From the Porch is a series of conversations about beautiful and difficult things. We're activists, writers, teachers, ordinary people learning to move beyond a story of separation, selfishness and scapegoating into a story of connection, creativity, and the common good. Hosted by Irish storyteller and peace activist Gareth Higgins, we explore how to live with courage in anxious times, our interdependency with each other, the ecosystem, and a bigger story itself.
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An exploration of the spiritual terrain on the far side of conventional religion. A sanctuary for seekers.
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If you strive to live your best life you're in the right place. Your host, Bryan D'Alessandro questions everything in the name of growth. In an endless pursuit to connect with teachers and teachings from all walks of life, none more important than another. In this way, we honor them and put these learnings into practice. Get ready for deep conversations with astronauts, designers, entrepreneurs, yogis, healers, doctors, futurists, artists and so much more. The goal is to pull back the curtai ...
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Everybody knows about the big names. The celebrities. The A-listers. The masters of the box-office. But what about everyone else? There are hundreds of great films each year that only receive a limited theatrical run, and that's if they're lucky. It takes drive, determination and a lot of work to make a film, and not everyone who does it will make the cover of People magazine. Join Andrew as he talks to some of the most talented and interesting people in the business whose names you might no ...
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Christian Mystic Cynthia Bourgeault: Living Large in the Imaginal Realm
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Click here to send me a text message ... We dwell within a realm of spacious possibility; and it dwells within us. The mystic experiences this firsthand. So does any seeker alert to the subtle movements of the heart. Cynthia Bourgeault knows the territory well. She's lived it, and she's written about it. But, being human, she's also continuing to l…
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Jules Howatt's Soulful Journey from Bruce to Julianna
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Click here to send me a text message ... Soul has only one agenda--that we live into who we really are and offer our unique gifts in service to the world. Soul is less concerned about the obstacles that that may plant in our path. So, for rugged mountain guide Bruce Howatt, the call to finally show up in the world--as Julianna--must have felt like …
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Knowing Everything: Kim Chestney and the Power of Intuition
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Click here to send me a text message ... Intuition is our portal to knowing everything. What our rational mind doesn't know, and can't know, is available to us through those flashes of insight that solve problems, give us direction, and suggest meaning and purpose for our lives. Kim Chestney, author of The Illumination Code: 7 Keys to Unlock Your Q…
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Jessica Waite's "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards:" Inside the Writing of a Blockbuster
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Click here to send me a text message ... By the time an author scores a major publishing deal they are usually beyond the reach of mere mortals. So, when it happens to a friend, there is a unique sense of privilege watching the process unfold from the inside. Such is the case with Jessica Waite, whose memoir, "The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards" is…
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From "Them" to "Me Too:" How Writing Groups Can Bring out the Writer in Us
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Click here to send me a text message ... So many writers hide their light under a bushel, thinking they don't deserve the term "writer." But writing groups can put the lie to that fear, coaxing us and our words out from hiding. The UnderStory Collective is the writing group I belong to. I invited them to the Cave to share the reassuring and embolde…
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Jim Gale – Free The Food, Free The People
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My guest today is Jim Gale, the founder of Food Forest Abundance. Jim has a simple belief, if we Control our food, we control our freedom. And the way to do so is simple too. Fun fact, do you know what the largest and most destructive monoculture crop is? It’s grass. And there is a wild history around how we were duped into believing that it was a …
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George H Lewis, Astrologer - The Myth of The Solar Eclipse
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George H Lewis back on the show to share about the upcoming total solar eclipse in Aries sweeping across the United States on April 8th. It's effects will be felt before and after the event and it will set the tone for the year ahead. Eclipses happen in an 18 year cycle and bring the same energetic story with them. This event happens on the new moo…
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"Writing by Heart:” Meredith Heller on How Poetry Can Lead us Home
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Click here to send me a text message ... You can hear it in her voice. This is a woman who knows herself and her place in the universe. But fortunately for us, she believes that that place is to help others find their voice too. "Writing by Heart" is Meredith Heller's invitation to find the inner path to yourself ... through poetry. It's a book. Bu…
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Steven Haynes - Founder, CEO Fjord | Cold Plunging & Longevity
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My guest today is Steven Haynes, founder of Fjord, a Norweigen-inspired cold water therapy company. Based out of Austin, They sell premium cold plunges to bring cold water immersion to high-performers and busy professionals looking for a physical and mental edge. By now just about everyone has heard about the cold plunge trend, from the likes of Wi…
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Gareth Higgins – Author "How Not To Be Afraid"
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Today, we're embarking on a journey into the heart of our fears and discovering the paths that lead us out of the shadows. My guest is Gareth Higgins, a writer from Belfast, who grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles. Gareth is a masterful storyteller, a peace activist, and a guide who walks us through the landscape of our fears, not by bypas…
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Making Peace with Impermanence: Zen Teacher Ryushin on True Liberation
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Click here to send me a text message ... Psychedelics can show us what's beyond our ordinary consciousness. Meditation can help us to live day by day from that place. But in the end all practices fall short: the spiritual journey requires a letting go, not a holding on. Zen teacher Ryushin uses words only to point beyond those words ... to the actu…
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Dylan Scott "Hybrid Raccoon" – The US HYROX Champion
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My guest today is Dylan Scott, AKA The Hybrid Raccoon. Dylan is the 2024 HYROX US Champion. If you haven’t heard of Hyrox no sweat, I only did about 3months ago. This fast growing fitness racing sport combines running and functional movement exercises. Here’s a quick overview of the format of a Hyrox race: 1k Run -> 1,000 meter ski erg -> 1k Run ->…
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Matt McGregor-Mento, The Journey of 100 Kilometers
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On this episode speak with Matt Mcgregor-Mento who just completed his first 100k ultra marathon- and he did it in barefoot sandals at that. If you’re at all like me, this feat sounds inconceivable. The thing is, it was for Matt too. At the age of 52 he’d never ran a distance even close to this before. While I will say from knowing Matt that he has …
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The Way of the Shaman: Healer Wade Prpich and a World of Spirit Helpers
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Click here to send me a text message ... The Ordinary Reality we experience every day may not be the only reality there is. It may not even be the real one. Non-Ordinary Reality is a fantastical cosmos populated by Spirit Beings—plants, animals, and people—who are devoted to our health and wholeness. It's the job of shamans like Wade Prpich to trav…
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David Comfort, Founder: Rise Costa Rica - Live Life To The Fullest
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My guest today is a visionary leader, a champion of freedom, and a conscious living advocate - David Comfort. David is the founder of Rise, a conscious living community nestled in 800 acres of the lush landscapes of Costa Rica. Rise serves as a beacon of hope in upside down times. This family-focused residential community is consciously building an…
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Spirits Ascending: Reiki Master Jan Thompson on the Light We Cannot See
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Click here to send me a text message ... It's like we're walking around blindfolded. We feel we are alone in the universe while spirit guides hover close by, waiting for us to acknowledge them. We feel it all comes down to our wills and to our efforts while energy pours into our hearts from a cosmic Source. Reiki Master Jan Thompson knows those spi…
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Ari Weinzweig - Zingermans CEO on Visioning
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Today, we're diving into the world of visionary leadership with a remarkable guest, Ari Weinzweig. Ari isn't your typical restaurateur. He's the driving force behind Zingerman's Delicatessen, where he serves up mouthwatering dishes and a unique philosophy. This goes far beyond food; it's about vision, community, values, and outstanding business. So…
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“How Not to be Afraid:” Gareth Higgins on New Stories for Frightening Times
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Click here to send me a text message ... There's something encoded in our souls that seeks hope even in the face of hopelessness. That spark, that gene, that impossible dream is what allows us to discover new stories to replace the old ones and to usher in the new world we seek. Activist, storyteller, and writer Gareth Higgins, in his book, How Not…
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Women Catholic Priests: Teresa Hanlon and the Rebirth of Christianity
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Click here to send me a text message ... Teresa Hanlon was doing ministry within her church long before she was ordained. But when she became a priest, her Church excommunicated her and inhibited her from doing the work she loved. Providentially, for her and the other women priests ordained within the Catholic tradition (if not in the Roman Catholi…
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Stepping Out: Barry Foster on Soulful Haberdashery
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Click here to send me a text message ... Everything we do reflects Soul. Because Soul is about what's inside. How we dress is one way we let our inner self out, to be seen. Barry Foster, known by some as "the best dressed man in church land," knows that our sartorial choices are so much more than fashion statements. They are about who we are. Resou…
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Click here to send me a text message ... Here's a song I wrote a few years ago that has become special to me. I often use it to close my performances of music and storytelling. This version is just a demo, meaning the song is still in development. But I wanted to share it with you as is, as a small gift at New Years. Enjoy! Song Credit: Music and l…
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Click here to send me a text message ... Set in 1995, when people still smoked and few had cell phones, this retelling of the Christmas story imagines a young couple overwhelmed by circumstances larger than themselves and by a dark and inhospitable world seemingly incapable of welcoming their newborn. Until the city utility truck arrives, and then …
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Vision Quest, Part II, with Vincenzo Falone: Going it Alone
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Click here to send me a text message ... After days, weeks, even years of preparation, each Vision Quester headed off for a three-day solo fast on a mountainside in Southwestern Colorado. Every experience was unique. But everyone had an experience, a Soul Encounter, that awakened us to our place in the Universe. Here, Vincenzo Falone and I tell our…
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Vision Quest, Part I, with Vincenzo Falone: Preparing for a Soul Encounter
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Click here to send me a text message ... Eleven days camping on a Colorado mountainside, three of those days a solo fast, seeking an encounter with Nature that might grant us a vision of our mythopoetic identities, our unique place in the Universe: it would have been an ambitious undertaking for someone half our age. But somehow Vincenzo Falone, fr…
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The Look of Love: Vickie MacArthur's Life-Altering Encounter with Thich Nhat Hanh
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Click here to send me a text message ... A few gurus and spiritual leaders have given all the others a bad name. But yoga and meditation instructor Vickie MacArthur has a story to tell about Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Master, whose gaze was all it took to change her life, filling her with divine love. It's a story we may need to hear. Vick…
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The Way of the Artist: Janet Handy on our Need to Create
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Click here to send me a text message ... We might deny it, but we're all creative. We might not make a painting, but we might make a garden or a business or a home. Visual artist Jan Handy speaks with me about the challenges and the joys of following our Muse. It's everyone's calling. Resources Jan's email address: jajhandy@gmail.com Books mentione…
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Psyche and Sex: Kevin Alderson on the Spirituality Behind our Sexuality
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Click here to send me a text message ... Is our spirituality shaped by our sexuality? Or are we shaped more by the social constructs of that sexuality? Counselling psychologist and professor emeritus Kevin Alderson has spent his career specializing in LGBTQ+ issues and helping people to accept themselves, whatever their sexuality. Only when we love…
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Soul Calling: Celia McBride's Road to Elsewhere
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Click here to send me a text message ... What if our place in the Universe isn't a job, or a role, or anything the world might recognize as useful? What if it's more subtle and more fundamental than how the world sees us? What would that look like? And how would we even know if we'd found it? Celia McBride's memoir, O My God: An Un-becoming Journey…
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Click here to send me a text message ... Jesus told a parable about a wealthy man who increased his holdings and expanded his storage facilities for all his goods, until the day came when he was informed that his soul was required of him. Would that he had cared for his soul before it was taken away. James Hollis has been counselling, writing, and …
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Stephen Jenkinson: The Voice of the Prophet
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Click here to send me a text message ... Prophets don't call themselves prophets. They speak their words or write their books until people start to notice. Then they may open a wisdom school or create magical live events or succumb to interviews with podcasters. All this describes Stephen Jenkinson. When he writes, or speaks, or performs, you feel …
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Marine Sélénée - Family Constellations Therapy
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My guest today is Marine Selenee, the author of the book, “Connected Fates, Separate Destinies: Using Family Constellations Therapy to Recover from Inherited Stories and Trauma”. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Family Constellations therapy, this modality is mind-blowing. Before I intro Marine, Here’s some backstory, there was a German Psychothe…
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Click here to send me a text message ... Out here on the far side of conventional religion it is important that the seeker find a few guideposts. Otherwise the open landscape can feel overwhelming. Thomas Moore has been a seeker's lodestar for over thirty years, ever since he reintroduced us to the language of “Soul” in his best-selling book, “Care…
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Whence Wisdom: Filmmaker Darold Black on the Wisdom of Elders
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Click here to send me a text message ... Darold Black loves people and he loves pictures. So it's no surprise that our conversation about wisdom turned into personal stories about life. Wisdom doesn't come to us as lofty ideas. It comes to us as images from the heart. Darold is working on a documentary series called "E5," an attempt to capture the …
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Lizz Bierman - Embodiment Architect | Aligning to Your Truth
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Lizz Bierman, a gifted activator, a dear friend, and as I see it, a modern-day witch. Lizz does ancestral work which she fittingly refers to as remembrance. This work activates deep purpose in her clients. The alignment she restores allows for witnessing life from a more grounded, secure and centered space. Lizz is a lifetime learner devoted to cur…
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Holy Listening: Lois Huey-Heck on the Art of Spiritual Direction
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Click here to send me a text message ... Some would prefer to say spiritual "companionship" rather than "direction," and that would probably be more accurate. Because it's not about directing anyone anywhere, except, that is, to pay attention to the subtle movements within your own heart and soul. And that's what spiritual directors do. My guest on…
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Easter Poets: Rosemary Griebel, Paul Grindlay and Juleta Severson-Baker
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Click here to send me a text message ... Words fail us when we try to speak of the mysteries of life and death and the other soulful experiences of our lives. Except, that is, for the words of poets. In the modern age we turn to poetry as if to holy scripture, searching for the images and metaphors that help us express our deepest fears and our hig…
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Griff Green | The Hack Heard Round The World
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Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking conversation with Griff Green, the Founder of Giveth and a leading expert in the world of digital currency. In this episode of the Growth Guide podcast, Griff shares his journey and vision for building a world where people who produce value for society are rewarded fairly for the value they create. We…
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Men Talking: Marv Westwood on the Modern Male
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Click here to send me a text message ... Many men, having inherited the cultural expectations of former generations, feel they are being shamed in the modern age. Traditional male traits, such as protectiveness, leadership, and strength, are now denigrated for their toxic potential rather than celebrated for their social value. It's a difficult tim…
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Dr. Paul Canali | You've Got To Feel It, To Heal It
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My guest today is Dr. Paul Canali. Dr. Canali has been involved in trauma and stress research for over 30 years. During that time, he has researched, developed, and practiced some of the most reproducible and effective forms of trauma therapy. When it comes to trauma- we often think it only refers to huge tragic events like experiencing physical vi…
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The Soul's Instrument: Jennifer Mason on the Human Voice
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Click here to send me a text message ... If we're searching for a connection with our souls, we needn’t look any further than our voice. Quite apart from the words we use and the intentions behind those words, our voice reveals the state of things within. Are we anxious, are we confident, are we restful? The voice knows. Consequently, so does the w…
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Dietmar Kasper | Waldorf & The Neverending Story
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In this episode, we discuss mental health in the classroom. Our students are experiencing an epidemic, suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, depression, body image disorders, and ADHD. We are losing our kids, and they are losing their imagination, creativity, and connection to their individuality, their peers, and the natural world. We are more ob…
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Join me with the bitingly funny Steve Faktor. Steve brings a sharp and witty perspective to the field of innovation. Steve does things. He’s a sought-after key-note speaker given the stage by the likes of CFO Magazine, NYU, and Harvard. He’s the author of Econovation, and as Managing Director of IdeaFaktory, he consultants w/ companies like America…
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'Circles of Rhythm': Julien Lepage on the Call of the Drum
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Click here to send me a text message ... Some say before we could sing, we drummed. Whether or not that's accurate, drumming is one of our most primitive forms of communication. Perhaps, it once helped us to "talk" across great distances. Perhaps, it brought us together to unify and strengthen the community. Perhaps, it was just ... fun. Julien Lep…
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Today’s guest is George H. Lewis whose life has unfolded in a very enchanted way, as if off the pages of an old novel. George is a true polymath- a professional artist, speaker, astrologer, healer, that seems to herald from a different era. He’s a romantic and a modern-day mystic. We discuss how Italy awoke his wanderlust and took him as an artist …
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Wild Yoga: Rebecca Wildbear on an Embodied Way of Being
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Click here to send me a text message ... Yoga is not just about poses and posers. It's about a soulful engagement with our own lives that includes both our bodies and our dreams. It's about the rediscovery of the connection we have lost with the Earth, and about the purpose that the Earth itself is dreaming for us. Rebecca Wildbear is a soul guide,…
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The Soul of Wall Street: Howard Fischer on Investing in the Planet
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Click here to send me a text message ... "You can be so heavenly minded," the saying goes, "that you're of no earthly use." Ouch for all us lofty-headed idealists! But bringing together heavenly ideals and earthly resources--now that's useful! And that's what Howard Fischer is doing with Gratitude Railroad, his impact investment firm he started wit…
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Justin "JB" Bolognino | The Synchronicity Architect
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In this episode, I sit with creative powerhouse Justin Bolognino. JB’s ground-breaking work is threaded by technology, real-time design, and evolutionary immersive experiences focused on revealing hidden human connections. Sometimes known as the “Synchronicity Architect" JB is the founder and CEO of META, an immersive experience studio that special…
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Old Souls: Judy Steiert on Conscious and Positive Aging
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Click here to send me a text message ... Many of us fear aging. We suppose that the long slow slide on the other side of the hill is a negation of the one life we've been given to live. But what if it's the opposite? What if aging is our crowning glory, all that experience finally adding up to something: meaning, depth, and even wisdom? Judy Steier…
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Beyond Hope: Jodi Lammiman on the Challenges of Eco-Grief
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Click here to send me a text message ... What if the Earth is beyond saving? What if only the abandonment of hope will deliver us to the new world we seek? What if eco-grief is the portal we need to rediscover our role in the natural world, and in its healing? Jodi Lammiman is an eco-awareness counsellor and spiritual guide who connects our fears a…
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A Wreath on the Door: A Christmas Story in Real Time
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Click here to send me a text message ... Bob had decided to lock Christmas out this year. Given the events of the past year who could blame him? But Christmas had other ideas and snuck in the back door instead, leaving the door ajar. As it must be, if we're to let the Christ Child in. Music Credits (under license by SOCAN 2022) "O Holy Night," from…
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