Raff’s Brain is my playground for goofy stories, real-life adventures, and experiments in how openness, creativity, and technology can bring people together and improve our lives. Expect Hot Yoga Problems, Riffin’ with Raff, Drive & Jive / Walk & Talk, and various zany side projects that are sometimes cathartic, sometimes ridiculous, and hopefully worth your time.
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On this episode of Riffin’ with Raff , Rob welcomes back his niece Mallory Moss for a conversation recorded just before she moves away to college. At 18, Mallory is entering a completely new world: new friends, harder classes, college athletics, less free time, and a lacrosse program filled with players she worries may be far more prepared than she is. She talks candidly about the pressure to…
Rob takes Hot Yoga Problems to Los Angeles and discovers that West Coast hot yoga is apparently the major leagues. After surviving a packed CorePower Yoga session in Studio City — surrounded by what appear to be Jedi-level yoga practitioners — Rob walks back to his hotel and reports on the differences between East Coast and West Coast yoga, a new side angle pose variation, the enormous California…
Rob is back in the hot yoga studio—and back behind the microphone—with an acknowledgment, not an excuse, for the recent slowdown in Hot Yoga Problems episodes. In this sweaty return to action, Rob examines the difference between explanations and excuses, makes the case for August as an underrated month for productivity, and previews several upcoming creative adventures. Those adventures include an…
After nearly a year of producing political and news-oriented content, Grauben Lara was feeling burned out. Then the World Cup began—and a spontaneous creative pivot changed everything. In this episode of Riffin’ with Raff , Grauben returns to discuss how his World Cup coverage generated approximately 10.5 million views in 30 days , produced several million-view videos, attracted attention from…
Rob thought full-circle neck rolls had been banned decades ago. Then a hot yoga instructor opened class with one. This episode of Hot Yoga Problems begins with a potentially controversial cervical-spine maneuver and quickly rolls into shoulder rotations, seated barrel rolls, ’90s dance-song confusion, surveillance-camera conspiracies, and a request for assistance from the world’s neck doctors.…
Monday is not the enemy. It didn’t choose to become the beginning of the workweek, and Rob Raffety believes it deserves slightly more respect. In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems , Rob celebrates the promise of a fresh start while acknowledging the familiar reality that most Monday commitments begin collapsing almost immediately. The diet slips, the exercise plan gets negotiated, eight hours of…
A Raffety Family Hot Yoga Field Trip It is a Hot Yoga Problems family special as Rob’s sister Jennifer joins him for a surprisingly demanding Core 2 class. Jennifer offers an honest review of the experience, from complicated poses and an unfortunately scraped knee to the realization that walking regularly does not prepare the body for every possible form of exercise. Rob explains the different…
In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems , Rob Raffety gets absolutely wrecked by a 75-minute Sunday morning CorePower class and lives to tell the tale. After believing he had reached peak hot yoga confidence, he finds himself packed into a renovated Clarendon/Courthouse studio with a new instructor, a mysterious ambient soundtrack, painfully slow flows, and a peak pose that may or may not be…
On this episode of Hot Yoga Problems , Rob may have stumbled onto the most dangerous revelation of all: doing less hot yoga might actually work better. After crushing a one-hour class with minimal suffering, he starts questioning whether every-fourth-day hot yoga, paired with daily ruck pack walks and big step counts, could be the smarter long-term fitness strategy. But this is still Raff’s Brain,…
After a week away from hot yoga, Rob returns to the studio and immediately remembers that the body keeps receipts. In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems , he gets wrecked by a CorePower class, navigates the disruption of summer travel season, and launches into a full-scale reflection on fresh starts, discipline, discomfort, and the fantasy of turning over a “new leaf” for real this time. There’s…