In April 2023, I spoke with Dr. Steven Radowitz, an internist who does the medical and psychiatric intakes at Nushama, a center offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. We talked about a structured program called the KARE protocol and about why people reach for alcohol in the first place.
In April 2023, I spoke with Bart Nollenberger, a leadership and sales coach who works with companies and their leaders. Before that career, he sold cars, ran finance at a dealership, and spent years drinking and using cocaine.
In 2023, I spoke with Lewis Nelson, MD, a medical toxicologist and the chair of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Just before we started recording, he told me some big news.
In March 2023, I spoke with Gary Aston-Jones, PhD, a neuroscientist who directs the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University. He has spent more than 30 years studying the brain systems behind motivation and reward, and his recent work focuses on a chemical messenger called orexin.
In March 2023, I spoke with Dr. Cherisa Sandrow and Dr. Alex Sandrow, a married couple who coach physicians who want to build a different kind of career. Cherisa is a family physician who moved into telemedicine years before the pandemic made it familiar.
In February 2023, I welcomed Karen Newell back to the show. Karen is a co-founder of Sacred Acoustics, which makes meditation recordings built on binaural beats, and we talked about sound, sleep, and the meditative states that sit between waking and sleeping.
In February 2023, I spoke with Amy Anthony, an aromatherapist in New York City who teaches aromatherapy certification to students ranging from nurses to doctors. I wanted to understand what aromatherapy actually is, and how it might apply to health care, particularly mental health.
In an episode released in January 2023, I spoke with Donna Marks, EdD, about her book, Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Solution, which had just come out in a revised edition.
In December 2022, I spoke with Guy Sengstock, who was there when circling first emerged among a group of friends in San Francisco. Circling is a group practice of deep, attentive relating, and I had become curious about it after watching a video of Guy demonstrating it.
In October 2022, I spoke with Dedee Pfeiffer, an actress who was starring as Denise on the television series Big Sky. She stepped away from acting for about ten years to study psychology and social work, and during those years she faced her own alcohol dependence.
In September 2022, I sat down with two friends at once. Harry Derbitsky teaches the three principles of Sydney Banks, and Jay Yow produces and engineers the James Altucher podcast.
In September 2022, I sat down with Laura Delano of the Inner Compass Initiative to talk about something most doctors were never taught. How does a person come off a psychiatric medication without being harmed by the process?