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Taylor Gallegos is an accomplished professional painter who's style of living is inspiring. Not only does he produce a ton of art - he pays the bills with it - and still manages to create amazing opportunities and experiences with the people he cares about. What's the secret to his style of Art & Life?

In this episode, (which is a re-sharing of the 100th episode of his Art & Life Podcast on Spotify) - I am your guest host, interviewing Taylor to understand how he has found such a remarkable balance and is out in the world kicking ass while putting beautiful art in public places all over the world.

You can follow Taylor Gallegos on instagram @taylorgallegosart and listing to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nhbrJcC1P0VGz2xXdzr9N?si=08c1ce5f07ff4848

You can follow MY artwork on instagram @thinayr

We all die, but most of us rarely think about it. After all, isn't life about living? Why would we want to dwell on the depressing details of dying? Sadly, this denial leads many of us to go our whole lives without appreciating the gifts of our life. After all, if we think we'll live forever, what is the value of a day?

My guest today is Lydia Dugdale, a Columbia University physician who has attended the deaths of hundreds of humans. She regularly witnesses people dying ghastly, over-medicalized deaths in hospitals connected to life support and often subjected to "heroic measures" like painful experimental treatments and repeat-resuscitation... graphic examples of our modern inability to accept death and die well.

Against this backdrop, Lydia found a body of forgotten knowledge, the Ars Morendi, the Art of Dying Well, that for centuries empowered normal people to prepare for their deaths - and live better lives in the process.

This is not an episode about death, it is a conversation about the beauty of life that comes into clearer focus when we recover our sense of finitude, empower ourselves to step off the modern medical conveyor-belt, and invest our time and attention in the relationships that make our lives vibrant and full.

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think!

We survived covid! Here for your enjoyment are the lingering fever dreams of a week spent crammed inside a cluttered house organizing a sick, cluttered mind. Talking points include:

– Stories can save the world

– From sadness to joy

– What is the story worth living?

– Crypto, Community Funded, Value Exchange & STORY

– Overcoming Resistance

– Holding On vs. Letting Go

– Listening for the luminaries

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The average U.S. citizen spends 5.4 hours on their mobile phones daily. That's over ONE THIRD of a person's waking hours staring down at a screen. Meanwhile, tech companies are funneling BILLIONS of R&D and investment dollars into the "problem" of making phones and apps STICKER... they want more time spent on devices to drive ad and data harvesting revenue... so where does that lead? In the face of this "crisis of humanity" the founders of Light Phone have taken a completely different approach: They are flexing their design process to bring about phones that are intended to be used LESS... so you can get your time back, and actually live it.

I'm not affiliated with nor paid to endorse their project... I reached out to them after a friend showed me this very interesting device and the conversation it sparked was something I wanted to share.

Sit back, relax... and consider that your smartphone may not be the friend you thought it was, but a global addiction hiding in plain sight.

Enjoy!

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Shortly after getting married, Pete took a vacation to Ecuador with his partner Maija. He saw the beach. He saw the forest. Then He saw a surf shack for sale and put a down payment on it without telling Maija...

14 years later, they are still living in Canoa, Ecuador. They escaped the grasp of an "American Dream" that wasn't for them... to the slower pace and differing values of a developing country.

In this episode, we share the adventure of leaving the comforts of home to dive head first into the surf of a developing country. Enjoy!

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"Not good or bad, just different"

You have an 800 pound german shepherd living in your brain. It responds instinctually and in force to the stimulus around you, so that while you may THINK your are DECIDING, you are most often ACTING from a "primal mind" that is older than civilization, older than language, and way stronger than you.

If it can't be restrained, can it at least be trained? Today we are talking to Derrick Kuhn, a deep-thinking digital marketing maverick who spends his time speaking directly to the primal mind on behalf of clients selling products, while at the same time trying to grapple with and tame his own beast within.

You won't look at your decisions or the world the same way again! Good luck with your own 800 LB Brain Puppy.

"Fuck yeah!"

Shootings. Earthquakes. Fires. Floods. Disease. Death. Life is full of F.U.S. (Fu*ked up Sh*t) And yet, life keeps on going.

In this episode we go down the rabbit hole unwinding the grim realities that life can embody... and the possibility that tragedy and sadness flow from the same source as our greatest loves and joy. In fact, it seems that you can't have a single good moment without the mountain of good and bad it rests on.

This episode is a recording from 2016, and is dedicated to anyone who is grieving or in the midst of pain. May it bring you some small comfort.

Travel to the top of a snow covered mountain while we recall the waypoints that lead to the uncomplication podcast. This episode is super personal – full of secrets and admissions about life, insanity, drugs, shortcomings and dreams – sharing my perspectives and how they were formed so we can take the next steps in uncomplication together. Thanks for listening, enjoy!

Let's talk about sex! Today we strip off cultural taboos and expose the modern hangups, kinks and quirks of couples growing together.

James and Angela Mitchell are entrepreneurs who's small business "Love Intentionally" helps good couples stay great through workshops and facilitated "Love Camps" – so in this episode we dig into a wide range of topics from young crushes through the bumps of adolescence into the potential pitfalls of mature relationships with kids and households and compounding complexity.

So listen to this one with someone you love... It's business time!

Note: Intro and Outro music is a clip from Flight of the Conchords "Business Time" ©2008 Sub Pop Records - Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play and more.

This is Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Rob Colbert, a practicing therapist and participant in the MAPS MDMA-assisted therapy study. In this episode we go even further down the rabbit hole addressing the roots of drug prohibition and its failure to reduce the social harms of substance abuse... and maybe it was never meant to...

If you enjoyed part 1, or were maybe even challenged by it, be sure to listen in as we dive into some of the questions and critiques listeners raised after our first conversation. Do we really want to be more open about drug use as a culture? Does creating access to taboo substances only propel more people to experiment with substances like heroin? And what percentage of drug users actually fit the stereotype of burned out junkies stealing money for their next fix?

...The answers may surprise you. Enjoy!