Speaker 1: Wine down with Jane Kramer and I heard radio podcast. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to hurt Mark's feelings. Mark, How did
Speaker 1: I hurt your feelings? I got a text from Easton
Speaker 1: saying are you coming on a wine down? And I said, no,
Speaker 1: you know I can't. I was with with Mr Seacrest,
Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest always always well we can negotiate that everything. No, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no, there's no way there. Okay. But Easton said,
Speaker 1: Jane is actually happy you're not on because Ian's on,
Speaker 1: and she says she's not ready for you the first time.
Speaker 1: Maybe next time I can have a few moments with you.
Speaker 1: That's fair here, It's like you're my dad, Well let's
Speaker 1: give it some time. Protective of you. So yes, I
Speaker 1: asked him questions for him. I need to know his
Speaker 1: intentions and didn't even know that he is a good person.
Speaker 1: That's Funny's I mean that was literally like my dad
Speaker 1: because the other day I was on the I do
Speaker 1: my like FaceTime calls when I'm on the treadmill, and
Speaker 1: so I'll call my dad then and my mom and
Speaker 1: whoever else I haven't talked to in a while, and
Speaker 1: and my Dad's like I would like to have some
Speaker 1: time to sit down with your boyfriend since I don't
Speaker 1: know him. And I was just like, well, I mean
Speaker 1: then whenever you want to come to Nashville, like let
Speaker 1: me know, you know. So it's like, it's just that
Speaker 1: make you nervous. It doesn't take you back to like,
Speaker 1: you know, high school or bringing home a guy for
Speaker 1: the first time. No, I don't think my dad cared. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: like there was one time that he was like he
Speaker 1: told uh no, Brian Barnes, that was my first date.
Speaker 1: That were that there's T and T in the car,
Speaker 1: drive like there's T and T in the car like explosive,
Speaker 1: And I remember being like, okay, Dad, So that doesn't
Speaker 1: sound very protective. But he's not that He's not gonna
Speaker 1: interrogate a boyfriend. He's not going to make it uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for you and that sort of No, he just would
Speaker 1: will ask like, you know, questions. But I don't think
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I know that you would be
Speaker 1: I think I know you would like Ian once if
Speaker 1: you like sat down with him, But I don't know
Speaker 1: if podcasting say thing. You know, he's a little he's
Speaker 1: a little shy. But I found that endearing. I thought
Speaker 1: his shyness was endearing, and that came across on the
Speaker 1: podcast that he was just out of his element, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was sweet. Yeah, he's just this is
Speaker 1: just like not his thing, and that he would do
Speaker 1: it for you. It was well, he love he once
Speaker 1: he knew that Andrew and Seawan were coming on because
Speaker 1: they're obviously all friends, Like he was pumped about it,
Speaker 1: but I don't think like and I think that's cool,
Speaker 1: Like I like that we have different interests and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, no pressure, like you don't have to, but
Speaker 1: well I can. I could hear his nervousness because I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what he was doing exactly. But when I
Speaker 1: was listening back to the episode and editing it, I
Speaker 1: had to do a lot of effort because he was
Speaker 1: doing like a he was something to the microphone that
Speaker 1: I had to remove the entire episode. He was doing
Speaker 1: something with his finger own. But that was kind of sweet.
Speaker 1: We probably should have given him this one. Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: easier because he had the handheld and it was all like,
Speaker 1: I've never had a microphone. It's like here, here was
Speaker 1: a microphone. That's kind of that was that was mean,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, it's okay. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like the I like that and things are good.
Speaker 1: Is there any update to be shared? Any update to
Speaker 1: be shared? Um? I did have a moment yesterday, not
Speaker 1: with him, but just like I had to bring Jolie
Speaker 1: give I had to bring Jolie to Mike and we
Speaker 1: had met in like a parking lot to exchange the
Speaker 1: kids or whatever. And I think it was because I
Speaker 1: had no sleep. I slept in bed with Jolie, which
Speaker 1: was like a huge mistake. M sleeping with your child
Speaker 1: is like, I mean, she kicked me the entire night.
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep at all, Like I was exhausted. Um,
Speaker 1: but I I don't know. I just had like a
Speaker 1: moment because I'm about to go on a vacation, and
Speaker 1: a part of me was like I want my family
Speaker 1: to go on the vacation, like my kids are coming
Speaker 1: with me, but I'm like, I want my family to
Speaker 1: go on vacation. And then I started like when I
Speaker 1: left them, I just started like bawling in the car.
Speaker 1: And then I talked to a girl who I actually
Speaker 1: met on an old wine down tour. Her husband had
Speaker 1: cheated and we just like have stayed friends and so
Speaker 1: I reached out to her and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm having a moment where it's like I miss my family,
Speaker 1: but I'm like I don't want to, like I know
Speaker 1: it needs to look different now, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: and like I almost I almost had a text message
Speaker 1: and Mike saying this is really hard, like I wish
Speaker 1: I don't want this, and I didn't like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have wanted it this way, and you know, I would
Speaker 1: have loved for all to like go to the beach together,
Speaker 1: but I'm like that's just not like the reality. So
Speaker 1: I think it was just like I had one of
Speaker 1: those moments where like this is just hard. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get that. So it's just it's you and the girls,
Speaker 1: or is the income. Well know, Ian's going to and
Speaker 1: he's taking his daughter, and so it's just it's like
Speaker 1: a first you know, and it's like it's a it's
Speaker 1: a modern family. It's just kind of a different definition
Speaker 1: of family, right. Yeah. And then I felt bad because
Speaker 1: I came home and he obviously saw that I was
Speaker 1: like crying, and he was like are you okay, And
Speaker 1: I was like, well I don't. And so then I
Speaker 1: was just like I think I'm just really tired, and
Speaker 1: then I kept kind of crying and then he was like,
Speaker 1: will you please talk to me. I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hurt your feelings because you know, to me,
Speaker 1: it's like but then I finally told him. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just like I I would love my family, and like,
Speaker 1: it's not that I want Mike there, because I don't
Speaker 1: want Mike there, but it's like, you know, Jolie asked
Speaker 1: a bunch of questions, why can't Daddy come and like,
Speaker 1: and so it's like, I'm excited about our trip, and
Speaker 1: I'm also like, I miss my family. Can he relate
Speaker 1: to that? I mean, I mean yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: just like, I'm so sorry, and he's just like, but
Speaker 1: you know, you have to try and separate, like you know,
Speaker 1: that's not like you. Mike's not healthy and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I do get that this is hard.
Speaker 1: But he was married before, so I'm sure I feel
Speaker 1: like you would have similar, exactly the same feelings. It's
Speaker 1: maybe it's been longer, but I feel like you can
Speaker 1: understand where you're coming from. The loss of the family.
Speaker 1: Unit's a traumatic thing. Yeah, and some days are just
Speaker 1: like bigger than others well, And I think, first of all,
Speaker 1: don't beat yourself up over that. I think that that's
Speaker 1: got to be completely normal. And I feel like years
Speaker 1: from now that still may still that may still be there,
Speaker 1: and I think that's okay. I mean, I can only imagine.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that you want Mike And I think that
Speaker 1: that's hard. You know, you want the mic maybe that
Speaker 1: you thought he could be well, And that's like where
Speaker 1: I got upset because I was like, damn it, like
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm like I must be like pre whatever.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, damn, like some days I just get
Speaker 1: in those moves or I'm like, why couldn't you be
Speaker 1: who you said you would be, like for our kids
Speaker 1: at least, you know, like because you know, as you
Speaker 1: start to realize that, like not every relationship is great
Speaker 1: and like you know the it's you gotta work at
Speaker 1: everything right, So it's like, you know, we could have
Speaker 1: made it work if it wasn't all that other crap
Speaker 1: you know and involved. So it's like, man, like why
Speaker 1: why can you have been who you said you would
Speaker 1: be for for for our kids? And like now we
Speaker 1: can't go on family vacations together and like now this
Speaker 1: it's just like it just that sucks and that comes
Speaker 1: up sometimes. Yeah, I mean that's the kids get along. Pardon,
Speaker 1: do all the kids get along? Yeah? They do. That's
Speaker 1: then and so that they were gonna have more fun,
Speaker 1: right because if they're going with other kids that are
Speaker 1: like their friends, then they're going to have even more fun.
Speaker 1: It's just the family that's tough. I feel for you there.
Speaker 1: That's tough. I mean, I I yeah, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I know that's got to be tough.
Speaker 1: I think y'all will have a good time, but I
Speaker 1: understand that this is the first and it's going to
Speaker 1: be You're gonna have tough moments. But I do think
Speaker 1: that Ian's very understanding, and I think that y'all will
Speaker 1: get through it and you'll have a good time. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I think we'll have a great night. I just got
Speaker 1: to get past the sure that it's just not easy.
Speaker 1: Are you would all concerned that Jolie is going to
Speaker 1: want you in bed with her every night? No, that
Speaker 1: was only because we had to go to Atlanta to
Speaker 1: get her passport and so um, yeah, we just I
Speaker 1: just got one bed, but no, she she has her
Speaker 1: own room and she will never sleep in bed with Megan. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's the difference. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that co sleep with their children and are fine, but
Speaker 1: we just you've never done it, and that's that's a change. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: and I have no. I mean like we have one
Speaker 1: of our best friends, christ And who sleeps with her kids.
Speaker 1: I just personally have never been a co sleeper. I yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just couldn't do it. But it was you know,
Speaker 1: I did. I did feel bad for and I almost
Speaker 1: feel like I have to, like because the entire night
Speaker 1: and like stop moving, like, oh my god, I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 1: But so did you only go to the floor. I did.
Speaker 1: I went hotel floor, hotel floor. I went on the ground,
Speaker 1: and I took the covers off. I gave her a
Speaker 1: different one. And then like thirty minutes later, I see
Speaker 1: a face like right when I'm about to fall asleep, mommy,
Speaker 1: And I was like, yes, Jolie, She's like, I'll sleep
Speaker 1: on the floor. And I was like no, no, no, baby,
Speaker 1: it's okay, like and then and then I felt bad, right,
Speaker 1: so I'm like no, no, baby, no, no, like please
Speaker 1: go back, like, go back to bed. She goes, mommies,
Speaker 1: don't sleep on the floor. I'll sleep on the ground,
Speaker 1: and I go all right before the bodies can handle it,
Speaker 1: I was like all right, I'm like okay after that
Speaker 1: last one. So but anyways, yeah, so, um, well let's
Speaker 1: take a break because we have we have like a
Speaker 1: very large iconic guest coming on, yes, um, which I'm
Speaker 1: very excited about. So um, let's take a break and
Speaker 1: let's get him on. All right, let's get deepop Choper
Speaker 1: on um wine down, let's do it. Hello, Hello, Hi, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on wine Down. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of your work. Um, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited because you have a new book out right now,
Speaker 1: UM called Abundance, which I am amazon ng amazoning is
Speaker 1: that a word? Amazon it is? Now I'm going to
Speaker 1: do amazon it immediately because I need like I need
Speaker 1: all that, um, I mean for for you, like where
Speaker 1: is this like this book? I mean, because you have
Speaker 1: so many books, like how what is how does this
Speaker 1: one separate from the other ones? Yeah, So all my
Speaker 1: work has been about human consciousness, and now that influences
Speaker 1: how our states of consciousness influence everything about your life.
Speaker 1: That means mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, personal interactions, social interactions,
Speaker 1: and how you perceive an interact with the world. If
Speaker 1: you want to know what's happening in your life right now,
Speaker 1: just look around you, and that reflects your state of consciousness.
Speaker 1: So if you're in a state of fear, then everything
Speaker 1: you see is scary. If you're in an ego response,
Speaker 1: then everybody you see is somebody that you need to
Speaker 1: compete with, either through intimidation or through manipulation by being
Speaker 1: nice or nasty or indifferent. On the other hand, if
Speaker 1: your mind is silent, then it eavesdrops on intuition, insight, imagination, creativity,
Speaker 1: higher consciousness, and then there are many other things that
Speaker 1: we can happen to through consciousness. This book is called
Speaker 1: Abundance and the Reason the Inner Path through Wealth and
Speaker 1: the reason I wrote this book is somewhere some time
Speaker 1: ago I came across the quote from Bob Marley um
Speaker 1: and he said, some people are so poor all they
Speaker 1: have is money, And I thought, my god, this is
Speaker 1: what I've seen. You know, I've met the richest billionaires
Speaker 1: in the world. Look what's happening now to all these
Speaker 1: Oligochs in Russia and everywhere else. They panic because that's
Speaker 1: their identity. So very extremely rich people tend to be
Speaker 1: very stressed. Extremely poor people also tend to be stressed
Speaker 1: because you know, they all they think about his money.
Speaker 1: The extremely rich confused their self identity with their net worth.
Speaker 1: So every moment you know, stock market pas lets, their
Speaker 1: identity goes into term. So in my tradition, I come
Speaker 1: from an Eastern Wisdom tradition, there are four worlds of life,
Speaker 1: and they're not there. Yeah, the Harma, which is following
Speaker 1: your life purpose or following your bliss, Arta which is
Speaker 1: money and material success. Karma which is sensual delight and
Speaker 1: every sensory experience is delightful and energizing, and it includes
Speaker 1: sexuality and spirituality. Karma not karma karmas and karma sutra.
Speaker 1: And then the fourth goal of life is freedom from suffering,
Speaker 1: freedom from the fear of old age, infirmity, and death.
Speaker 1: And the wisdom traditions offer solutions to all of this.
Speaker 1: And so there's nothing I've been mented. I mean, this
Speaker 1: might be ninety feet book, but it's based on the
Speaker 1: Wisdom traditions. Say that your state of consciousness determines your reality.
Speaker 1: So abundance, let me just say a few words about it,
Speaker 1: and then we go be happy to answer any questions.
Speaker 1: You know, when I came to this country at zero
Speaker 1: dollars zero, I landed in New York with no money.
Speaker 1: I was going to report to my hospital. I didn't
Speaker 1: have money to get to the hospital as an intern
Speaker 1: from JFK, and finally they flew me there through a helicopter.
Speaker 1: It was a crazy time, Vietnam War, etcetera. But you know,
Speaker 1: I got into this American habit of spending money that
Speaker 1: I hadn't learned to buy things that I didn't need,
Speaker 1: to impress people that I didn't like. And then wondered
Speaker 1: what the stress was all about. And then he turned
Speaker 1: out that in my studies convinced me that abundance was
Speaker 1: more than money. Although money is a very important component
Speaker 1: of it, but it's also safety and security. It's also
Speaker 1: love and belonging nous. It's also the progressive realization of
Speaker 1: worthy goals. It's also compassion and empathy and helping others,
Speaker 1: and it's also higher states of consciousness and transcendence. So
Speaker 1: the book Abundance deals at all these levels, including what
Speaker 1: we call the yoga of money. You know people in
Speaker 1: the year that yoga of money. Well, the word yoga
Speaker 1: actually means huge, which means union with the source of
Speaker 1: all experience, which is also a spirit, and it's real
Speaker 1: and when you connect with that, then anything is possible.
Speaker 1: In the beginning of the book, I do something called
Speaker 1: a soul profile so people can answer questions. And if
Speaker 1: you make your choices based on your soul profile, not
Speaker 1: choices based on what other people tell you, then you're
Speaker 1: likely to be very abundant. It's called generosity of spirit.
Speaker 1: How do you get there, though, because it's like that
Speaker 1: all sounds like amazing, you know, like I want to
Speaker 1: like stay in that consciousness of all all of those things,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's what I would love. But it's like,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you navigate to like to
Speaker 1: stay in that place when there's so many outside fears
Speaker 1: and you know, things that you have to like carry.
Speaker 1: It's a very good question because in the entire Western world,
Speaker 1: and I've been up for a long time, in the
Speaker 1: entire Western world, it's considered that if you work hard,
Speaker 1: if you have disciplined, if you have exacting plans, and
Speaker 1: you have driving ambition. You will be successful, and there's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that, but that's the zeitgeist. You will
Speaker 1: be successful, but a high cost. By the time you
Speaker 1: get to middle age. You might have heart disease, addiction,
Speaker 1: I have problems with drugs, marital problems, on and on.
Speaker 1: So the question is what do you really want? And
Speaker 1: I think, you know I used to ask that from
Speaker 1: my patients, But what do you want? Oh, I want
Speaker 1: to get with my heart disease or this or that,
Speaker 1: And I said, why do you want to do that?
Speaker 1: And you know, I kept asking a question, and ultimately
Speaker 1: I realized everybody wants happiness, enjoy. So if joy is
Speaker 1: not the measure of success, you've wasted your life totally. Um.
Speaker 1: You can be at your death wed with a billion
Speaker 1: dollars and more, but you have no joy. And so
Speaker 1: I made that my goal, that I would come from
Speaker 1: joy and then I would create joy and then see
Speaker 1: what happens. And in the book, what I do is
Speaker 1: I take rituals that have been there forever. You know
Speaker 1: there are rituals involving the seven Chakras. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've heard the seven Chakras, you've heard the word
Speaker 1: chuker because the seven chakras. Each chakra has a particular
Speaker 1: mode of experience. So the first chakra has to do
Speaker 1: with available and safety, the second has to do with
Speaker 1: sensuality and relationship, the third has to do money and success.
Speaker 1: The fourth has to do with creative expression on and not.
Speaker 1: So what I do in the book is there's there
Speaker 1: are technologies that are known since ancient times and these
Speaker 1: are called tantra, mantra, and yantra. Now in the West,
Speaker 1: when people think tantra or tantra as they call it,
Speaker 1: they immediately think of sexuality. Yeah, I did sexual like
Speaker 1: I did tantra with max husband back in the day. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that's not contra. That is one aspect of chant
Speaker 1: The word tantra means ritual, that's all it is, and
Speaker 1: ritual is a very interesting Even those town tricks ex
Speaker 1: practices were rituals, and rituals are a way of channeling
Speaker 1: energy in a way, combining it with an intention and
Speaker 1: allowing your spirit to orchestrate the details and man infest
Speaker 1: what you want. Now, you know, in the last ten
Speaker 1: years people have been talking about the law of attraction, secret, this,
Speaker 1: that the other, But all of that is based on
Speaker 1: mental stuff. Mental doesn't work because as long as we
Speaker 1: feel separate and disconnected, we'll have anxiety, will anger, we'll
Speaker 1: have resentments, we have grievances, we'll have all kinds of issues.
Speaker 1: So tantra really is a ritual to track energy, cosmic energy,
Speaker 1: channel it and for a particular outcome. And these practices
Speaker 1: have been there for a long time in yoga, and
Speaker 1: so in the book, what I do is go through
Speaker 1: the practices. So tantras is the ritual, Mantras an instrument
Speaker 1: of the mind that takes you beyond the mind. And
Speaker 1: then yantra is a visualization. And when you combine the
Speaker 1: three and you come and focus on a particular center
Speaker 1: of awareness which we call which we call chakra. You
Speaker 1: couldn't even think of the Chakra's an extension of Abraham
Speaker 1: Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Then you will find what the
Speaker 1: scriptures promise. That's been my experience. Wow, And I feel
Speaker 1: like it's one of those things too, where like every
Speaker 1: day if like you say, like okay, like today, like
Speaker 1: I'm choosing joy or I'm gonna like you're setting your
Speaker 1: mind for like that intention, right, So it's like setting
Speaker 1: an intention, and I feel like because I've had that
Speaker 1: same thing where it's like anxiety, Like I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: always like, oh my gosh, what if this happens, Are
Speaker 1: like I can't enjoy certain activities because I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have an anxiety atacker, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: And it's like now it's just like trying to like
Speaker 1: not focus it because I'm like, well then I'm already
Speaker 1: putting a ship like a a shadow or over the
Speaker 1: activity before i even did it because I'm so worried
Speaker 1: about what might happen. Yeah, So intention coming the mind
Speaker 1: or the ego or from fear is counterproductive. Intention coming
Speaker 1: from the source of the mind, which we call you know,
Speaker 1: the many words. We call it awareness of pure consciousness
Speaker 1: or or spirit or soul, doesn't matter. It's the fundamental
Speaker 1: state of our being. When you were a child, before
Speaker 1: you even learn language, look at any baby full of curiosity,
Speaker 1: full of wonder, smiling, joyful. You look into the eyes
Speaker 1: of the baby, it immediately smiles. That's the unconditioned mind
Speaker 1: that's very close to the source. Because children are coming
Speaker 1: from source. But then they get educated and they get
Speaker 1: bamboozled into these ideas of success. We call the condition
Speaker 1: mind or the hypnosis of social conditioning, and the entire
Speaker 1: world is embroiled in that. You know, look at the
Speaker 1: war happening now Russia and Ukraine, people fighting over oil,
Speaker 1: the stock markets relapsing. It's a battle of egos once
Speaker 1: you go beyond that. So the techniques that we use
Speaker 1: in meditation and tantra yantra mantra. Let's give you a metaphor.
Speaker 1: Let's say you drop a pebble in a still pond,
Speaker 1: even a small pebble, you'll see a ripple. But if
Speaker 1: you drop the empire state building in a turbulent ocean,
Speaker 1: you won't notice anything. Okay. So the key is to
Speaker 1: quiet in the mind to the point where there is
Speaker 1: almost not no thought activity, or very minimal thought activity.
Speaker 1: Then drop the intention there detached from the outcome, and
Speaker 1: stay in that state of RESTful awareness of quiet, and
Speaker 1: then like the ripple, depending on the shape of the pebble,
Speaker 1: the ripple is different depending on the intention, the organization
Speaker 1: of that is like a ripple. Now he sees I
Speaker 1: understand even as we talk, you know, I do understand
Speaker 1: that this is very a leged piana to the Western culture.
Speaker 1: But over forty years people who have followed these teachings,
Speaker 1: and I have to say they're not original. I I basically,
Speaker 1: you know, let this spirit come to me. And I
Speaker 1: also follow wisdom traditions, particularly from India there Kashmishevism and
Speaker 1: things like they don't and the Zend techniques. So what
Speaker 1: I say any in any of my books, I have
Speaker 1: to tell you it's not something I invent, but their rituals,
Speaker 1: well they sound really good coming from you, though that
Speaker 1: because I haven't Indian accent. No, No, is there one like,
Speaker 1: is there something that you haven't I mean you can
Speaker 1: like this being your ninety one book. Is there something
Speaker 1: that like you still haven't written about that you want
Speaker 1: to discover or or talk about? Yeah, there are three
Speaker 1: things I want to do before I finish. I mean
Speaker 1: I've talked about everything, including life after death, anythings my
Speaker 1: I'm writing a book now called Living in the Light,
Speaker 1: How you live with the lightness of being, and that
Speaker 1: is based again yoga for self realization. And then I'm
Speaker 1: writing another book called Future of You If, because right
Speaker 1: now the future is very interesting. In the one hand,
Speaker 1: people are awakening and seeking spirituality. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: we have climate change. We have financial crisis, we have war,
Speaker 1: we have destruction, eco destruction. The world is a total mass.
Speaker 1: All you have to look at is the is the news.
Speaker 1: How do we conbine modern technology? Because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: at a brain mapping conference right now as I speak
Speaker 1: to you. That's where the convention center downtown l A.
Speaker 1: And you can map any experience in the brain, so
Speaker 1: we can see what's happening in the brain when you
Speaker 1: have an experience. And then people are creating new technologies
Speaker 1: like brain biofeedback, like artificial intelligence. We have a AI
Speaker 1: chat bought on our foundation platform called never Alone dot
Speaker 1: Love to prevent suicide, particularly amongst teens. In teens, that's
Speaker 1: the second most common cause of debt is suicide. Every
Speaker 1: forty second, somebody is committing suicide in the world. It's
Speaker 1: a pandemic. Last year, more people died from suicide in
Speaker 1: Japan than from pop COVID nineteen. We ignore it and
Speaker 1: this is our kids. These are our children. I think
Speaker 1: our humanity is incomplete if you don't address that. So
Speaker 1: we created this chat bought named after a recording artist
Speaker 1: who died suicide and her sister is an actress. We
Speaker 1: work with her and this little jack board, which is
Speaker 1: an AI has intervened in five thousand suicide attempts in
Speaker 1: re escalated. Eleven million people are talking to her. Her
Speaker 1: name is Pebe, named after the recording artists. Pebe is
Speaker 1: talking to eleven million people right now as we speak. Wow.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, that's a that's impressive. Yeah, well, thank
Speaker 1: you for doing that. I mean, that's that's that's amazing. UM,
Speaker 1: And I know you're at a conference, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to I could keep you for hours because I
Speaker 1: just want to like get into your brain because I
Speaker 1: just like I love everything that you do. So just
Speaker 1: thank you for um, for all the resources. And even
Speaker 1: though you say that it's not anything new, like how
Speaker 1: you explain it, it makes sense to my brain at least,
Speaker 1: So so thank you. You're very kind, Joanna. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I was late. No, honey, you're fine, fine, go go
Speaker 1: do your thing, and I look forward to the abundance
Speaker 1: but also the next the next few as well. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the wine down
Speaker 1: and hopefully talk to you soon. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You know what, I would love to have asked him,
Speaker 1: but I know he's like such a busy man. So
Speaker 1: I'm just so honored that we were able to get
Speaker 1: him on. But like what he struggles with because I
Speaker 1: think that he has to have something like because it's
Speaker 1: like I'd love to stay in that state of just
Speaker 1: like it sounds like it's so much about clearing your mind,
Speaker 1: and that sounds so difficult, Like how do you clear
Speaker 1: your mind? That's what I wanted to say, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to like him, but I'm like, but how
Speaker 1: like how do you clear your mind? We need to
Speaker 1: read abundance apparently because I don't know how nine d
Speaker 1: of his other Yeah right, um, but I think it's
Speaker 1: like it goes back to that like what he kept saying,
Speaker 1: like that that me meditative state, you know where it's
Speaker 1: like and that's where like I know, Amy always encourages
Speaker 1: us to meditate. Yeah, have you ever meditate? Really? So,
Speaker 1: I've done a few and it does work, you like
Speaker 1: can actually clear your mind? Yeah, for how long? Well,
Speaker 1: like headspace. I have head Space. There's like a three
Speaker 1: minute one on there and like sometimes I have things
Speaker 1: come in, but there's like longer ones too. But it's again,
Speaker 1: I've only done it a handful of times. But when
Speaker 1: I have done it. It it is really helpful, like
Speaker 1: and if you can get into a routine of it,
Speaker 1: like that's where it's just like it's so fascinating to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I feel like i'd be at least thinking about
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at or I don't. I just I
Speaker 1: do not know how to clear my mind. What is
Speaker 1: the thing that makes your mind the most, like clustered
Speaker 1: or cat you know, I don't know, it's just the
Speaker 1: next thing. I'm just always thinking about something. And I'm
Speaker 1: not like always stressed by any means. I just I
Speaker 1: need to try it, clearly, because I just feel like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm always thinking about what's next in the day,
Speaker 1: what the kids have, what work, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just even if it's not stress, it's just something
Speaker 1: so clearing your mind just seems difficult. But I should
Speaker 1: try it. I should try a three minutes and see
Speaker 1: if I can do it. Yeah, download head space. Never
Speaker 1: tried it, well, I said, I take that back. I
Speaker 1: tried it years ago. I didn't get very far. Oh
Speaker 1: you did. Yeah, Like I think about the carpet I'm
Speaker 1: looking at, Like, how do you not think about something? Well,
Speaker 1: And that's the thing it's like you're like, especially when
Speaker 1: you start, it's almost like E M d R. When
Speaker 1: I first started E M JR. I'm like Amy, like
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about like what to do after this, and
Speaker 1: like you know, but it's like you just got to
Speaker 1: like pull yourself back to like yeah, back to it.
Speaker 1: We should do yoga? Would you do? Amy has begged
Speaker 1: me to do yoga. I just think it's so boring.
Speaker 1: You think you would do yogo with us? She should
Speaker 1: show us. That would be so fun because we're coming
Speaker 1: to wind down, we're doing some wine down dates, which
Speaker 1: is gonna be fun, and we're going to have Amy,
Speaker 1: our therapist, on stage with us, so that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Excited Mark do do yoga? I don't, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I should because I'm getting older and I'm losing
Speaker 1: flexibility and yoga would really help me with that. But
Speaker 1: also the advantages, like you're saying, of focusing the mind
Speaker 1: and clearing your head, that would be great too. I
Speaker 1: see all kinds of advantages. Why can't I just pull
Speaker 1: the trigger into it? And it's not that well, I
Speaker 1: say that it's not that hard, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: that hard of a workout. Necessarily, but I also go
Speaker 1: into it thinking that every time, and I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is harder than I thought. Maybe because I'm getting old, right,
Speaker 1: because you're not running, You're not have you waste, You're not,
Speaker 1: but you're just kind of in a position. But then yeah,
Speaker 1: the next thing, you know, you're sweating like crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like in my mind I thought I could hold that pose,
Speaker 1: but I can't. In my mind, this looks down down,
Speaker 1: looks so easy, so easy. Yeah, I mean maybe, I
Speaker 1: mean I would do I do anything with you? Are
Speaker 1: you sweet? I think I was laughing, Okay, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what what took a turn? No, that
Speaker 1: would be that. That was sweet. And I do believe
Speaker 1: that if I asked you to go to yoga tomorrow,
Speaker 1: you'd be there tomorrow. But you know I would support you. See,
Speaker 1: that was very sweet. I would support that. I am crying.
Speaker 1: I want to support my friends on you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're physical and mental journeys and always, you know, support
Speaker 1: and show up. Just like I went to a cross
Speaker 1: bit Jim on a vacation and I was like to
Speaker 1: support How was that? It's fine? Did you really just
Speaker 1: walk on the treadmill? Yeah? Because I hated it. I
Speaker 1: hated that, like assault runner thing, like my calves hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just not across bit girl. It's fine,
Speaker 1: but I went to support out there. Oh Mark, you're
Speaker 1: in studio, I am. Yeah, it's great. It's so weird.
Speaker 1: I haven't been there in years. Yeah, we miss you here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember you used to strut in here with a
Speaker 1: snack of the juice. I put your feet up on
Speaker 1: the counter those days. I feel like it was just
Speaker 1: a different time, but those were good times. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: having everybody coming in. It was nice, and it's nice.
Speaker 1: It's going to be back. It makes you feel like
Speaker 1: you're you know, you got a life and a job
Speaker 1: and a purpose and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's coming back, right. You're going to be able to
Speaker 1: go back in studio. And I think that I heard
Speaker 1: it's going to be doing the back to work like
Speaker 1: order soon. Good, it's time, everybody. I've been coming back
Speaker 1: intermittently for months now. But it's nice. It's good. It's
Speaker 1: good to get up and go to work. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. All right, Well, I have to
Speaker 1: go pack because um, I'm but to leave for quite
Speaker 1: a while. Because we're gonna go Cancun and then we
Speaker 1: go to l A because I've got dance ursuls with
Speaker 1: Mario Lopez by the studio podcast from here, We're waiting
Speaker 1: for you. She's like, no, I think we got one
Speaker 1: in the in the can for for that, But I
Speaker 1: mean I would still come a boy to say, how
Speaker 1: do you um? It will say someone's coming. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: so see you next week. Have fun,