Crimes Against Wisdom: The Technology of Yoga, No One Wants to Hear You Complain, No BS, Everybody Wins

I sat down with Christy Lynn Hicks, a builder of builders who climbed a corporate satellite-engineering ladder she hated, found yoga in a Nashville living room, and spent the next three decades turning a Southern conservative upbringing into a practical technology for the inner life. This conversation is about what it costs to live in integrity: the corporate years she was miserable inside, the studio she built and then lost in March 2020, and the slow, honest rebuild in the house her father built with his hands. Christy frames yoga as a technology and a philosophy for clearing the static so you can transmit a clear signal, not as a religion and not as a fitness class.The big questions:• What do you do when the dream you built for fifteen years gets torn down overnight?• Is the work you do actually integrated with the words you speak and the life you live?• Why do we keep knowing better and not doing better, and what does that cost us?• Can you really teach anyone to get right with themselves before you are right with yourself?• What does a world look like where everybody wins, and how would we ever build it?What you'll hear:• Her father's one house rule: no one wants to hear you complain, do something about it or zip it• Watching her dad build their house with his hands when she was six, the image that set the standard for everything after• Climbing the corporate ladder as a woman in her early twenties, becoming her former boss's boss, and being miserable the whole time• The first yoga class in 1995, looked up in the yellow pages, where she saw the whole future before she was ready for it• Yoga as a technology: tuning your inner satellite so you transmit a clear signal through the static• Why she places yoga as its own philosophy, separate from Vedanta, that does not even take a position on God• March 2020, the fifteen-year anniversary party, and the studio collapse that sent her into a Sisyphus loop of grief and addictionPull quotes:"No one wants to hear you complain, do something about it or zip it""One of the reasons we suffer is crimes against wisdom""Integrity is just integration""We're being humans and it's a technology that helps us to human better""Lead yourself first and the rest will fall into place"Chapters:0:00 Builder of Builders · 2:20 Climbing the Corporate Ladder · 6:20 Dad's Rule: No One Wants to Hear You Complain · 7:40 Watching Him Build the House · 9:20 Five Layers in One Man · 10:20 The First Yoga Class, 1995 · 14:00 What Is Yoga · 14:20 Tuning the Inner Satellite · 18:20 The Kingdom of God Within · 21:40 Is Yoga a False Religion · 25:00 The Ten-Year Runway to Burbank · 32:00 Yoga Helps Us Human Better · 33:40 March 2020 and the Collapse · 36:20 Building Elevation Central While Broken · 47:00 Honest About Your Own Bullshit · 48:00 Crimes Against Wisdom · 60:20 The World Where Everybody Wins · 65:00 Empower the Treasure, Not the TrashAbout:Christy Lynn Hicks is the founder of the Living Arts Yoga Institute and Elevation Central in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, and the former owner of Yoga Blend in Burbank, which she ran for fifteen years. A onetime corporate satellite engineer turned yoga teacher of nearly three decades, she teaches yoga as a practical technology for the people who think they don't like yoga. She is the author of the forthcoming book Bless Your Heart and Do the Work.Ernest Chapman is a brand therapist, composer, and recovering broke wizard. He is the author of Aligned to the Divine Design, and the host of The Divine Design Podcast, conversations with healers, heretics, and harbingers across five domains: divinity, civilization, purpose, family, and self-optimization.Book: alignedtothedivinedesign.comPodcast: thedivinedesignpodcast.comIf this one lands, share it with one person who needs to hear it.