Let's Start Here: The Art of Changing the World
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Let's Start Here: The Art of Changing the World
The Art of Changing the World
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Episode EI: Explanatory Interlude
You haven’t heard from us in three weeks. Let me explain why, and tell you about what you’ll be hearing from LSH in the weeks ahead.
Episode 98: Training with Resistance Bands
If you’ve been listening to the podcast all year, you’ve heard Jerry talk about the work he’s been doing with resistance bands. He’s mentioned several...
Episode 97: Training Tiger Woods
A few days before we recorded this episode, I watched the final few holes of the final round of the Masters golf tournament. As I watched, I found mys...
Episode 96: Transitions
Earlier this spring, I was facing a few major transitions. The end of ski season meant I’d soon be out of a job, which meant both that my daily patter...
Episode 95: Dealing with Persistent Blocks
Sometimes we find ourselves deeply blocked about things we know we really should do. When that happens, what do we do? How do we deal with blocks that...
Episode 94: Cancel Culture as a Lens on Resistance to Change
A few weeks ago, Jerry reached out and said that he wanted to do an episode on cancel culture, that he thought there were aspects about that debate th...
Episode 93: Jenn Cullom on the Value of Therapy
Therapist and friend of the show Jenn Cullom reached out after Jerry and I spoke of our reservations about therapy in a couple of episodes earlier thi...
Episode 92: On Skillfully Meeting the Discomfort of Change
The process of change isn’t comfortable. Our comfort zone is the place we already are, and to change ourselves requires leaving that comfort zone. In...
Episode 91: Calling in Hope at the Vernal Equinox (A Better Story)
It’s our second COVID spring, but this year at the equinox, there is reason to feel hope for the new world that we are building. The vernal equinox is...
Episode 90: Jerry Got His First Vaccine Shot
Jerry got his first vaccine shot and found that it brought up a lot of interesting feelings. We start our conversation this week by talking about thos...
Episode 89: RPE, Recovery, and the Intent to Thrive
In this episode, we revisit the practice of RPE, with particular attention towards what we should do when the experiences of our lives take us beyond...
Episode 88: COVID Aftereffects, Both Personal and Social
The impending anniversary of the COVID Zero Day, March 12th, got me thinking that it’s been a while since I talked about my personal, physical experie...
Episode 87 (RFB 21.0225): On Donald Trump’s Acquittal, the Filibuster, and the Belief That Drives Change
In the least surprising political event of 2021 so far, the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump of the charge of inciting a mob to attack the Capitol...
Episode 86: A Good Coach Must Be a Good Student
At the beginning of February, Benjamin participated in a ski clinic at Angel Fire, NM. He found the experience so enlivening that it led him to this t...
Episode 85: The Bottom Line, Revisited
A couple of weeks ago on A Better Story, I spoke of reaching a new bottom line with respect to the podcast: that I would no longer work on the podcast...
Episode 84: COVID Mutates Rapidly. Still, We Will Thrive
A friend of the show sent me an article that describes the rapidity with which COVID mutates, and it seems now that the best available evidence points...
Episode 83: Michael Gurshtein Speaks About the Historical Moment
For the first time on LSH/RFB, we are joined by a guest. Michael Gurshtein is a dear friend of mine and a friend of LSH since the very beginning. On J...
Episode 82: On Vision, Mastery and Beginner’s Mind
In this wide-ranging conversation, Jerry and Benjamin discuss such topics as trusting the vision that drives us forward on the path, what it means to...
Episode 81: The Bottom Line
On Tuesday night, I set a new bottom line for myself with respect to work on the podcast, and in doing so–and meaning it!–I discovered a surprising an...
Episode 80: The Coming Mental Health Crisis
I was on a long drive, musing about why it is that, notwithstanding the constant stress all of us have been under for the last eleven months, most peo...
Episode 79 (RFB 21.0128): Republican Cynicism, and the Little Guy Disrupts the Stock Market
With their vote on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s impeachment trial, 45 Senate Republicans made it clear that they were going to...
Episode 78: Inauguration Day and Beyond
Enter our episode, child, for herein lie reflections on the recent ceremony that installed in our great nation a new, and perhaps even decent, leader;...
Episode 77 (RFB 21.0121): Two Thousand Twenty-One
In this episode, Benjamin tells us the way he’s practicing optimism about 2021.
Episode 76: COVID, PTSD, and Starting to Heal
Benjamin’s reflexive response to a passage in a book he was reading led him to acknowledge the depth of trauma that he (and, by extension, probably pr...
Episode 75: The Story of This Episode’s Creation Is Also Its Theme
In which the theme of how certain changes in our lives demand us to take on a new identity, and for a story illustrative of this theme I chose the rec...
Episode 74: Responding to January 6th
Jerry and Benjamin discuss the events of January 6th and their broader implications in society. We identify the crisis we’re facing as primarily spiri...
Episode 73 (RFB 21.0107): January 6th, 2021
On January 6th, 2021, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, incited a mob of his followers to storm the US Capitol building, and in doi...
Episode 72: Welcoming In the New Age
Great job, LSH family, we made it: 2021. Happy New Year. It’s the first episode of 2021, and we’re off to a flying start. The major theme of this epis...
Episode 71: The Winter Solstice and the Great Conjunction
The winter solstice is always a special day. It is the energetic new year, and its energy requests of us a period of reflection and repose. This year’...
Episode 70: Radio Free Benjamin, Revisited
Back in September, on the autumnal equinox, I released an episode in which I reflected on the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and what her death...
Episode 69: Toward New Approaches to Working Out, and the Path to Thriving
Jerry shares his first experiences with working out at home, we follow that thread into talk about the need for change, and then discuss shifting our...
Episode 68: A Better Story: Two Experiences on Opening Day at Taos Ski Valley
In this A Better Story episode, Benjamin recounts a couple of experiences from Taos Ski Valley’s opening day, and shares how a shift in perspective ch...
Episode 67: On the Vaccine, the Future of Workout Culture, and the Work We Do
In this episode, Jerry and I discuss the vaccine, the future of workout and gym culture, and the way forward for the work we do. We admit some ways we...
Episode 66: Politics, Change, and Despair (Part 2)
Part 2 of our conversation about politics, change and despair.
Episode 65: Politics, Change and Despair (Part 1)
In this episode, we talk about our feelings around and conclusions about the election and what it says about our society. Part 1 of 2.
Episode 64: Thanksgiving Gratitude Practice
2020 has been a difficult year in which to practice gratitude, don’t you think? Nevertheless, practicing gratitude serves us well. In this short episo...
Episode 63: Process and Progress
In the three weeks since the election, we’ve struggled to figure out exactly what to say. Now that Biden has won the election, we want to put our ener...
Episode 62: Election Day
Been a while, hasn’t it? In this short episode, Benjamin explains what caused the long silence, talks about what’s coming in LSH land in the near futu...
Episode 61: Radio Free Benjamin
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg left Benjamin reeling. In this short episode, he talks about the soul-searching he’s done in the days since her death...
Episode 60: Navigating Relentless Overwhelm
The stress just keeps getting more intense, doesn’t it? We’re facing relentlessly overwhelming circumstances in our world. In this episode, we discuss...