Relate w/ Patrick McAndrew

This episode 051 of SHIPS, I give you six different paths to fulfillment. Pursuing any of these will allow you to think about your daily life in a different way. I have found them to have a profound impact on my life and I hope they do the same for you.

Max Stossel, poet, filmmaker, and Head of Education at the Center for Humane Tech, joins us in episode 050 of SHIPS. We discuss the root of creativity, being comfortable with failure, and the how crucial intention is when presenting a message. We also dive deep into our relationship with technology and how we need to continuously check ourselves with this relationship when relating to other people.

To learn more about the great work Max is doing, please check out https://www.wordsthatmove.com/ and @maxstossel.

Max Stossel is an Award winning poet, filmmaker and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His one-man show “Words That Move” is currently selling out theaters all over NYC and is beginning to tour in select locations. Spanning across five continents, from Lincoln Center in NY to the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Max’s performances have been described as mind-expanding, profound, emotive, and hilarious all at once. His work has been translated to fourteen languages, won multiple film festivals, and has been viewed over 20 million times online. Max is also the Head of Education for the Center for Humane Technology, an organization of former tech insiders and CEOs dedicated to realigning technology with humanity’s best interests. Before joining CHT, Max was a media strategist with an extensive background in social, spending more time learning the ins and outs of the facebook algorithm than any human should. The merging of these fields allows Max to provide a fascinating perspective on modern content and culture. He is currently performing Words That Move in theatres, speaking or performing at schools, corporations & events, and helping select brands tell their stories in his style via video.

In this brief episode of SHIPS, we talk about how, since so much of our time is spent in the online universe, are our lives really just simulations? We post our highlight reels on social media and feign successes, fame, and glamour. Are we too busy living out our online personas that we forget to live in real life?

While there are a good handful of digital wellness companies out there educating the public on the harming effects of excessive technology use, the masses seem to still be spending a large majority of their time on their screens and devices. In episode 048 of SHIPS, we wonder whether or not people want to change their digital habits, despite all of the new resources available to them.

Tracy McDowell, Founder of Nested Feng Shui, joins us in episode 047 of SHIPS! We discuss how to be more conscious of our relationship with physical space and how we must sculpt a space for ourselves in order to optimize our lives. Tracy shares her experience combining her work with Feng Shui and digital wellbeing and ways in which we can declutter our digital spaces. She also shares with us the importance of sleep and how our society is suffering from a lack of intuition.

To learn more about the great work Tracy is doing, please visit https://www.nestedfengshui.com/.

Tracy McDowell is a Storytelling and Feng Shui Consultant. She loves guiding clients through the process of finding flow within their spaces; including homes, offices, and businesses. She is committed to Feng Shui as a practice because she has seen in her own life--and her clients--how balancing a space supports, nurtures, and ignites feelings of harmony and balance. Her practice, Nested Feng Shui, is about these layers of wellbeing, all about settling into ourselves by settling into our spaces. In the current digital age balancing our homes has become convoluted. Tracy specializes in Feng Shui for Digital Wellbeing by working specifically with clients to blend techniques for healthy technology use with tried and tested ancient Feng Shui remedies to optimize our relaxation and peace at home and/or in our physical spaces. Tracy's Feng Shui style is unique because she pulls from the multidisciplinary research she did for her specialized Storytelling Major at UCSD, yoga (200hr RYT), time as an elementary school art teacher, and work as a musician.

In this episode of SHIPS, I discuss with our listeners the reasons why I am an actor. I discuss how I believe acting better connects us to one another, how it enhances our relationships, and how it helps develop deeper levels of empathy within all of us. I also talk about it's tie in to digital wellness and how, with technology advancing at lightning speed, the skills learned in actor training are more crucial now than ever before.

Liana Pavane, Founder of TTYL, joins us in episode 045 of SHIPS. We discuss the creation of her events-based organization, TTYL, and the philosophy behind it. We talk about how we use our phones as an emotional crutch, how we still crave something real, and how everything is going to be perfectly fine when we put down our phones and take a break from them for a bit.

To learn more about Liana and her work, please check out https://www.ttylnyc.com/, @ttylnyc, TTYL on Facebook,  TTYL on LinkedIn or send her an email at [email protected].

Liana Pavane, a native New Yorker with a BA in Theatre Studies from Ithaca College, is the founder of TTYL, a phone free social club for adults full of board games, coloring, drinks, music and live entertainment. Her goal is to help people have a healthier relationship with technology and social media. Her passion is human connectivity and she believes her pop-ups allow New Yorkers to feel a little less lonely. TTYL has popped up in locations such as Showfields, The Phluid Project and Tijuana Picnic. Liana has been featured on NY1, Bedford + Bowery and The Cnneckt's blog. Her website (www.ttylnyc.com) can tell you where her next pop-ups are going to be! 

As technology continues to advance, we are becoming more and more one with the online universe. There is so much information about us on the Internet that it is starting to becoming difficult to parse out what is real from what is online. Are they one in the same? In episode 044 of SHIPS, we discuss our slow transformation into data and what is means for the future. 

In episode 043 of SHIPS, I talk with our listeners about why we shouldn't say yes to everything. Many of us always get caught in the trap of saying yes to every opportunity that comes our way. We are afraid of missing out on the potential of these opportunities and end up filling up our plate past capacity. Instead, we should be incredibly selective as to what we say yes to and hone in our focus in order to achieve what we want.

We talk with Founder and President of Pivot For Humanity, Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, in episode 042 of the SHIPS podcast. We discuss the concept of virtual distance, that it is in fact possible to build trust over the cloud, and the important role that digital friction plays in our lives.

To learn more about the inspiring work Jumana is doing, be sure to visit https://www.pivotforhumanity.com/ and https://betwixt.us/. You can also email her at [email protected]. 

Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the Founder and President of Pivot for Humanity, the organization working to professionalize the social tech industry, creating a more responsible, ethical and accountable internet. Jumana spent over 20 years in marketing and brand communications, developing and implementing strategies for corporations such as American Express, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Ally Bank and Hilton Hotels. She is perhaps most well-known for creating Capital One’s “What’s in your wallet?” campaign. In 2014, Jumana founded and launched betwixt.us, a digital conversation engine that harnesses technology to create a more authentic connection and communication between individuals on a team.