Conversations on Healing & Growth

In this episode we offer you, our listeners, a challenge. Can we learn to be elders of wisdom in a world spiraling out of control?

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This questioning by the Individualist of the existing order, socially, consciously, politically, are at the heart of this episode. The Real Rugged Individualist seeks within themselves a deeply personal answer to this vexing inquiry. Iconoclastic in nature with a healthy doubt of the existing order of things.

At the heart of our latest podcast we share the life and purpose of Paulo Freire - educator, philosopher and dissident - with an emphasis on how his co-creative educational philosophy melds with the ancient practices of self knowledge known as Daoyin or Healing & Growth.

In this pod we visualize a conversation between Martin and John Trudell, renowned author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. Quotes taken from the documentary Trudell by Heather Rae. 

In this episode we meld the stylings of the true crime podcast with a cultural perspective on what has led us to our current political landscape. We illuminate the cost to society when truth no longer matters. When cults of personality can override any semblance of integrity for the sake of greed and power.

Inspired by the b-side medley of The Beatles’ “Abbey Road, we gather a seemingly loose assortment of ideas and topics that we hope, through our conversation, come together. We chat about Earth Overshoot Day, the sci-fi universe “Tales From The Loop” and how one can benefit from a slow and steady creative process.

In this episode, we question the value and validity of work and how we work, a challenge to redefine the notion of work. At the core of this redefinition is what it means to be natural.

In part 2 of our series on mental health, we return to Eleanor Roosevelt's life and imagine a "New Deal" for mental health services, advocacy and practices in our present world.

In this episode, we talk about, both personally and historically, mental health as it has unfolded in American Life. 

In this episode, Gollum is interviewed on the state of the country.