Know Thyself
by André Duqum
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E219 - Robert Greene: The 12 Doorways to the Sublime & What Almost…
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About this podcast
Know Thyself is a community supporting you to KNOW the true nature of yourself and the world around you, THRIVE in your health, wealth, and relationships – ultimately empowering you to CREATE and share your true self with the world.
Each week André Duqum interviews experts in their field; ranging from spiritual educators to cutting edge scientists, heart-led creatives & more on topics such as the true nature of ‘Self’, “what is reality?,” and exploring the fundamental pillars we all need to unlock our fullest potential.
Contributing to birthing a more beautiful world, one episode at a time.
Episodes
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- E219 - Robert Greene: The 12 Doorways to the Sublime & What Almost Dying Taught Me About Being Alive · 3 h 20 min · Season 1 Episode 219In this episode I sit down with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Art of Seduction, and The Laws of Human Nature, to explore his latest book on the…
- E218 - Mel Robbins: The Secret to Actually Transforming Your Life · 1 h 34 min · Season 1 Episode 218In this episode I sit down with Mel Robbins, host of The Mel Robbins Podcast and author of The Let Them Theory. Mel takes me back to the age of 41, when liens on her house…
- E217 - David Whyte: The Conversational Nature of Reality · 2 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 217David Whyte trained as a marine zoologist, spent two years as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos, and went on to become one of the most beloved poets of our time. In this…
- E216 - Janna Levin: An Astrophysicist's Guide to Black Holes, Higher Dimensions & the Nature of Reality · 2 h 22 minIn this episode, I sit down with Janna Levin, a theoretical astrophysicist at Barnard College of Columbia University, Guggenheim fellow, and author of Black Hole Survival Guide…
- E215 - Elizabeth Gilbert: Love Addiction, Telling the Truth & Hearing Your Inner Voice · 2 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 215Elizabeth Gilbert joins me for her first public conversation after a six month sabbatical, a stretch where she stopped writing, producing, and planning so she could simply be…
- E214 - Tom Bilyeu: Humanity Is Splitting into 4 Futures… Choose Wisely · 2 h 39 min · Season 1 Episode 214My guest today is Tom Bilyeu, the entrepreneur behind Quest Nutrition who went on to build Impact Theory into one of the most watched long form interview channels in the world…
- E213 - Matthew Hussey: The Patterns Blocking You From Love (& What To Do) · 2 h 35 min · Season 1 Episode 213Matthew Hussey is back on the show, and this conversation picks up right where our last one left off, except he's grown a lot since then. Matthew built his early career on a…
- E212 - Dr. Shefali: How To Raise Conscious Children (It Starts With You) · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 212I sat down with Dr. Shefali, clinical psychologist trained at Columbia and the voice behind the Conscious Parenting Movement for over two decades, to explore what it really means…
- E211 - John Wineland: Love, Safety & Desire - What Your Wounds Are Deciding for You · 1 h 53 min · Season 1 Episode 211John Wineland has spent nearly twenty years teaching people how to love more deeply, and in this conversation he lays out why intimacy has become one of the most demanding…
- E210 - Dr. David Spiegel: #1 Hypnotism Expert, “Wake Up From The Trance of Your Life” · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 210Dr. David Spiegel is the Wilson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry at Stanford, the co-founder of the hypnosis app Reveri, and one of the world's leading clinical…
- E209 – Rizwan Virk: Are We Living in a Simulation? (It's Deeper Than You Think) · 2 h 34 min · Season 1 Episode 209Rizwan Virk is an MIT-trained computer scientist, video game pioneer, and bestselling author of The Simulation Hypothesis. His work sits at a rare intersection: quantum physics…
- E208 - Dr. Robert Lustig: What Modern Food Is Doing to Your Sense of Self · 1 h 50 min · Season 1 Episode 208Dr. Robert Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, pediatrician, and bestselling author who has spent 45 years watching children get sicker despite his best efforts to stop it. His…
- E207 - Jim George: Stillness Expert: “How To Not Miss Your Life” · 2 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 207Jim George is a stillness coach, former animator, and one of the first guests ever to appear on this podcast. He has spent nearly 50 years developing what he calls practical…
- E206 - Jahnavi Harrison: Living a Life of Devotion & Embracing Your Voice · 1 h 54 min · Season 1 Episode 206Jahnavi Harrison is a Grammy-nominated artist, musician, and practitioner of Bhakti Yoga who has spent her life exploring sound as a path to the divine. Raised at Bhaktivedanta…
- E205 - Anil Seth: Your Perception of Reality & Self Is a Hallucination · 2 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 205Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex and one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness. His central claim is…
- E204 – Dr. William Li: The Body's 5 Health Defense Systems, Cancer, Microplastics & Healing From the Inside Out · 2 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 204Dr. William Li is a Harvard-trained physician, co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and New York Times bestselling author whose work centers on one quietly radical premise…
- E203 - Dr. Justin Sledge: The Occult, Witch Trials & the Forbidden Teachings of Gnosticism · 3 h 22 min · Season 1 Episode 203Dr. Justin Sledge is a scholar of philosophy and Western esotericism, and the voice behind the YouTube channel Esoterica, which has grown to over a million subscribers. He has…
- E202 - Donald Robertson: 2,400-Year-Old Stoic Wisdom To Conquer Your Ego & Live a Virtuous Life · 4 h 21 min · Season 1 Episode 202Donald Robertson is a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist, author of over nine books, and one of the founding voices in the modern Stoicism movement. He has spent over 30 years…
- E201 - Dandapani: A Monk's Warning "Distraction Is Costing You Your Life" · 2 h 23 min · Season 1 Episode 201Dandapani is a Hindu priest who spent over ten years as a celibate monk before devoting his life to teaching the world how to master focus. His central claim is simple but…
- E200 - Ido Portal: The Body Knows What the Mind Can't · 3 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 200Ido Portal is one of the most original movement thinkers alive. He has spent decades studying the body across martial arts, acrobatics, yoga, dance, and ancient movement…
- E199 - Dr. Caroline Leaf: How to Stop Your Brain From Holding You Back · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 199Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist and bestselling author who has spent over 40 years studying the relationship between the mind and the brain. At a time when…
- E198 - Dr. Todd Rose: Why Your Desires Aren't Actually Yours (Here's Who Planted Them) · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 198Join our online community ↓ https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com Todd Rose is a Harvard-trained social scientist, former high school dropout with a 0.9 GPA, and co-founder of…
- E197 - 9 Great Thinkers on the Inner Work That Frees You · 1 h 22 min · Season 1 Episode 197Join our online community ↓ https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com This is a compilation episode, and it draws from some of the most honest and clarifying moments across recent…
- E196 - Dr. Vasant Lad: The Doctor From India: The Forgotten 5,000-Year-Old Science of the Human Body (Ayurveda · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 196Dr. Vasant Lad is the founder of the Ayurvedic Institute and the man most responsible for bringing Ayurveda to the West. He has spent over 40 years teaching this 5,000-year-old…
- E195 - Dr. Mei Rui: The Science of Sound & Music as Medicine · 1 h 34 min · Season 1 Episode 195Dr. Mei Rui is a Yale-trained molecular biophysicist, concert pianist, and clinical researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she runs trials on the measurable effects of…
- E194 - Arthur Brooks: How To Find The Meaning of Your Life · 1 h 59 min · Season 1 Episode 194Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, social scientist, and three-time New York Times bestselling author whose life's work centers on a single, urgent question: what actually…
- E193 - Dr. Paul Conti: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Understanding Your Mind · 1 h 45 min · Season 1 Episode 193Dr. Paul Conti is a psychiatrist, trauma specialist, and author whose work centers on one deceptively simple idea: that understanding yourself is the most powerful thing you can…
- E192 - Emily McDonald: The Neuroscience of Transforming Yourself · 1 h 48 min · Season 1 Episode 192Emily McDonald holds two degrees in neuroscience and has become one of the fastest-growing science communicators on social media. In this conversation, we explore how the brain…
- E191 - Roman Yampolskiy: The Man Who Proved We Can't Control AI (And What That Means for Humanity) · 1 h 49 min · Season 1 Episode 191Dr. Roman Yampolskiy joins me to explore one of the most urgent and uncomfortable questions of our time: what happens when we create intelligence that surpasses our own? We…
- E190 - Joe Hudson: Why The Emotions You Avoid Are Running Your Life (How To Break Free) · 2 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 190Joe Hudson returns to explore a deeper layer of the inner work, and why peace alone is not the full picture of being human. We unpack the distinction between awakening in the…
- E189 - Wim Hof: Why Your Body Was Built to Heal Itself (And What Stopped It) · 1 h 38 min · Season 1 Episode 189Wim Hof joins me to explore the deeper story behind his work, from profound personal loss to discovering a direct path back into the body through breath and cold exposure. We…
- E188 - Emad Mostaque: AI Expert: “We Have 800 Days Left” · 2 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 188Emad Mostaque joins me to explore one of the most confronting questions of our time: what happens when human intelligence is no longer economically valuable? We unpack how…
- E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability · 2 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 187Shi Heng Yi joins me to explore the path of self-mastery through the lens of the Shaolin tradition, and why, despite having more comfort and convenience than ever before, so many…
- E186 - Nicole LePera: What Your Childhood Home Did to Your Nervous System · 1 h 55 min · Season 1 Episode 186Dr. Nicole LePera joins me to explore how our childhood experiences shape the nervous system, emotional patterns, and identities we carry into adulthood. We unpack how many of…
- E185 - Henry Shukman: A Zen Master With 40 Years of Practice on Who You Really Are · 2 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 185Zen teacher and author Henry Shukman offers a clear and grounded introduction to the heart of Zen practice. We explore how awakening is not an escape from life, but a deeper…
- E184 - Dr. Sue Morter: What Actually Causes Energetic Blocks (And How to Release Them) · 2 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 184Dr. Sue Morter returns to explore what it truly means to awaken — not as a concept, but as a lived, embodied experience. Beneath our protective personality and performance-driven…
- E183 - Nir Eyal: How Your Beliefs Shape What You See (And Hold You Back) · 1 h 40 min · Season 1 Episode 183Nir Eyal joins the podcast to explore one of the most foundational forces shaping our lives: belief. What if the way you see reality isn’t reality itself, but a simulation…
- E182 - Swami Sarvapriyananda: The Advaita Vedanta Explanation of Reality, the Self & Suffering · 2 h 53 min · Season 1 Episode 182Swami Sarvapriyananda unpacks the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta and its central claim: you are not the body, not the mind, not even your thoughts — you are pure consciousness…
- E181 - Joscha Bach: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Consciousness & The Illusion of Reality · 1 h 27 min · Season 1 Episode 181Joscha Bach explores the nature of consciousness, free will, and reality through the lens of computation, cognitive science, and philosophy. Rather than treating the mind as a…
- E180 - David Ghiyam: The Universal Laws of Creating Prosperity & Wholeness in Life · 1 h 34 min · Season 1 Episode 180In this conversation, David Ghiyam shares the spiritual framework that has guided his life for over 25 years—one rooted in the idea that reality operates according to universal…
- E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being · 1 h 33 min · Season 1 Episode 179In this conversation, Reggie Watts explores creativity not as a skill reserved for a few, but as the fundamental way human beings relate to reality itself. From comedy and music…
- E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown · 2 h 59 min · Season 1 Episode 178In this conversation, Jesse Michels joins me to explore a question that’s becoming harder to dismiss: what if the phenomenon we call UFOs points to something real—and we don’t…
- E177 - Key Insights to Enter 2026 With Clarity, Focus, and Direction · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 177This final episode of the year is a special compilation reflecting on the lessons, reminders, and moments that shaped 2025. It’s a curated journey through insights from across…
- E176 - Dr. Mindy Pelz: Why Midlife Feels So Disorienting (And What It’s Trying to Teach You) · 1 h 55 min · Season 1 Episode 176Dr. Mindy Pelz returns to explore the deeper meaning of aging, menopause, and the profound psychological and neurological transformations women undergo as they grow older…
- E175 - Dr. Will Bulsiewicz: How Stress, Trauma, and Modern Life Break Your Gut & How To Restore Balance · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 175In this episode, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz walks us through unseen forces shaping our health, energy, and emotional lives. From the chemicals in our food system to the hidden drivers…
- E174 - Lucy Hale: Sobriety, Self-Worth & Rebuilding From the Inside Out · 1 h 38 min · Season 1 Episode 174Lucy Hale joins me for a deeply honest conversation about sobriety, identity, childhood wounds, fame, intuition, and learning to finally feel at home within yourself. Known…
- E173 - Birthday Q&A: What I’m Unlearning About Spirituality and Who I’m Becoming · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 173In this solo Q&A episode, I’m answering the questions so many of you have asked me over the past few days—about ego, identity, relationships, breakups, shadow work, discipline…
- E172 - Dr. Alan Goldhammer: The Science of Fasting: How to Heal the Body and Rewire the Mind · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 172Dr. Alan Goldhammer, co-founder of TrueNorth Health Center, joins us to reveal the science and psychology of water fasting, detoxification, and healing the body through nature’s…
- E171 - 18 Insights to Awaken Your Mind, Heal Your Heart, and Remember Your Soul (Compilation) · 1 h 44 min · Season 1 Episode 171In this special compilation episode, we explore the deeper dimensions of human consciousness. Featuring insights from Deepak Chopra, Tim Ferriss, Sadghuru, Dr. Lisa Miller, and…
- E170 - Dr. John Churchill: The 7 Stages of Awakening (and How Consciousness Evolves) · 2 h 21 min · Season 1 Episode 170Transpersonal psychologist and dharma teacher Dr. John Churchill joins us to explore how ancient wisdom and modern psychology unite in the path of conscious evolution. Drawing on…
