The Truth Is

A fan favorite, back in your feed. NYT bestselling author Jedidiah Jenkins joins us for a conversation about revelation, habituation, aging, and what it means to build a life you’re actually comfortable being yourself in.

Wilfredo Perdomo is building DESTINO — a wellness-focused micro resort and retreat concept in the Catskills — and bringing eight years of brand building, a Cuban-American upbringing, and a deeply spiritual outlook into something entirely his own. Leaving a corporate career to bet on yourself is an initiation, and this conversation lives inside that. A talk about divine action, the ego that shows up when you build in public, and the realization that presence with the people we love was never something we could afford to defer.

Kate Mueller is a Los Angeles based installation artist and welder whose work is designed to draw your awareness to the awe that already exists around you. She began building her own coffin at 19 and has carried it — and the contemplation of mortality — through every chapter of her life since. In this conversation we trace her journey from a conservative religious upbringing to a monastery in Romania to walking the Camino de Santiago alone, and into the foundational belief that emerged: that people are largely good, that we are here for one another, and that nature can hold all of our differences.

I met Corey Thibodeau on the first day of freshman year, and she's been one of the central truth tellers in my life since. Over the last decade, she built three yoga studios, brought two new humans into the world, and spent a decade building a corporate career quietly questioning if there was another path — if the life she was building outside of it could become her whole life. And then, the universe pushed her to it. This conversation is about that journey. About what it cost along the way, and what it opened.

Wade Brill is a mindfulness coach, meditation teacher, and author of 100 Mindful Moments. In this conversation we talk about what it actually takes to live intentionally — through hurry sickness, body intelligence, the overwhelm archetypes, and the choice to meet open space instead of immediately filling it. Wade's philosophy was forged in the hardest possible circumstances: a cancer diagnosis at 21, the loss of her mother two months into chemotherapy, and a meditation practice that became her doorway to herself. We have one mind, one body, one life. This is how she learned to treat it that way.

Stacey Lindsay spent her career getting people to tell the truth. Her upcoming book, Being 40, is what happened when she turned the journalism on herself, and on the season of life no one has been naming honestly. This conversation felt like an exhale. And a permission slip to come home to yourself.

Asma Khan is the founder of Darjeeling Express — one of the world's only all-female kitchens — the first British chef profiled on Netflix's Chef's Table, and a Time 100 Most Influential Person. In this conversation, we go to the scars underneath the conviction, the women who made sure she knew she was worthy, what she has learned about money and power and justice, and what it means to bend but not break. Her story is personal and it is political and it is spiritual. And it is one of the most complete examples I have encountered of what this show is all about.

In this solo reflection, I pause to synthesize themes emerging across recent conversations on The Truth Is: rest, nervous system regulation, attention, and the cultural systems shaping how we live. I explore why accessing what’s true for us often requires space — and why the modern environment makes that space increasingly difficult to find. Drawing on conversations with Sam Bianchini, Cindy Sharkey, Nahid de Belgeonne, and Jiore Craig, I reflect on rest, burnout, attention, and the challenge of discerning truth in a world saturated with certainty.

What happens when self-care becomes another way to override ourselves? In this conversation, somatic movement educator and author Nahid de Belgeonne joins me to examine how the culture of optimization, regulation, and self-improvement can quietly pull us further away from our own signals. We talk about high-functioning anxiety, the identity built around pushing harder, and why mistrusting the body makes us easier to manipulate — by systems, by power structures, and by the wellness industry itself. Nahid offers a grounded reframe: you don’t unlearn who you’ve been — you introduce new learning into the nervous system. This is not about escaping the real world. It’s about building the capacity to stay in it without abandoning yourself.

Rest isn’t just about slowing down. It’s about remembering who you are. A conversation with Sam Bianchini on Yoga Nidra as an ancient ritual and state of consciousness — and what it offers us in a culture that ties worth to productivity.

A conversation with Samantha Abrams on what it means to make decisions from love instead of for love—and the courage it takes to leave a life that once fit without disowning it. At the center is a simple compass for change: following aliveness instead of urgency, performance, or certainty.

A conversation about what happens when the old definition of success stops working. Megan Hellerer and Kathryn explore why achievement doesn’t guarantee fulfillment, how ambition can be lived differently, and what it means to move through work and life without being attached to an idea of the destination.