161 D.S. Moss - Living a More Meaningful and Purposeful Life

Named one of the best podcasts of 2017 by The Atlantic, The Adventures of Memento Mori, by D.S. Moss, is about death and living a more meaningful and purposeful life. By exploring the science, mysticism, and culture around death, D.S. takes the big elephant in the room and puts it front and center so you’re forced to face this subject that is taboo to so many people.

With topics that range from communicating with the dead, ego death and ayahuasca, to your digital afterlife, The Adventures of Memento Mori, will have you start looking at life and death in a whole new light.

06:12 - What The Adventures of Memento Mori is all about
07:43 - The story behind starting his podcast
10:55 - The process he took in formulating the show
12:28 - If his friends worried once they found out what his podcast was about
14:01 - Talking about the idea of dying in his first episode
14:46 - Advanced Directives and why it’s important that you have one
15:47 - Whether or not it was important for him to have a personal connection to the topics he set out to cover
17:48 - His experience in putting together the Psychedelic Ego Death/Ayahuasca episodes (#13 & #14)
19:58 - My practice of ayahuasca
21:16 - Being bothered by consumerism and waste post-ayahuasca
22:23 - Being named one of the best podcasts (#31) of 2017 by The Atlantic
26:16 - My interview with Andrew Mason and his product, Descript
28:00 - His workflow and overlaying his show on top of the Freakonomics formula
29:03 - If he’s been able to meet any of his podcast heroes as a result of his show
30:18 - Being surrounded by podcasters in New York City
32:14 - Podcast conferences and the benefits I find in attending them
35:39 - The shows he was listening to when he came up for the idea of his podcast
38:05 - A group of people who thought his show got too personal
41:05 - One of the reasons he did psychedelics and tried to transcend ego
41:52 - Where he was born and the different places he has lived
42:19 - Living in his favorite city - New York City
43:56 - The missteps he encountered when he started to promote his show
48:20 - Not feeling natural promoting his show in the social media space
51:04 - Something he’s changed his mind about
53:09 - The most misunderstood thing about him