This Naked Voice

I believe that if we are to really understand how vulnerability can benefit our own personal growth, then we need to do more than just talk about it academically, we need to actually experience it, emotionally. 

I realize that if I want to create a space where others will be willing to be vulnerable and share what's truly going on for them in their lives, then I need to demonstrate that I am also willing to go there and do just that.  

I admit I'm a little hesitant to release this episode because of some of the fears and self doubt I confess to, in it.  But I guess that's the whole point of this exercise.  To be willing to show my imperfections and to push past my comfort zones in the pursuit of growth, discovery, and healing.  

Nate is someone I consider to be a true brother in my life.  How to sum up that sort of relationship is in such a short space is a ludicrous task, but here it is: Nate and I were assigned to be freshman year roommates at the University of Delaware back in 2002.  He has been one of my closest friends ever since then, even though for much of the past decade, we have lived very separate lives in many different ways.  

This conversation with Nate did not go as I had anticipated.  (Thank goodness.)

What was intended to be a heady discussion about music and creativity ended up being a raw and heartfelt conversation that helped shift a fundamental belief I had been holding on to for most of my adult life.    

All music from this episode is original music either by Nate, myself, or the two of us together.  

To hear more of Nate's old music, check out www.natehall.com

This episode is a special one for me.  I hope you get even half as much out of it as I have.


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I know I said the audio quality wasn't the best on this episode, but the original upload was actually unreasonably terrible - worse than I knew due to an uploading technical glitch.  However, it's fixed now!  Good learning for me for the future.  On to this episode....

Harlan Whitman is a jack of all trades and master of many.

He is the founder of OOAK (One Of A Kind) Forge, which makes knives, slingshots, pizza slayers (Say whaaaat? You just have to see them - they're awesome), and is a venue where he dreams up new beautiful, functional and durable products built to last.

Harlan's work outside of OOAK Forge has spanned media such as building and making furniture, instruments, jewelry, gravity bikes, large scale sculptures, swords, and he has helped create props, puppets and animatronics for massive events such as the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and for well known performing artists on stage.   

I sat down with Harlan to talk about what experiences have formed the way he approaches his art and his life as an artist.  He shares about the differences between creating art for art’s sake and creating art to make a living, as well as what qualities young artists may want to focus on while moving forward with their careers in the current landscape of social media marketing and constant judgment from the haters and trolls.   

Check out Harlan's work on his instagram and webpage:

https://www.instagram.com/ooakforge/

https://www.ooakforge.com/


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Zach Herbert is a musician and performance artist based out of Boise, Idaho. He is the creator of St. Terrible and the Gospel of Nothingness.  Ranging from the beautiful to the bizarre, his work is eclectic and ever changing in its sound, form and presentation.

This episode is Part 1 of a series of conversations Zach and I had around the topics of creativity, art, and vulnerability - how they all influence our personal growth and help us understand ourselves better. 

We also talk about how by engaging in the creative process, we might even be able to learn to be more human, whatever that means.

Find more of Zach at:

www.stterrible.com

https://stterrible.bandcamp.com/

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This is the first episode of This Naked Voice - an introduction to your host, Joey (that's me), and a gentle scraping of the surface of what I intend this podcast to be about.

I'm a Personal Coach, a photographer, and a life long musician.  

What are you being called to do in your life?  I don't know that any of us will ever have more universal permission to "take a break" from our regularly scheduled lives to be able ask this and other hard questions of ourselves.  

So how might we start (or continue) down the path of connecting with the deepest parts of ourselves, and how might we even have some fun in the process?  What if we are able to not only deepen our connection with ourselves but our connection with others as well?  What might have to be stripped away for me to understand [and ideally, love] who I am?  

This podcast will be dedicated to conversations exploring:

Creativity - How is the creative process approached from artists and creative individuals in different fields at different stages of their lives?  What has it allowed them to discover and uncover about themselves in the process? 

Connection - How might we enter into deeper relationships with ourselves and others?  What are the doorways to meaningful and ideally, lasting connection? 

Vulnerability - My own experience is that vulnerability is a key element to more consistent access to my creative process, the pathway to a deeper understanding of myself, as well as the gateway to more meaningful connection with others.  That may seem obvious, but if true, it's still not necessarily easy to drop into.  So how can we access vulnerability more universally?  What must shift for us internally as individuals and externally for us as a society?  

I hope to be able to create a space where my guests will be courageous enough to step into their vulnerability to share about both their experiences with the creative process and how they approach their lives in general, as well as what inspires them and what they fear. 

But this podcast is not intended to be pigeonholed to be just about the arts or artists.  Art/Creativity is one of my most well traveled paths of self discovery, but it's not the only one.  If the end goal is a deeper understanding of self, then I intend to continue down the rabbit hole and see where it leads - exploring topics of personal growth with thinkers, feelers and willers who cross my path who are also dedicated to the process and the journey.

My ultimate goals are to create something memorable with my guests, to continue to challenge myself and others to learn more about ourselves, and share meaningful connections while we are still here. 

So here we go.

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