Bryan Welch studies in the sangha of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, connected with the Kagyu and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His new book, The Gift of a Broken Heart, is just out this month from New Harbinger Publications.
He is the former CEO of Mindful Communications, a media and corporate meditation-training company; and was founder and CEO of B The Change Media, a multi-platform media company focused on business as a force for good in the world.
For 19 years, from its founding, he ran Ogden Publications, the founding B Corp that published Mother Earth News, Mother Earth Living, Utne Reader and several other category-leading media brands focused on sustainability and natural health. More recently, he served as Co-CEO of Silk Grass Holdings, a B Corp developing 32,000 acres of regenerative organic farms, food-processing facilities and wildlife preserves in Belize.
Bryan’s award-winning book, Beautiful & Abundant: Building the World We Want, appeared in 2011.
He and his wife, Carolyn, raise organic, grass-fed cattle and sheep on their farm near Lawrence, Kansas, with the help of their grandsons.