The Perspectivity Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mark Matthews
Welcome to Perspectivity where our goal is to cultivate wisdom through the thoughtful consideration of personal life stories, scientific findings, and philosophy that helps us improve our ability to understand the world around us. Perspectivism is a philosophy stating that our understanding of life is limited by our subjective perception of the world. By learning to accommodate multiple perspectives into our understanding, by improving our perspectivity, we can ever -increasingly overcome this limitation. Dive into powerful life stories, and innovative frameworks to enhance perspectivity.
Jenna is a young professional living in Seattle with an incredible story. She was orphaned at birth in Taiwan and then adopted by a family in Miami, Florida. She loves to travel and to form deep connections. In this episode, Jenna and I discuss what “normal” was for her growing up in an orphanage and how that changed when she came to the U.S. We bond over questions like, “what is love? what is family?” One of my favorite highlights is when she tells the story of how her birth sister’s best friend was adopted by a family down the street!
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Pierre is a former Police SGT, Modern Hypnotist, and a true embodiment of love and empowerment. In this episode, Pierre and I have a conversation about a unique core belief found within Mormonism, a teaching that helps people meet a core psychological need: The feeling of freedom! Dive into this fascinating conversation about what we can learn from this unique cultural story that Pierre has wrestled with as he transitioned his spiritual identity to move beyond Mormonism.
If you love Pierre and want to learn more, you can listen to a deep-dive into his life story on the Strangers You Know Podcast!
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As a boy, Brent grew-up in a small town in the Bay area. Playing football on the streets and video games with his pack of friends, he was living the life of a small-town boy with lots of community. He then moved to a wealthy suburb where he became aware of what him and his family didn’t have compared to others, creating lots of questions about what life “should be?” Brent went on to college to pursue a degree in engineering and continued with his education all the way to accomplishing a PhD! After the intense journey of grad school, Brent worked as a professor in Flagstaff for years until moving to Boulder, Colorado where he now shares a beautiful home with his wife and is looking forward to having children and being a father! If you love our mission to create connection in a divided America, please consider leaving a donation to help us to empower us to continue traveling the U.S to capture these amazing stories! DONATE HERE to help us make it to HAWAII! https://anchor.fm/mark-matthews9/supportAs always, if you would like to comment on this episode, please join our brand-new Power of Perspectivity learning community on Facebook.
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Dr. Grace Ann Rosile is a retired professor of Organizational Management, a long-time lover of horses, and one of the most empathetic, competent, loving, and strong women I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know. In this episode, Grace Ann walks us through the transformative power of “Ensemble Leadership,” a communal approach to leadership!
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Melissa is a military veteran, gym owner, speaker, fighter, and a faithful servant of her creator. From dodging mortar strikes to sharing the stage with some of the world’s most renowned speakers. Melissa has navigated the experience of poverty, military warfare, traumatic relationships, and exceptional grief. She responded by “becoming a fighter,” and Melissa walks us through how she decided to step-out of her fear and embrace the fighter within!
As a fighter, Melissa believes that her life purpose is to help people cultivate their potential, to literally work-out what they are going through as they visit her gyms and experience her speaking around the country. Having the opportunity to stare into her purpose-driven eyes, I was moved by the tremendous courage and strength that Melissa embodies. I would love to be more like her!
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As a teen, James began his “blessing” of a career in the radio broadcasting industry. He got to meet many famous musicians, achieve local fame by being the “voice on the radio” and then ultimately travel all over the world in the process! He moved on from being the voice to managing studios, helping them grow and musicians grow in the process! After broadcasting, James decided that he wanted to “give back,” to spend the rest of his life helping people as a hypnotist. He’s decided that he wants to spend the rest of his life helping people and so he’s here to share his story in the hopes that it will help inspired listeners! If you loved this podcast, please consider leaving a donation to help us to empower us to continue traveling the U.S to capture these amazing stories! DONATE HERE! As always, if you would like to comment on this episode, please join our brand-new Power of Perspectivity learning community on Facebook.
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*This episode contains conversation about physical and sexual violence.
After a trust-crushing tragedy, how do you possibly find hope in the world, in life? Listen to Chris’s adventurous journey of traveling the world to try to find something worth living for.
Chris is a passionate chef, experienced hitchhiker, who has dealt with a tremendous amount of adversity in life. She details for us how she has come cultivate a desire to live a good and meaningful life after losing all hope following a terrible, unexpected experience during college.
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Imagine what it would be like to enter a country that had just gained democratic freedom, to be the first person to offer hope in response to grief, and to travel the world sharing your perspective.
Brian Hogan is a world traveler, a father, an irresistibly passionate adventurer and so much more! Across his fascinating life, he has cultivated many nuanced perspectives and he has also cheated death many times. So much so that he has written a book involving his many near death experiences from A-Z!
In this episode, Brian walks us through a very intensely emotional upbringing that later called him to a mission to share what he believes is a powerful message with people who have never had the chance to hear it. Regardless of your perspective, this man cultivated a powerful, life-changing influence in another country through passionately caring for the people he met.
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What would it be like to not experience sexual attraction, to experience gender dysphoria, and to succeed tremendously along the way?
Mx. Jay Stilipec is an eclectic creative with a passion for developing others. Jay is a Navy veteran (drill instructor), former broadcast journalist, and now schoolteacher. Jay is also a transgender (non-binary), asexual, cosplaying entrepreneur!
In this episode, Jay walks us through the development of their sexual and gender identity, explaining the process of how Jay came to form their identity. Jay also shares with us powerful insights from being in the Navy and how they came to embrace a love storytelling, creating an over-funded Kickstarter campaign for their recent business, Better Backstories!
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What lessons can we learn from the creation of intentionally integrated communities and a happily adopted man who set out on a journey to reconnect with his biological parents?
In this episode, Damon so artfully shares with us the transformative story of an man who embraced an often overwhelming journey to find and ultimately rekindle a relationship with his biological parents. He also shares with us his experience of growing-up as a young black man in an intentionally integrated community—a community that was designed to promote the successful integration of people many different life characteristics, including ethnicity, social economic status, and more. I can tell you that this story allowed me to think, for the first time, very deeply about the many people who navigate an adoption story, as well as the many people who have very nuanced experiences related to their ethnicity and their progressive understanding of the world.
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