Commune with Jeff Krasno

Jeff Krasno didn't expect to become a home birth convert. When his wife Schuyler handed him a pregnancy test on Christmas morning 2003, everything changed.

In this episode, Jeff shares the birth story of their eldest daughter, tracing the unlikely path from a cramped Manhattan seminar with midwifery legend Ina May Gaskin to a blustery August delivery at the old family cottage in Fenwick, Connecticut, and the two weeks it took to finally name her.

This is the first episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at ⁠onecommune.com/dancedad⁠.

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Parenthood can feel like a never-ending carpool. But every so often, buried somewhere in the immense haystack of putrid adolescent laundry, you step on a spiritual needle… and experience a satori.

Diaries of a Dance Dad is a podcast about raising three daughters, Jeff Krasno's beloved estrogen footprint. These essays are harrowing and hilarious in equal measure. They will make you laugh. They will make you cry. And they will remind you that the mundane is, in fact, miraculous.

Each week, Jeff reads directly from his collection stories excavated from the deepest rough, polished into something worth carrying. Fatherhood, marriage, the slow surrender of control, the shock of being loved - all of it lives here.

Jeff Krasno is the co-founder of Commune and host of the Commune podcast. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Schuyler and three daughters who do not listen to him but never fail to imitate him.

Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at onecommune.com/dancedad.

Gabby Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author and spiritual teacher, spent years in perimenopause without ever naming it, until menopause hit at 44 and she came out the other side in what she calls a kind of resurrection. In this episode, she and Jeff trace that path: the unraveling, the hormones, the strength training, and the spiritual reckoning underneath all of it.

They get specific about the physical and the spiritual at once: hormones, muscle, and the inner work that made the rest possible.

Perimenopause symptoms that often go unrecognized in your 30s and 40s

Hormone optimization, HRT, and microdosing testosterone for women

Strength training, protein, and protecting muscle as you age

Internal Family Systems and healing core wounds through transition

This episode is for anyone navigating menopause, rethinking women's hormone health, or looking for a grounded spiritual practice to move through a hard season.

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Cold water immersion went from niche ritual to wellness status symbol in about five years. But what does putting your body in an ice bath actually accomplish?

In this episode, Jeff weighs cold plunge benefits with enthusiasm and skepticism both fully switched on, from the catecholamine surge to brown fat to the Wim Hof method.

The cold shock response, the dopamine surge, and why cortisol drops

Brown fat, metabolism, and the truth about cold for fat loss

The Wim Hof method and what the famous immune study really showed

Why a plunge right after lifting can blunt muscle growth

How cold affects women's bodies differently, from the Haenyeo divers to estrogen and iron

Who should never plunge without medical clearance

This episode is for anyone curious about cold plunge benefits, weighing an ice bath habit, or trying to tell the practice apart from the pitch.Referenced in this episode: Dr. Amy Killen, "Oh, The Places You'll Go" (cold water, female strength, and the Haenyeo divers of Jeju): https://dramybkillen.substack.com/p/oh-the-places-youll-go

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What happens to your gut when estrogen declines?

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Cynthia Thurlow, nurse practitioner and author of The Menopause Gut, to explore the overlooked connection between hormones and digestive health.

How declining estradiol impacts the microbiome and increases inflammation

What is the estrobolome and estrogen processing in the gut

Why 80% of autoimmune conditions affect women

Sleep, stress, and their cascading effects on gut health

Practical protocols for nutrition, movement, and hormone optimization

This episode is for women navigating perimenopause and menopause, anyone curious about the gut-hormone connection, and those seeking science-backed strategies for midlife health.


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