The Michael Ostrolenk Show Michael Ostrolenk
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Podcast by Michael Ostrolenk
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Gloria Celeste on the Vipassana experience and Alternative Living Solutions
Today's guest is Gloria Celeste, CEO & Founder of Lavender Moon Spaces.
Bio:
With 10 years of experience in real estate, sales and construction management, Gloria combined her passion for altnertative living with real world solutions. Beginning with her successful business, Lavender Moon Spaces, she built off-grid van and bus conversions for 5 years before re-branding and launching the business as a New Earth Agency to offer alternative living solutions to her community.
Links:
lavendermoonspaces.com
IG: lavendermoonspaces
https://www.instagram.com/lavendermoonspaces?igsh=YWowd291aDEwcXRx&utm_source=qr
TIMELINE
0:00 Introductions, Gloria discusses her experience during a recent Vipassana retreat
14:09 Michael asks Gloria to describe further the relationship between emotion and sensations in the body
28:00 Gloria gives some examples of the impact of and benefit of the Vipassana retreat
35: 20 Gloria discusses her sustainable home business, lavender spaces. Minimalism/nomadic life, starting custom van-life business
45:38 Michael asks Gloria to describe various types of alternative living situations
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI -
Max Borders On Our Possible Future
Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.
I would like to welcome back Max Borders, a Futurist, author, and speaker who lives in Austin, TX. His books include “After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals “, “ The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse” and “The Decentralist: Mission, Morality, and Meaning in the Age of Crypto”
TIMELINE
0:00 Life Force Sponsor Information
1:33 Introduction / What is a Futurist, and what are the two primary threads of Futurism?
10:30 How did this approach to life develop for you, what were your influences?
15:29 Can you walk us through some of the challenges you feel we’re facing, and how these can be understood as opportunities?
21:12 Michael and Max get into a discussion about the balance between local power and the risk of it being easily captured.
27:19 Max discusses examples of how technology can rapidly shift power, through examples like Uber and Bitcoin.
40:42 Michael invites Max to share about the breadth of what he’s written about and also how viewers can connect more with his work if they’re interested in learning more about it. Max also shares some of what he’s learned from Vedic traditions, including the conviction that we should not look to derive our morality from politics.
We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI -
JC & MO Crucible Challenge #8: Sandbag Shoulder shred
JC & MO Crucible Challenge #8: Sandbag Shoulder shred by Michael Ostrolenk
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JC & MO Crucible Challenge #7: 5 x 5 Breath
JC & MO Crucible Challenge #7: 5 x 5 Breath by Michael Ostrolenk
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JC & MO Crucible Challenge #6: No Joy
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JC & MO Crucible Challenge #5: Gratitude Practice
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