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Christian Conte, Ph.D., expert in anger management Jan 17, 2020

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You may recognize Dr. Christian Conte from the TV show Coaching Bad, or the daily Emotional Management Minutes that air on more than 300 radio stations across the country, or his TEDx talk, “Why I Chose to Go to Prison.” He is hard to miss: a six-foot-tall, muscled, bearded, and tattooed mental health specialist. His latest book is Walking Through Anger: A New Design for Confronting Conflict in an Emotionally Charged World.

He and Rabbi Rami discuss Conte’s Yield Theory, which he created as an effective treatment for anger issues, drawing on the more than 20,000 hours he has spent counseling people. In fact, Conte uses this in his work with violent offenders within correctional institutions, in addition to applying it with sports teams and other organizations.

When dealing with an angry person, Conte says there are three key things: listening, validating, and exploring options.

Listen to the podcast to hear how to apply this technique, and how to deal with anger and other powerful emotions. And yes, we all have powerful emotions. As Conte says, “There are two kinds of people in the world: There are people who have issues and dead people. So if you are currently alive, you have issues, so do I, so does everyone.”

Kelly McGonigal on the Joy of Movement Jan 03, 2020

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Rabbi Rami speaks with Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, about her latest book, The Joy of Movement. It looks at how physically moving the body is not only a way to treat depression, anxiety, and loneliness, but also a powerful way to connect and promote cooperation with other humans. It literally builds joy in the body via specific receptors and hormones, she discovered in her research.

Seane Corn, acclaimed yoga teacher and activist Dec 20, 2019

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Seane Corn is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and public speaker known for her social activism, impassioned style of teaching, and raw, honest and inspired self-expression. She's been teaching for more than 25 years, and speaks with Rabbi Rami about her very first book, which was published in the fall of 2019.

"Yoga is about cracking you open," Rabbi Rami notes. "Expanding your heart." Seane and Rabbi Rami speak about this emotional shift and how yoga takes you to a whole new level and how it opens you spiritually.

Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Dec 06, 2019

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Rabbi Rami speaks with the husband-and-wife team of Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.

Primack is a distinguished professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz and a world-renowned cosmologist; Abrams is an author and speaker. Together, they explore issues about the cultural and social implications of the modern scientific understanding of the universe.

The two have co-authored two books together: The New Universe and the Human Future and The View from the Center of the Universe, and Abrams wrote A God That Could Be Real.

They discuss the universe, God, complexity, and their quest to understand the universe as a whole and the way humans fit in within that.

Talking with Zen Teacher Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison Nov 15, 2019

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In this episode, Rabbi Rami speaks with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Paley Ellison is the co-founder the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Zen-based organization to offer clinical chaplaincy training in America. Koshin is also the author of the new book Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up.

Many of us are in what Ellison calls Zombieland. Walking down the street, staring at screens, afraid to talk with one another or to make eye contact. Intimacy, he says, is taking responsibility, both for how we think and how we stay in the present to fully see each other.

Listen to the whole episode to hear Rabbi Rami’s conversation with this dynamic leader and teacher.

Scott Shay on the value of monotheism Nov 01, 2019

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“What does it mean to believe in a monotheistic god?” asks Scott Shay, author of the new book In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism. It in, one of his main goals is to show that it is as rational to be a monotheist as an atheist. Rabbi Rami and Scott discuss the book and Shay's views.

Rabbi Rami talks with Sarah Hurwitz Oct 18, 2019

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From 2009 to 2017, Sarah Hurwitz worked in the White House, serving as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama and as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama. Her new book explores her deeper exploration of her Jewish faith.

Barbara Brown Taylor Oct 04, 2019

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In this podcast, Barbara and Rabbi Rami have a wide-ranging discussion, including talking about some of the Christian traditions that have gotten lost in Protestantism—such as early contemplative practices, and Mary/the divine feminine archetype—that are now being re-discovered and embraced.

Support for this show comes from the International Yoga Festival located at Parmarth Niketan, uniting yogis of every culture, color, and creed together in a one-world yogic family. Come be a part of an expanding global consciousness by registering at https://www.internationalyogafestival.org/register/

Rabbi Rami interviews Ken Honda on Happy Money Sep 30, 2019

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Rabbi Rami interviews bestselling author, podcaster and all-around happy guy, Ken Honda. Ken is helping people transform their relationships with money, and has written a new book "Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money."

Pouria Montazeri Aug 19, 2019

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