Always love connecting with folks who share my passion for everything from breathwork to podcasting to cold plunges to the iconic So Cal rock group Sublime. So it was a sincere treat to host this week's guest Sam Kabert.
Sam is a Serial Entrepreneur turned Certified Breathwork Practitioner and TEDx speaker. He is the Author of the #1 Bestselling book, SOUL/Life Balance, and host of the Soul Seekr Podcast. In the past 5 years, he has courageously embraced a transformative path of self-discovery, centering his focus on prioritizing mental health. Sam is on a mission to offer tools to overcome overwhelm and encourage the rise of compassionate leadership to eradicate the glorification of “hustle culture.”
You won’t want to miss this episode, as we tease apart all the things, including:
- The importance of delineating between different forms of breathwork, from exercises for maintenance and relaxation to more expansive journeys that help release trauma, and bring about mystical, almost psychedelic experiences.
- How Eastern principles like samadhi (e.g., “release”) tie into these practices.
- How Sam - who had landed on Silicon Valley's 40 under 40 list, with a thriving 7-figure business, a 4 hour work week, and a seemingly picture perfect romantic relationship – suffered a crippling bout of depression, having “seemingly cracked the code”
- The effectiveness of cold exposure, psychedelic therapy, and other techniques in pulling Sam out of this seemingly intractable dark night of the soul, and enabling him to "Overcome the Overwhelm" (also the title of his most recent book)
- The meaning of the notion of "72 ounces to freedom." What this play on the classic Sublime album can teach us about feeling into our emotions, overcoming toxic positivity, and engaging in what Carl Jung called shadow work to achieve "soul life balance."
- The myriad implications of the Viktor Frankl quote - "between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
- The opportunity that the Covid-19 pandemic, and the accompanying lockdowns, give for people to pause, reflect, and go deeper within spirituality
- How for some, including Sam, ayahuasca, psilocybin, and other forms of psychedelic therapy can provide a more rapid form of trauma relief than conventional mental health treatment modalities
- Insights from Overcome the Overwhelm, SOUL/Life Balance, and other books that Sam has written.
If anything from our discussion resonated with you, and you’d like to speak further with Sam please visit him at samkabert.com, check out the Soul Seekr podcast, or connect with him on LinkedIn or Instagram.
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