Reading Your Own Life with Swami Larry Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:00:02 -0400 https://swamilarry.buzzsprout.com en-us © 2026 Reading Your Own Life with Swami Larry yes Support this Podcast 3901f5ed-befd-5f04-8bfc-79e49e22371f swamilarry@gmail.com Swami Larry episodic false Reading Your Own Life with Swami Larry is an exploration of the beliefs, habits, relationships, and experiences that shape who we are—and what becomes possible when we learn to see them differently.


Through three distinct series, Swami Larry challenges conventional thinking and invites you to question what you’ve inherited, discover what truly works for you, and become more intentional about the life you create.


Money Can Buy Happiness explores the financial beliefs and mindsets passed down through generations. Discover how deeply rooted ideas about money, success, and worth can influence your financial reality—and how changing your belief system can help create a healthier relationship with money and open the door to greater abundance.


Meditate Right breaks the stereotypes surrounding meditation. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to finding stillness. This series explores meditation through the lens of personality, helping you discover practices that complement the way you naturally think, process, focus, and experience the world.


Heal is dedicated to the animals we love and the responsibility we have to care for them. Explore pet health and wellness through both modern veterinary medicine and traditional holistic practices, with conversations designed to help us better understand, love, and care for our animals throughout their lives.


Money. Mind. Healing. Three very different subjects connected by one powerful idea: when you learn to read your own life, you can begin to rewrite it.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Swami Larry swamilarry@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/k49qezqd5fb90aelc6rsffix358p?.jpg Reading Your Own Life with Swami Larry https://swamilarry.buzzsprout.com Whose Money Story Are You Living? Whose Money Story Are You Living? My father was born during the Great Depression. He built a good life and rarely spent anything on himself, because he had learned early that money can vanish. My mother lost her father in 1943 and was raised by a widow counting every dollar out of necessity. She gave my sister and me everything and kept almost nothing for herself.

Neither of them sat me down and taught me any of that. I absorbed it anyway, and for years I thought the caution was simply who I was.

Episode Four is about where your money story actually started. What children take in from the tension around bills long before they can add. Why caution and recklessness come from the same place. What epigenetics suggests about hardship that outlives the people who lived it. And a friend whose family rule was "never borrow," and what happened when they finally broke it.

This isn't about blaming anyone. Your parents were shaped by their times the same way you were shaped by yours. But you're allowed to look at what you're carrying and decide what stays.

This week's practice needs a blank page and three circles.

Join me next time for Episode Five, Why Does Your Neighbor's New Car Bother You?

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Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> My father was born during the Great Depression. He built a good life and rarely spent anything on himself, because he had learned early that money can vanish. My mother lost her father in 1943 and was raised by a widow counting every dollar out of necessity. She gave my sister and me everything and kept almost nothing for herself.

Neither of them sat me down and taught me any of that. I absorbed it anyway, and for years I thought the caution was simply who I was.

Episode Four is about where your money story actually started. What children take in from the tension around bills long before they can add. Why caution and recklessness come from the same place. What epigenetics suggests about hardship that outlives the people who lived it. And a friend whose family rule was "never borrow," and what happened when they finally broke it.

This isn't about blaming anyone. Your parents were shaped by their times the same way you were shaped by yours. But you're allowed to look at what you're carrying and decide what stays.

This week's practice needs a blank page and three circles.

Join me next time for Episode Five, Why Does Your Neighbor's New Car Bother You?

Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> Swami Larry Buzzsprout-19733015 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 775 1 4 full false Does Money Corrupt People? Does Money Corrupt People? Does money corrupt people?

Someone in my family once told me when I was young that they didn't want money because it corrupted people. It scared me. If money could do that, staying away from it seemed like the safest thing.

That fear runs deeper than one conversation, and it isn't only inherited. Most of us are carrying some version of it.

Episode Three takes the fear apart. Why money gets blamed for things it never caused. What dopamine actually does when you get the raise, and why it never stays. What the research says about power and empathy, and why that still isn't an excuse. And a Sanskrit word for force that means the same thing whether it heals or harms.

Then it turns the question around. If money can't change you, what exactly are you afraid of? The answer usually isn't money. It's what more of it would ask of you.

Money is neutral. It amplifies the hand that holds it. Stop blaming it and something else comes into view.

This week's practice involves a number, a list, and paying attention to what your body does while you write it.

Join me next time for Episode Four, Whose Money Story Are You Living?

Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> Does money corrupt people?

Someone in my family once told me when I was young that they didn't want money because it corrupted people. It scared me. If money could do that, staying away from it seemed like the safest thing.

That fear runs deeper than one conversation, and it isn't only inherited. Most of us are carrying some version of it.

Episode Three takes the fear apart. Why money gets blamed for things it never caused. What dopamine actually does when you get the raise, and why it never stays. What the research says about power and empathy, and why that still isn't an excuse. And a Sanskrit word for force that means the same thing whether it heals or harms.

Then it turns the question around. If money can't change you, what exactly are you afraid of? The answer usually isn't money. It's what more of it would ask of you.

Money is neutral. It amplifies the hand that holds it. Stop blaming it and something else comes into view.

This week's practice involves a number, a list, and paying attention to what your body does while you write it.

Join me next time for Episode Four, Whose Money Story Are You Living?

Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> Swami Larry Buzzsprout-19732906 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 756 1 3 full false What's The First Emotion Money Brings Up In You? What's The First Emotion Money Brings Up In You? What's the first emotion money brings up in you?

Fear. Excitement. Anxiety. Relief. Sometimes shame.

Whatever came up first, it came up before you had time to think about it. Your body knows the story of money before your mind explains it.

Episode Two is about what money does to the body long before it reaches a spreadsheet. A woman who stayed after a workshop with something she hadn't said out loud. A man with all the money he needs, still chasing the next deal. Two people who look like opposites, and aren't.

It also goes somewhere you might not expect, by way of a scene from The Matrix, a phrase carved above a doorway, and what that has to do with what you charge for your work.

You can budget down to the penny and still feel a knot in your stomach when you open the banking app. That isn't a math problem, and it never was.

This week's practice is short, and it asks for a pen.

Join me next time for Episode Three, Does Money Corrupt People?

Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> What's the first emotion money brings up in you?

Fear. Excitement. Anxiety. Relief. Sometimes shame.

Whatever came up first, it came up before you had time to think about it. Your body knows the story of money before your mind explains it.

Episode Two is about what money does to the body long before it reaches a spreadsheet. A woman who stayed after a workshop with something she hadn't said out loud. A man with all the money he needs, still chasing the next deal. Two people who look like opposites, and aren't.

It also goes somewhere you might not expect, by way of a scene from The Matrix, a phrase carved above a doorway, and what that has to do with what you charge for your work.

You can budget down to the penny and still feel a knot in your stomach when you open the banking app. That isn't a math problem, and it never was.

This week's practice is short, and it asks for a pen.

Join me next time for Episode Three, Does Money Corrupt People?

Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> Swami Larry Buzzsprout-19732770 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 638 1 2 full false Can Money Actually Buy Happiness? Can Money Actually Buy Happiness? The way you feel about money is older than you are. You didn't decide it. It was handed to you.

This is where Reading Your Own Life begins.

Swami Larry has been practicing since he was fifteen and teaching since his ordination in 2016. The show rests on one idea: you are more capable of reading your own life than you have been led to believe.

Not budgets. Not spending trackers. Not the latte you were told to give up. Something older and deeper: the material you absorbed before you were old enough to have a say in it, which has been running underneath your decisions ever since.

Episode One is the door in. Who Larry is and how he got here. What the title of this show actually means, and why it's a claim about you rather than about him. A way of seeing he has gathered over a lifetime. And the question in Season One's name, Money Can Buy Happiness, which is not the question most people assume it is.

Happiness can't be bought at a counter. What money can do is something else, and the difference matters more than any budget you'll ever write.

Start here.


Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

]]> The way you feel about money is older than you are. You didn't decide it. It was handed to you.

This is where Reading Your Own Life begins.

Swami Larry has been practicing since he was fifteen and teaching since his ordination in 2016. The show rests on one idea: you are more capable of reading your own life than you have been led to believe.

Not budgets. Not spending trackers. Not the latte you were told to give up. Something older and deeper: the material you absorbed before you were old enough to have a say in it, which has been running underneath your decisions ever since.

Episode One is the door in. Who Larry is and how he got here. What the title of this show actually means, and why it's a claim about you rather than about him. A way of seeing he has gathered over a lifetime. And the question in Season One's name, Money Can Buy Happiness, which is not the question most people assume it is.

Happiness can't be bought at a counter. What money can do is something else, and the difference matters more than any budget you'll ever write.

Start here.


Support the show

Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale. 

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

More writing at: https://substack.com/@swamilarry

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swami_larry/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@swami_larry

If the show is useful to you, a rating or a review helps other people find it.

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