Wild Common Podcast

Erin Grace Trieb grew up in Dallas, Texas and earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in photography from Texas A&M University-Commerce in 2004. She began her career photographing in Israel / The Palestinian territories and freelancing for newspapers in Texas. Since 2007 she has worked professionally as a freelance photojournalist, editorial and documentary photographer. In her work Erin focuses on social issue-driven topics like cultural identity, trauma from war, and feminism - her photography spans a diversity of subject matter from international conflict to feature stories.

Based between Istanbul and New York City, Erin works for a variety of clients including The New York Times, ESPN Magazine, Rolling Stone, NBCnews.com, Newsweek, TIME Magazine, Harper’s, Playboy, and many others. Her work has received international recognition and awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of The Year International, The Art Director's Club, American Photography, The Magenta Foundation and the FotoVisura Foundation. In 2011 she founded The Homecoming Project - an awareness and educational campaign highlighting the effects of trauma from war on the US military - which has exhibited in over 50 platforms worldwide. In 2014 Trieb received the distinguished “Alumni Award” from her Alma Mater, Texas A&M University-Commerce. In 2017 she was named a “female icon” of adventure by Outside Magazine. She is represented by National Geographic Image Collection.

Photographer, artist and visionary mentor Frank Ockenfels III joins for a conversation about creativity.

Frank is a keen observer of the world around him. He makes art every day with reckless abandon. Shooting old film cameras from the mid 1900's, expired film, and painting on top of his prints. He's always experimenting and always pushing his limits. Failure is simply a step closer to the goal of making something new, something unique, and something that can only be created when you "look beyond the obvious".

Highly regarded as one of the most in-demand photographers in Hollywood, Frank and I dive into a great conversation about life, art, and enjoying the ride.

Salud!

Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi. Kishi Bashi has played in major festivals such as SXSW, Austin City Limits, and gone on extensive US and international tours over the last decade.

His latest album 'Omoiyari' is a deeply personal journey into Karou's exploration of his roots and his cultural identity. It unpacks the process of Karou learning about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, aims to give multiple perspectives on the experience, and inspired an entire album of music that is streaming on all major platforms.

Please enjoy this personal insight into the production of an album, the process of making a film, and a brief glimpse into the mind of a musical genius.

Salud

Guest Kami Kenna is a brand owner, educator, and most recently a masters student in the Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development at NYU.

She moved to Peru after winning a competition that gave her free travel, ended up falling in love with the culture and the spirits, and ended up staying for a while. This led her down a path of becoming a brand owner in an artisanal pisco company - driven by quality, tradition, and a passion for bringing craft Pisco to the global market and establishing the category for Peruvian Pisco.

In Mexico, she worked for one of the highest-rated Tequila, Mezcal, and Raicilla tour agencies, Experience Agave, and is now the senior tour coordinator, leading tours through the Tequila Valley and Highlands, into Oaxaca and western Jalisco.

Additionally, she has done consultation and education at a number of bars, restaurants, and breweries from the Peruvian Andes to Mexico's Tequila Valley.

In July of 2019, Kammi moved from Mexico to New York City to attend NYU and pursue a master's in the Food Studies program at their Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development.

In her free time, she runs a blog about Latin American spirits called Drink A Seat, with the aim of empowering producers by highlighting the spirits, ferments, and other drinkables produced throughout the region.

Award-winning photographer & director Marcus Smith joins us to talk about the creative life, business, hard work, and the mindset required to work for some of the biggest brands on earth. We dive into his upbringing, where his sense of style comes from, and his personal growth as a photographer. Marcus talks open and honestly about his process, dealing with fear, and what it's like to come full circle and make iconic images of some of his childhood heroes.

I have the utmost respect for his values and absolutely love his work.

Please enjoy this far-reaching conversation with one of the brightest minds working in the world of advertising today.

Nic "The Tequila Wanderer" joins us on the show. We talk about growing up in South Africa, sports, agave spirits, and staying positive. Nick has a knack for great tequila and does weekly reviews with his huge audience. He also recognizes that there are so many different paths on the journey to learning about this amazing spirit and that sometimes the "best" tequila is simply the one you enjoy drinking with your friends. Enjoy

Clayton Szczech is equal parts scholar, evangelist, and nerd. Clayton is a full-time agave spirits culture specialist who believes that agave spirits should be sipped and savored, their history and culture absorbed and appreciated, and their regions of origin explored.

This ideology led him to create a new category of agave spirits tourism in Mexico. Fluent both linguistically and culturally, his dedication to Mexico has flourished over the past 25 years. It began as an affinity for the Spanish language and developed into an active exploration of culture where he discovered that agave spirits are not just a beverage—but a place, history and tradition.

Clayton is proud to be a global interpreter of and voice for agave spirits. He is certified as an Experto en Tequila and the only non-Mexican national to earn the Tequila Regulatory Council’s prestigious “Double-T” certification.

Pre-Covid he spent his time traveling the world speaking about agave spirits, consulting, or serving as a tasting judge for spirits festivals. Enjoy this far-reaching conversation about Mexico, the people, the place, and the culture.

Todays guest is Gina Rae La Cerva - A writer and anthropologist who searches for wild foods—and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued.

She holds degrees from Yale University, The University of Cambridge, and Vassar College. An avid adventurer, LaCerva has researched tsunamis in Indonesia, crossed the Pacific Ocean on a sailboat, and gone scuba diving with barracudas. Her love of being outside began in childhood, as she grew up exploring the mountains of northern New Mexico.

She is dedicated to writing about environmental science and philosophy in ways that both personalize and contextualize dense research, broadening the scope of engagement with these subjects to scientists and non-scientists alike.

For most of human history, we hunted and gathered. Today, most people will never eat anything undomesticated. And yet the desire to eat wild has never been stronger.

To understand this trend, La Cerva forages for wild onions in a Danish cemetery, tracks the trade in illegal bushmeat from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Europe, sips elusive bird’s nest soup in Borneo, and smuggles Swedish "heartbreak" moose meat home in her suitcase.

"Feasting Wild" is a remarkable celebration of biodiversity, Indigenous and women's knowledge, our vital connection to nature, and delicious flavors!

I hope you enjoy this episode with GinaRae La Cerva

Native Coloradan Pete McBride has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. A self-taught photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, he has traveled to 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, The Nature Conservancy, and more. He has also spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, USAID, Nat Geo Live, and many others.

After a decade documenting remote expeditions from Everest to Antarctica, McBride decided to focus his camera closer to home on a subject near to his heart—his backyard river, the Colorado. Four years and 1500 river-miles later, McBride produced an acclaimed book, three award-winning documentaries, and co-hosted a PBS TV program.

Next, over the course of a year, McBride hiked the entire length of Grand Canyon National Park — over 750 miles without a trail — to highlight development challenges facing this iconic landscape. After completing the journey, McBride released a book, “Grand Canyon; Between River and Rim,” that won a National Outdoor Book Award. He accompanied the book with a feature-length documentary, "Into the Grand Canyon", that you can watch on Disney+, which won Best Feature at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, among others.

His latest project is about the value of silence.

Ric Stovall, host of The Visual Revolutionary Podcast hosts this episode. Ric interviews Andy Bardon, founder of Wild Common, about his career path, professional photography, and how this whole project got going in the first place. Ric is a professional photography and director as well, so we geek out a bit about the industry, and living a creative life. Thanks for the great convo Ric! Enjoy