Commune with Jeff Krasno

Voters just sent Washington a message. Chef Johanna Hellrigl will be watching what happens next from four blocks away. Johanna is a James Beard semifinalist, food-systems advocate and chef-owner of Ama, a restaurant built on farm-direct organic ingredients and a kitchen she has worked to pull plastic out of. She knows a bill backed by only one party usually goes nowhere, and that every fight in Congress eventually reaches someone's dinner table. In this episode, she and Jeff talk about what it would take for food policy to reach the people who need it most, whoever holds power. Why she says "you can't defund and deregulate and make America healthy again," and still sits down with MAHA supporters to ask how they got there The farm bill votes she says she helped flip, and what new leadership on the agriculture committee could change The FRESH Act, and why she believes states should keep the power to lead on food policy What a shutdown or surprise recess does to a restaurant that depends on Congress being in town Heat, fat, acid, and time: her rule for keeping plastic chemicals out of your food This episode is for the parent decoding labels in a grocery aisle at 7 p.m., and anyone waiting to see whether a new Congress changes what ends up on their plate. This episode was made possible by: CocoaVia: Visit CocoaVia.com and get 25% off your order with code COMMUNE2026.  BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at Calocurb.com. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.

“I guess big boys do cry.” Jeff’s daughter Lolli said this after he collapsed onto her bed in a full, pillow-drenching sob while his father was fighting colon cancer.In this episode, Jeff closes the series by tracing the fatherhood he inherited and the one he’s tried to build in its place. He starts with a bitter divorce at 13 and a dad who fought for custody to break his own cycle of abandonment. He offers a long-overdue apology to the mother he shunned, and he credits Schuyler, whom he met at seventeen, with making the healing possible. He also lays out what the girls taught him in return. He let Phoebe decide whether to come home from a miserable school trip to Joshua Tree. He found two meditation apps on the iPad of a daughter who forbids him from saying the word. His closing case is for a different kind of masculinity: courage as vulnerability, discipline as discipleship, and pride as mudita, the Buddhist joy in someone else’s joy. This episode was made possible by: Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD. LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at ⁠drinklmnt.com/commune⁠. BIOptimizers: Go to ⁠www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune⁠ and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at ⁠vivobarefoot.com/commune⁠. Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at ⁠Calocurb.com⁠.

Somewhere between “trust no one” and “trust the experts” is a harder and more honest position. In this episode, Jeff looks at the two sides of a growing cultural standoff. On one side are the compulsive contrarians, who distrust every institution. On the other are the contrarians to the contrarians, who defend those institutions by reflex. He argues that both have confused skepticism with ideology. Why questioning Big Pharma’s ad budget is fair, and calling medicine a scam is not What Vioxx, OxyContin, insulin, and HIV treatment tell us about the same industry How engagement algorithms reward the most extreme voice in the room A case for “discrimination” in its original sense: the ability to see distinctions This episode is for anyone tired of being asked to choose a tribe before looking at the evidence. This episode was made possible by: Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD. LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at ⁠drinklmnt.com/commune⁠. BIOptimizers: Go to ⁠www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune⁠ and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at ⁠vivobarefoot.com/commune⁠. Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at ⁠Calocurb.com⁠.

Have you ever thought of someone right before they called? Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says that's not a coincidence. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Rupert Sheldrake, the Cambridge-trained biologist and author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, to look at the evidence for telepathy. Rupert walks through decades of filmed experiments with dogs, nursing mothers, and phone calls, and explains why he thinks the effect depends on emotional bonds, not distance. Recorded on a pilgrimage in the English countryside, the conversation widens into the limits of materialism, the trust crisis facing our institutions, and why Rupert, a practicing Anglican, finds more open inquiry in church than in a lab. Why telepathy shows up most between parents and children, twins, partners, and close friends The experiments with dogs who wait at the door when their owners head home Rupert's telephone tests, where people guessed their caller far more often than chance Why he compares telepathy to quantum entanglement, but stops short of calling it that Whether science has become as dogmatic as the religion it once challenged This episode is for anyone who has felt an unexplained connection to someone they love, or who suspects science doesn't yet have the full picture of the mind. Originally released in 2025. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD. LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at Calocurb.com.

For twenty years, Jeff’s father wore a pinstriped Brooks Brothers suit every day, riding the Metro-North from Connecticut to an office on 45th and First. Somewhere in that daily friction, his trousers wore the hair from his legs and left his feet improbably smooth. As a boy, Jeff would rub them on the couch after dinner, often reluctantly. It was the simplest pleasure his father knew. Decades later, those same feet are swollen with edema at the end of a hospice bed in Miami. In this episode, Jeff turns from fatherhood to being a son. He spends a week at his dad’s bedside with his brother Eric, and after days of trying to fix everything, Jeff finally stops. He puts on Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald and takes his father’s feet in his hands one last time. In that small act of tending, time folds in on itself: a boy on the couch, a man who walked so many city blocks, a father briefly free of his failing body. There’s nothing left to say and nothing left to fix, only the care a son can give with his hands. This is the twentieth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff’s own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. This episode was made possible by: BIOptimizers: Go to ⁠www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune⁠ and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at ⁠vivobarefoot.com/commune⁠. Stripes: Visit ⁠stripesbeauty.com⁠ and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at ⁠drinklmnt.com/commune⁠.

Every bad thing you’ve heard about GLP-1s may be true, and so is everything you’ve been told about calories in, calories out. Ashley Koff says both miss the real problem. Jeff sits down with Ashley Koff, RD, a registered dietitian and author of Your Best Shot, to talk about GLP-1s, weight health, and whether AI can ever be as curious as a good practitioner. Jeff shares what happened when he started low-dose tirzepatide and his appetite disappeared overnight. Why "weight loss" can include bone, muscle, hair and testosterone, and what Ashley measures instead The first two days after a weekly shot: why she moves fiber later in the week and leans on soups and smoothies Why feeling no hunger at all on a GLP-1 can be a sign the dose is wrong Why calories are "only potential energy" until digestion turns them into something usable How Jeff used AI to keep five specialists on the same page for his father, and why Ashley built her own AI nutritionist This episode is for anyone who started a GLP-1 and can barely eat, or who's getting textbook nutrition answers that don't fit their body. Ashley's book Your Best Shot is available now. This episode was made possible by: BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.

Running late to pick Lolli up from dance rehearsal, Jeff arrives to find the studio empty except for his daughter, dancing alone to Debussy's Rêverie. Instead of going in, he stays outside the plate-glass window and watches. In this episode, Jeff traces those few unguarded minutes: a kid moving like water, and a father reaching for Kabbalah, Alan Watts, and the Japanese art of kintsugi to explain why it felt like watching something broken get put back together. Then she catches his eye, and the dance changes. Flow becomes performance, and Jeff is left with a question every parent eventually meets: what does it cost our kids to dance for someone they want to make proud? This is the 19th episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. This episode was made possible by: LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at ⁠drinklmnt.com/commune⁠. BIOptimizers: Go to ⁠www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune⁠ and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD. Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at ⁠Calocurb.com.⁠ Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at ⁠vivobarefoot.com/commune⁠.

At 25, Sabrina Zohar sent a man she barely knew 173 unanswered text messages from a friend's bathroom floor. Years later, she realized she was never in love with him. She was in love with being chosen. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Sabrina Zohar, relationship coach, host of The Sabrina Zohar Show, and author of the new book Why Am I Like This?, to trace how childhood wiring shows up in who we date, how we fight, and why healthy love can feel boring at first. How anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment styles form, and why they're more fluid than social media suggests Repetition compulsion and why you keep dating the same type of person Why chemistry doesn't mean compatibility, and why money, kids, and shared life goals matter more A word-for-word script for talking to your partner about a trigger Why green flags can feel uncomfortable, and how corrective experiences change what feels safe This episode is for anyone who keeps repeating the same relationship pattern and wants to understand where it comes from. Find Sabrina's new book, Why Am I Like This?, at sabrinazohar.com/book. This episode was made possible by: LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune. BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD. Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at Calocurb.com. Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune.

"Well, if you're going to leave in June anyways, you might as well leave now!" Thirteen-year-old Jeff heard it from the stairs on Christmas morning, with his little brother beside him in footed pajamas.In this episode, Jeff tells the story of the holiday his parents' marriage broke open: the Hail Mary trip to Brazil, the presents opened quietly with Gramma, and the night Eric slept in his bed. He follows the fallout into adulthood, including choosing to stay with his broken father, cutting off his mother for nearly a decade, and setting out into life "rudderless and leaky."This is the eighteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. This episode was made possible by: Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at ⁠Calocurb.com ⁠Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at ⁠vivobarefoot.com/commune⁠. BIOptimizers: Go to ⁠www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune⁠ and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD

When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this episode, recorded live at The Kinn in Los Angeles, Jeff sits down with Dr. Zach Bush, a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care. They explore his new book, Biological Elegance, which unfolds through a dialogue with AI. They get into the difference between curing and healing, why Zach believes there's no machine behind AI at all, and why the real danger isn't artificial intelligence but humans acting like machines. Why humming is one of the most powerful ways to relieve acute pain, a lesson Zach learned from a hospice nurse Jeff's story of his father's final week in hospice, and the difference between curing and healing Zach's case that AI isn't a machine at all, and that the real danger is humans acting like machines The "false solutions" of biohacking, crypto, and the conscious movement The curative questions Zach believes medicine should be asking: where's your original wound, and what's your deepest fear? This episode is for anyone who has sat at a loved one's bedside, feels uneasy about AI, or suspects that healing means more than fixing symptoms. Zach's new book, Biological Elegance: Unwitting the Devil, is available at zachbushmd.com. This episode was made possible by: Calocurb: Calocurb naturally activates your body’s own GLP-1 and other fullness hormones to help manage hunger and cravings. Code COMMUNE10 for 10% off at Calocurb.com Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 20% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. BIOptimizers: Go to www.bioptimizers.com/onecommune and use code ONECOMMUNE for 15% off your order. Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD