Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis

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188. Animal Rights legend Gene Baur of Farm Sanctuary talks Vegan w/Waylon. Nov 03, 2023

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Waylon Lewis is (again) with Elephant pal Gene Baur as they talk about veganism, loveable farm animals, and the inspiring, saving-the-world work Farm Sanctuary is doing. A fun, easy conversation about tough, passionate matters between two mindful, passionate gents.⁠

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187. Mindful Monday—Things I would not yet like to Know about the Future. ~ Waylon H. Lewis Oct 30, 2023

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Waylon H. Lewis reads Chapter 16 from "Things I would like to do with You" in honor of the newly released fifth edition of his best-selling first book. It's red, again, and even more eco!

"I would like to know if you notice the breeze that comes through the window, or if you would like to sleep with the curtains open and blinds up or if you like to wear my pajamas (for wearing flannel pajamas two sizes too big is the right size), or if you teach or garden or need to work on the other end of our globe for a year.

I would like you to know that when I work too long, I work for the world, and the world is the inheritance of our children— and our children, whether one or two or three or four or five or more of them, whether popular or bookish, or both…are your first love." ~ Waylon H. Lewis, "Things I would like to do with You"

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186. Collective Narcissism, with Jeanine Canty & Waylon Lewis. Oct 27, 2023

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Calling for a Cultural Shift:

Waylon Lewis (and you!) gets to learn from Jeanine Canty as they speak about her new book Returning the Self to Nature. Read an excerpt of it here: From Individual to Collective Narcissism: a Cultural Shift.

"The world of the narcissist is not a kind space. Very few people enjoy being around someone who is self-centered, arrogant, volatile, and insincere—probably not even the narcissist." ~ Jeanine Canty

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185. Mindful Monday—How can we be of benefit...if we're caught up in our own busyness? Oct 23, 2023

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As some of you know...I'm an author of two books. And I teach writing classes in our online writing school, which is called Elephant Academy. And I'm running for local political office. And I'm social, and I'm raising a puppy. I'm crazy busy right now.

But—every November is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month...and Elephant Academy offers a mindful consultation throughout the month with workshops, community, and social media posts.

Why? Because the point of writing is not just to publish a book and be famous and pose in your tweed jacket with elbow patches on the back of your Great American Novel, and be revered by fans everywhere.

No. The point of writing is to be genuine.

Join the event on Oct. 27th, 2023.

184. Natural Entrepreneurship, David McLaughlin of Säti Soda talks w/ Waylon Lewis. Oct 22, 2023

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Waylon Lewis talks with longtime friend David McLaughlin about eco entrepreneurship. David is one of the mindful entrepreneurs behind organic CBD soda company Säti Soda, which supports Conscious Alliance / 1% for the Planet. Learn more about Sati, the benefits of CBD, the challenges of starting an eco company—and how you can invest in their grassroots WeFunder campaign.

"Säti is short for Sativa. Säti means mindfulness in Buddhism. So how do we be the most mindful about what we're doing? How do we treat people? How's our customer service? All of it. We've learned a lot." ~ David McLaughlin

183. Mindful Monday—How to Deal with Mean People, Trolls, & Personal Attacks. Oct 16, 2023

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My colleague Molly suggested that because I'm a Buddhist boy and I'm running for a local city council race, that I talk a bit about how I deal with mean people, trolls, or personal attacks...from a Buddhist point of view.

What is the Buddhist advice on that? That's something I'm asking myself all the time.

How does Buddhism advise mindfully handling ad hominem (meaning personal, often anonymous or unfair) attacks?

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182. Anjie Cho Feng Shui's Waylon's House! {Part 2} Oct 15, 2023

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Waylon learns with author, teacher, and Feng Shui expert Anjie Cho in part two of their Walk the Talk conversation—a live walkthrough of Waylon's eco Victorian home! As he expressed in part one, "This stuff inspires me!"

During the live consult she offered advice on clutter, work, relationships, financial stability, and service. Anjie doesn't offer one-on-one consultations outside of her school, Mindful Design Feng Shui School, so this was a special consultation with Waylon and Elephant as a part of our two-part series.

"While a book can give you a general overview and cover a lot of aspects, it may not be specialized for your particular situation. Just like we could read something on WebMD about something growing on our elbow..!" ~ Anjie Cho

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181. Let us rest in fierce, active love & compassion. Oct 12, 2023

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"You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic." ~ Robert A. Heinlein Let us rest in fierce, active love and compassion. Read more from Waylon Lewis on Elephant Journal on this topic, here.

Or, write your own thoughts, reflections, and wisdoms on the topic and share with Elephant's International community at elephantjournal.com/post.

180. Mindful Monday—Everything that happens in our lives is available to teach us if we only regard it openly. Oct 09, 2023

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A story.

I just had a kind of intense experience and thought I would, as I am wont to do, being Buddhist, use that as grist for the mill. Everything that happens in our lives is teaching us, or available to teach us, if we only regard it openly and with some curiosity, some sense of accountability, but also some sense of clarity.

We don't have to create drama; we don't have to be mean to people, even if we disagree.

At this point, being rude to each other is kind of common.

I think we can all give each other a chance and treat each other like fellow human beings. The basic Buddhist lesson is if someone's rude to you, try to have some empathy for where they're coming from, but also stay grounded in your kindness. Don't give the rudeness back. We don't need to suffer fools gladly—but we can offer others the respect and kindness they deserve as a human being—if only once.

179. Vegan 101 w/ Stefanie Stevens of Life, Veganized & Elephant's Waylon Lewis. Oct 08, 2023

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Waylon talks with Stefanie Stevens, founder of Life, Veganized, about transitioning to veganism—and why we might want to make that transition.⁠ Listen as they cover veganism 101, the reason to be vegan not just vegetarian, making a living as a vegan influencer, and some talk about great vegan brands to try.

"Going vegan can be intimidating. But it's a wall of fire—step through & it fast becomes easy, healthy, yummy—& full of love." ~ Waylon Lewis⁠

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