The Finding Zen Podcast
Twelve conversations. Twelve words. Each one a thing you already knew how to live, and forgot.
The series
The Finding Zen podcast is a one-word series. Each episode takes a single word and a single guest, and follows it all the way down. Here is the full season, in the order it aired. Start anywhere. They build on each other.
Episode 01 · with Jeremy Nickel
How VR, AI, and psychedelic-assisted work can become real containers for presence and healing, with the overview effect as the north star.
"These aren't real people, but they're real people."
Episode 02 · with Sarko Gergerian
A police lieutenant and therapist makes the case for moving policing from a prison pipeline to a public-health one, and for healing the people who carry the badge.
"If you know and you're a part of the system, you're on the hook to help."
Episode 03 · with Claudia Nannino
From rock bottom to conscious breathwork. Daily practice reframed as devotion rather than discipline, with the body's frequency as the compass.
"Devotion feels like love from the heart. Discipline can feel more rigid."
Episode 04 · with Jason Gore
A CEO coach and adventurer connects high-stakes decisions to aligned living, landing on a near-drowning where surrender, not struggle, created presence.
"Trying got in the way of presence and awareness."
Episode 05 · with Dr Christine Smith
Brain-wave states, the cell danger response, and a foundation-first order of operations. You cannot supplement your way out of a dysregulated nervous system.
"You cannot out-supplement a brain state."
Episode 06 · with Yovel Peretz
An Israeli special-forces veteran on safety, self-reliance, and a definition of legacy measured in lives changed, not things owned.
"If you change one person's life, you change the whole world."
Episode 07 · with Bu Nan Brown
Attachment, conflict, grief, and tea, all read through the regulated body. Connection is felt before it is thought.
"The pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional."
Episode 08 · with Orange Peel
Singing, play, and novelty as practical nervous-system medicine. Most people are not short on joy, just short on permission.
"Most people aren't lacking joy. They're lacking permission to access it."
Episode 09 · with Devon Kerns
Meet the new era, and the new tools, with childlike play instead of fear. A regulated body asks better questions.
"Most people aren't lacking answers. They're just moving too fast to hear themselves."
Episode 10 · with Erin Weed
One word can run your whole life. Finding it is remembering the self you came in with, not inventing a new one.
"It's less about being a brand and more about remembering who you already are."
Episode 11 · with Robert McNaughton
Insight is cheap. Growth is the gap between knowing and acting, closed. The avoided conversation is the costly one.
"The most expensive thing for an entrepreneur is the conversation that they're not having."
Episode 12 · with Tyler Martin
When the old map dies, faith is what lets you keep walking and build the next one. Trust connects, faith holds, imagination builds.
"Trust is built through presence, one moment at a time."
Finding Zen is where everyday moments become sacred. Take a breath, settle in, and hear what presence has to say.