Ep. 606 – Fuel for Change: Exploring the Gift of Anger with Reggie Hubbard
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Explaining all that anger can reveal, activist and yoga instructor Reggie Hubbard encourages listeners to use their anger for positive change.
In this week’s episode of Mindrolling, Raghu and Reggie reflect upon:
- Reggie's powerful upbringing as a person of color, shaped by family stories from the Civil Rights era and beyond
- How surviving a stroke became a transformative spiritual experience for Reggie
- Anger as a gift and friend that can show us injustice, unreconciled pain, and more
- How facing his anger led Reggie to yoga, mindfulness, and spiritual life
- Maharaj-ji’s wisdom: you can be angry, just don’t throw anyone out of your heart.
- How poverty is pathologized in American society—and the consequences of blaming the poor.
- What science reveals about the empathy gap in wealthy individuals and its societal impact
- Consuming less media, talking less, and praying more
- Why the act of surrender can be the most powerful and transformative choice
- Considering where love is in our reality and figuring out who we really are
- A meditation as Reggie plays gongs and singing bowls for listeners
Read the full article Raghu excerpts in this episode, “What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us,” HERE.
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About Reggie Hubbard:
Reggie is a certified yoga and meditation teacher and the founder/chief serving officer of Active Peace Yoga. He has taught Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, major labor unions, leading progressive organizations, and individuals from all walks of life the simple tools for managing stress and bringing peace to mind, body, and spirit. Reggie’s life work sits at the intersection of bringing more peace and balance to activists; guiding the wellness community toward being more engaged, concerned citizens; and enhancing the well-being of all walks of life. Learn more HERE.
"You should be outraged, these are outrageous times. What will you do with that outrage? How might that outrage fuel the aims that you seek as opposed to fuel your self-destruction or delusion?” – Reggie Hubbard
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone, this is Ragu back with mind rolling and with Reggie Hubbard and |
| 0:19.5 | Reggie just made me laugh. |
| 0:22.6 | So happy to have you here, Reg. |
| 0:25.6 | Happy to be here, friend. |
| 0:27.6 | You know, one of the great things about Ram Dass, since this is his network, how he was able to really bring together social action and practice. So everybody out there, I met Reggie recently, and I just have to tell you, he embodies this so much in his work, really. |
| 1:01.3 | I mean, no bullshit. |
| 1:02.4 | This is real. |
| 1:03.9 | But before we even go there, we've got to hear, where did you come, and how it formed the universe that you inhabit now? |
| 1:14.0 | So blessings to all, and thank you again |
| 1:18.1 | for the opportunity to be in conversation and share. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm dialing in from the unseeded territory |
| 1:23.8 | of the Piscataway Nation, otherwise known as the D.C. metro area, born here, raised here, |
| 1:31.3 | within like a three-hour radius of Washington, D.C. So to some extent, politics has always been in my awareness. |
| 1:39.3 | Then when you factor in that I'm a person of color in a system that seeks to destroy people |
| 1:47.2 | of color, my very existence and me seeking to have equality in this system is political. |
| 1:55.7 | So being in and around Washington, D.C., and also being aware, because I also share, my ancestors did us |
| 2:05.3 | all favors and told us their stories, Raghu, right? So I have the story, I remember my great |
| 2:12.6 | grandmother. Really? I have the stories of people who were raised by people who experienced emancipation. |
| 2:23.1 | So in these United States, when people are like, oh, civil rights was so long ago, I know that's not the case contemporaneously through the stories of my ancestors. |
| 2:37.0 | So their stories are very present with me and have been since I was a youth. |
| 2:42.0 | So to that end, that's probably how I came to be so socially aware. |
| 2:49.0 | Not really for much BS, right? So I come from a long line of truth |
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