The Envy Economy explores why comparison can make even extraordinary success feel like it's never enough. Using Silicon Valley as a model of envy at scale, I look at how the scoreboards we carry around shape our emotions, behavior, and health.

In my clinic and workshops, I'm increasingly seeing envy and comparison beneath a surprising amount of emotional distress and metabolic diseae. Some areas I discuss include:

• Why envy is so difficult to admit, even to ourselves
• How family, culture, and environment program our internal scoreboards
• Why we often envy people who are most similar to us
• Silicon Valley lessons of envy at scale
• The impact of envy and competitition on parenting
• How to free ourselves from the effects of envy

What if much of the energy we lose each day isn't from what we're doing, but from something entirely different? In this episode, I introduce The SUIT, a framework inspired by a strange realization after taking off a virtual reality suit in Las Vegas. It changed how I think about thoughts, identity, comparison, and the hidden energy we spend maintaining them.

• Why our senses reveal only a slice of reality
• Why thoughts are so difficult to separate from
• How health, fitness, and even our children become an unconscious scoreboard
• The hidden "Suit-load" draining our energy
• How imagination, language, and a thousand-year-old practice can help us break free

In this episode, I share a new chapter in my work and why I'm beginning to bring ideas from years of journaling, teaching, and reflection into the Meta Health Podcast. We start with something we encounter every waking hour: words, and the impact they have on us.

• How my approach to simplifying complex metabolic science is evolving into a broader body of work
• The hidden power of words to shape our thoughts, emotions, physiology, and behavior
• Trigger words, including my own, and whether we are POWs
• What neuroscience teaches us about simplifying and compressing language
• Why symbols and creative language can become powerful mental anchors for deeper ideas