Co-Founder and CEO of Commune; Author of Good Stress
Jeff Krasno: Biography at a Glance
- As the co-founder and CEO of Commune, Jeff has created a global platform that empowers individuals to improve their personal and societal well-being. His work brings together thought leaders like Andrew Huberman, Marianne Williamson, and Gabor Maté to inspire positive change.
- Jeff’s upcoming book, Good Stress: The Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things, explores how intentional stress—like cold plunges, fasting, and breathwork—can optimize health, resilience, and mental well-being.
- From co-creating the world-renowned Wanderlust wellness events to running Commune Topanga, Jeff has been at the forefront of making mindfulness, movement, and holistic health accessible to people around the world.
- Jeff’s commitment to well-being extends beyond personal transformation. As a board member of Pure Edge, he helps bring mindfulness and yoga to public schools, ensuring future generations have the tools to cultivate health and emotional resilience.
- Named to Oprah’s SuperSoul100, Jeff is celebrated as one of the nation’s top entrepreneurs in personal growth and well-being. His work continues to inspire individuals to live with greater health, purpose, and connection.
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Biography
Jeff is the co-founder and CEO of Commune, a masterclass platform for personal and societal well-being. He hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of health experts and luminaries from Andrew Huberman and Marianne Williamson to Matthew McConaughey and Gabor Maté. Jeff pens a personal weekly essay titled “Commusings” that explores spirituality, wellness, and culture and is distributed to over one million subscribers every Sunday.
Jeff is the creator of GOOD STRESS, a collection of wellness protocols that he developed to reverse his diabetes, lose 60 pounds, and reclaim his health at age 50. The book, Good Stress: The Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things is being published March 25, 2025 (Hay House // Penguin Random House).
Jeff and his better three-quarters, Schuyler Grant, own and operate Commune Topanga, a 10-acre wellness center and production lab where they host regular retreats together featuring yoga, cold plunging, sauna bathing, lectures and story-telling.
Jeff attended The Hotchkiss School and received his BA in 1993 from Columbia University. In 2008, Jeff co-created the concept for Wanderlust, a series of large-scale events combining yoga & wellness with the arts. Wanderlust became the world’s most recognized wellness events brand with 68 events in 20 countries. Jeff served as co-CEO for eight years.
Jeff serves on the board of Pure Edge, a non-profit organization dedicated to integrating yoga and mindfulness curricula into the public school system. Jeff is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Fast Company. His first book, eponymously named, Wanderlust, debuted in May 2015 on Rodale and has sold more than 50,000 copies worldwide. He also curated the Wanderlust cookbook, Find Your True Fork which came out in July 2017.
In 2016, he was selected by Oprah Winfrey to be part of the SuperSoul100 as one of the nation’s leading entrepreneurs.
Jeff & Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli, and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.
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Good Stress: The Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things
Since the Industrial Revolution, society has been increasingly designed for ease and comfort. However, our obsession with convenience has resulted in a very inconvenient truth: We are sick! Chronic ease has led to chronic disease.
The human body evolved across hundreds of thousands of years in relationship with environmental adversity. The right dosage of “paleolithic stress” confers psychological and physiological health. In an era denuded of discomfort, we must now self-impose “good” stress.
In this talk, Jeff melds science with humor as he breaks down the “good stress” protocols that helped him lose 60 pounds and reverse his diabetes. He dives into the benefits and practices of adversity mimetics including fasting, ice plunging, deliberate heat therapy, hypoxia, resistance training, and even “stressful” conversations.
This talk provides an arsenal of actionable tools for people to foster balance and well-being.
Make Stress Your Friend
Humans have a negative association with stress – and justifiably. Modern stress is chronic. It creates imbalances and leads to disease.
But stress is actually an adaptive feature – not a bug in the system. We simply don’t understand how to manage it.
In this talk, Jeff breaks down the difference between bad stress & good stress. He explains the body’s myriad adaptive responses to stress. And he provides actionable tools and practices to manage stress and emotionally regulate.
This talk is fantastic for teams that work in a “stressful” environment. With the right training, we can make stress our friend. We can grow from it and see the opportunity in it.
The Tao of Health
In this talk, Jeff bridges mysticism with medicine – elucidating the consilience between Eastern philosophy and Western empiricism. He unveils broad metaphysical truths through an excavation of the physical body.
Jeff describes how the central tenets of Buddhism and Taoism are central to human well-being. He unpacks the concepts of balance, impermanence, and interdependence in a manner that provides people with agency over their health journey.
