Wolf briefly addresses the Covid-19 pandemic, including Yuval Harari's (Sapiens) historical perspective, contemplative practice, the wisdom of insecurity and the hope that the lessons learned will empower climate change activism.Our guest fortuitously is the noted musician East Forest who is a leader in the field of wellness, using music, art, technology and consciousness to fuel his work as a public speaker, creative musician and retreat guide. In this episode we talk about his work with Ram...

Clyde Lieberman is the 3 x Emmy Award Winning Supervising Producer of NBC's “The Voice”- the most watched Prime Time show of the last 10 years- and new music show "Songland". As Supervising Producer, Clyde is involved in the day to day production of every musical aspect of both shows. We are thrilled to be the platform for Clyde's first ever interview since becoming  Supervising Producer. Clyde started out in A&R and music publishing and he talks about his interactions with the Wu Tang...

Bret “Epic” Mazur is a record producer, and founder and frontman of rap rock group Crazy Town. In the early 90s, he and Wolf formed a successful production duo, “Wolf And Epic”, working on projects with Prince, Seal, The Rebirth of Cool, New Edition and Bell Biv Devoe. In this episode, Bret talks about life on the road with Crazy Town, the vagaries of the music business, the highs of performing and the seduction of substance addiction. He shares stories of hitting bottom and how he was able...

Dr. Glenn Fox  is a neuroscientist and Director of The Performance Science Institute at The University of Southern California. In this episode we talk about his research into gratitude,mindfulness  and enthusiasm, optimal decision making, the science of emotions, the importance of fun in performing within a challenge state as it relates to all kinds of performance including sports, the biological effects of stress, the value of nervous energy, growth mindset vs. fixed mindset, the locus of...

Chuck Wild is a successful keyboard and synth player who has worked with the likes of Michael Jackson, Missing Persons, and Paula Abdul. For the past 15 years he has been making meditation music under the name Liquid Mind. In this episode he and Wolf talk about perspective, anxiety and depression, cognitive distortions, affirmations, music therapy, conflict resolution, and how his skills as a musician helped build his meditation practice.Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook...

Eskmo is an electronic music producer and composer of hit shows Billions and 13 Reasons Why. In this episode Eskmo shares the journey of his musical career, from performing all across Europe to being asked to score for television. We go into the stressors of life on tour: isolation, neglected physical health, performance highs and imposter syndrome. He shares insights into his profound relationship with meditation and creative consciousness, his training in VIpassana, the benefits of his...

In this episode host Richard “Wolfie” Wolf encourages listeners to take advantage of the Holiday Season and New Year as an opportunity to foster a new habit of meditation or intensify an existing practice. He outlines how music has already tuned your headspace for mindfulness, talks about concentration in music and meditation and how in meditation it can morph into mindfulness, prioritizing practice in daily life and discovering the pleasures of peace. The podcast ends with a guided meditation.

In this episode, we talk with Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of “The Little Book of Being”. We discuss her time as a nun in a Burmese Buddhist monastery, the spectrum of different awareness practices, such as focused awareness, flexible awareness, investigative awareness, natural and pure awareness; the sound of silence, the art of deep listening, Leonard Cohen, and glimpse practices. We end with a guided listening...

Justin Boreta is a founding member of the influential and iconic electronic group, The Glitch Mob. LA Weekly noted that they "have undoubtedly found the largest audience of any L.A. beat scene artist yet." Boreta explores the innate connections between music and mindfulness by creating songs out of recorded meditations, his latest project being a musical rendition of Alan Watt’s “Dream, Listen” meditation. Justin began his journey in meditation with TM, and from there became deeply interested...

Ricky Bell is a member of the R&B Pop supergroup New Edition and 1/3 of the offshoot trio Bell Biv DeVoe. Ricky is currently releasing music as a solo artist and touring the world with his bandmates while practicing meditation daily. In this episode Ricky shares the major highs and lows of his musical career - from the wild successes he experienced as a teenager to the financial hardships he encountered in adulthood. Ricky is brutally honest about his battles with drug addiction, sharing...

Emmy-Award winning composer, multi-platinum selling music producer and USC mindfulness teacher and author Richard "Wolfie" Wolf invites us to take a deep look at the special relationship between music, meditation and mindfulness. These connections can help us live a more harmonious life and fend off the “Four Horseman of the Musical Apocalypse”: anxiety, depression, addiction and suicide. Follow us @WolfInTunewww.richardwolf.net   Read Wolf's book, "In Tune: Music As The Bridge To...