For episode 264, Soren Gordhamer returns to the Metta Hour for our ongoing Anxiety Series.

In this series, Sharon is speaking with Mental Health experts, providers and different researchers for tools to work with anxiety in increasingly challenging times. This is the fifth episode in the series.

Soren Gordhamer is the founder and host of Wisdom 2.0, the premier conference exploring living with greater mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion in the modern age. He is also a Co-Founder and General Partner of Wisdom Ventures, along with Jack Kornfield and Yung Pueblo, which invests in companies creating a more just and compassionate world. Soren is also the founder of the Lineage Project in NYC, and also spent a year on the Global Walk for a Livable World, a three-and-a-half world walk. He and Jon Kabat-Zinn also co-hosted the Mitigation Retreat, which was a free 3-month course held every weekday offering meditations and teachings during Covid.

Soren is the author of numerous books. His latest, The Essential: Discovering What Really Matters in an Age of Distraction, was released in May of 2025.

In this episode, Sharon and Soren speak about:

The context for cultural anxiety
The development of social media
Becoming aware of our stories
Do we need a new narrative?
Redefining our worth
Revamping our North Star
Harnessing all our energies
Dismantling our armor
How shame drives mental health
The point of vulnerability
Dalai Lama meeting formerly incarcerated
Living from a place of lack
Ram Dass’ somebody-ness
Soren walking the world
The role information plays in anxiety

Soren closes the conversation with a guided meditation. To get a copy of Soren’s new book, The Essential, visit his website right here.

Listen to Soren’s first appearance on the Metta House from 2020 right here.

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Ep. 264 – Anxiety Series: Soren Gordhamer

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