# road home (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover road home. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ep. 181 - You Must Be Somebody Before You Can Be Nobody with Noel Coakley](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-08-03 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ On the latest episode of The Road Home podcast, Ethan was joined by friend Noel Coakley . A brilliant and kind psychotherapist and Dharma teacher, Noel has a style as a spiritual thinker and teacher all his own. They discussed his journey into working with the mind, his interest in relational mindfulness and psychology, how The Beastie Boys got him into the Dharma, and what it's like to teach… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/Ep181trh.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 180 - What's Up With The Dudes? with Dr. Chris Willard](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-07-07 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ Recently I was talking to my friend Dr. Chris Willard , and he mentioned a desire to have a conversation about the effects of patriarchy on men, and especially younger men, from both a psychological and spiritual perspective. Like myself, Chris is a progressive Buddhist dad, and like me, he cares about helping people develop a more emotionally attuned approach to life. Chris has a particular… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/ep180trh.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 179 - The Power of Women Spiritual Teachers with Erica Bassani](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-06-22 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ After a brief memorial to the late Tenzin Robert Thurman , Ethan welcomes author and seeker Erica Bassani to discuss her new book, Women in Love with the Divine . Erica's book explores what it means to be a woman committed to a relationship with the sacred in today's world. On a quest to answer this question for herself, Erica Bassani shares stories from her encounters with a dozen women spiritual… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/Ep179TRH.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 178 - What Acceptance Means (and What It Doesn't)](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-06-09 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ In this solo episode, Ethan takes on the practice of "acceptance." He gets into the nitty gritty of how frequently we spiritual folks misinterpret the meaning of acceptance, turning it into an unhealthy bypass of what we're actually experiencing. By doing so, we miss the transformative (and not at all passive!) possibilities of what practicing acceptance can truly do for ourselves and others. He… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/ep178trh.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 177 - Love is Messy: The Dharma of Relationships with Devon and Nico Hase](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-05-27 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ Ethan welcomes teachers and authors devon and nico hase to discuss their new book, This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership . Devon and nico are a rare pair in the Dharma world. Each from a varied background and students of multiple traditions of wisdom, they bring two varied and brilliantly contemporary approaches to their practice and teaching. In this flowing… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/ep177TRH.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 176 - Loving an Addict and Making Friends with Grief with Bryan Welch](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-05-18 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ Ethan welcomes author, meditator, entrepreneur and organic farmer Bryan Welch for a heart-opening conversation about grief, loss, and loving someone who can't be saved. In his gripping new memoir, The Gift of a Broken Heart , Bryan movingly recounts his own journey through deep grief at the loss of his 25-year-old son to addiction. The book describes, in searing detail, the pain of parents… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/Ep176TRH.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 175 - Crucial Questions: What Is The Mind, Anyway? Musings on the relationship between Consciousness and Matter.](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-05-11 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ Hey friends, in this solo episode of The Road Home, I continue my occasional foray into some of the more interesting and important questions that come up while we study and practice with Buddhist themes, questions that don't always get directly addressed. So what do we even mean when we say "The Mind?" Seems to be a pretty important question if one of the keys to becoming a more grounded and… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/Ep175TRH.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 174 - Mindfulness in Hell and Making A Dharma Mix Tape with Oneika Mays](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-04-29 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ Ethan welcomes yoga/mindfulness teacher Oneika Mays — the author of the great new book S it With Me — for a fascinating conversation on her personal path through mindfulness, yoga, and wellness practices. The conversation also focuses on Oneika's crucial and transformative work bringing these practices into the prison-industrial complex as she became the first full time mindfulness coach at Rikers… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/Ep174TRH.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Ep. 173 - Fail Like A Legend: Confidence, Longing, and The Eight Worldly Winds, Revisited](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-04-21 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ Hey friends, this is the first episode of The Road Home in a bit. Please remember to check out and sign up for the upcoming Windhorse (Confidence) meditation workshop on Saturday May 2nd (1-5pm ET) via A Mindful World . It should be a great mini-retreat with a helpful practice that anyone can use, anytime, anywhere to be brave and show up to all those difficult moments in life. This week, in a… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/ep173trh.mp3?dest-id=4228113) ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Al06PwYTJUsu) _2026-04-21 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Ep. 172 - Invoking The Muse: Dharma Art with Josh Ritter](https://ethannichtern.com/podcast) _2026-03-26 · The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern_ "Intuition doesn't seem to act aggressively." -Josh Ritter Ethan welcomes his friend, contemporary folk musician and novelist Josh Ritter for a conversation about creativity, inspiration, spirituality and art-making. They discuss where great ideas come from, how the "protocols" of practice influence both creativity and the spiritual path, and the meaning of relative and ultimate truth found within… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cb7e5c04-9e21-4fbc-b3a4-6df7005b92d7/Ep172TRH.mp3?dest-id=4228113)