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Atish: Beats, Breaks, and Balance, a DJ Unplugs

Life is a Festival #175

Service, legacy, and giving back to one’s community.

Community, Art, Gender, Personal Growth, Fame, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mentorship, Music, RaceEamon ArmstrongOctober 25, 2024Comment

Snow Raven: The Unexpected Sweetness of Darkness

Life is a Festival #148

Snow Raven⁠ knows darkness intimately, and it has inspired her shamanic music from America's Got Talent to Burning Man.

Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Leadership, Spirituality, Music, Burning Man, Death, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongApril 27, 2023DarknessComment

Victorien Mulliez: The Path of Joy

Life is a Festival #147

From Vipassana meditation to sobriety, Victorien shares his strategies for cultivating joy.

Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Leadership, Spirituality, MusicEamon ArmstrongApril 19, 2023JoyComment

The Gift of the Mayan Warrior

Life is a Festival #136: Pablo González Vargas (Mayan Warrior)

Mayan Warrior founder Pablo González Vargas talks about gifting, Mayan culture, and the challenges of bringing an art car 8,000 kilometers to That Thing in the Desert.

Community, Leadership, Burning Man, Art, Business, Festivals, Music, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongOctober 25, 2022mayan warrior, burning manComment

The Small Self on a Big Stage

Life is a Festival #115: Nick Mulvey

In the tradition of an English troubadour, Nick Mulvey is a soulful multi-instrumentalist, Earth protector, and student of Celtic shamanism.

Spirituality, Green, Art, Community, Festivals, Music, Personal GrowthEamon ArmstrongDecember 8, 2021Indigeneity, Nick MulveyComment

Visions of an Indigenous Refugee DJ

Life is a Festival #114: Chabeli Chain

Chabeli is an Indigenous refugee and advocate from the Venezuelan Amazon, who is at the beginning of her DJ career.

Spirituality, Green, Music, RaceEamon ArmstrongNovember 24, 2021IndigeneityComment

Indigeneity, Whiteness, & Medicine For All People (No Longer Available)

Life is a Festival #69: Nahko

In light of a series of allegations concerning predatory behavior by Nahko, I have decided to remove this episode from my catalogue pending an accountability process.

The Mad Scientist of House, Techno, & Love

Life is a Festival #64: Lee Reynolds (Desert Hearts)

Get your mind over what matters, fly your freak flag, forget to grow up, and get weird enough to *maybe* believe the Earth is flat with Papa Lee Reynolds!

Leadership, Burning Man, Personal Growth, Community, Festivals, Fashion, MusicEamon ArmstrongMay 2, 2020Lee Reynolds, Desert HeartsComment

Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past

Life is a Festival #61: Behind the Mynd with David Colón

If you’ve discovered my work through this show and you want to know more about the Life is a Festival philosophy or how I met so many fascinating friends to interview (or if you just want to hear some silly stories on my birthday) this is the podcast for you!

A Love Letter to Earnestness

Life is a Festival #55: Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)

Raging against the gatekeepers of cool and waxing about the importance of being earnest. Fame may seem to be a way to transcend death, but if every life is an epic, we are all already famous.

Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Art, Leadership, MusicEamon ArmstrongMarch 12, 2020Alex Ebert, Fame, Cool, EarnestnessComment

Tales of an English Folk Hero

Life is a Festival #46: Jay McAllister (Beans on Toast)

From helping Banksy launch sky lanterns, to extolling the virtues of a bamboo toothbrush, Beans is the paradigm of a festive life that makes a difference.

Personal Growth, Community, Festivals, Leadership, Music, PoliticsEamon ArmstrongJanuary 8, 2020Beans on Toast, Politics, British FestivalsComment

Bye Bye Plastic, Hello Vibes

Life is a Festival #39: Vivie-Ann Bakos (BLOND:ISH)

If you were an international DJ sensation, how would you use your fame to change the world?

Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Festivals, Leadership, Music, GreenEamon ArmstrongNovember 13, 2019BLOND:ISH, Top 10 of 2019Comment

We Can All Be Babes

Life is a Festival #36: Andrea Graham (The Librarian)

At Bass Coast, a beautiful boutique festival in the forests of British Columbia, everyone is a babe. What is a babe? A Bass Coast babe is a person of any gender who’s really feeling themselves.