Explore every episode of the podcast How I Learned That
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| How I Learned That Life Was Hard | 27 Sep 2026 | 00:36:30 | |
Jeff Warren is one of the most accessible meditation teachers working today, and he is very much the person you'd least expect. ADHD diagnosed in adulthood, broken neck at 20, years of flailing through what he thought creative work was supposed to look like before discovering that his exact style of mind was never the problem — it was the gift. In this conversation, Jeff takes us through a school journey that moved from French Immersion confusion to literary revelation to social recalibration, and eventually to something much harder: learning, after a serious injury changed everything, how to learn all over again. He talks about what it means to stop performing being a human, why nobody ever told him that life was actually hard, and what a school built around knowing yourself might do to every other subject in the curriculum. A warm, funny, philosophical, and deeply honest conversation with someone who has spent decades making space for other people to slow down. Guest Bio Jeff Warren is a meditation teacher and writer, known for his fun and accessible style of teaching. He is the co-author of The New York Times best-selling Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics and co-host of the Mind Bod Adventure Pod. Jeff’s Do Nothing Project streams for free every Sunday night; his guided meditations reach millions through the Happier and Calm apps, as well as through his Substack, Home Base. Resources + Referenced Links
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| Welcome from Dr. Deena | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:02:31 | |
We are very good, as a culture, at celebrating where people end up. We are much less honest about how they actually got there. “How I Learned That” is a podcast for parents who lie awake wondering if their child is going to be okay, and for the teenagers who can already feel that they don't quite fit the mold school was built for. It is a show that believes both of them deserve better than the stories we usually tell about learning and success. Host Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer is one of Canada's leading learning strategists. Her work lives underneath the subjects, courses, and years, in the how of learning. In each episode, she sits down with someone who has done something remarkable and asks the questions that rarely get asked: what was your relationship with school? What is the hardest thing you have ever had to learn, and how did you learn it? Was there a moment when you finally understood how you learn, and what did it change? Every guest brings a different answer, and every answer holds an offering of truth: you are far more capable of learning than any institution ever told you. “How I Learned That” is not a show about exceptional people who made it despite the odds. It is a show about ordinary, extraordinary human beings who figured out how to learn, and what happened when they did. Short episodes, generous conversations, real people, and the real stories underneath their lives. | |||