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Simplicity Zen Podcast
by Simplicity Zen
A Podcast About Zen, Buddhism and Mindfulness. Episodes of this podcast will focus on Zen practitioner interviews, Buddhist and Zen history and investigations of the intersection between Zen and science. Podcast website: https://simplicityzen.com/
Episodes
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Ep. 106 - An Interview with Zen teacher Mitra Bishop (Zen Podcast)
Our guest in this episode is Mitra Bishop Roshi. She received a B.A. from Indiana University, raised two children, and worked in graphic, interior, and architectural design for many years. She first encountered Buddhism while living in Asia. She was ordained at the Rochester Zen Center, where she...
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Ep. 105 Fixed! - An Interview with Zen teacher Stephen Snyder (Zen Podcast)
Note: This is the second upload for this episode. The first one just the ending portion of the interview. This is the full version. Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi began practicing daily meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively—investigating and engaging in Zen, Tibetan,...
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Ep. 104 - An Interview with Zen Teacher Carolyn Seburn (Zen Podcast)
Carolyn Seburn is an authorized Dharma successor of Sei’un Roselyn Stone Rôshi of the Mountain Moon Sangha in Toronto and Brisbane. She has been practicing Zen meditation since 1985 and guiding Zen practice since 2015. Married, and parent to two young adults, Carolyn is also a retired wildlife...
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Ep. 103 - Zen and Responding to Emotionally Difficult Situations (Zen Dharma Talk)
In this dharma talk by Berry Crawford we will look at the practical ways that Zen allows us to deal with emotionally difficult situations in daily life. For more Zen interviews, dharma talks and online Zen training, visit: https://simplicityzen.com/
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Ep 102 - A conversation with Zen Priest Peter Coyote (Zen Podcast)
Peter Coyote is an actor, narrator, writer and Soto Zen priest. He was ordained as a Zen Priest in 2015 and received dharma transmission in 2016 from Chikudo Lewis Richmond in the Soto tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. For more podcast episodes and online Zen training visit:...
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Ep 101 - A conversation with pioneering Zen practitioner and leader Hugh Curran (Zen Podcast)
A conversation with pioneering Zen practitioner and leader Hugh Curran. In this episode we have a conversation with Hugh Curran. He is longtime practitioner, Zen retreat leader and professor of Peace and Reconciliation Studies at the University of Maine. Hugh was a key player in the early years…
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Ep 100 - Zen Interview with Genpo Roshi (Zen Podcast)
Genpo Roshi is Zen teacher who has trained in and taught within both the White Plum school of Buddhism. He was ordained as a Zen monk in October 1973 under Taizan Maezumi Roshi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles where he later served as Director. In September 1980, he received Dharma transmission…
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Ep. 99 - The Critical Importance of Attention in Zen Practice (Zen Dharma Talk)
In this dharma talk we look at the critical importance of attention in Zen Buddhist practice. Gambo Kyogan Berry Crawford first started practicing Zen meditation in 1992. He lived at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center and practiced as a resident in the mid 1990s. Afterwards, he practiced with Diane...
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Ep. 98 - Desire vs Craving in Buddhism (Zen Dharma Talk)
In this dharma talk we explore the differences between desire vs craving in Buddhism. Gambo Kyogan Berry Crawford first started practicing Zen meditation in 1992. He lived at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center and practiced as a resident in the mid 1990s. Afterwards, he practiced with Diane “Eshin”...
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Ep 97 - Zen Interview with Kokyo Henkel #2 (Zen Podcast)
In this episode with Kokyo we discuss various topics like solo Zen retreats, koan training, Dzogchen, psychedelics and his hermitage. Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990, in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley,...
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Ep 96 - Zen Interview with Seiso Paul Cooper #2 (Zen Podcast)
Seiso Paul Cooper is an ordained priest and a transmitted teacher in the lineage of Dainin Katagiri. He has practiced and studied in both the Soto and the Rinzai traditions. He began his formal practice in 1980 and received Dharma transmission from Sojun Diane Martin Roshi. He is the founder and...
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Ep. 95 - "Showing Up" (Zen Dharma Talk)
This a recorded Simplicity Zen Dharma talk by Gambo Kyogan Berry Crawford on the topic of "Showing Up". More information about Simplicity Zen Here: https://simplicityzen.com/ Podcasts Dharma Talks Online Zen Training Speaker Bio: Gambo Kyogan Berry Crawford first started practicing Zen meditation...
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Ep 94 - Zen Interview with Stephen Slottow Part II (Zen Podcast)
Stephen a long time Zen koan practitioner and a professor of music theory at the University of North Texas. He was a professional fiddler and banjo player and an author of a book on the Americanization of Zen Chanting. This is part 2 of our discussion. You can find our earlier conversation as…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Ep. 93 - Zen Inquiry with the Bodhisattva Precepts (Dharma Talk)
In this talk we explore how to work with the Zen Bodhisattva Precepts using an inquiry approach. Speaker Bio: Gambo Kyogan Berry Crawford first started practicing Zen meditation in 1992. He lived at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center and practiced as a resident in the mid 1990s. Afterwards, he...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 92 - An Interview with James Ishmael Ford (The Zen Lamp Series)
James Ishmael Ford is a Zen teacher and semi-retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He has dharma transmission from Houn Jiyu Kennett and Inka Shomei from John Nanryu Ji'un-ken Tarrant. He is the guiding teacher of the Empty Moon Sangha. For more about James: - http://www.jamesishmaelford.com/...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 91 - An Interview with Gambo Berry Crawford (The Zen Lamp Series)
Berry Crawford first started practicing Zen meditation in 1992. He lived at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center and practiced as a resident in the mid 1990s. Afterwards, he practiced with Diane “Eshin” Rizzetto in the Ordinary Mind Zen School started by Joko Beck. Later, Berry became a student of John...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 90 - An Interview with Peter Levitt (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Zen Teacher Eihei Peter Levitt Eihei Peter Levitt is the founder and guiding teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, where he resides with his wife, poet Shirley Graham. He was authorized as a Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 89 - An Interview with Katherine Daiki Senshin Griffith (The Zen Lamp Series)
Katherine Daiki Senshin Griffith is the Head Teacher at the Zen Center of Los Angelos. She started studying Zen in the Rinzai tradition at New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in Manhattan in 1987. At Dai Bosatsu Zendo, she received Jukai in 1994 from Eido Shimano Roshi, with whom she studied until 2000, when...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 88 - An Interview with Teshin Matthew Sweger (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Zen Teacher and Priest Teshin Matthew Sweger Teshin Matthew Sweger is the teacher and resident priest at the North Carolina Zen Center. He was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 2004 by Lawson Sachter Roshi, a Dharma successor to Philip Kapelau Roshi. After completing the...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 87 - An Interview with Dr Sono Andrew Tootell (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Zen Teacher Dr Sono Andrew Tootell Dr Sono Andrew Tootell is an Australian Zen teacher in the Ordinary Mind Zen School. He is the dharma heir of Barry Magid and is an accredited mental health social worker and maintains a private psychotherapy practice. He is the teacher for the...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 86 - An Interview with Adam Fogel (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Rabbi and Zen Teacher Adam Fogel Adam Fogel is a practicing Jewish Rabbi and long time Zen practitioner with authorization from his guiding Zen teacher, Ruben Habito Roshi, to offer Zen training within the context of Jewish high holiday retreats. He is also a licensed and...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 85 - An Interview with Stephen Slottow (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Zen practitioner and Music/Chanting Scholar Stephen Slottow Stephen Slottow is a long time Zen koan practitioner and a professor of music theory at he University of North Texas. He was a professional fiddler and banjo player and an author of a book on the Americanization of Zen...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 84 - An Interview with Bobby Chowa Werner (The Zen Lamp Series)
Bobby Chowa Werner is a dharma holder, or assistant teacher, in the White Plum Zen tradition. He has been a student of Roshi Anne Seisen Saunders since 2005 at the Sweetwater Zen Center in the San Diego California area. Chowa’s livelihood is in the music industry, composing and producing music…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 83 - An Interview with Koshin Paley Ellison (The Zen Lamp Series)
Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and ACPE Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After working more than a decade as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Koshin began his formal Zen training in…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 82 - An Interview with Rev. Keiryū Liên Shutt (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rev. Keiryū Liên Shutt (she/they) is a recognized leader in the movement that breaks through the wall of American white-centered convert Buddhism to welcome people of all backgrounds into a contemporary, engaged Buddhism. As an ordained Soto Zen priest, licensed social worker, and longtime...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 81 - An Interview with Mushim Patricia Ikeda (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Mushim Patricia Ikeda Mushim Patricia Ikeda is a Buddhist teacher ordained in the Korean Sŏn (Zen) tradition. She is also an author, poet, mentor, and community activist. She teaches meditation retreats for people of color, women, and social justice activists nationally and is a...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 80 - An Interview with Kogen Czarnik (The Zen Lamp Series)
Kogen Czarnik is a full Soto Zen priest (Osho) in the lineage of Tangen Harada Roshi. He began Zen practiice in 2003 in Poland, and soon after graduating from college he went to Japan to practice Dharma in a traditional monastic context. Since then, he has been practicing at monasteries such as...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 79 - An Interview with Helen Hobart (The Zen Lamp Series)
Helen Hobart is an ordained Vietnamese Zen practitioner and community leader. In 2010 she was ordained at Plum Village into Order of Interbeing where she was given the dharma name "True Sacred Clouds". She is a board certified chaplain and works professionally in that field. She has been the on…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 78 - An Interview with Korin Charlie Pokorny (The Zen Lamp Series)
Korin Charlie Pokorny is a Soto Zen priest and was ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1999 and then received dharma transmission from him in 2018. He studied koans with Daniel Terragno under whom he completed Harada/Yasutani koan curriculum. He has a Masters degree from Stanford University in...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 77 - An Interview with Shinko Andreas Hagn (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Soto Zen Priest and Teacher Shinko Andreas Hagn Shinko Andreas Hagn is the founder and teacher of Daijihi, a Soto Zen sangha in Viena Austria. He received jukai by Ryuten Rosenblum Roshi, a successor of Baker Roshi in 2011 and was ordained as a priest in 2019. His ordination...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 76 - An Interview with Tim Burkett (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Soto Zen Priest, Zen Teacher and Author Tim Burkett Tim Burkett is Zen priest, Zen teacher and retired licensed Ph.D. psychologist. Tim was the Guiding Teacher of Minnesota Zen Meditation Center from 2002-2019 and the retired CEO of one of Minnesota's largest non-profit mental...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 75 - An Interview with David Isurushin Shapiro (The Zen Lamp Series)
An Interview with Soto Zen Priest David Isurushin Shapiro. David Shapiro is a Zen priest in the Clear Mind Zen lineage which flows through pioneering Soto Zen priest Sōyū Matsuoka Roshi. He received Dharma Transmission from John Shoji Sorensen Roshi and lives and practices in Reno, Nevada. He is…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 74 - An Interview with Tatsudo Nicole Baden (The Zen Lamp Series)
Tatsudo Nicole Baden is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi in the Dharma Sangha Soto Zen Lineage. She has been practicing Zen since 2001 and received Dharma Transmission in 2017. She graduated as a psychologist from the University of Oldenburg in 2008. She also trained at the ‘School for...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 73 - An Interview with Hozan Alan Senauke (The Zen Lamp Series)
Hozan Alan Senauke is a Soto Zen priest, Zen teacher, folk musician and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center, where he currently serves as Abbot. He is a former Executive Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), holding that position from 1991 to 2001. Senauke received Dharma...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 72 - An Interview with Jay Rinsen Weik (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi is the Abbot of the Buddhist Temple of Toledo. He received Dharma Transmission from Rev. James Myoun Ford Roshi in 2014. He begain his practice in 1987 with John Daido Loori Roshi at the Zen Mountain Monastery in New York and received jukai from him in 1998. He later...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 71 - An Interview with Seiso Paul Cooper (The Zen Lamp Series)
Seiso Paul Cooper is the guiding the guiding teacher for the Two Rivers Zen Community and also for the Realizational Practice Studies Project. He was ordained as a priest and received dharma transmission from Soto priest Sojun Diane Martin. Seiso is also a practicing psychoanalyst and is the…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 70 - An Interview with Edward Oberholtzer (The Zen Lamp Series)
Rev. Edward Keido Sanshin Oberholtzer is a Soto Zen priest and a Dharma heir of James Myuon Ford, Roshi. Edward is a member of Empty Moon Zen, and has practiced Zen for the past twenty years. He is the head teacher of the Joseph Priestley Zen Community. More About Edward: -...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 69 - An Interview with Taylor Guthrie (The Zen Lamp Series)
Taylor Guthrie is Doctoral Student and teacher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. He runs the The Cellular Republic Youtube channel that makes neuroscience accessible without being dumbed down. In this podcast episode we explore the "Social Self" and its relationship to...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 68 - An Interview with Shana Smith (The Zen Lamp Series)
Shana Smith is an assistant Zen teacher under Valerie Forstman in the Sanbo Zen tradition and a long time Yoga teacher. She is the facilitator of Florida Sanbo Zen and she continues her studies under Henry Shukman, Valerie Forstman and Ruben Habito. She is additionally an author and singer...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 67 - An Interview with David Jitsusan Vititoe (The Zen Lamp Series)
David Jitsusan Vititoe has been practicing Zen since 2005 and received Dharma Transmission from Fusho Roshi in 2019. Dave is a Lay Monk in the Open Mind Zen school and is a current member of the Lay Zen Teacher’s Association. He currently lives in Melbourne, Florida. More about David and Open…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 66 - Zen Buddhism, Science and Self Identity (Science of Zen Series)
A high-level look at how and why the brain creates a sense of self-identity and how this relates to the Buddhist concept of the five aggregates. We also explore why having a self-identity can lead to pervasive human discontentment. For more on the Simplicity Zen Podcast: - https://simplicityzen.com/
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 65 - An Interview with Marc Lesser (The Zen Lamp Series)
Marc Lesser is a Soto Zen priest and head teacher of Mill Valley Zen in Marin County California. He was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years including director of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He received dharma transmission in the Shunryū Suzuki lineage by Dairyu Michael...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 64 - An Interview with Jim Tabor (The Zen Lamp Series)
Zen, Martial Arts, Budo and Shugyo - An interview with Rinzai Zen Practitioner Jim Tabor Jim Tabor is longtime Rinzai Zen practitioner and a founding board member of the Korinji Rinzai Zen monastery Foundation. He is one of the moderators of the Rinzai Zen Discussion group on Facebook. In…
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 63 - An Interview with Ruben Habito Roshi (The Zen Lamp Series)
Ruben Habito Roshi is the founding teacher of the Maria Kan-non Zen Center. He is a former Jesuit priest and now a Zen teacher practicing in the Sanbo Zen lineage which was founded by Yaustani Roshi in Japan. He received Dharma transmission from Yamada Koun in 1988. He is a faculty member at...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 62 - An Interview with Dr. Jud Brewer (Science of Zen and Buddhism)
Dr. Jud Brewer, a practicing Buddhist, is the director of mindfulness research as well as a professor at Brown University. Additionally, he is the executive medical director of behavioral health at a digital healthcare company called Sharecare. He has published numerous scientific studies as well...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 61 - A second Interview with Corey Hess (The Zen Lamp Series)
Corey Hess is a longtime Rinzai Zen practitioner who studied with renowned Zen master Shodo Harada Roshi in Japan. He maintains the Zen Embodiment website, The Energy Collective practice group and the Internal Process with Corey Hess Facegroup. Corey joins us for a second time and this episode we...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 59 - An Interview with Doug Kraft (The Zen Lamp Series)
Doug Kraft is a Buddhist teacher, Counselor, author and ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. He has a Masters in Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley. His most recent book is "Resting in the Waves". In this podcast episode we discuss his practice journey and explore...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 58 - An Interview with Gregory Wonderwheel (The Zen Lamp Series)
Gregory Wonderwheel is a prolific translator of Buddhist scriptures and an apprentice Zen teacher under Daniel Terragno at the Rocks and Clouds Zendo in Sebastopol, California. https://wonderwheels.blogspot.com/ Simplicity Zen Podcast: https://simplicityzen.com/
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 57 - An Interview with Tony Wallin-Sato (The Zen Lamp Series)
Tony Wallin-Sato is a Zen practitioner, author, poet, program director for Project Rebound (a program to help formally incarcerated individuals succeed in the CSU system) and a board member of the Boundless Freedom Project (an organization that brings Dharma and mindfulness to incarcerated...
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Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 56 - An Interview with Sozui Schubert (The Zen Lamp Series)
An interview with Rinzai priest and Zen teacher Sozui Schubert. Sozui Schubert is the teacher at Hidden Valley Zen Center in San Marcos California. She was ordained by legendary Zen Mater Shodo Harada Roshi and studied with him for decades at Sogen-ji, his monastery in Okayama, Japan. At the...
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A Podcast About Zen, Buddhism and Mindfulness. Episodes of this podcast will focus on Zen practitioner interviews, Buddhist and Zen history and investigations of the intersection between Zen and science. Podcast website: https://simplicityzen.com/
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