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.

You can check out our courses, our community, and everything we do at one commune.com.

Now, many of you have taken a course on our commune platform.

In fact, since we launched in September 2018, 1.2 million people have registered

for one of our programs. Now, we're still a long way from our lofty goal of one billion,

but together we're moving in a positive direction. Now, today on the show, we pull back the curtain,

break the fourth wall, and give you a little

window into how we make the proverbial sausage and what it's like to work with the brilliant

teachers who have influenced and helped so many of us.

In this last year and a half, we've shot more than 400 hours of content.

But for every hour that makes it on the platform, there are dozens more of just

hanging out, taking hikes, eating fabulous dinners, and mulling over the mysteries of the

universe. Now, over the holiday break, I was talking with Jake Lau, one of my fellow co-founders

and our head of content about how much we've both learned from teachers during these off-camera

moments, the moments in between. And today on the podcast, we share a few of these behind-the-scene

lessons that we've learned. Since Jake is the one often asking teachers' questions from behind

the camera, he's agreed to take the role of interviewer for this episode. I just have to sit here, sip agnog and wax poetic,

and sometimes pathetic.

Lucky me.

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