# Rebel Buddhist Rebel Buddhist is all about freedom - inside and out - so if you want to tame your mind but not your life, this podcast is for you. In each episode, Master Certified Coach Ana Verzone, DNP, will teach you practical, effective tools from the fields of psychology, eastern spirituality, and self-coaching so you can train your mind to work for you instead of against you. Learn how to get out of your own way and cultivate the compassion and resilience you need for this wild new world. Explore how you… Page: Feed: --- ## [A Year in Review for Wild Awake Hearts](https://anaverzone.com/291-a-year-in-review-for-wild-awake-hearts) _2025-12-19 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ We’re ending this year with a deep reflection: a year in review for wild awake hearts. You know it’s the end of the year when there you are, just trying to drink your tea in peace, and your feed is full of “Optimize Your 2026,” “New Year, New You,” and shit like that. Meanwhile, the Buddha is somewhere looking at all these color-coded habit trackers like, “Beloveds… you know you’re still going to… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/dd2de61f-0344-4177-bcb4-99dee7cfb65b/audio/f001374b-f641-4332-9569-71841e994bf6/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [Wherever We Go, There We Are: The Myth of "Geographic Cure"](https://www.anaverzone.com/290-wherever-we-go-there-we-are-the-myth-of-geographic-cure) _2025-12-05 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ This is a PSA and reminder for us all that sometimes changing our circumstances (like through a move, leaving our job or a relationship etc) really is the most compassionate, wise, and liberating choice…and sometimes it’s just changing what our suffering looks like on a superficial level. I’ll share my own story of leaving Alaska for Spain and jam on how to know when it’s helpful to change our… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/8e5f7ec6-494b-4500-8a21-f3e9b2675eb4/audio/ea7b5093-eac8-4f8f-84ee-dee3e34d7f28/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [Spiritual Audacity](https://www.anaverzone.com/289-spiritual-audacity) _2025-11-28 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ Today we’re exploring what it’s like to live with a kind of inner fire that refuses to stay quiet. Ziji + Spiritual Audacity. A deep, embodied courage that comes from being radically awake in our own lives. We’ll look at how this shows up personally and in the collective, and how choosing to live from our real nature, steady in love, committed to truth, and devoted to collective liberation. In… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/3b98da51-2b15-4592-8a51-f59b2bcf02a7/audio/91b7bcb5-ed57-442b-87a3-1361d3b049cd/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [Integrating Insights for the Real World - Off the Cushion Part 8](https://www.anaverzone.com/288-integrating-insights-for-the-real-world) _2025-11-21 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ I know it can be fun + inspiring to listen to how to make progress on our path: open our hearts, be more patient, confident, have healthy boundaries, learn to forgive… AND the challenge can be knowing WTF to do with it all on a day-to-day basis. So today, we are wrapping up the off-the-cushion series with how to bring these wisdom teachings together into a daily practice that doesn’t feel… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/b92f7259-5a32-4bd4-bfcf-c6b0982a1886/audio/5c46b34b-6010-4507-9ff4-293fc4ab6171/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [Greatest Hits Vol. 34 - The Risks of Lovingkindness](https://www.anaverzone.com/287-greatest-hits-vol-34-the-risks-of-lovingkindness) _2025-11-14 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ This week is a revisit of an episode exploring metta (the Buddhist practice of lovingkindness) and how when we hold back to protect our hearts, we can welcome in more vulnerability, re-opening ourselves to lovingkindness through vulnerability. We’ll jam on what to do when we hit a wall and why we might struggle to express lovingkindness toward ourselves and others. In this episode you will learn:… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/b215fb8c-cbe6-4493-82d8-855cfc512720/audio/11985475-5c45-4ed5-ae13-1bea32f9d24e/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [The Concept of No-Self (and Greater Intimacy) - Off the Cushion Part 7](https://www.anaverzone.com/286-the-concept-of-no-self-and-greater-intimacy) _2025-11-07 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ When everything around us is changing, how do we stay grounded without shutting down? In this week’s episode, we dive into The Three Marks of Existence. Qualities that are true for anything that exists. Yes, anything! We’ll explore impermanence, suffering, and the concept of “not-self” and talk about how releasing clinging to our sense of Self can deepen connection and freedom and ease in our… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/23d0b740-ebb4-4cfa-ae72-cb33a32cd847/audio/f7d38186-649e-470e-a6e3-eb4f4bedbeb2/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [5 Self-Sabotage Patterns ALL Brains Have - Off the Cushion Part 6](https://www.anaverzone.com/285-5-sabotage-patterns-all-brains-have) _2025-10-31 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ Ever notice how just when your practice starts to deepen, our mind gets loud as hell, distracted, unmotivated, or tired? Don’t worry - it’s totally normal. This week, we’re getting real about what’s known as the Five Hindrances; the craving, aversion, doubt, fear/worry, and existential MEH that keep us stuck. We also explore how to manage them so we can continue to become the little Rebel Buddhas… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/a78ea72c-2666-4d4d-92e8-26c540955675/audio/4ab6be2e-0b9e-42f0-b5a1-267c257e0737/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [Greatest Hits Vol. 33 - Off the Cushion Into the World](https://www.anaverzone.com/284-greatest-hits-vol-33-off-the-cushion-into-the-world) _2025-10-24 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ This week’s episode is a special replay on how to step off the cushion and into the world, interweaving our spirituality with activism. We’ll be exploring compassion in action and how to take our practice from our internal work out into the world. Because our world IS what we are. It’s living through ALL of us. You will learn: // How to reconcile the seemingly different energies of activism and… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/349ecebb-386e-48a8-a25c-bc583fd49541/audio/2d1829c5-fd1b-4f17-836e-4bcfcfe8a4bf/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [The Still Point: Where Freedom Begins - Off the Cushion Part 5](https://www.anaverzone.com/283-the-still-point-where-freedom-begins) _2025-10-17 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ This we wrap up our discussion of the Eightfold Path by talking about 3 components of Meditation/samādhi: Wise Effort, Wise Mindfulness, and Wise Concentration. We’ll talk about how our meditation practice isn’t just to calm the mind, and why we need it now more than ever. Plus I’ll give you some ways you can begin practicing samādhi in your own daily life. You will learn: // The real reason we… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/baf64c08-1818-4b77-8924-61a4c692b5c0/audio/186160c5-c16d-4947-8bfa-84a038f202c6/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ) ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QVUb2iPZsNtN) _2025-10-17 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [Remembering Our Humanity - A Lesson of the Ages](https://www.anaverzone.com/282-remembering-our-humanity-a-lesson-of-the-ages) _2025-10-10 · therebelbuddhist@gmail.com (Ana Verzone, LLC)_ We can often think that very few ancient teachings could apply to these historic times, when things seem upended in ways the world has never seen (or so it seems;). This week, we explore lessons that are over 2600 years old that remind us of our humanity and what really matters, no matter the era, our job, our age, our nationality, our sexuality, our religion, or any other way we might identify.… [Listen](https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e269f4b7-18c9-44fa-ae86-6321e38de092/episodes/e6f4b40a-1647-4b40-b5b1-d9ee44a3c283/audio/dfc426f4-8ba6-48fb-aa53-50d546eba1b3/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nYZoldaQ)