Commune with Jeff Krasno

When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this episode, recorded live at The Kinn in Los Angeles, Jeff sits down with Dr. Zach Bush, a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, endocrinology, and hospice care. They explore his new book, Biological Elegance, which unfolds through a dialogue with AI.

They get into the difference between curing and healing, why Zach believes there's no machine behind AI at all, and why the real danger isn't artificial intelligence but humans acting like machines.

Why humming is one of the most powerful ways to relieve acute pain, a lesson Zach learned from a hospice nurse

Jeff's story of his father's final week in hospice, and the difference between curing and healing

Zach's case that AI isn't a machine at all, and that the real danger is humans acting like machines

The "false solutions" of biohacking, crypto, and the conscious movement

The curative questions Zach believes medicine should be asking: where's your original wound, and what's your deepest fear?

This episode is for anyone who has sat at a loved one's bedside, feels uneasy about AI, or suspects that healing means more than fixing symptoms. Zach's new book, Biological Elegance: Unwitting the Devil, is available at zachbushmd.com.

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The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.In this episode, Jeff plays a round of Frogger through stray shopping carts and bite-sized ballerinas to pick up Micah from rehearsal. Somewhere between the curb and Marshalls, she says it as casually as checking the weather: "Dad, I got my period." What follows is a quick run of limbic misfires, from a panicked thought of urgent care to an awkward offer to swing by CVS, until her reply stops him cold: "I just wanted you to know." It's a funny, tender look at raising daughters without shame, and the five seconds Jeff counts among his proudest as a father.This is the seventeenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.This episode was made possible by:

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What if love isn't about sacrifice and limitation, but is actually the thing that sets you free?

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diego Perez, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and meditator known as Yung Pueblo, to talk about his book How to Love Better. Diego shares how hitting rock bottom sent him from self-deception toward self-love, and how thousands of hours in silent Vipassana retreats reshaped the way he shows up for his wife, Sara. Drawing on Buddhist ideas like impermanence and the Brahmaviharas, they explore what it takes to build a relationship that feels less like a limitation and more like a home.

Why self-love begins with radical honesty

A simple morning habit that heads off unnecessary fights

What shifts when you stop arguing to win

The subtle line between clinging and closeness

Why commitment might be the most liberating thing in your life

This episode is for anyone who wants a relationship rooted in understanding rather than control, and for anyone curious how a meditation practice can change the way they love.

Diego's new book, Journey: The Year That Changes Everything, a year of daily reflections on self-awareness and inner peace, is out Nov 10. Originally released in 2025.

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Jeff Krasno spent years driving his family through the most terrifying stretch of I-95 there is: the dark part after New Haven. His daughter remembers it as the safest she ever felt.

In this episode, Jeff recounts the family's white-knuckle night drives to a Connecticut cottage — deer carcasses, wobbly 18-wheelers, and a car full of sleeping kids lulled out by Schuyler's New Yorker readings — and the moment nearly 20 years later when his daughter's heartfelt dinner-table tribute gets undercut by his own internal monologue about exactly how he was driving.

This is the sixteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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Every cell in your body holds an electrical charge, and Wade Lightheart says most of the fatigue, pain, and brain fog people chalk up to aging is really a battery running low on potassium, not a diet problem. In this episode, Jeff talks with Wade, co-founder of BiOptimizers and a former Mr. Universe competitor, about the sodium-potassium pump that powers every muscle contraction and nerve signal in the body, and why replenishing it can change how you feel in under an hour.

Why your muscles work more like a battery than an engine, and what that changes about how you think about fatigue

The sodium-potassium pump: the exchange happening inside every cell, all day, whether you notice it or not

Why potassium, not sodium, is the electrolyte most people are actually running short on

What happens when the charge "drains" — the dull ache, brain fog, and pain people mistake for aging

Real stories of what happens within 60 minutes of restoring that charge

This episode is for anyone who's felt inexplicably drained, in pain, or foggy and assumed it was just age — and for anyone curious what's really happening inside their cells.

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