadian rhythm, the pros and cons of restricted feeding windows, and possible gender differences in feeding, all of which ultimately impact our health and well-being.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Brandon, clinical psychologist and sex therapist, on an evolutionary perspective of our primal instincts. Dr. Brandon discusses how our culture encourages us to both overthink sex and try to make it politically correct. Rather, she argues, there are sexual differences between men and women that our primal instincts want to seize upon. Although developing a sexual passion based on power dynamics may seem at odds with what we believe to be healthy, Dr. Brandon describes how to capture on the primal brain inside the bedroom and the modern brain outside of it. To learn more about Dr. Marianne Brandon, visit her website (www.drbrandon.net) or check out her three books: 1. "Unlocking the Sexy in Surrender: Using the Neuroscience of Power to Recharge Your Sex Life" (https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Sexy-Surrender-Neuroscience-Recharge-ebook/dp/B00HS9FNMQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466472638&sr=1-1&keywords=unlocking+the+sexy+in+surrender) 2. “Reclaiming Desire: Four Keys to Finding Your Lost Libido.” https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Desire-Keys-Finding-Libido/dp/1605298263 3. “Monogamy The Untold Story” (https://www.amazon.com/Monogamy-Untold-Story-Love-Psychology-ebook/dp/B003ZK5CHI/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466472575&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Monogomy+the+untold+Story)
Ostrolenk speaks with Col. Douglas Macgregor on the U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense advice he would offer to the next President. Col. Macgregor gives an overview of the strategic objectives of Russia and China and how neither is the imminent threat we may believe them to be. Col. Mcgregor also presents that many countries can afford to protect themselves and that America should explore where it makes sense to remove ground troops. Finally, he would advise the future President that not every military action in the Middle East is directed at the U.S.; while the United States can protect its own borders from ISIS, the U.S. will not be able to defeat ISIS abroad. With these considerations and many other examples detailed, Col. Macgregor ultimately stresses that the United States cannot, and should not, be everywhere: global military hegemony is unaffordable, but regional military dominance when needed, is obtainable.
To learn more about Col. Macgregor, you can follow him on Twitter @MacgregorDoug and check out his newest book: Margin of Victory (http://www.amazon.com/Margin-Victory-Battles-Changed-Modern/dp/1612519962).
Ostrolenk speaks with Matt Fay, Defense Policy Analyst for Niskanen Center, on the process of the military’s weaponry acquisition and the need for acquisition reform. Fay explains that in the military service acts largely alone in defining requirements for new weapons, often resulting in orders that are unrealistic and beyond our technological capabilities. With few to no checks and balances in weaponry acquisition, this often wastes tax payer dollars and leads to inefficiencies, as Fay details through past examples. To learn more about Matt Fay’s work and acquisition reform, read his articles: Fixing Defense Acquisition Requires Fixing the Requirements Process (http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/04/29/fixing_defense_acquisition_requires_fixing_the_requirements_process.html), The US Should Never Develop Another Joint Fighter (http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/04/us-should-never-develop-another-joint-fighter/127165/?oref=d-river, and The “Bow Wave” and the Military Balance (http://warontherocks.com/2016/04/the-bow-wave-and-the-military-balance/), and follow him on Twitter.
Armor Down, an organization that provides mindfulness training to warriors and transitioning veterans. Armor Down is also the organization behind Mindful Memorial Day, an annual event at the Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. that seeks to honor every fallen service member since September 11th, 2001. In doing this they hang a yellow ribbon with the name of each fallen warrior and then provide each ribbon to a visitor of the memorial. This year they will hang 6,852 ribbons. The event will take place on the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of Memorial Day weekend and will require the help and dedication of volunteers to carryout our responsibility of honoring those who sacrificed their lives for our country. To learn more about how you can help and volunteer, visit Mindful Memorial Day’s website: http://www.mindfulmemorialday.org/
Ostrolenk speaks with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Ph.D and founder of MetaIntegral, which draws on many disciplines to develop a theory for all of reality. Esbjörn-Hargens details his educational and professional experiences that inspired him to develop MetaIntegral, which includes a foundation that funds innovative integral projects, an association that works to improve businesses, and the academy that trains integral leaders. Esbjörn-Hargens describes some of the methodology behind MetaIntegral’s approach, and how they have made that theory in to actionable steps for humankind to start working together. To learn more about Esbjörn-Hargens' publications and work, visit MetaIntegral’s website: www.metaintegral.com.
Ostrolenk speaks with Roger Gordon, founder of Food Cowboy, which connects food unwanted by retailers and food banks, in an effort to prevent food waste and provide food to those in need. Millions of tons of food are wasted annually before reaching retailers and although recent legislation has created greater incentives for companies to donate, logistical barriers to donation still exist. Food Cowboy works to address these issues, including a smart phone application that allows food transporters to connect with a pantry that is able to take unwanted food. Gordon also discusses that in order to address food waste and eliminate hunger, a change in culture is needed. For this Food Cowboy has also started a No Waste Promise public awareness campaign to get people involved. To learn more about the work of Food Cowboy and get involved, visit their website: http://www.foodcowboy.com/
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the “28 pages,” a Congressional report from 2002 which points to foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers. Although many are calling for President Obama to declassify this document, Fein points out that the ability to do so lies with Congress. Congress, despite empty promises to publish the 28 pages, has failed to do so. This lack of action is not only denying American citizens their right to information, but preventing the families of 9/11 victims from pursuing justice.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Grazier, a Jack Shanahan Fellow at the Project on Government Oversight, on the F-35 and specifically its different variants, challenges faced in replacing other aircraft, and why the American taxpayer should care. Unlike the John Boyd perspective on military reform, which Grazier explains in more detail, the F-35 places significant emphasis on hardware, rather than the people and ideas that should drive aircraft creation. The F-35 was created to replace much of the current aircraft used by the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force, as an all-in-one fighter plane, bomber, and air support platform. However, in trying to create one aircraft to serve all these purposes, the F-35 had to cater to too many objectives to do any one of them well. Additionally, building an aircraft that seeks multiple purposes makes its creation and maintenance more expensive. Grazier advocates for a less complicated system of aircraft building that instead focuses on specific use, ultimately leading to greater efficiency. To learn more about Dan Grazier and his work, visit the Project on Government Oversight’s website: http://www.pogo.org/
Ostrolenk speaks with Lora Lumpe, Senior Policy Advisor at the Open Society Policy Center, on the status of U.S. military aid. The United States government spends roughly 20 billion dollars on security assistance through both the State Department and the Department of Defense; however, the true amount, Lumpe points out, is difficult to determine. Spending is done through numerous different pots of money making it difficult not only for citizens, but also members of government oversight committees, to know how and where money is being spent. Without a comprehensive budget and increased transparency, it is difficult to know how the programs are interacting, what overall impact they're having, and if the U.S. is reaching its goals. Most importantly, if the U.S. wants to spend money to ensure foreign governments are accountable and open to their people, it should model such behavior itself.
To learn more about Secuirty Assistance Monitor and their work, visit their website at: http://securityassistance.org/
Ostrolenk speaks with Stuart Sovatsky Ph.D, author of "Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality," and Tina Benson, author of "A Woman Unto Herself: A Different Kind of Love Story." Together they discuss the topics of human development, spiritual and scientific perspectives, and different cultural perspectives on love, devotion, and appreciation.
Ostrolenk speaks with Keith Norris, Partner at Efficient Exercise, Co-founder of Paleo f(x), and Founding Partner of ID Life. Keith describes how he transitioned from a previous career in the corporate world to his life’s calling in the health and fitness field. His mission now is to help people to be healthy – in mind, body, and soul - so they can use their innate talents to help change the world. One of the ways Keith is working to accomplish this is through Paleo f(x). Not just about diet, Keith describes the Paleo mindset and how it can be used as a lens for economics, medicine, exercise, and spirituality. Specifically focusing on medicine, Keith elaborates on the benefits of plant medicine, such as Ayahuasca, and the importance of community in its utilization. As health is just one aspect of Paleo f(x)’s focus in improving human health, Keith will return for future conversations to further discuss efficient exercise, spirituality, and other elements of the Paleo mindset.
To learn more about Paleo f(x), visit the website (www.paleofx.com) and check out the Austin Paleo f(x) Conference from May 27-29th which features authors, physicians, scientists, health entrepreneurs and athletes, and activists involved in the Paleo movement.
Ostrolenk speaks with Kate Galliett, creator of “Fit for Real Life,” which brings together body, mind, and movement to help people become highly charged and fit for real life. Kate coaches online, in person, and through her program “The Unbreakble Body.” In their discussion, Kate details her background in physical therapy and coaching and the strengths, limitations, and differences between the two. Through “The Unbreakable Body,” Kate sought to develop a unique program that adapted to the individual needs of each person. She explains the significance of this model, as well as the challenges and importance of learning how to move your body in the right way, remove judgment, and search for new answers.
To learn more about Kate Galliett and her program - visit http://theunbreakablebody.com/ follow her on twitter @kategalliett and check out her book The Movement Manifesto: https://kategalliett.leadpages.co/the-movement-manifesto-book-launch/
Stuart Sovatsky Ph.D, author of "Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality," speaks on the spiritual implications of Valentine's Day.
Ostrolenk speaks with Susan Hackley, Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Cofounder of Givenation.com, and former Chair of Alliance for Peace Building. In their conversation, Hackley details her documentary film project “A Child’s Guide to War,” which seeks to bridge the divide between military and civilians in America. While less than one percent of Americans have served in the military, Hackley advocates that all citizens have a role to play in the discussion of American military service and war. Furthermore, nearly two million American children have a parent who has served in war, inevitably impacting these families greatly. Through the stories in “A Child’s Guide to War,” we can begin to bridge the gap by promoting all citizens to support these families and for all parties to engage in productive conversations on war.
To learn more about Susan Hackley and “A Child’s Guide to War” visit their website: http://achildsguidetowar.com/about-us/, or follow them on Twitter: @childsguide2war
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the Declaration of Independence and its relevance today. Fein comments that in the rights-centered universe created by the Declaration, the purpose of the government is to secure the rights of the people, and the power to do so is given through the peoples’ consent. However, as transparency in government is largely absent, citizens today lack adequate information to give consent to govern. A liberty-centered universe no longer exists and America is no longer governed by the consent of the people. In this context, the relevance of the Declaration of Independence today is to act as a blueprint for government reform.
To learn more about Bruce Fein and his work, go to www.brucefein.com.
Ostrolenk asks Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein to comment on the United States’ recent agreement with Iran. Fein discusses the agreement must be understood in the context of historical US-Iran relations, and how misguided U.S. foreign policy in the region has created the power vacuum that precedes the agreement. The United States’ inability to understand the ramifications of its foreign policy actions has led to this agreement, ultimately creating a cure that are worse than the disease.
Ostrolenk speaks with Geordie Young, Civilian Team Co-Chair of the True Patriot Love Foundation. Young first discovered the True Patriot Love Foundation after being inspired by the Unbeatable Mind Foundation to search out a cause through which he could contribute to his community. The True Patriot Love Foundation works with veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces by hosting global expeditions, which help bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. In January 2016, on an expedition Young has helped to organize, a team of civilians and Canadian veterans will hike Mount Vinson, the highest point in Antarctica. Young describes that the purpose of this mission is three-fold: to introduce civilian leaders to veterans and the amble talent and motivation that they bring home, to raise awareness and funds around the cause, and to instill confidence and purpose in veterans, many of whom are recovering from physical injuries.
To read updates on the expedition, visit http://tplexpedition.com/about/true-patriot-love/ To read more on the cause, visit: http://truepatriotlove.com/
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky in the Life Long Love Learning series, which will be exploring new ways of thinking and being in relationship and offering exercises to deepen one's connection to their partners.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky in the Life Long Love Learning series, which will be exploring new ways of thinking and being in relationship and offering exercises to deepen one's connection to their partners.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky in the Life Long Love Learning series, which will be exploring new ways of thinking and being in relationship and offering exercises to deepen one's connection to their partners.
Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky in the Life Long Love Learning series, which will be exploring new ways of thinking and being in relationship and offering exercises to deepen one's connection to their partners.
Ostrolenk continues previous conversations with Coach Kiki on transpersonal psychology, and the various models he uses in his work as a coach. Transpersonal therapy seeks to open believers up to a greater reality than the one currently known; the focus is not on specific mythical or religious beliefs, but rather how a person can develop their own personal journey and use behaviors to live fulfilling lives. Incorporating this in to his work, Ostrolenk describes the five pillars he seeks to explore with his coaching clients: diet and nutrition, sleep patterns, movement and exercise, stress management, and social life. Ostrolenk then gives various examples of the work that can be done with this holistic approach. Although not used in his work, Ostrolenk also explains the use of psychedelics and various medicines in helping a personal to unlock from set patterns of behavior and thought. Ostrolenk concludes with some overarching ideas that are key to successful coaching, including accountability, truly hearing and knowing a personal, and having gratitude.
Ostrolenk speaks with Heather Hurlburt, director of New Models of Policy Change, Political Reform Project at the New America Foundation. This relatively new think tank helps facilitate new models of policy change by harnessing innovated, underutilized ideas. Hurlburt draws on recent New America projects, including her research into the transpartisan approaches to criminal justice reform, Pentagon budget reform and climate change. She also elaborates on the disconnect between ideas and politics, and how confidence in one’s own beliefs, and an open mind to others, can help bridge the gap. Hurlburt concludes by providing advice on how to participate in the current system, and continue to bring new ideas, without getting caught in the current orthodoxy.
To learn more about Heather Hurlburt and her work visit newamerica.org and click on political reform.
Ostrolenk speaks with Jim Turner (Chairman of Citizens for Health and President of Voice for Hope) and Roger Jahnke (Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Director of Health Action) on the state of health care. Ostrolenk notes that today's policy conversations surround supporting or repealing Obamacare. Those conversations are about who should pay for medicine in America and who controls those decisions. As important as that conversation might be, another conversation needs to take place which is what would health promoting systems actually look like in America. Commenting on this, Jahnke describes how health care systems are increasingly incorporating integrated medical systems, and individuals are increasingly engaged in their own personal wellness. Jahnke also describes the Healer Within concept, through which each person is born with a finite amount of rehabilitating power, which can either be maximized or overused. Following these ideas, the conversation evolves to a discussion on the duality of our current system: a trend towards centralized control of health care alongside a decentralized trend of people utilizing technology and information to take a proactive role in their own wellness. Jahnke concludes by asking if this needs to be a debate: do we have to take a side, or is the answer in the integration of this apparent duality within the context of spontaneous order?
To learn more about Roger Janke's work visit The Institute of Integral Quigong and Tai Chi (Iiqtc.org) and The Healer Within Foundation (healerwithinfoundation.org).
Ostrolenk is interviewed by @KikiWeingarten on his work and education in transpersonal counseling psychology. Ostrolenk chronicles how from a young age he was interested in alternative education, alternative medicines, and eastern philosophy; these lifelong interests eventually led him to higher education in transpersonal psychology. Ostrolenk discusses the need to create a more comprehensive model for psychology which includes physiological cultural, environmental and social factors. He also discusses his training and use of somatics in his therapy and coaching work. Other issues addressed include adapting to the world as it is or transforming oneself in relationship to a new world, defense mechanisms and their benefits, as well as the purpose of counseling.
Ostrolenk speaks with Jeff Kuhland, a lifetime fitness professional and trainer with MovNat. Jeff details his own background in exercise and fitness, and how MovNat ultimately changed his perspective for the better. Founded by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat is a physical education system designed to teach us to move naturally, through our natural range of human movements. Unlike other healthy habits such as diet, Jeff explains, we have become disassociated from healthy movements, as they are no longer required within our lifestyles. Yet it is key to maintaining our health and decreasing the risk of injury. Focusing on breathing, balance, tension, relaxation, sequence, and timing, MovNat seeks to expand their program in to school systems. Rather than having to rehabilitate adults to moving well, they desire to teach children natural movements that they maintain throughout their lives. The ability to move well, Jeff concludes, is the ability to be healthy.
To learn more go to movnat.com and youtube.com/movnat.
Ostrolenk continues with part II of being interviewed by Kiki Weingarten, covering topics including government overreach, the 4th amendment, transpartisan coalitions, and his larger strategic plan for the Liberty Coalition. Ostrolenk begins by explaining his libertarian sensibilities, which differ from being a libertarian in title. His views on the 4th amendment are shaped by the fact that the founding fathers created our country with libertarian principles; Although they were not aware of the technological changes we would someday see, any reinterpretation of the 4th amendment to today’s realities must still be done with the same intention to protect privacy and liberty. Lastly, his libertarian sensibilities shape his overall mindset; Ostrolenk distinguishes between a liberty mindset and a security mindset, and why he identifies with the former.
Different mindsets can, however, still collaborate for progress. Ostrolenk discusses his training as a transpersonal therapist and how it has helped him with his work on transpartisan coalitions by humanizing the political process, ultimately creating the space for political dialogue. Lastly, Ostrolenk touches on several issues including education and health, and how an open political dialogue can help solve many of the issues we face.
Ostrolenk interviews author Derrick Van Orden on his book "Book of Man: A Navy SEAL's Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood." Van Orden explains how mankind, through urbanization and technology, has become dependent on a means of production other than its own. We have become a culture of multi-taskers, unable and unwilling to comprehend the world around us with any meaningful depth. As a result, men have forgotten many of the actions which define them as men, most importantly: an understanding their place in the world, and their ability to change that place if they choose to.
Ostrolenk speaks with Charles Moser from SWAT Concepts, an assembly of specialists that facilitates camps and courses to train and prepare individuals for SWAT-like missions. Moser, a former Navy SEAL himself, details the numerous courses SWAT Concepts offers and the skills a participant learns. Among the many events is the "Sniper versus Sniper" course, held in October, which facilitates a real-life combat situation. SWAT Concepts offers programs for both beginners and experienced individuals.
Ostrolenk speaks with Colonel Doug MacGregor on military structures, namely Russia’s and America’s. In addressing the critical questions of military strategy, Colonel MacGregor speaks from the standpoint of Russia on who, where, and when they should fight. Profoundly shaped by WWII, Russia’s military is a unified command that brings to bear all power under Putin’s control. The United States, in contrast, lacks any coherent military structure, intervening on ideology rather than concrete interests, and failing to consider unintended consequences. Great powers retain great armed forces, but not excessive forces, and the current US military mocks a 1940's structure and Cold War policies. Colonel MacGregor argues it is imperative the United States military be reduced in size, reformed, restructured, and then expanded from a modern foundation.
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the balance between gun control and the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Bruce notes that the Second Amendment, like every right in the Bill of Rights, has limitations to ensure overall protection of society. Most important, he continues, is focusing on the location, mental stability, and training of individuals, rather than the type of weapons available to citizens.
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein, in the context of America’s Independence Day, on the meaning of liberty. Bruce notes that in many ways we as a country have made enormous strides in ensuring equality. However, the core protection of our liberty – the separation of powers – is being destroyed. Bruce concludes that while we have been able to ensure greater equality in access to power, we’ve failed to guarantee that this power safeguards our liberty.
Ostrolenk answers a question from @Coachkiki on transpersonal psychology, specifically detailing two classifications: non-ordinary states of consciousness, and stages of development. Through various interventions, individuals can enter non-ordinary states of consciousness and access information from times and entities not available during traditional consciousness. In stages of development, as described by Kohlberg, an individual transcends through a state of being egocentric, to ethnocentric, and finally to worldcentric. Ostrolenk provides details and examples of each classification, further noting that these are just two of many ways to conceive of transpersonal psychology.
Ostrolenk answers a question from @Coachkiki on the quantified self movement, and relevant technology currently available. Noting that although technological devices are still immature, great advancements will be seen in the coming years. Alongside these future developments, there will be gains in the measurement of physiological functions and subsequent health and wellness interventions. However, gains will need to be balanced with privacy rights, as information from this technology becomes available to numerous audiences.
Ostrolenk speaks with Bruce Fein on US-China relations following a spokesman for the Defense Ministry in China stating that war is inevitable if the US insists on preventing China from expanding its presence in the South China Islands. Under the guise of preventing China from "destabilizing the region," the United States is again seeking to fight another country's war. The United States should, Bruce insists, ask itself if it is truly in our national interest to risk our men and women for Japan's interests.
Ostrolenk speaks to Otis Berry, Krav Magra instructor at Martial Arts Academy, who has an upcoming Women's Self Defense and Car Jacking Seminar. Otis' training focuses on what actions a woman can take, without victimizing or blaming. The seminar takes place on June 7th in Springfield, VA. To learn more about Otis Berry, visit his website at: http://www.otisberry.com/.
Ostrolenk speaks with Otis Berry, his personal Krav Maga instructor. Otis describes how he came to be a Krav Maga instructor, his time in the military, and how he earned both his blackbelts. In addition to participating in numerous specialized classes, and training under Bas Rutten, Otis has instructed several trainings himself, for both the U.S. Park Police Swat Team and military forces at Fort Hood. To learn more about Otis Berry and his classes visit: http://www.otisberry.com/
Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein explains why Sen. Paul needs to filibuster the proposed extension of 215 in order to protect our 4th amendment rights
Ostrolenk interviews Ben Parr, the cofounder and managing partner of DominateFund, and previous columnist for CNET, as well as co-editor and editor-at-large of Mashable. In discussing his book Captivology, Parr explains the science behind obtaining someone’s attention. Attention is the fundamental currency of the modern economy, Parr argues, and most professions value highly the ability to capture it. Captivology teaches these techniques, including our various levels of attention and what triggers them.
To learn more about Ben Parr and Captivology go to www.captivology.com, www.benparr.com, and follow him on twitter at @BenParr.
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the establishment, current role, and practicality of the Federal Reserve. Contrasting the real-life consequences of the Fed’s actions with that of free market outcomes, Fein elaborates on how a central bank can actually be disruptive to an economy’s growth. Ultimately, Bruce concludes, the Federal Reserve should be abolished.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk answers a question from @CoachKiki on conventional versus sacred medications. The current-day paradigm of using conventional medications, Ostrolenk argues, simply seeks to manage the symptoms of a chemical imbalance. A more beneficial model is a sacred medicines paradigm, which gives recognition to the fact that health and wellness are part of a larger system. Rather than an individualistic approach that works to alter personal chemistry, utilizing sacred medicines allows an individual to take a deep-dive in to the root causes of various troubles, and explore cures.
Ostrolenk talks to Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the recent rising of the US security threat level, and why America should be using a criminal model, rather than a war model, to fight terrorism. While the criminal model is not flawless, and issues of state sovereignty must be acknowledged, it is far superior to the war model. The war model, in contrast, seeks to scorch the earth as a means of protection, yet Fein argues this ultimately breeds resentment and make us less safe.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks on society’s transformation from an industrial to informational age, and how, consequently, this will impact the mediating institutions in our lives. First defining mediating institutions as those that act as intermediaries between our personal life and the services we desire (i.e. a school to get education, a doctor to get medicine), Ostrolenk then discusses how information will alter the status quo. He argues, in the coming years there will be more direct contact between individuals and their services, and mediating institutions will either alter or cease to exist.
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein about the counter-revolution that is taking place within the GOP, one specifically against the United States Constitution. This ideological shift can be seen in the comments of GOP presidential candidates, including Carson and Huckabee. Fein further explains how the failure to uphold and protect the Constitution, apparent through their words, presents a clear danger to the rule of law in the United States.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks to Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the characteristics that should qualify an individual to become President of the United States. Contrary to popular opinion, Bruce argues it is imperative to elect a president who is a professional politician, meaning he or she has a long career of evaluating power, leadership, and politics. Without said skills and scholarship, the leader of American will not fully comprehend the responsibilities of the office.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the upcoming expiration of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the NSA to collect data from domestic and international phone calls without warrant or suspicion. Despite 9 years in use, the NSA has failed to tie any of the information gathered through 215 to acts of terrorism. Not only impractical, but a massive invasion of our privacy, 215’s authority, Bruce insists, should be allowed to lapse in June.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Matt Fay, Foreign and Defense Policy Analyst for the Niskanen Center on Defense Reform. Fay comments on the Pentagon’s claim that a readiness issue resulted from sequestration. However, Fay argues that such an assertion is difficult to prove, given that the Pentagon does not utilize adequate metrics to measure readiness, relying on input, rather than output, indicators. Further elaborating on various structural issues, Fay speculates on if we are at a time of Pentagon reform.
For more on Matt Fay, his writings, and the work of the Niskanen Center: www.niskanencenter.org and www.dollarsanddefense.com
Ostrolenk speaks with Paul Saunders, Executive Director of the Center for National Interests, on US military intervention. Saunders sets out by explaining how American conventional wisdom has become set on fixing every problem and righting every wrong. This ambitious foreign policy, however, is based on intentions rather than results. Saunders argues that we should intervene only when the cost is low, the probability of success is high, and the results will demonstrably benefit the United States.
To learn more about Paul and his work: www.nationalinterest.org or follow him on twitter @1796farewell
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on why predator drone strikes must be eliminated to increase America’s safety. Predator drone strikes, Fein argues, are often carried out on faulty intelligence, leading to more civilian deaths, and becoming a symbol of American’s indifference to the killing of Muslims. This, in turn, fosters resentment and ultimately breeds more anti-American terrorists. In continuing predator drone strikes, America is hurting itself more than its enemies.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on the debate over what qualifies as cyber warfare, versus what qualifies as a cyber criminal attack. Bruce suggests a definition of his own, and further advocates that congress, rather than the president, should have the authority to create the criteria of, and response to, both categories.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk shares his thoughts on the structure of the United State’s education system. Through his own experience in formulating interdisciplinary education programs, Ostrolenk describes how he has explored the origins of the U.S.’s system, the current critiques, and what alternatives are available. Focusing on various alternatives, Ostrolenk shares how education can be structured to advocate for a child’s learning, and ultimately foster more actively-participating citizens in our democracy.
Ostrolenk talks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on why the American Empire can be categorized as one “too-big-to-fail.” By permitting businesses to grow so large that the economy relies heavily upon them, the government becomes quick to bail out even the most mismanaged business to prevent economic collapse. Such a system has led to income inequality based not on differences in innovation, hard work, and creativity, but rather on the fact that the game is rigged. This results in a sluggish economy that can only be fixed by getting the federal government out of the affairs of businesses.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk talks with Patrick Eddington, a Policy Analyst in Homeland Security and Civil Liberties at the CATO Institute, and former CIA analyst, who shares his views on the importance of passing the Surveillance State Repeal Act. This bill, originally introduced by Former Representative Rush Holt, would essentially repeal all 150(+) provisions of The Patriot Act, including troubling provisions allowing for administrative subpoenas, and no Congressional oversight. Detailing the ways in which these provisions are being used to collect data on American citizens, Eddington shows why secrecy is one of the most toxic aspects of our government.
To learn more about Patrick Eddington and his work, go to the “Our Experts” tab of www.cato.org.
You can also find his books at:
Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome http://www.amazon.com/Gassed-Gulf-Pentagon-CIA-Cover-up-Syndrome/dp/0595092012
Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir http://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-Memoir/dp/160047541
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein concerning the United State’s complex entanglement in the Middle East, which currently includes fighting with the Iranians in Iraq against ISIS, against the Iranians and Hezbollah in Syria, and protecting Hezbollah against ISIS in Lebanon. The intricacy of our current entanglement, Bruce comments, is proof that we need to return to the fundamental principles of our country’s founding: our influence abroad should be that of example, and not one that risks liberty at home to transform foreign societies. We have built an empire, and to return to America’s fundamental principles we must eradicate the desire to expand and control.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk shares thoughts on the many elements that a person diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder may want to alter before taking medication, including: dietary choices, sleep habits, and stress levels. Further he shares his personal experience in being diagnosed with ADD and what treatments worked, many of which we teach at the Unbeatable Mind Academy.
Note from Ostrolenk: I am not a licensed doctor and the following is for informational purposes only.
Ostrolenk talks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein who is currently writing up articles of impeachment for South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator Graham, in his aspirations to become president, stated in a recent speech that he would coerce Congress to increase the military budget by using military force. Fein discusses why this is an impeachable offense, and the process that must take place to ultimately remove Graham from office.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein about how our country’s present-day leaders are traitors to the American cause. Prioritizing the supremacy of the state and military over civilians, today’s political order more closely resembles the monarchy that our founding fathers rose up against. Rand Paul, Bruce points out, is one of the few leaders who’s ideology runs contrast to this.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using her personal email for work-related communication. Most troubling to Bruce is the lack of transparency, as well as lack of security, in Mrs. Clinton’s actions. This behavior, he concludes, is an example of our government’s trend towards unchecked power.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk talks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein who offers his views on the upcoming debate in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee over AUMF. Fein speculates as to why President Obama would even request the AUMF, given the fact that he is already unilaterally waging war on ISIS. Furthermore, Fein argues that the AUMF provision allowing for ground troops will lead to an escalation of US involvement.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Fiscal conservatives have urged Price to draft a budget resolution keeping the caps in place, rightfully noting that the BCA has “effectively curbed excessive spending.” They also called on him to scrutinize the use of the war budget slush fund. - See more at: http://rightondefense.org/#sthash.ClPt3MwX.dpuf
Bruce Fein shares his thoughts on intellectual development, from our training through public education to our personal search for virtue. He comments on various lifestyle choices that either foster or impede intellectual development, including consumerism versus minimalism, and the desire for creature comforts versus the search for truth. Ultimately, the deficiencies of our educational system, Fein concludes, are a reflection of this degradation in our culture.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein discusses the human nature behind groups like ISIS. He comments that ideologically-void, power-seeking groups like ISIS are not new to human history, and will ultimately self-destruct.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk discusses with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein the flawed U.S. approach towards ISIS, and the Middle East at large. Fein points to the fact that the United States has both propped up oppressive regimes, and chronically inflated the threat of international terrorism, ultimately undermining our efforts. He concludes by analyzing the U.S.’s moral obligation to help establish stability in the Middle East, versus the feasibility.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on why it is unconstitutional to rescind the citizenship of an American who decides to fight with ISIS.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein to discuss his views on American-Iranian relations in the context of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. Fein argues that the PM’s assertions are an exaggeration of both Iran’s intent and capabilities. Furthermore, Fein provides historical evidence as to why it is likely nuclear deterrence will work on Iran.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
In the context of Netanyahu’s upcoming address to the U.S. Congress, Ostrolenk speaks with Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein on why the U.S. should not seek the Prime Minister’s advice in charting policy towards Iran. Rather, the U.S. should seek bilateral relations of interest, lead by example instead of pursuing regime change, and recognize that Iran is likely to respond to the incentives that the U.S. provides.
To learn more about Bruce and his work, check out his website at: www.brucefeinlaw.com, and his books: American Empire Before the Fall; Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, or follow him on Twitter: @BruceFeinEsq
Ostrolenk answering a great question from @CoachKiki about the possible dangers of psychedelic psychotherapy. It’s important to note that this form of therapy is not for everyone. However, for those who do wish to pursue it, note the following recommendations: proceed with caution, namely being in the correct place in your treatment plan, feeling safe with your guide and location, as well as knowing how to integrate the lessons learned to your life post-session.
Ostrolenk sharing @RachelCW question on how not to be so reactive emotionally to the various insults to one’s dignity big and small.
Following up on my previous mental musings on technology as an extension of our nervous system, I answer follow up questions by @CoachKiki on memory and knowledge acquisition as they relate to our use of smart devices
Bruce Fein discusses his theory of man – what motivates us to think and act the way we do – as well as the less commonly asked question: are these actions virtuous? Through a lifetime’s literature review on the topic, Bruce addresses how these basic motivations are influencing events in today’s world. He concludes with advice on how we can become a “Learn-Thrill,” better distribute power, and unify for virtue to improve ourselves and our country.
Answering a question from @WriteCoachKiki on my thoughts on how social media and online life might be contributing to lack of civility in the modern work. I discuss technology as an extension of our nervous system/ brain/mind and how at its present immature state of development can lead users to objectivity other human beings.
Ostrolenk discuesses ideas on teaching children to manage their nervous systems and brain/mind via various mind/body practices in order to increase health, well-being and interpersonal connection. Having this ability as the foundation of one’s life would reduce the ‘need’ for drugs and change one’s relationship to drugs , perhaps making them part of a particular ritual and not needed to just function in one’s life.
Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein discusses the significance of Rand's AUMF as it brings the 'war power' back to Congress and away from the Executive. It also ends the 2002 Iraq war AUMF and sunsets the 2001 AUMF.
Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein discusses his concerns from a Constitutional perspective on President Obama's Immigration 'reform' executive order 11/2014