Podcast | AI Is Not Your Best Life Coach: Danielle LaPorte on Why Human Connection Still Matters

Jun 19, 2025

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Danielle LaPorte joins Jeff Krasno to unpack her recent Substack essay on the rise of AI as a life coach—and why real human connection can’t be replaced. Together, they explore the gap between information and wisdom, and the emotional cost of outsourcing intimacy to machines.


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Hosted by Jeff Krasno, the Commune podcast features thoughtful conversations for modern times. Not always comfortable but definitely needed, we explore both humanity and our human-ness. How can we live healthy, purpose-filled lives and be in service of something bigger? Guests include spiritual teachers, poets, scientists, philosophers, and activists for food sustainability, functional medicine, mental and physical health, and collective healing.

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