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For centuries, Japanese artisans have repaired cracked vessels with pure gold, revealing a new beauty through the imperfection. It’s a metaphor we can’t unsee. Imperfected is a podcast that looks through the cracks and flaws to find more vivid and personal ways of experiencing life. Join us for conversations with creators and thinkers, artists and founders as we discover unexpected ways of seeing the world and our place in it. There’s beauty to be found in imperfection. Hosted by filmmakers ...
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The Art of the Table: Bringing Milwaukee Together Through Food with Vin Noth
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What if food holds the power to dissolve the barriers that divide us? Meet Vin Noth, the Executive Director of Milwaukee’s Riverwest Food Pantry. Like all cities, Milwaukee has its cracks such as segregation, isolation, and systemic poverty. The Riverwest Food Pantry is finding gold in these cracks - bringing people of all backgrounds together into…
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The Beauty When We Go with Jeremy Bryan
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How do we prepare for the ultimate journey - passing over from this life to the next? Today we meet hospice chaplain, recording artist, and spiritual director, Jeremy Bryan, to talk about the ultimate liminal space. In Jeremy’s experience walking with people and their families as they pass over, he’s seen some things. Certain things that seem to my…
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Solving Stigma through Story with Ariana Alejandra Gibson
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Imagine a world where your mental health challenges become someone else's hope. Ariana Gibson is the creator of an app that’s designed to end the stigmas around mental health, through the power of story and community. In today’s conversation, we learn about Ariana’s project to use technology to “crowdsource hope.” She shares with us the personal in…
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Dreams & Visions with the Producers of Imperfected
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Why do seemingly ephemeral experiences like dreams have the power to change us? On today’s episode, the producers of Imperfected share stories of visions and signs. Those strange too-perfect-to-be-random moments that seem to want to communicate something profound, if imperfectly ... and change us. T.J. tells the story about a season with spirit ani…
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"It's not about reaching folks at the margins. It's about allowing yourself to be reached." - Fr. Greg Boyle Fr. Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the country. We’re honored to talk to him about his 30+ years of serving the gang-involved and previously incarcerated. Join T.J. and Greg for a co…
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Our Imperfected Democracy with Jason Blakely
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Why does our society seem more divided than ever before? Since our nation's birth, our democracy has been an experiment - an attempt to do better than previous governments and right their wrongs. In our time of polarization and insecurity over the bonds of our union, how can we be more thoughtful participants in this grand experiment? In this episo…
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Imperfected Heroes: On Robin Williams & Anthony Bourdain
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What do our heroes show us, even through their imperfections? Hosts Dave and T.J. face off on the heroes that inspire them. Despite the tragic endings to their lives, we find in both Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain, men who ran to the borderlands of human experience and illuminated truths that still somehow eluded them. Through their lives, we …
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How Comedy Can Improv(e) Our Lives with Mary Lemmer
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What can improv comedy teach us about embracing our imperfections? Mary Lemmer is the founder of Improve, a company that improves people's lives using techniques inspired by improv comedy and behavioral research. By learning the improv fundamental of “say yes” in every circumstance of life, we can embrace the imperfections and flaws in ourselves an…
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"There is crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen In Episode 1, hosts T.J. and Dave talk about the possibility of finding a greater beauty and meaning through imperfection. Along the way, we look at Japanese broken bowls, Anthony Bourdain, and why we trust people who walk with a limp. Hosted by filmmakers T.J. Berden & D…
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Welcome to Imperfected. For centuries, Japanese artisans have repaired cracked vessels with pure gold, revealing a new beauty through the imperfection. It’s a metaphor we can’t unsee. Imperfected is a podcast that looks through the cracks and flaws to find more vivid and personal ways of experiencing life. Join us for conversations with creators an…
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