In this episode: Les Jensen grew up afraid of his father's anger and spent decades unable to feel his own, until a psychiatrist asked him to "show me your anger." He and Richard talk about suppressed anger, when to let it out and when to walk away, and why "your age is none of your business."

Guest - Les Jensen hosts the New Human Living podcast and is the author of Citizen King and Forgiven Sinner: God's Last Savior. newhumanliving.com

Nothing in this conversation is medical advice.

Chapters

00:00 — Cold open: “We have an immense amount of pain right below our radar”

00:45 — Welcome: how do we live tribally?

01:26 — Meet Les Jensen

02:06 — What’s on your radar: compassion for humanity

03:08 — “I had no clue that I was a doormat”

04:13 — Growing up with a World War II father’s anger

06:51 — Isn’t walking away a good thing?

07:50 — Ulcers, digestion and the pressure cooker

08:37 — Anger as a messenger

09:32 — Suppressed anger: a case from Richard’s career

11:11 — “Show me your anger”: the session that changed Les’s life

14:48 — Scrubbing the psyche

15:29 — Tennis rackets and batakas: anger work in the 1970s

16:26 — Healing your relationship with an emotion

18:16 — Let it out, or get out? Richard’s middle ground

18:58 — The water experiment (see §6 item 1 — drop from public chapters)

21:24 — Beliefs, emotions and Echo Canyon

23:27 — “I’m 66 and … I feel like I’m fresh out of college”

25:26 — What does it mean to put your heart into something?

27:17 — The mind is a tool that wants to be the boss

28:34 — “Cracked open,” or opened up?

30:03 — Climbing Colorado’s fourteeners

31:38 — Seven weeks in hospital and the climb back from atrophy

34:41 — Why Les stopped reading books

36:41 — Citizen King and Forgiven Sinner

38:32 — The soul and intention

40:05 — Richard’s vision of a Möbius strip of souls

41:54 — Les’s children and the transformation

43:47 — Richard’s own turn: from professor to psychedelic medicine

44:17 — Les’s psychedelic past

46:47 — Existential grief

47:59 — Walking into old pain

50:13 — Break and announcements

51:41 — “Your age is none of your business”

52:27 — Closing

In this episode — Céline Hovette, a naturopath and hormone-health coach from Northern France, joins to talk about polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects roughly one woman in ten, most of whom don’t know they have it. Céline lays out the five areas she works on with clients (nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, and chemical exposure), they compare what they eat, and Richard explains the food diary that cost him his morning croissant.

Guest: Céline Hovette — naturopath, nutrition consultant (Institute for Integrative Nutrition), aromatherapy consultant; based in Northern France, consulting in France and abroad; author of Take Control of Your PCOS: Naturally Balance Your Hormones, Restore Intestinal Flora, and Boost Fertility (Inner Traditions, 2026) celinehovette.com

Nothing in this conversation is medical advice. If you think you may have PCOS, see a physician for a diagnosis.

Chapters

00:00 — Cold open: a symptom of a sick society

01:04 — Welcome: community as the antidote for anxiety and depression

04:11 — Céline Hovette from Northern France, and one woman in ten

05:40 — What PCOS is, and why it may get a new name

07:41 — Most women who have it don’t know

08:34 — A diagnosis by exclusion

10:13 — Fertility, insulin, and the wider metabolic picture

11:40 — No definitive test: room for misdiagnosis

13:09 — No cure, and no one answer for every woman

14:16 — Dense breast tissue and California’s 2013 notification law

17:19 — The symptoms, and where to get a good diagnosis

22:03 — Which androgens: testosterone and DHEA

22:33 — Can a partner’s testosterone gel cause PCOS?

24:35 — Since 1936: family history and the missing gene

25:16 — Endocrine disruptors: bisphenol, cosmetics, 300 chemicals a day

28:49 — What brings a woman to her practice

30:46 — Referrals, and naturopathy in France

32:10 — Five priorities: nutrition, movement, stress, sleep, disruptors

33:58 — What Céline eats: cook once, eat twice

36:44 — Slow down: egg whites, arugula, and bison

38:43 — The food diary and the 47-minute croissant

41:33 — Obesity in the US and France

45:10 — Reading from the book’s conclusion

48:10 — Fifteen minutes with a cardiologist: “our medical system is broken”

49:24 — The Ten Commitments, and a ripple effect

50:40 — “Patient” means to wait

52:41 — Lifting weights after fifty

54:14 — Break, and the free archive

56:02 — Closing: your diagnosis is not your destiny

57:24 — One last question: are the cysts real?

In this episode — Zee Cohen-Sanchez, founder of Sole Strategies and executive director of National Ground Game, joins to talk about the difference between an activist and a political operative. They discuss her campus tour built as an answer to Turning Point USA, what “hustle” would mean for a health channel, finding and equipping young talent, lobbying, the working-class and evangelical vote, and Obama’s first two years.

Guest: Zee Cohen-Sanchez — founder of Sole Strategies; executive director of National Ground Game PAC. nationalgroundgame.com

Chapters

00:00 — Cold open: activist vs. political operative

00:49 — Welcome: tribal animals, isolation, and inflation

03:37 — A political family, and walking through Occupy Wall Street

05:51 — Protesting vs. acquiring political power

06:58 — Leaving graduate school for the Bernie Sanders campaign

09:13 — Running half of AOC’s paid field program

10:34 — Change minds or get out the vote? The win number

12:43 — Does door-to-door canvassing still work?

13:44 — Is the Democratic Party running an effective Senate campaign?

15:04 — Taking on Charlie Kirk: fifty creators at Texas A&M

20:48 — What Charlie Kirk had: the hustle

22:01 — Richard asks: what would hustle look like for a health channel?

24:07 — The Senate odds, and finding young talent

27:23 — A camera, some lights, and a 19-year-old from rural Texas

28:38 — Richard offers to help

29:48 — Both parties corrupt: lobbying is bribery

31:20 — Accountability

32:39 — Why the Democrats lost the working class

34:11 — Progressive policy vs. slogans: the Nevada door hanger

35:53 — Obama’s first two years: playing fair with people who don’t

39:48 — How do women, Black, and Hispanic voters choose Trump?

41:08 — From a party boat and the Dean scream to 34 felonies

42:25 — How the Democrats lost the evangelicals

44:41 — The ground game in Nevada

45:42 — Last word: vote in the midterms

47:36 — An introduction: Jamie Joyce