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Christmess: The Morning I Learned My Mother Was Leaving (Dispatch 18) Oct 13, 2026

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"Well, if you're going to leave in June anyways, you might as well leave now!" Thirteen-year-old Jeff heard it from the stairs on Christmas morning, with his little brother beside him in footed pajamas.
In this episode, Jeff tells the story of the holiday his parents' marriage broke open: the Hail Mary trip to Brazil, the presents opened quietly with Gramma, and the night Eric slept in his bed. He follows the fallout into adulthood, including choosing to stay with his broken father, cutting off his mother for nearly a decade, and setting out into life "rudderless and leaky."
This is the eighteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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Zach Bush on AI, Death and Biological Elegance Oct 08, 2026

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When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this episode, recorded live at The Kinn in Los Angeles, Jeff sits down with Dr. Zach Bush, a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care. They explore his new book, Biological Elegance, which unfolds through a dialogue with AI.

They get into the difference between curing and healing, why Zach believes there's no machine behind AI at all, and why the real danger isn't artificial intelligence but humans acting like machines.

Why humming is one of the most powerful ways to relieve acute pain, a lesson Zach learned from a hospice nurse
Jeff's story of his father's final week in hospice, and the difference between curing and healing
Zach's case that AI isn't a machine at all, and that the real danger is humans acting like machines
The "false solutions" of biohacking, crypto, and the conscious movement
The curative questions Zach believes medicine should be asking: where's your original wound, and what's your deepest fear?

This episode is for anyone who has sat at a loved one's bedside, feels uneasy about AI, or suspects that healing means more than fixing symptoms. Zach's new book, Biological Elegance: Unwitting the Devil, is available at zachbushmd.com.

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Dad, I Got My Period: Getting a Little Better at Fatherhood (Dispatch 17) Oct 06, 2026

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The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.
In this episode, Jeff plays a round of Frogger through stray shopping carts and bite-sized ballerinas to pick up Micah from rehearsal. Somewhere between the curb and Marshalls, she says it as casually as checking the weather: "Dad, I got my period." What follows is a quick run of limbic misfires, from a panicked thought of urgent care to an awkward offer to swing by CVS, until her reply stops him cold: "I just wanted you to know." It's a funny, tender look at raising daughters without shame, and the five seconds Jeff counts among his proudest as a father.
This is the seventeenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.
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Love Is Freedom: Yung Pueblo on Lasting Relationships Oct 01, 2026

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What if love isn't about sacrifice and limitation, but is actually the thing that sets you free?

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diego Perez, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and meditator known as Yung Pueblo, to talk about his book How to Love Better. Diego shares how hitting rock bottom sent him from self-deception toward self-love, and how thousands of hours in silent Vipassana retreats reshaped the way he shows up for his wife, Sara. Drawing on Buddhist ideas like impermanence and the Brahmaviharas, they explore what it takes to build a relationship that feels less like a limitation and more like a home.

Why self-love begins with radical honesty
A simple morning habit that heads off unnecessary fights
What shifts when you stop arguing to win
The subtle line between clinging and closeness
Why commitment might be the most liberating thing in your life

This episode is for anyone who wants a relationship rooted in understanding rather than control, and for anyone curious how a meditation practice can change the way they love.

Diego's new book, Journey: The Year That Changes Everything, a year of daily reflections on self-awareness and inner peace, is out Nov 10. Originally released in 2025.

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A Steady Hand on the Wheel: What My Daughter Taught Me About Safety (Dispatch 16) Sep 29, 2026

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Jeff Krasno spent years driving his family through the most terrifying stretch of I-95 there is: the dark part after New Haven. His daughter remembers it as the safest she ever felt.

In this episode, Jeff recounts the family's white-knuckle night drives to a Connecticut cottage — deer carcasses, wobbly 18-wheelers, and a car full of sleeping kids lulled out by Schuyler's New Yorker readings — and the moment nearly 20 years later when his daughter's heartfelt dinner-table tribute gets undercut by his own internal monologue about exactly how he was driving.

This is the sixteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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Why Your Body Feels Like a Dead Battery with Wade Lightheart Sep 24, 2026

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Every cell in your body holds an electrical charge, and Wade Lightheart says most of the fatigue, pain, and brain fog people chalk up to aging is really a battery running low on potassium, not a diet problem. In this episode, Jeff talks with Wade, co-founder of BiOptimizers and a former Mr. Universe competitor, about the sodium-potassium pump that powers every muscle contraction and nerve signal in the body, and why replenishing it can change how you feel in under an hour.

Why your muscles work more like a battery than an engine, and what that changes about how you think about fatigue
The sodium-potassium pump: the exchange happening inside every cell, all day, whether you notice it or not
Why potassium, not sodium, is the electrolyte most people are actually running short on
What happens when the charge "drains" — the dull ache, brain fog, and pain people mistake for aging
Real stories of what happens within 60 minutes of restoring that charge

This episode is for anyone who's felt inexplicably drained, in pain, or foggy and assumed it was just age — and for anyone curious what's really happening inside their cells.

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Thirty Years, Three Words: Our Marriage Finds Its Way Back to Paris (Dispatch 15) Sep 22, 2026

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Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often. When he finally does, on a bridge in Paris thirty years after he and Schuyler first fell for the city — and each other — her face tells him exactly why that's true.

In this episode, a family return trip becomes a quiet reckoning with time: a street puppeteer's tiny wooden tragedy, a line of Blake Jeff can't shake, and a marriage that's carried thirty years and three daughters without losing the thing that started it. Their eldest, Phoebe, has already staked her own claim on the city — proof that some things don't get relived so much as passed on.

This is the fifteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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How Kids Learn to Trust, with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Sep 17, 2026

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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau turns this conversation with Jeff into a question most of us don't ask directly: what do we actually pass down to our kids, and what can we choose not to?

Sophie, a mental health advocate, author, and former first partner of Canada, draws on attachment theory to explain how the bond we form with a caregiver in our first years quietly runs how we raise our own kids, unless we do something about it.

Secure, anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized attachment, and how each style shows up in parenting
Why explicit parenting advice rarely lands, and what kids absorb from us instead
How chronic stress hijacks the nervous system's ability to trust, in parents and kids alike
Screens as a substitute attachment object, and what that actually displaces
What actually breaks generational cycles of trauma and addiction

This episode is for any parent thinking about the emotional inheritance they're passing down. Want more parenting conversations like this one? Check out our Dance Dads series, new episodes every Tuesday.

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The Blue Door: A Paris Street Party I Could Never Find Again (Dispatch 14) Sep 15, 2026

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Jet-lagged and wandering solo through Paris's Latin Quarter, Jeff slips through an unmarked blue door and stumbles into a hidden courtyard mid street-party — wine, a stranger's guitar, a dance circle pulling in everyone within reach. The next day, he can't find it again.

In this episode, Jeff traces that one improbable night — the shrine to Sainte Geneviève, the sing-along, the bejeweled stranger who hands him a bottle of Bordeaux, pulling him into the dance — and the fruitless afternoon spent retracing his steps with his daughters through a maze of identical alleys. Along the way, he lands on a truth his daughter Lolli taught him years earlier, after losing an osprey's nest in the marsh grass outside their beach cottage: some things reveal themselves exactly once, and chasing them a second time only proves the point.

This is the fourteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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Michael Pollan on Consciousness, AI, and the Self Sep 10, 2026

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Can artificial intelligence ever be conscious? Michael Pollan says no, and at the Harvest Series in Kaplankaya, he lays out exactly why, starting with what he calls a faulty metaphor: the idea that the brain is a computer.

Jeff and Pollan dig into consciousness science, plant sentience, and the psychedelic research that shaped Pollan's thinking, then turn to AI, chatbots, and what happens when people mistake simulation for feeling.

The neuroscience case against AI consciousness, and why feelings may require a body, mortality, and the ability to suffer
Plant sentience explained: what it means for a plant to sense, evaluate, and act, without being "conscious"
The 22 competing theories of consciousness, and why they all hit the same wall
Why the upper brainstem, not the cortex, may be where consciousness actually begins
The rise of "AI psychosis" and why 72% of American teens now turn to AI for companionship

This episode is for anyone following the AI consciousness debate who wants the case laid out by someone who's spent years studying the real science.

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