Free Hugs?  I’m down!  What’s the Advantage of Fear?  In this episode, Kemy Joseph shares with us how difficult it was to simply offer a hug or a high five to a stranger.  With so much stress, confusion and panic in the world, there we attempt make life little more positive by examining our own actions and words.  So we try to be the change we want to see in the world.  That’s a pretty tall order, but to be honest, it’s the only real power we have to change how we interact with the world.  It can be easy to give into fear and not engage with your own behavior ..read more

Using Fear as Motivation is super relevant in 2020.  Way back in the before times, April of 2020, Brian and Cory recorded this episode and nearly lost it to time and poor file management.  The Doom duo discuss starting your dream project and how using fear as a motivating force helps them to grow and be better versions of themselves.  Cory shares the story of how children’s book author Kate DiCamillo told him to give up on the idea of success and to learn to love the fight rather than the victory.  Brian tells us to use your super power and to stop waiting for inspiration a ..read more

Sit! Speak! Stay a while and listen!  Dog training is more about training the human than the dog. The founder of Comprehensive Canine Training teaches Mindfulness of Doom how to Train Your Dog Brain.  No really.  Kate Godfrey is a dog training professional who uses force free training techniques to teach humans how to be better dog owners and better people!  We discuss how useful dog training is for dealing with people, how compassion plays a leading role in relationships, and no matter how trained you are, your family is just… well they are family.  There is training ..read more

How do we stay mindful in the wake of loss?  In this episode we hosted an Instagram Live call to allow for our listeners to ask their questions about loss and grief and mindfulness in general.  Mindfulness of Doom recently lost a friend to gun violence and we wanted to try to share some of our stories about loss.  How we find comfort in loss is in togetherness and community, however ineffectual it may be we wanted to add our voice to that community.  Though we often joke around about death, doom and mortality, we grieve too.  Comfort in the face of uncertainty is all w ..read more

The Doom Duo is back and this month Brian and Cory are discussing being lost in existence!  This episode was recorded from an Instagram Live call from Brian’s Inner Sensei series talking to teachers, practitioners, and students about how to live their best lives.  Cory and Brian catch up after a long hiatus and open up about their own experiences with feeling lost in existence.  Their respective paths are fairly different and Cory breaks down the differences between the sudden and the gradual realization of change in ones’s life.   Brian shares how his experiences in the ar ..read more

What happens when Brain, Cory, and Rabbi Adam Gindea just talk?  Well, we ramble and drift from conversations about short term memory loss to spirituality, to the shortcomings of religion, to marriage, to video games, to hallucinations, to taking calls from our listeners, and seamfully segueing back into religious spirituality.  In this bonus episode of Mindfulness of Doom, we share with you the conversation behind the scenes.  This isn’t a full episode, but rather the continuation of the conversation from Episode 42 The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything with Rabbi Adam ..read more

It’s curious how the timing of events play out. I leave the confines of Miami, escaping the clutches of a neglectful property owner, while at the same time our podcast happens to have a guest who fights the very same kinds of conditions I’ve been dealing with. It was coincidence in the sense that they coincided. Brian and I had been trying to secure Adrian Madriz as a guest for quite some time. There were delays, but the universe conspired to make the occurrence of events timely. Apropos even.  Adrian Madriz is like the opposite of a slumlord. If there is such a thing, he embodies it. I’v ..read more

Adrian Madriz is the Director of SMASH, the Struggle for Miami’s Affordable and Sustainable Housing.  He joins Mindfulness of Doom to discuss eating the rich, video games, and proper beard maintenance. Cory gets flattered, Brian declares his love of money, and Adrian sings the Doom song.   In this episode Adrian explains the racist concept of red-lining, how slumlords make money on offering terrible living conditions, and how SMASH is trying to offer community owned low income housing options to the areas that need it the most. Guess what! Soon Cory is a guest on two episodes of ..read more

Occasionally you meet someone on your path, a circumstantial companion if you will.  This person isn’t just attractive, they have gravity.  A pull. They alter your orbit and send you off on a new course.  When it happens for the first time it blindsides you. Couldn’t believe it was possible to walk in step with someone so effortlessly.  The beats of your lives are a harmony of the deep music of the universe. Our guest this week wasn’t my first, or even in the first dozen to alter my trajectory.  My path as been so full of magnificent members of the universe that I feel ..read more

Rabbi Adam Gindea of Base Miami joins Mindfulness of Doom to discuss the nature of religion, his recent spiritual awakening, and mystic teachings as they relate to other religious beliefs.  Since this is episode 42, naturally we talk about the answer to life the universe and everything! Cory and Brian both get the F out of Miami and actually agree with each other a few times on the podcast.  Cory complains about his bad luck and shitty landlord. Guess what! Soon Cory will be a guest on an upcoming episode of the Serve Conscious podcast! So go check out the Serve Conscious Podcast: ht ..read more