220: Protect Your Flame with Michael Karsouny + Adventure Meditation!

Welcome to Part 3 of Wandering with Michael (Part 2 here) — we talk about my favorite band, how to protect your flame, the importance of not planning or problem-solving too much around one’s creative process . . . and then! Around minute 22, Michael jumps into facilitating (his first!) spontaneous guided meditation with more passion than most :)

More background: Feeling stuck and bored for the first time in a loooong time last Saturday, Michael and I decided the only thing that would alleviate our Groundhog’s Day discomfort on yet another freezing New York City weekend would be to hop on the podcast mic with no direction in mind (his idea not mine!). This is the third of several such sessions we recorded that day :)

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More About Michael Karsouny

Michael Karsouny is an artist who values expressing himself creatively. He has a background in fine arts, graphic design, illustration, acting, and music.  He is proud to be born in Beirut, Lebanon, where he attended French Catholic Jesuit school Notre Dame de Jamhour, studied Graphic Design and Fine Arts at both the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese University for the Arts.

In 2010, Michael had work auctioned at Sotheby’s in Qatar, and in 2013 was voted one of Communicate Levant Magazine’s “30 Creatives Under 30.”

After graduating from the School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Fine Arts in June 2018, Michael spent the summer in residency with renowned Lebanese-Armenian painter, Emmanuel Guiragossian. Michael lives and works between New York City and Beirut.



Resources Mentioned

• Karsouny Blake Gallery

• Michael Karsouny on the web: Michael Karsouny 

• Instagram: @lifeofalebaneseartist

• Album: Take Your Power Back by Nahko and Medicine for the People

• Song: Black as Night

• Podcast: Pretty Intense with Danica Patrick — interview with Nahko

• Related Pivot Podcasts:

  • 218: We’ve Gone Over-Board with Michael Karsouny

  • 217: We’re Bored—Wandering with Michael Karsouny

  • 134: East Forest on Infinite Existence and The Guru Within

  • 214: Nerding Out w/Mitch Joel—On Ideas, Systems, Credibility, and Connections

  • 29: Deep Work: Ditch Cognitive Junk Food with Cal Newport

  • 188: The Pondering Method (for Rebels) with Michael Karsouny

  • 206: I Don't Know

  • 154: Two-Month Report from the Puppy (and People!) Training Trenches

  • 127: Live from the Vulnerability Hangover with Michael Karsouny

  • 123: Peeking Out from the Plateau — My Latest Pivots (and Why Plateaus Actually Signal Progress!)

  • 63: Artist as CEO — with Jenny Blake, Michel Karsouny & Kerri Lowe

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