Jesse Israel - The Big Quiet: Mindfulness, Music, and Community Building

The Casey Adams Show

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this episode of the Casey Adams show, Jesse Israel, founder of The Big Quiet, shares his journey from the music industry to creating a community around meditation and mindfulness. He emphasizes the importance of experimentation during transitions and the power of silence and community gathering as a source of healing. - Follow Jesse Israel Website: https://www.jesseisrael.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesseisrael/ - Learn more about The Big Quiet Website: https://www.thebigquiet.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebigquiet - Subscribe to The Casey Adams Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-casey-adams-show/id1328795944 Follow Casey on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casey Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CaseyAdams TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caseyadams YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyAdams - Follow The Casey Adams Show on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseyadamsshow Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CaseyAdamsShow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caseyadamsshow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyAdamsShow - [00:00:00] - Mass meditation movement: Big Quiet. [00:03:13] - Exploring music entrepreneurship at NYU. [00:06:30] - Finding peace through music, community. [00:13:01] - Sharing vulnerability with courage. [00:16:05] - Urban hustlers in NYC. [00:22:44] - Meditating weekly with joy. [00:26:00] - "Powerful silence with Oprah's crowd." [00:29:13] - Singer-songwriter booked for Brooklyn. [00:32:30] - Oprah's inspiring mission to help. [00:35:42] - Connection over credentials, meditate daily. [00:39:16] - Calm mind, make better choices. [00:43:02] - Mindful self-reflection for joy. - These show notes were written by www.listener.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Casey Adams show. Today I am joined by a very special guest, someone that I've
0:07.2	considered a friend for a while now and a neighbor as well. We have Jesse Israel, the founder of
0:13.3	the Big Quiet. Thanks so much for coming on, Jesse. Thanks for having me, brother. I'm excited to
0:17.1	finally make this happen. Me too, man. You know, we see each other in the gym every morning and talking about it for a while. Here we are.
0:23.0	I know. It's so crazy because, you know, we both live in Renadol Ray. And when I first came across your content after we connected, I was just blown away by not only your story that I got to learn about, but the impact that you have, right,
0:40.4	from going on tour with Oprah to just embracing mindfulness in the grand way that you have,
0:46.2	I find it so powerful. Before we dive into it, I would love for you to give context for the people
0:51.0	that might not know what the Big Quiet is. Just get a sense of what you do.
0:55.8	Yeah. So big quiet is a mass meditation movement. So we gather thousands of people at a time at really
1:02.8	special places from Madison Square Garden to the top of the World Trade Center to being on tour
1:08.2	in arenas with Oprah for these moments of shared quiet. And we do our
1:13.3	guided practice, just like you might experience on a meditation app, but this is with a huge group of
1:17.6	people live. We bring sound bowls and different musicians into the space. And then we usually have
1:23.5	musical performances by special guests when people open their eyes. So powerful. I truly can not
1:29.1	wait to experience it with, I know what you had the tour that you recently did last year.
1:33.9	And I remember the LA show. We were traveling then. But I would love to like really dive into
1:39.0	big quiet in the sense of when people are there experiencing it like what have you learned about
1:46.2	these experiences and the impact that it has on people i think the first thing that comes to mind is that
1:55.2	people are so hungry to come together in a meaningful way right right? We have some of the more standard ways that
2:02.7	we gather, bars, concerts, music festivals, right? These can be great ways to meet people and to connect.
2:09.3	But what we've seen is that people are just yearning for other ways to be given permission
2:14.6	to come together and to connect with each other. I never would have guessed that silence would be a way for people to connect and be a reason
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