{"podcast":{"title":"Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern","slug":"creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367","podcast_index_feed_id":92367,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/creativity-sprituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/creativity-sprituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/96/1c/49/15/961c4915-4613-4357-ac09-be11e7b66c05/947c0bdac7a75e85f9355ab94b78da58452763a107673871174a168a45e9cf7df31e8f5adb0c2e89027f810fe1644f065d6aab534d70c32d92357a72059340f9.jpeg","author":"Be Here Now Network","episode_count":90,"summary":"David Nichtern, founder of Dharma Moon , is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970. He is also a business consultant with companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context – including Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Creative Live, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Center for Health & Healing, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim law firm among others. He has been featured in The New York Times, FOX News, Netflix's The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Post, The Buddhist Geeks podcast, Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast, Pete Holmes' You Made it Weird Podcast, and many others. David is the author of the critically acclaimed Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and his recently released Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck . He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world. David is…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T06:21:04.603400+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 61 – The Gift of a Broken Heart with Bryan Welch","slug":"ep-61-the-gift-of-a-broken-heart-with-bryan-welch","published_at":"2026-04-10T15:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367/ep-61-the-gift-of-a-broken-heart-with-bryan-welch","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/creativity-spirituality-making-a-buck-with-david-nichtern-92367","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/fe89dc8b-8799-4d68-9f02-2e37141e067e.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/fe89dc8b-8799-4d68-9f02-2e37141e067e.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Author and executive Bryan Welch shares how the grief of losing his child profoundly reshaped his heart, deepening his capacity for connection and compassion toward others. Grab a copy of Bryan’s book, The Gift of a Broken Heart, HERE In this episode, David and Bryan chat about: How grief can transform us in a beautiful way Bryan’s journey through the loss of his son, Noah Developing a deeper sense of compassion through Buddhism  Grief as a bridge of connection between ourselves and others Allowing ourselves to be vulnerable  Narratives of our own safety as narratives of superiority  Forgiveness and considering how the ego wants to be responsible Our involuntary reactions to grief, when compared to those of animals  Permission to cry & the relief we can feel from allowing emotions to wash over us  Sign up for Dharma Moon’s upcoming 8-week Buddhist Psychology Course HERE . About Bryan Welch: Bryan Welch is an author, business executive, farmer, and entrepreneur. For nineteen years, from its founding, he ran Ogden Publications, Mother Earth News, Mother Earth Living, Utne Reader, and several other leading media brands focused on sustainability and natural health. More recently, he served as co-CEO of Silk Grass Holdings, a family office developing 32,000 acres of regenerative organic farms and wildlife preserves in Belize. He was founder and CEO of B The Change Media, a multiplatform media company focused on business as a force for good in the world; and was CEO of Mindful Communications, a media and corporate meditation-training company; and CEO of Foster Care Technologies, a B Corporation that provides software that improves placements of children in foster care. 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