Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Justin Stark. Justin is not only a satellite engineer, he is also a brilliant stage actor with a technicolor neurodiverse mind. Justin discovered that one of the gifts of being a stage actor is learning how to be present with his fellow actors. This also has helped Justin relate to others. Justin has studied acting (since the age of 14) when he got the lead role as inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Surety in The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Justin moved to the Southern California area where he began doing acting projects ranging from commercials to small budget films but truly found his calling in theatre acting. He has studied with Peter Frisch of the The Peter Frisch Studio in multiple consortiums. He has continued to play diverse characters in the theatre from Froggie in The Foreigner to one of the Venticelli in Santa Barbara Ensemble Theatre’s production of Amadeus. He also has played historical figures such as the impeccable David Frost in Dijon Productions smash hit Frost/Nixon which was a live theatre and screen event. Justin has continued to do theatre in the Santa Barbara area for the last 18 years.

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Justin Stark. Justin is not only a satellite engineer, he is also a brilliant stage actor with a technicolor neurodiverse mind. Justin discovered that one of the gifts of being a stage actor is learning how to be present with his fellow actors. This also has helped Justin relate to others. Justin has studied acting (since the age of 14) when he got the lead role as inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Surety in The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Justin moved to the Southern California area where he began doing acting projects ranging from commercials to small budget films but truly found his calling in theatre acting. He has studied with Peter Frisch of the The Peter Frisch Studio in multiple consortiums. He has continued to play diverse characters in the theatre from Froggie in The Foreigner to one of the Venticelli in Santa Barbara Ensemble Theatre’s production of Amadeus. He also has played historical figures such as the impeccable David Frost in Dijon Productions smash hit Frost/Nixon which was a live theatre and screen event. Justin has continued to do theatre in the Santa Barbara area for the last 18 years.

Not taking on intrusive thoughts calmer thinking to prevail. The more we see "intrusive thought turbulence" as an indication we are momentarily hyper-focused on the noise in our head (instead of the present moment where our peace and wellbeing is), the better we see the illusion. The better we see the illusion the more we see what's true underneath the noise of our temporary intrusive thinking.

In this episode I had the honor of sitting down with Luke Colson, host of the "Well That F*cked Me Up! podcast. Luke shares his hero's journey of survival and triumph after experiencing a childhood trauma to persevering in recovery from drugs and alcohol.

Luke Colson is a London born Film and Television Executive, specializing in Design, Animation and Visual Effects. Known for his work as Executive Producer on a number of Film and Television Main Titles sequences, including Watchmen, Westworld, Fearless, The Alienist, Ant Man and The Wasp, The Morning Show, Altered Carbon, Mulan, and Captain Marvel. Colson has been recognized by the Emmy Awards for his work on Game Of Thrones Season 8, for which Elastic won in the 'Best Main Title Sequence' and in 2019 won a BAFTA and a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award with Elastic for the Opening Sequence for 'His Dark Materials' for HBO and BBC. To add, Colson has been awarded multiple times by Clio, D&AD, LIA, Webby, AICP, Promax, Motion, ADC, and more.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lilly Sais, a former lead school psychologist, now full time mental health practitioner. Lilly is passionate about helping people reconnect to their natural peace of mind, resiliency, and wellbeing through sharing the principles of Mind, Thought and Consciousness. Lilly used to struggle with anxiety, OCD, and panic, but through the Three Principles understanding Lily realized there was nothing to fix and nothing she needed to change. Lilly discovered anxiety and panic were friendly alarms letting her know she was innocently misusing the beautiful gift of thought. Lilly started to take her thinking less seriously. Everything shifted.

It was truly a pleasure to sit down with masterful transformational coach Angus Ross. Angus and his wife Rohini Ross have had much success helping couples find their way back to harmony and wellbeing after being on the brink of divorce or breakup. I am also honored to call Angus my coach. Angus is also co-founder of “The Rewilders” with his wife Rohini Ross. Listen to their podcast Rewilding Love. They believe too many good relationships fall apart because couples give up thinking their relationship problems can’t be solved. Many couples don’t know how to navigate low moods, conflict, and emotional reactivity. In this season of the Rewilding Love Podcast, Rohini and Angus help a couple on the brink of divorce due to conflict. Angus and Rohini love working with couples and helping them to reduce conflict and discord in their relationships by pointing them to their innate wisdom and wellbeing. They work with couples who are struggling and couples who would like to deepen the love and intimacy they already have. They co-facilitate private couples' intensives retreat program that rewild relationships back to their natural state of love. To learn more about his work visit: TheRewilders.org.

We have felt it before. In fact we feel it all the time. We are just not paying attention. It's that feeling of presence when we drop out of our noisy brains and into the present moment. It's where all the magic happens. But it is not what your brain is telling you. Yet you feel it when you meet the love of your life. Or when you find the job of your dreams. Or when your first child is born. Total presence. It's when you see below the nonsense of your super noisy ADHD mind. The more we see our psychology as impersonal and neutral the less we suffer.

Scott Gazzoli and I discuss the misunderstanding of how the mind works to help us see how the mind really works (not how we are conditioned to believe the mind works). We don’t need to lose alot of money or have a family crisis to see that our wellbeing and coping abilities (or lack thereof) has nothing to do with our outside circumstances. We temporarily lose sight of the fact that we are experiencing thought and not our outside circumstances. There is nothing outside of us that can make us feel any way in particular. You can thrive in the middle of a health crisis. You can thrive amidst financial hardship. We are just one thought away from thriving and wellbeing.

ADHD is not a disorder. It is a made up label that the mental health industry has innocently conditioned us to believe is a disorder. Once we begin to look at ADHD and neurodiversity not from a disordered and dysfunctional perspective but from a 'not broken nothing to fix' perspective. ADHD is a high performance mind that works differently. We just need to learn how to use our neurodiverse equipment to work for us (and not against us). Yet we innocently get caught up in the label. We innocently look for things that don't work or we "think" need to be fixed. That's just what a brain does. That's just what an intellect does. It's nobody's fault. Yet there is so much beyond the intellect. There is so much beyond the noise of our conceptual based mind. There is so much beyond the "diagnostic" tools mental health professionals use. Once we look underneath the noise of our intellect we are then able to see beyond the made up label and diagnosis.

In this episode I had the honor of sitting down with the wonderful Wyn Morgan. Wyn is not only a world renowned master 3 principles practitioner, he is also co-host of one of my most listened to podcasts, "Under the Noise." Wyn Morgan is a 3 Principles practitioner based in Windsor, UK and works with corporations and private individuals in every continent around the world. Having stumbled across the principles 10 years ago, Wyn has completely changed his relationship to his own life and with himself. Wyn has been in the people development world for the past 22 years within organizations, and as a coach-consultant with his own business for the past 15 years. Wyn has been mentored by George and Linda Pransky, Barb Patterson, Elsie Spittle and Michael Neill. “I am constantly amazed how much more there is to see and how much more wondrous and simple life can actually be”

“Helping my own clients in the corporate world achieve better results through the brilliance of their people along with those clients who come to me for their own personal needs is such a joy. I love watching them wake up to who they really are,” Wyn says. “In mentoring coaches, I love how my time is leveraged to bring out the best in their coaching ability who then help countless people all over the world to live happier, more fulfilled lives while achieving results they are thrilled with” Wyn adds. Wyn is a patriotic Welshman, with a love for travel, American Football, laughter and deep conversations.

A neurodiverse high performance mind always thinks its helping. Helping us at 170 mph. We feel emotions that slam into "us" at 170.mph. We feel everything sometimes. But I want you to get really curious about the speed. The emotion. Just notice it. It's just a speedy brain driving over the speed limit (the speed of life speed limit). It doesn't take long to see that it's not personal. It's nonsense. It's just what a neurodiverse mind does. It means nothing. There's life. When there is not a story about your super speedy mind you see the illusion more. More importantly, you see your freedom more.

Today I had the honor of sitting down with Sam Eaton, best selling author, keynote speaker, and host of the critically acclaimed mental health podcast, "Recklessly Alive." shares his hero's journey of survival and triumph and is possibly the best example of seeing our resilience, courage, and resolve to keep moving forward despite our circumstances which is in all of us (if we just pay attention).

Sam Eaton is a teacher, author, speaker, and founder of Recklessly Alive, a suicide prevention organization sprinting towards a world with zero deaths by suicide. A suicide survivor himself, Sam is crazy passionate about helping people tell a better story with their lives—one that is fully and recklessly alive.

Sam’s first book, Recklessly Alive: What My Suicide Attempt Taught Me About God and Living Life to the Fullest, was released in January 2021 and reached the top 200 best-selling books on Amazon. Sam speaks regularly at schools, churches, retreats, and conferences throughout the U.S. He currently resides in Minneapolis, MN where he enjoys collecting vinyl records, lifting moderately heavy weights, and trying every flavor of Oreos. You can connect with Sam on Instagram and Tik Tok @RecklesslyAlive or at RecklesslyAlive.com.

In this episode I had the pleasure of sitting down with Justine Carino, LMFT who is also host of the wonderful "Thoughts from the Couch" podcast. Justine and I discuss how to see beyond the illusion of our "need to figure out and fix" intellectual mind and instead slow down and notice (in the quiet) our inner wisdom that's always there waiting for us. It's in that quiet we always know what to do. Not in the mind's made up narrative of unreliable prediction and judgement.

We have a swiss army knife of a neurodiverse ADHD mind that you always have access to (underneath the noise of our thinking). The more you notice the noise as something that has nothing on you (and nothing you need to do about it) the less you will suffer when it happens again. It's not who you are. It's just a reminder you are temporarily off course and that if you just let the noise move through you, the more you can return back to your super resourceful, brilliant Swiss army knife of a mind again.

In this episode I had the honor of sitting down with Rachel and Hiiro, host(s) of the wonderfully witty and sincere mental health podcast, "Getting Jewcy." Rachel and Hiiro are grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. They candidly share how being grandchildren of holocaust is the greatest reminder of their "inner resilient pilot light" that shines bright but also how it has forced them to revisit their own human frailties and conditioning that has been passed down from their survivor grandparents.

In this episode I share how a high speed neurodiverse ADHD mind can both be used as the greatest creative tool or a weapon against yourself through a personal story that almost threatened my college career and the wisdom (if you pay attention to it) our sped up busy mind helps us to see. What is truth vs. what is illusory and made up?

It's not every day that one has the opportunity to sit down with a very funny stand up comedian who also happens to host a top rated podcast called the "Smoking Simian." In this episode Antonio Barbosa shares his comedic journey from bombing in front of a large audience (and subsequently giving up) as the perfect catalyst to rediscovering his innate gift as a comedic talent who is now doing stand up in some of the best comedy clubs in the nation.

Antonio's Bio:

My name is Antonio Barbosa and the pandemic gave me the excuse I needed to start living MY life on MY terms. Realizing the need for independence, I started a podcast in August of 2020 titled The Smoking Simian. The premise of my show is to have interesting conversations with interesting guests and provide some insight into the lives of people you would have never met otherwise. I also decided that after a 5 year hiatus it was time to get back on stage as a comic and chase that dream as well. One I have had since I was a child. Nothing in this life is set in stone. My advice is to get out and DO everything you have ever wanted to, no matter how obscure or risky.

Try this on for size for a moment. Imagine if 100% of the constant chatty inner narrator in your head disappeared overnight. Sudden quiet. Stuff your mind is creating a big time story around would not get in the way of your peace of mind. All of the stuff that you worry would not have such a grip on you. You would have access to more of that inner creativity. That inner state of flow and wellbeing. Everyday concerns your mind creating a worrisome story around would not be a problem anymore. Solutions would appear from our "knowing." Relationships would be richer and easier. Yet it's not possible to stop thought no matter how hard you try to quiet it. Neutrality can still exist even in the noise of our thinking. We can still have a richer, more neutral experience once we begin to question our sped up thinking. We can have a more peaceful experience. We can step back from the judgements and critical analysis of our intellect is constantly trying to convince us is true. Underneath the illusion called thought.

In this episode I had the honor of sitting down with the amazing Rob Cook. Rob shares his own heroes journey about his past conditioning and learning to live from the "inside out." Rob is a decorated Air Force Veteran, he is a brilliant Speaker, Host & Coach, and Founder of unFIT the brand. Born and raised in the housing projects of Birmingham, Alabama, Rob sought to create a brighter future than what awaited many young Black men who grew up there. He joined the United States Air Force, where Rob became a decorated combat veteran. After 21-years of active duty service he retired, moved to the Los Angeles area to transition into civilian life. Rob became a certified life coach through Supercoach Academy, discovering an ideal balance between the mental and physical realms in his work as a coach. As the founder of unFIT, he offers a fresh approach to thriving in the whole experience of life through coaching, training, workshops, and speaking events for start-ups, non-profit organizations, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between.

The conditioned story your mind creates about your ADHD quirks is why we suffer. It's not ADHD. ADHD is made up. It's just how your brain works. Sometimes the story created around ADHD is convincing. A convincing story made up in the moment by a machine based (brain) program. The machinery of the mind has to chime in. That's what a mind does. It does not know better. But knowing that the mind that creates the problem about our frailties is completely false. It's just thought. ADHD is not fun sometimes. The less we pay attention to the made up story we create around our ADHD silliness the less of a stranglehold it will have on our peace of mind. All of us stumble and forget and get caught up in the noise. Underneath the noise, underneath our psychology we see the made-up melodrama unfolding. The melodrama that is not us. It's not who we are. It's just thought.