Casual Strides Radio

Pat's interview with Amanda Litman of Run for Something, the new PAC recruiting diverse, progressive Millennials to run for state and local office. If you're feeling like a lone wanderer in the post-Trumpocalypse, Run for Something may be exactly what you've been looking for. Keywords: Progressive, Millennial, local elections, local politics

Ryan chats with Jay Vidyarthi, head of UX for the Muse: the brain sensing headband. Jay talks about his involvement with Muse, with Sonic Cradle, as well as his own personal design philosophy, and what he dubs mindfulness activism. Naturally the guys talk about their favorite music as well.   Keywords: mindfulness, meditation, design, UX, user experience, design, human-centered design

Journalist and author Kristin Wartman Lawless joins us this week to talk about her upcoming book, Formerly Known as Food, and her other work at the intersections of food, politics, health, and culture.  We also get into the process of planning, pitching, and writing a non-fiction book.   Keywords: Food, food politics, food choice, industrial agriculture, authorship, book writing.

Ryan and Pat lay out the highest-level overview of the Casual Strides approach to diet, sharing their personal experiences with ketogenic diets, paleo, cyclical fasting, and other ways of eating.   Keywords: Ketosis, ketogenic, paleo, ancestral, fasting, high-fat, microbiome, n=1

Pat got the chance to talk with UCLA neuroscientist Kate Fehlhaber, the founder of the award-winning website Knowing Neurons, about her research, the website, and even her photography. Dig it.

Emily McIntyre is a co-founder of single-origin coffee startup Crema.co, as well as a coffee consultant, a journalist, a marketer, a musician, a novelist, and more.  Emily Skyped in from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a wide-ranging conversation with Pat, starting off with coffee and Crema, but wandering far and wide. There's a little something for everyone, here--enjoy, folks.

This episode is a pow-wow between two cousins as we run through the basics on what to expect from your 23andMe results and the 23andMe interface, some of our familial similarities and interesting findings, and basics on how to navigate the data from here for best results.

Wake up. Brush your teeth. Coffee. To the car or train. 9-5. Rinse and repeat. This is safe, comfortable, and secure. We're conditioned for safety, it's hardwired in our lizard brain, can't fault us for that. But it's the risk takers and thrill seekers that find a better way. A freer way. Ilan Sabar ditched his cushy gig at HP to start his own electric skateboard company, Metroboard Skateboards. He enjoys a bit of risk in his life and so do those who hit 20MPH on his boards. 

There should have been a better way to learn how to code, entrepreneurs Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin say. But there wasn't. So they came up with one. The result: the now ubiquitous multi-week or month developer bootcamp, during which individuals with little to no technology background can learn the skills required to become entry-level developers, whether that's to get a job in the field or to bring a technology-based business idea of one's own to life.

Philip Soriano is one of the co-founders and the Director of Customer Experience for the disruptive men's lifestyle brand Hugh & Crye.  We covered the origins of the brand and their unique sizing model, business advice, fashion advice, and then we got deep, spending a lot of time on meditation and mindfulness.   Tags:  Entrepreneurship, menswear, disruptive fashion, meditation, mindfulness.

Swami Sarvadevananda is the minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of Southern California and a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, one of the largest and most respected religious orders in India today. We touch on the background of Vedanta, the Perennial Philosophy, meditation, and applying these principles in the modern world.

Steve Berke is the founder & CEO of BANG Digital Media, a digital media marketing company connecting brands in the legal marijuana industry to social media influencers.  Appropriately enough, it's been a long, strange trip for Steve, with stops in sports, comedy, social media, politics, and entrepreneurship.  We covered all that and more when Steve got on the show. Tags:  Legal marijuana, ganjapreneur, digital marketing, social media

You may know Matt foremost as the raspy, energetic frontman behind roots turned alt-rock outfit Delta Spirit, as well as his work with John Mccauley (Deer Tick), and Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) in their supergroup-of-sorts, Middle Brother. Matt stops by for a quick episode in promotion of his newly released solo record "Solicitor Returns"under the moniker Matthew Logan Vasquez.

Damien Blenkinsopp is host of the Quantified Body podcast and he's got a killer lineup of the most progressive experts pushing the cutting edge of what we know about our ability to hack and monitor our physiology with data and technology. The Quantified Body introduces the cutting-edge, tactical ways in which we can collect, harness, and optimize data and personal biometrics related to health, performance, and longevity. The Quantified Body dives deep into things like ketosis, glucose regulation, microbiome optimization, genetic testing, aging biomarkers, and a whole load of progressive and super impactful ways to take a personal stake in tracking, monitoring, and optimizing your health.  

Dr. Andrew Hill is a UCLA trained cognitive neuroscientist and progressive expert in the field of clinical brain training, neurofeedback, and shaping the brain for peak performance. Dr. Hill is also the founder and director of the Peak Brain Institute in Los Angeles, and head neuroscientist over at nootropic blend company, TruBrain. Dr. Hill has been featured on the Joe Rogan Experience, Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey and the Dr. Drew show.

Jaime Barker is the co-founder of NYC based, designer-inspired women's athleisure swimwear brand, Flagpole Swim. Flagpole Swim has been featured in Vogue, Elle, Glamour, and the illustrious New York Fashion Week.

Jonathan Levi is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and life hacker born and raised in Silicon Valley. Since 2014, Jonathan has been one of the top­ performing instructors on online learning platform Udemy, and has snowballed this success into the launch of his rapidly growing information products company, SuperHuman Enterprises, which produces such products as the top­ rated Becoming SuperHuman Podcast; the bestselling "Become a SuperLearner" print, digital, and audiobooks; and numerous other online courses through it's own online training portal, SuperLearner Academy. He is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

What is Casual Strides all about? What can we expect? Your host Ryan Kearns drops a hello and a few shout-outs to those who came up big via KickStarter support!