Hi, I'm Jeff Krasno and welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers. We are on a mission

to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the

commune podcast where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy,

connected, and purpose-filled life.

Now, I hope that you, as a listener to the Commune podcast, that you've learned something

from these amazing guests that we've had on the show, gems of wisdom that you've been

able to apply to your own life. Well, guess what? I am right there with you. I often refer to myself as a sponge, a somewhat

plagiaristic one, absorbing the thoughts and insights of all these brilliant authors and thought leaders.

Through interviewing all these folks, listening to other podcasts like Stephen West's philosophies this,

reading endless books. Most recently, Michael Singer's The Untethered Soul,

Yuval Harare's Sapiens, Khalil Gibran's the Prophet, you begin to slowly develop your own

intellectual ecosystem of how you see the world. This autodidactic process mixed with enough

espresso and a fair amount of puttering around in my Prius often triggers

car rants where I wax poetic and sometimes pathetic on a variety of topics from why my kids should

play sports to what is my life's purpose. Now I often do this with a British accent, yes,

inspired by Russell Brand and while my kids and their friends roll their eyes

from the back seat. Now, this week, we're having our first company offsite, and as I was

pondering the importance of it, I recorded this stream of consciousness episode on why

off-sites are important for teams, families, and for yourself. Here we go. I'm Jeff Krasno, and welcome to

commune. So a few weeks ago, a number of people in my office came to me with the proposition of doing

a company offsite focused on mission and values.

Now for those of you not acquainted with the vernacular of offsite, it's generally a day

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