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Join Dr. Pedram Shojai, New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed filmmaker, for deep conversations about living with balance and purpose in our chaotic modern world.
As "The Urban Monk," Dr. Shojai brings a unique perspective as a former Taoist monk, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Qigong Master, and creator of multiple documentary series including "Interconnected," "Gateway to Health," and "Trauma."
Each week, he explores the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science with leading experts, sharing practical tools for stress management, energy optimization, and conscious living. Whether you're a busy executive, overwhelmed parent, or anyone seeking more meaning and less chaos, this podcast provides actionable insights for transforming your daily life.
Dr. Shojai is the author of bestselling books including "The Urban Monk," "Inner Alchemy," "The Art of Stopping Time," and "Focus." His no-nonsense approach combines Eastern philosophy with Western practicality, making ancient wisdom accessible for modern living.
Perfect for listeners interested in mindfulness, wellness, productivity, and personal development. New episodes every week.
🎧 Featured Topics: Stress Management, Energy Healing, Mindfulness, Productivity, Ancient Wisdom, Modern Wellness, Work-Life Balance, Conscious Living
📚 Books: The Urban Monk, Inner Alchemy, The Art of Stopping Time, Focus
🎬 Documentaries: Interconnected, Gateway to Health, Trauma, Conscious Parenting
🌐 Website: theurbanmonk.com
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Decision Fatigue Is Not a Character Flaw, It's Architecture
🎙️ Somewhere between 4 and 7 PM, simple questions start to feel heavy, patience runs thin, and small frustrations trigger outsized reactions. Dr. Pedram Shojai calls it decision fatigue and argues it is not a character flaw but a measurabl
The Dopamine Trap: Your Phone Is a Slot Machine
🎙️ Why do you keep picking up your phone, scanning it, and putting it back down without feeling any better? Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down the dopamine trap: how dopamine drives wanting rather than liking, and how technology built on slot m
Loneliness Is Not a Mood: Why Being Known Is a Biological Necessity
🎙️ How many people in your life genuinely know you? Not like you, not admire you, but actually know you? Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks the science of loneliness and why it is one of the most dangerous states the human body can live in. Drawing
Perfectionism Is Not a Personality Trait
🎙️ One more revision, one more check, and the thing that matters just sits there. Dr. Pedram Shojai reframes perfectionism not as a personality trait or a badge of high standards, but as an adaptive response to an environment where love an
Why Sleep Is Your Most Important Health Practice
🎙️ You spend roughly a third of your life asleep, and most of us treat it as dead time after the real day ends. Dr. Pedram Shojai turns that framing around. Sleep is not your brain going offline. It is a distinct mode of consciousness doin
My 100-Day Gong Is Done: The Real Science of Keeping Your Word
🎙️ Day 100. Dr. Pedram Shojai marks the completion of his personal 100-day gong and uses the milestone to unpack what actually happens when someone commits to a daily practice for 100 consecutive days. He debunks the popular myth that habi
Live Fully By Facing Mortality
🎙️ What would shift in you if you knew, with total certainty, that you had one year left to live? Dr. Pedram Shojai opens with that question and a personal story from Varanasi, where he witnessed cremation rituals on the Ganges. Drawing on
The Predictive Brain
🎙️ Your brain doesn't record reality. It predicts it. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks predictive processing, the neuroscience showing that the brain constantly generates a model of what it expects to happen and treats sensory input only as error
Your Brain's Most Expensive Habit
🎙️ Your brain's most expensive habit isn't scrolling, overthinking, or multitasking. It's the default mode network, and it's running the show nearly half your waking hours. Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down the neuroscience of mind wandering,
The Mitochondrial Root of Being Wired and Tired
🎙️ Feeling wired and exhausted at the same time, and sleep isn't fixing it? Dr. Pedram Shojai traces that specific kind of tired back to mitochondria: not just the powerhouse of the cell from high school biology, but ancient bacterial colo
Fascia: The Sensory Organ No One Taught You About
🎙️ Your fascia is not just packaging. It's a sensory organ. Dr. Pedram Shojai introduces fascia as a continuous connective tissue web running from feet to skull, densely innervated with mechanoreceptors that contract under stress and relea
The Gut Is Talking: How Your Second Brain Actually Runs Your Mood
🎙️ Your gut isn't reacting to your emotions. It's generating a large share of them. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks the real science behind the gut-brain connection, showing that the vagus nerve carries roughly ninety percent of its signals upwa
Your Bad Mood Might Be Inflammation
🎙️ Your bad mood might not be psychological. It might be inflammation. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks psychoneuroimmunology, the decades-old field showing the brain and immune system are in constant two-way communication, and explains how chron
Your Nervous System Has a Ladder
🎙️ Most people oscillate between stressed and crashed without ever finding ease. Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down why that's not a willpower problem, it's an architecture problem. Drawing on Stephen Porges's polyvagal theory and Deb Dana's la
The Noise Pollution Crisis
🎙️ You've stopped noticing the noise. But your body hasn't. Dr. Pedram Shojai opens with a live listening experiment revealing how much sound we're swimming in without realizing it, then builds a clinical case for why chronic noise is one
How to Stop Living Outside the Present Moment
🎙️ The past has no location. It cannot be found, weighed, or measured. Dr. Pedram Shojai builds a scientific and contemplative case for why the present moment is the only place anything is actually happening. Drawing on Einstein, Carlo Rov
Money Stress Is a Body Problem
🎙️ Your nervous system reads a low bank balance the same way it reads a predator. Dr. Pedram Shojai opens by naming what wellness spaces rarely do: money stress is not a mindset problem, it's a documented biological process with measurable
The Pain Body & The Somatic Witness Practice
🎙️ Have you ever been flooded by a feeling that had nothing to do with what was in front of you? Dr. Pedram Shojai explores the pain body, the accumulated emotional residue stored in the body that triggers disproportionate reactions in eve
How Sensory Starvation Is Dimming Your Emotional Life
🎙️ What if a significant portion of what gets diagnosed and medicated as depression isn't a chemical problem at all? Dr. Pedram Shojai makes the case that chronic sensory starvation, not a neurotransmitter deficiency, is driving much of th
The Toxic Burden Nobody Talks About
🎙️ What if your exhaustion has nothing to do with stress, sleep, or mental health, and everything to do with what's inside your walls, your water, and your air? Dr. Pedram Shojai shares the story of Marcus, a patient who spent four years e
Training Your Brain for Peak Performance
🎙️ What if your brain could learn in hours what normally takes years? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Dr. David Bach, serial entrepreneur and former physician now leading Optios, a company born from DARPA research on accelerating human pe
Chronoception: How to Restore Your Sense of Time
🎙️ Where did this year go? If time feels like it's slipping through your fingers and the days blur together, your chronoception is under attack. Dr. Pedram Shojai explores how the attention economy has systematically compromised your nervo
When You Reclaim Your Senses, You Reclaim Yourself
🎙️ When did you last actually taste your food or feel the temperature of air on your skin? Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down exteroception, your sensory connection to the external world, and why 11 hours of daily screen time is causing measura
The Sounds You Don't Hear Are Keeping You Wired
🎙️ The sounds you don't hear are keeping your nervous system wired. Dr. Pedram Shojai reflects on completing his 100-day gong practice and shares a powerful teaching on silence, sensory awareness, and what constant background stimulation i
Temporal Awareness: Where Your Mind Lives
🎙️ Most of us spend more than half our waking hours somewhere other than the present moment. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks temporal displacement, the chronic habit of living in the past or future, and why it quietly drives stress, poor decisio
Blue Vibe: The 40 Hz Device Reversing Cognitive Decline
🎙️ What if a wearable device using a single frequency could reverse mild cognitive decline in 30 days? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Mark Fox, former chief engineer for NASA contractor Morton Thiokol and creator of the Blue Vibe, a devi
Your Body Knows What Season It Is
🎙️ The spring equinox isn't just a date on the calendar. It's a biological signal your body is already responding to. Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down the science of seasonal biology, from circadian clocks ticking inside every cell to annual
Finding Presence When the World Feels Overwhelming
🎙️ When the world feels overwhelming, where do you put your attention? Dr. Pedram Shojai explores how to navigate anxiety and chaos by anchoring inward rather than being swept up in headlines and external noise. He shares his decision to r
Why You Can't Heal Without Feeling Safe First
🎙️ What if the missing piece in your healing isn't a better supplement or meditation app, but something simpler: feeling safe in your own body? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Dr. David Rabin, Stanford-trained psychiatrist and neuroscient
How Your Posture Creates Your Mood
🎙️ Your posture isn't just reflecting how you feel. It's creating it. Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down the bidirectional relationship between physical posture and emotional state, drawing on embodied cognition research, polyvagal theory, and
