Commune with Jeff Krasno

Two kids, you play man-to-man. Three, and suddenly you're outnumbered and forced into zone defense, not to mention a Toyota Highlander with a third row. Micah was Jeff & Schuyler’s third daughter, the one they never planned to have.

This week, Jeff tells the birth story of his third daughter, born in the same Williamsburg basement as Lolli - except he doesn't remember it. Sleep deprivation wiped the day clean, so he handed the mic to Schuyler and her mother, Grannie Annie, whose handwritten account fills in the rest.

What unspools is the family's defining cautionary tale, the "Prada handbag" - their shorthand for a first-world problem dressed up as principle. A blocked ureter, a kidney swollen to the size of a cantaloupe, thirty pounds lost over a month of crawling on all fours. And at the end of it, a baby born still sealed in her caul, the talisman sailors once paid a fortune to carry against drowning.

This is the third 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 the 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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What if the goal isn't just living longer, but feeling vital the whole way through?

Peptides have jumped from the fringe to the mainstream, and most of what you'll find online comes from dubiously credentialed sources. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer, an emergency medicine physician who spent a decade in the ER before founding The Gajer Practice and moving into longevity and regenerative medicine. They unpack what peptides really are and how to think clearly about a fast-moving, lightly regulated space.

The conversation covers:

What peptides actually are, and why insulin and GLP-1s belong to the same family

BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing tendons, ligaments, and stubborn injuries

Growth hormone-promoting peptides like sermorelin and tesamorelin for muscle and body composition

The gray market, compounding pharmacies, and the FDA's shifting rules

Cancer risks, contraindications, and who should be cautious

This episode is for anyone curious about peptide therapy, longevity, and healing who wants grounded information instead of internet hype.

For a free intro consultation with The Gajer Practice go to https://thegajerpractice.as.me/free-intro-tgp-jeff. The practice offers telemedicine consultations nationwide, plus a course for clinicians who want to integrate peptides into their work (found in the About section of the site).

Follow along on Instagram: @thegajerpractice


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When the contractions were two minutes apart, Jeff's phone chirped out the opening riff of Ice Ice Baby. That was the ringtone for Kara, the midwife. He picked up and she said, "Are you sitting down?"

She wasn't coming.

This week, Jeff tells the birth story of his second daughter, Ondine, aka Lolli — born in a Brooklyn basement that wasn't exactly Gatsby. When the model-turned-midwife got swept up in a home birth documentary and the backup landed two hours north on I-87, Jeff took off his clothes, got in the tub, and resolved to deliver his own baby — until Miriam walked through the door in the bottom of the ninth and caught their little wave with her bare hands.

Schuyler joins him to unpack it all: the glam East Village midwife, the bagels, the old wives' tale that you only ever get two out of three (easy pregnancy, easy labor, easy baby), and what an emergency reveals about who you actually are.

This is the second 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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We have godlike technology running on brains that haven't had an upgrade in millions of years. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Steven Kotler, peak performance expert and founder of the Flow Research Collective, to explore how exponential technology is reshaping our minds, our food systems, and the planet.

Drawing on his new book with Peter Diamandis, We Are As Gods, Steven explains why so many of us feel overwhelmed, why he's most hopeful about the planet's wild places, and how flow states can restore focus and creativity in the age of AI.

Why technological change went from linear to exponential

Information overload, cognitive overload, and burnout

How flow restores focus, creativity, and lateral thinking

Cultured meat, vertical farming, and rewilding the planet

Truth filters and first-principle thinking for the attention economy

Finding meaning and purpose as AI reshapes work

This episode is for anyone who feels stretched thin by technology and wants practical tools to think clearly, perform better, and reclaim their attention.

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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.

This episode was made possible by:

LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.


Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line.


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