Kip Dooley is a writer, editor, and educator who highlights solutions to our world’s most pressing challenges. He cowrites Bare Bones, a weekly(ish) newsletter about food, family, and what nourishes us, with award-winning cookbook author Beth Dooley, his mother. They also teach a quarterly online class, showing home cooks how to make delicious home meals with seasonal, local produce.

As a journalist, he’s written about food, theatre, and unlikely Trump voters. He taught communications studies at American University in Washington, D.C., and began his career teaching high school English and social studies while earning an M.S. in Education at The University of Pennsylvania. He brings an educator’s eye to all he does.

In this episode we discuss being in the middle of internal transformation while being ok with not having everything figured out, faith-based communities whether religious or not, sports, learning, and Kip does live poetry reading. 

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Eric Schneider is a third generation entrepreneur working at Huron Paper Stock, a family business operating since 1955. He’s collected a wild variety of life experiences and despite knowing each other for a short time, I consider him to be a wise mentor. Eric has been deep into personal growth from his high school days in peer couseling, to the Landmark Forum, creating a men’s circle in Hawaii and facilitating for years, working with the Mankind Project, and translating much of this work to his personal and professional life. When Covid hit, Eric’s life took a turn and he drastically shifted his business and his family began a nomadic lifestyle, and he’s currently in New Mexico. In this conversation, we get into the weeds about Eric’s various adventures while keeping things real and playful.

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Amanda Vestri is my wife, and producer of this show, in addition to tons of behind the scenes work for all of my creative projects. She was born and raised in a small town in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil. After teaching herself English, she came to the USA in 2018 via a cultural exchange program. We met in the summer of 2019 and have been together since, getting married this July. Amanda has been interested in occult and spiritual practices from a young age and participated in the Candomblé religion, and been trained in Reiki, Theta Healing, the Akashic Records, and Astrology.

In this convo we talk about how she made her way to the United States, despite being from a family where no one speaks English, no one has been to the US, and few if any people from her town have either. We get into her background with spiritual practices and talk about our relationship, and believing in your dreams.

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Carmen Burke is the author of HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT LOVING SATAN?: A GUIDE TO INCORPORATING YOUR DARK SIDE IN ORDER TO LOVE YOUR FULL SELF. She has known me since before I was born as we were neighbors growing up. In addition to her book, Carmen works as an accountant, and has Self Love Coaching practice. She studies the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs Typology, Astrology, and other forms of self-discovery and understanding. 

In this episode, we dive into the book, how it came to life, and break down the various modalities mentioned above in clear, simple language. 

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Boris Yurganov emigrated to the USA from Belarus as a 9-year-old. Since then he has spent tons of time and effort becoming more embodied, anywhere from massage therapy, physical therapy, surfing, to Core Energetics body psychotherapy. His acting dreams began after watching Jean-Claude Van Damme as a child and he’s currently working towards realizing them in California. 

We dive into his story, healing from a serious neck injury via energy medicine in a basement, and other stories on his journey towards being and helping others be more embodied.

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Jim Carpenter began de-escalation as a child, living between his atheist father and Jehovah’s witness mother. Since then, he’s had a career for General Motors and the Bureau of Labor Statistics and been involved in many organizations to promote civil discourse, including but not limited to Able And Willing, winning the Ron Hering Mission of Service Award for the Mankind Project, Race Conversations, Amazing Faith Dinners, Bridge Alliance, and others. His focus is on 2 related missions:

• Communications skills for creating connection and respect and mutual understanding.
• Tools for economic prosperity.

We dive into Jim’s storied history, finding common ground around problems and solutions, and how he thinks MMT or Modern Monetary Theory can bring to life some of the social change he envisions. 

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Full-disclosure, I have been a client of Joe for men’s life coaching services. But, I’m not getting paid to chat with him here, he’s just a good dude and I want to share his story with my megaphone, hence the interview. Joe is a Transformational Relationship Artist or in another perspective, a Men’s Life Coach. We dive into the crises that kickstarted Joe into an epic journey of self-healing and growth, which lead to him wanting to be of service and share with others, talk about the difference between being wise versus educated, microdosing, and what men’s work is and why the world needs it. 

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Sean Urbassik and I are former coworkers and friends. Sean has been an expander in my life. He invited me to my first ever open mic night, and my first time being on a podcast, which helped give me the confidence to start my own. Recently Sean fought in his first amateur MMA fight and in this episode we talk about the fight, how he got the nickname “Shaman Sean,” thoughts on eating animals, and catch up about my adventures in Brazil.

This episode is a bit more conversational and less of a straightforward interview.

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