Shannon Brady is a professional women's basketball player for Fr. Mathews Cork in the Ireland Super League, following her All-American career at Bowdoin College. Aside from her mad skills on the court, during quarantine she decided to seize the day and build her own personal platform for fitness & wellness. She founded @shaybrayyfit on Instagram, where her motto is "Refuse to Shrink."

Dasel La is a Tibetan Buddhist nun with deep roots in New England. I first knew her as Lisa Blake, my wife's college basketball teammate from Bates. In her mid 40s, Lisa felt a strong calling to Buddhism and the monastic life.

Kraken, Jersey Devils, and Mongolian Death Worms, OH MY! Elizabeth Adams, folklorist at Cal State U, joins the show for a second go-round to chat up a whole mess o’ legendary animals.

Marty Donovan is a Hollywood screenwriter and one of the most joyful and charismatic sons o' guns you'll ever meet. He's worked on a variety of Netflix and Disney shows over the years, such as Prince of Peoria, Garner's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, Kickin' It, Wizards of Waverly Place, and A.N.T. Farm. I've known Marty since he was a young teenager - I was actually his college counselor!

Special Halloween episode! Elizabeth Adams is a folklorist and anthropologist at California State University, Northridge. Join us for a wicked fun chat about the origins of Halloween and the rituals of trick or treating and costuming, as well as the folklore around witches and zombies.

BONUS episode! Back by popular demand, my co-conspirator Adrienne Shibles and I head “upta camp," where we sit by the fire pit and quiz each other, a la Inside the Actors Studio, on topics like “what’s your greatest fear?” and “what do you dislike most about yourself?” Maybe it gets you thinking about your own answers... And stay tuned at the end for a new Creature Feature segment! The eerie awaits...

Dr. Jeffrey Greeson, AKA "Grees," is a blast from my past...one of my former Swarthmore College basketball teammates, and now he serves as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rowan University and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at The University of Pennsylvania. He also founded the Mindfulness, Stress, and Health Lab at Rowan, where he's helping others "better understand how we can develop our natural capacity for greater attention, awareness, compassion, and acceptance, and in so doing experience a meaningful benefit in our mental and physical health." Tune in to hear Jeff talk about what it means to "be mindful," how to reclaim your balance in your everyday life, and how I was a "mindless" teammate on the basketball court, haha. :) Oh, also! NEW SEGMENT - Check out my new Creature Feature at the end of the show. I know you're intrigued........

Wei Lin is a startup founder/CEO (ph5.com), marathon runner, endurance athlete, scuba diver, trail runner, rock climber...I could keep going. She's one of only 500 people in all of China who has completed a full Ironman triathlon. If you're looking for inspiration to live life to the fullest, you're gonna love listening to Wei.

Bart Beattie is founder of Sangha Expeditions. A soulful Mainer, Bart is at home in the outdoors. He's a trekker, kayaker and philosopher who "believes in the power of adventure travel in deepening one’s connection to oneself and to the world."

Rebecca Schefstrom is a seasoned yogini, meditation guru, and badass entrepreneur who founded the company Urban Balance to bring on-site wellness services like yoga, Pilates, massage, nutrition, and meditation into the workplace. She’s also a wicked chill, enlightened person who will brighten your day as she talks about reclaiming the present moment and giving yourself the compassion you deserve to develop into your true, higher self.