Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time

Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time

por Clayton Platt
Salud mentalEspiritualidad
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Summer Series Ep 5: THIS Is The Bravest Thing a Person Can Do
MAGIC IN THE MOMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE: https://tinyurl.com/9vj477f6 In the summer of 2021 Simone Biles walked away. The greatest gymnast who has ever lived. The entire world watching. Her team counting on her. And she stepped back and said I need to take care of myself first. The reaction was enormous. And Clayton has been thinking about that moment ever since. In this fifth and final installment of the summer series, Clayton goes deep into chapter five of his new book Magic in the Moment, a chapter called Self Care Is Job One. And he opens it with a case that he suspects most of us need to hear more than we realize. What Simone Biles modeled in Tokyo was not weakness. It was an act of supreme clarity that can only come from a still mind. This episode is not about bubble baths and rest days. It is about the oxygen mask. The one every flight attendant in the world has been trying to get us to actually hear for decades. You have fifteen seconds of useful consciousness before hypoxia sets in. After that you are not helping anyone. You are one more person who needs help. Clayton draws on the research of Kristin Neff and her three components of self-compassion, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness, and connects them directly to the sitting practice that most listeners already have in some form. He shares a story from his work in Stephen Ministry that reframed everything he thought he knew about caregiving. And he offers one question worth sitting with long after the episode ends. What do you need right now that you have not given yourself permission to have? This is the final episode of the summer series. And as Clayton says in closing, all five chapters taken together are pointing at the same thing. The practice of being here, really here, in this moment, with this person, in this life. This episode is brought to you by Meditation for Leadership. Leadership happens in the space before the decision. Meditation for Leadership helps you pause under pressure, notice what is really happening, and choose how you respond instead of react. Visit www.meditation4leadership.org to learn more.
T1 · E45
12 ago 2026
17:21
Summer Series Ep 4: The Beauty of Beginner's Mind
MAGIC IN THE MOMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE: https://tinyurl.com/9vj477f6 When was the last time you walked into a situation completely sure you knew how it was going to go? How often were you actually right? In this fourth installment of the summer series, Clayton goes deep into chapter four of his new book Magic in the Moment, a chapter called The Beauty of Beginner's Mind. And he opens it with a story that is equal parts funny and quietly humbling. A ten-week-old puppy named Brody, and what happened when Clayton discovered that everything he thought he knew about dogs was almost completely useless. Not because he lacked experience. Because he was running on the wrong kind. This episode explores what the Korean Zen tradition calls don't know mind, the invitation to treat not knowing as rich territory rather than a deficiency to cover up. It looks at what neuroscience tells us about the brain's drive toward fast conclusions, what psychologists call cognitive dissonance and why we dismiss new information rather than sit with the discomfort of updating our view, and what all of it costs us in our relationships, our leadership, and our ability to actually see the people in front of us. Clayton also shares a question from Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield's teacher, that has stayed with him for years. And two of the most underused tools in everyday conversation that are simpler than you might expect. This one is an invitation to stay curious for just one extra beat. This episode is brought to you by Meditation for Leadership. Leadership happens in the space before the decision. Meditation for Leadership helps you pause under pressure, notice what is really happening, and choose how you respond instead of react. Visit www.meditation4leadership.org to learn more.
T1 · E44
5 ago 2026
14:55
Summer Series Ep 3: Just Like Me - Why Connectedness Matters
When was the last time you got an invitation to a reunion and felt something you were not quite expecting? Not your polite reaction. Your actual gut reaction. Whatever it was, it tells you something. And that is exactly where this episode begins. In the third installment of the summer series, Clayton goes deep into chapter three of his new book Magic in the Moment, a chapter called Why Connectedness Matters. It starts with a college reunion, a decision to widen the aperture, and what happened when he did. And then it goes somewhere more personal than any episode of this summer series has gone yet. Clayton has been sober for over two decades. And in this episode he talks openly about what that journey has required, what it has taught him, and why none of it would have been possible alone. There was a time when naming a struggle like that felt like admitting a character flaw. He has come to believe the opposite is true. The neuroscience in this chapter is quietly startling. We are not designed to go through life alone. Not as sentiment. As survival mechanism. And the research on what loneliness actually costs us physically is something that deserves to land slowly. Clayton also introduces a practice he learned from Jack Kornfield called Just Like Me, a way of dissolving the identities that separate us and finding the human underneath the label. He walks listeners through a short version of it in the episode and leaves the full practice for the book. This one is worth sitting with. The book Magic in the Moment is available now: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Moment-Mindfulness-Real-Time/dp/B0H8MG5QS4/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4SmWJV8moy8iR63vT_TseTh1kJq6eEpQWgCvHc1ceE4.dPYXB4SY_GseDD9wtTlvR3wP2jzyOA_kX6EKmjl635U&dib_tag=se&keywords=magic+in+the+moment+clayton+platt&qid=1784666804&sr=8-1 This episode is brought to you by Meditation for Leadership. Leadership happens in the space before the decision. Meditation for Leadership helps you pause under pressure, notice what is really happening, and choose how you respond instead of react. Visit www.meditation4leadership.org to learn more.
T1 · E43
29 jul 2026
11:59
Summer Series Ep 2: Two Ears One Mouth
What is the last thing you told yourself you would start once things settled down a little? That is exactly where this episode begins. In this first installment of a special summer series, Clayton goes deeper into the ideas at the heart of his new book, Magic in the Moment, Mindfulness in Real Time. Not reading it word for word, but using each chapter as a starting point for the kind of conversation this show does best. Personal, honest, and grounded in real life. Chapter one is called Start Where You Are. And Clayton opens it with something he admits is not easy to say as a mindfulness teacher. He is a world-class procrastinator when it comes to beginning things. He will wait for the right conditions, the right alignment, the right moment of readiness. And what twenty-five years of sitting practice has taught him is that the right time is almost never the real issue. The real issue is a voice. You probably know the one. It shows up whenever something matters. It sounds reasonable, even wise. And it is almost never telling the truth. This episode explores what meditation teaches us about beginning, why the wandering mind is not a problem to solve but a practice to return to, and how that same invitation available on the cushion is available right now in every area of your life where you have been waiting for the starting line to appear. It has already appeared. It is here. It has always been here. This episode is brought to you by Meditation for Leadership. Leadership happens in the space before the decision. Meditation for Leadership helps you pause under pressure, notice what is really happening, and choose how you respond instead of react. Visit www.meditation4leadership.org to learn more.
T1 · E42
22 jul 2026
13:10
Summer Series Ep 1: Start Where You Are
What is the last thing you told yourself you would start once things settled down a little? That is exactly where this episode begins. In this first installment of a special summer series, Clayton goes deeper into the ideas at the heart of his new book, Magic in the Moment, Mindfulness in Real Time. Not reading it word for word, but using each chapter as a starting point for the kind of conversation this show does best. Personal, honest, and grounded in real life. Chapter one is called Start Where You Are. And Clayton opens it with something he admits is not easy to say as a mindfulness teacher. He is a world-class procrastinator when it comes to beginning things. He will wait for the right conditions, the right alignment, the right moment of readiness. And what twenty-five years of sitting practice has taught him is that the right time is almost never the real issue. The real issue is a voice. You probably know the one. It shows up whenever something matters. It sounds reasonable, even wise. And it is almost never telling the truth. This episode explores what meditation teaches us about beginning, why the wandering mind is not a problem to solve but a practice to return to, and how that same invitation available on the cushion is available right now in every area of your life where you have been waiting for the starting line to appear. It has already appeared. It is here. It has always been here. This episode is brought to you by Meditation for Leadership. Leadership happens in the space before the decision. Meditation for Leadership helps you pause under pressure, notice what is really happening, and choose how you respond instead of react. Visit www.meditation4leadership.org to learn more.
T1 · E41
15 jul 2026
12:11
Flipping the Mic: Producer Jon Goehring on Presence, Storytelling, Mindfulness, and OCD
Every episode of this show starts the same way for you. You press play and a finished conversation appears. The music rises on cue. The pauses sit where they should. The moments that matter rise to the top. Today Clayton flips the microphone around. Jon Goehring of StoryTrust Media has been inside almost every episode of this show, not as a guest but as the person who sits alone with the raw recording, listening and watching closely, deciding what stays and what goes. He has heard Clayton stumble over names, restart sentences, and occasionally compete with a barking dog for the microphone. He knows this show from the inside out. And somewhere in that editing process, something unexpected kept happening. This conversation goes places that were not planned. Jon shares what it actually feels like to sit with someone else's story so fully that you stop editing from your own opinions and start listening from something quieter. He talks about what storytelling has always meant to him and why the medium keeps changing while something fundamental about it never does. And then he goes somewhere most guests do not. Jon opens up honestly about living with OCD, what it actually is beneath the cultural shorthand, how it has shaped his relationship with his own mind, and why the very act of editing a podcast has become one of the most reliable mindfulness practices in his life. Not because he planned it that way. Because the work itself keeps putting him there. Find Jon Goehring and StoryTrust Media at storytrust.media. The Limitless Leadership Lounge podcast is at limitlessleadershippodcast.com.
T1 · E40
1 jul 2026
53:58
How Kindness Travels: What Stops Us from Being Kind and What Sets Us Free
Late night. Cross County Parkway. A flat tire. A really nice suit. And then three strangers pulled over. In this solo episode Clayton returns to a moment from the mid-1990s that he has been carrying for thirty years without quite having the language for it, until a recent episode of the podcast Hidden Brain and psychologist Amit Kumar's research on kindness finally gave it a name. What Kumar found across study after study is quietly extraordinary. When people perform acts of kindness they consistently underestimate how much it will mean to the person receiving it. We evaluate the competence of what we are offering. The receiver experiences the warmth of being seen. Those are two completely different things. And we keep talking ourselves out of acting because we are measuring the wrong one. The three men who stopped on that highway thirty years ago almost did not. Not because they did not want to help but because they were afraid of how they would be received. That hesitation, and what it cost them almost to act on it, is at the heart of everything Clayton explores in this episode. What does the pause between impulse and action actually contain? What would it cost us to simply make the offer, not solve the problem, not have the right words, just stop and say I see you? And what happens to both people when that threshold gets crossed? This one stays with you. Find Clayton at mindfulnessrealtime.com. The Friday morning sangha on Zoom is open to all.
T1 · E39
24 jun 2026
18:09
The Leadership Stroke: Frank Rowe on Precision, Presence, and the Rowing Life
Picture a rowing eight at full speed. Eight people. One boat. Every blade entering the water at the same instant. Nobody pulling harder than anyone else. The whole thing moving like a single organism. Now here is the question worth sitting with. What is actually happening inside those eight people? Frank Rowe has spent a lifetime asking a version of that question, first in the boat and then in the boardroom. He walked onto the rowing team at UC Santa Barbara with no experience, made it to the 1991 Pan American Games, and somewhere along the way discovered that everything the boat demands of you, trust, timing, precision, and the willingness to say what is actually true, is exactly what great leadership requires too. His new book is The Leadership Stroke: Precision, Practice and Performance Under Pressure. And the conversation that unfolds from it goes places that will surprise you. There is a story about a day on the water in Boston when something unspoken between teammates finally got named, and the boat got faster. Not because anyone's technique changed. Because the space between them did. There is a conversation about beginner's mind, and what it looks like when a 43-year rower goes out on the water and pretends he has never rowed before, noticing things he had long since stopped seeing. And there is an honest reckoning with identity, performance, and what it actually means to keep showing up for something you love when the results are no longer what they once were. Frank and Clayton also share something personal in this one. Both rowed at the collegiate level. Both found the sport through something close to accident. And both carry it with them still, as a lens, a practice, and a reminder that presence is not just a concept. It is something you can feel in your body, in a boat, at full speed, when eight people finally stop fighting each other and start moving as one. About Frank Rowe: Executive Coaching: https://cecondopinion.com/ Author of The Leadership Stroke: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Leadership_Stroke.html?id=59MO0gEACAAJ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankrowejr/ Philadelphia City Rowing: https://philadelphiacityrowing.org/ Philadelphia City Rowing Podcast Episode With Frank: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tBYxqA7gPSO95yHApNBbs?si=zuld3SdyTDudyXkVy-rtVw
T1 · E38
17 jun 2026
59:43
The Door Was Always Open: Three Voices on Presence and Coming Home
Three guests. Three very different stories. One thread running through all of them that took three conversations to fully see. Hans Andreas Weygoldt spent 15 years running a family business while quietly losing himself inside it. Ray Arata has devoted more than 25 years to helping men lead from the heart, and yet the hardest work of his life turned out to be something he had never taught anyone else. And Kira Higgs sat down in 2020 to write a business book, and by day two, the book said no. What connects them is not a method or a framework. It is something quieter and more essential than either of those things. And it has been waiting for each of them the whole time. Clayton weaves these three voices together into a single conversation they never actually had, and what emerges is one of the most honest explorations of presence, pain, acceptance, and the courage it takes to finally stop pushing against the door that this podcast has ever produced. Links to the full episodes: Hans Andreas Weygoldt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i11y873ZmaM Ray Arata: https://youtu.be/Q0xjsxPdnDs?si=Zp_VK41vRf7qdrdH Kira Higgs: https://youtu.be/TVOHtmq1i_g?si=W-27ZdbvCQp2wa7O
T1 · E37
10 jun 2026
21:29
Read the Room: Jake Stahl on Presence, Invisible Captions, and Being Heard
Before you say a single word, people are already reading you. Not your resume. Not your title. Not your carefully prepared talking points. You. The way you carry yourself, the energy you bring into the room, the invisible caption floating above your head that is the accumulated echo of every interaction, every expectation, and every unspoken belief you have ever carried into a conversation. Jake Stahl has spent his career decoding exactly what that means and what to do about it. Creator of Neurostrategy, CEO of Orchestrate, author of Own the Room, and one of the most sought after behavioral trainers working today, Jake brings a fascinatingly parallel perspective to the work Clayton does through mindfulness. Different vocabulary, different entry points, strikingly similar destination. What Jake calls reading the room, Clayton calls awareness. What Jake calls recalibrating in real time, Clayton calls the space between stimulus and response. And what both of them have discovered through their very different paths is that showing up fully and authentically is not a personality trait. It is a practice. One that can be learned, developed, and deepened over time. This conversation goes places you will not expect. A study involving professors and college students that reveals something almost unsettling about how quickly and accurately we read each other without a single word being spoken. The neuroscience behind why a slight tilt of the head in a headshot builds trust before you have even met someone. The difference between talking to a person and talking to the invisible caption above their head. And a surprisingly simple tool for recalibrating a conversation that is going sideways before it goes any further. There is also an honest and genuinely funny exchange about imperfection, self-compassion, and the very human reality that nobody masters communication. They just get a little better at it. This episode is for anyone who has ever walked out of a conversation wondering what just happened, and for anyone who suspects they are broadcasting something they did not intend to. About Jake Stahl: CEO of Orchestraight: www.orchestraight.com Author of Own the Room: Own the Room: How to Communicate to Be Seen, Heard and Respected: Stahl, Jake: 9781968318253: Amazon.com: Books Host of the Own the Room podcast: Own the Room with Jake Stahl - YouTube Watch for those moments of magic when mindfulness shows up in real time in your life.
T1 · E36
3 jun 2026
52:00
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