In Religion of Sports' latest podcast series, Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply personal stories of kids who have hazed, parents who have fought for accountability, coaches who are scared of what their players do when they’re not looking, and people who have hazed others, he ultimately asks why hazing is so ingrained in American culture – and what it says about us.

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CONTENT WARNING: episode contains descriptions of violence and violent ideation.

Everyone’s life has failures, disappointments, and setbacks. What makes a difference is the ability to bounce back from the bad things that come everyone’s way.

When you are sustained by love and feel compassion for others, your become part of a constant give-and-take, what a physiologist would call a feedback loop, that goes from your heart to every cell in your body and from you to everyone you encounter.

All of us listen with only half our attention, or even none at all. We are preoccupied with our own issues, especially now in a crisis. It's time to sit down and really listen to someone in your life who you perhaps take for granted or feel frustrated by.

We have all heard about the benefits of exercise, but compliance isn’t easy, especially now with restricted movement. But without guilt you can bring a great benefit to your body by the simple, repeated action of standing up, moving around, and stretching.

Take a moment to expand your reason for being here, in other words, your purpose. When your day is filled with the demands of your job or raising children or keeping up with friends, you are certainly busy, but do you have a purpose? True purpose is very personal, and you alone can create it for yourself.

Take a moment to expand your heart through expressing gratitude. In a crisis the things we usually take for granted are seen in a new light, and one result is a feeling of gratitude that needs expressing. Gratitude is healing for you and at the same time for the person you express your gratitude to.

Take a moment to talk about the best way to handle your worries.

Today we welcome a guest: radio and television host and author Charlamagne the God. Charlamagne has wisdom to share with us on how now is the time to lean into uncertainty and experience the freedom of not knowing.

Sigmund Freud said that anxiety is like an unwelcome guest that refuses to leave. You are forced to adapt to its presence. Can you get this unwelcome guest to leave? Yes, you can.

Today we welcome a guest: Doctor Michael Gervais. Dr. Gervais will show us how to establish a morning mindset routine.