Jeff Krasno is the co-founder and CEO of Commune, an online course platform for personal and societal well-being. He also 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. Every Sunday, Jeff pens a weekly “Commusings” essay that explores spirituality, wellness, and culture and is distributed to over one million subscribers.

Jeff is the creator of GOOD STRESS, a collection of wellness protocols 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, was released March 25, 2025 by 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 B.A. from Columbia University in 1993. 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 curriculum 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 and Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli, and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.

Good Stress: The Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things by Jeff Krasno

Ten protocols to counteract the “chronic ease” that creates our modern epidemic of dis–ease, from a wellness industry leader who can prove they work—because he’s tested them on himself. Jeff Krasno, the founder and CEO of the global wellness platform Commune Media, thought he was pretty healthy. Though he suffered...