Season 1
Episode 8 - I Know Kung Fu
Episode 7 - You are The One
Episode 6 - Jonathan Downloads His Brain
Episode 5 - Rich Downloads His Brain
Episode 4 - The Red Pill
Episode 3 - Sean Clayton and Abundance Alchemy
Episode 2 - A Theory of Chaos
In this episode, Jonathan and Rich explore the practice of manifesting and how it impacts our lives on a daily basis. The use of imagination and intent opens up all kinds of possibilities to impact life in a dramatically positive way. Jonathan shares a story of how he manifested the best day of his career, and Rich shares his experiences with Transcendental Meditation and how it's impacting his life in a powerful way.
In this episode, Jonathan and Rich explore the idea of fundamentalism and how the need for certainty is ultimately destructive. They explore their background with religious fundamentalism and how they broke through to a more wholistic approach.They dive deep into their history with religion and ask a deeply provocative question. Are you the one? Jonathan proposes an idea he's learning that we are the one and the more we embrace it the more energy and power we have as human beings. This power comes from congruence between the head and the heart.
In this episode, Jonathan downloads his brain. He shares stories throughout his life on growing up in Silicon Valley and how he came to the now. He shares stories about creating the person of Jonathan and stories of fear, pain, growth and not sh*tting his pants. Having growing up under divorce and the trauma it caused. He explores his spirituality and how he came to follow the Way of love, his family, and learning how to overcome whatever life threw at him.
In this episode, Rich downloads his brain and gives us the history on his own life. We wanted listeners to have an opportunity to get to know each host, and Rich was volunteered for to go first. Rich dives into his history with his family, growing up Catholic, his college days, and how he met his wife Lisa. He talks about fatherhood, and what it means to be a dad to three kids. He shares his journey in business with some huge brand names he's worked with, and how biohacking is changing his life. He's come to a place where he is seeking out how to grow his life, not just be a bystander.
In this episode, Jonathan and Rich dive deep into the Red Pill. The Red Pill was a program that disrupted the signals in Neo's brain and allowed him to see reality. The Red Pill today is the emerge of plant medicines and psychedelics to functionally help trauma and PTSD patients deal with reality and begin to make massive strides in how they see suffering, and even death.We dive into the deep end on this one and share our own experiences with plant medicines in today's context. As the pharmaceutical world explodes with highly addictive solutions, we can't ignore the efficacy of these solutions that are having significant impact on our mental health.
In this episode of Living in the Matrix, Rich and I interview Sean Clayton, an abundance alchemist. He is a creative and innovative guide to helping people unlock their true potential and transform their lives. Sean has a great story of how he arrived at this place, how he's helping people. In this episode, we explore themes of restoration, love, guilt, astrology, Jesus, masculinity and femininity, and more. Sean's approach and how becoming Neo (in the Matrix) is the central theme of transformation. This was one of our funnest conversations so far.
In this episode, Jonathan shares his emerging theory on how the brain acts like AI to create an understanding of intention and ultimately chaos to manage life. It uses models to construct a theory of how the world works. It defines intention because it's only asking one question. Is this person good or a potential harm. This one act of judging helps us when it's right, but it's wrong a lot. And when we add trauma to it, it creates chaos.
In this inaugural episode, Rich and Jonathan discuss the question, are we living in the Matrix. Is this a simulation. We talk about how we live with dignity, with courage, and overcome our fears as we become human. A great first episode to get to know us. Much love