Walking Each Other Home with Mirabai Bush

Bill Duane & Elizaveta Solomonova PhD join Mirabai for a chat about the intersection of ancient Buddhist wisdom and cutting-edge A.I. technology.

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Bill Duane blends 12 years at Google and 10 years of consulting experience in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, telecom and media with studies in neuroscience, team effectiveness, mindfulness and the latest in well-being science. Elizaveta Solomonova PhD is an interdisciplinary cognitive scientist focusing on sleep, dreaming, contemplative studies and social neuroscience, who teaches Psychiatry at McGill University. Together they are integrating Buddhist Philosophy, Cognitive Science, & Artificial Life at The Center for the Study of Apparent Selves hosted by Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies.

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Hawaiian spiritual leaders and musicians, Lei'ohu Ryder and Maydeen 'Iao join Mirabai to talk Ram Dass and share blessings of Aloha from Maui.

Lei‘ohu Ryder is a Hawaiian spiritual leader, visionary, singer/songwriter, healer, and educator. Along with her partner Maydeen ‘Iao, they are Kumu Aloha (emissaries of aloha) and advocates for the Indigenous Soul in all people. Their love and knowledge of Hawai‘i, help us connect with our selves, with Spirit, and the essence of Aloha. They offer their services, in person, on Maui, in Hawai'i, and online through blessings, music, public speaking, intensives, counseling, healing work, wedding ceremonies, and funeral services... all with Aloha. Lei'ohu's talents and knowledge are honored and acknowledged throughout her extended Global Ohana. She has received the Gandhi-King Peace Hero Award, the Peace Educator Award from the United Nations, the Woman of Honor Award from Women's History Month, the Educator Award from the Peace Corps, and the Malama Ka'Aina Award from the Sierra Club. Lei'ohu and Maydeen have shared the legacy teachings of Aloha throughout Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and North America. More info: LeiohuRyder.com

"Lei'ohu and Maydeen created the vessel of Aloha spirit at the beginning and ending of each five-day retreat, allowing us to absorb the Spirit of Aloha while we were meditating, doing yoga, listening to Ram Dass, and chanting with Krishna Das. It was all held in Aloha. They made that gift to us" – Mirabai Bush

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Dr. Angel Acosta joins Mirabai to share about the healing-centered work he offers at the intersection of social justice, mindfulness, and wholeness.

Dr. Angel Acosta works to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice & mindfulness. He completed his Ed.D. in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University with research exploring healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development and community care. As a member of the 400 Years of Inequality Project, he designed the Contemplating 400 Years of Inequality Experience to support communities with understanding structural inequality through a mindfulness-based and contemplative approach. He is Director of Garrison Institutes Fellowship Program and serves as Creative Director of the NYC Healing Collective. More info: DrAngelAcosta.com

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Mirabai Bush welcomes Iris Brilliant for a conversation about her work as a money coach and how she helps people align their wealth with social justice. 

Iris Brilliant is a social justice money coach based in Berkeley, CA. Her life mission is to support people with wealth to move money to social justice and to transform how we relate to power, belonging, self-worth, and community along the way. Iris is a certified Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), via the Co-Active Training Institute. She is also a donor advisor at Movement Voter Project, where she supports major donors to fund grassroots organizations in swing states. Read more about her work at www.irisbrilliant.com. 

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Elizabeth Lesser joins Mirabai to discuss women and power, activism and innervism, Ram Dass and Mckenna, redefining heroes, and recognizing care economy women as first-first responders.

Elizabeth Lesser is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. A student of the Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan for many years, Elizabeth has written Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, Marrow: Love, Loss, and What Matters Most, among many transformative titles around health and healing. Elizabeth is the cofounder of Omega’s Women’s Leadership Center and is one of Oprah's SuperSoul 100. For more info please visit ElizabethLesser.org

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Mirabai Bush welcomes Rhonda V. Magee for a conversation around the importance of narrative in social justice, the connection between love and justice, and much more. 

Rhonda V. Magee is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersections of anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices. She is an internationally-recognized innovator, storyteller, thought and practice leader on integrating Mindfulness into Higher Education, Law and Social Justice, and author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness. Learn more about Rhonda at rhondavmagee.com.

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Dr. Larry Brilliant joins Mirabai Bush to share wisdom about public and spiritual health, eradicating smallpox in India, the miracle of Maharajji, and the centripetal force of love.

Dr. Larry Brilliant has engaged with some of the most prominent thought leaders, spiritual masters, heroes, and icons in the world, including Neem Karoli Baba, Martin Luther King, Jr., Steve Jobs, Mikhail Gorbachev, Wavy Gravy, the Grateful Dead, the Dalai Lama, and Barack Obama. His life’s journey across continents has resulted in the direct involvement of some of the most significant medical, spiritual, and social achievements of the past century: the eradication of smallpox in India, curing blindness in over 4 million people, introducing Maharajji's teachings to the Woodstock Generation, and launching Google’s philanthropic enterprises, and more, outlined in his book, Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History. For more info, please visit LarryBrilliant.com

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Mirabai Bush welcomes Bidisha Banerjee to share stories of the Ganga River, which invite us into the re-enchantment and allyship of devotional ecology with our environment’s sacred landscapes.

Bidisha Banerjee has been fascinated with the Ganga ever since she pretended, as a child, that the Kolkata municipal bathwater was Gangajal. Trained in ethnicity, race, and migration and climate change policy at Yale, she started following India’s “dirty, sacred river” from its source to the sea in 2009. A former program and curriculum director for the Dalai Lama Fellows, and now a somatic leadership coach, she lives with her family in Oakland, California, the midpoint between her two homes–Kolkata and Kansas. Her first book, Superhuman River: Stories of the Ganga, was published by Aleph Book Company in 2020. For more information, please visit Bidisha-Banerjee.com

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The iconic drummer of The Doors, John Densmore, kicks off the first episode of the Walking Each Other Home Podcast with poetry, music and stories that encourage us to redirect our hearts towards love.

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