Commune with Jeff Krasno
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.
Episodes
799 episodes
Don’t Trust the Experts? Media, Big Pharma, and Real Skepticism
Somewhere between “trust no one” and “trust the experts” is a harder and more honest position.
Is Telepathy Real? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on the Science of Connection
Have you ever thought of someone right before they called? Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says that's not a coincidence.
My Father’s Feet: Jazz, Hospice & Saying Goodbye to My Dad
For twenty years, Jeff’s father wore a pinstriped Brooks Brothers suit every day, riding the Metro-North from Connecticut to an office on 45th and First.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
Dad, I Got My Period: Getting a Little Better at Fatherhood
The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.
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?
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.
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
Thirty Years, Three Words: Our Marriage Finds Its Way Back to Paris
Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often.
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
The Blue Door: A Paris Street Party I Could Never Find Again
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
Michael Pollan on Consciousness, AI, and the Self
Can artificial intelligence ever be conscious?
The Inferno: Dante Never Had to Sit Through a Dance Comp (Dispatch 13)
Dante reserved his ninth circle for traitors, frozen for eternity.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Letting Go — Phoebe Leaves for Paris (Dispatch 10)
Tonight, Phoebe is sleeping in her childhood bedroom for the last time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
GLP-1s Gave Me the Ick: A Personal Metabolic Experiment
Ten pounds in two weeks. No hunger. No craving for coffee or alcohol.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is This Right for Me? Nicotine for Focus and the Zyn Boom
Andrew Huberman has talked about it. Joe Rogan uses it.
My Brest Friend: The Co-Sleeping Years (Dispatch 4)
The early years of parenthood are spent almost entirely in bed — and almost never asleep.
Comedy, Resilience, and the New Late Night with Ben Gleib
Late-night comedy isn't dying. It's being rebuilt outside the corporate system.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Introducing Diaries of a Dance Dad: Life Lessons From the Clutter of Parenthood
Parenthood can feel like a never-ending carpool.
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
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?
The Menopause Gut: How Hormones Shape Your Microbiome with Cynthia Thurlow
What happens to your gut when estrogen declines?
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is This Right for Me? Should You Get a Galleri Test or a Full-Body MRI?
A single blood draw promises to screen for more than fifty cancers. A full-body MRI can capture you head to thigh in under an hour.
Small Challenges, Big Change: Light Watkins on Transformation That Actually Sticks
Most transformation fails because we're aiming at the wrong thing. We want change, but what we're actually chasing is presence.
Is This Right for Me? Sleep Trackers: Do Oura and Whoop Actually Help You Sleep?
You wake up feeling rested, check your Oura Ring, and suddenly you're tired.
Purpose Is the Strategy: Building a Billion-Dollar Wellness Business with Radek Sali
What does it actually take to scale a mission-driven company to more than $2 billion in revenue?
Is This Right for Me? Melatonin: The Truth About Dose, Timing, and Sleep
Melatonin is one of the most consumed supplements in America and one of the most misunderstood.
Psychedelic Therapy, PTSD, and the Path to Healing with Lauren Taus
Most mental health treatments manage symptoms, but psychedelic therapy goes after the root cause.
Is This Right for Me? CGMs: Blood Sugar, Stress and Metabolic Health
A $50 sensor on your arm, real-time data on your phone. The question isn't whether CGMs work. It's whether they're right for you.