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Marisa Renee Lee: Making A Stubborn Commitment to Hope

— July 7, 2026

Hope isn’t a feeling that arrives and stays—it’s a commitment you make, over and over, even when you’re in bed crying, even when you can’t stand up long enough to take a shower.

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Marisa Renée Lee—award-winning author, Harvard graduate, former Obama White House deputy director, and CEO of Beacon Advisors—about her new book, Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty. Drawing on her own two-year journey through long COVID and the lessons she has gathered as an advocate for grief and social healing, Marisa offers a clear-eyed, deeply personal guide to enduring the unwanted seasons of life.

Join Tami and Marisa to explore:

Why uncertainty isn’t a crisis to be solved but a season to be navigated—with honesty, self-compassion, and the courage to ask for help
How long COVID stripped away Marisa’s surface-level identity and forced her to discover what was truly immutable in her
The science and spirituality of hope—and why a ruthless commitment to it requires both trust and action
“Inherited hope”: drawing on the courage of ancestors and those who came before us
Why meaning-making isn’t required—and the harm in pressuring people to turn their worst pain into a lesson
The role of endurance, humility, and impermanence (from the 23rd Psalm to Buddhist teaching) in waiting for dawn
How to identify your own “arbiters of hope” when doubt and hope are running neck and neck

Whether you’re in the thick of a hard season right now or supporting someone who is, Marisa’s wisdom—earned the hard way—will help you find your footing.

Listen now and make your commitment to hope. →

This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.

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E196: Fear—The Hidden Root of Suffering

Michael Singer — July 6, 2026

Most people attempt to fix life outside themselves, so they do not have to feel disturbed inside. But this approach creates an endless struggle and never really addresses the real problems, which are inside. The path of spiritual growth is learning to relax through the discomfort created because life is not the way we want it to be. To truly be free, we must learn to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. At the deepest level, fear is the root of suffering, and liberation comes from facing that fear rather than organizing life around avoiding it.

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Just One Question | Martha Beck: What Do I Do At Three...

Martha Beck — July 2, 2026

Three in the morning. Brain already running. Every unfinished thing in your life suddenly very urgent. Sound familiar?

We pulled this week’s question because when Tami asked Martha Beck what to actually do in that moment, her answer was genuinely not what we were expecting. No breathwork protocol. No journaling prompt. What Martha offers is something way simpler — and honestly, kind of revolutionary in how low the bar is.

Martha Beck is a Harvard-trained sociologist, bestselling author, and one of the sharpest minds out there on anxiety and how we actually heal it. She’s been working through her own anxiety since childhood, and she’s arrived somewhere really good. (Spoiler: it involves audiobooks, furry blankets, and thinking like a golden retriever.)

Here’s some of what she gets into:

Why she plays Sounds True audiobooks at half-speed in the middle of the night — and why slowing down is the whole point
The self-kindness practice she uses when her brain won’t quit, including the exact question she asks herself
A story from Liz Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love about a two-word message that Martha keeps coming back to — it’s a good one
How decades of anxiety can actually rewire into something peaceful, and why what fires together really does wire together

Honestly, this one left us wanting to go take a nap. In the best way.

Taken from the full Insights at the Edge conversation with Martha Beck. Find the complete interview in this feed or at soundstrue.com.

This episode is sponsored by Omega Institute, a global gathering hub for lifelong learning and spiritual exploration. Omega offers weekend workshops, special events, rest and rejuvenation retreats, professional training, online learning, and more. Discover what calls to you at eomega.org/true.

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E195: There Are No Problems, Only Experiences

Michael Singer — July 2, 2026

Problems are not objective realities but labels we place on life experiences when they do not match our preferences. Suffering comes when these preferences lead to attachment to desires, expectations, and fears. In contrast, spiritual growth occurs when we stop judging and resisting life, and endeavor to learn from every experience how to participate fully in life without depending on circumstances to make us happy.

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Ilia Delio: A Cyborg Christian on the God Revolution W...

— June 30, 2026

The myths we’ve inherited about God aren’t just outdated—according to Sister Ilia Delio, they may be at the root of our collective crisis.

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Ilia Delio—Franciscan sister, scientist, theologian, holder of the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair at Villanova University, and author of more than twenty books, including The Not Yet God, Re-enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, and the memoir Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian—about what a genuine God revolution would look like in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on the evolutionary theology of Teilhard de Chardin, the depth psychology of Jung, and the cosmotheandric vision of Raimon Panikkar, Delio offers a startling and empowering reframe: God is not a supernatural authority above us, but the inexhaustible ground of wholeness emerging through us—and we are, right now, called to complete that becoming.

Join Tami and Ilia to explore:

Why the God of the Axial Age is dying—and what’s being born in its place
The evolutionary arc from archaic religion to monotheism to a new cosmotheandric religious consciousness
What it actually means to be a “cyborg Christian”—and why Jesus of Nazareth was one
How AI mirrors the human psyche and why it may catalyze, not threaten, the next stage of love
The three-pronged revolution: creativity, complexity, and consciousness
How to awaken to the divine presence already alive within you—and why that’s the taproot we need now

Rich, irreverent, and intellectually alive, this interview is a genuine disruptor for anyone who has ever felt that the spiritual containers we’ve inherited are too small for the lives we’re actually living.

Listen now and bend into the lure. →

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E194: Witness Consciousness and the End of Suffering

Michael Singer — June 29, 2026

People suffer because they view life through the lens of stored past experiences, projecting fears and desires onto the future. Because of this, they become trapped in endless cycles of worry, resistance, and fear. Our true nature is the awareness that observes these thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Spiritual growth comes through recognizing ourselves as the witness rather than becoming lost in what we are witnessing. Ultimately, liberation comes not from changing the outside world, but from learning to handle our inner reactions and remaining seated in the awareness that observes all experiences.

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