Hey, 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.

Last week, Russell Brand and I explored how 12-step recovery can be applied to the addictions

in our lives, but can the same model work for our society?

Can we collectively recognize a problem, commit to change,

undertake a thorough inventory, recognize patterns, and create a culture of service?

Today we take the 12 steps, one step further, from personal to communal.

And I should mention, if these conversations about how 12 steps can be systematically

applied to a wide range of suffering from mildly miserable to total despair, I encourage you to look

into our new video course with Russell on Recovery, a 12-day program that you can take for a limited

time for free. Just go to Onecommun.com slash recovery to sign up. That's onecom

slash recovery. Russell describes how the term recovery is widely understood to mean we recover

the person we are intended to be. What does the wanting want? Who are we when we freed ourselves from the chains of our

attachments? This is the second episode of my two-part interview with Russell Brand. My name is Jeff

Krasno and welcome to Kami.

Hi. Is your ego available to me?

It's your ego available to me.

Well, I want to... It's the best of me.

Because I prepared to shower with you with just enough compliments. You don't need to do it for me.

Certainly not in this environment.

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