The Created Life

The Created Life

By Damian TaggartSociety & CultureEntrepreneurshipHealth & FitnessSelf-ImprovementPhilosophy
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The Created Life episodes

  • Storytelling for Impact with Jackie Munro
    On this week’s episode of The Created Life podcast I have a wide-ranging conversation with an accomplished filmmaker and storyteller, Jackie Munro, whose 2016 feature documentary Una Nueva Tierra profiled the lives of families living at the edge of our society. In today’s show Jackie shares perceptive views on storytelling and her motivations as a creator. … Storytelling for Impact with Jackie Munro Read More »
    1 hr 7 min
  • Storytelling for Impact with Jackie Munro
    On this week’s episode of The Created Life podcast I have a wide-ranging conversation with an accomplished filmmaker and storyteller, Jackie Munro, whose 2016 feature documentary Una Nueva Tierra profiled the lives of families living at the edge of our society. In today’s show Jackie shares perceptive views on storytelling and her motivations as a creator. … Storytelling for Impact with Jackie Munro Read More »
    1 hr 7 min
  • Making Creative Impact in Business and Life with Michael Davis, CEO of Merek Security
    Welcome back to another great episode of The Created Life. It’s tax day here in the United States so hopefully you’ve got that sometimes unpleasant civic duty out of the way and are ready to enjoy this week’s episode. Today I speak with an engaging and inspiring man who spent 22 years in the United … Making Creative Impact in Business and Life with Michael Davis, CEO of Merek Security Read More »
    1 hr
  • Grief and Healing with Dr. Ted Wiard
    On this week’s episode of The Created Life I talk to a truly remarkable man who turned a sequence of tragedies — the loss of his brother, his wife, and his two young daughters — into a life of healing and helping others overcome the negative impact of loss. Reverend Dr. Ted Wiard is the … Grief and Healing with Dr. Ted Wiard Read More »
    1 hr 1 min
  • Giving Porn an Upgrade with Kestrel & Christopher of Unicorn Palace
    On this week’s show I discuss a wide-variety of topics relating to sex, pornography and sexuality with a couple of Denver-based independent art porn producers, Kestrel Mills and Christopher Magill. The content of the show is not overtly pornographic, but we discuss many aspects of pornography as an industry as well as human sexuality. So … Giving Porn an Upgrade with Kestrel & Christopher of Unicorn Palace Read More »
    59 min
  • Giving Porn an Upgrade with Kestrel & Christopher of Unicorn Palace

    On this week’s show I discuss a wide-variety of topics relating to sex, pornography and sexuality with a couple of Denver-based independent art porn producers, Kestrel Mills and Christopher Magill. The content of the show is not overtly pornographic, but we discuss many aspects of pornography as an industry as well as human sexuality. So please use your discretion if you are listening to this with children present — this week’s episode of The Created Life covers topics that I am passionate about and that are extremely important for us to be discussing as a culture — but they are definitely topics suited for a mature audience.

    In this week’s episode I have a lively conversation the humans behind the art porn project, Unicorn Palace, we discuss: 

    • The problems with porn
    • Erotic art, feminist porn, and amateur porn
    • Using machine learning to create animated erotica
    • The state of VR in porn
    • Shame in sexuality
    • Polyamory and ethical non-monogamy
    • Making “ethical porn”, a non-exploitative celebration of sexuality
    • Destigmatizing sexuality, elevating sex from the gutter
    • The Tumblr porn takedown and the climate for indie porn today
    • What changes would need to happen for a cultural shift in the way we think about porn
    • Letting go of embarrassment of sexuality, our bodies
    • Self love and self acceptance as a foundation for a positive relationship to sexuality
    • The importance of consent
    • Trust, jealousy, compersion, fear
    • Unlearning jealousy and homophobia
    • The power of making choices and changing your physiology
    • The gift economy, moving from scarcity to abundance
    • Getting creative, taking responsibility for ourselves

      • Today’s interview was recorded by Ryan Foo at the PodSpace in Denver, Colorado.

      Learn more about Unicorn Palace

      Check out these links to see some of the erotic art of Unicorn Palace (WARNING not safe for work):

      • https://www.instagram.com/UnicornPalaceArt/ [NSFW]
      • http://unicornpalace.org [NSFW]
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        59 min
      • Taking out the trash with Emma Cohen, CEO of FinalStraw
        On this week’s episode of The Created Life I talk trash with Emma Cohen, co-founder and CEO of FinalStraw, a scrappy start-up that hopes to change consumer habits by replacing single use products with what they’ve dubbed “foreverables”: products they guarantee to last a lifetime. Emma and I also talk about her path to success, … Taking out the trash with Emma Cohen, CEO of FinalStraw Read More »
        47 min
      • Social Justice and Unity with Pastor Bill Thompson
        On this week’s installment of The Created Life I interview septuagenarian William Thompson, a retired 76-year young Lutheran Minister, social justice activist, and professor. Bill Thompson found direction in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, graduated from Union Theological Seminary and spent the next 16 years serving the poor. Subsequently Bill taught at Bowling Green University teaching courses on ethnic diversity in social work and developed immersion trips to the South Bronx and the Navajo Reservation.
        During my interview with Bill we discuss a pretty wide range of topics including:
        How individual behaviors create “dominant culture”
        The important of being “open” to inspiration and passion
        The importance of discovering a foundation of unity with other people and cultures in order to celebrate differences
        Finding happiness and connection, by allowing fear and awareness of death into our lives
        How sharing your pain with others can heal you and them
        The relationship between addiction and disconnection and the purpose of meditation
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        1 hr
      • Philosopher of Natural Movement: Erwan Le Corre
        Welcome to Episode 002 of The Created Life Podcast! This week’s interview is with Erwan Le Corre, a French American movement guru and founder of MovNat — a system for training natural movement. Erwan has a brand new book out called “The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom” available now.
        Erwan invited me down to beautiful, sunny Tulum, Mexico to interview him for the podcast while he was there teaching some MovNat courses. I jumped at the opportunity for a temporary escape from the clutches of winter. This was my first trip to the Yucatan and I got a chance to explore Tulum, visit a beautiful freshwater cenote, and even do a 1-mile swim from the main beach at Tulum over to the Tulum ruins.
        I met up with Erwan the following day and as you’ll hear from our interview, we had a tough go finding a reasonably quiet place to record. The entire neighborhood we were in was under construction it seemed, so we wound up doing the interview in an upscale hotel lobby.
        After my interview with Erwan, I got to participate in a 2-day MovNat Combative workshop that taught real world self defense skills using the foundations of natural movement set forth by the MovNat curriculum. I found the experience of the combative training to be very worthwhile: it focused on simple tactics that are applicable in realistic “street fighting” type situations. The techniques taught were simple and effective. The course focused a lot on the psychology of not being a victim, and being able to react and think in stressful circumstances. The course also taught situational awareness and the psychological aspects of self defense. During one of the drills I even got to experience what it was like to be tasered while being beaten on by about 8 of my classmates, while at the same time having to remember a series of random numbers that were being called out by the instructor in order to practice keeping focus and ability to observe and recall details in a stressful situation.
        In this episode, Erwan and I discuss the origins of MovNat, the value of allowing children to be in situations with a certain degree of risk to support their natural instincts and development. We talk about the idea of modern people being “zoo humans”, Erwan gives his take on Ido Portal’s idea of “movement culture”, we discuss having a unified life the unity between body and mind, why we evolved to have brains, and why a vision is more important than having a dream. We even get into Erwan’s vision of a “reverse zombie apocalypse”! Despite a little background noise, I think this is a really great discussion and I hope you enjoy it much as did.
        Learn More
        Learn more about Erwan and MovNat: http://movnat.com/ | https://www.naturalmovement.com/
        That’s it for this week’s installment of The Created Life! Check back in next week for my interview with Lutheran Pastor and social justice activist, Bill Thomson.
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        45 min
      • Climbing Vertical Ice with Graham Zimmerman & Lyndsay Houston

        Welcome to the first episode of The Created Life podcast with Damian Taggart! I am extremely excited to start sharing with you the stories and knowledge I am learning from inspiring entrepreneurs, athletes, and creatives — people who are engaged in life and pursuing their passions and giving back to their communities. In this episode I interview two athletes that I met at the 24th Annual Ouray Ice Festival a few weeks ago in Ouray, Colorado. The first is filmmaker and alpinist, Graham Zimmerman and the second is ice climbing competitor for Team Canada in this year’s UIAA World Cup, Lyndsay Houston.

        Graham Zimmerman

        Born in New Zealand raised in the Northwest. After being exposed to alpine terrain in the Cascades he moved back to NZ where he cut his teeth in the Southern Alps and became a strong part of the Kiwi climbing community. Then, after graduating from university in 2007 he moved back to the states and has been focused on climbing as it applies to alpinism ever since. This has taken him on expeditions from Alaska to Patagonia to Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan and all over the lower 48 and Canada where he has established dozens of significant new routes on rock, ice and snow.

        He specializes in complex logistics having run over 30 expeditions and assignments to many parts of the world including Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Alaska, Argentina, Eritrea and Kenya. For his climbing exploits Graham won the 2010 New Zealand Alpinist of the Year and was a finalist for the 2014 Piolet d’Or (alpine climbing’s equivalent to an Olympic gold medal) and won the 2017 Cutting Edge Award from the American Alpine Club. You can learn more about Graham’s work on his website: http://www.grahamzimmerman.com/

        Lyndsay Houston, Ice climber for Team Canada
        Lyndsay Houston

        Lyndsay is an ice climber for Team Canada in both lead and speed climbing, a gymnastics coach

        50 min

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