Soul Boom
Soul Boom is a series of intimate conversations hosted by Rainn Wilson exploring meaningful and inspiring topics that tickle the mind, heart and soul. Never too precious, yet unafraid to touch on the profound, we digs into the core of the human experience: creativity, spirituality and psychology. Bringing to the conversation some of the most brilliant and heart-felt artists, thinkers and doers, Soul Boom guides the listener toward transformation on both a personal and societal level. Also, laughs.
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November 13, 2025 • 52 mins
How can we humanize our political "opponents" and stop viewing the world as "them vs. us?" Revolutionary love in practice. Valarie Kaur returns to unpack how we can transform grief into courageous action, and build a bigger we that resists dehumanization while defending democracy. We walk through tools like wonder, grief, listening across difference, and experiments with love on the frontlines and at home.
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November 6, 2025 • 56 mins
Shabnam Mogharabi (co-author of the Soul Boom Workbook: Spiritual Tools for Modern Living, co-founder of SoulPancake) joins Rainn to unpack
their new book and explore awe, beauty, and gratitude, through practical “tools for turbulent times” that scale from the self to community. Shabnam also shares her vulnerable story about suffering, intuition, and why noticing” small needs can spark real change.
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October 23, 2025 • 104 mins
Comedian Roy Wood, Jr. (The Daily Show) joins Rainn to explore the fractures in American society, from racism and political division to technology, capitalism, and the myth of unity. Roy reflects on his upbringing in Birmingham, the lessons in resilience and hustle that shaped his path, and why he believes comedy is a spiritual tool for truth-telling. Can America find healing, or is division our destiny?
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October 19, 2025 • 48 mins
Part 2! Mark Ruffalo joins us again to talk about marriage as "soul
work," raising artists, healing family trauma, and why vulnerability
might be the bravest thing a man can practice. He opens up about his
father’s Baha’i journey, the sweetness of those early firesides,
Standing Rock, and the Lakota lessons that reshaped his activism and
hope.
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October 16, 2025 • 58 mins
Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez) explore how inner transformation creates outer change. He and Rainn discuss impermanence, self-love, meditation, and why cultivating inner peace is essential to addressing today’s mental health crisis and global challenges. Yung Pueblo also shares his journey through silent meditation retreats, his new book How to Love Better, and the radical idea that healing ourselves is the first step to healing humanit...
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October 9, 2025 • 78 mins
Mark Ruffalo (AppleTV's Task, Marvel's Avengers) explores how America can find compassion in divided times, the dangers of political violence, and why activism must be rooted in empathy. Ruffalo reflects on losing his brother to gun violence, the climate crisis, and his journey with The Solutions Project, which uplifts frontline communities fighting for change. Together, they ask: how do we move beyond fear, rage, and dehumanizatio...
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September 25, 2025 • 63 mins
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love author) opens up about love, addiction, grief, and spiritual growth. She opens up about her relationship with Raya, the painful lessons of codependency, and why heartbreak can feel as devastating as substance abuse. Together, they explore life as “Earth School,” the healing power of unconditional love, and why telling the truth is often the only way out of life’s deepest traps.
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September 18, 2025 • 97 mins
Danny Rensch stopped being a pawn in his family's cult and broke free to
rebuild his life and found Chess.com. He and Rainn unpack what life is
like growing up in a cult, the painful process of leaving, and the long
journey of healing and reconnecting with his mother. Together they
explore resilience, forgiveness, and how meaning can be rebuilt after
spiritual manipulation and control.
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September 11, 2025 • 77 mins
Comedian Lil Rel Howery (Code 3) joins Rainn to unpack how he got out of grief, panic attacks, and an extremely dark season after the death of his mother. He shares the wild prophecy that named his breakout roles years before they happened, why the Black church shaped his soul and service, and how stand-up became his medicine. They swap stories on Code 3, Get Out, The Carmichael Show, The Office and why comedy deserves the same res...
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September 4, 2025 • 77 mins
Ryan Holiday (The Daily Stoic) joins Rainn Wilson to connect Stoicism’s
deepest roots to spirituality, from the Logos and justice to the common
good and service. They explore how ancient practice becomes modern
medicine for anxiety, purpose, and resilience, and why journaling and
radical acceptance still work.
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August 21, 2025 • 66 mins
Sri M, Himalayan spiritual teacher and social reformer, joins Rainn Wilson to explore the mysteries of consciousness, the soul, and the universal search for meaning. Together they discuss how spirituality is inseparable from service, why love and peace lie at the heart of all traditions, and how to live a spiritual life while fully engaged in the modern world.
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August 14, 2025 • 96 mins
Adam Grant (NYT bestselling author of Think Again and organizational psychologist at Wharton) joins us to unpack why everything we believe about confidence might be backward. From navigating failure and perfectionism to learning how to detach worth from work, Adam explores why passion isn’t something you “find,” how spirituality intersects with identity, and how reframing narratives can lead to a more meaningful life. Plus, the sec...
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August 7, 2025 • 73 mins
When a high-achieving lawyer suddenly drops her corporate life for
poetry and yoga, her words manage to reach millions online. Victoria Hutchins explores religious deconstruction, what it means to “make believe” in God again, and the soul-saving power of small joys. Victoria reads several of her most powerful poems and shares practical wisdom for those navigating anxiety, burnout, or existential crisis.
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July 31, 2025 • 73 mins
Ed Helms, (The Office, The Hangover) digs into memory, identity, and what it means to truly live in the moment. The two reflect on their years together on The Office, the unexpected emotional impact of a single line from the show's finale, and how chasing success nearly kept them from appreciating the present. Ed opens up about his ADHD diagnosis, his evolving relationship with therapy, and how self-compassion became a necessary su...
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July 24, 2025 • 92 mins
If belief dies, can wonder survive? Britt Hartley (author of No Nonsense
Spirituality) digs into her journey from devout Mormonism to mystic
atheism, her deconstruction of religious dogma, and her experience of
profound nihilism after losing belief in God.
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July 17, 2025 • 84 mins
Casey Neistat (YouTube creator, filmmaker, entrepreneur) joins Rainn
Wilson to dive into the dangers of social media algorithms, the role of
empathy in art, and how fatherhood reshaped Casey’s purpose.
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July 3, 2025 • 66 mins
Comedian Pete Holmes (I Am Not For Everyone) joins Rainn Wilson LIVE to dive into the nature of God, spiritual awakening through psychedelics, and why ego isn’t the enemy...it might even be divine. They unpack the parable of the Prodigal Son, discuss mystical consciousness and atheism, and reflect on comedy’s role in revealing truth. Plus, Pete shares early jokes, voice memo rage, and his unique way of merging stand-up with sacred ...
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June 26, 2025 • 81 mins
Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, White Chicks) opens up about addiction, masculinity, faith, and healing. He shares his journey through addiction, religious trauma, and the deep inner work required to rebuild his life and marriage. He shares how recovery helped him rediscover his soul, his artistry, and his definition of love and how public accountability set him free.
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June 12, 2025 • 79 mins
Comedian Mike Birbiglia (The Good Life on Netflix) opens up about
navigating his father’s stroke, his daughter’s spiritual education, and
how meeting the Pope shaped his artistry. Along the way, Mike explores
mental‑health honesty, delusional optimism in auditions, and why he
believes live storytelling is almost sacred.
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June 5, 2025 • 84 mins
Kelly Corrigan (NYT bestselling author, PBS host) joins Rainn Wilson for
an illuminating conversation on fear, moods, creativity, and the wisdom
found in wonder. Kelly shares her experience with cancer, raising
daughters, her evolving beliefs about God, and how staying in someone’s
home reveals more about life than any philosophy book.
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