Voices of Esalen

Sam Stern

Publicly listed emails

voicesofesalen@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on human potential, psychology, embodiment, spirituality, and transformative practice, featuring external authors, clinicians, teachers, performers, and other influential thinkers. Agencies could credibly pitch authors, psychologists, wellness and contemplative practitioners, educators, and artists with substantial expertise in mind-body or personal-development work; booking difficulty is medium because guests need distinctive credentials and a strong fit with Esalen’s mission.

Metrics

Episodes: 234

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 8.1k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

voicesofesalen@gmail.com

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Host

Sam Stern - Host and interviewer focusing on psychology, embodiment, spirituality, and human potential through conversations with practitioners and thinkers.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Authors, clinical or mental-health professionals, Esalen teachers, contemplative and wellness practitioners, performers, and other established thinkers with substantial expertise and a distinctive perspective on human development or embodied practice.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Leadership or senior professional roles, Specialized clinical or teaching experience, Recognized performance or artistic experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Robert Moor - Wonder, Kinship, Co-flourishing, Curiosity, Adaptation, And The Relationship Between Human Life And Trees.

Jet Eveleth - Sacred Clowning, Play, Embarrassment, Improvisation, Meditation, Daoism, Embodiment, And Clowning As A Spiritual Practice.

Bill Drummond - Youth Mental Health, Diagnostic Identity, Trauma, Healing Through The Body, Social Media, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, And Relational Approaches To Care.

Recent Topics

Human Potential, Psychology, Wellness, Spirituality, Embodiment

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Voices of Esalen
:

How We're Really Using AI, Vol. 3

July 31, 2026

Artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in everyday life, and way too nuanced to describe as a single phenomenon. In this third installment of How We’re Really Using AI, Sam attempts to create clarity through specificity, speaking with people whose work and lives reveal distinct corners of the emerging AI landscape. Nina and Shoshana, founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, introduce the communal and unexpectedly playful world of AI parties for women of "a certain age," where t...

In Trees: Robert Moor on the Ethical Force of Wonder, Kinship, and the Art of Co-Flourishing

July 17, 2026

In this live conversation recorded at Esalen in the spring of 2026, author Robert Moor joins Andrew Castle, weaver of Esalen’s Treenet, to explore the ideas at the heart of Moor’s new book, In Trees. Moor describes trees as a way of being: branching outward into curiosity and experimentation, pruning what no longer works, adapting around difficulty, and remaining deeply rooted in place and relationship. Together, Moor and Castle consider what it means to “stay branchy” in a culture that incr...

Jet Eveleth: Sacred Clowning and the Medicine of Play

July 01, 2026

In this episode, Sam speaks with Jet Eveleth, a clown teacher, performer, writer, and integrative medicine practitioner who lives at the fertile crossroads of medicine and mischief. Jet has studied integrative medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, meditation, and psychotherapy at Harvard Medical School, while also training with legendary clown teacher Philippe Gaulier, touring with Second City, and performing in the spectacular Las Vegas show Absinthe. Together, Sam and Jet explore clownin...

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