Being Human

#197 Cured – with Jeffrey Rediger, MD

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This week's guest is Dr. Jeffrey Rediger, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and medical director for the McLean South East Adult Psychiatric Programs. A licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist, he also has a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary.Observing the common denominators of people who have beaten the odds, Dr. Rediger reveals the immense power of our immune system and unlocks the secrets of the mind-body connection. 
We talk:
Remarkable recoveries
The curse of sugar
Overcoming Decartes’ mind-body split
The 4 pillars of great health
The power of prayer
Links:Cured - The BookDr. Rediger's Website

#196 The Seventh Power – with Kevin Hancock

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This week’s guest is Kevin Hancock, CEO of one of the oldest family businesses in the United States.Kevin used to be a hard-charging, traditional leader, until one day, when felt his throat tightening and found it difficult to speak or be understood. His diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, an incurable and rare condition that causes throat spasms.Out of this adversity came a radical shift in leadership and a brand new set of ideas that focused on him doing less, flipping the script on the leadership model, bringing unprecedented performance to his company.
We talk:
Asking questions as leadership
Getting clear in Pine Ridge
Astonishing business results
Travelling from the head to the heart
Advancing humanity
Links:The Business Of Shared Leadership

#195 Leverage Change – with Jake Jacobs

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This week’s guest is perhaps one of the most experienced change leaders and advisors on the planet, Jake Jacobs.For over 35 years, he has worked in 61 industries, helping over 210.000 people implement changes in their businesses.What I love about Jake is his fearlessness in calling out what leaders really must do to achieve change in their businesses.
We talk:
The importance of leverage
Thinking and acting as if the future were now
Following the energy (you don’t always have to start at the top)
The importance of large group work
The paradox of honouring continuity to achieve change
Links:Jake Jacobs Consulting
 

#194 Psychedelic Psychiatry - with Will Van Derveer, MD

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This week's guest on Being Human is Dr Will Van Derveer. Will is the founder and medical director of the Integrative Psychiatric Healing Center where he has practised integrative psychiatry for 15 years.
After discovering that his conventional psychiatric training was inadequate to answer many of his patients' challenges, he took an entire year out to meditate. Finding that meditation alone was also not the answer; he began investigating psychedelic therapy to resolve the root causes of common problems such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
We talk:
The power of using MDMA in therapy
Will's ayahuasca experience
The importance of sleep
How meditation is not always enough
'Weirding' your way to healing
Links:The Integrative Psychiatry Institute

#193 Courage To Come Back - with Guy Felicella

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human has one of the most extraordinary life stories of anyone I’ve met. I give you Guy Felicella.Guy grew up in a middle-class home but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment, and jail.But a pivotal meeting with one of Canada’s most celebrated doctors changed the course of his life. Guy is now nine years sober and in a stable relationship with three children, a remarkable turnaround.We dive into how he was able to achieve such a remarkable recovery.We talk:30 years of gang lifeMeeting Gabor MateThe trauma therapy that changed everythingPracticing 'doing kind'Confronting his abuser motherLinks:Guy's WebsiteGuy's Twitter   

#192 Learning From The Indigenous - with Darcia Narvaez

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame.I love Darcia's work because, unlike other psychologists, she doesn't simply look at our society's current pathologies and ask, how do we fix this?She takes in the broad sweep of human societal evolution and notes how our current ways of being and relating haven't always been so. She focuses especially on what we can learn from past and present indigenous cultures.We talk:How agriculture gave us hierarchyPredatory individualism and the cycle competive detachmentPre-competitive culturesFeeling the trees screamThe power of the Gift EconomyLinks:Breaking The Cycle - The FilmEvolved NestKindred MediaDarcia's University of Notre Dame Website 

#191 Resilient By Design - with Ian Snape

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is complexity theorist and author Ian Snape.A former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division, he has led teams on expeditions to both polar regions before focusing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals.We discuss how resilience isn't just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes. It's about new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other.We talk:How and why to quiet the Left BrainClean language for resilienceThe power of using perspectivesCoaching marines for breakthrough performanceThe one about the abductive turkeyLinks:Resilience By Design - The BookFrontline Mind   

#190 Performance Conversations - with Christopher D. Lee

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is Christopher D. Lee, PhD, author and the HR Director at one of the USA's oldest and most prestigious colleges, William & Mary.Christopher has a passion for human performance. There are three things we know about traditional performance appraisals: they are widely used, universally despised, and probably ineffective.  What should leaders do instead? Adopt a coaching mindset and commit to regular, structured performance conversations. Christopher offers a wealth of insight and practical ideas about how to elevate these conversations for deep impact. We talk:The mentor that changed Christopher's lifeWhy relationships matterYour job is not to evaluateFocus on intentHave people feel goodLinks:Performance Conversations - The BookThe Performance Conversations website

#189 The Power of Surrender - with Judith Orloff

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is psychiatrist, empath and author Judith Orloff.Judith is the bestselling author of "The Power of Surrender", where she advocates for the art of letting go as the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing.We talk:Surrendering to her intuition as a medical professionalLet's talk deathTuning in to the quiet voiceIntegrating ego and intuitionEmbracing your multitudesLinks:The Power of Surrender - The Book

#188 Eco-Leadership - with Satish Kumar

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/This week's guest on Being Human is peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar.As a teenager, Satish trekked from India to America via Russia to deliver ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of, what were then, the four major nuclear powers. He walked 8,000 miles without any money totally depending on the generosity of strangers.Now in his 80s, he has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice and spiritual fulfilment.We talk:Becoming a monk at 9 years oldCultivating trustStaying committedIntroducing The Cosmic Relationships DepartmentEmbracing 'enough'Links:Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine