This week I spoke with Nita Jain. She is a writer and podcaster who hosts Evolving with Nita Jain.

We delved into epigenetics and transgenerational trauma, intuitively connecting with our bodies, the effects of the pandemic, hunter-gatherer vs agricultural lifestyle trade-offs, flow state, etc.

(00:00) Intro

(03:05 Abundance mindset while consuming foods

(05:50) Impacts of famines and transgenerational trauma on gene expression

(09:15) Ways to Manage Autoimmune Disease

(12:35) Listening to our bodies and intuitive eating

(14:41) Dopamine detoxing

(16:49) Hunter-gatherer advantages and trade-offs

(20:15) parallels between hunter-gatherers and entrepreneurship

(24:17) COVID Longhaulers and long-term effects

(27:33) Forgetting how to human due to the pandemic

(33:11) Introducing a little bit of managed stress every day

(36:56) getting into the flow state

(39:08) One small change

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How would your parenting style change if you knew the first 5 years would set your kids up for their entire lives?

Join me this week in conversation with Dr Ravi Rajaratnam. He is a coach, a speaker and the author of Hardwiring vs Rewiring: Shaping the Mindset, Skillset, and Behaviors During Early Childhood Development Stages.

In this episode we spoke about parenting tools, reparenting the inner child, 21st century skills, South Asian parenting styles, and so much more.

(00:00) Intro

(01:44) What prompted Dr Rajaratnam to write Hardwiring vs Rewiring

(03:51) Rewiring: Reparenting your inner child

(05:29) Most critical age in child development

(09:20) The most important tool that children have

(13:40) Part time parenting and underdeveloped children

(17:07) The 4 C's

(18:49) The key thing for parents to do for their children

(20:18) Fixed and Growth Mindset

(24:09) A unique parenting style

(30:05) How good management can translate to good parenting

(32:40) Being compassionate to ourselves as parents

(37:26) One small change.

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You cannot be an impostor when you are being yourself.

My guest this week is Anjl Rodee. She is an artist and an improv comedian. In her own words, her intention and purpose in life is helping people accomplish something that they haven't accomplished before. This week we spoke about art, improv, impostor syndrome and ways to overcome it.

(00:00) Intro

(02:16) Everyone is a creator

(04:14) Every big milestone is a culmination of smaller steps

(06:28) Detaching from the outcome and giving yourself permission to suck

(08:36) Anjl's Journey as an artist

(10:51) Impostor Syndrome

(14:44) Creating art to overcome impostor syndrome

(17:46) Social media and feelings of unworthiness

(23:15) Being a beginner

(26:46) Writing as a means to overcome impostor syndrome

(27:21) we can be our worst critics.

(31:14) Life is improv

(36:01) People who can't do it will always tell you that you can't do it.

(37:46) Using impostor syndrome as a challenge

(40:20) One small change

Bob Ross

Andy Warhol

Vincent Van Gogh

Jackson Pollock

Piet Mondrian

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Brushcapades website

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How would our perspective on life change if we made peace with the fact that we will soon be dead?

I was joined this week by Eyal Shay, a podcaster and dialectician who hosts the Deep Dive podcast. In this episode, we spoke about death, near-death experiences, mortality, and psychedelics and their healing properties.

(00:00) Intro

(03:43) People Do Not See Life as Temporary

(09:11) Facing Your Mortality Is The First Step Towards Letting Go of Suffering

(11:53) Kurt Vonnegut Quote from Mother Night

(17:18) The Great Resignation and Broken Promises

(21:38) Psychedelics and A New Way Of Looking at Reality.

(28:13) Being Dead while still drawing breath

(32:09) Psychedelics can be medicine to accelerate our inner work

(37:50) One small change to improve your life today

Kurt Vonnegut

Jim Carrey

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Is FOMO (fear of missing out) keeping you stuck in indecision? Then this is the perfect episode for you.

This week I am collaborating with my good friend Ti0 for Heal with Sushil and The Infinite Zero Experience. We spoke about FOMO, doubt, indecision, analysis paralysis, and regret, by grieving lost paths.

(00:00) Intro

(02:51) What does a consciousness development facilitator do?

(05:41) Why doesn't Consciousness Development work for everyone?

(09:59) Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of consciousness

(11:42) The only way to overcome suffering is to face it

(13:50) How to gradually let go of crutches

(16:17) Coping mechanisms and codependent therapist relationships

(20:52) FOMO and Grieving Lost Paths

(24:49) FOMO amplification due to too many choices

(27:07) There is no best path. How can you make the chosen path great?

(33:37) Parenting your inner child: A gateway towards better decision making

(35:18) Pets can be great mirrors

(39:05) A world beyond mistakes

(41:15) How can you grieve paths not taken

(47:48) One small change to improve your life

Gurdjieff

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The Infinite Zeo Experience Poscast

A World Beyond Mistakes (ebook)

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It was an absolute pleasure chatting with Animal Rights Activist, Vegan Bodybuilder, and First Vegan To Climb Everest, Kuntal A. Joisher this week.

In this episode, we spoke about overcoming challenges when we are close to giving up, Kuntal’s journey from engineering to Everest, and veganism from the fitness movement perspective.

Another valuable lesson from Kuntal’s journey was that reconnecting with your body and achieving your fitness goals can be done at any age and it is never too late.

(00:00) Intro

(01:25) Summiting the tallest peak in North America

(13:43) How to keep going when you are close to giving up

(25:36) From Engineering to Everest

(37:56) Is it too late to reconnect with your body

(44:07) First Vegan To Climb Mount Everest

(52:24) One small change to improve your life by 1% each day

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It was a very goofy and fun conversation with my guest this week. He goes by Reddy from Reddy2Go, where he writes and teaches his clients about the importance of incorporating play in our adult lives. His formal title is that of PlayPal.

We spoke about authentic expression, learning from kids & animals, reconnecting with ourselves through solitude, and lessons from addiction, in this episode.

(00:00) Intro

(01:29) Using your attire as a form of expression

(07:39) What is normal and why do we fight for this arbitrary concept?

(10:56) Kids and animals have the answer

(18:21) Incorporating more play in our lives

(23:51) How can we incorporate play in solitude

(29:55) How disconnecting from our true selves leads to addiction

(38:05) One small change to improve our lives by 1% each day235813121

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How would your life change if you could reprogram your mind and change your core beliefs?

I had a great time chatting with Dr. Steven M Hall, MD this week. Dr. Hall is an integrative physician, teacher, speaker, and author of The Seven Tools of Healing: Unlock Your Inner Wisdom and Live the Life Your Soul Desires. His message is about finding and changing the patterns that are creating your painful feelings, harmful behaviors, dysfunctional relationships, and physical diseases. And how to make those changes last.

In this episode, we spoke about craniosacral therapy, unworthiness, questioning beliefs, the 7 tools of healing, and the stages of development.

(00:00) Intro

(01:39) How Dr. Hall went from being a Conventional physician to Prioritizing Healing

(07:12) Western Medicine Is Mostly Treating the Symptoms

(08:57) Finding the root cause of symptoms

(11:59) How Craniosacral Therapy is effective in finding the root cause

(14:17) "We Are Unworthy" - The Biggest Lie we tell ourselves

(19:24) Questioning the belief from a higher perspective

(22:10) Healing = Reprogramming Unconscious Beliefs with The Heart

(24:33) The 7 Tools Of Healing

(38:42) Stages of Development

(44:19) One small change to improve your life by 1%

“Take what you're given and use what you know, to get what you want.”

“At some point, along the way, we've taken on a belief, that's telling us we're smaller than we really are.”

Jean Piaget

Lawrence Kohlberg

Rupert Sheldrake

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Dr. Hall’s Book: 7 Tools of Healing

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