If I’m Really Honest

Will Harris - A Bold Return to Giving a Damn (White Oak Pastures)

In this episode of If I’m Really Honest, Jamin Coller talks with regenerative farmer Will Harris about changing course after decades of industrial farming, the ethics of animal welfare, soil health, and what it means to follow your conscience even when it costs you financially and socially. Will shares the story of transforming White Oak Pastures from an industrial cattle operation into a vertically integrated regenerative farm, and why working with nature instead of against it changed everything.
White Oak Pastures https://whiteoakpastures.com
Will Harris's Book: "A Bold Return to Giving a Damn" https://a.co/d/02XoqhGk
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Elizabeth Loftus - The Misinformation Effect

Dr. Loftus has spent decades studying how memories can be distorted by suggestion, imagination, and time. Her research on the “misinformation effect” helped reshape how courts evaluate eyewitness testimony and recovered memories. We also talk about sleep paralysis, therapy-induced memories, and how understanding memory can make us more compassionate toward people we disagree with.
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Dan Ariely - The Psychology of Mistrust

In this episode of If I’m Really Honest, Jamin talks with behavioral economist Dan Ariely about misbelief, trust, COVID-era polarization, and why admitting mistakes is so difficult for individuals, institutions, and governments. They explore how mistrust grows, why social media accelerates conflict, and whether curiosity and conversation can rebuild trust between neighbors - even when agreement seems impossible.
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Dan Ariely Website: https://danariely.com
Books - Misbelief: https://a.co/d/0av5mTHl
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Hope for Humanity - Geoffrey West

Geoffrey West, physicist and former president of the Santa Fe Institute, joins Jamin Coller to explore scaling laws, sustainability, innovation, and the accelerating pace of modern civilization.
West explains why cities and economies speed up as they grow, why innovation repeatedly postpones collapse while making future crises arrive faster, and what a mathematical “singularity” actually means — as distinct from popular AI narratives. The discussion moves into politics, belief, religion, and why rapid belief change under Donald Trump gives West an unexpected, fragile optimism.
"Scale" by Geoffrey West: https://a.co/d/3NIRLO0
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Cognitive Science of Religion - Dr. Jonathan Jong

In this episode of If I’m Really Honest, Jamin Coller and cognitive psychologist Jonathan Lewis-Jong unpack belief—what it is, how it functions in the human mind, and why it persists across cultures. Jonathan explains how the science of religion treats belief as natural psychological processes that can be measured and studied without making claims about metaphysical truth. They discuss cognitive theories of religion, terror management, meaning-making, and the implications for spiritual life and interpersonal dialogue.
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Dark Side of Meditation - Willoughby Britton

Neuroscientist and trauma researcher Dr. Willoughby Britton joins Jamin Coller to discuss the hidden risks of meditation, spiritual bypassing, and the psychology of religious and wellness communities. Drawing on her groundbreaking Varieties of Contemplative Experience study, Britton explains why meditation sometimes causes panic, dissociation, insomnia, and psychosis — and why communities often blame the victims instead of addressing the harm.
• Cheetah House – https://www.cheetahhouse.org
• Meditation Challenges Study – https://www.meditationchallenges.org
• Psychedelic Challenges Study – https://www.psychedelicchallenges.org
• Willoughby Britton (Brown University) – https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/faculty/willoughby-britton
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Conversation with a Psychopath (Part 2) - M. E. Thomas

In this episode of If I’m Really Honest, Jamin Coller sits down with M.E. (Jamie) Thomas, a lawyer, educator, musician, and author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, to discuss the psychology of psychopathy, what it really means to live without empathy as commonly understood, and how identity and morality are shaped by experience rather than instinct. Jamie shares her journey from academia and law into a life of self-reflection, community engagement, and honest conversations about traits most people fear rather than understand.
 
• M.E. Thomas – Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@m.e.thomas7901
• Sociopath World (M.E. Thomas website): https://www.sociopathworld.com
• Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight https://a.co/d/dMCOmWe
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Conversation with a Psychopath - M. E. Thomas (Part 1)

Lawyer, musician, and author of Confessions of a Sociopath, M.E. Thomas joins me to talk about psychopathy without fear, caricature, or moral panic. This is not a conversation about monsters. It’s a conversation about meaning, identity, empathy, boundaries, stories we tell ourselves, and what happens when a sense of self is missing—or too rigid. Topics include: Psychopathy vs sociopathy (and why the words matter less than people think)
Whether empathy defines humanity Moral gray areas and emotional triggers Sense of self, memory, and meaning Buddhism, psychopathy, and why extremes break humans Relationships between psychopaths and empaths Therapy, identity scaffolding, and building a self Why rules exist—and when they stop protecting people What society gets wrong about psychopaths and other stigmatized identities
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Book (Confessions of a Sociopath): https://a.co/d/9NGRTZf
Website: https://www.sociopathworld.com
 
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Death and Honesty - Victor M. Sweeney

Victor M. Sweeney joins me for an unfiltered, humane, and surprisingly tender conversation about death, grief, funeral culture, and why modern Americans are so uncomfortable with mortality. Victor explains what actually happens behind the scenes at funerals, why “predatory funeral homes” are mostly a myth, how small towns grieve differently than cities, and what it means to care for both the living and the dead without flinching. This conversation moves from practical realities (graves, vaults, embalming, checklists) to philosophy, presence, and what death teaches us about how to live.
Guest Resources:
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Now-Departing-Small-Town-Mortician-Moments/dp/1668062119
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/death-and-with-victor-m-sweeney/id1834669994
Website: https://deathandpodcast.com/
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Dr. Aaron Adair - The Misunderstood World of Modern Physics

Dr. Aaron Adair joins If I’m Really Honest to break down quantum mechanics, infinity, cosmology, CERN optics, why the universe expands faster than light in some regions, how misconceptions spread, and why intuition is a terrible roadmap for understanding reality. This is a deep dive into what physics actually says - stripped of mysticism, marketing, and wishful thinking.
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