Ep 264 Anxiety Series with Soren Gordhamer
Episode Description
For episode 264, Soren Gordhamer returns to the Metta Hour for our ongoing Anxiety Series. In this series, Sharon is speaking with Mental Health experts, providers and different researchers for tools to work with anxiety in increasingly challenging times. This is the fifth episode in the series. Soren Gordhamer is the founder and host of Wisdom 2.0, the premier conference exploring living with greater mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion in the modern age. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner of Wisdom Ventures, along with Jack Kornfield and Yung Pueblo, which invests in companies creating a more just and compassionate world. Soren is also the founder of the Lineage Project in NYC, and also spent a year on the Global Walk for a Livable World, a three-and-a-half world walk. He and Jon Kabat-Zinn also co-hosted the Mitigation Retreat, which was a free 3-month course held every weekday offering meditations and teachings during Covid. Soren is the author of numerous books. His latest, The Essential: Discovering What Really Matters in an Age of Distraction, was released in May of 2025. This is Soren’s second appearance on the Metta Hour.
In this conversation Sharon and Soren discuss:
• The context for cultural anxiety
• The development of social media
• Becoming aware of our stories
• Do we need a new narrative?
• Redefining our worth
• Revamping our North Star
• Harnessing all our energies
• Dismantling our armor
• How shame drives mental health
• The point of vulnerability
• Dalai Lama meeting formerly incarcerated
• Living from a place of lack
• Ram Dass’ somebody-ness
• Soren walking the world
• The role information plays in anxiety
Additional Resources
Soren closes the conversation with a guided meditation. To get a copy of Soren’s new book, The Essential, via his website right here.
Check out the first episode in the Anxiety Podcast Series with Dr. Jud Brewer right here.
Listen to Soren’s first appearance on the Metta House from 2020 right here.
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