Let's Start Here: The Art of Changing the World

You haven’t heard from us in three weeks. Let me explain why, and tell you about what you’ll be hearing from LSH in the weeks ahead....

If you’ve been listening to the podcast all year, you’ve heard Jerry talk about the work he’s been doing with resistance bands. He’s mentioned several times that he’s bee...

A few days before we recorded this episode, I watched the final few holes of the final round of the Masters golf tournament. As I watched, I found myself thinking that what was most notable about this...

Earlier this spring, I was facing a few major transitions. The end of ski season meant I’d soon be out of a job, which meant both that my daily patterns would change and also that I would need t...

Sometimes we find ourselves deeply blocked about things we know we really should do. When that happens, what do we do? How do we deal with blocks that seem to persist in our behavior despite strong in...

A few weeks ago, Jerry reached out and said that he wanted to do an episode on cancel culture, that he thought there were aspects about that debate that are relevant to the work we do. In his view, th...

Therapist and friend of the show Jenn Cullom reached out after Jerry and I spoke of our reservations about therapy in a couple of episodes earlier this year. She felt our characterizations about thera...

The process of change isn’t comfortable. Our comfort zone is the place we already are, and to change ourselves requires leaving that comfort zone. In this episode, we talk about some areas in wh...

It’s our second COVID spring, but this year at the equinox, there is reason to feel hope for the new world that we are building. The vernal equinox is a good time to reflect on hope: springtime,...

Jerry got his first vaccine shot and found that it brought up a lot of interesting feelings. We start our conversation this week by talking about those feelings, and from there range into topics as va...

In this episode, we revisit the practice of RPE, with particular attention towards what we should do when the experiences of our lives take us beyond the zone of moderation into levels of stress that ...

The impending anniversary of the COVID Zero Day, March 12th, got me thinking that it’s been a while since I talked about my personal, physical experience as a COVID survivor. That day, when ever...

In the least surprising political event of 2021 so far, the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump of the charge of inciting a mob to attack the Capitol Building. My question is this: should I even bothe...

At the beginning of February, Benjamin participated in a ski clinic at Angel Fire, NM. He found the experience so enlivening that it led him to this thesis: that any coach who is not him- or herself a...

A couple of weeks ago on A Better Story, I spoke of reaching a new bottom line with respect to the podcast: that I would no longer work on the podcast on deadline day. Now that I’ve had a little...

A friend of the show sent me an article that describes the rapidity with which COVID mutates, and it seems now that the best available evidence points to COVID mutating–or, more accurately, evol...

For the first time on LSH/RFB, we are joined by a guest. Michael Gurshtein is a dear friend of mine and a friend of LSH since the very beginning. On January 6th, as I was still reeling from the events...

In this wide-ranging conversation, Jerry and Benjamin discuss such topics as trusting the vision that drives us forward on the path, what it means to be a master, and the importance of maintaining beg...

On Tuesday night, I set a new bottom line for myself with respect to work on the podcast, and in doing so–and meaning it!–I discovered a surprising and exhilirating feeling of freedom. In ...

I was on a long drive, musing about why it is that, notwithstanding the constant stress all of us have been under for the last eleven months, most people seem to be doing … okay. Most people see...

With their vote on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s impeachment trial, 45 Senate Republicans made it clear that they were going to vote to acquit Trump no matter what. Was it...

Enter our episode, child, for herein lie reflections on the recent ceremony that installed in our great nation a new, and perhaps even decent, leader; on the myriad feelings engendered by said ceremon...

In this episode, Benjamin tells us the way he’s practicing optimism about 2021....

Benjamin’s reflexive response to a passage in a book he was reading led him to acknowledge the depth of trauma that he (and, by extension, probably pretty much everyone) has internalized around ...

In which the theme of how certain changes in our lives demand us to take on a new identity, and for a story illustrative of this theme I chose the recording of the episode itself. Very meta....

Jerry and Benjamin discuss the events of January 6th and their broader implications in society. We identify the crisis we’re facing as primarily spiritual rather than political and talk about ho...

On January 6th, 2021, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, incited a mob of his followers to storm the US Capitol building, and in doing so justified the existence of Radio Free Benjam...

Great job, LSH family, we made it: 2021. Happy New Year. It’s the first episode of 2021, and we’re off to a flying start. The major theme of this episode is how to thrive in this time of c...

The winter solstice is always a special day. It is the energetic new year, and its energy requests of us a period of reflection and repose. This year’s solstice is especially interesting because...

Back in September, on the autumnal equinox, I released an episode in which I reflected on the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and what her death might mean for the country. I promised more episod...

Jerry shares his first experiences with working out at home, we follow that thread into talk about the need for change, and then discuss shifting our language and framing in order to set the foundatio...

In this A Better Story episode, Benjamin recounts a couple of experiences from Taos Ski Valley’s opening day, and shares how a shift in perspective changed his relationship to those experiences....

In this episode, Jerry and I discuss the vaccine, the future of workout and gym culture, and the way forward for the work we do. We admit some ways we’ve been resisting the present moment, and s...

Part 2 of our conversation about politics, change and despair....

In this episode, we talk about our feelings around and conclusions about the election and what it says about our society. Part 1 of 2....

2020 has been a difficult year in which to practice gratitude, don’t you think? Nevertheless, practicing gratitude serves us well. In this short episode, Benjamin shares some things he is gratef...

In the three weeks since the election, we’ve struggled to figure out exactly what to say. Now that Biden has won the election, we want to put our energy … where, exactly? This episode is a...

Been a while, hasn’t it? In this short episode, Benjamin explains what caused the long silence, talks about what’s coming in LSH land in the near future, and talks about dealing with anxie...

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg left Benjamin reeling. In this short episode, he talks about the soul-searching he’s done in the days since her death, and concludes that the only healthy way fo...

The stress just keeps getting more intense, doesn’t it? We’re facing relentlessly overwhelming circumstances in our world. In this episode, we discuss what we can do to navigate that overw...

Last week, we revisted the centered breath, but we acknowledged that centered breathing during this time of travail might bring up challenging emotions. This week, we discuss how to leverage the cente...

In our last episode, we made the bold contention that, at this time of turmoil and impulse toward change, the most revolutionary thing you can do is to come to the present moment again and again via t...

What made George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the police different from the deaths of so many others, such that it caused massive protests around the country and around the world as well? What...

Many times over the years, and increasingly so since I’ve been doing this podcast, people have told me that my voice is soothing. A surprising number of people over the years have said to me, &q...

Many times over the years, and increasingly so since I’ve been doing this podcast, people have told me that my voice is soothing. A surprising number of people over the years have said to me, &q...

A bout of struggle and resistance took me into the woods on a hike, and out there I discovered a falseness in my current approach to this work. This short episode is my first attempt to speak from a p...

As this summer progresses, we are being tasked with dealing with new challenges concerning the pandemic and the current political situation. In this episode, we discuss those latest challenges and how...

Hey, so did you hear about this comet, Comet NEOWISE? Let’s talk about Comet NEOWISE....

Benjamin describes five recent experiences–one on his mountain bike, four on the tennis court–that express his recent successes and travails on the path towards greater flow and the deep c...

In Part 2 of Catching Up, we discuss the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests, the potential for change that these protests imply, and also the fear that is becoming ever more prevalent ...