Hey Human Podcast

E285 Sister Irene O’Neill has devoted her life to helping others. She’s the president of Sisters Rising Worldwide, a non-profit of 650,000 Sisters doing life-changing work in 190 countries, sharing ideas and strategies that solve the root causes of injustices throughout the world, and in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. She also spent […]

E284 Human Scott Augenbaum is a cybercrime specialist, retired FBI supervisory special agent and former Crimes Against Children coordinator. He’s the author of “The Secret to Cybersecurity,” and spends his time helping to empower people against cyber attacks on their work and home computers, and phones – from phishing to romance scams to password shenanigans […]

E283 Human Ben Kutylo is executive director at ForwARd Arkansas, working to “accelerate the innovative and equitable transformation of education in Arkansas.” He’s worked with Chicago schools to help educators change the direction of learning. He’s also the co-founder of Fremont Street, a national nonprofit philanthropy dedicated to helping school systems change from within. We […]

E282 Human Dr. Thomas Ousterhout, a psychologist, and member of the Association of Computing Machinery, writes about mental health for TheMighty.com and the “Conquer Your Mind” group, is the author of “The Matrix Has You,” and wrote his dissertation on text emojis! We discuss his own suicide attempt in childhood, his subsequent experience on “lockdown” […]

E281 Human Andrea James is a consumer activist, writer, producer, filmmaker, “sexual radical,” and transgender pioneer. She began her career in advertising, has created award-winning websites and videos of trans-related and scholarly content, founded a production company and the Gender Media foundation, edited thousands of Wikipedia pages, voice-coached trans women, and has recently been asked […]

E280 Human Dr. Mao is a 38th generation practitioner of Chinese medicine and is co-founder of Tao of Wellness and Yo San University, both award winning centers for health and Traditional Chinese Medicine graduate education, respectively. He’s the author of over a dozen books about health and anti-aging. For more information and links, please visit: […]

E279 Human Vince DiPersio is a documentarian. His award-winning work in film and t.v. as an audio-visual storyteller has covered decades of events and humans, including; “The Last Days of Kennedy and King,” “The Big Question,” “People of Earth,” “Hate. com,” “Who Killed Tupac,” and most recently, in partnership with Kim Kardashian West, “The Justice […]

E278 Cameron Esposito is a standup comedian, activist, host and founder of Queery podcast, and author of her memoir “Save Yourself.” She grew up Catholic and studied theology. We discuss representation, comedy, religion, and cancel culture. Her standup special “Rape Jokes” is about sexual assault from a survivor’s perspective, with proceeds benefiting RAINN. She’s appeared […]

E277 Human Brad Koepenick‘s life has been dedicated to lifting up, educating, championing and helping others see their own kind of magic. He’s an award-winning educator, philanthropist, activist, actor, producer, writer, co-founder and president of SparkRise.com, and he grew up with some of Hollywood’s most talented, calling Val Kilmer a “soul brother.” Together, he and […]

E276 Human Jason Rogers is an American saber fencer, two-time Olympian and Olympic silver medalist. He’s a regular contributor to Men’s Health magazine and started “The Mandate Letter” online, where he explores themes related to masculinity, including his own past struggles with sexual performance anxiety. We discuss his writing, what it takes to be an […]