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 exact

#17 - Jay Vidyarthi :: Mindfulness Activism

Mar 29th, 2017 1h 9m

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 th

#16 - Kristin Wartman Lawless :: Fighting (and Writing) Food Politics

Mar 15th, 2017 53m 18s

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,

#15 - Cousins Discuss :: Diet

Mar 8th, 2017 48m 48s

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

#14 - Kate Fehlhaber of Knowing Neurons :: Seeing More

Feb 15th, 2017 1h 1m

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.

#13 - Emily McIntyre :: Every Coffee Deserves a Home

Feb 1st, 2017 1h 17m

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 wit

#12 - 23andMe, Part 2 :: Cousins Dissect the Results

Jan 18th, 2017 1h 26m

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

#11 - Ilan Sabar :: Carving the Path

Jan 4th, 2017 1h 2m

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

#10 - Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin :: Coding Your Way to the Top

Sep 15th, 2016 45m 10s

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 indiv

#9 - Philip Soriano :: Dressing Sharp and Living Mindful

Sep 2nd, 2016 50m 45s

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

# 8 - Swami Sarvadevananda of the Vedanta Society of Southern California

Aug 4th, 2016 1h 4m

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 backgro

#7 - Steve Berke :: Social Media Influence & Ganjapreneurialism

Jul 27th, 2016 45m 10s

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

#6 - Artist Spotlight :: Matthew Logan Vasquez of Delta Spirit

Jun 14th, 2016 21m 7s

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 st

#5 - Damien Blenkinsopp :: Mr. Quantified Body

Jun 14th, 2016 58m 52s

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 Q

#4 - Andrew Hill Ph.D, UCLA Neuroscientist :: Nootropics, Meditation, and Making a Good Brain Better

Jun 14th, 2016 53m 27s

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 In

#3 - Jaime Barker of Flagpole Swim: Quality Over Everything

Jun 13th, 2016 1h 28m

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.

#2 - Jonathan Levi :: Becoming Superhuman

Jun 13th, 2016 1h 3m

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 i

#1 - Inaugural/Welcome

Jun 13th, 2016 6m 15s

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!

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