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Rebellion Is Reclamation: Season 4 Finale
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This is the season 4 finale of From the Ashes, my reflection on a year of conversations that started with Becoming the Intentional Rebel. The more I sat with those conversations, the clearer it...
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It's Okay to Stop Abandoning Yourself for "The Cause"
ABOUT THIS EPISODE I'm doing something different this week: a solo conversation with myself, arguments and pushback both, on a distinction I think our culture deliberately blurs. Sacrifice and self-abandonment can...
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The Way of Tea: On Purpose, Presence, and What's Actually Worth Dedicating Your Life To with Ian Chun
I'm joined this week by my new friend and fellow JET program alum Ian Chun, founder of Yunomi.life, a global tea e-commerce business based in Tokyo that offers the world's largest selection of Japanese tea and bridges...
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Why Pushing Harder Keeps Backfiring: The Five Elements and How You Actually Reach Your Goals
Why Pushing Harder Keeps Backfiring: The Five Elements and How You Actually Reach Your Goals
I'm solo this week with a framework from Ayurveda that quietly changed how I think about reaching my goals. We usually use...
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The Weekend I Put the Phone Down and Stopped Rushing Toward Death
I'm solo this week with a story that starts on a warm Saturday evening, walking along the river near my house in Tokyo with no phone, no clock, and nowhere to be. What began as an experiment — turning off every screen...
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When Healing Becomes the Problem: Peak Experiences, Psychedelics, and What Actually Builds Resilience with Joseph Dowd
I'm joined this week by Joseph Dowd — philosopher, professor, and one of my own Vibrant Visionary Collective members — for a conversation about what healing actually requires. Joseph has tried it all: pharmaceuticals,...
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Unbecoming Acceptable: Embracing Your Unconventional Life to Be Truly Happy
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I'm back solo this week with something I've been reflecting on for a while — that the human desire for belonging is a double-edged sword. While fitting in can bring you acceptance into the tribe, it...
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The Kintsugi Life: Finding Beauty in Your Brokenness with Shinjiro Tanaka
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I'm sitting down with my friend and fellow dancer Shinjiro Tanaka — a Tokyo-based visual artist whose work asks a question most of us spend our whole lives avoiding: what do we do with the broken...
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When Your Best Friend Gets Stage 4 Cancer: A Story of Devotion and Discovery with Nina Pullella
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I sit down with Nina Pullella, my former Ayurveda school classmate and founder of Living Ayurveda Hawaii, to explore her radical life transformation from free-spirited bartender to devoted healer. I...
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The Artist Who Stopped Auditioning for His Own Life: Breaking Free from Hollywood's Popularity Contest with Alvyn Villanueva
How One Artist Ditched the Popularity Contest and Start Creating for Himself...
I sat down with Vibrant Visionary member Alvyn Villanueva, artist and founder of Really Hueman, to explore his path from chasing...
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Unexpected Life Lessons from My Café Coworkers
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I'm back in solo format for a mini episode, and today I'm sharing something I didn't see coming when I took a part-time job at a café in Tokyo. What started as a challenge to get fluent in Japanese...
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Who Are You Without the Conditioning? Authenticity, the Not-Self, and the Cost of People-Pleasing with Tarna Fuller
This episode is a role reversal — I hand the mic to Tarna Fuller, Ayurvedic practitioner and founder of Lotus Honey Integrative Health, and let her interview me about one of the most overused and under-examined words...
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