How To Tickle Yourself
How To Tickle Yourself
How to Tickle Yourself is an award winning podcast about finding your true purpose, your true self, your happiness. It's where we use the spark of inquiry to light your mind on fire. Learn how to tickle yourself, and once you find that, the rest will take care of itself. Hosted by Duff McDonald & Matt McButter About Duff: Duff McDonald is a New York-based journalist and author. He has written fo…Social links:
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How to Feed the Artist's Soul
After seeing some of the most successful people in the music business struggle and not feel happy or realized as their best selves, Kathryn Frazier decided to go back to school and learn the art & science of coaching, to help those same artists (and others) learn how to stay on an even keel — to ha…
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What Can Science Tell Us About Spirituality?
This week on How to Tickle Yourself we speak with scientist Dr. Lisa Miller. Dr. Miller tells us that humans are universally equipped with a capacity for spirituality, and that our brains become more resilient and robust when we turn toward the transcendent. An advocate of the marriage of “radical …
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How to Smoke Pot Like a Woman
Ellen Scanlon is a marijuana advocate’s dream - someone who had almost no interest in smoking or consuming cannabis while it was illegal who found her way to the plant for medical reasons who is now a full-throated campaigner for responsible cannabis use. We talk to Ellen, host of How to Do the Pot…
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Knowing Your Body with Vagina Coach Kim Vopni
Vagina coach Kim Vopni joins us to break taboos surrounding reproductive health, speaking openly and candidly about it. → About Kim: As a vagina coach, Kim has programs for women in pregnancy, motherhood and menopause, she does one-on-one coaching for pelvic fitness and can help you find your Kege…
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What the Stories Behind Tattoos Reveal About Our Inner Lives
This week we learn about tattoos and the stories behind them. Ad man Drew Plotkin is covered in ink, and each tattoo tells a story about an important moment in his life. More about Drew: Drew Plotkin has spent the majority of his adult life helping to build brands that sell beauty and personal c…
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How to Bake Your Way to Self-Realization
The holiday season is upon us and this week’s guest, Clare Gustavsson, says that the best gift we can give is ‘one hour of nonjudgmental listening’. We learn more about how this expression of curiosity not only allows others to express themselves without holding back but allows us to look at ourse…
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What the Act of Creating Music Teaches Us About Life
How does the act of creating music help inform us how to live in harmony with our body and soul? Duff and Matt interview Marco Benevento to learn about the process of creating a record. Duff speaks about Aurobindo’s thoughts on the discipline of music as education for the soul. More about Marco …
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How to Find the Center of Your Own Existence, with Jazz Musician Jonathan Kay
This week we learn about how the pursuit of musical knowledge transformed into a spiritual journey. Jonathan Kay an internationally recognized cross-cultural jazz multi-instrumentalist. In search of non-western ways of musical knowing, he moved to Kolkata, India for 10 years and formally studied N…
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How Chunk the Groundhog Teaches Us to Keep An Open Mind
Jeff Permar went from trying to evict Chunk the Groundhog from his garden to raising funds for his family’s dental work on social media. Yes, you read that right! It all started a few years ago, when everything in Permar’s organic garden was getting eaten. He suspected that the culprit was living u…
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Living with a Death Sentence
On the same day in 1985, the following three things happened to Andy Cumming, in this order: He found out that his testicular cancer, for which he’d been undergoing chemo treatments for five years, was gone, for good. He proposed to his girlfriend. He’d been waiting until he was in the clear, becau…
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