See what Rafe is up to: www.evolvemoveplay.com

Listen to the Evolve Move Play podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evolve-move-play-podcast/id1349557801

Topics discussed: parkour, coaching, human development, masculinity, Jungian shadow, Big Five personality traits, self-discipline, sexuality, burnout, evolutionary biology, movement, play, training

Justin wrote his own blurb. Thank you Justin!

"As a young boy, I always knew one day I would be thrust into the spotlight and make a name for myself. My day has come, and I'm here looking down on everyone that seems so small to me now. I am a GOD amongst men. Thank you."

- Justin Johnson

Topics discussed: loving people, satire, my small bladder, Texas, pizza, sexuality, and much, much more.

For episode 39, we have an account of my wonderful friend Ali and I galivanting around the space-time continuum, through a delightfully twisty and turny wormhole of conversation. Topics discussed include (but are not limited to): hip-hop, nonviolent communication, metal, body image, compassionate self talk, maidens, crones,  non-monogamy, Karen Horney and social penis envy, penis wielders, vulva havers, gratitude, empathy, cuddling, listening, panromanticism…

Photo courtesy of Linda Gray

In episode 38, I had a real conversation with my friend Bobby. We discussed resilience, boundaries, self-awareness, parenting, compassion, broken government programs, not spreading shitty day energy, how we think and feel about the experience of authenticity, and his negative first impression of me. 

This episode is packed full of value and meaningful dialogue. I included an intro that focused on what I've learned and taught about boundaries. The outro, featuring Claire Sarff-Foden, a licensed therapist, discusses the task of communicating with a friend about seeking counseling. 

This episode is different than most of the ones I've posted. Please let me know what you think about it!

- Benji 

Book mentioned:

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

In episode 37, Claire and I went hiking up Chuckanut Mountain together, and took turns answering 12 questions, as a response to this article.  This is the first of three episodes we'll be recording, each with a set of 12 questions, totaling 36. The questions are supposedly designed to facilitate vulnerability and exposure. We decided to turn it into a playful experiment. Let us know what you think! 

Yo! It's been a while! I'm back, with Authentic Warrior Radio version 3000.0!

For the first time ever, I've decided to be a guest on my own podcast. In this episode, Claire asks me some questions about the podcast, including what I've been up to since I stopped posting, why I took a break, what I've learned, what I've inspired me to start this podcast in the first place, what inspires me to continue it now, and what changes I plan to make going forward with the show. We also talk a bit about a zillion other things.

I have a backlog of episodes from last year, that I'll be posting between new episodes. I implore you to email me or message/comment on social media, to let me know what you think about the changes I mention, what you'd like to see and hear going forward, who you'd like me to have on the show. What were your favorite qualities of AWR, before? What would you like to hear more or less of? Are you or a friend inspired to be on the show?

Thank you very much for checking this out. I'm looking forward to connecting!!!

<3 Benji

Wil Nelsen has been a father since he was a teenager. Watching family, friends, and co-workers work very hard to continue to live an unsatisfying lifestyle, Wil set out to learn from their success and failures. His curiosity grew into a podcast, an audio log of people living diverse experiences, and it’s effects on our common day-to-day lives. For example, if a rock climber has to overcome fear and the demand for responsibility, is it easy to be organized and confident in life?

Welcome to episode 34 of Authentic Warrior Radio, featuring Episode 24's very lovely Jenna Goodman, a friend of mine who is a local artist and a very thoughful human. This episode of AWR, hereinafter referred to as "AWWWRRRR!!!" is brought to you by Taj Eye, the maestro of video, music, and paint who was featured way back on episode 10. If you appreciate the cover art of this podcast, go over to tajeye.com and have a look-see at Taj's beautiful works. You can also go to authenticwarrior.org/friends and find a link to his website. If you're like me, and you have eyes, and a heart, don't miss this opportunity to feed your heart the artistic visual substance that it's always begging you for. It's begging because it's a human heart, and those things need art in order to continue cultivating spirit in the world. Would you starve your kid, or your pet? Unless you're some kind of abusive, rotten, toxic, neglectful, demon-plagued, psychopath, you had to have answered no to that question. If you didn't this is not the podcast you'll like, but it might be the one you need. And if you did answer no, then dude, by gosh, feed your heart before it turns to stone and you start rampaging through the city, committing hate crimes. I know that it's complicated and it might seem like a stretch to believe, but if you look in a text book at a college, it will tell you that the eyes are the mouth holes that feed art to your heart. So go to TajEye.com, right now, to avoid becoming a psychopath. You can also go to www.sunspotseries.com and prevent yourself from committing hate crimes by consuming her beautiful, fascinating art.

AWWWRRR is also brought to you by my precious, benevolent, supportive, loving, possibility-of-happiness-creating, contribution-making patreon subscribers: Cap'n Christopher Cook, the magnificent Matt Heggem, my sister Megan "Myeff Bomb" Gentile, my main man Mike Roe, my cousin Zeddy Mack McVizzly Bear, and Molly the Cop. Thank you all for your contributions to this podcast. Molly, I've scattered at least a handful of karaoke tracks throughout this episode, to thank you for your top-tier pledges. You are all appreciated and I hope you enjoy my obnoxious singing as well. If you're listening to this, and you aren't a patreon subscriber, but you wish to be, head on over to patreon.com/authenticwarriorradio and sign up to receive special rewards as a thank you for your support.

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• Subscribe, rate, and review on itunes here

Support my homies:

• Taj Eye, the artist who designed the logo of my podcast - www.tajeye.com

Enjoy this episode of Authentic Warrior Radio, featuring the marvelous, the merry, the majestic, mixed bag of magical magnetism, Megan Galley. Megan is a human whose magnificant, massive energy is more meaningful and moving than my meager mind can muster the must-have magnitude or mutterings to macrame together even a make-shift monstrosity of words to accurately describe. She's funny, sweet, beautiful in all the ways, loving, compassionate, vulnerable, real, intelligent AF... and here I am making my morose, sad excuse for a masterpiece, while you listen mindfully, your motivation dwindling, me missing my moment to mack on your curiosity. I've met my match, mofo.

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• Subscribe, rate, and review on itunes here

Support my homies:

• Taj Eye, the artist who designed the logo of my podcast - www.tajeye.com

Zoie Mizuna is a warrior-hearted, bad ass DJ. She's my friend from a past life, and someone I'm happy to be a friend to in this one. Thank you for being who you are and being on the show Zoie Mizuna! 

• BAMF! Bellingham Arts and Music Festival: Saturday, June 1, 11:15pm @ The Lookout Arts Quarry, Bellingham, WA

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