The Life Stylist

There's a better way to protect your health than paying for health insurance.

My guest Andy Schoonover, founder of CrowdHealth, quit insurance after his plan refused to pay for his daughter's $8,000 ear procedure and built a parallel system.

Paying cash shocked him. The same stress echo test that cost another man's insurance plan $5,000 cost him $225, and his pediatrician knocked 40 or 50 percent off the bill once insurance left the room.

Andy explains how nearly 20 percent of claims get denied by design, why doctors see only eight cents of...

I joined The Grimerica Show for a conversation about what it really means to be free—not just politically or financially, but emotionally and spiritually. We cover my journey from addiction to recovery, the childhood experiences behind A Horse Named Lonesome, and why I've become increasingly unwilling to compromise my integrity for money, status, or approval. We also explore the loneliness of questioning mainstream narratives, the importance of finding your people, and why freedom means very little if we're still prisoners of our own minds.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Kyle and I explore a hunger most of us don’t know we have — the deep deficit of physical touch in Western culture, where contact gets siloed off into family or romance with nothing in between. He explains how we’re biologically wired for touch as co-regulation, how we convince ourselves we’ve “outgrown” the need, and why you can’t feel the lack until something finally fills it. A reframe of loneliness as, in part, a body starved of the care it was designed to receive.

About Kyle

Kyle Coursey is the creator...

Thirty minutes after the biggest relief of his life, Dylan Gemelli found out his apartment was being ransacked, with half a kilo of cocaine in the safe.

A leading voice in fitness and biohacking, Dylan has over 1.5 million Instagram followers and a podcast that hit #1 in Health and Fitness in October 2025.

He shares how he got caught, what prison did to his character, and the moment his Mom asked him a question on a collect call that broke him open.

Then the conversation turns to hormones. Anabolic...

I join my brother Kyle Kingsbury for a raw conversation about the life experiences behind my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome. We trace my journey from childhood abuse and addiction to recovery and spiritual awakening, exploring how shame, trauma, and the illusion of separation can keep us disconnected from ourselves and others. We also get into forgiveness, ego death, 5-MeO-DMT, and the hard-earned lessons that ultimately inspired me to share this book with the world.

In this Lonesome Conversation, Dr. Lipton and I explore his striking claim that loneliness runs against a law of biology—that no organism, from an ant to a bee to a human, survives outside its community. He walks through why we've been programmed to feel separate by religion, politics, nationality, and sex, and who actually benefits when we're isolated and disempowered. A bracing reframe of the loneliness epidemic as a spiritual and biological crisis rather than a personal failing.

About Dr. Lipton

Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, former medical school professor and epigenetic science pi...

Can a natural drug get you off drugs?

Co-founder of Ambio Life Sciences and one of the leading voices on ibogaine, Jonathan has spent over 15 years inside the clinical, traditional, and research sides of this medicine.

Being handed a Zoloft prescription after a nine-item questionnaire became his first real entry into altered states, a lens on the world that also left him feeling trapped. Harm reduction research in Vancouver and the NAOMI heroin trial pulled him into drug policy, where ibogaine became the bridge between that world and psychedelics.

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In this Lonesome Conversation, Joel and I explore his reframe that "aloneness can become all oneness" — that you can learn to connect with the earth and sun so deeply you're never truly alone, even in solitude. He shares the story of a teacher who spent 18 years alone doing shamanic practice, and makes the case that intentional solitude, far from something to fear, can be an actual lifeline. A grounding look at why most of us lack the tools to be alone well, and how they can be learned.

About Joel

Joel Schafer is a personal em...

This conversation with Ross Rosenberg goes straight into the heart of my recovery story—from childhood trauma, shame, addiction, and compulsive behavior to the lifelong process of learning how to genuinely love and accept myself.

We explore loneliness as an underlying driver of addiction, why our attempts to fill that void often create even more separation, and how healing can transform suffering into empathy, purpose, and service. I also get into the deeper story behind A Horse Named Lonesome and the roadmap back to connection woven throughout the book.

We’ve been ingesting microplastics, and no one is talking about it.

That result is what first got David Roberts, co-founder and managing partner of Mara Labs, interested in microplastics.

Most broccoli supplements don't contain what their labels claim. One doctor even teared up in front of him at a conference when they realized what they'd been recommending for years. The GLP-1 side effect story is even uglier than the headlines suggest, with nearly 4,000 lawsuits and up to 40% of lost weight coming from muscle.

Where do microplastics ac...

In this Lonesome Conversation, Cal and I discuss a kind of loneliness that has nothing to do with being alone — the "island in your own home" feeling that comes from not sharing what you're struggling with, even with a partner who'd drop everything for you. Cal is disarmingly honest about how pride and shame, usually around money, keep him from letting his wife in, and how every time he finally does, he's met with a grace that shocks him. A tender look at how the wall we feel between us and the people we love is one we quietly bu...

What if mental illness is actually a spiritual battle?

My guest today is Skai Delacroix, a healer and teacher who spent three years in near-total silence and now works with people through his ZeroPoint method.

What happened to him after that first year of samadhi is the part nobody talks about: the long collapse into psychiatric diagnoses, suicidal planning, and a body he could barely move.

At one point in his story, paramedics couldn’t lift him off the sidewalk because the gravitational pull was too strong. In...

In the first Lonesome Conversation I ever recorded, I speak with Jeffrey and Clayten, the two men behind Focused Life-Force Energy, to open on a paradox: how can we be more digitally connected than any humans in history, yet lonelier than ever? Clayten remembers pandemic Zoom dinners and the front porch he misses, while Jeffrey names the "field effect" between two people in a room — an intimate, silent exchange between our energetic fields that a video call simply can't carry, and that most of us don't even know we're missing. A quietly unsettling look at what disappears when presence go...

Forty years into a nicotine habit, I tried to quit cold turkey, and it nearly broke me.

Alyson was on the beach communing with grasshoppers and golden orb weavers while I was under the covers in a dark hole, trying to white-knuckle my way off nicotine, mambé, and Ambil after finishing my book.

Same place, drastically different trips.

We get into what happens when a habit doesn't wreck your life but still runs it, and why "biohacker-friendly" substances can be harder to walk away from than anyone t...

Mark Sisson ran for decades in cushioned shoes and paid for it with a hip replacement he believes was preventable.

Seven Gs of force hit your hip with every step in cushioned shoes, versus one or two when your feet can feel the ground. That number reframed everything I thought I knew about footwear.

Mark is the forefather of the primal movement, founder of Primal Kitchen and Peluva, and he’s spent decades studying what keeps a body moving into its 70s and beyond.

Wide-toebox shoes alone wi...

In this Lonesome Conversation, Alex and I sit down to name a paradox a lot of seekers know intimately — that the closer you draw to God or consciousness, the fewer people tend to be standing there beside you. Drawing on his favorite philosopher, Manly P. Hall, Alex explains why real spiritual growth doesn't make life easier but instead "quickens the wheel of karma," ushering in a season of trial rather than comfort. We sit with the strange irony that becoming connected to something vast can leave you more alone in your own living room.

About Al...

Is manifestation just a scam?

Frank Elaridi is a four-time Emmy-winning journalist turned energy healer whose YouTube work on spirituality has pulled 40M+ views. This is the clearest window I've had into what happens after peak experiences stop mattering.

A client came to him convinced she was channeling angels because her vision was fluttering. Frank told her: “Your retina is detaching; see a doctor now”. She'd been putting it off because YouTubers said the symptom was spiritual. That's how dangerous wellness content gets when spiritual entertainment is sold as truth.

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Salim and I spend this Lonesome Conversation on that specific ache of standing in a crowded room and feeling a total dissonance with everything around you. He describes how that used to tip him into depression as a teenager, and how he's since come to read it as a signal rather than a verdict — a cue to go inward and actually feel what the moment is asking to be felt. An honest reframe of isolation as information from the body, not a life sentence.

About Salim

Salim Najjar brings the lens of an en...

Dr. Motley says most detox protocols end up poisoning the person doing them, and almost nobody talks about why.

Dr. Chris Motley is a Chinese medicine practitioner, kinesiologist, and frequency medicine expert who's spent 22 years watching organs, emotions, and infections behave as one connected system.

We start with poop. Then it gets weirder: childhood staph infections, parasites hiding in biofilms, and why cleaning your bowel might matter more than any longevity protocol. Then there’s that one wild patient story I still can't shake.

We explore the em...

"By Any Means Necessary": How Loneliness Sent Him to Prison | Mansal Denton

Mansal Denton joins me for this Lonesome Conversation to trace a hard truth back to its root — that the choices which landed him in prison in his 20s were, underneath everything, a misfired hunt for connection. He talks about placing his entire sense of worth in a woman overseas, the "by any means necessary" logic that shoved ethics and morality out the window, and how that same engine drives addiction. An unflinching look at what we'll sacrifice when we mistake a person or a substance fo...

My ego freaked out when I read the manuscript of my book.

Today, Alyson joins me for another Field Reveal Friday and Ask Me Anything.

A listener asked where I get my clothes now, which sounds light until it opens a door into identity, self-worth, and the years I dressed to hide from a room that I thought was staring at me.

There's also a question on rewriting beliefs that sent me back to the night I checked into rehab in 1997, the beliefs I used to hold...

In this Lonesome Conversation, Adam and I explore his conviction that separation is a trick of perspective — that whether you zoom in with a microscope or out with a telescope, you're looking at the same unbroken whole, and that "there is God, and we're it." We trace how entomology, the world's religions, and psychedelics converged for him into one felt truth rather than a hopeful idea: that we're never actually alone. A conversation about the kind of existential loneliness that dissolves the moment you stop believing in the boundary.

About Adam

Adam Butler is...

Time doesn't heal trauma. The damage accumulates until your body pays the price.

Dr. Aimie Apigian is a Preventive and Addiction Medicine physician and bestselling author of The Biology of Trauma. Her path in this work involved a failed adoption and an autoimmune diagnosis.

We talk about why fear stored in the body creates the sickness you're trying to biohack your way out of. Aimie breaks down the difference between suppression and repression, and why the latter costs you more physically. It turns out the reason cognitive approaches keep failing addicts...

For this Lonesome Conversation, Tim Corcoran joins me to pull apart two very different kinds of loneliness: the interpersonal ache of having no one around, and the existential kind where you feel alone in the universe even in a crowded room. We get into why the wild speaks to that deeper loneliness, why middle-aged men are statistically the loneliest among us, and why "just go find community" so often fails to fill the gap.

About Tim

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he offers Nature Based Purpose Guidance...

I'm excited to announce the Lonesome Conversations Limited Series!

Lonesome Conversations is a special series from The Life Stylist, built around my new book, A Horse Named Lonesome (out November 17, 2026). Loneliness is something almost everyone goes through, and almost nobody talks about honestly. So I sat down with psychologists, philosophers, trauma therapists, teachers, and friends to find the truth about loneliness, and how we heal from it. Each episode is its own conversation, but together they walk the same ground the book maps out. (Pre-order your copy at ahorsenamedlonesome.com) You'll find new episodes every Friday alongside...

Why do you keep falling in love with the same toxic person, just wearing a different face?

I sat down with Ross Rosenberg, MEd, the author of the bestselling book Human Magnet Syndrome, and a psychotherapist whose work has reached over 34 million YouTube views and sold 200K books in 12 languages.

Ross has spent decades untangling the real roots of codependency and reframed it as what he calls Self-Love Deficit Disorder.

We get into the invisible pull between people who give everything away and people who take it...

Can one molecule almost double our lifespan?

Chris Burres is the founder and chief scientist at MyVitalC, the oldest and longest manufacturer of the Nobel Prize-winning ESS60 molecule. He came here to explain why almost nobody has heard of it.

The story gets stranger the further in we go. Rice University scientists discovered this ball-shaped carbon molecule in 1985. It performs better than most existing materials in batteries, tires, and inks, and its antioxidant properties are far more powerful than vitamin C. Then a French toxicity study produced unexpected longevity results.

Jack Storms lost sight in one eye after an accident with the craft he'd spent nearly two decades mastering, then had to relearn his work from scratch.

Jack is a glass sculptor whose cold-worked, Fibonacci-driven pieces live inside Marvel films and private collections. His story lives somewhere between engineering, physical trauma, and the question of what art is truly for.

We got into what happened on that grinding wheel, the surgery that cost him the rest of his sight, and why he had to return to beginner-level fundamentals to keep sculpting...

My book is officially done, and something else is officially beginning.

Alyson is a bestselling author, shamanic teacher, and host of the Ceremony Circle Podcast, and she's launching something called The Field Reveal, an unscripted love series and live events for spiritually-minded singles who refuse to settle.

She reads the first-ever Field Reveal Report, a kind of consciousness weather forecast that hit me harder than I expected.

We also dive into how we found each other in Joshua Tree, why interdependence beats codependence, and the running amends...

Sacred geometry has more impact on our lives than we can imagine.

Melissa Tittl is an investigative journalist, award-winning filmmaker, and the founder of Hathor Studios. She has spent her career chasing the pattern behind consciousness, ancient sites, and the shape of reality itself. Her new film, Illusion, strips the story away and asks what's left.

Our conversation goes into what happened to her at Dendera, why the number 12 keeps showing up across every civilization, and the man whose brain injury left him seeing the world as pure geometry.

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There’s one exercise that can have a tremendous impact on your health, and that’s rebounding.

Fayth Caruso is a movement educator with Bellicon, and she's spent years studying why this one piece of equipment keeps people moving from childhood into their 90s.

Rebounding sounds like a niche thing until you understand what it's actually doing under the surface. From lymphatic flow and pelvic floor strength to proprioception, cross-hemisphere brain work, cellulite, lipedema, and cognition, Fayth ties it all back to something the modern world has stripped out of daily life...

Reparenting the inner child sounds like pop psychology until you understand how the nervous system stores what happened to you.

Dr. Nicole LePera is a holistic psychologist and New York Times bestselling author, and her return conversation goes into why insight alone rarely changes anything. She lays out the two-step process for real change and what it takes to interrupt the reactive patterns most of us live in without noticing.

Epigenetics gets a grounded, non-woo explanation here. Trauma isn't only what happened to you; it's also what your lineage carried into...

Our body doesn’t need minerals the way we think.

Caroline Alan, co-founder of BEAM Minerals and author of The Mineral Reset, has spent years studying why our soils, food, and cells have all run dry at the same time.

A US Senate document from 1936 warned about mineral depletion in American soil. Almost a century later, nothing's changed, and the studies on nutrient density in modern crops back that up.

What I find fascinating is how this connects to energy itself. A fully mineralized body can generate ar...

Did you know there’s a wearable device on the market that can create harmony in your body?

Dmitri is the co-founder behind the One Device, and he's spent years inside the wellness tech world building tools that work with the body's vibration instead of fighting it.

A 5-MeO experience didn't just change his worldview; it became the blueprint for his life's work: helping people vibrate in resonance with the energy most of us only glimpse in our most profound moments.

With One Device’s Bio-Tuning feature, each...

There are some ugly truths about the vet industry…

Recorded right after The Life Stylist's 10th anniversary, in this episode, Alyson and I get into holistic pet care, fear of death, and what John Gray's research on the male prefrontal cortex explains about it.

Plus: holistic pet care that won't bankrupt you, a painless NAD+ injector pen, Lumios bulbs that finally solved the LED problem, a marine collagen with pearl powder that actually dissolves, and moving beyond the fear of dying.

Get the Animal Power book and de...

Lucy’s got a device that’s changing the world of light therapy.

Lucy founded LYMA, a supplement company born from her own health crisis. But the science kept pulling her forward, from skincare to the LYMA Laser. I wanted to understand why the red light panel in my bathroom might not be doing what the marketing says it does, and why a real cold laser is a different category entirely.

In this episode, we get into the difference between LED scatter and laser coherence, what it means for light to reac...

Men and women process feelings in different ways, and as partners we need to learn how to leverage these differences.

What I thought I knew about being a good husband turned out to be the thing keeping my wife from feeling close to me. John Gray wrote Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, which sold over 50 million copies in 45 languages, and he's been counseling couples for 45 years. So when he talks about why modern relationships keep breaking down, I listen.

This is our fourth conversation, and it's the one...

Cal built the kind of life most men spend their whole lives chasing. Then a night in Vegas showed him it wasn't the one he was meant to live.

Cal Callahan walked away from a successful career in finance to host The Great Unlearn and build Unlearn Ventures, a fund and studio backing conscious projects that put people over profit. He lived the accumulation side of the equation long enough to know exactly what it costs.

Net worth and self-worth are not the same thing, and most men find that out...

Can you reset your life in just one session?

The work I'd done for 30 years hit a ceiling I didn't know existed until Kyle's hands found it. Kyle Coursey is the creator of THE RESET, and he works with people who've already done the therapy, the medicine, and the modalities… but still feel something is untouched underneath.

What happened in our session changed how I think about healing. Twelve plus hours, no timer, no exit. Talk first, then bodywork, then mushrooms, then breath, then a relationship with pain I'd spent my wh...

Is life a simulation? If so, what’s the point of living?

Where does our soul go when we die?

Does urine therapy work?

My wife Alyson is back in the co-host seat, and she's deep in a parasite cleanse with Dr. Ann Shippy after intuiting four specific issues that all came back positive on testing.

We get into what shifted when the inflammation finally dropped, why she's the rare person who'd rather inject GHK-Cu than swallow a capsule, and the Korean laser treatment she crossed the th...