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The Wisdom Seat Podcast

Bill Moriarty, Joanna Rott, Michael Carroll

Booking Overview

A Buddhist spirituality interview show focused on Tibetan Buddhist traditions, meditation, mindfulness, and applying spiritual teachings to modern life, with external guests including teachers, scholars, translators, practitioners, and mindfulness-oriented professionals. Credible pitches include Buddhist teachers, meditation instructors, Buddhist studies scholars, translators, authors, and accomplished professionals with substantive mindfulness or spiritual-practice perspectives; booking difficulty is medium because the show favors established niche experts but also features accessible practitioners and professionals.

Metrics

Episodes: 33

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Neutral

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 752 subscribers

Page updated: Oct 28, 2026 · How we check this data

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@thewisdomseat.org

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Host

Bill Moriarty - Host who introduces Buddhist talks and teachings focused on meditation and everyday spiritual practice.

Joanna Rott - Host and interviewer presenting conversations with Buddhist teachers, scholars, and practitioners.

Michael Carroll - Host and interviewer exploring mindfulness, Buddhist practice, and the relationship between spiritual insight and everyday life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Buddhist teachers, senior practitioners, scholars, translators, authors, meditation professionals, or accomplished professionals and artists with a substantive connection to mindfulness or spiritual practice.
Required Achievements:  
Decades of Buddhist practice or teaching, Books or translations on Buddhist teachings, Leadership of Buddhist or mindfulness organizations, Established professional or artistic careers with relevant lived experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Michele Martin - Studying With Tibetan Buddhist Lamas In India And Nepal

Larry Mermelstein - Stories And Teachings Associated With Chögyam Trungpa

Andrew Hyman - Consulting, Mindfulness, And Applied Professional Practice

Chris Kayser - Acting, Mortality, Presence, And Mindfulness In Stage And Everyday Life

Recent Topics

Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Buddhist Teachers, Spiritual Practice

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Wisdom Seat Podcast
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33: Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche in Conversation with Joanna Rotté - Halifax, August 2026

October 19, 2026

Welcome to this very special edition of the Wisdom Seat Podcast. In August 2026, Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia to give a week of empowerments and abhishekas. A number of us from The Wisdom Seat traveled there to attend. It was a celebratory, wonderful week, and Rinpoche agreed to an interview with Joanna Rotté. Joanna asks Rinpoche about his life and upbringing. He talks about being born in Chandigarh, growing up with his grandfather Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche from the...

32: Michele Martin - "Studying with the Lamas of India and Nepal"

June 28, 2026

Michele Martin has two graduate degrees in literature from Yale University and has been a Buddhist practitioner in the Karma Kagyu lineage for over forty years. She is a founding board member of the Tibetan Buddhist Research Center and has spent more than thirty years studying with and translating for Tibetan lamas in Nepal and India. She is the author and translator of Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the Seventeenth Karmapa, and translator of Gaining Certainty in the View....

31: Larry Mermelstein - "Stories of the Late Great Chogyam Trungpa"

May 13, 2026

Larry Mermelstein has been a close student of the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1971. He is a founding member and Executive Director of the Nalanda Translation Committee, a senior teacher in the Vajradhatu-Shambhala community, and a consultant for Shambhala Publications. He resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This interview was conducted in person by Joanna Rotté before a live audience at Sky Lake Shambhala Meditation Retreat Center in Rosendale, New York.   Audio equipment and assist...

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How do I get in touch with The Wisdom Seat Podcast?

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What is the email for The Wisdom Seat Podcast?

The publicly listed email for The Wisdom Seat Podcast: info@thewisdomseat.org.

How many listeners does The Wisdom Seat Podcast have?

Podseeker estimates The Wisdom Seat Podcast reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for The Wisdom Seat Podcast?

The Wisdom Seat Podcast typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Buddhist teachers, senior practitioners, scholars, translators, authors, meditation professionals, or accomplished professionals and artists with a substantive connection to mindfulness or spiritual practice. Common among recent guests: Decades of Buddhist practice or teaching; Books or translations on Buddhist teachings; Leadership of Buddhist or mindfulness organizations. Recent guests include Michele Martin, Larry Mermelstein, and Andrew Hyman.

How hard is it to get booked on The Wisdom Seat Podcast?

Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.

What topics does The Wisdom Seat Podcast cover?

Recent episodes cover Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Buddhist Teachers, and Spiritual Practice. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

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