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The Talk

Chris Grosso is a public speaker, writer, podcaster, and highly acclaimed author of Indie Spiritualist, Everything Mind and Dead Set On Living.

Half spiritual teacher, half recovering addict, Chris has dedicated his life to sharing powerful and profound insights from his own remarkable recovery from addiction and how they helped him find truth.

Host of the popular Indie Spiritualist Podcast on Ram Dass’s esteemed Be Here Now Network, he regularly interviews sports stars, celebrities, and spiritual teachers alike on everything to do with living a more compassionate, fulfilling, purpose-driven life.

His work has been endorsed by a diverse mix of celebrated individuals including Jeff Bridges, Ram Dass, Tony Hawk, Bam Margera, Sharon Salzberg, Alex Grey, Richard Rohr, MC Yogi, Tara Brach, Ken Wilber, Jack Kornfield, Andrew Harvey, Lama Surya Das, Dr. Lissa Rankin, Bernie Siegel, Robert Thurman, don Miguel Ruiz Jr., and more. ⭐

In this week’s episode we explored:

– His addictions and journey to recovery
– How learning about addiction helps everyone live a better life
– What aspects of spirituality helped him the most
– What he thinks is total BS
– Hanging out with Ram Dass
– What meeting legendary therapist Gabor Mate was like
– How to support yourself

Favourite Quote:

“That’s what a life is—a flip, a trick. It’s our spirit coming to time. We can showboat. We can be famous. We can discover some incredible thing. We can do some awful thing. Often we’re going to belly flop. We’re going to come into the world, dive into time, look around, be completely perplexed, completely fuck up in every single way, and fall back into the nothingness with a weird look of, like, ‘What the fuck happened?’ on our face. That’s the usual way to do it, and there’s nothing wrong with it.”