Dr. Tony Nader — neuroscientist, leader of Transcendental Meditation, and New York Times bestselling author — guides intimate conversations with people from all walks of life going through their own caring transformations, exploring the ten themes at the core of his groundbreaking new book. Dr. Nader brings the science of caring to life through the stories of his guests; people navigating burnout, redefining relationships, chasing purpose, and learning what it means to truly let go. Each episode connects the biology and philosophy of caring to experiences listeners can recognize in their own lives.
The Person You Love Is Not the Person You Imagined, with Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, on why we fall in love with people who trigger our deepest wounds, the hidden reason couples struggle with difference, and how learning to truly see another person can transform a relationship.
Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt have spent more than four decades asking one of the most consequential questions in human relationships: Why can two people love each other deeply and still struggle to stay connected? In this episode of Depth Over Noise, Harville and Helen join Dr. Tony Nader to explore why we are often drawn to partners who activate our deepest unmet needs, why trying to change the person we love creates the power struggle at the heart of so many relationships, and why conflict does not necessarily mean we chose the wrong person. They discuss the universal wound of feeling invisible, the practice of “zero negativity, ” how dialogue can regulate two people in conflict, and what it means to create safety in the “space between. ” It is ultimately a conversation about caring at its most intimate: learning to see another human being not as the person we need them to become, but as the person who is actually standing in front of us.
8 Sept 2026
Caring on the Other Side of War, with Chad Robichaux
Former Force Recon Marine and Mighty Oaks founder Chad Robichaux on losing the capacity to care, finding it again, and rescuing seventeen thousand people in the process.
Chad Robichaux served eight deployments to Afghanistan with a Joint Special Operations Command Task Force and came home with severe PTSD that nearly cost him his life. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, he joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about the closet and the pistol, the steady love of his wife Kathy that reached him when nothing else could, the founding of Mighty Oaks Foundation that has now served roughly seven thousand warriors, and the 2021 rescue mission that became the largest civilian evacuation in American history. It is a sobering, hopeful, and deeply personal conversation about whether the capacity to care can be lost, and whether it can come back.
25 Aug 2026
Who Cares? You Do...The Consciousness Paradigm & Meaning of Life
Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, high Buddhist master and teacher, on the powerful methods of Tibetan Buddhism.
Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche has spent his life translating ancient Tibetan Buddhist wisdom into practical guidance for modern life. Recognized at age 13 as the eighth reincarnation of the Nyentse Lama, he trained across the principal schools of Tibetan Buddhism, became a doctor of Tibetan medicine, and is internationally known for teaching Tummo, the inner fire practice. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, he joins Dr. Tony Nader to explore where Buddhist and Vedic traditions meet in their understanding of consciousness, compassion, and care. Their conversation moves from breath, posture, and the body-mind connection to the medicine for anger, the practice of letting go, and the progression from kindness to compassion to bodhicitta, or selfless love. Rinpoche explains why caring is not something imposed on us, but part of our deepest nature, and closes with a simple invitation: hear less noise, listen more closely to the inner voice, and begin with one act of kindness.
18 Aug 2026
Flow, Neurobiology, and the Science of Caring
Bestselling author and flow researcher Steven Kotler on why empathy is a peak human capacity, what neurobiology reveals about caring, and how AI is changing what we care about.
Steven Kotler has spent more than thirty years mapping the outer edges of human performance. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, the founder of the Flow Research Collective joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about why flow opens the same circuits that allow empathy, what his work on intuition reveals about caring, how neurobiology quietly determines whether a person can care on any given day, and how AI is reshaping the architecture of human attention. The conversation closes on the long human story of cooperation, and the case for caring as the quiet engine of every form of peak human capacity.
12 Aug 2026
Bouncing Back for the Self That Has to Keep Showing Up, with Coach Dar
Elite mental performance coach Coach Dar on Be Well, Live Well, Serve Well, the art of bouncing back, and what high performers most need and most rarely receive. Coach Dar has spent her career coaching the most demanding performers in the world across the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, and PGA, as well as Fortune 100 CEOs and world leaders. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, she joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about her foundational philosophy of Be Well, Live Well, Serve Well, the framework behind her bestselling book The Art of Bouncing Back, what high performers really need from their inner circle, and what her own health journey taught her about receiving care. The conversation closes on her billion-person mission and what caring at scale actually looks like.
4 Aug 2026
When the Body Forgets How to Care, with Dr. Aimie Apigian
Dr. Aimie Apigian is a physician and one of the leading voices on the biology of trauma. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, she joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about what medicine misses about caring, how biology quietly shapes our ability to feel empathy, the hardest decision she made for her son, what happens when we care about something the people around us do not, how the body shows it cares, and why trauma is the natural enemy of caring. The conversation moves from the clinical to the deeply personal, and ends with a clear answer to the question many listeners are quietly asking: Can the capacity to care actually come back?
28 Jul 2026
Caring Across a Lifetime, with Dwayne J. Clark
Dwayne J. Clark, founder of Aegis Living, on caregiver burnout, the assisted living decision that fractures families, and what 80,000 seniors have taught him about caring.
Dwayne J. Clark has spent his life building one of the most respected senior living companies in America. As founder, chairman, and CEO of Aegis Living, he has overseen the care of more than 80,000 seniors and their families. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, Dwayne sits down with Dr. Tony Nader to talk about caregiver burnout, the impossible family conversation about moving a parent into care, how caring changes as we age, the role of a daily routine in keeping us connected to what matters, and what longevity and leadership really require. The conversation closes with the lessons Dwayne has drawn from a career operationalizing caring at scale, and what they reveal about Dr. Nader's central argument in The Power of Caring.
21 Jul 2026
Get Up. Get Dressed. Let's Do This, with Caroline Baudino
Caroline Baudino, the voice behind Shop With Caroline and the Coming In Hot podcast, on the phone call that changed her life and the daily ritual that brought her back to herself.
Caroline Baudino is one of the most beloved voices on the internet for women in their forties, fifties, and sixties. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, she joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about the 2019 phone call from her mother that changed her life, the daily practice of getting up and getting dressed that became a movement of more than a million women, the sandwich generation years that taught her what she needed for herself, building a multi-channel business with her husband John, the conversations she is having on Coming In Hot, and what she wants other women to know about the second half. It is a conversation about caring at its most everyday and most powerful.
7 Jul 2026
Choosing to Care When Life Gives You Every Reason Not To, with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod, creator of The Miracle Morning, on surviving two near-death experiences, building a global movement, and what three million readers have taught him about why people stop caring.
Hal Elrod has been clinically dead, told he might never walk again, and given a 20 to 30 percent chance to survive a rare leukemia. He came back from all of it. In this episode of Depth Over Noise, Hal joins Dr. Tony Nader to talk about how he did not give up caring after the accident, how he maintains optimism without slipping into toxic positivity, what three million readers have taught him about why people stop caring, why he built a homestead, the moments in his own life when he said who cares, and the daily practice that makes caring a habit rather than a feeling. It is one of the most personal conversations Hal has given on the question that quietly runs underneath every Miracle Morning: what is worth getting up for.
2 Jul 2026
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Dr. Tony Nader — neuroscientist, leader of Transcendental Meditation, and New York Times bestselling author — guides intimate conversations with people from all walks of life going through their own caring transformations, exploring the ten themes at the core of his groundbreaking new book. Dr. Nader brings the science of caring to life through the stories of his guests: people navigating burnout, redefining relationships, chasing purpose, and learning what it means to truly let go. Each episode connects the biology and philosophy of caring to experiences listeners can recognize in their own lives.
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