Podcast · Devotional & Spiritual

My Best Life

by Peter Kolakovic · English · Devotional & Spiritual

Join Peter for deep, soul-stirring conversations with spiritual teachers, yogis, healers, conscious creators and everyday people as we explore the path to alignment, joy, and purpose. In every episode, Peter asks his guests one defining question: "What does it truly mean to live your best life?" F

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr
Latest: 12 Oct 2026
Language: English

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12 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 2 minNew

#39 - The High Road: Len May on Cannabis, Consciousness, and Intention

Two people can take the same THC gummy and end up in completely different realities, and that’s not just “tolerance.” Len May joins us to explain how cannabis genetics, human DNA, and pharmacogenomics change the way cannabinoids and terpenes land in your body. Len’s journey starts with an ADD diagnosis, prescription meds that helped him focus but numbed his emotions, and a first cannabis experience that quieted the mental noise and unlocked real flow. That personal puzzle eventually led him f...

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E38 · 5 Oct 2026 · 58 min
#38 - What is your fear trying to tell you? Kelly Keefe on healing, purpose and trusting yourself
Fear can feel like a stop sign, but what if it’s actually a signal flare from the part of you that still thinks you’re not safe? I sit down with Kelly Keefe, a transformational coach, Reiki master teacher, speaker, and author of Rise Above Fear, to unpack what fear is beneath the story, and why “just push through” often backfires when the nervous system is still bracing for an old wound. We get practical and honest about how the subconscious mind and imagination can create real stress in the...
E37 · 1 Oct 2026 · 13 min
#37 - When the World Winks: Synchronicity, Signs and the Mystery of Meaning
A dream says I backed my car into something, and hours later I’m standing outside staring at a shattered rear windshield, trying to decide whether I should laugh, panic, or listen. That jolt of “was that a sign?” is the doorway into a deeper question: how do we take meaningful coincidences seriously without making claims we can’t support? I share another moment that still stops me cold, a squirrel in a park that falls from a tree seconds after I remember a video of the exact same thing. From...
E36 · 28 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
#36 - Find your North Star: Brigitta Dau on creativity, intuition and living your values
Your brain can understand what needs to change while your body stays braced, tired, and stuck in familiar loops. That gap between insight and action is where so many good intentions die, so we brought on Brigitta Dau to talk about change as a whole-person process that includes mind, body, energy, and creativity. Brigitta is a certified life coach, Reiki master, author, speaker, and craft teacher, and her path from professional acting to coaching gives her a rare lens on identity shifts, reinv...
E35 · 24 Sep 2026 · 30 min
#35 – [Solo] - Who am I? Ramana Maharshi, Alan Watts and the mystery of the Self
“Who am I?” sounds like the kind of question you can solve with a better explanation of yourself, but that’s the trap. Your job, your story, your beliefs, your personality, even your spiritual identity can all be true and still miss what the question is pointing to. We explore why the mind’s best answers often become fresh concepts that keep you stuck at the level of thought. We draw from the contemplative tradition of self-inquiry, including Ramana Maharshi’s Atma Vichara and the neti neti ...
E34 · 21 Sep 2026 · 1 hr
#34 - Joe Hehn - From grief to self-mastery: Finding meaning after losing everything
One phone call can split your life into a before and an after. For Joe Hayne, it was his wife’s cancer diagnosis and the grief that followed her death. What he does next sounds dramatic on the surface, quitting his job, putting everything in storage, and taking a one-way flight to South America, but the real story is quieter and harder: learning how to stay alive when you don’t want to die, yet you also don’t want to live. We talk with Joe about the pressure of chasing external validat...
E33 · 17 Sep 2026 · 23 min
#33 – [Solo] - The attention trap: Reclaiming your mind in a distracted world
You know the feeling: you grab your phone for one small, legitimate reason and suddenly you’re twenty minutes deep into videos you never meant to watch. That isn’t just a goofy habit. It’s a clue that our attention is being trained, pulled, and monetized, often without our consent. We talk about why modern life feels so interrupted, how the attention economy works (notifications, infinite feeds, autoplay, and the psychology of unpredictable rewards), and why the real question isn’t “How much ...
E32 · 14 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
#32 - Michael Dorfman - Longevity in action: How to thrive in your 80s and beyond
If you’ve been told your best years are behind you, Michael Dorfman has a different message and he’s living it. Michael is a health and nutrition coach, investigative author, and speaker who’s 84 and a half, plays pickleball regularly, and says he doesn’t just “get by” in his 80s, he thrives. We talk about what it really takes to build longevity, high energy, and resilience without getting lost in diet wars, fear-based health headlines, or the idea that decline is inevitable. We dig into the...
E31 · 10 Sep 2026 · 24 min
#31 – [Solo] - It’s Not About Touching Your Toes: The Deeper Meaning of Yoga
Yoga gets sold as flexibility, fitness, and stress relief, but that version leaves out the part that actually changes a life. We start with a simple question: when you say “I do yoga,” do you mean poses, or do you mean a way of meeting your mind, your breath, and the people around you? I share how I began yoga in my early forties as the least flexible person he knew, and why that disadvantage became a teacher. An unconventional doorway, including cannabis and an intuitive stretch that unlock...
E30 · 8 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
#30 - Sharon Salzberg - Love is an ability: Meditation, loving-kindness and beginning again
Pain doesn’t disappear because we avoid talking about it. Sharon Salzberg explains why Buddhism’s willingness to name suffering can feel like relief, even like belonging, and how that simple honesty helped redirect her life after a childhood marked by loss and instability. From that starting point, we follow the thread that took her to India at 18 and into the intensive meditation training that later helped bring Insight Meditation and loving-kindness into Western life through the Insight Med...
E29 · 3 Sep 2026 · 31 min
#29 - [Solo] - The Shadow Knows Your Name: Meeting the Parts of Yourself You’d Rather Avoid
You ever notice how we “work on ourselves” in the brightest, safest places and still keep losing the same keys? We start with a simple streetlight story, then walk straight into Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow: the parts of your personality you learned to hide in order to stay loved, safe, and accepted. And no, the shadow isn’t just cruelty or greed. It can also be your buried confidence, your creativity, your strength, and your honest desire to be seen. We dig into why the shadow shows up...
E28 · 31 Aug 2026 · 1 hr
#28 – Bryan Blackmon – Beyond rock bottom: Sobriety, self-worth and the journey back to yourself
Rock bottom isn’t always one catastrophic event. Sometimes it’s years of noise inside your own head, until one morning the noise stops and you finally hear the truth. Brian Blackman knows that silence. After a long run through alcohol, heroin, meth, homelessness, jail, and prison, he reaches a moment that changes his direction for good: looking in the mirror and hearing four words that land like a life raft, “You are worth it.” We talk through what addiction feels like from the inside, why s...
E27 · 27 Aug 2026 · 27 min
#27 - [Solo] - The Cosmic Joke: Psychedelics, Rebirth and the Mystery of Being
A single day can split your life into “before” and “after” and sometimes that dividing line is not a milestone like marriage or illness, but a few hours of radically altered consciousness. We tell the story of a first high-dose psilocybin mushroom journey from the inside: the moment a quiet lake seems to wake up, the choice to put on eyeshades and go inward, and the heavy, unmistakable message that lands like a bell, “you must die to be reborn.” Not physical death, but the surrender of an ide...
E26 · 24 Aug 2026 · 59 min
#26 - TeZa Lord - Beyond the veil: exploring consciousness, psychedelics and the mystery of existence
Your outer life might not be attacking you at all; it might be reflecting you. That’s where our conversation with TeZa Lord goes fast, starting with Carl Jung, the shadow, and the uncomfortable truth that real change begins inside the mind and nervous system, not in the headlines. TeZa is an author, artist, yogi, and meditation teacher with decades of seeking behind her. She shares the moments that cracked her world open, including a Nantucket UFO sighting later tied to Project Blue Book, an...
E25 · 20 Aug 2026 · 22 min
#25 - [Solo] - This too shall pass: Ten days of silence and the wisdom of Vipassana meditation
Ten days of silence sounds peaceful until you realize you can’t run from yourself. I’m sharing what it’s actually like to do a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat in the SN Goenka tradition, why it felt brutally difficult, and why I still consider it one of the most rewarding forms of mindfulness training I’ve ever tried. We talk through the structure that makes a silent retreat so intense: no phone, no books, no music, no journaling, and noble silence that strips away identity and small tal...
E24 · 17 Aug 2026 · 58 min
#24 - Graham Hawley - Breaking bad: why small changes lead to big results
You can know every health tip on the internet and still feel tired, stuck, and frustrated. That’s the gap we tackle with health coach, educator, and Small Steps, Big Results author Graham Hawley: the difference between “knowing what to do” and building sustainable health habits you can keep when work, family, and stress hit. We dig into why real transformation often comes from small, consistent actions that reshape your default routines over time. We break down Graham’s five pillars of...
E23 · 13 Aug 2026 · 31 min
#23 - [Solo] - Sex, desire and self-mastery: exploring the ancient wisdom of brahmacharya
Sexual desire can feel like a force that drives the whole day, especially in a world where porn, novelty, and instant gratification are always one click away. In this solo conversation, we take a grounded look at brahmacharya, an ancient yogic practice that’s often reduced to “semen retention,” and we ask a more useful question: what happens when we stop treating desire as something we must discharge and start treating it as something we can understand, contain, and direct? We unpack the rea...
E22 · 11 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
#22 - Martha Wright - Coming home to yourself: ancient wisdom for modern life
Your mind might be brilliant, but it cannot do the whole job of living. When success on paper still feels like emptiness, numbness, or constant striving, it’s often a signal that something deeper is asking to be heard: the body, the heart, and the parts of us we’ve pushed into the shadows. I’m joined by Martha Wright, a shamanic medicine woman, certified breathwork teacher, Reiki Master and art historian who works at the crossroads of ancient wisdom and modern somatic healing. We start...
E21 · 4 Aug 2026 · 55 min
#21 - Dr. Lynn Banis - Picking up the pieces: rebuilding your life after losing a loved one
Grief is everywhere, but most of us still feel lost the moment it becomes personal. I sit down with Dr. Lynn Bannis, a grief and resilience mentor, to talk about what happens when loss stacks up fast and life suddenly stops making sense. Lynn lived it: she lost her mother, her brother, and then her husband, and she explains why that kind of compound grief can feel like wave after wave with no shoreline in sight. We get specific about the real symptoms of grieving that people rarely nam...
E20 · 28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr
#20 - Justin Shaw - Comic relief: why laughter is the best medicine
Laughter is supposed to be light, but Justin Shaw shows us how it can be life-saving. He built his identity on getting laughs, first as a kid trying to survive an emotionally empty home, then as a young stand-up chasing the rush of the room. But when the same need for relief collides with drugs and alcohol, the “high” starts taking more than it gives. Justin shares the moment that finally scared him straight: blacking out after a set and waking up with no memory of what he did, how he got the...
E19 · 21 Jul 2026 · 56 min
#19 - Jon Paul Crimi - A breath of fresh air: how conscious breathing can transform your life
If you have ever wondered how someone crawls out of addiction and then keeps healing long after sobriety, Jon Paul Crimi's story will stay with you. Jon Paul grew up outside Boston feeling out of place and “too sensitive,” and he learned early to question his own emotions. Alcohol became a shortcut to connection, then a way to cope with grief, trauma, and a life that kept escalating, even surviving a stabbing that still did not force a change. We talk through the turning points that finally ...
E18 · 14 Jul 2026 · 49 min
#18 - Saw K. Myint - Buddhist life lessons: the wisdom of impermanence
Change is happening whether we like it or not and a lot of our anxiety comes from trying to freeze life in place. I sit down with Saw K. Myint to talk about a simple Buddhist truth that becomes surprisingly hard to live: nothing is permanent except change. Together we unpack impermanence as something you can actually observe in your own body and mind, not just a nice idea, and how that one shift can help you recover faster when life becomes challenging. Saw shares her personal story from Mya...
E17 · 7 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
#17 - Andre Crabb - The path of least resistance: engineering lasting inner change
It's been said that one person’s magic is another person’s engineering - and that’s exactly the bridge we build here. I’m joined by Andre Crabb, a former Silicon Valley software engineer who left tech after deep misalignment and health decline, then rebuilt his life around somatic healing and energy work. Andre brings a rare mix of grounded logic and lived experience, translating big spiritual ideas like oneness into something you can actually work with: stress, tension, and “resistance” in t...
E16 · 30 Jun 2026 · 1 hr
#16 - Nita Sweeney - Run for your life: how mindful movement can awaken the soul
Sixty seconds doesn’t sound like a comeback story, but it can be. Author, runner, and mindfulness coach Nita Sweeney joins us to share how one tiny jog at age 48 became the first crack of light after a long stretch of chronic depression, intense grief, and the kind of heaviness that makes even getting out of bed feel impossible. We walk through what made that first minute work: choosing a goal so small you can’t fail, letting a training plan carry you when motivation is gone, and building a ...
E15 · 23 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
#15 - Peggy Oberthier - The great escape: breaking free from who you thought you had to be
A prison riot is not the kind of moment anyone would choose, yet it can be the moment that rewrites everything. I’m joined by Peggy Oberthier, a spiritual mentor, healer, speaker, and author whose life took a sharp turn after a traumatic experience working in a youth detention center. What followed wasn’t just recovery, but a full identity reset: the collapse of external validation, the ache of rejection, and the urgent question of who we are when our roles and achievements fall away. Peggy ...
E14 · 16 Jun 2026 · 59 min
#14 - Lincoln Stoller - Beyond comfort: why growth lives on the edge
A thousand-foot fall tends to clarify what matters. Lincoln Stoller joins me for a wide-ranging conversation that starts on a steep slope of Mount Robson and quickly turns into something bigger: how we meet uncertainty, how we build real resilience, and why the stories we tell about “luck” often hide the role of preparation, awareness, and responsibility. Lincoln’s life crosses borders that most people keep separate. He has worked in science and technology, including time around NASA and yea...
E13 · 9 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
#13 - Vandana Atara Noorah - Soul healing: where the light enters you
Your mind can replay the past like a broken playlist while your body quietly carries the cost. That’s where this conversation with Vandana Atara Noorah lands: in the real, lived space where anxiety shows up in your stomach, your heart, your throat, and your nervous system, and where healing becomes something you can feel, not just think about. We start with Rumi’s line “The wound is the place where the light enters you,” then move into what Vandana calls divine light energy healing. She shar...
E12 · 2 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
#12 - Ali Christos - Knowing beyond thinking: Quantum hypnosis, healing, and higher awareness
Your mind already knows more than your anxiety will admit, and sometimes the fastest way to hear it is to quiet the noise instead of fighting it. We’re joined by Ali Christos, a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner, music producer, and author, to break down what QHHT really is and why it’s less about “woo” and more about accessing a deeper layer of consciousness. We walk through how Dolores Cannon’s QHHT guides someone into a deep theta brainwave state, the same neighborhoo...
E11 · 26 May 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
#11 - Laura Rose - Knocking on heaven's door: Life, death and inner knowing
Death, grief, intuition, and healing are topics most people avoid until life forces the conversation. I’m joined by Laura Rose, founder of Sacred Soul, an intuitive energy channel, spiritual medium, and end-of-life guide whose work is rooted in a hard-earned transformation through depression, panic attacks, and chronic physical pain. What makes Laura’s perspective land is how practical it is: she speaks plainly about what “stuck energy” feels like in the body, why some of us walk around carry...
E10 · 19 May 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
#10 - Aakrist Dongol - Every breath we take: functional breathing for peak performance
Breath is happening all day long, yet most of us never learn how to use it on purpose. We sit with breath coach and Peak Breathing Academy founder Aakrist Dongol to explore why functional breathing is one of the most overlooked tools for mental clarity, emotional resilience, and real-world performance. His lens is grounded in physiology, but he’s not afraid to name the deeper side of the work: when the breath gets quieter, life often gets bigger. Aakrist shares the turning points that ...

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My Best Life is a English devotional & spiritual podcast from Peter Kolakovic. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Peter Kolakovic
Language: English
Category: Devotional & Spiritual
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr
Latest episode: 12 Oct 2026
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