E255 Human Dr. Max Frieder is an artist, educator and co-founder of Artolution, a foundation that empowers children and families through collaborative public arts initiatives that engage communities in creative experiences to promote healing, resilience and positive social change. Max’s work has taken him all over the world to refugee camps, hospital workshops, war-torn landscapes, […]

E254 Human Ramona Holloway is well known as a co-host of WLNK’s syndicated “The Matt and Ramona Show” out of Charlotte, NC. She’s also known on Twitter and Facebook as the woman who cares for her mother Louise (“Wheezy”) since a dementia diagnosis changed both of their lives forever. Ramona isn’t shy about documenting her […]

E253 Humans Kate Hasting and Josh Beale are the founding members of the group Hasting & Co. They’ve spent years honing their sound; a mix of roots, rock, humor, and what they call a midwestern “country authenticity.” Their recent single, “Canadian Tuxedo,” is a winking take on the traditional girl-seeks-boy scenario. Kate and Josh are […]

E252 Anna Swenson began her work in end-of-life care in 2015. She was one of the first team members at Recompose, a company that uses “natural organic reduction” to transform human remains into soil, allowing for a much smaller environmental impact (1/8 the energy) than conventional burial or cremation practices. “Recompose utilizes the principles of […]

E251 Clinical addiction specialist and social worker human, Vanessa Lech, is the founder of Carolina Addiction and Anger Management, PLLC. We chat about anger, passive aggressive behavior, addiction as it relates to emotion and some of the nuances of her practice. For more information and links, please visit: HeyHumanpodcast.com

E250 Human Matt Hundley is working to become one with the land, nurturing it into a sustainable, fertile environment that can support a copacetic and bountiful harvest, yielding its food and water while maintaining its natural, renewable abundance. As a homesteader and founder of Tennessee Homestead Design, he puts his skills to use as a […]

E249 Alan Zweibel cut his comedic teeth in the Catskills writing jokes for comics in the Borscht Belt. He was one of the original Saturday Night Live writers (Zweibel wrote many of its memorable sketches, including the Samurai character for John Belushi and he helped to create the characters of Gilda Radner’s Roseanne Roseannadanna and […]

E248 Hospice physician and End-of-Life researcher human, Chris Kerr, M.D., PhD., is the acclaimed author of Death is But a Dream and the Chief Medical Officer at The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, in Buffalo, NY. He has researched thousands of patients’ dreams and visions at the end of their lives and has found […]

E247 Human Navaris Darson is a gay, black man who grew up in a close and religious Southern family in Fayetteville, Georgia. He’s an actor (Two Broke Girls, American Horror Story, Home, Will and Grace), a writer, and has taught Improv at the Groundlings. We chat about upbringing, love, diversity in film and television, religion, […]

E246 Josie Alston is mom to Will, a boy with autism, global apraxia, sensory integration disorder and dyslexia. She is the Clinical Director of the Voice and Swallowing Clinic and Chief of the Division of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Josie’s helped patients relearn how to talk after major surgery, and […]