"This conversation of being human, it's never going to be answered... because it's a journey."

Dr. Patrik Nkouaga is an educator and farmer as well as a friend and mentor of mine. Our conversations have helped me develop my ideas on what it means to be human and how to contribute to the world in an authentic way.

Dr. Nkouaga joins the podcast to discuss Becoming Human, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and how we can come together to make positive change.

Follow up with him on his website elatemilem.org

In this episode Jarad McHugh interviews painter and tattoo artist Gilbert White. Jarad and Gilbert consider how art can be used to see oneself, how art is fundamental to identity, and how to approach tattooing as a spiritual process. 

Follow up with Gilbert's work on his website GilbertWhiteArt.com and his instagram pages @psychesurrealism and @phantom.flesh.

In this episode, Jarad McHugh discusses fear of death and emptiness and how opening to this fear can help us to develop our art practices. He looks through the lens of Ernest Becker's 1973 book the Denial of Death to develop ideas on the root of culture and how to overcome our creative blockages.

In this episode, Jarad McHugh covers the what and why of the Becoming Human podcast and project.