Podcast
Waking Up With Ryan
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On the Waking Up with Ryan podcast, coach Ryan Weiss explores how the first five minutes of your day can shape everything that follows. Through short daily audio and video episodes (10–12 minutes), he delivers powerful "moments of awakening" designed to interrupt the inertia of fear, ego, and judgment, helping listeners reconnect with themselves before the noise and demands of the day take over.
Blending wisdom, meditation, and practical insight, Waking Up with Ryan offers a daily ritual that grounds, inspires, and empowers listeners to move through life with greater intention. More than just a podcast, it is an ongoing exploration of self-discovery, presence, and what it truly means to remember who we are.
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Why You Don't Meditate (True Meditation)
2w ago00:12:36Tap to summarizeMost of us have been sold the wrong idea of meditation — the image of a serene person sitting in perfect stillness, blissfully at peace. So when we sit down to meditate and instead find noise, restlessness, and discomfort, we assume we're doing it wrong… or that meditation just doesn't work for us. In this episode, Ryan explores a definition of meditation from spiritual teacher Adyashanti that reframes the entire practice: true meditation isn't about achieving peace or stopping your thoughts — it's the practice of letting everything be as it is, without needing to change it. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →What Horses Can Teach
2w ago00:15:34Tap to summarizeHorses have been reading human energy for millions of years — long before words existed for emotional awareness. This episode explores what equine therapy reveals about trust, discomfort, and the parts of ourselves that tend to get pushed down and avoided. Horses stop the moment there's a mismatch between what someone feels inside and what they show on the outside — and the same holds true for people in daily life. You can't pull a horse forward when it senses something's off, and in truth, discomfort can't be outrun either. It doesn't disappear; it builds, until it eventually surfaces on its own terms. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Let Go or Be Dragged
2w ago00:10:13Tap to summarizeWhat if the very thing you're chasing — the relationship, the career, the money — is being pushed further away by your need for it to happen? In this episode of Waking Up with Ryan, Ryan explores why grasping for what we want (or forcing ourselves to "let go" of it) misses the real work: building a relationship with your inner world. Drawing from a conversation with an old friend who's spent decades wanting a relationship to "come in," Ryan unpacks the difference between temporary happiness and true inner peace — and why avoiding sadness and loneliness by chasing outside things keeps us stuck. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Awakening Is Not Something You Can Achieve
3w ago00:14:01Tap to summarizeWe spend years striving for awakening — more practices, more books, more teachers, more effort — but what if the very act of striving is what keeps it out of reach? In this episode of Waking Up with Ryan, we explore why awakening isn't a destination to arrive at, but a truth that's already here, right now, underneath the mind's stories about who you are and where you're headed. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →How We Show Up for Each Other | Jenna Dewan & Emmanuelle Chriqui
3w ago00:44:41Tap to summarizeThey met backstage at an NSYNC concert twenty-five years ago and stayed up until 5am laughing. They’ve been showing up for each other ever since. In this live conversation from the Waking Up with Ryan launch in Venice, actresses Jenna Dewan and Emmanuelle Chriqui get honest about what it actually takes to keep a friendship alive for a quarter century, especially two women in the same industry, often up for the same roles. They talk about the “ugly stuff” nobody admits to: the early envy and competitiveness, and how they learned to turn it into admiration. They talk about protecting their bond when outside forces tried to drive a wedge between them. And they go somewhere deeper, into what it means to show up for someone in real pain: not rushing to fix it, but knowing where the hurt lives in the other person and loving them there. Jenna opens up about the guilt of juggling a career, a partner, and three kids. Emmanuelle shares what it meant to have Jenna show up with real presence through some of the hardest personal and family moments of her life. This one is about friendship. The kind that carries you. New episodes of Waking Up with Ryan every weekday morning, with longer conversations like this one every other week. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →The Purpose of Your Life
3w ago00:11:18Tap to summarizeWhat if the way you live today is preparing you for how you'll face your final moments? In this episode, Ryan shares a deeply moving story from a recent experience — being invited to sit with a dying woman and her family in her last hours, guiding a ceremony of prayer, meditation, and release. What unfolded was one of the most powerful teachings on forgiveness and freedom he's ever witnessed. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Being Human Is Weird
3w ago00:10:08Tap to summarizeBeing human is inherently strange—we're infinite, boundless awareness crammed into a small body, juggling emails, money, and relationships while forgetting who we really are. In this episode of Waking Up with Ryan, Ryan explores why life feels so hard, drawing on a Talmudic teaching about the soul forgetting itself at birth, and compares our everyday experience to a nightmare that feels completely real until we wake up. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Can You Love Your Ego?
3w ago00:12:40Tap to summarizeYour life is hard. There's stress, pressure, and a constant stream of self-judgment — but what if the answer isn't to fight your ego, but to love it? In this episode, Ryan explores a question: Can you love your ego? He unpacks why resisting your ego only strengthens it, why "spiritual bypassing" can become its own form of toxic positivity, and how true love means making space for every part of your experience, ego included. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Gratitude Is the Secret to Manifestation
4w ago00:13:15Tap to summarizeHave you ever judged someone for having the exact thing you want in your life? In this episode, Ryan unpacks why the people who trigger your jealousy might actually be proof of what's possible for you, not evidence of what you lack. Ryan explores how competition and comparison can quietly kill our manifestation, and why gratitude — real gratitude for what's already here, not some imagined future — is the true open door to abundance. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcribe →Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
4w ago00:13:19Tap to summarizeWe move too fast — while life itself moves slowly, patiently. In this episode, Ryan explores why pace matters so much for feeling connected to the universe, using the Jewish tradition of Sabbath and Esther Hicks' image of a car sliding down a hill to show why catching your mind early (before it builds momentum) changes everything. Includes a guided pause practice to help you slow down and simply be. You can follow Ryan on Instagram (@wakingupwithryan), YouTube (@wakingupwithryanpod), or visit wakingupwithryan.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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