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Meredith for Real: the curious introvert

Meredith Hackwith Edwards

Each episode explores a taboo question or cultural blind spot with an expert who is themselves, a paradox -Like the atheist doctor who studied near death experiences for 50 years (ep 224)Or the deeply religious man studied by NASA who sees UFOs regularly (ep 261).The mission is to inspire the kind of curiosity that looks for & celebrates nuance, because we all deserve a more curious future.So tune in each week (new episodes every Monday) to question things like American individualism (ep 260),

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Ep. 255 | Are Ice Baths Worth It? Memory, Stress &...

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2024/09/02

Send us a textJesse Coomer suffered for years from what he calls “the modern condition,” cycles of stress & anxiety burdening our minds & bodies until he found relief & regained his passion for life with breath work & cold therapy. He was one of the first American certified Wim Hof instructors, is now an author & conducts breathwork & cold exposure trainings with a grounded & scientific approach working with everyone from corporate desk jockeys to members of the US...

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Ep. 254 | Do We *Need* Sharks?

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2024/08/26

Send us a Text Message.Kinga Philipps is a journalist, TV presenter & shark conservationist who’s spent over two decades combining conservation & media conversation. You may recognize her from Discovery’s Shark Week shows Tiger Queen or Sharks in Paradise. In this episode, she shares how one village went from shark finning to shark preservation, the Disneyfication of nature, the grey areas of shark tourism & shark week & how you can make a difference even if you have world is ...

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Ep. 253 | Tradwives: Trending Choice or Dangerous...

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2024/08/19

Send us a Text Message.Dr Kate Mangino is a gender expert with a PhD in human rights & social development and the author of the book, Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home. In this episode, we unpack the tradwife trend to ask is it a harmless personal choice resulting from the options born of feminism or giant steps backwards for the women’s equality? You’ll hear the answer to what is a tradwife plus the three types of tradwives, performative femininity, how this lifestyle cou...

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Ep. 252 | Teeth: the Ultimate Status Symbol?

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2024/08/12

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Bill Schutt, Author is a PhD zoologist, Emeritus Professor of Biology at Long Island University & a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He’s also the author of Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans. In this episode, we cover the history behind we think of those with bad teeth as untrustworthy & less intelligent & those with straight, white smiles as good leaders & confident. He also shares about the orig...

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Ep. 251 | Food Addiction: Character Flaw or Real...

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2024/08/05

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Joan Ifland explains how the history of processed foods has led to an obesity or overweight percentage of 70% of Americans! She defines processed foods, explains the business model behind the messaging, the science of your brain's reaction to the foods & how quitting these can revive your taste buds & thought clarity. She also shares the practical tips you’ve been missing all those times you’ve “tried to get healthy” before.This episode originally aired in a...

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Ep. 250 | MONGOLIA: Growing Up a Monk (& a...

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2024/07/29

Send us a Text Message.At 7 years old, Erdne Ombadykow’s parents sent him from his birthplace of Philadelphia to live at a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery where he would spent most of his childhood learning Buddhism. He was then recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama as the current reincarnation of the Buddhist saint, mahasiddha Tilopa and was tasked with leading the revival of Buddhism in Russia in the Kalmyk Republic. Now called Telo Tulku Rinpoche, he shares in this episode, the pressure o...

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Ep. 249 | Record Breaking vs Impact Making: Arctic...

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2024/07/22

Send us a Text Message.Mark Wood is a polar explorer, a title normally associated with big ego and fame as core motivations. In this episode; however, he shares his personal motivational evolution of going from a place of ego to one of wonderment. He shares how this shift lead him to teaching children via livestream from the death zone of Mt Everest, the highs and lows of the Expedition Solo 100 trek (100 days alone in the arctic), how to get people to care about the outdoors & even share...

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Ep. 248 | Surviving the Troubled Teen Industry:...

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2024/07/15

Send us a Text Message.Because of his out-of-control behavior, Rocky Kandola’s parents sent to a nightmarish WWASP teen rehab center in Mexico, where he served an indefinite sentence with an arbitrary points system. He describes how this was the beginning of a cycle of abuse, imprisonment & bad decisions, but not the end of his life. Hear how he sifted identity from trauma and what gave him hope to keep going.This episode originally aired December 7, 2020.If you liked this episode, you’ll...

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Ep. 247 | Is Your Food Causing Your Depression?...

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2024/07/08

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard trained psychiatrist who began to experience a host of mystery symptoms in her 40s, including fibromyalgia, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, and IBS. When she got relief after experimenting with her diet, she began her path of nutritional studies & later became a nutritional psychiatrist. In this episode, she covers questionnaire collecting vs research, a warning about experimenting on yourself, chemical imbalances vs inflammati...

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Ep. 246 | MONGOLIAN YOUTUBER: The Digital & the...

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2024/07/01

Send us a Text Message.Bayarsaikhan Ganzorig grew up in Mongolia in the Ger District without running water or electricity, a type of shanty town established by nomadic herders who fled from the countryside after their herds were victims to one of the latest weather events to plague the area. And my next guest is someone who is eager to share all sides of his home country. He's the mastermind behind the YouTube channel called Real Mongolia. In this episode, he shares the contrast of growi...

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Ep. 245 | Is Skipping Small Talk an Option? Ubers,...

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2024/06/24

Send us a Text Message.Rob Baedeker is the co-author of What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss. In this episode, he shares how to break free of the sleep-inducing conversation templates we’ve all had on repeat, deal with awkward political discussions & keep the conversational spark alive with our friends & family by converting small talk into real talk.This episode originally aired June 27, 2022.If you liked this episode, you’ll a...

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Ep. 244 | Ketamine: Clinical or Mystical? What You...

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2024/06/17

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Steven Radowitz completed his MD at Chicago Medical School, worked in general medicine & HIV/AIDS units & was Medical Director of an alcohol & opioid detox & treatment unit.His traditional path was disrupted after seeing remarkable & measurable medical outcomes with patients who got psychedelic treatment. He has since refocused his practice & joined Nushama, a ketamine treatment clinic in Manhattan.In this episode, you’ll hear how to choose a...

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Ep. 243 | What’s the Point of Financial Freedom?...

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2024/06/10

Send us a Text Message.Vicki Robin is considered the mother of the FIRE movement & has appeared on hundreds of shows, including Oprah & Good Morning America. She’s the co-author of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence. Here we explore the heart-side of the balance sheet with concepts like money is life energy, the fulfillment curve & the real hourly wage.This episode originally aired ...

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Ep. 242 | American Healthcare System: Is there Hope?

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2024/06/03

Send us a Text Message.Dr. John Abramson was a family physician for 20 years who left his practice in 2002 to devote himself to researching the commercial takeover of medical knowledge. He has since served as an expert in medical litigation, served as a consultant to the FBI & US Dept of Justice & authored two books – Overdosed America & Sickening. In this episode, he shares how the power of public conversation could be the key to sustainable change in the American medical sy...

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Ep. 241 | Stranded Abroad: Reindeer, Yak Yogurt &...

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2024/05/27

Send us a Text Message.Breanna Wilson is a freelance travel writer & photographer who found out her travel plans got Corona canceled mid-flight & ended up being stuck in the country of Georgia. She shares how her first trip to Mongolia started with a photo on Instagram, agreeing to ride wild horses & what it’s like to live with nomadic Mongolian families. She also digs into how to discover your own threshold of certain vs uncertain & thrive in uncomfortable moments. This ...

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Ep. 240 | Hot Car Infant Death: How is This Happening?

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2024/05/20

Send us a Text Message.Laura & Aaron Beck were devoted parents who, like many, were in the habit of judging other parents who left their child in the back seat of a car until the day it happened to them. In this episode, Laura shares the circumstances leading up to the accident, her new perspective on parenting, how you can prevent hot car infant death & how her non-profit is working for helpful legislative & automobile industry change.If you liked this episode, you’ll also like e...

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Ep. 239 | Does Diet Matter if You Have to Take...

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2024/05/13

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Andrew Koutnik is a diabetes researcher who's lead 2 NASA investigations, a project for the United States Special Ops Command and assisted on projects for department of defense, DARPA and the Office of Naval Research. He's also a type 1 diabetic.He's currently a research scientist at the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute and actively investigating the role of lifestyle interventions and carbohydrate restriction in both diabetes management and prevention. ...

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Ep. 238 | Is Confidence an *Outside* Job (& Can You...

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2024/05/06

Send us a Text Message.Kimmy Seltzer is a mental health therapist turned confidence counselor, stylist & dating strategist. In this episode she shares how her own hot mess moment & an encouraging retail employee helped her transform the way she saw herself as well as the paradox of building the experience of confidence when you don’t have any experience being confident, making style upgrades without feeling fake, costume confidence & even body dysmorphia & face fillers.If you ...

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Ep. 237 |Black Man Who Attends KKK Rallies: Race &...

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2024/04/29

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Ep. 236 | Are Erections the 6th Vital Sign? Smart...

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2024/04/22

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