I'm joined by Charles Morris for a very special episode focused on meditation and mindfulness. 
Charles is a fellow Microsoftie and is currently Director, Global Learning & Development where he's helping to bring those concepts into Microsoft life. Charles is also a father himself so he's our first "two-fer" of expert and dad. 
We cover a lot of ground on this one and jump around a bit so I edited the order of our discussion to lead off with a "what is meditation" discussion for any newbies. From there we cover common misconceptions of meditation, the science behind the practice, where meditation and religion overlap (or don't) and then into a discussion of Charles' personal history with meditation and Microsoft. He's bringing the two together through his Mindful Growth program (links to more info on that below). 
Here are all the links to concepts we discussed: 
Victor Frankel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
Google's "Search Inside Yourself" program + institute - https://siyli.org/
Other corporate mindfulness programs:

Aetna - https://www.aetna.com/health-guide/yes-can-stop-multi-tasking-successful-executives-share-mindfulness-secrets.html
Salesforce - https://medium.com/@salesforce/how-i-started-practicing-mindfulness-at-work-d2964cf95ec1

Charles' Proposal for the "Mindful Growth" program - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mindful-growth-accelerating-microsofts-transformation-charles-morris/
The Mindfulness Studies masters program Charles mentioned - https://lesley.edu/academics/graduate/mindfulness-studies-masters
London cabbies - larger hippocampus due to having to memorize streets - https://www.wired.com/2011/12/london-taxi-driver-memory/
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Meditation apps:

Insight Timer - https://insighttimer.com/
Headspace - https://www.headspace.com/
Calm - https://www.calm.com/
Digital Detox - http://digitaldetox.org/

Waldorf education - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
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