Society & Culture Episodes
June 20, 2022
The Art of Authenticity in Friendship - 4 Key Things to Notice
Did you know that our cells, (the cells in our bodies) create light? Science today is telling us that even our cells emit light when they perform their functions. Neurons in the brain and spinal nerves have been found to pro…
June 13, 2022
The Wabi-Sabi Friend, How to Appreciate Every Connection and Situation in Life
Wabi-Sab, the Japanese aesthetic principle embraces the imperfect and impermanent nature of all things; recognizing beauty in the flawed, the incomplete, and the broken. Beauty can be found beneath the imperfect surface. Wab…
June 6, 2022
The Not So United States and the Voice of the Middle Ground - with guest Ruth Jefferson
The etymology of "Voice" is explored, plus...why we're so divided as a society, as a country, as a dot dot dot... (fill in the blank). Matt, talks about the techie side of things, how tech is responsible, how it contributed …
May 30, 2022
Filling Your Cup by Allowing for Emptiness -How to let go and feel good
This episode is on the art of the empty cup in many ways. We begin with the breath. So many times we're told to BREATHE! This may be advice that may be causing you more distress. The true way is to NOT TAKE the breath, but A…
May 23, 2022
The Art of Travel and Communication in Another Country - The French Connection, The Gift We all Have with Ray and Vanessa
We're all encoded with spectacular gifts, your fabulousness, your greatness translates wherever you go.
The BEAUTIFUL Vanessa Brantley-Newton is back, this time with her BRILLIANT husband Ray! They join us from their vacati…
May 16, 2022
The Gossipy Friend, how Twitter has destroyed our bond with one button; why friendship is so important and can save our society, especially right at this moment in time.
Sharing stories is the key to bonding. We explain the difference between sharing and telling a story. Then we get to the bad sharing which is another kind of storytelling/sharing (gossip) that destroys our bond, and we use T…
May 2, 2022
The Art of Ceremony and the Value of Ritual
Ceremony, what does it really mean? What is it? What is a daily ceremony? It's an intentional routine that's connected with how you start, how you move through, or how you end your day, the goal of ceremony is to be aware of…
April 25, 2022
The Ceremonies of Life and the Disappointed Friend
It was about the ceremony. It was about the experience. It was about the grief. It was about the, it was about my mom. It wasn't about these random people. I don't care really don't care. And honestly, don't care. So that's …
April 18, 2022
The Art of the Compliment - Compliment vs Complement
How can a compliment open the doors to friendship or even save someone's life? We discuss in this episode of "The Art of the Compliment" as we understand the ways to establish joy, kindness, and sincerity and see how a compl…
April 11, 2022
The Art of Conversation and SEL (Social Emotional Learning)
We discuss the art of conversation as the basis for the art of friendship, as we share three main components for conversing (Invite Insight Incite). We explore social-emotional learning and how we can feel and dance together…
April 4, 2022
A Kind World - Finding Freedom and Truth During a Tumultuous Time, with Barry Lane
Our Kindness expert, Barry Lane is back to remind us that "Kindness is Truth, Kindness is Freedom."
Barry soothes our nerves with his sweet songs (two new songs as we record live in Barry's studio - the second song is way a…
March 28, 2022
Colors - How We Perceive Colors in Life and Color Translates In Our Connections with Each Other
Flowers evolve to be attractive to bees so that they can pollinate and they can reproduce themselves, which is if there's a lot of competition in the flower world, this is why you have such stunning orchids. It's because the…
March 21, 2022
Social Penetration Theory - Outlining the Stages and Layers of Friendship
Social penetration was theorized in the seventies by two sociologists trying to figure out how people become friends and attempting to categorize different kinds of classifications of friends. We break down five stages of fr…
March 14, 2022
The Quiet Friend - Speaking Up in Defense of Others or Having Our heads in the Sand?
When is it OK to be quiet? When someone is hurting, is it OK to be quiet? When you know there is injustice, do you go about your day and just focus on yourself? If you lived in Europe before WWII and you noticed your friends…
March 7, 2022
The Inside Job with guest Sharon Caren
What would you love in life? What would you love? Isn't that a beautiful question to ask yourself, to ask your friends to ask people out there, what would you love?
how do we raise our sense of wellbeing? How can we go from…