Three listeners share their really bad date stories. Emily shares a bad first date that sounded a lot like the plot to the next true-crime series, Jamie shares how she got friend-zoned 3 months into her relationship & George shares a shock and awe tale of a date he couldn’t wait to end.

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Jean Franzblau is the founder of the Cuddle Sanctuary, the Los Angeles destination for touch positive events and nationwide professional cuddling. She shares the in-flight ad & bad date that inspired her to start her business, the science behind touch & what lessons we can learn from people who pay to spoon. She also answers the burning questions we’re all thinking.

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Steve Berke shares how he went from judgmental jock to cannabis advocate. He explains how smoking a spliff with Sir Richard Branson was the beginning of his journey to breaking the pothead stereotype, the origin story of becoming co-founder of the International Church of Cannabis & his opinion on the increasingly stronger products offered at dispensaries.

Special thanks to listeners Megan Stodard & Chad Sanders for inspiration on this episode.

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In this episode, I talk with fellow podcaster, Joe Sills of the Get Lost Podcast, about interviews that changed our lives. He shares why his chat with Arctic Explorer, Mark Wood, made him want to be more vulnerable & how his chat with Oscar-Award-Winning Actor Matthew McConoughey helped remedy his imposter syndrome.

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In April of 2021, GMO mosquitos were released in the Florida Keys, but as Molecular Biologist, Dr. Natalie Kofler explains, they have been released in other regions prior to that. She helps shed light on the difference between GMO mosquitos and gene drive mosquitoes & the global impact of diseases spread by mosquitoes. We also take a deep dive into the ethical questions around who is creating these lab-altered insects & who is impacted by their release into the wild.

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For Native people in the Arctic region, the tradition of chin tattooing goes back generations, but until very recently, the tradition was not still in practice. Marjorie Kunaq Tahbone was raised in a fish camp near Nome, Alaska & from a young age, desired to more deeply connect with her Inupiaq and Kiowa traditions. In this episode, she shares her journey deciding to get a traditional chin tattoo, her family’s reaction & the revitalization of the practice. She also speaks to the meaning of decolonization, the history of boarding schools & the importance of food sovereignty.

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Patty Wagstaff is a three-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion & the first woman to ever achieve this title. In this episode, she shares the progression of her career & the unique opportunities it has led her to, including training bush pilots in Kenya. We discuss improving vs evolving, beginner's mind & the frontier of aging.

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Jeremy Nichols has been a hospitality headhunter in Florida for over 20 years & in this episode, he shares his observations of how the great resignation has impacted corporate leadership styles, the power shift from employers to employees, how the burnout trickle-down happened & how it’s changed his job as a recruiter.

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Dan Helms grew up in the Florida panhandle, not discovering his native heritage until he was in his late 50s. In this episode he shares how DNA tests are unreliable, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, education vs re-education, blood quantum, white privilege, Hollywood & the hoped for future of North America’s native people.

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Mary Ruddick spent over a decade bedridden with dysautonomia. It was by implementing the GAPS diet that she was able to put all her symptoms in remission. Now she is the Director of Nutrition for Enable Your Healing & as a seasoned medical nutritionist, dubbed the “Sherlock Holmes of Health.” She specializes in metabolic, immune, and nervous system disorders & travels the globe observing ancestral diets. In this episode, she shares what nutrition myths were busted as she began her global travels, cooking methods vs cooking ingredients, why she is grateful for her illness & how morning sunlight can improve your microbiome.

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