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- New Trailer: Humanitou Podcast
The Humanitou Podcast is about humanness and creativity. It's created and hosted by artist and writer Adam Williams, a super-curious introvert who might not be a superstar at small talk but loves thoughtful, energizing, one-on-one conversations. Humanitou shines light on failure and triumph, fear and love and all the messy and real parts of being human. There are conversations with fellow artists, thinkers, leaders and spiritual practitioners. And sometimes Adam goes solo to tackle the tough topics of being creative, not to mention just plain human. Topics like impostor syndrome, self-sabotage, and fear of success. Guests have included illustrator and author Lisa Congdon, celebrity chef Brother Luck, and best-selling author of The War of Art, Steven Pressfield. And many more amazing people doing super-amazing things to make the world a better place. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, produced and hosted by Adam Williams.
Episode transcript available at https://humanitou.com/new-trailer-the-humanitou-podcast/.
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About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
4 min - 108: Adam Williams, on the season wrap-up, Humanitou updates and Lewis Hyde's 'The Gift'
Adam Williams, creator and host of the Humanitou Podcast, wraps up Season One of the podcast, and talks about the newest goings on around Humanitou and his plans for the season break before he jumpstarts Season Two early in 2021. Along the way, he talks about Lewis Hyde's classic book, "The Gift," and how it's influencing his perspective on art creation (and even selling) as a means of gift giving, and how we all can play a role in keeping the energy of generosity flowing in the world. These things and more in this season-ending episode of the Humanitou Podcast. Show notes and transcript at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/season1-wrap.
Follow on Instagram @humanitou
Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
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15 min - 107: Chip Thomas, doctor, public artist & activist, on documentary photography, 'soul wounds' of the Navajo Nation, Quaker values, and surviving a widow-maker
Dr. Chip Thomas, a.k.a. "Jetsonorama," as a boy, avoided the violence of school desegregation by spending a fateful few years in a Quaker community. He later carried those Quaker values with him into a four-year commitment to serve as a young doctor on the Navajo Nation. That was in the Eighties. He's still there, more than 30 years later, and has become an integral part of the community, not only as a doctor, but as a public artist and activist. In this conversation, we talk about Chip's recent selection by the United Nations as one of nine artists being highlighted for #UN75. We talk about the disproportionate suffering on the Navajo Nation and "soul wounds." Chip earned a Guinness World Record for a 12,000-mile cycling trek the length of Africa. And on another cycling adventure met the brink of death in the grip of a widow-maker heart attack. These things and much more in this episode of the Humanitou Podcast. Show notes at humanitou.com. Photo credit: Ben Moon
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/chip-thomas.
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About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
1 hr 21 min - 106: Ber-Henda Williams, founder of The Power of Girlhood, on leadership and poetry, curiosity, FOMO and Sheila E.
Ber-Henda Williams is an empathic coach and facilitator, a bilingual poet and storyteller, and founder of The Power of Girlhood, a leadership institute for teen girls in Detroit. In this conversation, we talk about Detroit, and about going against the tide and leading from where we are. We talk about the need for curiosity, love poetry as a tool against the political power structure, and going toe-to-toe with the boys in class, laying down beats and rhymes. We've got special shoutouts to DJ Kool Herc and Sheila E. ("she's not just some Prince protegé"), among many other influences, including Eve Ensler and her play, "The Vagina Monologues." And we talk about other things, too. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/berhenda-williams-2.
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Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
Give feedback to Humanitou via the Listener Survey at humanitou.com
About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
1 hr 16 min - 105: Amanda E.K., writer and filmmaker, on purity culture and rapture anxiety, religious trauma syndrome and coming into her own as an atheist queer polyamorous nonbinary woman
Amanda E.K. is a writer and filmmaker, the editor-in-chief and publisher of Suspect Press, a memoirist about purity culture and an exvangelical. In this conversation, Amanda talks about her fundamentalist evangelical upbringing, purity culture, rapture anxiety and religious trauma syndrome. We also talk about when she started to question the faith, and about eventually coming into her own truths as an atheist and a self-described "queer polyamorous nonbinary womxn" in a loving heterosexual marriage. Among other things, like Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and Amanda's forthcoming memoir. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/amanda-e-k.
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Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
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Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
1 hr 2 min - 104: Adam Williams, on his fear of 'love', the nuances of karma, and healing our dis-ease and disconnections
Adam Williams, creator of Humanitou, gets into a topic that he's really not comfortable talking about: love. In this solo episode, he starts with an odd little story that finally got him to speak on this issue he's got with love. He explores why he's not comfortable having this talk with you today, why that’s got to change and how he's changing it. He also briefly digresses into the nuances of karma, what it really is and what it really isn’t. And he shares some other things that he thinks you’ll find useful in your own relationship to love.
More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/love.
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About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
25 min - 103: Lucas LaRochelle, designer and founder of Queering the Map, on the magic of archiving queer experience, and anonymity, love and truth, data privacy and A.I.
Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and artist, and the founder of Queering the Map, a collaborative digital archive of queer experience across the world. With Lucas, we dive into the storytelling and the magic of Queering the Map. We talk about the importance and the transcendental powers of anonymity, and we talk about one of the most powerful aspects of love. We also dig into truth and fiction, and what it means to acknowledge another’s story versus invalidating it and dismissing it as untrue or even unworthy. And we get into data privacy and artificial intelligence. Among other things. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/lucas-larochelle/.
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Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
Give feedback to Humanitou via the Listener Survey at humanitou.com
About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
1 hr 6 min - 102: Lewis Lee, community facilitator and mentor, on using technology and creativity to make change in the 53206, staying out of prison and cultivating a legacy of good
Lewis Lee struggled to stay out of prison when he was a young man, and then to find life purpose once he did. Now, he's a community leader, facilitator and mentor, a voice for social justice, and the Milwaukee-based curator of the Shared Studios Portal in the neighborhood where he came up. The 53206, where Lewis still lives, is the zip code with the highest incarceration rate of black men in America. Lewis is working to change that. He shares his story of using technology to negotiate gang peace and creative collaboration to maintain it, of working with the city's leadership on a fatherhood initiative, and building police-community relations. Among other things. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/lewis-lee/.
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Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
1 hr - 101: Adam Williams, on building a path of purpose one step at a time, applying the Zen philosophy of chopping wood and carrying water
Humanitou creator Adam Williams digs into some thoughts, resources and ideas about recognizing life purpose and cultivating success through the Zen Buddhist koan, "chop wood, carry water." Along the way, he dips into the wisdom of sages like Jedi master Yoda and Michael Jordan, Baba Ram Dass and Pablo Picasso, an 8th century Buddhist poet and the lightbulb inventor Thomas Edison. Adam also shares the simplest of three-step action plans to create lasting success in your life. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/chop-wood-carry-water/.
Follow on Instagram @humanitou
Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
24 min - 100: Ber-Henda Williams, empathic coach and bilingual poet, on empathy, systemic racism, cultural behaviors, collective grief, curiosity and reaffirming connections of humanity
Ber-Henda Williams is an empathic coach and facilitator, a bilingual poet and storyteller, and founder of The Power of Girlhood, a leadership institute for teen girls in Detroit. In this conversation, in the days following the police shooting of Jacob Black seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, we talk about empathy and getting curious about ourselves, systemic biases and anti-racism. We talk about spiritual practices and having courageous conversations, and how to chip away at the callousness and lack of humanity that pervades society right now, and about the need for collective mobilization for something better. More at humanitou.com.
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Humanitou is created, hosted and produced by Adam Williams.
Show notes and transcript of this episode at humanitou.com/berhenda-williams/.
Follow on Instagram @humanitou
Support Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/
About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/
Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
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About Humanitou: Exploring Humanness + Creativity
From the publisher's feed
[Archived] The Humanitou podcast dives into what it means to be human, creative and authentic. In this podcast, the writer, poet, artist and photographer Adam Williams explores creative and big life…
questions, the things he thinks he knows, and where those ideas fall apart, too. The podcast features short solo episodes by Adam and longer conversations he has with fellow creatives and thinkers.