Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis
Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis about walking our talk—every day, in every moment. It ain't about being perfect. Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal, talks about everyday Buddhism, meditation, eco-actions large and small, and features conversations with leading mindful thought leaders, both famous and overlooked.
Episodes
This week on "Walk the Talk Show," Waylon rallies for community-inspired love for the mothers and mother figures in our lives—including the mother of them all, big mama, Mother Earth herself.
" We can do better. We can teach men that real masculinity is based on taking responsibility and being willing to apologize. That's owning something. That's true leadership. It's built on being kind to others."
This week on our long-running "Walk the Talk Show" podcast and video series, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the mind-blowing factoid he discovered about the origins of the "alpha male" concept when it was st...
This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the reality of aging and growing older...about how it doesn't match our childhood utopic idea of what being an "adult" may mean, and shares his advice for younger folks who may be realizing that they're surrounded by cynics—and a lack of ethics. Read the full article on Elephant!
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This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about April Fools' Day, why he calls it a holy Buddhist holiday, and shares the reasoning behind why we go hard on the so-called joking on this day each year as a publication. He also offers a reminder for us all about The Man and Big Tech, and how we may not be walking our talk as often as we think we are.
Waylon: "When Elephant talks—jokes—about selling o...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the upcoming No Kings Day on March 28th, 2026, and gives us two small tasks we can do to protect our democracy:
1. Subscribe to real, actual journalism versus social media or corporate media.
2. Show up peacefully to protest this Saturday. Find a protest near you! Our Walk the Talk Show Editor, Molly, will be joining the flagship event being held in St. Paul, Minnesota. There's also a...
"Is it okay to feel anger, from a Buddhist point of view?"
This week, Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the very real feeling that many people across the United States (and the world) are feeling: anger.
Each week Waylon and Molly, our Walk the Talk Show editor, chat about what's going on in the world and what might be of benefit to our Readers on the next Walk the Talk Show episode. In an act of angry desperation abo...
Recently, thanks to Shambhala Publications and our friend Ivan Bercholz, we had the chance to ask Pema Chodron, the wonderful Buddhist teacher I've been lucky enough to know all my life, a brief question.
It was Willa and Kelsey's first time meeting Pema!
It was a pleasure and an honor and helpful in an earthy way. Dharma is always surprising in how it rings true and surprises my thinking mind. ~ Waylon Lewis
The thing I'm always trying to explain to my liberal idiot friends is that the climate crisis, global warming, global shawarmaing—whatever you want to call it—doesn't really matter.
You know why? 'Cause I'm 51. Even if global warming were true—which, obviously, it's not; FAKE NEWS!—I'll be dead.
So it doesn't matter, right?
Right?
~
Read the full article on Elephant: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2026/03/it-doesnt-matter-if-were-...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the very real reality that many people in cities across the United States are dealing with the endless, overwhelming onslaught of outright lies, disinformation, political retribution, and loud-and-proud discrimination we are living in during Trump's second term in office.
The attacks are never-ending, and they naturally lead to a feeling of overwhelm, and overwhelm can lead to…you gue...
Waylon meets Jeff Fulmer, the author of the book "The Two Prophets," and discusses how this is a book to help millions of readers digest, process, and even enjoy this over-full moment in human history.
"Touching on every issue we're all going through in these turbulent times, it's a page-turning adventurous read that's fun, yet serious. You can sit down with a good book, read it, and take in current events—which are pretty stressfu...
Waylon catches up with one of our favorite guests: mindful meditator, sangha friend, and feng shui expert Anjie Cho. They discuss how hard last year was, the Year of the Yin Wood Snake, what we should consider at the tail of the Snake year before the official shift into the Horse year, and what we can do to prepare before the Lunar, or Eastern, or Tibetan/Chinese New Year.
"It's interesting. No one h...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the trap of positivity and how it can actually do the opposite of what we think, and result in us turning away from the outside world and instead showing up in the world in a more cold or withdrawn manner.
Instead, if we are accepting, and powerful, and courageous, and brave, and vulnerable, by opening up to the world around us as it is—reality—we can hear, and learn from it and inste...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about being a new father and the need to provide a livable planet for our children to thrive on for generations to come. Now is the time to resist and not to give our power away, and we can do this by dozens of minute, mindful actions we can take every day, and by being Buddhist (not religiously) in the sense that we're being kind to ourselves.
"We need a habitable planet for Willa, and al...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about not giving up our power. Last week's podcast was on the theme of reclaiming our power, and this week he digs into this a little more in-depth.
Some folks may ask, "Who cares if I do something environmentally-responsible or not?"
Well, every little thing does matter to someone or something. And, billionaires' actions matter much more. But, still, too, every little thing we do matters—...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about using our collective power for good.
"Reclaim your own power—do what you can with where you are, now, starting now. Put more love and healing into our dear world and take out some of the aggression and casual, speedy, destructive selfishness."
~ Waylon H. Lewis
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about the 2025 election and the power of small-d democracy in action.
"So much to celebrate last night. Meaningful victories for public servants who will serve us and US, across the board. The beginning— just the beginning—of a repudiation of Donald Trump's corruption and willful destruction of democracy. But most of all: a reminder that most of us are good ca...
This is a challenge for most of us.
Be kind to yourself. We have to work with our own thing—open up, be wakeful and available first, then we can help the world. There is nothing more intimate than working with family. That is a path of meditation or mindfulness. This is our practice.
Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents: our 300th Podcast!
Waylon speaks with the founder of Boulder, Colorado-based Peak State Coffee, Danny Walsh, about what we should look for in our daily cup of joe and why we might want to re-empower our buying power and support a eco, ethical coffee companies.
Danny Walsh: " When I was going into business, I was like, 'I'm not gonna start just another business in this modern age unles...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about a Buddhist teaching that will always bring you back to the truth, especially when things are at their hardest and it feels like the world is going to crap. Lean on this notion.
"Impermanence is a teaching that reminds us that when we can't find any ground, when there's chaos…that's actually good news because we're living in the truth that there is no solidity. That who we are doesn't...
Waylon speaks with the Elephant community about a Buddhist method to apply toward making decisions in our lives—big, or little.
Suggested Reading:
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind ~ Shunryu Suzuki
- Read more about "don't-know mind": https://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/i-dont-know-do-you-know/
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