The Plant Yourself Podcast

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Christin Bummer used to lavish care on dogs via her Canine Kingdom business. Now she coaches humans to give similar consideration to themselves.  In our conversation, we explore the fruitful and scary landscape of operating intuitively rather than adhering to preordained rules.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Josh LaJaunie returns to talk about his strategies for staying sane, strong, and fit during the pandemic. How to resist junk food and junk information, and how to talk to ourselves for the long haul.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like the Hero's Journey, lie in tatters. And some, like exercise, get transformed and deepened.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics.Basically, cultural somatics explores how our culture influences our bodies - how we move, how we interpret reality through our senses, how we think about the relationship between mind and body. Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Glen Merzer has possibly created a new genre, the comedic plant-based memoir. Join me, Glen, and recipe contributor Chef AJ to talk about their new book, Own Your Health.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian Aboriginal artist, philosopher, and researcher who lectures on Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University in Melbourne. He's also the author of Sand Talk, a book that has influenced my thinking more profoundly than any other.Yunkaporta turns the lens of anthropology around and puts Western civilization under the microscope, showing us how insane and unsustainable the entire project is.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Danielle Roberts is a visual artist, technologist, and meditator. She's the creator of MeditationLab, whose mission is to support spirituality through technology, and AwarenessLab, which develops tools for awareness from a technological, artistic, and experiential perspective.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Glenn Murphy returns to talk about the importance of embracing physical discomfort, even when we're already stressed out mentally and emotionally. He offers some tips about how to do so without burning out, and shares a 10-minute guided visualization exercise to help us get back in touch with our bodies and spirits.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Perry Marshall is one of the organizers of Cancer & Evolution Symposium, and a "pantomath" of the highest order. An engineer, marketer, writer, and science enthusiast, he has devoted much of the past 10 years to cracking the evolutionary code. Mainstream Darwinism simply can't answer some of our biggest questions, or account for much of the fossil record, according to Marshall. And given that creationists and intelligent design advocates are the main opponents of this understanding of evolution, scientific consensus has refused to admit other possibilities. As Marshall quips, "Evolutionary biology is the field most resistant to evolution."Marshall argues that natural selection is not the only, or even the main factor, in evolution. Instead, the organism itself exerts its will, and is an agent in its own evolution to further its own goals.And that explains why we have such a poor track record when it comes to treating and preventing cancer. We act like cancer cells are stupid, and only engage in random mutation. But what if cancer is a disease of identity?: the cancerous cell gains immortality by killing off its kill switch (apoptosis), and fails to realize that it's part of a larger organism.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show

Thoughts on the episode? Let us know.Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook, this is a celebration of the possibilities of health for the American people in general, and the Black community in particular. We talk about the title - from Etta James, and not Martin Luther King, Jr's "I have a dream" speech, as I first assumed - and the fact that, in Adams' words, "slavery never ended," and remains entrenched in the slave foods that are still harming Black people to this day.And we explore some of the policy initiatives BP Adams has launched to bring the practice of plant-based health to Brooklyn, New York City, and the world.Click to subscribe to the Mindset Mastery Memo.Support the show