Gateways to Awakening

Confessions of a Crypto Thief with Jeffrey Grubert | Gateways to Awakening

May 18, 2026

https://linktr.ee/gatewaystoawakeningDear Community, What if losing everything was the moment that woke you up? In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with entrepreneur, artist, and author Jeffrey Brian Grubert to explore a story that is far bigger than crypto.After losing $71,500 in a single afternoon to professional social engineers, Jeffrey found himself not just confronting financial loss, but something deeper—his beliefs around safety, trust, and control. Wha...

The Science of Flow, Intuition, and Becoming “As Gods” with Steven Kotler

May 11, 2026

In this episode of Gateways to Awakening, I sit down with Steven Kotler—New York Times bestselling author, leading researcher on flow states, and founder of the Flow Research Collective—for a deeply expansive conversation at the intersection of neuroscience, intuition, and human potential.We explore what it really means to access peak states—not as something mystical or fleeting, but as a trainable biological reality. Steven breaks down the science of flow, how our nervous system either suppo...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: What Bardo Teaches Us Now with Ann Tashi Slater

May 04, 2026

Dear FriendsIn this episode of Gateways to Awakening, Yasmeen Turayhi sits down with writer and teacher Ann Tashi Slater—a Tibetan-American author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and more. Ann joins us from Tokyo to explore her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World, a Next Big Idea Club “Must-Read,” and to unpack one of the most powerful spiritual frameworks for this moment in history: the ...