The Life Stylist Podcast

This is a show about parenting, featuring not only one of my all-time favorite authors but also one of the best parents I’ve ever watched in action. When he wants to learn about, or write about something meaningful to him, he becomes quite literally obsessed, and at this stage in his life, it’s all about becoming the best father he can possibly be. Neil Strauss’s books are not only educational, hilarious, emotionally touching, but also quite addictive. Over the many years I’ve been reading them, they’ve made me laugh, cry, and change my life for the better – and no matter what he writes about, I can’t put his books down until I’ve greedily inhaled every single word. Neil co-wrote some of the best biographies of our time, but he’s best known for The Game, which follows his journey infiltrating the pickup artist subculture and learning how to be one. This segued into teaching other guys pickup artistry, which had its ups and its downs, ultimately culminating in a sequel of sorts called The Truth: An Uncomfortab

Each of us have a mission, but there’s nothing that we can do if we don’t put on our own oxygen mask first. I know, I know: the whole oxygen mask metaphor is a bit of a cliché in the self-care world, but I love it because it’s true. You might see it as an excuse to be self-centered or narcissistic, but the true gifts of life come from sharing, connection, love, and making a contribution in whatever way best serves you – and you can’t pour some of yourself into all of that if you don’t fill your own cup first! Recorded live in LA at Neil Strauss’s Society International Biohacking Intensive, this talk on self-care rituals mirrors my own journey from extreme selfishness to extreme selflessness, and ultimately finding the balance that allows me to serve others without burning out. I’m still in the process of figuring this all out, but I’ve come a long way over the past couple decades so I want to share what works for me – and what I’m still working on. Are you lying in bed stressed every night? Do you rely on foo

Some people call it circumcision. I call it male genital mutilation. In the name of being “normal, under the guise of dubious health claims, America has been waging a war on young men's bodies for decades now – but a new documentary is starting a conversation about why we’re mutilating babies, and I've been waiting for this to happen for years. Today our guest is Brendon Marotta, the director of American Circumcision. Like a lot of us, Brendon never really thought about circumcision for most of his life. It already happened and there’s nothing you can do about that, so why bother thinking about it? But this is the most common surgery in America, so it affects people on such a scale and in such a personal way that it’s crazy we aren’t thinking and talking more about it. If there was another issue that affected, in some way, almost every single person in the country – whether you’re a circumcised man, a partner, or a parent – wouldn’t we be talking about it all the time? We’re afraid to talk about it because it

Nature doesn't make mistakes – but people sure do. So today, we welcome back a listener favorite, Dr. Jack Kruse, to discuss what is quite possibly one of the biggest mistakes that humans have made in a long time: the wide-scale implementation of 5G. Dr. Kruse’s work all comes back to the idea that light, water, and magnetism are the forces of nature that make things work – and when we screw around with those things, it can seriously affect our health and the world around us. At one point in time, technology was an oasis that protected the human race from the dangers of the environment and allowed us to progress. But now we’ve abused it. Our environment is so inundated with technology, especially in big cities, that nature has become the oasis in which we can protect ourselves from the dangers of our environment. Up until now, we could protect ourselves or rejuvenate our health, to a certain extent, by living a healthy lifestyle and minimizing the crap we put into our bodies. But Jack believes that 5G is the

Today I want to help you become limitless. In this Bootleg Broadcast episode of the show, which was recorded live in LA at Neil Strauss’s Society International Biohacking Intensive, I’m going to give you every secret to mental performance I’ve learned in the past 22 years of R & D. I want to help you maximize your brain function, develop the ability to be in a flow state, enhance your creativity, uplevel your cognitive power, focus when you need to, and use your mind and brain in a way that’s optimally effective. I was forced to find tools to help me do these things because, as a wild-ass kid, I did a lot of reckless things to damage my brain. So I can’t just eat healthy fats and get good sleep and feel on point; I need a little bit of help. But through years of searching and experimentation, I’ve still managed to find a number of tools that help me accomplish all of those goals – and if you can avoid making some of the unwise decisions in the first place, I believe it can help you break through and do mo

For too many of us, our first foray into the world of spirituality comes after experiencing a deluge of unhappiness: depression, addiction, and all of the other destructive side effects that accompany a troubled mind. That was certainly how it all went down for our guest, Dr. Miles Neale – but a trip to India at the age of 20 and an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism changed the way he experienced the world, slowly but surely. Dr. Miles Neale is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers, a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy, and the author of Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human. For the last twenty years, he has trained in an authentic lineage of Tibetan Buddhism transmitted down from His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to preeminent American Buddhist scholar Professor Robert Thurman to pioneering contemplative psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Loizzo. But Dr. Neale adds a unique twist to these teachings, combining them with tr

In this episode, we discover the most effective natural treatment for depression, anxiety, insomnia, and chronic pain that you’ve probably never heard of – but that thousands of psychiatrists and primary care providers are already providing to their patients. So what is this veritable panacea for the mind? It’s the Fisher Wallace Stimulator®, a wearable neurostimulation device invented by electrical engineers in partnership with physicians and research scientists. Joining the show to teach us more about this device and why Electroconvulsive therapy treatments are so effective is Kelly Roman, co-founder of Fisher Wallace Laboratories. The Fisher Wallace Stimulator® received FDA-Clearance for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and insomnia back in 1990 under the original brand name Liss Cranial Stimulator®. By 2010, several hundred psychiatrists were prescribing the device and finding it to be effective with thousands of treatment-resistant patients. In 2015, additional clinical research was launched at Moun

This episode of The Life Stylist comes to you straight from MindBodyGreen HQ, the home of all things healthy living. Our guest and tour guide through the world of wellness is Jason Wachob, CEO of MBG. Excruciating back pain led Jason to yoga – and that opened the doors to a whole new world of physical, emotional, and spiritual health. So Jason started studying wellness science, and he realized that being healthy isn’t eating low-fat cottage cheese with Splenda every morning. Who knew? True wellness is a blend of mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and environmental wellbeing – and all of these things are interconnected! That’s why MindBodyGreen is one word, not three. You can’t meditate and eat organic all day and then throw toxic products all over your body. It just doesn't work. We get into everything from the (sometimes questionable) marketing within the wellness industry to monetizing a fulfilling passion to the questionable promotion of psychoactive drugs as a path to enlightenment. It’s a fun and ey

Human sexuality is such a mystery to most of us, especially when it comes to getting to know our own bodies and those of our partners. There is much shame and general confusion around this potentially sacred and ecstatic human experience, and as a result, our communication around this aspect of life remains vague and shrouded in mystery. In this episode, we explore our sexuality on a physical and psychological level. It's vital (and healthy) to have real, mature, open conversations about our bodies and how we use them sexually. It's also important to keep ourselves sexually fit if we expect to have a well-rounded, fulfilling sex life. For example: We exercise every muscle in our body (or we should) – so why aren’t we all exercising our genitals? Some women do Kegels, but it turns out that just clenching your muscles randomly doesn’t do anything beneficial, and men don’t have a popular genital-strengthening practice. The good news is that there are things all of us can (and should) do to stay healthy down ther

In 1973, Thomas M. Jones was working with an addiction services agency, helping the “bad kids” who went through the court system and exploring ways to help people break free from negative patterns developed in childhood. It was there he made a radical discovery.When you think of kids trying to get high, you might assume they’re all looking for an escape. But Thomas realized that this isn’t the case for many kids. They’re looking to find reality, feel like themselves again, and relieve pain.Thomas also saw firsthand that most addiction treatments available to us are ineffective, and may even exacerbate the problem. He came to understand that core problem isn’t the drugs – it’s how we’re interpreting the human condition. That’s why Thomas created The Paradox Process.The Paradox Process combines scientific evidence and meditation method into a simple protocol that engages the impulse of neurons in the brain and redirects the pathways. It is a mindfulness tool you can use to identify, communicate, and change nega

Lauren Berlingeri is a former fitness model turned integrative nutrition expert and sauna entrepreneur – and a bona fide badass. She’s taken on Navy SEAL hell night, squared off in an MMA bout, boxed at Gleason’s gym, trained with New York City firefighters, and withstood the intensity of NASCAR.But a vicious case of cystic acne pushed Lauren to explore the world of wellness. During this journey, she discovered infrared saunas – and the first time she stepped in an one was life changing. Through all her physical and nutritional training, nothing else made her feel so good or in tune with her body.Infrared saunas give you the calorie burn (and high) of a workout out while simultaneously calming your nervous system, detoxifying the body, boosting your metabolic rate, and triggering the happiness response in your brain. The result is a rejuvenating experience that leaves you feeling euphoric and healthy.The experience not only helped heal Lauren’s cystic acne, it also inspired her to open HigherDOSE, a NYC spa f

Paul Selig is a highly sought-after psychic, and one of the most respected spiritual channels in the world. He's also the first channel we've featured on the podcast.But becoming a spiritual teacher was never Paul’s intention (and he doesn’t claim to be one now). In fact, young Paul might have laughed at someone who believed in a higher power or the realm of spirit. Like many of us, he was skeptical and cynical of spirituality – until one night changed the rest of his life.After the harmonic convergence in 1987, Paul started to experience the world differently. He wanted to understand what he was experiencing so he studied a form of energy healing and, in the process, began to tap into this clairvoyant ability to “hear” for his clients.Described as “a medium for the living,” Paul has the unique ability to step into and “become” the people his clients ask about, often taking on their personalities and physical characteristics as he “hears” them telepathically. It’s mind-blowing when you see it happen live, and

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”Good ol’ Shakespeare wrote these words, perhaps not knowing how spiritually profound and necessary they would become to the hearts of those who needed to hear it.Centuries later, Luke Storey was fortunate enough to share this sentiment - and joyfully elaborate upon them - at the world-famous RA MA Institute of Kundalini Yoga in New York City.On October 27, 2018, Luke led an evening of reflection, growth, and practice at RA MA diving deep into issues like surviving profound loss, sharpening our own spiritual practice, and even dealing with social media trolls.In this episode, we’ll all get to take part in the magic of that evening in that electrifying space.   Topics Discussed In This Episode: How to identify and dissolve your blockages Surviving and navigating profound loss of a loved one How to feel love for (and see yourself in) every single person you see Entry-level love Would you rather experience love or be right? How Luke dealt with his l

It may seem impossible to stay healthy and sane in New York City, but Lily Kunin has created a new way to melt away the madness: Clean Market NYC.While Luke sat with a vitamin/mineral IV drip flowing into his arm, Lily dished out hot wellness tips and dropped valuable knowledge bombs – and the Life Stylist team was lucky enough to record their incredible conversation.Lily is a wellness expert and creator of Clean Food Dirty City, a lifestyle website and digital channel that follows a simple ethos: good food makes you feel good. Clean Market is her first brick and mortar venture, combining her passion for food with her background in health coaching and functional medicine.In this episode, Luke and Lily discuss a wide range of health challenges and solutions including gluten hangovers, the power of Vedic meditation, how to be your own doctor by educating yourself on your own biology, and how to use diet, lifestyle, and biohacking to take responsibility for your health and wellness.Take a break and plug yourself

Newsflash:You can be both spiritual and financially successful.You are not inferior just because you don’t have money.You absolutely deserve what you want, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting it.Today’s guest, Lacy Phillips, is the founder and lead editor of Free & Native, as well as a Manifestation Advisor specializing in unblocking beliefs of unworthiness and expanding into alignment with what one is desiring. In this episode, she teaches us how to manifest the things we want - and how to believe that we deserve them.Her unique formula, The Formula by Lacy Phillips™, is rooted in deep subconscious beliefs and navigating lessons from The Universe rather than widely popular “positive thinking” or “visualization” methods. The Formula™ utilizes widely accessible psychology tools and neuroplasticity, centered around creating new neural pathways for deep subconscious beliefs and navigating lessons from The Universe.Lacy teaches that the universe’s sole intention for us is to return to our most

In this episode, we dive deep into the big, scary existential questions: What is the meaning of life? Why do bad things happen to good people? Where do we go when we die? And most of all, why are we humans so full of fear so much of the time, and how can we finally free ourselves from it? Join us as we approach the human condition of fear-based living from the perspective of the ancient teachings of Kabbalah with Monica Berg, bestselling author and CCO of The Kabbalah Centre. When her second child was diagnosed with Down Syndrome shortly after his birth, Monica was forced to reevaluate her belief systems. The diagnosis led to Monica’s credo, “In change, there is great power,” and the choice to believe in the beauty and potential of who her son could become and subsequently who she could become, in the absence of fear. In this courageous and inspiring conversation, we cover some hard-to-tackle subjects like religious hypocrisy, shame, sin, parenthood, partnership, and the three types of fear (healthy, real, an

Have you spent most of your life feeling awful and beating yourself up because you can’t focus as well as you think you should, or you can’t remember all the things the world requires you to remember?You’re not alone. And you're not broken.Jim Kwik, the founder of Kwik Learning, is a widely recognized world expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, brain performance, and accelerated learning.Jim points out that there is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” memory: just a trained memory or an untrained memory. If you have issues focusing and remembering, there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with you. It’s not an IQ issue. It’s not about your intelligence. You need to train your brain. In this episode, Jim shows us how.Join us today and spend some time with Jim, and learn how to quickly and easily train your brain to learn twice as much in half the time, to release damaging ideas about your mental ability, and to unlock incredible levels of mental skill and power that you never believed you could access.It’s ea

Living in big cities is fun, convenient, and provides us with endless opportunities in life that do not exist in most rural areas. However, these benefits come at a cost.I understand that most city folk can’t just all up and move to the middle of nowhere (although that certainly sounds appealing sometimes). However, we have to do SOMETHING if we want to minimize the threats that city life poses to our health and well-being.This episode is part of an urban biohacking workshop I shared at Next Health, the health optimization center founded by our previous guest Dr. Darshan Shah. I discuss the three most significant issues we’re all dealing with and the hacks you can use to bring a little bit of nature to big city living. The topic of the evening was biohacking city life- specifically your water, and light.We evolved to live in harmony with nature, just like any other animal on this Earth. And when you look at animals in the wild, they live following solar and lunar cycles, east a diet consisting of natural, wil

The U.S. “healthcare system” is a misnomer – because, in reality, it’s a disease care system that doesn’t try to help people until they’re already sick.Frustrated with the status quo, world-renowned surgeon and anti-aging expert Dr. Darshan Shah decided to found Next|Health, where they help people live a more proactive, empowered, and healthy lifestyle, thereby minimizing the need for traditional reactive medical services.It’s pretty much a biohacker’s oasis.Having people like Dr. Shah leading the charge for alternative medicine treatment is so critical because we’re making more potentially life-changing discoveries every year than we did in a decade back in the 20th century. As the rate of growth of medical knowledge gets exponentially higher, new treatments and methodologies need to be tested, validated, and practiced by people who know what the heck they’re doing.If you want to know what these up-and-coming treatments are – and the cutting-edge technology you can start using now to level up your health – y

Many of us health enthusiasts have dropped insane amounts of money on natural products that don’t work. Carly Stein, founder of Beekeeper’s Naturals, has found some that actually do.As it turns out, bees make some incredible things. I’m not talking about wasps or yellow jackets (bees’ jerk cousins), but rather honeybees, those benevolent little insects which create propolis, pollen, royal jelly, and - of course - honey.Carly Stein grew up with a weakened immune system due to an autoimmune condition. She got sick incredibly easily and didn’t really have options; because of her condition, she couldn’t take antibiotics. Unfortunately, all of the natural treatments that she tried weren’t effective enough. As a kid, a common cold could land her in the hospital.While traveling in Italy as an adult, Carly experienced an especially awful bout of tonsillitis. Desperate for a solution, she went to a local Italian pharmacist and discovered a bee product called propolis - the first natural product that actually truly hel