Jack Panda Speaks

When you feel depressed do you reach out for support or do you cope on your own? In today's episode I reflect on my emotional and humbling breakdown today, why I find it so hard to communicate how I am feeling sometimes, why we should not carry shame or guilt for being the depressed one, and how generational patterns can shape our lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Was your father absent or distant during your childhood? In today's episode I reflect on the result of men lacking a role model during childhood, why men are searching for brotherhood more than ever, how the relationship with our father influences relationships with other men, and how we all have both masculine and feminine traits regardless of our gender. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Have you ever been to a "Chinese Medicine" Doctor? In today's episode I talk about my refreshing and rewarding visit to the doctor, how Chinese Medicine seems to be more integrative, why I am organizing events for men to spend more time together, and how as a more feminine man I would like to develop my more masculine traits. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Have you watched the documentary "SuperCharged"? In today's episode I reflect on how overthinking can stop us from entering a state of flow, how technology has created a new form of communication, how the gap between us and nature is widening, and how there are other important ways to charge our bodies outside of food. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Have you ever met someone that reminds you of your former self? In today's episode I talk about how meeting a workawayer today made me reflect on my life trajectory, why workaway.info is a travellers best friend, how travelling can be both life changing and addictive, and how meeting a new person opens a new portal of possibilities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you cook real food at home? In today's episode I talk about Sacred Food's workshop and weekly gatherings coming up for 2020, how we wish to help people cook more at home and eat Real Food, how a conversation with a 75 year old farmer today was both inspiring and saddening, and why both Real Food and farmers are disappearing off the face of the earth. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Have you ever attended a workshop on human connection? In today's episode I reflect on the new products born from a fragmented community, how self-expression has become something special in a repressed world, why people are creating workshops to teach people how to be human, and how we destroyed the ordinary to then put it on a pedestal as something extraordinary. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you spend some time in nature every day? In today's episode I reflect on the irrelevance of the natural world moving forward, how the mind finds the digital world more addictive and appealing, why we no longer appreciate a sunset, and how our worldview is being reshaped through the screen. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Are you Career orientated or Family orientated? In today's episode I reflect on rising early even if it's dark, how since the industrial revolution the family unit has gradually been fragmented, why our priority has shifted from family to self, and how working online from home could allow the family unit to recreate itself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Have you ever spent over 2hours at a supermarket? In today's episode I reflect on how food shopping for me ends up being an outing of research and exploration, the importance of knowing what is in the food you are buying, turning our focus inwards when it comes to knowing what to eat, and how it is so easy to feel utterly confused in today's world of information when it comes to food. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Is consuming high quality food a priority of yours? In today's episode I reflect on my lack of self-regulation this morning and the consequences, how happy I am to have found a place that sells wild meat where I live, how nowadays more and more scientists are growing and developing food rather than farmers and chefs, and how this new artificial food must be slowly transmuting our biological make up. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you ever feel like your environment is stopping you from doing something? In today's episode I talk about the joy I find in cleaning and organizing the kitchen, how important it is to have the right space to work and create in, why effort and willingness without the right environment will probably fail you, and my "less is more" reminder after having some s3xo int3nso. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Did you witness a major inner shift when you had kids? In today's episode I reflect on having kids from my sick bed, how having a kid means having a purpose beyond self for life, why up until now I had always said never to becoming a parent, and how miraculous it is that we can create a another human being. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Has sickness ever changed your life for the better? In today's episode I reflect on my current state of sickness, how grateful I am to have someone looking after me during these hard times, how being house ridden for 3 months in the past changed my life, and how sickness gives us a break from daily life to reflect. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you take the time to celebrate your milestones? In today's episode I celebrate reaching 100 episodes by having a spontaneous conversation with my number one listener. From the very beginning, Pedro was the only one who committed to listening to every episode, giving me constructive feedback and encouraging me to keep going. I am determined, but Pedro's support and contribution to "Jack Panda Speaks" has been invaluable. I may do this two way format more often, it was really fun and insightful. Thank you Pedro! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Are you fully focused on yourself or keeping an eye on what others are doing? In today's episode I talk about my professional excel spreadsheet for running, what I learnt from a facebook drama I was part of this morning, a fun interview I had this morning with "Eat Epicurien", and why homecooking is such an empowering political and social act. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you live in the city or on the land? In today's episode I reflect on what a smart city diet looks like moving forward, creating artificial climates within shipping containers in cities to grow food also known as "urban agriculture", why a plantbased diet is definitely a better option for now if living in a city, and why I would choose locally produced animal foods over mass produced plant foods any day of the week. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you see wonder in your mundane life? In today's episode I talk about how we can use food to intensify our lives, eating as a mystical experience, how mass produced and processed foods have numbed us down, our lack of attention and appreciation when we sit down to eat, and how all of this is just a reflection of how we go about our daily lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you feel proud of yourself right now? In today's episode I reflect on my emotional day with my partner, how insecurities are heavy for both parties, how self discipline can dissolve insecurities and invoke us to love ourselves more, healthy interdependency vs toxic dependency in a relationship, and the willingness to tackle the bullshit as a team of love. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message

Do you fear Psychedelic drugs? In today's episode I reflect on how everything that alters our state of being can be considered a drug, my personal fear towards narcotic/psychedelic drugs growing up, meditation as a drug for those willing to commit, my decision to attend a ceremony this month, and why we should be open but cautious when taking "drugs". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jackpandaspeaks/message