We’re joined today by comedian, Max Wiener, for a humorous and profound exploration of comedy as a medium for self-expression, self-discovery, and personal growth. Max shares his journey from shy adolescence to finding his voice on stage, highlighting how stand-up comedy has served as both a therapeutic outlet and a craft requiring dedication and resilience.

The conversation delves into:
- The unique challenges and joys of performing comedy, including the dynamics of live audience feedback and the art of adjusting material in the moment.
- The transformative power of embracing failure, or "bombing," as a tool for growth and improvement
- Insights into Max’s creative process, from spontaneous idea generation to refining material through reflection and experimentation.

Max also reflects on the broader philosophical dimensions of comedy, drawing parallels between his craft and practices like meditation and personal development.

Tune in to be inspired by Max’s candid stories and practical wisdom, whether you’re an aspiring performer or seeking ways to tap into your own creative potential!

About Max Wiener:
Max is a 24 year old aspiring comedian currently living in New York.

Where to find Max:

• Instagram
• Twitter
• Tik Tok

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In today's episode of Woven Wings Live, Joseph Ari'el takes us on a transformative journey of self-discovery, wholeness, and the power of intentional living. Joseph shares the profound impact of embracing his true identity, practicing deep gratitude, and creating spaces that reflect the life he aspires to live.

We delve into the intersections of story, state, and space, and explore how aligning these elements can unlock synergy and bring us closer to a more fulfilled, vibrant life. From reckoning with and re-writing parts of his own history, to practicing self-love and gratitude, Joseph’s experiences illuminate how intentional practices can heal fragmentation and foster deeper integration.

Whether you're navigating life transitions, seeking greater connection with yourself, or simply curious about the magic of alignment, this episode will leave you inspired and empowered to manifest a life of flow, love, and purpose.

Key Takeaways:

• The role of gratitude in transforming irritation into joy and alignment.
• How space influences our story and state, and how to intentionally curate your environment for growth.
• Practical tools to embrace self-love and create synergy in life.

Tune in and discover how to weave these threads of wisdom into your own life!


About Joseph Ari'el Towne:

Joseph Ariel Towne was raised in a conscious communal style from a young age, where he was introduced to ancient concepts that the modern age wasn’t fully ready for. As a result, he often felt like an outsider and sought to hide many of his intuitive gifts from the world.

His adventures led him to explore tai chi, yoga, meditation, sound healing, martial arts, traditional talk therapy, and plant-based diets before the age of ten. He did his first Firewalk with Tony Robbins at nine years old.

As a teenager, Joe struggled heavily with confidence, so he went on a three-week Outward Bound journey through the lakes, rivers and forests of Maine, attended support groups like Alateen (Alanon for teenagers) and took his mother on a Pilgrimage in India before she passed away (along the way becoming a dart champion.)

As is true for all of us, he had to go on his own journey to heal himself before he could offer support to others.

Upon relocating to Los Angeles, Joe worked intensively with energy healers, a Feng Shui Master, A Tibetan Mantra teacher, a Zen Priest and spent a majority of time in the Yoga communities in New York, Colorado and Los Angeles.

At this time, he started offering his feng shui and coaching services to the world, while acting on stage, and both on Film and TV.

This led him on a twenty-five year journey to this moment where he integrated all parts of himself and his healing modalities into Spacial Synergy.

Along the way, Joe wrote the book about how to take ancient feng shui principles and apply them to our Inner House, he has guested on Ryan Seacrest, Good Day LA, Million Dollar Listing and Dr Oz. He has also hosted several shows both on Radio (Sirius 114), The SyFy Network and online.

His passion for Sports Psychology, High Performance Training and Positive Psychology led him to launch The Performers Mindset—which developed training programs for life’s biggest moments and stages.

He is also the host of The Better Podcast with Joe Towne, exploring how we can be better in the world, our relationships and our lives.

Spacial Synergy is Joe’s way of taking ancient principles, and modern science and turning them into accessible and easy to implement tools and frameworks for our own healing work.

Joe incorporates consciousness coaching, feng shui, reiki, mantra

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The ideas of presence and mindfulness seem to be all around us these days, including being frequent areas of focus on this very show! But what does it actually look like to integrate those practices into day to day life?

We’re joined today by community builder and presence practitioner, Doug Finkelstein, to discuss:

- What does it mean to slow down to go quickly?
- How do we overcome the inertia, and actually slow down in a way that’s meaningful and sustained?
- What are the different types of practices and tools, including plants, that can help us along the way?

Doug remarks that saying we’re too busy to slow down is like saying we’re too dirty to take a bath, because anything we do to encourage more presence in our lives - from meditation and yoga to journaling or just taking a full bodied breath - ultimately pays itself back in improved focus, increased creativity, and more productivity.

The key to making presence practices a priority lies in experimenting with the many different ways to find presence, and choosing the approach that’s most enjoyable and effortless for you. Having experienced the positive effects, you can then incorporate the practices into your life in a way that they’re not just items on your to-do list, but rather, integral pillars for making your life more vibrant and meaningful.

About Doug Finkelstein:
Doug is a community builder, Human Design Manifestor, and advocate for personal growth through self-experimentation. After leaving a career in stock trading and overcoming a decade-long reliance on prescription medication, Doug embarked on an inward journey that led him to found multiple wellness-focused organizations.

His work includes creating Slow The Fuck Down (STFD), an at-home offering that helps over-committed people reduce stress and cultivate presence through guided somatic journeys. Doug also founded An Empathic Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering consultations to help people find the next step in their journey with plant medicine.

With over four years of experience building at-home wellness communities, Doug empowers others to live intentionally, create meaningful connections, and align with their true selves.

He has also won The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest (twice!), blending humor with his passion for personal growth.

Resources and References:
Free Human Design Chart - https://www.myhumandesign.com/get-your-chart/
Slow TF Down Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/slowtfdown.space/
Slow TF Down Website - https://www.slowtfdown.space/
New Yorker Caption Contest Winners - https://www.dougie.love/caption-contest

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Tune in to our latest podcast episode featuring Gabe Crane, Founder of Woven Wings, together with Rahul Deedwania, which broadcast live in the Fishbowl Live event on the Fishbowl app. In this thought-provoking session, we explore the expansive nature of our lives beyond the confines of work. In a world where the rat race often takes center stage, this podcast invites you to lift your head and gain perspective on what truly matters.

As we continue to unravel the complexities of burnout, we’ll challenge the fears surrounding those tough, existential questions. What if asking about your life’s purpose didn’t mean risking your job or identity? Let’s start by uncovering the role work plays in your journey—from mere survival to a true expression of your core values.

But it doesn’t stop there. What’s the meaningful life you’re truly pursuing? What values drive you? And, importantly, what exists beyond the office walls? We’ll delve into the beauty of relationships, the joy of service, the quest for personal growth, and the essential elements of well-being that often get overshadowed.

What gets in the way? How do you reconnect with these truths when the demands of your job weigh heavily? We’ll explore practical mindfulness techniques, the power of appreciation, and the art of reflection. Gabe will share personal stories of transformation, highlighting that even the smallest changes—a few minutes of reflection or a simple conversation—can create ripples of impact in your life.

Did you miss our previous episode? Catch up now:

Surviving Burnout: Strategies for Workplace Stress - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1888704/episodes/15507442-surviving-burnout-strategies-for-workplace-stress

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Why do we do the things we do? Why are we often NOT able to do what we want to do? And what makes us think of productivity and success in the way that we do?

On today’s episode, productivity expert Sophie Chiche joins us to break down the Productivity Paradox – examining why it can be so hard for us to be productive, and the surprising factors that make it that way for us.

Through our illuminating, light, and soulful conversation, Sophie draws on her decades of experience to help show the way to real happiness and fulfillment, rooted in productivity with purpose. Surprisingly, we may discover that this form of productivity has little to do with the rat race, or keeping up with the Joneses. Rather, purposeful productivity springs from a place of self-love, where we consider ourselves worthy of feeling good and finding real success, and builds on top of the foundation of knowing what's deeply important to us.

About Sophie Chiche:
Sophie Chiche is a life strategist, author, and therapist. She's been a serial entrepreneur since she started trading pencils in the sandbox at the age of six. For the last 30 years, Soph has been cracking the code of doing more of what matters.

She has Master's degrees in Journalism, Psychology, and Business. She wrote “The Power of Personal Accountability” while running a consulting firm and building multi-million-dollar businesses. As a coach, she brings unique abilities and life experiences to propel people into greatness.

Soph’s work has been featured on Ellen, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and she hosted the launch of the Living Section in the Huffington Post. She grew Life By Me, an online community, to over 900,000 readers in 2010. She’s a two-time TEDx speaker.

After speaking at the International Symposium on Restorative Justice and Peace in Colombia, she facilitated sessions in South Africa with Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

Born in France but American by choice, Soph settled in the middle of nowhere, Arizona, where she rides her Harley with her boo, Wall. And plays a lot of pickleball.

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In this far ranging conversation from September 2022, Andy Couturier illustrates - through his own story, and those of people he’s profiled - what it could look like to be deeply aligned with values of conscious consumption, rolling up our sleeves for our basic needs, and creating abundance of space and spirit through simplicity and elimination. We also delve into writing as a powerful personal practice, and how any expressive pursuit can act as a container for us to feel and live our lives more deeply.

About Andy Couturier:

Andy Couturier is the author of Writing Open the Mind and A Different Kind of Luxury, now going into its fourth printing. He loves teaching writing, and is the founder and creative director of The Opening, a private writing school which offers courses in-person and online. Andy and his partner built a house with hand tools in the mountains. In his personal life, he enjoys doing hand work such as tree-planting, splitting firewood, home scale gardening and food production. He loves to spend mornings reading classical Chinese poetry, or twentieth-century experimental, imagist and nature poetry.

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Are you or those around you grappling with the harsh realities of burnout?

Whether you're currently experiencing burnout or concerned about its impact on colleagues, family, or friends, this podcast episode offers a beacon of hope. Join us for a rejuvenating hour where we confront the challenges of burnout head-on. Through open and uplifting discussions, we’ll explore practical tools and positive mindsets that can help transform stress into a pathway to greater authenticity and well-being.

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In today’s “Weaving in Action” episode, we feature the story of Jesse Israel and The Big Quiet, a movement he started 9 years ago to bring large-scale meditation to thousands of people at world-class venues.

The Big Quiet is a community-oriented, co-creation where each participant contributes stillness and silence to a larger shared experience, and in that stillness, reconnects with what it means to be their truest self. Jesse employs meditation as a surrendering technique, in which we must have the courage to face whatever comes up within us, and by doing so, give ourselves permission to be human.

Tune in to learn how The Big Quiet was born out of Jesse’s own reckoning with anxiety, and how a moment between 10 people backstage at a music festival turned into mass meditations of thousands of people!

About Jesse Israel:
Jesse is a meditation leader, keynote speaker and leadership coach known for founding the mass meditation movement The Big Quiet. Named "The Meditation Expert" by The New York Times, Jesse has led some of the largest meditations on earth — having toured arenas with Oprah Winfrey and co-hosted international broadcasts with Deepak Chopra. An Audible Originals best-selling creator and a Forbes Next 1000 recipient, Jesse has collaborated on meditation projects with grammy winning rappers, coached the world’s most influential entrepreneurs and keynoted at Fortune 500s around the globe.

Prior to his work at The Big Quiet, Jesse ran a record label and tech fund called Cantora (acquired 2016), where he signed multi-platinum bands like MGMT and invested in entertainment-focused tech startups.

Jesse Israel: https://www.jesseisrael.com/
The Big Quiet: https://www.thebigquiet.com/

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