Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time
Magic in the Moment: Mindfulness In Real Time
Podcast Description
Mindfulness in Real Time explores how presence, awareness, and intention can transform everyday life. Hosted by Clayton Platt, this podcast goes beyond traditional meditation to reveal how mindfulness shows up in real moments—at work, at home, under pressure, and in transition.Through real conversations and lived experiences, each episode highlights the practical tools and mindset shifts that help us navigate uncertainty, manage stress, and deepen connection with ourselves and others. Whether you’re leading a team, raising a family, chasing a goal, or simply trying to be more present, Mindfulness in Real Time offers grounded insights for showing up fully—even when life gets messy.
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The podcast centers around themes of presence, awareness, and intention, covering various topics such as mindfulness under pressure, decision-making in high-stakes situations, and everyday parenting challenges. For example, episodes include discussions on performance pressures with sports psychologist Dr. Mitchell Greene and the link between mindfulness and decision-making with Sonja Pemberton, showcasing how real-world scenarios can benefit from mindfulness practices.
Mindfulness in Real Time explores how presence, awareness, and intention can transform everyday life. Hosted by Clayton Platt, this podcast goes beyond traditional meditation to reveal how mindfulness shows up in real moments—at work, at home, under pressure, and in transition.
Through real conversations and lived experiences, each episode highlights the practical tools and mindset shifts that help us navigate uncertainty, manage stress, and deepen connection with ourselves and others. Whether you’re leading a team, raising a family, chasing a goal, or simply trying to be more present, Mindfulness in Real Time offers grounded insights for showing up fully—even when life gets messy.
Sponsored by Meditation4Leadership, check them out at www.meditation4leadership.org
Hosted by Clayton Platt
Produced by Jonathan Goehring
With thanks to Star Trust Media
Picture a rowing eight at full speed.
Eight people. One boat. Every blade entering the water at the same instant. Nobody pulling harder than anyone else. The whole thing moving like a single organism.
Now here is the question worth sitting with. What is actually happening inside those eight people?
Frank Rowe has spent a lifetime asking a version of that question, first in the boat and then in the boardroom. He walked onto the rowing team at UC Santa Barbara with no experience, made it to the 1991 Pan American Games, and somewhere along the way discovered that everything the boat demands of you, trust, timing, precision, and the willingness to say what is actually true, is exactly what great leadership requires too.
His new book is The Leadership Stroke: Precision, Practice and Performance Under Pressure. And the conversation that unfolds from it goes places that will surprise you.
There is a story about a day on the water in Boston when something unspoken between teammates finally got named, and the boat got faster. Not because anyone’s technique changed. Because the space between them did.
There is a conversation about beginner’s mind, and what it looks like when a 43-year rower goes out on the water and pretends he has never rowed before, noticing things he had long since stopped seeing.
And there is an honest reckoning with identity, performance, and what it actually means to keep showing up for something you love when the results are no longer what they once were.
Frank and Clayton also share something personal in this one. Both rowed at the collegiate level. Both found the sport through something close to accident. And both carry it with them still, as a lens, a practice, and a reminder that presence is not just a concept. It is something you can feel in your body, in a boat, at full speed, when eight people finally stop fighting each other and start moving as one.
About Frank Rowe:
Executive Coaching: https://cecondopinion.com/
Author of The Leadership Stroke: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Leadership_Stroke.html?id=59MO0gEACAAJ
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankrowejr/
Philadelphia City Rowing: https://philadelphiacityrowing.org/
Philadelphia City Rowing Podcast Episode With Frank: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tBYxqA7gPSO95yHApNBbs?si=zuld3SdyTDudyXkVy-rtVw
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