Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time

About Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time

Mindfulness in Real Time explores how presence, awareness, and intention can transform everyday life. Hosted by Clayton Platt, this podcast goes beyond traditional meditation to reveal how mindfulness shows up in real moments—at work, at home, under pressure, and in transition. Through real conversations and lived experiences, each episode highlights the practical tools and mindset shifts that help us navigate uncertainty, manage stress, and deepen connection with ourselves and others. Whether you’re leading a team, raising a family, chasing a goal, or simply trying to be more present, Mindfulness in Real Time offers grounded insights for showing up fully—even when life gets messy. Sponsored by Meditation4Leadership, check them out at www.meditation4leadership.org (http://www.meditation4leadership.org) Hosted by Clayton Platt Produced by Jonathan Goehring With thanks to Star Trust Media

Publisher

Clayton Platt

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2025

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Fiduciary in All Things: George Kinder on Trust, Freedom, and What Comes Next

   More than twenty years ago, in a room full of financial advisors learning to breathe before they talked about money, Clayton encountered something that quietly changed the course of his life. The man leading that room was George Kinder. Today they are back together. George Kinder is one of the most original thinkers in the intersection of financial planning, contemplative practice, and human freedom. He spent two years in solitary meditation practice after graduating from Harvard. He built a six-day-a-week practice of meditating from six in the morning until noon for 30+ years, while running a financial planning practice in the afternoons. He wrote The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, built the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, trained thousands of advisors to put a client's life ahead of their portfolio, and then kept going deeper. His latest work, The Three Domains of Freedom, has led him to something he calls FIAT: Fiduciary In All Things. A single sentence of legislation that asks every organization on earth, business, government, nonprofit, to place the interests of truth, democracy, people, and planet ahead of its own self-concern. Not socialism. Not idealism. A practical, achievable shift in how civilization organizes itself around trust. But before any of that, this conversation goes somewhere quietly stunning. George shares what science recently revealed about listening: that it is 100 million times faster than thinking. Not as metaphor. As measurable fact. And what that means for presence, for trust, for what actually happens in the space between two people when one of them truly stops thinking and starts to listen. Clayton and George also explore self-forgetfulness as a spiritual and practical practice, why the deepest virtues become available only when the self steps aside, and what it actually felt like to build a decades-long contemplative life entirely outside of institutional support, following St. Francis and the Zen poet Ryokan as models rather than any living teacher. Find George's work: fiduciaryinallthings.com (http://fiduciaryinallthings.com). His books: The Three Domains of Freedom: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1960044001?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1960044001?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback) The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385324049?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385324049?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback)

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   From the Court to the Cushion: Tennis Pro Emma Allen on Performance, Presence, and Holistic Health

   What if the most important thing about competing had nothing to do with the score? Emma Allen grew up with a tennis racket in her hand and a philosophy professor for a father, which turns out to be a combination that changes everything about how you approach a game, a loss, a career, and a life. She competed professionally, traveled with her father and brother as her coaching team, and learned something that most competitors never do. The joy is in the gritty incremental growth, not the result. She describes feeling greedy for it. That career was derailed by injury. And what happened next is where this conversation gets genuinely surprising. Emma found her way to osteopathic medicine, discovered the profound impact of removing dairy, gluten, and processed sugar from her diet, and never had another sinus infection in her life. She stumbled into Joe Dispenza's work through a stranger in a grocery store who felt compelled to recommend a book. And she began building a framework that now forms the foundation of her Mindset Masterclass, a program she delivers to athletic teams, corporate organizations, and anyone ready to understand why emotional state is the foundation of everything else. Clayton and Emma explore what the neuroscience of language acquisition reveals about presence and performance, why the affective filter shuts down learning and how the same principle applies on the court, in a meeting, and in a relationship, and what it actually means to sit with discomfort long enough to understand what it is telling you. They also talk about something Clayton does not often get to explore on this show. Sound money, financial literacy, and why Emma believes that understanding the monetary system is one of the most impactful things a person can do for their own peace of mind and long-term wellbeing. This one is warm, wide-ranging, and genuinely fun. Find Emma at mindsetmasterclass.org (http://mindsetmasterclass.org).

3. 

   2 Sept 2026

   What Music Teaches the Mind: Dr. Michael Ketner on Flow, Focus, and Showing Up

   He had done everything right. The preparation was solid. The earlier rounds had gone well. And then came the moment that changed everything. Not a missed note. Not a technical failure. A thought. Someone told him he was the only candidate left. And somewhere inside, a voice said you have already won. The performance fell apart. Not because his hands forgot what to do. Because his attention had already left the room. Dr. Michael Ketner has spent his career inside that gap, the space between what a performer knows and what they can actually do when it matters most. Director of performance at the University of Pennsylvania's music department for more than twenty years, former orchestral trombonist, and now a coach working with musicians, leaders, and athletes, he brings to this conversation a depth of experience that is as practical as it is quietly profound. Clayton and Dr. Ketner explore what Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game books reveal about the performing mind, how the concepts of Self One and Self Two map onto what neuroscience tells us about the prefrontal cortex and flow, and what actually happens when a performer shifts their focus outward toward the audience, the music, the relationship, and why that shift changes everything. At the center of this conversation is a concept Dr. Ketner calls the invisible curriculum. The lessons that never appear on any syllabus. How to respond to a mistake in front of an audience. How to receive criticism from a teacher. How to hold yourself when things fall apart. These things get transmitted whether or not anyone intends to teach them. And they shape a performer, for better or for worse, long after the formal training ends. Clayton makes the case that most of us are living out that invisible curriculum right now. Absorbed somewhere along the way, never examined, quietly running the show. This episode is for anyone whose work has a performative dimension. Which when you think about it is most of us. About Dr. Michael Ketner: Director of performance at the University of Pennsylvania's music department: https://music.sas.upenn.edu/people/michael-ketner (https://music.sas.upenn.edu/people/michael-ketner) Orchestral trombonist, and performance coach: https://thejazzsanctuary.com/dr-michael-ketner/ (https://thejazzsanctuary.com/dr-michael-ketner/) Find his work through Greene Sport Psychology: https://greenepsych.com/our-team/michael-ketner-dma-msod/ (https://greenepsych.com/our-team/michael-ketner-dma-msod/)

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