Nancy Buffington is a wonderful and generous woman who I am privileged to know. She spoke with me about her experiences as a introverted girl and the effect they had on her life as a woman and an academic. She has put in a tremendous amount of work over the past dozen years to re-orient her personal and professional life around what is important to her. You can hear in her story how excited she is about the life she has forged.

Learn more about Nancy on her website, nancybuffington.net.

Part 2 of our conversation will be out next week.

Thank you for speaking with me, Nancy!

This week Michael talks to Stephen Warley, a wonderful human being and the man behind the podcast, website, and coaching business he calls Life Skills That Matter.

Stephen talks about how he has spent many years aligning himself with himself, making his behaviors fit the person he would like to be. You can hear in his story how hard he has worked on this, and continues to work.

Thank you, Stephen, for speaking with me. Stay great!

Ruminations on the beauty of fall colors, their relationship to transience and mortality, and on how letting go is part of living fully.

After a few weeks off (car troubles, and recording and editing my first guest conversation), Michael returns with some more thoughts from the Dead Man's Forest about the different paths we all take to truth, and how the characters we play in the stories we tell ourselves are who we become.

A conversation with John Poelstra of johnpoelstra.com

Struggles in conflict situations, the complexity of multiple perspectives, and the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us.

Back after a short hiatus, Michael reiterates the story behind Dead Man's Forest and shares some thoughts on belonging.

The 14th episode of Dead Man's Forest.

The 13th conversation from the Dead Man's Forest.

The 12th conversation from the Dead Man's Forest.