Life is a Festival #77 [in Community]: Tony Cho (Metro 1)
From the ashram to Argentina and from Wynwood Arts to Magic City, Tony Cho makes life more festive for us all!
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Life is a Festival #76: Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills Movie)
My brother Quinn’s first feature film, Survival Skills, is playing on demand as part of Fantasia Film Festival starting on August 20th.
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Life is a Festival [in Community] #75: Jonny Jenkins (Everland)
Jonny’s journey to create an eco-retreat & immersive art park in Colorado.
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Life is a Festival #74: Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)
A mythopoetic understanding of the patterns of sexual abuse in our culture.
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Life is a Festival #73: The TeaFaerie (Erowid)
The Teafaerie has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell.
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Life is a Festival #72: Zhenevere Sophia Dao (The MogaDao Institute)
Zhenevere Sofia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains.
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Life is a Festival #71: Mohawk the Educator
Cognitive liberty is a beautiful thing and all drug users should have the right to experiment safely.
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Life is a Festival #70: Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma
In times of chaos and trouble, look to the grandmothers for wisdom, compassion, and above all, patience.
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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.
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Life is a Festival #68: Adah Parris (-ism)
Self-isolating in her flat in London, Adah Parris offers her perspective on these difficult times, from Covid-19 to racial injustice in the United States.
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Life is a Festival #67: Dr. Anna Zakrisson (Doctor Anna’s Imaginarium)
With an upswell in conspiracy theories and lack of good sensemaking on social media, Dr. Anna Zakrisson of the Swedish Skeptics Association is here to help us think about thinking in this confusing time.
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Life is a Festival #66: Tina Nance (Yoga Barn)
Tina Nance, a yin yoga and yoga therapy teacher in Bali, is a true master of the art of cultivating interoception (the felt sense of the body) and meeting our edge with mindfulness and compassion.
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Life is a Festival #65: Liana Sananda (Auryn Project)
The psychedelic movement is at a threshold point where it is vitally important to create an attractor coalition of value-driven leadership. However, in order to get this right we need to co-create and move at the speed of trust.
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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!
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Life is a Festival #63: Hanzi Freinacht (Metamoderna)
“Metamodernism is the marriage of extreme irony with a deep, unyielding sincerity.” - Hanzi Freinacht.
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Life is a Festival #62: Nick Farr, CPA (The Long Disaster)
Nick Farr, CPA, shares the immediate steps we can take for financial resilience, specifically how to get money from the government including Economic Impact Payments, unemployment benefits, and loans. We talk about how communities can support each other and what people with privilege can do. Once we have some ground under our feet, long term resiliency means switching our mindset from disaster response to birthing a new way of being.
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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!
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Life is a Festival #60: Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics)
How long is the journey from crisis to coronation? It may be very long and will certainly be very difficult, but a more beautiful world is possible.
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Life is a Festival #59: World of Wisdom Podcast with Nils von Heijne
This repost from an interview I did on the World of Wisdom podcast is the best articulation I’ve made of the Life is a Festival philosophy and why even though there are no gatherings to attend and the world is filled with grief and anxiety, we should keep the fire of celebration burning.
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Life is a Festival #58: Richard "Wolverine" Gottlieb (RGX Medical)
What can civilians do to support healthcare workers in the fight against coronavirus and how does festival medicine make Wolverine uniquely suited for the battle ahead.
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