Inefficiency Podcast

Brian Mulder is a wood worker, barber and musician.  He quit formal Christian ministry at the age of 30 to live and think differently. Brian embodies a creative, connected inefficiency that is rare and infectious. Mulder just finished up a European house show tour for his new album, Holotropic and stopped by Austin, Texas for a live conversation and house show for us. Brian resides in Holland, Michigan.  

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website: www.muldermakes.com

Shawn Hofer is a psychologist in private practice in Minneapolis, MN.  He has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Rosemead Schoo of Psychology and is an advanced candidate at the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is also a faculty member at BIPACT.  He takes a psychoanalytic approach to depression, anxiety, grief, eating disorders and spirituality. 

"It's really difficult to write a short biography, but especially difficult in a post-truth era." 

Jason Ikpatt is a 23 year old Nigerian man-boy who grew up in the South. His life draws inspiration from the disenfranchised, the rejected, the solemn, the absurdists, the outrageous, the Wu Tang Clan, and his lovely gem of a mother. His poetry draws inspiration from Kahlil Gibran, Warsan Shire, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, the Wu Tang Clan, and his lovely gem of a mother. 

At the present moment, he is a friend, a son, a brother, an armchair intellectual, an above average pickup basketball choice, fiercely independent to the point of loner-ism, somehow also fiercely dependent on everything to the brink of uninhibited universal love, a sub-par bike mechanic, a jazz club stank face head-nodder, a road-trip instrumental freestyler, a decidedly naive optimist, an actual former desert mystic, and an early tax filer. He resides in Austin, Texas with his bamboo plant and three succulents. 

Erin Inman is an artist and stay at home mom to her two children.  She is also the wife of Inefficiency host Matt Inman.  She was on the podcast in 2015 to talk about her long term grief which ended up being one of the most listened to episodes of Inefficiency. She is back to talk about her year alongside her husband Matt Inman.  

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for "a new kind of Christianity" - just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. 

Brian has served on a number of boards, including Emergent Villiage, Sojourners, International Teams and, The Seattle School, and his a founding member of Red Letter Christians. He has appeared on All Things Considered, Larry King Live, Nightline and On Being.  Brian's work has been covered by other news outlets such as Time, The Washington Post, Huffington Post and Christianity Today.

Brian resides in Florida with his wife Grace. He has four grown children and five grandchildren.  

Dr. Kevin Washington is a licensed psychologist and assistant professor at Howard University, who has served as a behavioral consultant for Essence Magazine and BET, Black Entertainment Television. He is the President of the Association of Black Psychologists.  He has degrees from Grambling State and Texas A&M. His work centers around rites of passage, ubuntu and ubuntu psychotherapy.  Through his research and writing he seeks to assist people to live with power, purpose and passion.  

photo cred to twloha.com

Jamie Tworkowski is the founder of the non-profit To Write Love On Her Arms, an organization that presents hope and finds help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-harm and suicide.  For 10 years, Jamie has given his time providing hope for those hurting all over the country.  He speaks dynamic hope and help through college campus conversations, book tours, music concerts, writing and even fashion.  The honesty that Jamie has about his own experience with depression and pain opens up spaces and gives permission for others to give value to their own experiences.  

www.twloha.com

@jamietworkowski (twitter and instagram)

Show Notes

• :00 Mary Oliver poem, Wild Geese
• 6:30  Start of JT interview
• 6:45  Explanation of Inefficiency
• 13:10  Permission as invitation
• 14:55 Importance of counseling and mental health
• 18:20 Dreams vs. Fears  ( www.dreamsvsfears.com )
• 21:22 Rehoping ( www.venture.org )
• 23:45 We all break in this life
• 26:35 Need for beauty and the arts
• 32:30 Holding space for us
• 33:45 Self-care
• 36:23 Sense of purpose
• 39:00 Story of Jamie's friend David
• 47:20 Crisis Text Line ( www.crisistextline.org )
• 48:50 Outro
• www.lostgoldmedia.com 

Shelly Prosko is a Physical Therapist, Professional Yoga Therapist & Pilates Instructor, she is a highly respected pioneer in the area of Physio Yoga Therapy, a combination of Physical Therapy & Medical Therapeutic Yoga.

Her mission is to educate, inspire & empower people to create health by authentically sharing her knowledge, expertise & experience as she travels across Canada & the U.S. offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy workshops, presenting at international yoga therapy conferences, lecturing at medical college programs, instructing at numerous yoga therapy schools and actively promotes the integration of yoga therapy into our current healthcare system.

Michael Solberg is classically trained in the Rolf Method of Structural Integration and has studied extensively in Boulder, Co and Kauai, Hawaii. Alongside his wife, Virginia Solberg, they own the Solberg Center for Structural Integration in Dallas, Texas. Michael has also founded Pause Hawaii, a transformational immersion process in Hawaii for his clients, which combines structural integration, yoga, nutrition, meditation and personal discovery alongside adventure and the tranquility of the islands. Michael and his family reside in Plano, Texas.

He is a clinical psychologist who received his training at Rosemead School of Psychology in La Mirada, California.  He is the founder of the non-profit community mental health and teaching clinic, Richland Oaks Counseling Center, and has taught at the Texas School of Professional Counseling for 10 years.  He is fiercely inept (his words) at administrative responsibilities and passionately in love with clinical work, and spiritually curious about a broad many things.  He resides in Dallas, Texas with his wife and three kids.