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My Best Life
Join Peter for deep, soul-stirring conversations with spiritual teachers, yogis, healers, conscious creators and everyday people as we explore the path to alignment, joy, and purpose. In every episode, Peter asks his guests one defining question: "What does it truly mean to live your best life?" From inner healing to intentional manifestation, discover diverse perspectives on how to create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside.
Episodes
35 episodes
#35 – [Solo] - Who am I? Ramana Maharshi, Alan Watts and the mystery of the Self
“Who am I?” sounds like the kind of question you can solve with a better explanation of yourself, but that’s the trap. Your job, your story, your beliefs, your personality, even your spiritual identity can all be true and still miss what the qu...
#34 - Joe Hehn - From grief to self-mastery: Finding meaning after losing everything
One phone call can split your life into a before and an after. For Joe Hayne, it was his wife’s cancer diagnosis and the grief that followed her death. What he does next sounds dramatic on the surface, quitting his job, putting everything in st...
#33 – [Solo] - The attention trap: Reclaiming your mind in a distracted world
You know the feeling: you grab your phone for one small, legitimate reason and suddenly you’re twenty minutes deep into videos you never meant to watch. That isn’t just a goofy habit. It’s a clue that our attention is being trained, pulled, and...
#32 - Michael Dorfman - Longevity in action: How to thrive in your 80s and beyond
If you’ve been told your best years are behind you, Michael Dorfman has a different message and he’s living it. Michael is a health and nutrition coach, investigative author, and speaker who’s 84 and a half, plays pickleball regularly, and says...
#31 – [Solo] - It’s Not About Touching Your Toes: The Deeper Meaning of Yoga
Yoga gets sold as flexibility, fitness, and stress relief, but that version leaves out the part that actually changes a life. We start with a simple question: when you say “I do yoga,” do you mean poses, or do you mean a way of meeting your min...
#30 - Sharon Salzberg - Love is an ability: Meditation, loving-kindness and beginning again
Pain doesn’t disappear because we avoid talking about it. Sharon Salzberg explains why Buddhism’s willingness to name suffering can feel like relief, even like belonging, and how that simple honesty helped redirect her life after a childhood ma...
#29 - [Solo] - The Shadow Knows Your Name: Meeting the Parts of Yourself You’d Rather Avoid
You ever notice how we “work on ourselves” in the brightest, safest places and still keep losing the same keys? We start with a simple streetlight story, then walk straight into Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow: the parts of your personality y...
#28 – Bryan Blackmon – Beyond rock bottom: Sobriety, self-worth and the journey back to yourself
Rock bottom isn’t always one catastrophic event. Sometimes it’s years of noise inside your own head, until one morning the noise stops and you finally hear the truth. Brian Blackman knows that silence. After a long run through alcohol, heroin, ...
#27 - [Solo] - The Cosmic Joke: Psychedelics, Rebirth and the Mystery of Being
A single day can split your life into “before” and “after” and sometimes that dividing line is not a milestone like marriage or illness, but a few hours of radically altered consciousness. We tell the story of a first high-dose psilocybin mushr...
#26 - TeZa Lord - Beyond the veil: exploring consciousness, psychedelics and the mystery of existence
Your outer life might not be attacking you at all; it might be reflecting you. That’s where our conversation with TeZa Lord goes fast, starting with Carl Jung, the shadow, and the uncomfortable truth that real change begins inside the mind and ...
#25 - [Solo] - This too shall pass: Ten days of silence and the wisdom of Vipassana meditation
Ten days of silence sounds peaceful until you realize you can’t run from yourself. I’m sharing what it’s actually like to do a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat in the SN Goenka tradition, why it felt brutally difficult, and why I still consi...
#24 - Graham Hawley - Breaking bad: why small changes lead to big results
You can know every health tip on the internet and still feel tired, stuck, and frustrated. That’s the gap we tackle with health coach, educator, and Small Steps, Big Results author Graham Hawley: the difference between “knowing what to do” and ...
#23 - [Solo] - Sex, desire and self-mastery: exploring the ancient wisdom of brahmacharya
Sexual desire can feel like a force that drives the whole day, especially in a world where porn, novelty, and instant gratification are always one click away. In this solo conversation, we take a grounded look at brahmacharya, an ancient yogic ...
#22 - Martha Wright - Coming home to yourself: ancient wisdom for modern life
Your mind might be brilliant, but it cannot do the whole job of living. When success on paper still feels like emptiness, numbness, or constant striving, it’s often a signal that something deeper is asking to be heard: the body, the heart, and ...
#21 - Dr. Lynn Banis - Picking up the pieces: rebuilding your life after losing a loved one
Grief is everywhere, but most of us still feel lost the moment it becomes personal. I sit down with Dr. Lynn Bannis, a grief and resilience mentor, to talk about what happens when loss stacks up fast and life suddenly stops making sense. Lynn l...
#20 - Justin Shaw - Comic relief: why laughter is the best medicine
Laughter is supposed to be light, but Justin Shaw shows us how it can be life-saving. He built his identity on getting laughs, first as a kid trying to survive an emotionally empty home, then as a young stand-up chasing the rush of the room. Bu...
#19 - Jon Paul Crimi - A breath of fresh air: how conscious breathing can transform your life
If you have ever wondered how someone crawls out of addiction and then keeps healing long after sobriety, Jon Paul Crimi's story will stay with you. Jon Paul grew up outside Boston feeling out of place and “too sensitive,” and he learned early ...
#18 - Saw K. Myint - Buddhist life lessons: the wisdom of impermanence
Change is happening whether we like it or not and a lot of our anxiety comes from trying to freeze life in place. I sit down with Saw K. Myint to talk about a simple Buddhist truth that becomes surprisingly hard to live: nothing is permanent ex...
#17 - Andre Crabb - The path of least resistance: engineering lasting inner change
It's been said that one person’s magic is another person’s engineering - and that’s exactly the bridge we build here. I’m joined by Andre Crabb, a former Silicon Valley software engineer who left tech after deep misalignment and health decline,...
#16 - Nita Sweeney - Run for your life: how mindful movement can awaken the soul
Sixty seconds doesn’t sound like a comeback story, but it can be. Author, runner, and mindfulness coach Nita Sweeney joins us to share how one tiny jog at age 48 became the first crack of light after a long stretch of chronic depression, intens...
#15 - Peggy Oberthier - The great escape: breaking free from who you thought you had to be
A prison riot is not the kind of moment anyone would choose, yet it can be the moment that rewrites everything. I’m joined by Peggy Oberthier, a spiritual mentor, healer, speaker, and author whose life took a sharp turn after a traumatic experi...
#14 - Lincoln Stoller - Beyond comfort: why growth lives on the edge
A thousand-foot fall tends to clarify what matters. Lincoln Stoller joins me for a wide-ranging conversation that starts on a steep slope of Mount Robson and quickly turns into something bigger: how we meet uncertainty, how we build real resili...
#13 - Vandana Atara Noorah - Soul healing: where the light enters you
Your mind can replay the past like a broken playlist while your body quietly carries the cost. That’s where this conversation with Vandana Atara Noorah lands: in the real, lived space where anxiety shows up in your stomach, your heart, your thr...
#12 - Ali Christos - Knowing beyond thinking: Quantum hypnosis, healing, and higher awareness
Your mind already knows more than your anxiety will admit, and sometimes the fastest way to hear it is to quiet the noise instead of fighting it. We’re joined by Ali Christos, a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner, music prod...
#11 - Laura Rose - Knocking on heaven's door: Life, death and inner knowing
Death, grief, intuition, and healing are topics most people avoid until life forces the conversation. I’m joined by Laura Rose, founder of Sacred Soul, an intuitive energy channel, spiritual medium, and end-of-life guide whose work is rooted in...
