Sid McNairy is a Quantum Master Healer, spiritual teacher, author of The Warrior Within and The Secret Weapon: How to Peacefully Win at Life, and recipient of the 2024 World Peace Award. He’s also the visionary behind Inner Stand, a framework for conscious leadership and cultural renewal that’s rooted in indigenous wisdom, meditation, and energetic coherence.
In this conversation, Sid and I explore the path from performance to peace—how we shift away from external validation and into true inner alignment. We talk about his journey from being a Division I football coach and yoga teacher at the White House, to becoming a global ambassador of peace, weaving together meditation, sacred plant medicine, music, and healing practices.
Some of the big themes we cover:
Redefining success as inner peace rather than external achievements
Sid’s early near-death experience and how it shaped his spiritual path
The role of meditation in cultivating presence, resilience, and humility
Plant medicine, vision quests, and the lessons they revealed
His personal experiences with blindness and physical challenges as spiritual teachers
The difference between understanding, inner-standing, and over-standing
The practices Sid teaches for cultivating peace every day (his CREATE framework)
Music, storytelling, and creativity as tools for healing and connection
What it really means to be a “warrior for peace”
This is a deep and moving conversation about peace, healing, and remembering who we truly are.
Find Sid here:
Website: https://sidmcnairy.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sidmcnairy
Books: The Warrior Within, The Secret Weapon: How to Peacefully Win at Life, The Search for the Perfect Wave
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