The Explorer Poet Podcast

My guest today is Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald a Certified Psychoanalyst and a Licensed Marriage, and Family Therapist. Kathleen has worked in the mental health field for thirty years, has taught at the Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology and the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, and has and maintained a private practice for over twenty-five years. I found Kathleen to have a great depth of knowledge, experience, and passion. She’s engaging, insightful, and great at expounding on difficult concepts and connecting them to our waking lives. I genuinely enjoyed my conversation with Kathleen and I hope you enjoy it as well.

In our conversation, we discussed the ocean, the beach, symbology, creative unconscious, collective subconscious, Sygmeund Freud, Carl Jung, dreams, the Royal Road to the Unconscious, dreamwork, internalized experiences, the ego, dream interpretation, artists as the dreaming function of society, everyone can be an creator, history, how complex people are, our desires to push away pain and seek out pleasure, talk therapy, the dreamworld, helping others find the answers within, pulling off band aids, where the unconscious is lurking, people holding back from what they want to say, accessing the body and mind through symbols, intelligence without a vocabulary, the Skin Ego, language packages, waking life, are we aware, being with others, sharing dreams, dreams as individual mythology, the conscious world vs the collective subconscious, and creators projecting the future world.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald

Website: http://www.drkathleenfitzgerald.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathleenfitzgeraldpsyd/?hl=en

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Welcome to The EXPLORER POET Podcast.

My guest today is Dr. Jean Benedict Raffa, an author and expert in Jungian psychology. Jean has lived two lives, the second of which began with a dream in midlife, leading her to follow a deep need to be herself. Her work and books are an effort to help others do the same. Jean’s latest book, and winner of the Nautilus Award, is titled The Soul’s Twin’s: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes. The book offers a guide through masculine and feminine archetypes for those who desire greater self-fulfillment and freedom to be themselves, and who wish to activate new archetypes of loving relationships within themselves and others. Jean is a kind, intelligent, fun person and I learned a lot from her and I really enjoyed our conversation. I hope you enjoy it as well.

In our conversation, we discussed masculine and feminine archetypes, archetypes as basic structures, Hero myths, mythology and the gods, being true to our souls, owning your power, analyzing yourself with mythology, everyone has a myth that connects with them, gender and archetypes, culture reinforcing archetypes, the psyche continuum, organized religion, American literalism, Hell, growth and suffering, starting a whole new story, death of the old, growing into the truths of your soul, ten years of agony, baptism by fire, a dark night of the soul, growth without suffering, dreams, the Lone Ranger, Tonto, mediatrix, archetypes, church, dreamwork, and the strengths of the feminine, conditioning, true souls, balance, yin-yang, innerwork, enlightened beings, our souls potential, the literal dogmas of cultures schools businesses and families, and self-knowledge and the shadow, accepting the good and bad and transcending it anyways, helping ourselves create a new story, and virtue and the middle path.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Dr. Jean Benedict Raffa

Website: https://jeanbenedictraffa.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanraffa/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanraffa

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanraffa

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Vx6rnypgCDiLWALh_rHRQ

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanraffa/

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Welcome to The EXPLORER POET Podcast.

My guest today is a world traveler, lifelong surfer, and an absolute wizard with a paint brush. His name is Pete Tillack. In his early twenties, Pete was just about to launch his own electrician business, when a brief surf trip turned into a lifelong journey of discovery, relationships, and art. I absolutely love Pete’s artwork and would describe his paintings as, “walking into a dream”. They are beautiful pieces, full of vivid symbology, as is the man who paints them. I found Pete to be fun, deep, and engaging. I really enjoyed our conversation and I hope you enjoy it as well.

In our conversation, we discussed… overthinking, possessing size strength and depth, masculinity, creative people, our process, abandoning the structure, identity, doing things because we’re supposed to, because we’re family, boredom, creating from boredom, consuming versus producing, benefiting the group, painting, surfing, planting trees, music, connecting with songs, music as magic, and knowing when to catch the wave.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Pete Tillack

Website: https://www.petetillack.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petetillack

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeteTillack

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tillackart

Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFBYFRz_8fjx_CgyU0jyBXw

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My guest today is the amazingly articulate and incredibly insightful Dr. Susan E Schwartz. Susan is a Jungian analyst educated in Zurich, Switzerland and a licensed clinical psychologist. For many years she’s provided workshops, presentations, and lectures on various aspects of Jungian analytical psychology. She is also author of a new book, The Absent Father Effect On Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds. It’s a great read for anyone suffering from an emotionally distant relationship with their father, or for fathers who are looking to raise emotionally secure daughters. I really enjoyed my conversation with Susan and I hope you enjoy it as well.

In our conversation we discussed the mythologies we connect with, birth and death, memory and intellect, moral superiority, Egypt, Osiris and Isis, differentiating ourselves, dreams, it’s not what’s right, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, absent fathers, the Absent Father Effect, embodying your entire being, gods, worship, economics, health, relationships, ownership, entertainment, critical thinking, encouragement to follow yourself, being outside the group, podcasting, the answer is more people talking and listening, the East and the West, cultures, questioning ourselves, the ability to evaluate oneself, how you become yourself, the process of individuation, the Journey of a Lifetime, admitting your shadow, childhood trauma, childhood agreements with self, secrets, synchronicities, and doing it to the max.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Dr. Susan E Schwartz

Website: https://susanschwartzphd.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/susanschwartzphd/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sesphd

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My guest today is Dr. Bryony Shaw, a clinical therapist and an expert in tending to one’s dreams. As part of her doctoral programme, Bryony performed research, which strongly suggests that working with dreams can increase well-being, enhance creativity, and improve problem solving. Now, she helps others improve their own lives through dreamwork. I found Bryony to be thoughtful and engaging, and I really enjoyed our conversation.

In our conversation, we discussed dreamwork and psychoanalysis, addressing the whole person, transformative experiences, coming closer to God, having an experience, what dreams are, what’s going on in the brain, the need for a story, freud’s iceberg, our bodies processing experiences, brains bodies and symbols, things that come to us at night, an excited psyche, meditation and dreams, sharing dreams around a campfire, dreams that explain reality, avoiding talking about what’s really bothering us, connecting to a dream in a moment, connecting symbology to life, the container of a dream, questioning our subconscious, truth and perception, our bodies remembering more than our heads, dreams come for a healing purpose, integration, woo woo, human experience, and the urge to merge.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Dr. Bryony Shaw

Website: https://everythingdreaming.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbryonyshaw

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhdShaw

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My guest today is an accomplished painter, and an amazing person, named Beth Zink. Beth didn’t begin painting professionally until her kids were grown, but now her work hangs in private and corporate collections around the country. In speaking with Beth, I found someone who says what she thinks, lives on her own terms, and finds joy in the creative experience. Our conversation couldn’t have been more fun.

In our conversation, we discussed having a way, letting others play “that” game, being a late bloomer, conflicting values, paying a fortune to play a game, having a perfectionist inside, in painting only the top layer counts, not fearing a paintbrush, being willing to sit with something, academic training and an ability to adapt, commissions, guarantees, wanting to be loved, money being the key to the door, love at first sight, living romantically, only being on the planet so long, what to do if you’re not happy, just doing the work, putting drama into creativity, the grand canyon, and the ultimate object of any artist.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Beth Zink

Website: https://bethzinkart.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ZinkStudioBeth/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BethZinkArt/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqlwP8Z3j8N-4Jt2XnBkMRw/

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My guest today is the amazing, multi-talented Julie Sasse, Chief Curator at the Tucson Museum of Art. Julie is a true lover of the arts, the southwest, and the human experience. During the day she curates art installations for the museum and, in her free time, she writes extensively about modern and contemporary artists, seeking to ensure that their memories don’t fade away forever. Julie is filled with a youthful energy for life, a love for people and creativity, and I enjoyed my conversation with her very very much.

In our conversation, we discussed the stories all around us, discovering new artists, art transcending stories, context and story, art and culture, newness and profanity, humanity, the culture we grow up in, being our own person, feeling like a fool, loving where you are, an attitude as an artist, doing what other people tell you, growing from a child to an adult with a story, having confidence in yourself, seeing your situation as a blessing and loving it, and accepting the process.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Julie Sasse, Chief Curator at the Tucson Museum of Art

Website: https://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tucsonmuseumofart/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TucsonMuseumArt

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TucsonMuseumofArt/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnJP_YaaZHu9RGN71IbuGA/featured

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My guest today is the multi-talented Kimberly Davis Basso, who’s a theater director, author, mother, and stroke survivor. Kimberly spent nearly twenty five years as a stage director, playwright and producer. After suffering a stroke, she switched her attention to writing, and her first book, I'm a Little Brain Dead, is a chronicle of her medical adventures after having a stroke. I found Kimberley to be fun, positive, and insightful and I really enjoyed our conversation.

In our conversation, we discussed theater art, directing, fulfillment in the process, getting to sit back, books, stories, the effects of stories, the intrinsic value of entertainment, fiction vs nonfiction, emotional journeys, child play, work, creative people and their work, energy for sharing stories, strokes, the ability of brains to break, the BEFAST acronym for strokes, humor and horror, the human monster, aliens, bad guys, people’s stories making sense to them, figuring out what you really want to do, and the hierarchy of stories.

Episode Details:

Guest Name: Kimberly Davis Basso

Website: https://kdbassowrites.wixsite.com/kimberlydavisbasso

Instagram: https://instagram.com/kdbwrites

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kdbwrites

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/imalittlebraindead

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My guest today is a brilliant sculptor, a thoughtful human being, and a great conversationalist named Carlos Page. Carlos was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s traveled extensively and lived on both the east and west coast. After an apprenticeship in San Francisco, Carlos moved to New York City and completed a special honors program at Hunter College. He then ran his own studio in New Jersey for 14 years before resettling in Arizona. Carlos creates functional and abstract sculptures made with steel, concrete and wood. His work reflects on the balance between the raw power of nature and the sophistication of the human experience. It was fun to hear his perspective on art, life, and magic. I had a lot of fun speaking with Carlos.

In our conversation, we discussed doing what allows us to be, confidence, loving art, creating art is doing the work, being your own limit, flow, hard days, discipline without a boss, knowing you're the only one to make it happen, including the bad days in the picture, sculptures, wood, steel, life and money, investing in yourself, our responsibility in the studio, creativity and discipline, games becoming jobs, art as a job, being alive and doing something, the thing inside of you, stories and games to play, wanting to create something, work, young people, successful people, humans are still here, energy, stories in our heads, peace living with uncertainty, magic, priests and shamans, and the best gifts we can offer the world.

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Guest Name: Carlos Page

Website: http://www.carlospage.com/

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My guest today is an actor and author named Bradley Upton. Though his career has taken him from stage to screen to keyboard, Brad always seems to encounter a specific type of creature in his work - vampires. We had a fun conversation about blood suckers, myth and reality, Hollywood, and ensuring that your life’s work is fun. I found Brad to be honest, thoughtful, and engaging, and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation.

In our conversation, we discuss mythology and context, vampires, being real versus a pretender, human beings, genuine people, sociopaths, sociopath statistics, evolutionary need for variety, acting, the work is supposed to be fun, who we are around other people, trauma, religion, science, the ways to believe in God, mythology and literalism, the Book of Mormon, awe as the source of science and religion, awe for people, magic, art, psychics, social skills, playing and learning as adults, picking games to play, we’re all acting, and playing games for fun.

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Guest Name: Bradley Upton

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bruwrites/?hl=en

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