What if the key to inner peace is understanding who you really are? In this episode of How to Be a Person, Giuliano Grimaudo sits down with spiritual teacher, Vedic astrologer, and Enneagram expert Indra Rinzler to explore self-discovery, personal growth, and how accepting yourself and life as it is might be the secret to lasting happiness.

With over 50 years of experience in spirituality and Vedic astrology, Indra has spent much of his life helping people better understand themselves. Through his work with the Enneagram of Personality and his experiences traveling the world, he's developed a fascinating perspective on identity, suffering, and what it means to live with greater freedom.

One of the central themes of this conversation is how much of our suffering comes from resisting reality. We have expectations about how life should unfold, how other people should behave, and who we're supposed to be. But what happens when we stop fighting what is and start accepting life as it comes?

Giuliano and Indra explore how our perspectives shape our experiences, why we might benefit from taking life a little less seriously, and how even our most difficult experiences can lead to unexpected opportunities. They also discuss how personality systems like the Enneagram and astrology can help us better understand our natural tendencies, strengths, and fears without feeling confined by labels.

But the conversation goes beyond personality. Indra shares why he's reached a point where he's happy being "nobody," and how letting go of our attachment to identity, expectations, and outcomes can lead to greater peace.

Along the way, they explore relationships, marriage, personal responsibility, free will, reincarnation, and whether everything in life happens exactly as it's supposed to.

Whether you're interested in spirituality, self-awareness, personal growth, or simply finding more happiness in everyday life, this conversation offers an interesting perspective on what it means to truly know yourself.

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What is the connection between psychedelics, consciousness, and spirituality? Can psychedelic experiences help us better understand ourselves, challenge our beliefs, and explore the nature of reality?

In this episode of How to Be a Person, Giuliano Grimaudo sits down with Doug Red Hail Pineda, founder of The Church of Psychedelics, to explore the relationship between psychedelic plant medicine, spiritual awakening, human consciousness, and the search for meaning.

Drawing from his Native American heritage, experiences with indigenous spiritual traditions, and years of exploring plant medicine, Doug shares his perspective on how psychedelics can expand self-awareness, influence our perception of reality, and deepen our sense of connection to the world around us.

The conversation explores Colorado's changing laws surrounding psychedelics, the controversy surrounding natural plant medicines, and why Doug believes these substances deserve a different place in modern society. They also discuss the pharmaceutical industry, the importance of questioning established institutions, and how our beliefs are shaped by the information we're exposed to.

But some of the most interesting moments come when the conversation turns toward religion and spirituality.

Both Giuliano and Doug share their experiences growing up in organized religion and eventually questioning what they were taught. They explore the difference between religious beliefs and personal spiritual experiences, why people become so attached to their worldviews, and how exposure to different cultures and perspectives can fundamentally change the way we see the world.

Throughout the conversation, they return to some fascinating questions: What does it mean to truly know yourself? How much of reality are we actually aware of? And what happens when we become willing to question things we've always accepted as true?

Whether you're curious about psychedelics, consciousness, spiritual awakening, organized religion, or simply understanding yourself and the world a little better, this conversation with Doug Red Hail Pineda offers plenty to think about.

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How do you live a life you won’t regret? Writer Daniel Sterling joins Giuliano Grimaudo for a conversation about purpose, risk, self-discovery, raising boys into good men, and learning to trust yourself enough to live the life that feels right for you.

Daniel grew up in Aspen, Colorado, and spent much of his life pursuing achievement through professional ski racing, broadcasting, screenwriting, and other ambitions. After reaching a breaking point at 39, meeting a mentor changed the direction of his life and began what he describes as the pursuit of an examined life.

That experience eventually inspired his memoir, “Hungry, a Memoir of Self-Discovery, Furthering of the Soul, and Evolution of the Spirit.”

In this conversation, Daniel and Giuliano explore what it means to truly know yourself, why certainty can feel so comforting, and what happens when the desire to avoid pain, failure, and risk starts dictating the way you live.

They also talk about regret and the things people spend years wanting to do without ever actually trying. Sometimes you might try something and discover it wasn’t for you. Sometimes it might change your life. Either way, there’s value in satisfying that curiosity rather than carrying the question around forever.

Daniel also shares his perspective on raising boys into whole men, masculine and feminine energy, and how parents can create relationships where their children feel safe being honest, making mistakes, and figuring out who they are.

Along the way, they get into childhood, hard work, quitting, money, financial security, being present, trusting yourself, and whether making life as safe as possible can actually keep you from fully living it.

Ultimately, the conversation comes back to a simple question: If your life ended sooner than you expected, would you be happy with the way you spent it?

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Why do so many people burn out at work, feel stuck in their careers, or wake up one day wondering how they ended up living a life they don’t actually enjoy? In this episode of How to Be a Person, Giuliano Grimaudo sits down with Ted Kopecko to explore burnout, purpose, work, failure, and what it takes to build a life you actually want to live.

Ted is the author of the #1 international bestseller Finding JOY… Journey Of You and a commercial real estate broker with more than 30 years of experience in business, architecture, and entrepreneurship. After building his own architecture practice, Ted eventually reached a point where he no longer wanted to go to the office. He sold the business and began rethinking what he wanted from his life.

That raises an interesting question: What if burnout isn’t simply about working too much? What if sometimes it happens because you keep doing something long after it stopped being right for you?

Giuliano and Ted explore how easily people can become locked into a life they never consciously chose. They talk about how school shapes our relationship with work and failure, why adults become afraid of making changes, and how our responsibilities can make walking away from an unhappy situation feel impossible.

They also discuss our limited relationship with time. Ted shares the story of his father, who spent decades working and climbing the corporate ladder, only to suffer a massive stroke shortly after entering retirement. It raises a question worth considering: How much of your life are you willing to postpone in exchange for the possibility of enjoying it later?

The conversation explores mindset, identity, purpose, personal growth, creating value for others, and becoming more intentional about where your life is actually headed.

Because eventually, your life becomes an accumulation of the moments you spent along the way.

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What can 20,000+ polygraph tests teach us about lying, truth, and human behavior? Polygraph examiner David Goldberg joins How to Be a Person to explain how lie detector tests actually work, what they measure, how accurate they can be, and why the person administering the test may matter just as much as the machine itself.

David is an Advanced Board-Certified polygraph examiner and founder of Executive Protection Group Polygraph Service. Over the course of his career, he has conducted more than 20,000 polygraph examinations involving everything from criminal investigations and employment screenings to infidelity, false accusations, sexual assault, custody disputes, and other situations where figuring out what actually happened can have enormous consequences.

And according to David, much of what people think they know about polygraphs comes from TV and movies... and bears little resemblance to an actual examination.

In this conversation, David walks through what really happens during a polygraph test, why the questions are discussed beforehand, what physiological responses are actually being measured, and whether someone can remain calm enough to fool the test.

He also explains why the accuracy of a polygraph can depend so heavily on the examiner. Experience, interviewing ability, question formulation, ethics, and interpretation can all play a role in the final result.

The conversation also gets into some fascinating questions about lying itself. Does your brain know when you're lying even if you've convinced yourself something is true? Can highly manipulative people fool a polygraph? Can you beat the machine, or are you really trying to beat the examiner? And after more than 20,000 examinations, what has David learned about the way people lie?

It's a fascinating look inside a profession most of us have only seen portrayed on a screen, from someone who has spent decades sitting across from people when the truth really matters.

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Why can you walk ten miles through Disneyland and feel energized, but feel completely drained after an ordinary day at work? In this episode of How to Be a Person, Giuliano Grimaudo talks with R.D. Ravenwood, author of The Magical Life: A Guide to Building a World That Restores You, about what our environments can teach us about happiness, energy, and how we live.

R.D.’s own experience with burnout led him to wonder why places like Disneyland could make him feel more alive when everyday life left him exhausted. That question turned into a fascinating exploration of how our surroundings, routines, identity, and sense of play influence the way we feel.

The conversation also explores why adults stop playing, how modern life has become obsessed with efficiency and productivity, and whether our constant focus on goals, planning, safety, and the future can actually pull us away from enjoying the life happening right now.

What if play isn’t something we're supposed to grow out of? And what if creating a happier life involves paying more attention to the people, places, and activities that actually give us energy?

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Is your news feed making you miserable? In this episode of How to Be a Person, Giuliano Grimaudo sits down with entrepreneur and Rally News founder Sam Brooks to explore how negative news, doomscrolling, and social media algorithms can shape the way we see the world.

Most people want to stay informed. But there’s a strange problem with being constantly plugged into everything happening around the world: the information getting the most attention usually isn't an accurate representation of everyday life.

Bad news grabs attention. Anger gets engagement. Arguments generate comments. And social media algorithms learn very quickly what keeps people staring at their screens.

So what happens when the tiny slice of reality we consume every day is overwhelmingly negative?

Sam experienced this firsthand. While working a job that already left him feeling unfulfilled, he would come home and try to unwind by taking long walks and listening to news podcasts. Instead of helping him relax, he noticed a constant level of stress that never seemed to disappear.

That experience eventually led him to create Rally News, a free news aggregator designed to surface positive stories from respected publishers that might otherwise get buried.

Giuliano and Sam explore the strange balance between staying informed and protecting your own well-being. How much news do you actually need to consume? Does knowing about every terrible thing happening around the world help the people involved? And if the news disproportionately shows us what’s going wrong, can we really say it’s giving us an accurate picture of the world?

They also dig into our natural tendency to notice problems while taking good things for granted. Improvements become normal. A great experience becomes expected. But when something goes wrong, suddenly it deserves our full attention.

Social media can amplify that tendency even further.

Giuliano and Sam also discuss whether we could approach social media differently altogether. Instead of mindlessly accepting whatever an algorithm puts in front of us, what would happen if we deliberately trained our feeds around the kinds of information, ideas, and emotions we actually want more of?

And maybe there’s an even bigger question underneath all of this:

If none of us can possibly consume more than a tiny fraction of everything happening in the world, what deserves our attention in the first place?

This conversation gets into doomscrolling, negative news, social media algorithms, positivity, attention, mental well-being, gratitude, fear of loss, and how the information we consume can influence our perception of reality.

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What actually makes a healthy marriage work? Marriage coach Kameran Alareqi joins Giuliano Grimaudo to talk about personal responsibility, codependency, emotional regulation, communication, and some relationship advice that can be difficult to hear.

Kameran is a Gottman certified marriage coach, host of The Married and Connected Podcast, and founder of the Recognizing Potential Coaching Program. She’s also been divorced twice and reconciled with her second husband, giving her a perspective on relationships shaped by both her work with couples and her own experiences.

A big part of this conversation comes down to a simple question: How much responsibility are you willing to take for the relationship you have?

Kameran and Giuliano discuss why it’s so easy to focus on what your partner is doing wrong, why marriage isn’t 50/50, and why your partner shouldn’t be responsible for your happiness. They explore the difference between needing someone and wanting them, along with how codependency and attachment can affect the way we experience relationships.

They also get into infidelity, divorce, marriage vows, emotional triggers, childhood conditioning, and whether knowing your partner is free to leave might actually make choosing each other more meaningful.

Kameran and Giuliano don’t agree on everything, especially when it comes to marriage vows and commitment, which makes for an interesting conversation about what we actually owe our partners and ourselves.

Ultimately, this episode is about turning the attention back toward yourself. Instead of asking what your partner needs to change, what happens when you start with the one person you can actually control?

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