Rebel Human Radio
Tait Medina and Jenny Arrington let their hair out of their buns and dive into the stories behind building Rebel Human, their fast-growing movement and educational community. Each episode weaves narratives of their challenges building the company. This podcast is where Tait & Jenny explore what it is to be a Rebel Human, covering themes of fear, anxiety, desire, sadness, power, gifts, fulfillment, addiction, and more.
Episodes
39 episodes
How To Get Yourself From Anguish To Action
Curled up in bed, outraged, spinning, crying, despondent, or terrified? Maybe you've felt all of these things in the last few days. This episode doesn't rehash the recent tragedies, but helps guide you from fear and anger to right action. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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29:29
Lubricate Your Vocal Folds - self advocacy
This episode is about self-advocacy and fierce advocacy for your health. Tait starts out telling her story about a gynecologist trying to prescribe her estrogen without doing proper blood work, claiming she was moving into menopause. After gett...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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35:56
Controversial Topics - colonics, ayahuasca, homeopathy, and more!
In this long awaited episode, Jenny and Tait share the pseudo-science and misinformation around colonics, ayahuasca, homeopathy, "adrenal fatigue," drinking your own urine, "detoxing," lemon water, and alkaline water. Is ayahuasca ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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58:56
Healing and Grief - a sound bath
Listen to this episode with HEADPHONES. Grief is one of the most painful of human experiences. We hope this help give your nervous system a little break while you are grieving. This won't make everything better but it will take care of...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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16:27
We're Not Worthy!
Tait and Jenny share details of their personal stories around their relationship to worth. Tait only existed in the eyes of other people's praise. She also shares how that led to an addiction to alcohol. Jenny felt unworthy of the roof over her...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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46:28
Rumination and Procrastination
Tait and Jenny discuss the mental health effects of ruminating and procrastinating. Tait tells her latest health challenge story and how the steroids she has to take have put her back into the mental state she experienced in her teens and how t...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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33:55
Magic, Superpowers, and Placebos, Oh My!
Tait and Jenny discuss how magic, tarot cards, mystics, psychics, and mediums play into our human psychology. They explain the connections between these "magical" practices and the placebo effect. They share some examples of how "magical" our o...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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38:24
leverage your BRAIN to achieve your goals
Jenny starts out sharing her covid experience while in quarantine, including her manic hair cutting episode. They move onto goals, the role of tracking, and the neurocircuitry of goal pursuit. Tait shares how she got herself to the top of her f...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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45:02
Why Mindfulness Meditation Doesn't Work For Everyone
Starting with how Tait procrastinates, Jenny and Tait then move on to explaining their scaffolded approach to Rebel Human skill acquisition. They explain why some people get frustrated with meditation and feel they can't do it. They explain the...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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44:01
It's A Real Live Boy - data shows teens are thriving on Rebel Human
Opening with paradoxes, polarities, and contradiction, then moving onto the findings from our schools program study. Tait and Jenny love hard data! Jenny reads some student testimonials and Tait explains her research process, powerful findings,...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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33:32
Adult Play
"Play is the highest form of research." Albert EinsteinAdults forget how great play is for our brains. Tait explains what happens in the brain when we play (when we keep it non-competitive) and how play enhances her research. Did you know t...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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36:01
Self-Actualization vs. Self-Transcendence
Tait and Jenny discuss the difference between self-actualization and self-transcendence, along with the connections they have. Tait explains what it physically feels like for her when she feels a sense of self-transcendence. How does wonder and...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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22:05
Reframing Stress PART TWO
Tait and Jenny talk about how stress can uncover what we really care about and how it can help connect us to our purpose. They discuss the stress that comes from people pleasing and caring what others think, while acknowledging that people may ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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33:33
Reframing Stress
Tait and Jenny discuss how we can change our relationship to stress to bring about a more adaptive physiological, affective, and cognitive response. They cite a few jaw dropping studies (re: weight loss, appetite suppression, blood pressure, co...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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35:33
Why You're Anxious All The Time
Tait and Jenny discuss the science of anxiety, free floating anxiety, specific anxiety, the body's budget, our brain's predictions, why it's happening and how to alleviate it. How does resilience, equanimity, and transcendence, the Rebel Human ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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25:38
Get Back On The Horse
Jenny and Tait discuss how getting back up on the horse can happen multiple times a day. They share the ways that they often get back on the horse and what ways they tend to fall. Tait tells of her pandemic kidney stones and flood, and why she ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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29:53
How FEELINGS differ from EMOTIONS
Allostasis, affective circumplex, emotional concepts, emotional granularity, how emotions differ among cultures, and what anger looks like in different cultures. Jenny and Tait discuss how emotions help give meaning to feelings and...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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34:27
What is SEAC? (and how to do it)
Jenny and Tait explain SEAC (stop, exhale, attend, connect), a part of their Rebel Human® For Schools program. It's something we can all use so it's not just for students. They also share their funnies: Jenny's botch up of a YouTube visua...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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26:52
just a Sound Bath - Holiday Chill
This week we need some deep calm. Jenny guides you through a 15 minute sound bath using crystal singing bowls and the gong. You can lay down and listen for some deep, nap-like calm. It can even ease you into a nap. Or you can listen while drivi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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21:53
How To Turn Your FIVE DIALS for Holiday Prep and Teens
Jenny and Tait explain explore the five dials we can turn in any given moment to shift our physiology: breath, mantra, eye focus, movement, and non-sleep deep rest (NSDR). Each dial washes the brain in different chemicals depending on what shif...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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27:33
Democratizing Wellness
Jenny and Tait discuss how Rebel Human is democratizing wellness through their Triple A Principle (teaching practices that can be done anywhere, anytime, by anyone), the concept of wellness capital, and how their schools program is addressing t...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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35:44
Why We Are DONE With Facebook and Instagram
Join Jenny and Tait, co-founders of Rebel Human, as they discuss why they decided to stop using Facebook and Instagram, both personally and professionally. Learn a little bit about the biology and psychology of why social media is so addictive,...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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30:57
Five Things You're Doing That
Jenny and Tait discuss the topic of forgiveness. This was the topic this week at Rebel Human. All the classes were crafted around the topic. Tait and Jenny share the things that came up in their own journey of exploring forgiveness.
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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25:29