“The word health originates in a word for wholeness,” says renowned physician, author, and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté . “Whether one looks at it from a medical or spiritual point of view: To be healthy is to be whole. As I pondered what I saw with my patients and in my own journey, I realized that the fundamental issue is not: How do we become whole? But, how do we lose the wholeness that is our birthright and our nature? Then, how do we come back to it?” Our conversation about his urgent new book, ...
Sep 13, 2022•54 min
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa Today, we’re beginning a new mini-series, Inspiring Hope: A collection of five conversations with admired chefs, activists, and leaders about how they design lives of meaning and impact. Each episode will explore a question that helps us do so. Through answering them, our guests awaken us to the hope that thrives within and between us. Here’s who we're fortunate to hear from... Dr. Tarika Barrett...
Sep 07, 2022•12 min
“If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.” Elizabeth Lesser ’s gift is putting words to the feelings and longings that shape our human experience. She’s helped over a million people realize them through her life’s work co-founding the Omega Institute . Still, what I admire most about her is her courage opening to the whole human experience. As you’ll find in our conversation, Elizabeth is at once deeply wise a...
Aug 25, 2022•1 hr 8 min
“We’ve really become something quite special. I think at the time of my death, I will remember you.” My eyes filled with tears when The Dalai Lama said this to Archbishop Desmond Tutu during their last conversations captured in Mission: Joy. They center on the concept of Ubuntu that the Archbishop describes — “We can only be human together.” — and awaken us to our belonging to the human family. Ubuntu not only reflects how we contribute to each other’s vitality. It illuminates how caring for eac...
Aug 18, 2022•35 min
“Have you ever had that sense of: ‘I’ve got to go back!’? If you ever hear ‘Turn around’ inside, do it! That’s the universe telling you: You missed something good back there.” Acclaimed illustrator Wendy MacNaughton heeded that call when she passed a boot making workshop on a road trip. In sharing the unforgettable friendship that transpired, she invites us to pause and truly see each other.
Aug 10, 2022•6 min
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If in our heart we still cling to anything — anger, anxiety, or possessions — we cannot be free.” — Thich Nhat Hanh This week, we’re looking at letting go through the lens of forgiveness. In sharing her courageous journey forgiving her father, Dr.Michele Harper illuminates that forgiveness not only offers us peace in the present. It becomes a compass to live in pursuit of it.
Aug 04, 2022•4 min
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique…It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” — Revered Choreographer Martha Graham This week, Bob Roth shares how we can keep the channel open. Renowned Transcendental Meditation teacher and CEO of The David Lynch Foundation, he’s learned that creativity isn’t as mysterious a...
Jul 27, 2022•7 min
In this episode snippet, pilates and wellbeing leader Erika Bloom illuminates our body's quest for equilibrium and invites us to approach the balance question from a new lens. What is one signal your body is giving you this week? How might you slow down and listen to it?
Jul 20, 2022•8 min
“In the moment of pause, there is something sacred.” This week, we’re excited to share an invitation to pause and appreciate the beauty around us from Reverend Jen Bailey, Founder of Faith Matters Network and Co-founder of The People’s Supper. What feels sacred to you? How might you pause to honor it this week?
Jul 13, 2022•4 min
“Your past shapes your present. It doesn’t have to define your present.” In this episode snippet, psychotherapist and Frame Co-founder Sage Grazer illuminates the impact of the stories we tell ourselves and how to rewrite them to serve our wellbeing.
Jul 06, 2022•5 min
In this episode snippet, author and renowned life coach Martha Beck illuminates how we can awaken to our inner freedom and live in integrity to sustain it.
Jun 29, 2022•10 min
We often hear that awareness is the greatest agent for change. Our guests teach me it’s also a gift of understanding. Insight around how dopamine influences our behavior is one I carry with me from Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford and Chief of their Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Her description of dopamine deficit states offers a moment of clarity when I find myself engaged in a habit I know doesn't serve me. Habits can be a source of stress or sustenance. In this...
Jun 22, 2022•12 min
When Maggie Doyne was 18 she saw a young girl breaking stones to sell in a dried riverbed in Nepal. She was taking a gap year until Hima stopped her in her tracks. All she could think was: “What am I supposed to do? In this moment, in this life? What are we, as a human family, supposed to do and be?” Maggie’s initial calling to send Hima to school was the seed of a mission that soon became the BlinkNow Foundation , which now encompasses a thriving children's home, school, women's center, and mor...
Jun 16, 2022•34 min
This week, we’re illuminating life’s most beautiful moments with an exercise from Dr. BJ Miller, Mettle Health Co-founder and hospice and palliative medicine physician… “Close your eyes and think about this last week. Where — even for a millisecond — did you get the feeling that everything was okay, even if it's falling apart? Oftentimes, it's an aesthetic moment — a sunset, a meal, laughing with a grandkid — some connection to the world where time melts away. There's no need for a past or futur...
Jun 08, 2022•10 min
In leadership, as in life - there’s no greater currency than Trust. Without it, no relationship, let alone team or organization can endure. Reflect for a moment on the last time someone in your inner circle betrayed your trust - How did it make you feel? Likely not great - and regardless of the emotion, it’s a feeling that won’t easily be forgotten. On the flip side, think about a relationship where trust is unequivocal - and the influence that has on your sense of self and the relationship with...
Jun 04, 2022•57 min
“There’s deep interdependence that is a biological reality…When we cultivate healthy habits of mind, it actually changes our brain and our bodies. So, when we show up with another person and we’re kind, it’s not only affecting our biology. It’s going to affect the biology of the person with whom we’re interacting.” Dr.Richard J. Davidson studies human flourishing as the Founder of the Center for Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovations as well as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Mad...
Jun 01, 2022•14 min
Growing up, Kathryn Schulz and her sister’s favorite nights were the ones their dad narrated his own stories about the adventures of Yana and Egbert from Rotterdam; A town he chose because he knew it'd make them laugh. The intentionality behind Isaac’s stories are representative of the abundance of love he aspired to share with his daughters — The love Kathryn now shares with her own. This is where Kathryn’s memoir, Lost & Found , begins and ends. In chronicling her experience losing her fat...
May 26, 2022•32 min
“If we really used good intentions behind everything we did, we would make the world a better place. But, that world can't be a better place and we can't have completely good intentions if we don't know who we are.” Shantell Martin invites us to embark on this journey. Acclaimed visual artist, philosopher, and facilitator, Shantell’s art utilizes questions to inspire self-discovery and the freedom to grow individually and together. We explore how having a pure intention enables our art to come t...
May 19, 2022•35 min
Having worked with admired leaders and well-established organizations for 33+ years, one thing I’ve learned {about individual & organizational excellence} is that there’s a fundamental difference between what it takes to be a good company and what it takes to be a great company. And, an even greater disparity between what it takes to be a great company and one considered amongst the world’s best. The latter prioritize people and design the type of workplace environments where greatness can f...
May 18, 2022•46 min
“If you are going to live a full life after loss, you have to find your way back to joy,” writes Marisa Renee Lee . In Grief Is Love , she unveils love as the compass to get there. Marisa shares insight on navigating our healing journeys, from giving ourselves permission to grieve to naming our feelings and creating a healing circle of family and friends. Her definition of grief — as “the repeated experience of learning to live in the midst of a significant loss” — helps us cultivate the accepta...
May 12, 2022•42 min
“What the Earth wants and what our bodies and our spirits want is to be connected, in this case reconnected, to where we all come from.” In this episode snippet, Edible Gardens LA Founder Lauri Kranz illuminates our path back to nature and the lessons it offers us. How might you find your center in nature this week? What might you let go of when you do? Editor’s Note: This conversation was recorded via phone in 2019 meaning that the audio isn’t as clear as usual. Lauri’s wisdom is so resonant. I...
May 04, 2022•9 min
“My calling is to heal; That is my truth.” When Dr.Michele Harper was growing up, two experiences seeded her mission to be a healer — A night in the ER with her brother and a divine voice she heard as a child. It was these awakenings that inspired her to become an ER physician, a journey she captures in her bestselling memoir, The Beauty in Breaking. In our conversation, she shares the lessons on compassion, forgiveness, and strength she’s learned through the healing of her patients and herself....
Apr 28, 2022•54 min
Do you ever feel your body pulling you in the right direction? This inner compass is the facet of Bob Roth’s teachings on Transcendental Meditation that I was most curious about…How does TM help us access it? “It’s the nature of life, given the opportunity, to grow,” he says. “With the body, you set up the conditions, it will heal itself. But, it’s all about setting up the conditions.” Bob illuminates how tapping into this innermost part of ourselves amplifies everything from our creativity to o...
Apr 21, 2022•47 min
Few understand the depth of individual and organizational excellence as Marcus Buckingham - For 3+ decades, his work has had a singular focus to explore the hidden dimensions of greatness; and in this episode - he rejoins Moe to demonstrate why "love" is the essence of high performance - both personally and professionally.
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 2 min
“Beauty is a core moral value. It’s an essential piece of how we stay resilient and find joy, even with all the difficulties of life.” In this episode snippet, On Being’s Krista Tippett shares how her conversation partners, from poets to physicists, unveil beauty’s vitality.
Apr 13, 2022•3 min
“The same person can organize in different ways depending on the signals they get early in life. That’s why — What happened to you? — is so important. The timing and nature of these experiences plays a major role in how you unfold as a human being.” In this episode snippet, Dr. Bruce Perry, acclaimed neuroscientist, child psychiatrist, and co-author of What Happened to You?, illuminates how our experiences shape our brain development and thus our worldview and behavior. This week, when we find o...
Apr 06, 2022•6 min
Genevieve Roth is a maximalist. She quit her dream job to be the Creative Engagement Director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Her team at Glamour Magazine sat teenage girls in the auditorium for an event with First Lady Michelle Obama, whilst dignitaries sat in the balcony. She takes the scenic route and celebrates business wins with chicken sandwich competitions. What inspires her zest for life? “I learned really young that the version of life I was living could be removed from me ...
Mar 31, 2022•41 min
“If you slow down, I promise, pay attention and really look, you will fall back in love with the world and everyone in it.”When beloved illustrator Wendy MacNaughton was growing up, her grandmother showed her around museums and the city. The trips weren’t solely to expose her to art. Bernice had a deeper intention for her granddaughter: to teach her to pay attention. Decades later, looking, listening, and loving are pillars of Wendy’s life philosophy. As a graphic journalist — admired for her cu...
Mar 10, 2022•42 min
Too often, we blame technology for our inability to focus; still, the issue is far greater than staring at our phones. It starts with pre-commitments we make to ourselves; and in 'Stolen Focus', Johann Hari does a masterful job of decoding the 12 causes of distractions and shares a framework to transcend them.
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min
In Debbie Millman’s new book, Why Design Matters, she curates interviews from her award-winning podcast, Design Matters, where for 17 years she’s explored what it means to live a creative life with the world’s foremost creators. Revered for her enduring impact as a designer, educator, and brand strategist, what sustains the aliveness of her own creative spirit? “Life,” she says. “I’m living. I can’t imagine not being able to make things; That’s the life force for me…Just even making a day is wha...
Feb 24, 2022•32 min
