Podcast 1087: Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World with Dr. Nate Klemp

Welcome back to another episode of Inside Personal Growth! We have a returning guest today. He’s been here twice before for his books Start Here and The 80/80 Marriage. Now, Dr. Nate Klemp is back featuring his latest book Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World.

Nate is a writer, philosopher, and entrepreneur. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors in Ethics in Society, and a PhD in political philosophy from Princeton University.

He was a founding partner at Mindful – the world’s largest mindfulness training and media platform, and was formerly the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at LIFE Cross Training (LIFE XT). He has coached high performers at firms like Deloitte Consulting, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Avia Health Innovation, and Abundant Venture Partners as well as numerous couples looking to optimize their relationship. Nate also is a seasoned public speaker, delivering keynotes and presentations at leading firms and some of his regular subjects on his talks are mindfulness and meditation, optimizing modern relationships, the possibilities and risks of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, among others.

Nate also is a New York Times bestselling author. Two of his books were co-authored with Eric Langshur for Start Here, and his wife Kaley Klemp for The 80/80 Marriage respectively. And now, he has gone solo with his latest and newly released book entitled Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World. As the book explores how screen addiction and political polarization have closed the modern mind, Nate shares a powerful new approach for living in a distracted and divided world with greater engagement, freedom, and openness.

If you want to learn more about Nate, you may click here to visit his website.

Thanks and happy listening!

 

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

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