Podcast Episodes to support your A2A journey.

A foundational episode that strips the topic back to first principles. What is mindfulness. What is meditation. What is wellness. How they connect, where they differ, and how to start using all three without getting tangled up in the language. The right starting point if you are coming into this work fresh.

The man Phil Jackson brought in to work with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and the Chicago Bulls. Decades of teaching mindfulness to elite athletes, and author of UNLOCKED: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success. A foundational conversation on what mindfulness looks like at the highest levels of performance.

Jon and Will take listener questions and answer the ones most people are too embarrassed to ask. Real questions, plain answers. A great cross-section of where the practice meets actual life and where it gets weird, awkward, or harder than expected.

Chris Lee, a former Green Beret, on how the practice changed who he was at home, at work, and inside his own head. A peer-to-peer conversation for any guy who suspects mindfulness might be for him but cannot square it with the version of strength he was raised on.

Dr. Amishi Jha, neuroscientist at the University of Miami, and Lieutenant General Walt Piatt on the research that turned the US military from mindfulness skeptics into adopters. The science behind why attention training works under pressure and what high-stakes professions have proven about its effects.

A first-person account of what changes when the breath becomes a daily practice instead of an emergency tool. How breathwork builds the kind of self-control that does not feel like white-knuckling, and what it actually trains underneath the obvious physiological effects.

A 7-minute microdose. Practical breathing techniques you can use today to shift state, regulate the nervous system, and bring the body back online. Short, useful, repeatable. The episode to come back to when you want a quick refresher on the toolkit.

Luke Iorio joins Jon and Will for a conversation on what it actually takes to bring the mind and body back into alignment. The work of integration is not abstract. It is the thing that keeps you from feeling like a stranger to yourself when you finally stop moving.

Jay Field on the connection between EQ and what is happening in your body underneath every reaction. A grounded conversation on why emotional intelligence is not a personality trait, but a trainable capacity that lives in the nervous system. The body-up view of emotional regulation.

Dr. Charles Freligh joins Jon and Will to break down the neuroscience and the practice of choosing your response. This is the academic and applied counterpart to the work in this module — what is actually happening in the brain when you slow down and choose.

A short-form audio newsletter on what anger is actually telling you and why pushing it down is the worst thing you can do with it. The emotion as information, not enemy. A reframe that fits directly with the noticing-thoughts-and-emotions work in this module.

A conversation on the practice of self-reflection as a presence skill. How to look honestly at what is actually happening inside you without slipping into self-criticism or self-flattery. The work that turns presence into something more than a state... into a way of seeing.

Dr. Kristin Neff has spent her career researching self-compassion and has shown that people who treat themselves with kindness recover faster, persist longer, and outperform their self-critical peers. The science behind a practice that men, in particular, tend to dismiss as weakness.

Jon and Will on why self-compassion is not the soft version of accountability. Done right, it is the harder version. The episode that makes the case for treating yourself like someone you actually want around for the long haul.

Janine Johnston on the work of converting stress from a wrecking ball into building material. Practical tools for emotional resilience that hold up when the pressure stays on for weeks instead of minutes. The conversation that pairs with the stress-and-anxiety module work.

A conversation on the unavoidable role discomfort plays in growth, and the kind of vulnerability that is not weakness but a refusal to keep pretending. The work that connects directly to building real resilience instead of the armored version most men default to.

Marcus Aurelius Anderson on what hardship gives you that comfort cannot. A reframing of adversity that does not minimize the pain, but refuses to waste it. One of the most-quoted episodes in the MTM catalog.

Remi Adeleke's story is the kind you do not believe until you hear him tell it. Nigerian royalty, displaced to the Bronx, became a Navy SEAL, then an actor, author, and filmmaker. A masterclass in refusing to be defined by what was taken from you.

Aaron Hale lost his sight and his hearing in service to this country, then became an ultra-endurance athlete, a chef, and one of the most clear-eyed voices on adapting to what you cannot change. A conversation that resets your sense of what is possible after the worst day of your life.

Jocko Willink on the operational definition of resilience. How structure, discipline, and a refusal to lose your composure work together when the situation is going sideways. A peer-level conversation between former SEAL leaders on what actually holds up when the pressure is at its peak.

A conversation on what your words actually do once they leave your mouth. The case for choosing them with care, the cost of throwing them around, and how mindful speech becomes a leadership skill, a parenting skill, and a relationship skill all at once.

Colin Bye on what brotherhood actually requires. Trust earned over time, support that does not need to be asked for, and growth that happens because someone next to you refuses to let you stay small. The companion piece to the second Colin Bye episode further down in this module.

Anger in the home. The hardest place to do this work, because the stakes are highest and the masks come off fastest. A practical conversation on how to feel the heat without burning down the people you love.

A second conversation with Colin Bye, founder of Manscending. This one gets deeper into why men's circles matter, what makes them work, and how positive social change for men gets built one honest conversation at a time. Why the loneliness epidemic among men is not going to fix itself.

A direct conversation about the cost of being agreeable instead of honest. The man who says yes to everyone ends up resentful of all of them, and his relationships suffer for the same reason. The episode that pairs with the harder side of mindful relating — the part where you actually have to say what you mean.

Jon and Will on the work of finding what actually drives you. Why "follow your passion" is bad advice and what better questions to ask instead. One of the most-shared episodes in the catalog.

Nic Gregoriades on aligning mind, body, spirit, and purpose. A conversation around game-changing principles for getting all four working in the same direction instead of pulling against each other.

Dr. Robb Kelly on the work of becoming the man you were meant to be, not the one you defaulted into. A straight-talking conversation on purpose, recovery, and what it takes to course-correct when the path you have been on is not yours.

A 6-minute microdose connecting mindfulness practice to purpose and creative output. How the inner work of awareness becomes the engine for the outer work of building a life that means something. Short, dense, worth a re-listen.

The biggest threat to a sustainable practice is the demand that it be perfect. This episode is the antidote. A conversation on showing up imperfectly for years instead of perfectly for three weeks, and why the messier version is the one that actually changes your life.

The practical mechanics of swapping out the habits that have been quietly running you for ones that align with the life you actually want. The closing module's companion piece on designing a practice that sticks past month three, month six, and into the years.