The End Anxiety Podcast: with James Meade and Friends

The End Anxiety podcast has hosted several wonderful guests who have been gracious enough to share their stories about how the Transcendental Meditation program has helped them through an assortment of trials and tribulations. Often their accounts speak of how some personal issue or crisis is the motivation which led them to explore the possibilities of TM in the first place. Our guest today is a little different. Brent Rubin is a retired podiatrist living in Western Florida who has been practicing TM since 1969, and when asked he will describe himself as “living the dream.” Brent did not come on our program to talk about any specific problems in his life—not that he claims to live a completely worry-free existence—but he is more interested in talking about the mental clarity that one can achieve from commitment to the TM program over decades. Sure, problems arise, but Brent explains how TM helps him to put everything in perspective and how he has come to realize that a lot of our problems exist more in our own minds than in reality. Mr. Rubin has also found that with TM the motivation and drive that he had in his professional life continues well past his retirement. Sit down and relax with a cup of tea, and enjoy today’s fun, easygoing, and very spontaneous chat as Jim and Brent talk about how the Transcendental Meditation program has something to offer for everyone.

Welcome to the first episode of End Anxiety! The Podcast with James Meade and Friends. For our inaugural episode, we are honored to have a very special guest, the legendary Mike Love of the Beach Boys. Mike will talk to us about his personal development and how Transcendental Meditation has been a key factor behind his longevity as a performing artist and his overall well-being. We will hear stories from the turbulent 1960s when the Beach Boys rose to super stardom, and of that important encounter when Mike met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and began to practice TM under his guidance. Mike will also discuss how taking on the practice of Transcendental Meditation helped him avoid the drugs, alcohol, and other pitfalls of the 1960s era that damaged or ruined the careers and lives of so many young people during rock-and-roll’s heyday.

Mike Love is an American singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys with his cousins Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson and their friend Al Jardine. Characterized by his nasal tenor and occasional bass-baritone singing, Love has been one of the band's vocalists and lyricists for their entire career, contributing to each of their studio albums and serving as their frontman for live performances. During the mid-1960s, he was one of Brian's main collaborators, co-writing hit records such as "Fun, Fun, Fun" (1964), "I Get Around" (1964), "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), "California Girls."

As legendary figures in American music go, few are as significant or as prolific as the Wrecking Crew; a loose collection of Los Angeles based studio musicians who initially merged together as session players for producer Phil Spector. They went on to define the sound of rock music laying down tracks for the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Monkees, the Mommas and the Poppas, Jan and Dean, and too many others to count. Though at the time they worked in relative anonymity, a few of them did achieve fame as solo acts, most notably Glenn Campbell and Leon Russell. Others, such as Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine, and Tommy Tedesco, have finally received some name recognition among the general public, thanks in no small part to the documentary film “The Wrecking Crew” produced by Denny Tedesco as a loving tribute to his father’s legacy. The creation of such a monumental testament is clearly no easy task, and in Denny’s case it was a labor of nineteen years which strained his family life and left him bankrupt, anxious, and suffering from an extremely protracted case of insomnia. Today, Jim and Denny will talk about how his tireless work on creating this film impacted his life, and how the Transcendental Meditation program helped him to get himself back on track on The End Anxiety Podcast: with James Meade and Friends.

In today’s episode of End Anxiety with James Meade and Friends we are talking with Jerome Buchanan. Jerome is a professional MMA fighter and an aspiring TM teacher; he is also a former computer programmer and analyst. Listen to Mr. Buchanan’s fascinating account of how Transcendental Meditation helped him to find the best version of himself and how this clarity benefitted him in all aspects of his life—not just in the ring. Jerome also talks about his initiative to try and help popularize TM among his fellow African Americans in the United States.