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The Extraordinary Relationships Podcast
Zen Paths and Love Stories: a journey of intimacy and connection.
In this episode of the Extraordinary Relationships podcast, you're invited to delve into the intimate and extraordinary journey of Zen teachers Brooke Teisui and Rob Daishin McNamara, as they open up about their relationship, experiences and practices.
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In this episode of the Extraordinary Relationships podcast, you're invited to delve into the intimate and extraordinary journey of Zen teachers Brooke Teisui and Rob Daishin McNamara, as they open up about their relationship, experiences and practices.
Listen HERE.
The PIVOT: Navigating Uncharted Territory with Dave Schoof
Part 1: Depth, Coherence, and Leadership When the Maps Fail
Subtitle: What if the space between us is the map?
Rob McNamara joins Dave to explore how relational depth, love, and presence may be the most strategic responses to the crises of our time.
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Subtitle: What if the space between us is the map?
Rob McNamara joins Dave to explore how relational depth, love, and presence may be the most strategic responses to the crises of our time.
Listen HERE.
The PIVOT: Navigating Uncharted Territory with Dave Schoof
Part 2: Metabolizing the Poly-Crisis with Rob McNamara
There’s an anxiety humming beneath everything—like tinnitus that never stops. You feel it in leadership meetings where reactions explode out of proportion. In hair-trigger responses to small disruptions. In that 3am wakefulness that’s become a collective companion.
In this second conversation, Rob McNamara and I go deep into the question: How do we metabolize the poly-crisis, both personally and relationally—rather than being consumed by it?
We explore why survival mode has already lost the game, how intimacy with death becomes intimacy with life, and why relational space holds untapped generative power. We also discuss a simple practice to let life move through you, rather than against you.
This episode is especially for leaders, founders, and coaches ready to navigate complexity beyond survival—those seeking to develop the sensitivity to dance with uncertainty and access the intelligence that emerges between us.
Listen HERE.
There’s an anxiety humming beneath everything—like tinnitus that never stops. You feel it in leadership meetings where reactions explode out of proportion. In hair-trigger responses to small disruptions. In that 3am wakefulness that’s become a collective companion.
In this second conversation, Rob McNamara and I go deep into the question: How do we metabolize the poly-crisis, both personally and relationally—rather than being consumed by it?
We explore why survival mode has already lost the game, how intimacy with death becomes intimacy with life, and why relational space holds untapped generative power. We also discuss a simple practice to let life move through you, rather than against you.
This episode is especially for leaders, founders, and coaches ready to navigate complexity beyond survival—those seeking to develop the sensitivity to dance with uncertainty and access the intelligence that emerges between us.
Listen HERE.
Coaches Rising
Re-Imagining Adult Development in a Time Between Worlds
How do we re-imagine what we are as a species so that we become a life-fostering collective? And how can we foster change in the face of developmental challenges we face? In this conversation with leadership coach Rob McNamara we discuss our relationship with complexity, the devolution of adult development and some original ways to create significant shifts in consciousness.
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How do we re-imagine what we are as a species so that we become a life-fostering collective? And how can we foster change in the face of developmental challenges we face? In this conversation with leadership coach Rob McNamara we discuss our relationship with complexity, the devolution of adult development and some original ways to create significant shifts in consciousness.
Listen HERE.
Pastor & Priestess
From Adulthood to Maturity
How does one move from simple adulthood to maturity? As a former Harvard lecturer and now Senior Monk and Integral Zen Dharma Holder, Rob McNamara brings the academic and the subtle spiritual to the question. Moving from basic stages of development to the farther reaches of growth, McNamara suggests there is much to be discovered after adulthood, even in a paradoxical stage known as ensoulment.
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How does one move from simple adulthood to maturity? As a former Harvard lecturer and now Senior Monk and Integral Zen Dharma Holder, Rob McNamara brings the academic and the subtle spiritual to the question. Moving from basic stages of development to the farther reaches of growth, McNamara suggests there is much to be discovered after adulthood, even in a paradoxical stage known as ensoulment.
Listen HERE.
7 Strategies for Cultivating Greater Maturities
- Essential Instructions for what to do.
- Valuable discernments for what to avoid.
- Practices to catalyze and support your development.
- One strategy delivered every other day for 14 days.
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- Valuable discernments for what to avoid.
- Practices to catalyze and support your development.
- One strategy delivered every other day for 14 days.
Subscribe Below. Enjoy!



