Open - The Mindfulness Studio

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

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Raed says “people arrive at open and they have an experience that gives them a taste and an understanding of where this can go… Maybe five minutes every morning and you get to choose. Maybe you engage with meditation every morning or breath work every morning, or movement. And as you build the momentum, Open builds the momentum within you… And you're not alone in this journey, you're doing this with your friends and with a broader community of Open practitioners and hopefully over time, that journey looks like one that is unique and individual to you.”

Today, we interview Raed Khawaja Co-founder & CEO of Open. Open is a social space for meditation, movement, and practice — on and offline. They blend old and new to bring you to the here and now. Their hybrid method strengthens the mind-body connection.

We discuss:

* Why he’s grateful
* Overview and origin of Open
* Why promote mindfulness?
* His personal journey and what’s going on in the world
* Writing a plan for the next 10 years of your life
* Why we should have learned this as children?
* Why do people try to avoid los?
* How people can train for resilience
* What does the journey with Open look like?
* Their studio in Venice, California
* Last word: “call that presence that mad you feel great”

Join Ramon Vela and Raed Khawaja as we break down the inside story of Open on The Story of a Brand.

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0:00.0	what people often do is try to avoid the loss as if we're in control of that in some way.
0:10.0	Oh, if I actually mitigate my ambition, if I mitigate opportunity, too big of an opportunity,
0:19.4	then I won't fall so hard, right, as if we can control
0:23.4	one way or the other. And I think that's one of the fallacies of approach that kind of put
0:32.9	us down the wrong path. That's why training for resilience is actually a much more meaningful use of time,
0:41.3	right? It's like you're not going to be able to avoid the failures. Failures are going to happen.
0:47.1	You're not going to be able to avoid suffering at large. Suffering is going to happen.
0:51.7	And good things are going to happen too.
1:01.1	How you engage with the experiences, that a lot has to do with your training.
1:03.6	And it's your mental training.
1:04.9	It's your physical training.
1:06.6	And these things aren't separate.
1:09.1	You know, I don't want to get in a rat hole on that, but let's just call it practice.
1:22.9	This is the story of a brand, a podcast that helps people learn the story behind their favorite consumer products.
1:29.6	I'm Ramon Vela, and I believe that people want to know more about the brands and products they purchase.
1:34.9	So each week, I interview the founder of a consumer brand, unpack their story, their products, their mission,
1:41.1	so you can decide which products are worth buying and which brands are worth supporting.
1:47.0	Ride says people arrive at Open and they have an experience that gives them a taste and an understanding of where this can go.
1:57.0	Maybe five minutes every morning, you get to choose.
2:00.0	Maybe you engage with meditation every morning or breathwork or movement.
2:04.8	And as you start to build momentum, open builds momentum within you.
2:10.0	And you're not alone in this journey.
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