Abel James Show

Technology is disrupting the music industry once again. In this week's special 4-part bonus series, you’ll hear rapid fire interviews with incredible musicians who are using cutting edge podcasting tech to reinvent the music industry. We’re kicking off this bonus series with one of the top artists in the world of value-for-value music, Ainsley…

Do you feel a constant pressure to optimize every aspect of your life?    What if hyper-optimization protocols actually do more harm than good?    The glorification of hustle culture has given many of us the nagging feeling that no matter how much we do or accomplish, it's never quite enough.    Living in a cloud of frantic, urgent, reactive…

Have you ever wondered why almost every single packaged food contains industrial seed oils, anti-caking agents, preservatives, petrochemical flavorings and other non-foods? And why do so many growing companies that started as a healthier real food alternative ultimately sell their souls to Big Food?  We're back this week with our dear friend,…

Why do fancy restaurants fill their meals with junk oils, sugars, chemical preservatives, and worse? With rampant food inflation and razor thin margins, even the fanciest, most exclusive and expensive restaurants can’t resist the tendency to cut corners on ingredient quality. That means that no matter how much you spend on eating out - with few…

What’s the difference between education and indoctrination?

Is our education system broken, or is it operating as intended?

The public school conveyor belt is a relic of the Prussian military model, designed to produce compliant workers for factories rather than sovereign thinkers with upward mobility.

We’re left with a…

Is your work aligned with your true calling in life?

Or are you being paid to overlook your overwhelming disinterest in the work? Is your work-life driven by an illusion where the trivial is disguised as important?

Tragically, this week’s guest admits, “I spent 10 years doing an enormous amount of work but feeling as if I…

What does the concept of longevity mean to you?

Does it mean pumping your body full of exogenous hormones, peptides, stem cells, brain implants, and gradually replacing your organs with lab-grown pig parts? Perhaps some of us will sign up to be a brain in a jar?

Or can we cruise into our second century by living a simple life of…

When you know what you’re supposed to do, what keeps you from actually doing it?

We’re all guilty at times of procrastination, pleasure-seeking, indulging in distraction and escapism, and even self-sabotage. Perhaps it’s all part of the human condition.

But since knowing what to do is different from actually doing it, it’s…

Have you heard that eating animal protein causes cancer?

Or that you’ll save the world if you only give up hamburgers forever? 

Despite dutifully reducing our consumption of animal protein for decades, rates of obesity and chronic disease have skyrocketed.  

In the face of relentless anti-meat propaganda, what if the blanket…

If you’re not happy all the time, do you feel like you have a problem?

No matter how much you achieve, does it feel like it’s never quite enough? 

This is totally normal. 

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the pursuit of happiness, but it’s critical to understand that even in the best case scenario, happiness is…