The Michael Ostrolenk Show

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

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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 One of the three pillars of the Emergent Human podcast is optimizing health. Part of my own process in doing so is being a member of an organization known as Lifeforce. I joined Lifeforce after reading the book “Life Force” by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in order to get the support I needed to take my health to the next level. I am happy to announce that Lifeforce is now a show sponsor. Lifeforce’s membership provides you with at-home diagnostics, access to functional medicine doctors, health coaches, advanced nutraceuticals, hormones, and peptides. Lifeforce creates a customized plan tailored to your goals and blood work results to help you optimize your health. Their diagnostic is one of the most affordable, convenient and comprehensive blood tests out there. If you’ve been looking for a more personalized approach to improve your health in the new year, check out Lifeforce at https://www.lifeforce.com/ and use code EMERGENTHUMAN15 for 15% off your first purchase. I would like to welcome Amiel Handlesman on today show to discuss his work on embodying the self-authoring mind in everyday conversations. Amiel helps leaders navigate complexity and grow as human beings. His clients use new conversation microhabits to make clear commitments, deliver what they promise, and do this with more ease. As a writer and speaker, Amiel frames complex challenges like democracy, climate change, diversity, and “race" as practice fields for self-authorship. He has written five books including Practice Greatness, Reimagining American Identity, and How to be an Anti-race Antiracist. His free online mini-course, Nine Ways to Make the Ask, helps you use the Enneagram to make skillful requests. Amiel holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and two sons. https://amielhandelsman.com https://amielhandelsman.com/9-ways-to-make-the-ask/ https://amielhandelsman.medium.com/ 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 TIMELINE 0:00 Introductions and sponsor info 2:10 Michael asks Amiel about the kinds of deep questions that he’s been wrestling with since a very young age, and what that journey has looked like for him. 9:25 How do you discern who is the right mentor or teacher to follow at a particular time? 11:41 Michael invites Amiel to walk us through ‘The Self-Authoring Mind”, which is a way of developing one’s own capacity for following your authentic path. vs ‘The Socialized Mind’ which is living out other people’s ideas of how you should live your life. 20:29 Amiel describes the differences between states, stages, and peak experiences, and then shares why this matters. They then begin to discuss the art of listening and conversing. 31:43 Amiel begins to break down the different ways in which he works with his clients, starting with develop the capacity for speaking as well as working with emotions. 44:12 Michael asks Amiel to share about the range of clients he’s worked with, followed by giving some examples of the kind of work he does with supporting clients’ listening capacities. 1:01:15 Amiel concludes by describing an online mini-course of his - ‘9 Ways to Make the Ask’ - that he co-teaches, as well as some of his books that are available to purchase.

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. One of the three pillars of the Emergent Human podcast is optimizing health. Part of my own process in doing so is being a member of an organization known as Lifeforce. I joined Lifeforce after reading the book “Life Force” by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in order to get the support I needed to take my health to the next level. I am happy to announce that Lifeforce is now a show sponsor. Lifeforce’s membership provides you with at-home diagnostics, access to functional medicine doctors, health coaches, advanced nutraceuticals, hormones, and peptides. Lifeforce creates a customized plan tailored to your goals and blood work results to help you optimize your health. Their diagnostic is one of the most affordable, convenient and comprehensive blood tests out there. If you’ve been looking for a more personalized approach to improve your health in the new year, check out Lifeforce at https://www.lifeforce.com/ and use code EMERGENTHUMAN15 for 15% off your first purchase. Prime grew up in Texas, where he attended the Marine Military Academy. A few years later he would enter the Marine Infantry before advancing as a MARSOC Marine Raider, with a specialty as a Marine Corps Water Survival Instructor. He uses tools and techniques, which he brings from this background, as well as what he has learned from training thousands of individuals and teams to create personal breakthroughs. His F.R.E.E. Your Mind Guidebook is the result of these findings, in which a framework was created to coach world class athletes, business executives, and military Special Operations candidates looking to perform at a higher level. He is the co-founder of the Underwater Torpedo League and Deep End Fitness. Prime currently resides in Carlsbad, CA. LINKS: https://www.primehall.com/ https://utlnation.com/ https://www.deependfitness.com/ 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