33voices Podcast
1) How to Prime Your Brain For Joy—with Dr.Wendy Suzuki
Take a moment to recall one of your most joyful memories. Now, close your eyes and relive it. Where were you? Who were you with? How did you feel? Focus on your senses. What did you see and hear? Sm...Show More
2) An Activist’s Journey Leading the Clean Living Movement
After Lindsay Dahl graduated from college, she was seeking a job in the environmental non-profit space. Despite being passionate about climate change, she landed a role in consumer safety. Soon after,...Show More
3) Letting Go is an Act of Self-Compassion—with Sharon Salzberg
When Sharon Salzberg was teaching at a meditation retreat, a student asked her: Has anyone ever died of restlessness in meditation? Sharon said: Not from one moment at a time of it. “We have physical...Show More
4) How to Live with Ease—with Dr.Thema Bryant
While preparing for my interview with Dr.Thema Bryant, I was struck by an exercise she shared. During a podcast, she invited listeners to fill out the prompt: “I miss me who…” I was surprised by how q...Show More
5) In Stillness, What You Need Finds You—with Pico Iyer
The first time I read my favorite poem, On Prayer, this stanza stood out to me… For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether? And if it is for your comfort to pour your ...Show More
6) Revitalizing Our Attention with Katherine May
Before my interview with Katherine May, a Mary Oliver quote resurfaced that felt representative of Katherine’s work: “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and tha...Show More
7) Awakening to Our Blessings
Rabbi Sharon Brous was on her way to lead her community, IKAR—a Jewish community she founded 20 years ago with a new vision of how faith can center and connect us—in the sacred ceremony of Tashlikh, w...Show More
8) Anne Lamott on the Love that Holds Us Invisibly
“When we are paying attention, we see how much love holds us invisibly.” This is the line that stayed with me most from Anne Lamott’s new, and 20th book, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. I read it during a...Show More
9) Learned Excellence
Quentin Tarantino once said “I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you’re not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don’t...Show More
10) The Cultivation of Happiness and Freedom
‘When we can combine our urge to be happy with wisdom instead of ignorance it becomes a homing instinct for freedom.’ This is one of the insights I was most eager to explore with renowned Buddhist te...Show More