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#56 - Steve March | Why Self-Improvement Fails

September 22, 2026

Steve is a coach and the founder of Aletheia Unfolding. His work integrates things like developmental psychology, contemplative practice and neo-Reichian somatic work into a psychospiritual approach to transformation.We discuss how self-improvement presupposes self-deficiency, which leads to mixed results (e.g. have you kept your new year’s resolutions?).What happens if instead, you start with the assumption that you are innately whole? What if Life itself transforms us when we let it? This i...

#55 - Aaron Nesmith-Beck | The Metagame of Inner Work

September 10, 2026

Aaron is an entrepreneur, writer, and coach. He famously founded one of the first legal psilocybin retreats and has spent over a decade navigating inner and outer frontiers. He works with founders and leaders, writes about inner work, psychedelics, and contemplative practice, and curates referrals to trusted practitioners and resources.In this episode we discuss the process of “going upstream” to the root of your patterns and speculate on why different inner work modalities are effective.Here...

#54 - Jessica Vellela | A Gentle Introduction to Ayurveda

June 25, 2026

Jessica is the first American-born woman to graduate as an Ayurvedic Physician and practice independently. She studied for 8 years in India completing Bachelor of Āyurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS). She’s also the founder of myayu.com and has been healing many of my friends.In this overview, we discuss what western medicine misses, archetypal ways of knowing, personal empiricism, the doshas and some counter-intuitive Ayurvedic practices. This is a public episode. If you would like to discu...