Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon
Show overview
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge has been publishing since 2009, and across the 17 years since has built a catalogue of 917 episodes. That works out to roughly 950 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 57 min and 1h 7m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Tami Simon.
From the publisher
Tami Simon, Founder and Publisher of Sounds True interviews spiritual teachers, visionary writers, and living luminaries about their newest work and current challenges—the growing edge of their inner inquiry and outer contribution to the world.
Latest Episodes
View all 917 episodesJust One Question | Rainn Wilson: Why Are You NOT an Atheist?
Tara Brach: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times
Just One Question | Thích Nhất Hạnh: What Is the Root Cause of Our Social Problems?
Lodro Rinzler: Basic Goodness in a World on Fire
David Deida: "The Way of Zero ”
Jasper Young Bear: "Prophecies for This Time: When Mother Earth Shakes”
Andrew Holecek: Stop, Drop, and Be Held in the Dark
nico and devon hase: Buddhist Volcanoes In Love
Phenomena: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing [Takeover]
Geneen Roth: It’s Not About Your Mother—Finding Love, Finally
Zabie Yamasaki: What the Nervous System Often Needs Is LESS
Michael Singer, Tony Robbins, Sage Robbins: Wisdom Untethered
Richard Davidson & Cortland Dahl: “Flourishing Is Contagious, and It’s Easier Than You Think”
Richard Schwartz and Tamala Floyd: Healing Across Generations: IFS + Ancestral Wisdom
Banafsheh Sayyad: Being 100 Percent Present and 100 Percent Fully Gone
Tian Dayton: If You Grew Up with Addicts, Healing Is a Discipline
Peter Russell: Meeting Exponential Change with a Quiet Mind
The world is accelerating faster than the human mind was built to handle. So what do we do with that? Tami Simon speaks with Peter Russell—physicist, consciousness pioneer, and author of How to Meditate Without Even Trying, featuring a foreword by Eckhart Tolle. Together, they discuss navigating exponential change, the stresses of an AI-driven world, the possibility of our species' extinction, and why effortless stillness may be the most essential skill of our time.This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Cody Cook-Parrott: Attention is a Creative Act
What happens to your creativity when your attention is fractured—and what becomes possible when you reclaim it? Tami Simon speaks with writer, artist, and movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott about their new Sounds True book, The Practice of Attention: Cultivating Presence in a Distracted World—exploring social media addiction, the art of the attention audit, soft structures for creative practice, and why attention itself is a form of prayer.This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Robin Wall Kimmerer: What Does the Earth Ask of You Today?
What if the natural world isn’t a warehouse of resources—but a landscape of gifts? Tami Simon speaks with Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, about living in reciprocal relationship with the earth, overcoming brain chauvinism, and why the most radical act in a time of climate crisis may be remembering who we truly are.This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Anne Lamott & Neil Allen: Write Toward the Really Real
What if the secret to better writing isn’t more technique—but more truth? Tami Simon speaks with beloved author Anne Lamott and her husband Neal Allen—writer, spiritual coach, and author of Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences—about the craft of finding your voice, writing toward compassion and truth, and why the most powerful sentences come not from the polished mind but from the really real.This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.