This week, Heather and Andy talk to Brian Liberatore about his career several years ago, in which he was an investigative journalist in Florida. The team explore how investigative journalism has changed as news in general has changed and how the rapid pace of news affects us in the modern world. They also talk about accents and their cultural impact, Brian's new baby twins, the peace corps, and churches around the world.

Learn more about the Colorado Renewable Energy Society here:

https://www.cres-energy.org/

and The Climate Mobilization here:

https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/

This week Heather Stone and Andy Ininns speak with Corianne Wells, Cofounder + Creative Director of Odessa Denver about women in the arts, empowering artists toward success before 40, and community development.

Mentions:

The great boss with the buzzer: Danny @Fromthehipphoto

Angela Craven @AngelaCravenArt

Tilt West @TiltWest

Moe Gram @Mi_MoeGram

Sammy Lee @sammy_seungmin_lee

RedLine Contemporary Art Center @redlinedenver

MCA @mca_denver

Mauro C Martinez: @ztm_oruam

Sierra Montoya Barela: @smbarela

The Article by Julie Carr: https://hyperallergic.com/441854/who-decides-what-is-violent-in-the-museum/

Kristopher: @kristopherinthecut

Follow Odessa @odessadenver

Corianne: @corianne_der

This week cohosts Andy Ininns and Jesse Huebner speak with Andrea Rabold, the Executive Director of Mirror Image Arts, about positive community impact, how theater can create that impact, and philosphize around being factual. The crew dives into mental wellness and how we all can give bullying less of a chance to exist as well as the hope that everyone in this human community can feel their value.

Check out MIA: http://www.mirrorimagearts.org

Get in touch with Andrea: [email protected]

Attend MIA’s gala: https://www.mirrorimagearts.org/events/igyb-gala/

This week cohosts Heather Stone and Carin Huebner talk to Kiomi Villar about the human brain. We’re talking neurofeedback and retraining the brain to lessen symptoms of traumatic brain injury, head trauma, and cognitive behavioral differences like anxiety and depression. Never heard of neurofeedback? We hadn’t either until we met Kiomi. Kiomi lets us into how neurofeedback can change individuals’ lives and tells us about her most recent research project helping with child literacy.

Kiomi’s Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/KiomiCo?ref=shop_sugg

More on Biofeedback and Neurofeedback

https://www.bcia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

This week cohosts Jesse and Carin Huebner talk with Yellow Scene Managing Editor Johnathen De La Vaca about what’s up with journalism in our country, the hope for media and the power of independent channels, and how graffiti isn’t that different from journalism.  The team gets deep with the after life of an atheist and how we’re all connected.

Check out Yellow Scene Magazine: https://yellowscene.com

We mention Crush Walls: http://crushwalls.org and Colorado Sun: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/873054240/the-colorado-sun

This week on the Podcast, cohosts Carin Huebner and Andy Ininns talk to Kyle Hartman, one of the curators of Denver's Underground Music Showcase. Kyle talks about how he approaches festival curating as a creative endeavor, finding your creative path, and how the creative process changes as we get older.

In Facts Beyond Facts, Andy talks about his recent eye operation, and Kyle talks about the mysterious organ that is the appendix.

Catch UMS this weekend (July 27-29)- the schedule is here, and keep up with Kyle's work on Synesthesia here.

This week cohosts Jesse Huebner and Heather Stone speak with Jason Hopcus, the President of the Arapahoe/Douglas Counties affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The crew talks about strange names for groups of things, how we can look at mental health differently, and how connection with other humans and groups is transformational. Jason shares his own story with breakdown that’s transformed into breakthrough and gets real with why it’s so important to talk about mental wellbeing.

Check out more of what NAMI does and find education options and resources here:

NAMI.org

Namiadco.org

On this episode, cohosts Jesse + Carin dig deep with Andrea Moore, the Executive Director of The Wayfaring Band. We chat about why Andrea started TWB that takes adults with disabilities on trips all over the world to engage dialog around inclusivity, neurodiversity, and mutuality. Among other things, we get into art, spirituality, and why travelling is so important. We also talk about the emigration of Mennonites and how Colorado really is the largest state.

Andrea Links:

The Wayfaring Band: http://thewayfaringband.com

Instagram: @thewayfaringband

Facebook: The Wayfaring Band

Twitter: WayfaringBand

Andrea’s Art: http://www.andreamoorearts.com

Cohosts Heather Stone and Carin Huebner chat with photographer and all around good guy Preston Utley. Preston Utley is a photographer that shoots his immediate surroundings in Denver, around the world, and at weddings. The group chats about how Preston landed in photography, the humanist background of archiving humanity, and god within.

Links to find Preston:

Preston’s photographer that shoots weddings website: http://www.prestonutley.com

Preston’s fine art photography website: http://www.thesnapshotdiaries.com

Preston’s wedding instagram: https://www.instagram.com/preston_utley/

Preston’s fine art instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesnapshotdiaries/

Preston Mentions:

Del the Funky Homosapien: https://www.delhiero.com

Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com

Eckhart Tolle: https://www.eckharttolle.com

Read more about, get involved with, or contact Megan through the Building Bridges website here: https://buildingbridgesshift.org and keep up with Building Bridges through their facebook page here:https://www.facebook.com/BuildingBridgesShift/

Wolf Reintroduction to Yellowstone Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

Abby Wambach’s Barnard College Commencement where the wolves are referenced and fired Megan up here: https://barnard.edu/commencement/archives/2018/abby-wambach-remarks

Carin and Andy’s op-ed about trad wives and how they’re using podcasting here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/tradwives-women-alt-right.html