Rainn Wilson – Soul Boom
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Bill Reel
4.3 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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In this episode of Almost Awakened, we sit down with Rainn Wilson, best known to many as Dwight Schrute from The Office, for a wide-ranging conversation on spirituality, meaning, and the search for depth in a modern world. Rainn Wilson has spent the years since moving beyond sitcom fame to explore some of life’s biggest… Read More »Rainn Wilson – Soul Boom
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| 0:00.0 | All right. We are very excited today. This isn't our first time having a guest between me and Bill on our podcast, Almost Awakened. But for me, on No Nonsense, spirituality, this is my very first interview on my own platform. There's no one else I'd rather be co-hosting with my friend Bill Real. And there was, there's no one that I'd rather have as my first guest |
| 0:21.4 | than Rain Wilson you may know him as Dwight Kurt Shrewt but he is also the author of the book |
| 0:28.3 | Soul Boom and is having amazing covenor stations around spirituality on his Soul Boone podcast |
| 0:33.3 | and has now come out with a new workbook the the Soul Boom Workbook that we will be talking about |
| 0:39.4 | today. Rain, how are you, my friend? I'm well, Britt. Thanks. I'm honored that I had no idea |
| 0:45.6 | I was your first guest. So I'm honored to be here. And hi, Bill. I can't believe you're not |
| 0:50.0 | calling it, keeping it real. I'm sure you've had a lot of real puns for podcast names throughout |
| 0:56.4 | the years. I've always, it's always been a thing that I should have started a bait and tackle shop, |
| 1:01.1 | but yes. Yeah, so many options with that name. So rain is pretty good too. Yeah, it's a good name. |
| 1:09.8 | All right. And congrats on your new movie, Code |
| 1:12.6 | 3, and the new workbook. You've had kind of a busy year there. So can you kind of just tell us |
| 1:18.3 | what was the motivation behind? Because it's been a few years since Soul Boom came out. So what was |
| 1:24.2 | the motivation behind the workbook? Yeah, so Soul Boom came out two years ago, |
| 1:29.8 | and then about a year and a half ago, we started the Soul Boom podcast. And, you know, |
| 1:36.0 | Britt, it was like, you know, are people going to care about a former sitcom actor having |
| 1:40.5 | conversations about spirituality and life's biggest metaphysical questions. |
| 1:45.9 | I mean, who gives a crap? |
| 1:47.9 | And people seem to care. |
| 1:50.0 | And there seemed to be an audience for it. |
| 1:51.5 | People were digging the book and digging the podcast and interested in these conversations |
| 1:58.7 | and seemingly wanting to go farther and wanting to go deeper |
| 2:05.2 | and wanting to explore more. There were a lot of conversations about this is all great from an |
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