#8: Jeremy Mohler - On Trauma, Modern Masculinity, and the Importance of Knowing Your Roots

Looks Like We're Lost

Jeremy Mohler is a writer who actively advocates for public institutions that work for all of us, not just the wealthy few. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Jacobin, and elsewhere. Jeremy is also a mindfulness coach. His podcast, Meditation for the 99%, takes meditation out of faraway monasteries, expensive retreat centers, and corporate America, and brings it to navigating work, relationships, and, especially, politics.

Tommy and Dusty talk to Jeremy about the past weeks' events in Washington DC, how the trauma impacted locals versus those of us watching events on the news. They also discuss whether masculinity is useful, detrimental or simply outdated in the modern world before touching on the value of knowing your family's heritage and history as a white person in America.

You can follow Jeremy on Instagram or Twitter @futuredebris or on his website: http://jeremymohler.blog

Finding Ourselves QoW: What's something mean that was said to me in my childhood that I carry to this day? What would I say to my younger self now?

Tommy's Recommendation: The Undoing on HBO

Dusty's Recommendation: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Jeremy's Recommendation: The Work, a documentary taking you inside the human transformation of group therapy in prison.

Books recommended in this podcast include: Birth of a White Nation by Jacqueline Battalora, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk