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Commune with Jeff Krasno
by Commune
The Commune Podcast is where we explore the ideas and practices that help us live healthy, connected, purpose-filled lives. Each week host Jeff Krasno speaks with teachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, and storytellers on topics related to personal and societal well-being — from nutrition and integrative medicine to spirituality and personal growth to environmental regeneration and civic engagement. In addition to being a podcast, Commune is also an online course platform with more than 100 full-length video courses with top teachers such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Mark Hyman, Adriene Mishler, and many others. Learn more at onecommune.com.
Episodes
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Can AI Be Your Nutritionist? GLP-1s and Weight Health with Ashley Koff
Every bad thing you’ve heard about GLP-1s may be true, and so is everything you’ve been told about calories in, calories out. Ashley Koff says both miss the real problem. Jeff sits down with Ashley Koff, RD, a registered dietitian and author of Your Best Shot, to talk about GLP-1s, weight health,...
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Late for Pickup: Watching Lolli Dance Alone to Debussy (Dispatch 19)
Running late to pick Lolli up from dance rehearsal, Jeff arrives to find the studio empty except for his daughter, dancing alone to Debussy's Rêverie. Instead of going in, he stays outside the plate-glass window and watches. In this episode, Jeff traces those few unguarded minutes: a kid moving...
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Why You Keep Dating the Same Person with Sabrina Zohar
At 25, Sabrina Zohar sent a man she barely knew 173 unanswered text messages from a friend's bathroom floor. Years later, she realized she was never in love with him. She was in love with being chosen. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Sabrina Zohar, relationship coach, host of The Sabrina…
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Christmess: The Morning I Learned My Mother Was Leaving (Dispatch 18)
"Well, if you're going to leave in June anyways, you might as well leave now!" Thirteen-year-old Jeff heard it from the stairs on Christmas morning, with his little brother beside him in footed pajamas.In this episode, Jeff tells the story of the holiday his parents' marriage broke open: the Hail...
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Zach Bush on AI, Death and Biological Elegance
When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this episode, recorded live at The Kinn in Los Angeles, Jeff sits down with Dr. Zach Bush, a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine…
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Dad, I Got My Period: Getting a Little Better at Fatherhood (Dispatch 17)
The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.In this episode, Jeff plays a round of Frogger through stray shopping carts and bite-sized ballerinas to pick up Micah from rehearsal. Somewhere between the curb and Marshalls,...
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Love Is Freedom: Yung Pueblo on Lasting Relationships
What if love isn't about sacrifice and limitation, but is actually the thing that sets you free? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diego Perez, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and meditator known as Yung Pueblo, to talk about his book How to Love Better. Diego shares how hitting rock...
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A Steady Hand on the Wheel: What My Daughter Taught Me About Safety (Dispatch 16)
Jeff Krasno spent years driving his family through the most terrifying stretch of I-95 there is: the dark part after New Haven. His daughter remembers it as the safest she ever felt. In this episode, Jeff recounts the family's white-knuckle night drives to a Connecticut cottage — deer carcasses,...
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Why Your Body Feels Like a Dead Battery with Wade Lightheart
Every cell in your body holds an electrical charge, and Wade Lightheart says most of the fatigue, pain, and brain fog people chalk up to aging is really a battery running low on potassium, not a diet problem. In this episode, Jeff talks with Wade, co-founder of BiOptimizers and a former Mr....
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Thirty Years, Three Words: Our Marriage Finds Its Way Back to Paris (Dispatch 15)
Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often. When he finally does, on a bridge in Paris thirty years after he and Schuyler first fell for the city — and each other — her face tells him exactly why that's true. In this episode, a family return trip becomes a quiet reckoning with time: a street puppeteer's...
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How Kids Learn to Trust, with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau turns this conversation with Jeff into a question most of us don't ask directly: what do we actually pass down to our kids, and what can we choose not to? Sophie, a mental health advocate, author, and former first partner of Canada, draws on attachment theory to explain…
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The Blue Door: A Paris Street Party I Could Never Find Again (Dispatch 14)
Jet-lagged and wandering solo through Paris's Latin Quarter, Jeff slips through an unmarked blue door and stumbles into a hidden courtyard mid street-party — wine, a stranger's guitar, a dance circle pulling in everyone within reach. The next day, he can't find it again. In this episode, Jeff...
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Michael Pollan on Consciousness, AI, and the Self
Can artificial intelligence ever be conscious? Michael Pollan says no, and at the Harvest Series in Kaplankaya, he lays out exactly why, starting with what he calls a faulty metaphor: the idea that the brain is a computer. Jeff and Pollan dig into consciousness science, plant sentience, and the...
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The Inferno: Dante Never Had to Sit Through a Dance Comp (Dispatch 13)
Dante reserved his ninth circle for traitors, frozen for eternity. Jeff reserves it for competition dads who risk a bathroom break and miss their daughter's 90-second routine. In this episode, Jeff catalogs the special purgatory of the competition dance dad — the 5:30 a.m. wake-ups, the backstage...
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GLP-1s, Anhedonia, and the Dopamine Trade-Off with Dr. Robin Berzin
A low dose of tirzepatide, taken purely to move the needle on cholesterol, turned out to move a lot more than that. In this episode, Jeff sits down again with Dr. Robin Berzin, founder of Parsley Health, to go through his bloodwork and an unexpected side effect: a blunting of desire that shows up...
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The Half-Known Life: A Birthday in the ER (Dispatch 12)
On her birthday, in a rented house in Hanalei, Jeff's daughter can't stop vomiting — and nothing he does helps. In this episode, Jeff traces a frightening hospital stay in Kauai back through years of guesswork about her health — probiotics, boundaries, arguments over medication — and finds, in a...
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Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell on Cooperation at Scale
Seventy thousand people build a city in the desert, survive on almost nothing they didn't bring themselves, and take it all down again — with no trash cans and no cleanup crew. This conversation was filmed live on the Aegean coast in Kaplankaya, Turkey, at Harvest Series, an annual thought...
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Code Switch: A Field Guide to Embarrassing Your Kid at Drop-Off (Dispatch 11)
Jeff has a field-tested method for embarrassing his daughters: impromptu pull-ups on subway scaffolding, a wake-up song called "School Days," and a rotating cast of accents that would make a dialect coach wince.In this episode, Jeff traces the accents — a southern drawl for Matthew McConaughey, a...
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The 82% Miscarriage Myth, Covid Vaccines and the Fauci Texts
Eighty-two percent of pregnant women who got a COVID vaccine early in pregnancy miscarried — that's the claim now ricocheting across the internet, revived by newly released Fauci text messages and repeated to millions on Joe Rogan's podcast. In this bonus episode, Jeff walks through where that...
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Marianne Williamson on the DNC, Trump, and the 2026 Midterms
Marianne Williamson keeps a ticker running on her Substack, counting down the days to the midterms. In this episode, she and Jeff dig into why she thinks these midterms may be the last chance for a truly free and fair election in 2028, walk through the DNC dysfunction and the rise of the DSA, and...
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Letting Go — Phoebe Leaves for Paris (Dispatch 10)
Tonight, Phoebe is sleeping in her childhood bedroom for the last time. Tomorrow she boards a flight to Paris, where she's starting college six thousand miles from the house she grew up in. In this episode, Jeff walks through Phoebe's final night at home: cooking dinner together one more time,...
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Body Composition After 40 with Dr. Joey Munoz
After 40, testosterone drops, muscle mass shrinks by 3 to 8% per decade, and the scale stops telling the truth about what's actually happening to your body. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dr. Joey Munoz, a body composition coach and founder of Strong Standard, to break down what's really...
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A Most Essential Oil: Lost Luggage, Lavender, and a Family Trip to France (Dispatch 9)
Jeff's lavender obsession has always been a family joke — until it's the only thing that gets his bag back. In this episode, Jeff traces a family trip to the lavender fields of Provence that spirals into a canceled flight, a four-hour security line in 100-degree heat, and ten days of missing...
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Fauci: Sinner or Saint? What the Diaries Really Show
Eighty-five years old, under subpoena, and asked the same question until he pled the Fifth 111 times. To Senator Rand Paul, that looks like a confession. In this episode, part of "The Middle Way" series, Jeff Krasno tries to hold two true things at once: Fauci's diaries reveal real vanity and...
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No Diapers, No Staying Home: Two Rules That Backfired at a Brooklyn Party (Dispatch 8)
Schuyler had two rules for raising babies: no diapers, and no staying home.In this episode, Jeff explains how letting his daughters toddle around bare-bottomed sped up potty-training, and how refusing to curb their social life meant babies at yoga retreats, dinner parties, and late nights with...
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Momgevity: Redefining Longevity for Busy Moms with Dr. Robin Berzin
What does longevity actually look like when you have three kids, a full-time job, and zero time for cold plunges? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dr. Robin Berzin, founder and CEO of Parsley Health, to talk about momgevity, her term for longevity through the lens of motherhood. They explore:...
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Pirate's Booty: Life on the Road with the Wanderlust Circus (Dispatch 7)
Before the girls hit menarche, they trailed rainbow sorbet, tie-dye, and enough Pirate's Booty to leave a breadcrumb trail across every airport in North America. In this episode, Jeff remembers the summers his family spent touring with the Wanderlust yoga festivals: one squeaky roller bag, three...
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GLP-1s Gave Me the Ick: A Personal Metabolic Experiment
Ten pounds in two weeks. No hunger. No craving for coffee or alcohol. This is Jeff’s personal, week-by-week account of starting tirzepatide (sold as Zepbound), tracked through blood sugar, cholesterol markers, and a noticeable dimming of everyday motivation and joy. What changed in the first two...
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Brain Defenders: Reversing Alzheimer’s Risk with Dr. David Perlmutter
Alzheimer's isn't just a diagnosis that shows up in old age. It's a slow metabolic unraveling that can start decades before the first symptom. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dr. David Perlmutter, a board-certified neurologist and author of the new book Brain Defenders (out August 18), to...
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A Bedtime Fairy Tale: How I Met Your Mother, Twenty-Five Years Later (Dispatch 6)
On his 25th wedding anniversary, Jeff tucks his daughter Micah into bed and tells her a fairy tale — except this one is true. It's the story of how he met her mother. In this episode, that story unfolds: a freshman art history class in 1988, a late entrance, a grapefruit, and instant infatuation....
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Trauma Is the Wound, Not the Event: Dr. Gabor Maté
Trauma isn't what happened to you, it's the wound it left behind. In this episode, Jeff revisits his conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté, physician and author, exploring why the effects of trauma can outlast the event itself, and why chronic illness is so often the body asking us to pay attention.…
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Being There: Fathering Daughters Into Adolescence (Dispatch 5)
To his three daughters, Jeff is just "there" — a treasured family heirloom, the silver platter that lives on the shelf and rarely gets used. In this episode, Jeff surfaces from five delirious days of stomach flu, his girls recording TikTok dances around his sickbed, and uses the quiet to trace…
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Is This Right for Me? Nicotine for Focus and the Zyn Boom
Andrew Huberman has talked about it. Joe Rogan uses it. Nicotine for focus has become one of the loudest trends in optimization culture, marketed as a clean stimulant for your prefrontal cortex. In this episode, the "Is This Right for Me?" series separates the real pharmacology from the…
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My Brest Friend: The Co-Sleeping Years (Dispatch 4)
The early years of parenthood are spent almost entirely in bed — and almost never asleep. In this episode, Jeff revisits the co-sleeping years: a toddler who slept sideways, turning three bodies into a capital "H" and pushing both parents to the far edges of a California King; the strange comfort...
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Comedy, Resilience, and the New Late Night with Ben Gleib
Late-night comedy isn't dying. It's being rebuilt outside the corporate system. In this episode, Jeff sits down with comedian Ben Gleib, host and creator of "Good Night with Ben Gleib," the first creator-owned late-night talk show built for YouTube, to talk about comedy, resilience, and why...
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Prada Handbag: Micah, Our Miraculous Mistake (Dispatch 3)
Two kids, you play man-to-man. Three, and suddenly you're outnumbered and forced into zone defense, not to mention a Toyota Highlander with a third row. Micah was Jeff & Schuyler’s third daughter, the one they never planned to have. This week, Jeff tells the birth story of his third daughter…
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Peptide Therapy: Healing, Longevity, and GLP-1s with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer
What if the goal isn't just living longer, but feeling vital the whole way through? Peptides have jumped from the fringe to the mainstream, and most of what you'll find online comes from dubiously credentialed sources. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer, an emergency…
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A Little Wave Washes Ashore: Ondine, aka Lolli (Dispatch 2)
When the contractions were two minutes apart, Jeff's phone chirped out the opening riff of Ice Ice Baby. That was the ringtone for Kara, the midwife. He picked up and she said, "Are you sitting down?" She wasn't coming. This week, Jeff tells the birth story of his second daughter, Ondine, aka…
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AI, Cognitive Overload, and Peak Performance with Steven Kotler
We have godlike technology running on brains that haven't had an upgrade in millions of years. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Steven Kotler, peak performance expert and founder of the Flow Research Collective, to explore how exponential technology is reshaping our minds, our food systems…
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Phoebe, Once Nadia: My Introduction to Fatherhood & Home Birth (Dispatch 1)
Jeff Krasno didn't expect to become a home birth convert. When his wife Schuyler handed him a pregnancy test on Christmas morning 2003, everything changed. In this episode, Jeff shares the birth story of their eldest daughter, tracing the unlikely path from a cramped Manhattan seminar with...
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Introducing Diaries of a Dance Dad: Life Lessons From the Clutter of Parenthood
Parenthood can feel like a never-ending carpool. But every so often, buried somewhere in the immense haystack of putrid adolescent laundry, you step on a spiritual needle… and experience a satori. Diaries of a Dance Dad is a podcast about raising three daughters, Jeff Krasno's beloved estrogen...
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Menopause, Hormones, and Spiritual Healing with Gabby Bernstein
Gabby Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author and spiritual teacher, spent years in perimenopause without ever naming it, until menopause hit at 44 and she came out the other side in what she calls a kind of resurrection. In this episode, she and Jeff trace that path: the unraveling, the...
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Is This Right for Me? Cold Plunges: Mood, Metabolism & the Wim Hof Method, Decoded
Cold water immersion went from niche ritual to wellness status symbol in about five years. But what does putting your body in an ice bath actually accomplish? In this episode, Jeff weighs cold plunge benefits with enthusiasm and skepticism both fully switched on, from the catecholamine surge to...
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The Menopause Gut: How Hormones Shape Your Microbiome with Cynthia Thurlow
What happens to your gut when estrogen declines? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Cynthia Thurlow, nurse practitioner and author of The Menopause Gut, to explore the overlooked connection between hormones and digestive health. How declining estradiol impacts the microbiome and increases...
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Is This Right for Me? NAD+: Why the "Longevity Molecule" Story Just Got Complicated
NAD+ has become the longevity industry's favorite molecule, sold as as a supplement and as a four-hour IV that promises sharper thinking, more energy, and slower aging. But a new 2026 paper complicates the very story it was built on. In this episode, Jeff breaks down what NAD+ actually is, what…
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Waking Up with Sam Harris: Mindfulness, Non-Duality, and the Illusion of the Self
How do you regulate your nervous system in a world built to hijack it? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Sam Harris, neuroscientist, author, and creator of the Waking Up meditation app, for part two of a two-part conversation. After diagnosing the political chaos in part one, they pivot to the...
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Is This Right for Me? Liver Detoxes: Milk Thistle, Juice Cleanses, and the Real Evidence
Liver detoxes are a $10 billion industry. The liver is also the most regenerative organ in the body, running its own continuous cleanse without your help. In this episode of The Commune Podcast, Jeff Krasno walks through what's actually known about liver health, from juice cleanses to gallbladder...
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Making Sense of the Chaos with Sam Harris: Politics, Tribalism, and the Outrage Machine
Sam Harris has two brains. One is making sense of the political chaos. The other is waking up from it. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Sam Harris, neuroscientist, author, and host of the Making Sense podcast, for part one of a two-part conversation on surviving the modern world with your...
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Is This Right for Me? Creatine: Muscle, Brain, and Aging
Creatine is one of the most researched and most misunderstood compounds in the supplement aisle. In this episode, Jeff walks through what the evidence actually says about creatine for muscle, brain health, aging, and women's health, and where the legitimate cautions sit. Inside: How…
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Emotional Longevity: Breaking the Overwhelm Loop with Elisha Goldstein
Your diet, sleep, and exercise won't save you if your nervous system is chronically on fire. In this episode, Jeff talks with Elisha Goldstein — psychologist and author of Tiny Shifts — about emotional longevity: what it is, why it matters for aging, and how to start building it today. The...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Commune Podcast is where we explore the ideas and practices that help us live healthy, connected, purpose-filled lives. Each week host Jeff Krasno speaks with teachers, spiritual leaders, doctors, and storytellers on topics related to personal and societal well-being — from nutrition and integrative medicine to spirituality and personal growth to environmental regeneration and civic engagement. In addition to being a podcast, Commune is also an online course platform with more than 100 full-length video courses with top teachers such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Mark Hyman, Adriene Mishler, and many others.
Learn more at onecommune.com.
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