How Did We Get Here: Our Story Studio podcast: Recent Episodes
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HOW DID WE GET HERE are stories from all corners of the planet, flipping ideas of how we move through this life and what's really going on here.
Part Accident | History | Comedy | Tragedy | Family Saga | Economic Sojourn | Environmental Hustle | Political Battle | Technological Travail | Wonder | Grace | Triumph of Chance & Will | Refuge | Prayer | Survivor Tale | Gathering.
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Join our conversation on the stories we tell--from fairy tales to Disney to our assessment today of human value and disability.
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This activity was supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Arts and Disability Center at the University of California Los Angeles. Any findings, opinions, or conclusions contained herein are not necessarily those of the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Arts and Disability Center.
To learn more about decarceration & imprisonment changes over the past four decades, go here.
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In this preview episode, we talk about how people and due process are getting lost in the justice system.
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Learn more about Dan Keane here.
- Honorable Mentions
- works by Chris Tse - Roberto Bolano
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Chelsey Engel is a writer and labor activist living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She earned her BA in photojournalism in 2011 from Point Park University, just down the street from the United Steelworkers union, who she's been working for in communications since 2012.
Chelsey is also a freelance writer and author, and she self-published her first novel, A Summer of Fever and Freedom, last August. You can also find a few of her articles on chronic pain and illness and mental health issues on The Mighty.
Follow Chelsey and others' stories at https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests
Honorable Mention:
"Hatchette Drops Book After Employees Walk Out"
The Scarcity Trap
The National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Act
"The Costs of Inequality"
The Memphis Sanitation Strike 50 Years Later - and Dr. King's sacrifice for the labor movement
Black Lives Matter
From Christian Science Monitor "FBI Adds White Supremacy as National Threat"
* Read for Ed
Learn more about Chelsey here.
What the Hawai'i-Scotland connection? Talking bagpipes, missionaries, and monarchies with author Malia Bohlin in this bonus episode.
Meet the experts, guests, and storytellers @ https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests
"Let those stories out, share those stories. I had no idea the impact my stories would have on so many people." Talking NaNoWriMo, not dying with your music still in you, and 1667 words a day or bust with author Malia Bohlin.
Meet the experts, guests, and storytellers @ https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests
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Malia Bohlin was born in Honolulu and raised in Pe'ahi, Maui. She received a B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and later a Master’s Degree in Non-Profit Management from Regis University in Denver. She works in fundraising and as a PATH International certified instructor in a therapeutic horseback riding program. Malia loves to travel, read, ride, write, and sometimes run half-marathons. Left at Hiva Oa is her first novel.
Look for the episode on finding your way when you're alone at sea--and why sometimes you just have to go it alone. Follow Malia and others' stories at https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests
Honorable Mention:
Speaking of the adventure gene - from National Geographic*
Learn more about Malia here.
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Malia Bohlin was born in Honolulu and raised in Pe'ahi, Maui. She received a B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and later a Master’s Degree in Non-Profit Management from Regis University in Denver. She works in fundraising and as a PATH International certified instructor in a therapeutic horseback riding program.
Malia loves to travel, read, ride, write, and sometimes run half-marathons. Left at Hiva Oa is her first novel.
Look for the episode on finding a sense of place when you're out at sea. Follow Malia and others' stories at https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Suman Mallick is afflicted with permanent wanderlust, and currently lives in Austin with his daughter and his dog. He has a BS, a MBA, a MFA, and several PhD (parts highly defective). His debut novel was a finalist for Dzanc Books Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize, and is currently in submission.
Listen in to this banker talk about investing in love.
Honorable Mentions
Victor Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
Leo Tolstoy
* AFTERLIFE on Netflix
Glossary: Who is Esther Perel? What is the latest science on attachment styles?
Suman Mallick is afflicted with permanent wanderlust, and currently lives in Austin with his daughter and his dog. He has a BS, a MBA, a MFA, and several PhD (“parts highly defective”). His debut novel was a finalist for Dzanc Books Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize, and is currently in submission.
We talk with this writer/banker about love as growth and practice—and how it can defy expectations. Find the full episode here.
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Tamim Ansary was born in Afghanistan and moved to America when he was 16. If he gave 23andMe a chance to weigh in (which he won’t) it would say his grandparents were Slavic, Finnish, Arab and Mongolian. His books include West of Kabul, East of New York, which was San Francisco’s “One City One Book” selection for 2008, and Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, which won the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction. His memoir Road Trips tells the story of arriving in America in the sixties and dropping out of a society he wasn’t part of in the first place. In fall 2019, Public Affairs will publish Tamim’s world history The Invention of Yesterday, which explores how humans got to be so interconnected over the course of the last 50,000 years, and why we’re still fighting. Tamim joins us from San Francisco.
Honorable Mention:
* The documentary MIDNIGHT TRAVELER
Learn more about Tamim here.
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Tamim Ansary was born in Afghanistan and moved to America when he was 16. He joins us from San Francisco. His books include West of Kabul, East of New York, which was San Francisco’s “One City One Book” selection for 2008, and Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, which won the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction. His memoir Road Trips tells the story of arriving in America in the sixties and dropping out of a society he wasn’t part of in the first place. In fall 2019, Public Affairs will publish Tamim’s world history The Invention of Yesterday, exploring how humans got to be so interconnected over the course of the last 50,000 years, and why we’re still fighting.
Hear how road trips, national crisis, community dreams, and story created this American.
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Sandra Razieli joins us from the slopes of Haleakala. As a movement educator, Sandra loves to guide people to move better so they can feel better and live better. She approaches movement from a neurobiomechanical model that is shaped by years of teaching yoga-based practices as well as her work as a cultural anthropologist, teen educator, and Jewish spiritual leader. Sandra currently resides on Maui where she enjoys going barefoot often. You can find out more about Sandra here.
She shares how illness and movement changed her life—and the joys of finding humanity, starting from the very bodies we inhabit.
This episode airs in full in May. To hear the full episode or learn more, subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Spotify, or visit: https://arevalossketches.com/#/howdidwegetherepodcast/
Get Light Pollution 101 here.
Here from Jennifer Brea, filmmaker of Unrest.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HOW DID WE GET HERE flips the migrant story. Come, here the story of us.
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Sandra Razieli joins us from the slopes of Haleakala. As a movement educator, Sandra loves to guide people to move better so they can feel better and live better. She approaches movement from a neurobiomechanical model that is shaped by years of teaching yoga-based practices as well as her work as a cultural anthropologist, teen educator, and Jewish spiritual leader. Sandra currently resides on Maui where she enjoys going barefoot often. You can find out more about Sandra here.
She shares how illness and movement changed her life—and the joys of finding humanity, starting from the very bodies we inhabit.
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Sandra Razielijoins us from the slopes of Haleakala. As a movement educator, Sandra approaches movement from a neurobiomechanical model that is shaped by years of teaching yoga-based practices as well as her work as a cultural anthropologist, teen educator, and Jewish spiritual leader. She shares how illness and movement changed her life—and the joys of finding humanity, starting from the very bodies we inhabit.
Honorable Mentions
Bessel van der Kolk The Body Keeps the Score
Katie Bowman Movement Matters
"JOMO!" (The Joy of Missing Out)
Sharon Ellison *Non-Defensive Communication
Gabor Mate The Body Says No
Follow Sandra here.
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"It is clear that the environmental impact of cyberspace is anything but 'virtual.'"
Dr. Josh Lepawsky--a geographer and technology researcher--takes us into the world of our tech. Pull out your phones for this adventure through cyberspace--and, it turns out, our own backyards.
To hear the full episode or learn more, subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, Spotify, or visit https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests/#JoshLepawsky
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"It is clear that the environmental impact of cyberspace is anything but 'virtual.'"
Dr. Josh Lepawsky--a geographer and technology researcher--takes us into the world of our tech. Pull out your phones for this adventure through cyberspace--and, it turns out, our own backyards.
To hear the full episode or learn more, subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, Spotify, or visit https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests/#JoshLepawsky
Learn more at https://arevalossketches.com/podcastguests/#MaileSpencerNapolean
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"Six hundred and fifty people that lived there forever were like, 'Where's the water?' . . . My father refused to work for them because he said they stole the water."
We talk joy, half-ass hugs, villages wiped by plantations, making from the land, our mothers' slippahs/changlas, and healing with Hawai'ian master Maile Spencer Napolean.
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Maile Spencer Napolean's family can trace their story on the land back 700 years. Hailing from the Big Island, she stops to talk story during her visits to mainland family--between the bitter cold in Colorado and Oregon this March, before she returns to offer classes on her native Hawai'i.
"The old people used to say 'go away and don't bother me.' But my grandmother never did." She shares what family and nature taught her, in the old Hawai'ian ways.
Listen in to the practice of aloha--with mind, body, and spirit.**
Honorable Mentions
The rise of sugar plantations on Hawai'i Lomilomi
Kohola 'Aina: A History of North Kohola
* Aunty Maile's tutu, who kindly kept answering questions and showing the way Koloheseverywhere
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii Nei
The Big Island
Serge King
Japanese Acupuncture
* 2019: The Year of Indigenous Languages
Learn more or reach out to Maile on her website.
Glossary: What is the history of Hawai'i? What is a kapuna? Haole? Read more at "Who Are Na Kapuna?" What is happening with Lapakahi today? Here is a brief history of land rights in Hawai'i and more on what's happening in Hawai'i, between the land and the people, today. Follow the latest Hawai'i stories here. From 1914 Yale Journal: Hawai'i Water Rights. If you're looking to learn more about the work on touch, eye contact, and neuroscience mentioned, check out Barbara Frederickson's Love 2.0.
**This show had to be done by cellular phone which makes our sound lo-fi but doesn't change the fact that Aunty Maile's stories are worth your listen.
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Dr. Scott Fisher is the Chief Conservation Officer at the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust. Growing up on Maui, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, later focusing his graduate work on peace studies, with a concentration in native Hawaiian strategies of peacemaking and reconciliation, and the dynamics of post-conflict recovery in a civil war on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. He explored how communities make wise decisions about conflicts over natural resources and continues that work today.
We talk building resiliency for climate change, the lessons of the ancestors, and the crossroads of world history here in Hawai'i--all from the Waihe'e Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge on another wind storm day in the North Pacific.
Whether you're looking to visit the Hawai'ian Islands or wrestling with the health of our ecosystems and planet: Listen in to this aloha 'aina, this conversation on reciprocity and resiliency of land and people. It's a history, a lesson, an opportunity you won't soon forget.
*An Island Take: Maui Mauka Conservation Awareness training available*
Honorable Mentions
The Great Mahele
'Ulu or breadfruit
* Getting involved with the Hawai'ian Islands Land Trust
BONUS EPISODESThe Land Bears the Brunt - lessons on war and the land, from Scott's time in Kuwait and Papau New Guinea
Visiting Hawai'i? Aloha 'Aina for Visitors and Guests (April 22nd)
Ready When the Waters Rise? Climate Change Lessons from Hawai'i
Glossary: Learn more about the kupuna, kuleana, mana, aloha 'aina, wai, waiwai, and malama and more. Check out a brief timeline of Hawai'i's History.
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Gavin Conner joins us from the mountain valley of Asheville, North Carolina. This talented singer-songwriter is also the co-creator and host of the one of a kind, all Cure podcast, The Holy Hour. Wetalk creativity, shadows of grief, and moving between the two. You don't want to miss the music. Here's a preview of our talk and here's a snippet on Gavin's take on good music, good grief, and why The Cure matters to so many.
Whatever your journey through these times, take a listen.
Honorable Mentions
Middle Kids Lost Friendsalbum Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy
Fraser A. Gorman Easy-Dazy album
The Twilight Sad New inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and long-time band, The Cure
Musical fellow-in-arms Ryan Barrington Cox
The song "Long Goodbyes"
Photo by Katelyn Avots
Buy or stream Gavin's albums via Bandcamp and join in on all things The Cure at The Holy Hour.
*An Island Take on all things grief: Bodhi Be and Doorway Into Light Tune into Bodhi Be's educational, inspiring radio show on transitions - a voice we value on island.*
Glossary: What is the Spotsylvania Mall? How can I get The Cure's Distintegration? Who is Evan Dando? "There is a Light That Never Goes Out?" Author Andres Neuman? What's gone on with Ryan Adams? What is a platitude and why's it bugging? For a deeper reflection on grief and the myth of closure, check out Pauline Boss conversation with Krista Tippet on On Being or the much followed NPR broadcast of Grief vs. Depression. Watch humorist Emily Levine's popular Ted Talk "How I Made Friends With Reality." Need a tune for such times? Try Conner's "Return." For something completely different, trythis.
**While we might note depression as part of grief during our conversation, we mean periods of sorrow (referring only to our own) during loss or hard times - not mental health conditions, major depression, complicated grief or trauma. No shame in any of this--that's why we're talking about grief and its complications and learnings on the other side. And, frankly, why it's okay for all feelings to travel through (because they likely will). If you're facing stronger challenges and circumstances or lacking support, reach out here, good soul. You're not alone. :)
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sandra Razieli joins us from the slopes of Haleakala. As a movement educator, Sandra loves to guide people to move better so they can feel better and live better. She approaches movement from a neurobiomechanical model that is shaped by years of teaching yoga-based practices as well as her work as a cultural anthropologist, teen educator, and Jewish spiritual leader. Sandra currently resides on Maui where she enjoys going barefoot often. You can find out more about Sandra here.
She shares how illness and movement changed her life—and the joys of finding humanity, starting from the very bodies we inhabit.
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Clarisse Baleja Saïdi is an award-winning writer. "I know I'll always seek some kind of return and some kind of discovery."
She has received recognition for her fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and drama, and is the recipient of fellowships and grant support from The Macdowell Colony, Hedgebrook, LaNapoule Foundation, Crosstown Arts, and more. Baleja earned her MFA from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program and is at work on her first novel.
We talk about her work not to be free but to recognize she already is free; her quest to observe this world; and the truth in adjectives.
Our conversation echoes an Adrienne Rich observation on learning and growth: "An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.”
Listen in to how a writer claims their path.**
Honorable Mentions
The Grasshopper & the Ant Simone De Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed* Charlotte: A Novelby David Foenkinos
The Perfect Nannyby Leïla Slimani
Two Brothersby Fábio Moon
Photo by Jairo Alvarez
CORRECTION: I cited the need of Thurber to travel and write. Author Thornton Wilder was known for this and my apologies for the brain slip.
Keep following the story @freebaleja
Glossary: Why does Marie Kondo have writer and book lovers on pause? Goosebumps? What is implicit bias? Where do I find writing residencies and what are they? What's autofiction? Groupthink? Where are fully funded MFAs for Creative Writing? Where is Côte d'Ivoire? What is the recent past of the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) and how can I learn more about Rwanda today? Where to find translated works?
Forgive sonic interruptions--and the roosters and songbirds, huddled close by due to wild winter storms.
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Dr. Josh Lepawsky joins us from St John's off the Atlantic. Author of Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste, Josh's recent Medium piece "Our Tech Addiction is Creating a 'Toxic Soup'" tells how the "world in our pocket"--our phones--have a story of their own.
And a more profound environmental impact than we can imagine.
Listen in to what the "cloud" is leaving behind.**
Honorable Mentions
William Gibson's novel Neuromancer - coining "cyberspace" Prince of Wales High School teacher & storyteller, Mr. Jones 99% Invisible - A podcast on all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. Here's the Hawaiian shirt episode.
This is the text Josh read: "We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province."
Keep following the story @rubbishmaker.
Glossary: What is the Age of Anthropocene? Fossil fuels? What is "the cloud?"Where is the cloud? Wall-E? Some parts of cyberspace infrastructure may be biodegradable--learn more from this burgeoning research on bacteria and e-waste.
Forgive hiccups on our sonic adventure. The conversation took place on a massively stormy day in the North Pacific. A loud, confused rooster or two and heavy downfalls led to a couple abrupt cuts. I promise, they had it harder out there.
HOW DID WE GET HERE is a podcast of stories from all corners of the planet, flipping ideas of how we move through this life and what's really going on here.
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