This week's guest on Inner Monologue is Cheyenne Gaines. Cheyenne shares her honest, compassionate and raw journey with depression at a young age. With the support of her mother, she exposes what it was like to grow up with depression and rage and how to seek help to manage it all. We discuss what it was like to handle the changes one goes through in puberty and high school and how to manage that intense period of life.  She shares her story of triumph in finding ways to live with mental health issues and seeking natural medicine modalities to support her depression and state of mind.

This week's episode of the RISE podcast, Inner Monologue is with activist & teacher, Adam Morales.  As a Hispanic youth, Adam talks about noticing inequality between cultures. He also talks about the importance of education, the necessity of family and the need to create.

This week on the RISE podcast, Inner Monologue, we have friend and confidant, Shannon Scutari. She discusses the ever evolving journey of parenthood. We have an esoteric conversation about growth through suffering, breaking unhealthy behavioral cycles and how to build new positive habits.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue is friend and personal wizard, Shawn Daukarus. Shawn and I met in film school in 2007 and was a grounding anchor for me during my cross country bicycle tour of 2012. Shawn's journey begins with an existential crisis at the age of 10. Eventually his love for eastern philosophy and his martial arts practice led him to the power of awareness.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue is my friend, Reid Blakey, he is a great ray of sunshine and best of all, a diva. Reid is the happiest man I have ever met and happiness is a lifestyle that he has chosen. He opens up about growing up with an alcoholic father, watching his parents go through divorce. He also shares how their relationship shaped the way he views his own relationships.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue co-founder & president of Mindful Youth Project, Alexus Robertson. Alexus discusses the philosophy of Mindful Youth Project, which is to help creat conscious thought in our youth by sharing information from our elders. Alexus shares the genesis of the project and what inspires her to continue its evolution.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue is musician Kayla Clancy and has a music/ poetry project called Meet The Sun. Kayla shares the genesis of her project, her travels through the United Stated camping and living on couches and gathering inspiration on her journey. Kayla also discusses the experience of finishing school in Europe and her excitement for her next big adventure...South America. Kayla is all set for her journey, she says she has 2 vaccinations, a loose itinerary and a one way ticket to Columbia.

This week's episode of Inner Monologue welcomes the return of Zak Chipps, co-founder of RISE and fellow cyclist on the RISE tour. Zak and I continue our dialogue about our cross country bicycle adventure. Traveling through New Mexico, we talk about the legend of a man known as Montana. We also discuss how Albuquerque continued our frustration with lack of community but eventually found refuge in Santa Fe. We also share our meeting with DMT researcher, Dr. Rick Strassman.

This week's guest on Inner Monologue is Todd Van Duzer, co-founder & CEO of Desert Canvas, a nonprofit organization which brings people together for fun, fellowship & promoting the transcendence of personal fear.  Todd talks about his life changing trip across Europe, starting a student tutoring business in multiple states across the US and he also shares how setting up a slack line in a local park has ignited a communal revolution.

Our guest for this week's episode on Inner Monologue is artist Carrie Behrens.  Inspired by the animation of Disney Carrie began her journey in high school by creating her own comic book. We also talked about Carrie's comic series for the ASU state press, working at Space 55 and the evolution of her radio drama Night of the Chicken.