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The Commune Podcast is where we explore the ideas and practices that help us live healthy, connected, purpose-filled lives. Each week host Jeff Krasno speaks with teachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, and storytellers on topics related to personal and societal well-being — from nutrition and integrative medicine to spirituality and personal growth to environmental regeneration and civic engagement. In addition to being a podcast, Commune is also an online course platform with more than 100 full-length video courses with top teachers such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Mark Hyman, Adriene Mishler, and many others.
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What if love isn't about sacrifice and limitation, but is actually the thing that sets you free? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diego Perez, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and meditator known as Yung Pueblo, to talk about his book How to Love Better. Diego shares how hitting rock bottom sent him from self-deception toward self-love, and how thousands of hours in silent Vipassana retreats reshaped the way he shows up for his wife, Sara. Drawing on Buddhist ideas like impermanence and the Brahmaviharas, they explore what it takes to build a relationship that feels less like a limitation and more like a home. Why self-love begins with radical honesty A simple morning habit that heads off unnecessary fights What shifts when you stop arguing to win The subtle line between clinging and closeness Why commitment might be the most liberating thing in your life This episode is for anyone who wants a relationship rooted in understanding rather than control, and for anyone curious how a meditation practice can change the way they love. Diego's new book, Journey: The Year That Changes Everything, a year of daily reflections on self-awareness and inner peace, is out Nov 10. Originally released in 2025. This episode was made possible by: Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order.
Jeff Krasno spent years driving his family through the most terrifying stretch of I-95 there is: the dark part after New Haven. His daughter remembers it as the safest she ever felt.In this episode, Jeff recounts the family's white-knuckle night drives to a Connecticut cottage — deer carcasses, wobbly 18-wheelers, and a car full of sleeping kids lulled out by Schuyler's New Yorker readings — and the moment nearly 20 years later when his daughter's heartfelt dinner-table tribute gets undercut by his own internal monologue about exactly how he was driving.This is the sixteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.
Every cell in your body holds an electrical charge, and Wade Lightheart says most of the fatigue, pain, and brain fog people chalk up to aging is really a battery running low on potassium, not a diet problem. In this episode, Jeff talks with Wade, co-founder of BiOptimizers and a former Mr. Universe competitor, about the sodium-potassium pump that powers every muscle contraction and nerve signal in the body, and why replenishing it can change how you feel in under an hour. Why your muscles work more like a battery than an engine, and what that changes about how you think about fatigue The sodium-potassium pump: the exchange happening inside every cell, all day, whether you notice it or not Why potassium, not sodium, is the electrolyte most people are actually running short on What happens when the charge "drains" — the dull ache, brain fog, and pain people mistake for aging Real stories of what happens within 60 minutes of restoring that charge This episode is for anyone who's felt inexplicably drained, in pain, or foggy and assumed it was just age — and for anyone curious what's really happening inside their cells. This episode was made possible by: BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.
Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often. When he finally does, on a bridge in Paris thirty years after he and Schuyler first fell for the city — and each other — her face tells him exactly why that's true. In this episode, a family return trip becomes a quiet reckoning with time: a street puppeteer's tiny wooden tragedy, a line of Blake Jeff can't shake, and a marriage that's carried thirty years and three daughters without losing the thing that started it. Their eldest, Phoebe, has already staked her own claim on the city — proof that some things don't get relived so much as passed on. This is the fifteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. This episode was made possible by: Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order.
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau turns this conversation with Jeff into a question most of us don't ask directly: what do we actually pass down to our kids, and what can we choose not to? Sophie, a mental health advocate, author, and former first partner of Canada, draws on attachment theory to explain how the bond we form with a caregiver in our first years quietly runs how we raise our own kids, unless we do something about it. Secure, anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized attachment, and how each style shows up in parenting Why explicit parenting advice rarely lands, and what kids absorb from us instead How chronic stress hijacks the nervous system's ability to trust, in parents and kids alike Screens as a substitute attachment object, and what that actually displaces What actually breaks generational cycles of trauma and addiction This episode is for any parent thinking about the emotional inheritance they're passing down. Want more parenting conversations like this one? Check out our Dance Dads series, new episodes every Tuesday. This episode was made possible by: Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order.
Jet-lagged and wandering solo through Paris's Latin Quarter, Jeff slips through an unmarked blue door and stumbles into a hidden courtyard mid street-party — wine, a stranger's guitar, a dance circle pulling in everyone within reach. The next day, he can't find it again. In this episode, Jeff traces that one improbable night — the shrine to Sainte Geneviève, the sing-along, the bejeweled stranger who hands him a bottle of Bordeaux, pulling him into the dance — and the fruitless afternoon spent retracing his steps with his daughters through a maze of identical alleys. Along the way, he lands on a truth his daughter Lolli taught him years earlier, after losing an osprey's nest in the marsh grass outside their beach cottage: some things reveal themselves exactly once, and chasing them a second time only proves the point. This is the fourteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. This episode was made possible by: CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.
Can artificial intelligence ever be conscious? Michael Pollan says no, and at the Harvest Series in Kaplankaya, he lays out exactly why, starting with what he calls a faulty metaphor: the idea that the brain is a computer. Jeff and Pollan dig into consciousness science, plant sentience, and the psychedelic research that shaped Pollan's thinking, then turn to AI, chatbots, and what happens when people mistake simulation for feeling. The neuroscience case against AI consciousness, and why feelings may require a body, mortality, and the ability to suffer Plant sentience explained: what it means for a plant to sense, evaluate, and act, without being "conscious" The 22 competing theories of consciousness, and why they all hit the same wall Why the upper brainstem, not the cortex, may be where consciousness actually begins The rise of "AI psychosis" and why 72% of American teens now turn to AI for companionship This episode is for anyone following the AI consciousness debate who wants the case laid out by someone who's spent years studying the real science. This episode was made possible by: CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.
Dante reserved his ninth circle for traitors, frozen for eternity. Jeff reserves it for competition dads who risk a bathroom break and miss their daughter's 90-second routine. In this episode, Jeff catalogs the special purgatory of the competition dance dad — the 5:30 a.m. wake-ups, the backstage snack runs, the UTI he'd rather get than miss a lyrical solo — until his daughters take the stage and, for four minutes, all of it makes sense. This is the thirteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at onecommune.com/dancedad. This episode was made possible by: LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD CocoaVia: Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com
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