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Plus: Hyperbaric chambers, red-light therapy, mRNA, cancer research, and the surprising importance of boredom and friction.
Kara Swisher is a veteran tech journalist, host of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, and one of the most influential voices covering the intersection of technology and power. Her new CNN documentary series, Kara Swisher Wants to Live Forever, takes on the longevity industry — separating genuine medical breakthroughs from the pseudoscience being sold to anyone with a credit card and a fear of aging.
Kara Swisher has been covering Silicon Valley longer than most of its billionaires have been rich — and she's watched them turn a simple fear of death into a multi-billion dollar industry of expensive, largely unproven interventions. After her own stroke at 49, she decided to investigate: what actually works, what's a grift, and what does the science really say about living longer? The result is a new CNN documentary series that's part BS-detector, part genuinely hopeful look at the medical breakthroughs that could change everything. This conversation covers both.
We talked about:
Why biohacking culture is basically a men's eating disorder dressed up as science
Bryan Johnson, Peter Attia, and what Silicon Valley gets catastrophically wrong about longevity
The supplements, therapies, and interventions that are mostly hype (peptides, hyperbaric chambers, red light therapy, full-body scans)
What VO2 max actually measures — and why it's one of the few metrics worth tracking
GLP-1 drugs: the real promise behind the Ozempic headlines
The mRNA breakthroughs that could produce a pancreatic cancer vaccine
Why your relationships are a more powerful longevity drug than anything you can buy
The case for boredom, friction, and putting your phone down
How thinking about death every day can make you happier and less afraid
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Lessons learned from 12 years of serious meditation.
Diego Perez is a meditator and #1 New York Times bestselling author who is widely known by his pen name, Yung Pueblo. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. 
In this episode we talk about:
How to burn off your mind's conditioning
The suffering that comes from clinging in a world characterized by relentless change
What selfless listening is, and how to do it
The liberation that comes from equanimity
Some of the incredibly valuable lessons he's learned from 12 years of meditation
How to make better decisions for your future self
How to have boundless compassion without being a pushover
Why  being able to see perspectives outside of your own is a sign of intelligence and mental strength
And much more
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Jack Kornfield & Yung Pueblo On: How To Meditate When You're Freaking Out, the Limits of the Thinking Mind, & Balancing Self-Interest with Compassion
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Your health, relationships, and self-esteem all hinge on your attachment style. Here's how to know if you're anxious or avoidant — and how to get more secure.
Dr. Amir Levine is a Columbia-trained psychiatrist and neuroscientist and coauthor of the multi-million-copy bestseller Attached, which brought attachment theory into mainstream conversation and remains the #1 book on Amazon in Relationships more than a decade later. His new book Secure expands this work into emotional regulation and everyday well-being.
In this episode we talk about:
What attachment theory is 
The four attachment styles — anxious, avoidant, secure, and fearful avoidant — and how to identify which one you are
Why your attachment style is not fixed and how it can change 
What happens in your brain when you're ignored or excluded
How being securely connected can extend your life
The five pillars of a secure life 
How to right-size a relationship with someone unreliable 
Small, seemingly insignificant daily interactions as vehicles for change
Two rules of secure engagement that can defuse almost any argument 
Why anxious and avoidant attachment styles each have genuine superpowers
How to build your "attachment topography"
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We're all hooked on something. Here's the way out, according to an MD who became a beloved nun.
Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, ("Sister D") was born in 1968 in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. She lost her mother at the age of twelve and immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen with her brother. Living in various foster homes, she learned English and went on to earn a medical degree from the University of California – San Francisco. After suffering further tragedy and loss, she quit her practice as a doctor to travel to Plum Village monastery in France founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, where she was ordained a nun in 2000, and given the name Dang Nghiem, which means adornment with nondiscrimination. She is the author of a memoir, Healing: A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun (2010), and Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing and Spirit (2015).
This episode is part of our monthlong Do Life Better series. 
We talk about:
Sister D's Buddhist version of the 12 step program, which is a combination of two canonical buddhist lists: the 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
How willpower doesn't fit into the Buddhist path of understanding and working with addiction 
How to change addiction at its root
Practical applications of mindfulness
Self-compassion
The importance of social support
Her thoughts on our relationships to our phones 
And more
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 This Episode Will Make You Stronger | Sister Dang Nghiem
The Science Of Manifestation | James Doty
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Why seeing yourself cling is the beginning of freedom — and other Buddhist insights that will stick with you.
Pascal Auclair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997, sitting retreats in Asia and America. He has been mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, who have both been previous guests on this show. Pascal is now a core teacher at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts. He is also a co-founder of True North Insight and one of its guiding teachers. 
In this episode we talk about:
What the Four Kinds of Clinging are — and why the Buddha thought this list mattered
How clinging to pleasure actually makes pleasure harder to enjoy
The "wrong views" that cause the most suffering — and how to hold your opinions less tightly
Why clinging to rules and routines shows up in the most ordinary places (including who puts the onions in the pan first)
What self-identification is, and why loosening it leads to less guilt, shame, and anxiety
A simple bedside inquiry for getting underneath the concept of self
Why catching yourself cling is a reason for joy, not self-criticism
Related Episodes:
5 Ways To Get Over Yourself | Pascal Auclair
Seven Buddhist Ingredients for a Happy Mind | Pascal Auclair
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