A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

William Keepin and Cynthia Brix are co-founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. William, a climate scientist and physicist who also trained in clinical psychology with Stanislav Grof began GERI thirty years ago under the name “Gender and Ecology” in an effort to expose and heal the hypocrisies of working to end the exploitation of Mother Earth without simultaneously addressing the exploitation of women and the feminine. Over the years, GERI has evolved into an international program that brings people together from all walks of life to resolve the gender divide through honest and compassionate discourse, somatic work, and mindfulness practices. GERI prioritizes cross-cultural perspectives, and is inclusive of all gender identities, sexual identities and welcomes people of all ages and spiritual beliefs. Their book, Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family is available now.

Find William and Cynthia at grworld.org, and on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

William & Cynthia’s Book Recommendations: Think On These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, and Cave in the Snow by Vicki MacKenzie

Songs featured: “Above All Else, Be Kind” by AJIMAL and “Meet Me There” by Nick Mulvey

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For the past few months I’ve found myself in a deep internal dialogue exploring the nature of my desires, my relationship to will, and my capacity for action. In the face of difficult choices, divergent interests, or upon reaching a fork in the road, how do we decide which path to take? How do we tell the difference between “trusting the timing” and rest/reflection vs. laziness and avoidance? How do we confront the grief of not being able to “do it all?” In this episode, I explore all of these questions, and share an epiphany I had that’s been helping me to move through the complexity of honing in on my desires in order to take authentic action. I also share some big news relative to Chris Ryan and my community project in Crestone, CO, and also speak about how I see A Millennial’s Guide to Saving the World evolving in the coming months and years.

Song featured: “In Praise of Home” by Rura

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Michael Ridge has spent the last decade living and traveling nomadically on horseback, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. He is an expert in primitive skills and wild foods, and possesses a level of bravery and commitment to core values that I find extraordinarily impressive. In our conversation, Michael shares about the events that led him to his current life on horseback, and outlines what his day-to-day has looked like, season by season, for the past ten years. We discuss civilization, technology, authenticity, grief, ecology, and community, and Michael outlines the the logistical, psychological, spiritual and emotional tools necessary to live the kind of life he’s chosen. This conversation is by far one of my favorite episodes of the podcast, and deserves more than one listen.

Find Michael on Instagram, TikTok and Youtube.

Here is a short video about Finisia Medrano, Michael’s teacher -

Songs featured: “And You Don’t Even Know You Hurt Me” by Nick Murphy, “Fertile Ground” by Evan Fraser, Vir McCoy, Rising Appalachia, and Chloe Smith, and “Wandering Nomad” by Cody Francis

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Johanna Hoffman is a designer, urbanist and strategist exploring the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures. She’s the founder of Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive adaptation. Her new book is called Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities we Need. Johanna and I talk about strategies to make the intangibility and overwhelm of the future more personal and inspiring, and how we can integrate grief into shifting narratives. We discuss how national mythologies translate into the creation of different landscapes, the pros and cons of modern cities, and how important it is to give ourselves permission to lean into our creativity, imagination, and confidence in order to manifest big ideas.

Johanna’s book recommendations: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and the work of Eric Klineberg, Ursula Le Guin, Stuart Candy, and Octavia Butler.

Find Johanna at johannahoffman.com and on Instagram

Songs featured: “The Fear” by Ben Howard and “Let Me Down Easy” by Gang of Youths

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Téo Montoya is a Human Design Analyst, Metamodern Myth Mender, Indigenous Futurist writer and multimedia artist. His work focuses on synthesizing cosmological and spiritual systems, myths, archetypes, and modalities to find ways of supporting an emerging world in crisis through human development, ecological literacy, and reciprocity with our communities and more-than-human kin. In other words, Téo and I have a lot in common. We speak about our complex relationships to both Human Design and Astrology, and the importance of questioning the nature of “belief” when it comes to working with archetypal systems. We also discuss mythology, individualism, the collective crisis of meaning, grief, identity, ecology, masculinity, Metamodernism and so much more.

Téo’s book recommendation: The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature by Steven Foster and Meredith Little

Find Téo at archaicremnant.com, on Instagram @teomontoya_ and listen to his podcast Indigenous Futures

Songs featured: “A Prayer of My Own” by Nick Mulvey and “You Get What You Give” by New Radicals

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Just wanted to share a quick update about the return of our official Millennial’s Guide to Saving the World book club.

If you’re already on Substack/signed up for the book club, no need to listen to this. Just wanted to make sure to make the announcement on the podcast for listeners who have not yet subscribed on Substack.

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Van is an educator and practitioner in dance, healing and spirituality with over 20 years of experience. He integrates Eastern and Western modalities to create a holistic dance education, centering on how dance can enlighten our perspectives on life and how we interact with society. Van reaches beyond dance and choreography by focusing his work on human development through fusing dance, spirituality and healing practices. Van and I recorded this conversation in Athens, Greece where I spent two weeks participating in his Contact Beyond Contact facilitators training course. We speak about Van’s unconventional journey in discovering dance, his desire to unify his multidisciplinary interests, and his work using movement and dance not just as performance, but also as a healing modality for our body, mind, heart, and spirit.

Find Van at UnitySpace.org, and on Instagram

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Songs featured: “Passage” by Garth Stevenson, “Rest (Acoustic)” by Leif Vollebekk, and “De Ushuaia a La Quiaca” by Gustavo Santaolalla

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Deborah Eden Tull (who goes by Eden) is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author and sustainability educator, as well as the founder of Mindful Living Revolution. She trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Her new book, Luminous Darkness, explores what it means to embrace, navigate and learn from the unknown. Eden and I discuss how “endarkenment” is different than enlightenment, and how balancing both light and dark in our lives can provide a radical path to wholeness. We discuss everything from embodiment to dark nights of the soul, light pollution, the suppression of femininity, our collective disconnection from the earth, and the complexities of power, dominance, hierarchy.

Find Eden at deborahedentull.com and on Instagram

Eden’s Book Recommendations - Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki & Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmermer

Sign up for Retrograde with Intention here - We start September 17th, but registration will remain open through September.

Songs featured: “Heat & Dark” by Luca Fogale and “The Fruitful Darkness” by Trevor Hall

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Whitney returns to the podcast to discuss how paradox, polarity and nuance show up in astrology, and how to best utilize concepts of “good” and “bad” to provoke self-awareness. How can nuance be used to both invite and prevent growth? How can we assess when duality is helpful vs. when it isn’t? Whitney and I provide an overview of concepts such as malefics & benefics, sect, dignities and debilities, aspects, and retrogrades, to discuss what’s both helpful and unhelpful about seeing something as “positive” or “negative". We also discuss the archetype of Mars, and the upcoming Mars retrograde in Gemini. Our course, Retrograde with Intention, returns  September 17th, and is a group container to support your growth, awareness and transformation over the course of the upcoming Mars Rx transit.

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Songs featured: “Tumbleweed” by Puscifer and “Born Under A Bad Sign” by Albert King

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Kimberly Ann Johnson is a somatic experience practitioner, sexological bodyworker, author, podcast host, and doula. She returns to the podcast to speak about the turmoil of the past couple years, and recounts the journey that led her to co-author Reckoning with Stephen Jenkinson. We speak about our mutual experience feeling alienated from the “wellness” community during Covid, and the great loss and betrayal we felt from those who pitted individualism and “personal sovereignty” against community and social responsibility. We also touch on the importance of becoming conscious of our biases, cultivating humility and nuance especially in times of heightened emotion, the risks of overvaluing the hero’s journey, and what we can do to make ourselves worthy of elderhood.

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Find Kimberly on Instagram and on her website KimberlyAnnJohnson.com

Songs featured: “Ballad Of A Thin Place” by RF Shannon and “Baby Hallelujah” by Konradsen

Check out this live performance of “Baby Hallelujah” by Konradsen -

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