In today's set episode I sit down with reoccurring guest (and friend of the show) the one and only Dwight Hurst. Dwight is a gifted psychotherapist who has worked in the mental health field since 1999, in hospitals, residential programs, and outpatient clinics. Dwight and I share the importance of staying in the conversation about the gift of thought and thinking and how it can point us in the direction of wisdom and presence or (if we innocently get caught up in our dystopic thinking) temporarily sabotage our peace of mind.

In this episode we look at the relationship between the quality of our thinking (in the moment) and having a high speed and sensitive neurodiverse ADHD mind. There is real peace of mind when we really start to see the loud, intrusive, panicky thoughts for what it is (noise) and we stop caring when those loud panicky thoughts show up that feel real. Especially when the brain innocently blames outside situations on our temporary distorted state of mind). We begin to have good will for ourselves again when we trust we are always being taken care if we trust in the divine intelligence behind life underneath the noise of our neural appliance called the brain.

Sometimes the conversation is so important and powerful that it requires two parts. I had the unique opportunity to chat with @moshegersht Moshe Gersht, talmudic scholar, spiritual teacher, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best Selling author of the book, It's All the Same To Me. For over a decade Moshe has had the blessing of connecting with some of the greatest minds, learning the treasures of profound Torah wisdom, and experiencing the light and love of Kabbalah and Chasidus. Moshe and I dive deep into the understanding of the human psyche and the innate intelligence and wisdom that lies underneath our concept driven world of make believe created by our personal mind.

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.

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?