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David Bourne
The Davo Show is David B. Bourne’s place on the web to share and experiment with audio and ideas. Topics will range widely but the emphasis is mostly on creative practice, nature and the outdoors, and becoming your best, most creative self.
How Crows are Like People Plus AI by Auphonic – DavoShow033 Where I talk about crows and how much they are like humans. And, where I show you some “behind the scenes” of how I create this podcast. I’m always on the hunt for better ways of doing things, so today I ask… What Would […]
How Aware Are You of Your Abiltiy to Choose? This epside is about thoughts, sounds, consciousness and how these things infuence our abiltiy to choose. Show Notes from DavoShow032 Viktor Frankl wrote about in Man’s Search for Meaning that Nazi concentration camps were much harder for some folks than others. I briefly mention what my […]
Joy Stacking Makes Your Life Better – DavoShow031 I wnet for a ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway the other day and realized I was having a Joy Stacking expereince. Show Notes Maximize your expereinces by Joy Stacking them. My old, new car… a 140k mile, manual, seal gray 996 911 C4S. One joy was […]
Mating Woodpeckers Remind Me of Life’s Ultimate Focus What Is The Davo Show? Examples from Living Life to the Fullest Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors Music and Rhythms David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound Listen to This Episode 030 Subscribe to this Show at Apple […]
What’s the Purpose of Listening? Ask Kevin Kelly. In his most recent book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier, Kelly has a great quote about how and why we should listen. It’s not the conventional idea, as you might have guessed. What’s Your Answer to The Question? Why do you listen? […]
My life is so much better because I’m paying better attention to small things.Today, I noticed some large white magnolia flowers in my yard.
As I went in closer to hear, smell, and touch the tree, I remembered viscerally how much I loved them in my childhood.
What would cause you to deeply connect?* What did you love to do as a kid? * What would bring back strong, pleasant memories and emotions for you? * Are you taking time to do this regularly?
Show NotesYesterday’s Episode on Frederick Buechner’s Listening to Your Life helped me this even more clearly.
– The magnificent Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) I’m looking at, smelling, feeling, and remembering from climbing trees in my childhood.
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Rough Transcript(Sound: The rough buzz of a honey bee at close range.)
[0:13] That was the sound of a bumblebee (actually, a honey bee ) gathering nectar off of a magnolia bloom in my front yard.
The smell takes me back.
It’s kind of crazy. how smells work. This magnolia is not that tall. No, it’s maybe 14 or 15 feet tall.
It’s not very big around and I am comparing it saying it’s not very big to the one that was in my backyard when I was a kid.
I remember climbing it, and going all the way to the top and seeing the entire town and man I didn’t do that very often but that smell it’s funny how you get right back to that time.
[1:24] It’s interesting. So yesterday, I recorded an episode from a quote from Frederick Buechner, where he said, listening to your life is, very fruitful, very, I guess I’d say, very life-giving.
[1:44] And so listening to your life. That’s kind of what being next to this magnolia.
[1:56] Feels like and smelling it because when I was a kid and you’re climbing a tree man you’re literally in the midst of it.
Magnolias have this kind of a smooth yet rough texture to it and a little bit of flake comes off if you grab a branch
That smell is I mean there’s nothing like it so these blooms that are that are happening in my front yard I mean I’m 54 years old almost 55 and I was probably 8 or 9 years old when I would climb those trees climb that tree it’s just amazing how that smell connects you.
And of course the blooms are gorgeous. This is a Southern Magnolia, I’m pretty sure. Big old white bloom, just this cup that just opens up to the sky and holds like the bee sound that I was trying to get you to hear at the beginning of this.
That bee was was at the bottom of one of those petals where some of the, I don’t know, stamens had fallen and it was getting the pollen off of them.
[3:16] Just amazing. If you pay attention to nature, you will never be bored. You will be constantly amazed.
You will constantly be in awe, and your life will be better for it.
So I encourage you, reconnect with something that you knew from your childhood, or just reconnect with everything, because as a species we’ve got so many, many, many connections to plants, animals, places.
If we just paid attention to, we could feel it, feel connected just like I am when I smell that magnolia tree and those blooms.
So that’s my thought for today. That’s how I’m and listening to my life. I’m David Bourne.
See more of this kind of stuff at davidbourne.com.
Hope to see you there. Cheers.
Are You Listening to Your Life – TheDavoShow027I came across this quote today and realized it’s a good explanation of what I’m trying to do with this podcast experiment.
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” -Frederick Buechner
How Do You Listen to You Life?* What senses do you use to do it? * How do you make time to listen every day? * How do you get distracted, so the listening doesn’t happen? * If you are listening, what is your life telling you right now?
What Is The Davo Show?
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- Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors
- Music and Rhythms
- David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field
- Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound
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Rough Transcript[0:15] In today’s episode, we’re going to listen to a quote from Frederick Buechner. Here goes.
“Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery it is.
In the boredom and the pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness.
Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it.
Because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments and life itself is grace.”
I came across this quote looking in my Dropbox folder and I’m not even sure how I found it, But I thought, you know what? This is exactly what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to listen to my life.
[1:20] I’m listening to crows right now. Something else, I think they’re chimney swifts.
They’re kind of hard to pin down.
Buechner talks about the touch, the taste and the smell, Using all your senses to find the holy, H-O-L-Y, holy and hidden part of it.
So why is it hidden?
I think it is hidden because we don’t see it.
It’s there all the time but we generally just don’t look for it.
So that fathomless mystery, bottomless mystery, think about that?
Is it ever going to be anything but a mystery?
I mean there are things that we can feel like we’re certain of but then you think about consciousness itself. And that all gets thrown out of the window.
[2:47] But that’s not really a problem, is it?
I think the problem we mostly face is this distraction where we don’t, bother to touch, taste, smell, or listen to our lives.
But we can change that by deciding to change it. It’s really all it takes.
So I guess I’ll ask you, how are you listening to your life right now?
[3:24] I think it takes time for sure. You have got to slow down a little bit.
You have got to pay attention a little bit more.
And you got to ask yourself, is it (this distraction) worth it?
Well, what are you trying to do? Why are you so busy? Why aren’t you doing that?
Are you, trying to do something so that you will then have the time to do this?
I think that’s too often what we do. We put off this listening, because we’re too busy doing other things, thinking, oh, we’re gonna get to that.
But we never get to that because the present moment is all we ever have.
[4:24] I’m saying this not as someone who’s got it all figured out, because I don’t.
But when I saw that quote today, I thought, yeah, that’s it.
Recording this podcast, writing, paying attention, trying to create something on a regular basis, in a very small way, that’s what this is all about.
This is what I’m trying to do here.
So I’m going to read this quote that I came across.
It’s a good one. So I hope you’ll take that challenge.
Listen to your life and try to look for that fathomless mystery and see what you find.
I hope you find something great.
I’m Confronting A Limiting Belief To See What HappensI have a limiting belief about using video for this Davo Show Project.
I think video is going to be too hard to use and it will mess up a good thing.
The irony is that I’m great at video. I have 35 plus years working with it.
The problem is that my standards don’t match the time and energy I have for this project.
So there’s friction between two parts of me.
One part wants to use video because it’s fun, because I love it, and because it will broaden the reach of this project.
But the other part is very particular, and wants to do it in certain ways. And those ways, usually take a lot of time and energy, and bring out my critical nature.
So I made this podcast in combo with video in very challenging environment on purpose.
I need to see what it feels like to do what I don’t want to do.
Because sometimes you have just got to try things to see how they feel, and to learn what happens.
You don’t know anything until you’ve actually done the thing.
What’s a limiting belief that’s holding you back right now?Sometimes  you think that you’re not good enough.
But other times it’s because you’re too good.
Limiting beliefs don’t care. They just want to limit you and keep you in the place that they think is safe.
Where are you staying safe?
How would you would like to say yes to, but you won’t because a part of you says no?
What Is The Davo Show?
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- Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors
- David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field
- Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound
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Rough TranscriptHey folks, it’s David Bourne. I am making a video from Oak Island. It’s really windy as, As you can probably hear.
These microphones that I’m using are picking up a lot of that wind so I apologize for that.
[0:49] It’s also raining, which is not the best time to be filming, but that’s kind of the point today.
I’m making this video version in stereo out here at the beach.
A little shot of the beach, of the ocean rather.
I’m making this to prove a point to myself. And what I’m doing is I’m countering an idea that I have.
And that idea is a limiting belief that says I shouldn’t be making videos for the Davo show because that’ll be way too hard and that’ll complicate things too much.
So I needed to challenge that belief and see what would happen if I actually made a video.
And so that’s what I’m doing.
Because whenever you want to do something and that thing is hard, there’s a very good, chance you’re going to have some limiting beliefs come up.
And that’s one of my limiting beliefs.
I have a lot of experience making videos and making them professionally and being paid to make them and that kind of experience can be counterproductive when you’re trying to do something quick and dirty like I’m trying to do for the Davo Show.
Because that part of me shows up and says no you’re not doing that right no, you should not be shooting in the rain with an iPhone and stereo in the wind.
[2:17] Because that’s gonna cause all kinds of problems and it is causing problems sure enough technical problems but really that doesn’t matter if what you want to do is to share your story with the world.
The technical stuff, yes, it’s important but it’s not as important as you getting out there and so I’m doing this because I want to make a point to myself.
That number one I can do it and I’ll still live because there’s a part of us that feels like it’s gonna be horrific but it’s not gonna be horrific it’s just gonna be a thing not a big deal.
[2:54] I’m gonna finish this recording get back inside where it’s dry and warm, and hopefully you can hear the awesomeness of these waves in stereo.
[3:07] Which is why I’m recording in stereo, so you can hear the beach just a little bit more realistically.
So, enjoy a few moments of Oak Island, and I hope to see you out there folks.
This is David Bourne from DavidBourne.com. Cheers!
Have You Ever Taken an Outdoor Shower?I love them,. And I’m not sure why.
But, I have a theory… IONS
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Rough Transcript[0:13] Hey folks, it’s David Bourne again, at the beach.
I’ve been here over 24 hours and man, that’s nice.
It’s funny how quickly you can settle into a place.
Right now I’m watching three huge pelicans, ride the surf.
They’re not really riding the surf, but I think they are because what they do is they fly about six inches above the surface of the water.
And then when they get to a wave, they just kind of surf it like a surfer might.
They don’t touch it, but they definitely get in the wave. And maybe there’s a little poof of air.
[1:02] That they like. And here comes one, two, three, four, five, six more of them doing the exact same thing.
I’m pretty sure these are brown pelicans and I’m, pretty sure they all do it and it’s so cool to watch.
Almost as cool as when you see one of them crash dive into the water and there’s this giant burst of, whiteness and then the next thing you know they pop up and they probably got a fish.
I don’t know, but I think that’s what they’re doing.
So believe it or not, this episode is about outdoor showering because I just took one and it was, amazing.
It made me think, why are outdoor showers more appealing to me than normal showers?
I have no idea, but I always enjoy my outdoor shower and I was thinking is it just because it’s in a different place than usual kind of you.
[2:06] Know out in the open a little bit more exposed maybe a little bit more dangerous you know you’re standing there naked and I don’t know but that didn’t really make sense.
I have a theory and it makes zero logical sense but this is what it is because this is the Davo Show and I could do anything I want so I, throw out this idea.
And it’s my one-word idea that is the answer for why outdoor, showers are better than indoor showers for people like me.
That one word is ions.
[2:49] I’m not even sure what an ion is, but I just have an instinct that there’s some kind of ion thing going on when you take an outdoor shower.
It just doesn’t happen in the indoors. If you have any proof of that or disproof of that, please let me know? Because ions is my answer.
[3:16] So that’s all I got today here at Caswell Beach. I’m actually Oak Island, technically.
It’s a little farther east than, let’s see, like I said last night, I’m facing due south, facing the Bahamas and Cuba.
It’s a weird twist of curvature of the land.
And I’m pretty sure this is called Long Bay. There’s a cut into the continent that’s called Long Bay.
And Long Bay forces, or forces, it makes this part of the world face south.
And so the sunrise does not come up right in front of you, it comes up way over to the, side where you really wouldn’t expect it. To the left side.
[4:19] So folks, I’m David Bourne.
You’ve found this podcast somewhere on the internet, but you can find more at davidbourne.com.
Hope to see you there. Cheers.
The Davo Show from the Beach!
What Is the Davo Show?* A short-form audio podcast * A place to experiment with ideas, sound and quick podcast production.
Mostly, I create sounds from nature or music.
But sometimes I’ll post an audio file that just doesn’t fit anywhere else in my online ecosystem.
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Unedited Transcript[0:17] Hey, folks, it’s David Bourne.
And that sound you’re hearing, you may recognize is the Atlantic Ocean.
I am at Oak Island, North Carolina. I’m facing the water and the facing due south.
Because when you look out over the beach at Oak Island, you don’t look east like you might think. You look due south.
So if you went straight, if you could, as the crow flies fly like a crow all the way south you would cross over the Bahamas, you would go over central Cuba somewhere called Florida
Not Florida that’s in the United States but there is a town called Florida in central Cuba somewhere between Las Tunas and Sanctu Spiritus.
[1:40] I know that because I’ve been to Cuba and I looked on the map and that is what’s due south of me, which is kind of crazy because, I don’t know, when you’re on the Atlantic Ocean, you look over the ocean, you kind of think you’re looking at Europe, or, I don’t know, Africa.
But I am looking at the Bahamas and Cuba.
So I wouldn’t know that if I didn’t have my map on my phone.
I’m also looking at a boat with some very, very bright lights that’s about, oh, I don’t know, 150 yards offshore.
It’s probably about a hundred foot long boat.
I think it is a dredge boat, I don’t know.
[2:33] It’s pretty unusual for me to see a big old boat like that. Is it a ship?
I don’t know, what’s the line between a ship and a boat?
It’s pretty close to a ship.
[2:45] So I’m here at the beach and I am excited to be here. My lesson for today, what I’ve learned today, is it is just really nice to get away.
[2:57] You know, in your mind you think it’s going to be nice, but when you actually get there you’re just like, oh my gosh, this is so nice to get away, especially when it’s a nice place.
And we’re close to the beach. We’ve got that constant sound of the waves churning. It’s not too crowded here. It’s not noisy at all. You know, it’s just pretty close to perfect, so I’m just grateful.
And I’m remembering you know it is worth the how many hours did we drive I don’t, know it took about six hours from door to door because we stopped a lot we brought the dogs and they take a lot of stops and so it was a long day and I’m tired but that’s…
my lesson for today that you know it’s good to go get away but when you actually get there it feels worth it.
So I’m soaking it in. I’m enjoying the sights and the sounds.
Got some folks down on my left. I see some, flashlights on the beach. Probably some kids with a family looking for shells.
[4:19] I’ve got on my right that boat, ship, whatever that is, and I’m just glad to be here.
So I hope wherever you are, you’re glad to be where you are.
If you’re not, then take a deep breath, look around. My guess is there’s something there that’s pretty cool if you just appreciate it.
All right, until next time, I’m David Bourne. You can find me at davidbourne.com.
See you out there. Cheers.
What I Learned Being Coached By A Millions-Earning Coach TodayIn this episode, I cover how and why I got coached by Rich Litvin, a world-class coach today.
But more importantly, how I came to see that I’m still hiding from something I deeply care about.
So it’s time to make some changes.
What Do You Want to Change in Your Life??* What do you want to bring into the world but still struggle to manifest? * What are you waiting for? * What’s keeping you from believing that you can get what you want and be that person that’s waiting inside you?
What Is The Davo Show?
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- Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors
- Music and Rhythms
- David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field
- Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound
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Rough Transcript[0:14] Hey everybody, welcome to the Davo Show, where I make podcasts every day, every day but one day a week. Everybody needs a rest.
My goal for this podcast is to make them early in the morning so that they’re done, but I’m looking up at the sky and there’s just the slightest bit of blue left in it, which is kind of surprising considering that it’s almost 9 30 eastern standard time, it’s mid-may so the longest days of the year are not here yet.
[1:00] It’s pretty quiet i can hear a dryer that’s uh running that’s the house sounds, Otherwise, it’s pretty dang quiet.
[1:19] I think I hear crickets. It’s really hard because my tinnitus, which is permanent ringing in my ear, particularly my left ear, it seems pretty loud right now.
But my guess is, is there are some insects out there making some noise.
And of course, here comes a car.
That’s all right. I’m okay. Even though it’s this late, I wanted to get it done early, but I’m okay with it because, it just doesn’t matter.
Really, that’s just a rule that I impose on myself. And I’m not going to let this take very long.
And that has to do with today’s content of this podcast.
Because what this is about is me being coached by a millions-earning coach, meaning one of, the top coaches in the world coached me today.
And I figure, well, that doesn’t happen every day.
So I’m going to talk about that for a bit and post that up to the Davo Show podcast, where I can post anything I want.
And just talk about what happened and why that happened and what came of it.
[2:47] Or what’s coming of it I should say because I can feel on my belly that something’s coming of it. I’ll talk about that, Towards the end of this but let me just tell you what happened first so,
I am in Rich Litvin’s class and there was a zoom call today and there are about 50 of us on there, with rich and typically he’ll call out a few folks he’ll ask some questions and, and he’ll go through the list and he’ll coach some folks.
[3:21] And so I got picked because when he asked the question, and I’m not gonna remember this exactly, but it was a question that had to do with why are you holding back?
That’s how I’m interpreting the question.
Holding back from becoming the coach, you wanna be charging the prices, you wanna be coaching the type of people you wanna coach, that kind of question.
Doing what you want to do is how I interpret that.
And so I didn’t really know, but I thought, well, I just don’t feel that experienced.
I’ve only been coaching for a couple of years.
And so he coached a woman who, you know, she was great and Rich typically does some transformative stuff.
So yeah, that happened for sure.
And for some reason he picked mine. I think the reason he picked it is because it’s pretty common, common.
Not that it was anything special.
[4:22] But he pulled that one out of the list of 50 or so answers that people were given and asked to coach me.
And it’s funny because before I got on the call, I thought if Rich asked anybody if they want to be coached, I’m going to raise my hand quickly.
He did that in the last call and I did raise my hand.
And, you know, it’s pretty scary, especially in front of a bunch of folks you don’t know, and this high power, and I say millions earning, what does that mean?
Well, it just means that there are people out there who are willing to pay him a lot of money to be coached.
And so that somehow makes the stakes higher. but I was like, dang, I’m at, that’s super valuable.
So, allergies are kind of bad right now.
[5:17] But it’s worth it to be outside.
[5:24] He started asking me questions about my life. What did you study in college? Literature.
Who is your favorite author? Shakespeare.
What’d you do after that? Got a job, then went back to school for media arts. Okay, what about that?
Well, worked at Duke Hospital. Also worked at a camp, which was transformative too.
I worked at Duke Hospital with a bunch of surgeons. He’s like, oh, with a bunch of surgeons, So he thought that was kind of interesting.
And so I just said, yeah, I just helped them transition from analog media to digital media, and help them with their educational materials.
And so he’s like, what happened after that? So he’s like, well, I got a job teaching at the local university and taught there. And they said, eventually you’re going to have to get, a better degree if you’re going to keep teaching here.
He’s like, what’s that mean? It’s like, well, an MFA, it’s Masters of Fine Arts, it’s a terminal degree if you’re gonna teach in a art department, you can have a non-PhD, it’s called an MFA.
It’s a PhD kind of for artists, but more based on artwork versus, I guess, writing a doctor’s thesis.
So, by this point, I knew kind of what Rich was doing.
[6:54] He was saying, you know, getting me to tell me my experience, because I’m someone who just said, I don’t feel very experienced.
So he goes all the way back to college and then, but then he asks a question which I thought, you know what, I’m going to dig a little deeper here. I’m with Rich Litvin.
I need to be a little bit more honest, more vulnerable.
[7:19] See what comes up and so when he asked me about, Artwork kind of art I made I told him about this. It was my final master’s MFA thesis piece, It was this nest I called it an osprey nest and it I make kind of crappy looking this that’s what it looked like pretty much bunch of sticks,
But in the middle of it, I put this house and in the house there was a tiny little TV screen, and I hadn’t thought about that thing in years decades really not much but you know, He asked me to describe it and I was like well, it’s a sarsaparilla nest and that connected me.
[8:06] To some loss and I somehow said, you know the thing that got me to coach got me into coaching was was the realization that I had done a lot of work, because my dad died when I was 11 years old, and my best friend killed himself, when we were 21 years old.
And I dug in, and I went and worked through the grief, and I studied life.
I studied personal growth.
I didn’t know it at the time, spirituality. You know, I really went deep.
I didn’t say this, but I stared into the abyss, but did not go in.
But I was on the rim of it looking in.
I guess meaning, you know, I mean, I was really questing life and death, on profound levels and doing a bunch of art around it.
And this osprey nest is kind of the last big piece of art that I’ve ever read about it.
And the osprey is kind of a phoenix rising up from the ashes, the electronic ashes, maybe.
[9:12] So I thought that was interesting. You know, here, how am I talking about this piece of art that I haven’t thought of in years?
But that’s what a great coach can do is dig stuff up.
And I forget the other questions he asked, but he got me to say, or I felt compelled to say that, And I, when this course, speaking of the course that I was taking, am taking, that we were all in together, I said, this is something that I, you know, I don’t have enough time and it’s pretty expensive, I don’t want to do this.
But then I thought about it and I thought, that’s just bullshit.
I want to take this course.
What did that mean to me?
So, what that means is at that moment when I signed up for the course, I…
[10:14] In a sense, jumped into the abyss because I went somewhere I wasn’t ready to go, meaning I knew that I needed to take this course because I knew that it was something that was going to push me harder than I was going to push myself. And it was going to help me to realize, what it is within me that I really want to do and kind of help me figure out, and I say kind of because I’m still working on it, figure out why I’m not doing that yet.
So, a great coach is going to call you out on your shit. My alarm on my phone went off.
Hopefully, the recording is still going. Here we are in real time, folks. Yes, it is.
I’ll back up a little bit just in case the alarm messed that up.
Goodness, you’d think I would learn these things, but I don’t.
[11:04] So, a powerful coach is going to ask you powerful questions. powerful questions.
And the powerful thing that Rich got me to was to the realization within me, to say, I signed up for this course because I knew it’s what I needed.
And I had been hiding. And here’s the podcast, talk about meta.
Because I mentioned I’ve been podcasting a lot. And he’s like, well, the book that Rich Litvin Clifford and Steve Chandler wrote, I don’t know, seven or eight years ago.
It was basically in opposition to this idea that you need to have a podcast or you need to do all this social media stuff.
[11:48] Now, Rich has all this stuff, but that’s not why he’s a millions-earning coach.
[11:58] He’s a fantastic world-class coach because he knows a great method and he lives it, and that is to put yourself out there on a regular basis and to connect with people in meaningful, deep ways.
And that’s what I’m trying to do with this podcast. That is true.
But I’m also needing and wanting to do that more, in a way that pushes my coaching forward in the real world, not just the digital space, online content, marketing, and all that.
And I feel like after reflecting on this, it’s like, well, is this podcast a waste of time? No, it’s not.
It’s just not the main thing, by any means. The main thing is me sitting down every day and saying, who would I like to talk to today?
Who do I just want to reach out to and connect with?
Not to coach, just to connect, because it’s in connecting with people, in genuine ways that we put ourselves out to the world in a genuine way so that we can show up fully as who we are and who we wanna be and who we can be.
And we co-create that.
[13:14] People, the people we connect with, and eventually that’s going to lead to more connections, which can lead to more coaching.
Doesn’t have to, but that’s probably what’s going to happen because I’m going to lead with my natural self and be curious and want to know what’s up with people.
And if in that conversation, I feel like I could help them, then I’m going to say so.
Maybe that’s through coaching or maybe that’s just through helping people as people do.
So that’s where I am.
The podcast is still cranking out.
I’m still putting it out there. I’m still putting myself out there in that sense, but that is the easy thing.
The harder thing is going to be for me to sit down every day and say, who do I want to connect with?
And is that hard? It’s not hard. It’s just that I have this perception that it’s hard because it’s really not.
In fact, I just did it 20 minutes ago. I said, man, you gotta reach out to somebody before you get on that podcast and talk about this.
So I did.
I reached out to someone who I admire and thought, you know what?
I wanna catch up with that person.
So I sent him an email. Said, I hope we can be in touch.
So what’s next?
I hear a dog out there.
[14:34] You don’t usually hear that. It’s interesting.
So what’s next? Well, I guess I’ll see what happens tomorrow. My guess is it’s going to be, more like How I want it to be deep down because I got coached by somebody powerful and I got that power within me,
The coaching helped me see something And and now that I see it i’m like, yeah, that’s it, That’s that’s really what I want, And I want to help do that for more people.
So if you hear this that resonates with you give me a call we can talk about, You talk about anything, but if you know me give me a call or you can find me at Davidbourne.com, And I don’t say that to say that this is a sales pitch But it actually is because the pitch is,
We want to do things that we’re not doing.
[15:32] And sometimes we get so distracted with good things that we don’t let ourselves remember that what we really want are the great things.
So what’s a great thing that you want, that you’re hiding from, that you’re holding back on, that you’re not doing because some part of you says that’s a stupid idea, or we don’t have time yet, or you’re not ready yet?
Look, I’m the same way. I saw that rich today. We’re all like this, but we can all, Work on it to get better and the more we do it the closer we’re gonna get there.
So, Thanks for listening. I’m David Bourne. Hope to see you out there.
Cheers.
The Hidden Meaning Behind This Short Podcast ProjectTwo days ago I was getting coached and the true significance of this project came up.
This podcast project is really about my love of nature, tech, connection and life itself. I’m sharing the things I love in a fun, interesting, and simple way.
Making these recordings every day is a way for me to share my love with the world.
How are you doing that?
Episode Highlights – TheDavoShow-021* My inspiration for recording was an “uncommon” pine warbler, Pine Warbler Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology * The Merlin Bird ID app has helped me identify the warbler and tons of other species I did not know. * But it’s not just about birds. Fore example, what’s that gob of spit doing on these pine trees? All About Spittlebugs, the Bugs That Mimic Spit
What Is The Davo Show?
- Examples from Living Life to the Fullest
- Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors
- Music and Rhythms
- David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field
- Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound
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Rough Transcript[0:15] I want to talk about birds, which I’ve done a lot lately for this project.
[0:31] I’m not sure if you can hear that over the din of the lawnmower I hear, and of course the road sounds but, there is a uncommon bird out in the forest it’s called a pine warbler.
(It sounds like this sound but) with a much, higher pitch than that. So the pine warbler is just a…
Am I a birder?I don’t even know that I’ve ever seen one, but thanks to the Merlin bird ID app I have heard it, before and it’s made me think about why I’m into birds. The truth is I’m really ,not that into birds. I mean, yeah, I like them, but what I really like is just the, vast richness of life.
[1:56] I’m just curious, you know when there’s a bird that’s uncommon and I know that that sound is not one that I hear very often I find it interesting. And yeah, I do love birds. You know, though I wouldn’t call myself a birder.
I don’t identify as a birder, but I love birds. So, bird lover, nature lover, just life lover, really.
What I’m learning about this through coaching.A couple of days ago I was coaching with a friend. She was coaching me. We are swapping coaching with each other to get practice and to learn and just to get better, to learn about ourselves. I’m learning about myself. She’s learning about herself. We coach each other.
I do this with lots of people, lots of us. You know, we’re coaching all over the place.
[3:20] Because it’s fascinating, for one. You know, it’s amazing to sit down with somebody, every couple of weeks and hear what they’re working on and hear how it’s changed, hear what’s the same. Just really interesting.
Life gets better when you pay attention.And I was coaching with her the other day and she helped me realize that this podcast project, The Davo Show, what it’s really about, is just me loving life. And this pine warbler is a great indication of that.
[4:07] You know, I recognized that it’s unusual. Why? Because I listen a lot and I, I noticed that’s different.
And if you just pay attention to life, things get really interesting because you’ll start seeing things, that you didn’t see before.
Curiosity, like Love is endless.And it just becomes more fun, more challenging in a way, in a good way. In a good way.
I’ve learned recently that curiosity is like love in that it’s endless, meaning there’s no limitation on it. It just keeps going and going and going and that’s interesting.
What’s that spit doing on these pine trees?And as I’m standing out here talking to you, I’m noticing spit, balls of spit in the little white pine trees that are right in front of me. I mean, how random is that? Why would there be balls of spit in pine trees?
Well, I’m pretty sure that’s the spittle bug.
I hadn’t noticed it until today. I’m gonna try to walk out here.
It’s a pretty dense part of the forest. I’ll take a picture of this. Balls of spit.
[5:36] Little bubble balls in these pine trees. It’s just another example.
Outer growth is inner growth.If you pay attention, what you will see, what you will hear, what you will learn, how you’ll grow, and of course that goes for the inside of you as much as what’s outside of you, and it’s really, all the same thing.
So I’m gonna go look up this spittle bug now and see what that’s all about. I have no idea what a spittle bug looks like. I do know what, their reproductive system looks like. It looks like a ball of spit on a tree. This world is crazy.
I’m grateful for all of this.[6:20]
So I’m grateful for the pine warbler. I have not seen him.
There he is.
Grateful for the spittlebug and grateful for the opportunity to talk to all of this about you. So thanks for listening.
I’m David Bourne. You can find me at Davidbourne.com. I hope you will continue to listen to The Davo Show.
Cheers.
What are You Struggling to Put Out into the World?Do you have a project that you want to get off the ground, but can’t?
Do you know why you are struggling?
What thoughts or excusing are you using to hold you back?
I’ve been asking myself these same questions. Check out this podcast to learn how iteration, curiosity and a desire to learn and grow** have all come together.
Highlights From DavoShow-020* Reflections on this podcast, the gear I’ve used to make it and how much I love tweaking things and learning. * This audio recording format helps me get out lots of ideas quickly. Writing, on the other hand, takes me much longer because I still lack the confidence I desire.
What Is The Davo Show?
- Examples from Living Life to the Fullest
- Connecting with Nature and the Outdoors
- Music and Rhythms
- David Bourne’s Short Form Audio Shipped from the Field
- Quick Experiments in Thought and Sound
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Rough Transcript[0:14] I stopped to record because I heard a hawk and there’s just something about raptors that really gets me excited.
[0:37] The problem with them is they don’t stick around. Usually, they take off. They’re, going far and fast. So I might not, I might not be able to get the recording that I was looking for.
I’ve been thinking about recordings and you know, it’s pretty amazing what our devices can do.
This is every recording that I’ve made this past week and a half doing this new Davo Show. It’s all pretty much been done on my iPhone, iPhone 14, and I’ve mostly been using this very full featured but basic in some ways too, app called Voice Recorder.
[1:46] And I’m beginning to think that I’d like to record with some other devices. I’ve got tons of great microphones. Tons. I don’t have tons. I have a few great, microphones.
I have tons of like lavalier mics that cost 10 bucks a piece, wired lavalier mics. I’ve got a good wireless mic that I love. It just doesn’t interface all that well with the iPhone.
[2:16] But it’s making me think I want to bring out some of my great mics. I’ve got a great shotgun mic that picks up sound from far away and focuses in on it. So, that would be fun to play with, experiment with, which gets me thinking.
A Way to ExperimentThis project has been a great way for me to experiment on many levels and you, You know, it’s been fun to tweak things, even though I’ve got the basics, which is open the recorder app, click the record button.
Save it change the name send it to the all phonic audio processing server Then it’ll send it to my podcast server and then I just make that connection from WordPress.
[3:22] Which only takes a few minutes That’s the basics, but from there I get to build, on top of that So do I use a different mic? Do I use a different recorder? Do I save it in a different way? Do I, Tweak the settings in all phonic. Do I use a different intro or outro?
And yeah, I tend to get distracted by those additions to the core idea, but that’s the fun of it and as long as I’m doing it in a way that is still fun Engaging and making it better or, Not necessarily better, but just trying different things which does make it better because you learn different ways to do things…
Experimenting, you know, there’s no one right way to do anything. They’re just different ways.
I, Wanted to be able to make quick podcasts on my website, So that I could add links and add a transcript, text, anything, or just add nothing.
[4:33] And, you know, it’s just been a really fun way to experiment and get ideas out into the world quickly.
Speaking is Faster then WritingI don’t have a lot of confidence in my writing ability. I just, I don’t, you know, I’m working on that. I love literature.I was a literature major in undergrad. And I’m working on it.
I know I’m a good writer. I’m getting better at it, but I’m not as fast as I want to be.
So this podcast has been a way that I can get out ideas quickly.
Iteration Speeds Up ChangeNow, why do I want to do it quickly? Well, this idea of iteration.
I’ve talked a lot about the change cycle.
You know, I see it so much in nature. We talked about the oak tree the other day and how it sends out hundreds of thousands of acorns over its life, and only one, statistically, only one of those turns into another great big oak tree.
And so that’s like us with our ideas, putting ideas out into the world, iteration.
And so getting things out quickly and on a regular basis and not getting bogged down, that’s really been the beauty of this project for me.
So you, the listener, why would you care about this?
[6:01] Well, I know that a lot of folks struggle with the same problems that I do.
They struggle with this idea of getting ideas out and getting ideas out quickly.
And, you know, maybe you’re like me, where you like to try it and experiment with a lot of different creative practices and different methods of doing things.
And maybe you get distracted like I do.
So my encouragement to you is to focus on the smallest part, get really good at that, focus on that, meaning, like me, it’s for this podcast, hit record, send it to the servers, then hit publish. That’s the essence of it.
I’m hearing the cicada again.[7:02] I’m walking towards it. I think it’s getting louder. So I have talked about cicadas in two of these recordings.
Now this would be a great example of me tweaking. Like if I had my good shotgun mic and my good recorder I could get that sound and it would be really clear.
[7:28] You know at this point it doesn’t really matter. It’s not like I’m doing a cicada documentary or cicada studies or blah blah. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
I digress. So, why should you care?
I Hope You Are Doing Something You LoveWell, I don’t know. I don’t know what you’re doing, but I, hope you’re doing something that you, that excites you, that gets you out doing things that you love. Like this is getting me out in nature, observing, listening.
Find a project that gets you where you want to be, doing the things you want to do, and sharing your ideas with the world. That’s, you know, that’s It’s really important to me that we do that, that we become who we think we want to be, become the best version of ourselves.
And this practice, this idea of changing by doing things, trying things, testing things, making something new, learning from it, re-evaluating, like, okay, I can do this.
I definitely feel like I can produce a podcast today.
[8:41] And so I’m doing it. Today’s Friday, so I’m gonna send out a newsletter today.
I’m gonna talk about this project.
I’ve got a dog who is telling me something. What’s up, dog?
Oh, they’re making the sounds, what’s that mean?
[9:07] Well, I guess I got to go. The dogs are telling me something’s happening.
So, I’ll wrap it up with this question…
What are you doing? And Want to do?[9:18] Or let me rephrase it. What do you want to be doing that you’re not doing?
How can you make it simpler? How can you do more iterations of it?
How can you make it so it’s good enough to share? How can you make it good enough to you? How can you look at it so that it’s something you can put out in the world? You know, I’ve struggled for this for years.
I’ll probably always struggle with this, but what I can tell you about this recent project is I’ve found something that works. This method. Go outside, make some nature observations and then tie it in to the creative process, to becoming who you want to be, to enjoying your life and doing the things that you want to do.
That’s all I’m doing here. It’s different every day. It’s rough.
It’s not perfect in any means, but here it is and I’m loving it. So I So I encourage you to do that.
What do you want to do that you’re not doing?
How can you do it more often?
Share it and learn, grow, become who you want to become next, and then move on to the next thing.
[10:41] I’m David Bourne. I hope to see you at DavidBourne.com.
Cheers.
Learning What You Love Will Help You Not Kill It.This is what I’m learning about this short form, audio project…
The iterations of doing it over and over for several days now is teaching me that the things I love are worth building on and protecting.
What do I need to protect it from?
My own fears that it’s not living up to some higher standard that says it needs to be something else.
What do I love about it?
I love the simple nature of it, being inspired by something in nature, and reflecting on a deeper connection to an idea.
Ultimately, it’s because I love the world and I love life. So far, this podcast has been a good reflection of that simple truth.
When you find something that is true to you, don’t let it go.
What Is the Davo Show?* A short-form audio podcast * A place to experiment with ideas, sound and quick podcast production.
Mostly, I create sounds from nature or music.
Where Can I Find The Davo Show?You can find all of the Davo Show Episodes at http://DavidBourne.com/davo/
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Unedited Transcript[0:16] Hey folks, it’s Dave Bourne.
In the backyard again.
Listening to a robin.
You can probably hear that.
But there’s also an eastern towhee out there, and a wood thrush. I’ve seen all three of them in my yard. I don’t see any of them right now, but I hear them.
Oh, I just saw one fly off the branch. I think that’s the robin. They’re pretty common.
The reason I know it was a tohi, the reason I know it was a wood thrush is because my Merlin app identified all of those. I.
[1:18] Thought that was a robin. I’m not quite, I’m not quite so good to know what all the calls are, but I am not afraid to use the Merlin app, which is amazing for, bird identification. Particularly amazing the way it uses audio sounds.
Audio sounds? That’s redundant. It uses audio to identify bird calls. Really cool. If you haven’t checked it out you should. Just another way to engage with the great outdoors. Yeah, so I’ve gotten to the point where I’m starting to look back on on the work that I’ve done for this project.
And that’s just, you know, I’ve taken enough action where I’m starting to understand it.
And I wanted to mark that today as, now that’s a chickadee you hear.
[2:31] Kind of buzzing. I do know those, and squeaking.
But I’ve learned enough from the iterations that I’ve done of this project that it’s starting to sink in what it is.
And I was surprised. I got coached on this project twice today.
I’m doing coaching training and I coach with fellow coaches, we coach each other.
I coach about this a lot, my project, it’s something that I’m working on, the shipping, is a challenge for me. I have tons of ideas, I make tons of stuff, but I don’t share it that much.
But with this audio project, this Devo Show podcast, that is changing.
[3:28] But that’s not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is, is, well, a couple of things.
The first, the problem. We like to focus on problems, so I’m gonna focus there first.
But then on the second thing, I’m gonna talk about the awesomeness that I’m finding in this project.
So first, the problem. The problem is I’m having a typical tendency to overthink it, to overdo it, and to try to make it into some kind of marketing project, which it already is that, but I’m trying to finesse it.
I’m trying to make the web content longer and it’s taking me more time than I want it to, and I’m starting to resent that.
And the coaching I was doing was I came with this problem, like I don’t want to kill this project with this desire to turn it into something that I don’t like anymore, which is, that’s happened before with projects like this.
[4:34] And so, that’s the problem, which I can overcome. And this is why I can overcome it.
The reason I can overcome it is because I’ve discovered what I love about this project.
And that’s the spontaneous nature of walking out in nature, being inspired by something like a bird song.
[4:56] And relating that to something I’ve learned or something I’m learning or something I want to learn and just start talking about it and process it out loud, share what I know, share what I’m excited about.
And the real, that’s the good part, but the really good part that I, that I saw that when When I really do this in the way that I want to do it, what I’m doing is I’m enjoying life, to the fullest.
And being out in nature is a big part of that.
Being inspired by something is a big part of that, but also sharing my thoughts about change.
Of course, there’s so much change in nature, but about how people learn, about how people grow about how I want to learn, how I want to grow, how I want to share ideas and I want to help other people share ideas.
I don’t want to help other people move through this stuff, because this is a very human problem.
Back to the problem of wanting to do something, but there’s a part of us that thinks it needs to be something else or it’s deficient or whatever.
[6:13] Because even with this project that I know and I love, there’s a part of me that thinks that.
And I’m accepting that part of me because that’s a part of me that wants it to be useful to my life.
And I just have to trust right now that it is going to be useful.
I mean, it already is.
But that part of me that wants to it to be a success in some monetary term or professional term or I don’t know what, social status, whatever that part of us wants, that’s a normal, part of us that wants things like that. The trick is being aware of it, seeing for what it is, and not letting it kill the project, which I’m not gonna do. Which, is why this project is just gonna be as simple as I can make it. I’m recording it, I’m gonna ship it today, I’ll probably put a title on it, but it’s not gonna take up much of my time because I got to go watch some Ted Lasso that just came out.
And I don’t want to miss that and I don’t want to fuck this up this project and I’m not gonna. Pardon my French. So that’s my word out here with the Robins.
[7:32] And the chickadee and the.
[7:38] Eastern Tohey, That’s a Robin and the, What else did I say do you remember Robin Eastern Tohey wood thrush Chickadee, There’s a lot more stuff out here too, and it’s just waiting to reveal itself, So I’ll sit out here for a few more minutes send this file up to the Auphonic server where it’ll do its magic, send it to the, podcast server, then I’ll log in to WordPress, click publish, and let it get out there and do its thing. So speaking of doing its thing, thank you for listening, and I hope to see you out there. Cheers!
How we all have an Antagonist inside of us, and it’s not all bad.Yes, the Antagonist archetype within us can cause us grief.
But, learning to appreciate what it is trying to do for us is a great first step towards acceptance of all our parts.
Show Notes* An unusual appearance of the Great Crested Flycatcher * Jill Bolte-Taylor has taught me a lot about the four parts of the brain, one of which is represented here by the Antagonist archetype.
Listen to This Episode 022Where Can I Find The Davo Show?You can find all of the Davo Show Episodes at http://DavidBourne.com/davo/
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Rough Transcript(Bird sound)
[0:15] That is a bird that’s not around very much. It’s a Great Crested Flycatcher.
Thanks to the Merlin app, I know what it is. I’ve got two of them in my yard right now it’s about the size of a mocking bird.
It’s gray and pretty bold because it’s only about 30 feet away and here I am talking and right in front of it and it’s not acting like it’s concerned at all.
[1:14] So pretty cool. I couldn’t tell you if I’ve ever seen one of these in my yard.
I started recording on the Merlin app because I thought, you know, I don’t recognize that sound.
Not that I know all the bird sounds because I definitely do, not.
But as I’ve said in some earlier recordings this past week, it’s uh, it’s cool to start this project back up where I’m going out into nature and paying attention and waiting to see if something happens.
So this is what has happened. The, the crested, great crested, flycatcher? See I don’t even know the name yet. So pretty cool.
[2:19]
Now this brings Up what I wanted to talk about.
And as you can hear my voice is pretty croaky. I think that’s because of all the pollen and all the time outside recently.
But I think, um, I’m struggling to say this, what am I trying to say?
Oh, there it goes. (The bird flies off.)
[2:50] I’m trying to say that being outside and doing this project has been really great. And there’s a part of me that thinks, asks myself, why am I doing this?
Why am I trying to do this every day?
Okay, okay, I take one day off a week. I’ve been taking off Sundays.
Why am I doing this? Like, is this really something?
And I have to recognize that that’s partly my antagonist that’s kicking in.
[3:21] I believe that we’ve got four main characters that live inside of us.
And one of them is the antagonist, meaning it’s where the resistance comes from. It’s that part of us that tries to self-protect.
The ego isn’t within this realm. It’s the survival part of us, meaning the part of us that wants to keep us safe.
The part of us that did keep us safe as you know whenever, everything was about feeding yourself and protecting yourself from your enemies every day.
And yes, while that’s true to some degree, it’s not nearly as true as it used to be back whenever things were much much more hand-to-mouth.
And so So that’s kind of left over.
That antagonistic part of us serves us well until it doesn’t.
Meaning when this voice kicks in and says, Dave, why are you doing this?
Like this project is stupid. taking up way too much of your time.
[4:49] You know, I’m not seeing the benefit of this. Well, I know, Because I have awareness which is so important.
I have awareness that this antagonistic part is within me, That is going to be some self-critical.
[5:09] I Have to say, okay what which voice is this and I’ve identified because you don’t you don’t always know that’s the thing, You don’t know Like if you have a thought,
You don’t know where that thought is coming from. It’s just a thought but, If we can raise our awareness and say wait a minute, which part of myself is talking here?
I’ve recognized that this Voice is my antagonist now.
[5:42] An Antagonist, you may know is from storytelling and from narrative.
It’s the bad guy.
So, what about the protagonist? Yep, we’ve got one of those two.
That’s the hero. And we’ve got a protagonist, we’ve got an antagonist, I believe we’ve got an artist/ lover, and then we’ve got a guide, within us.
And those four characters, they line up with the four, gosh, they line up with the four seasons, they line up with four parts of the day, they line up with, fours as you see them in religion, in art, in cyclical patterns that we see in narratives.
[6:38] I’m obsessed with this idea of four parts and the four phases of change.
I’ll link to some other places where I talk about that.
But this antagonist, I want to talk about it because the other day I realized, you know, what, antagonist implies that it’s a bad thing.
And it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
And that’s really important because self-compassion is so critical when you’re working through personal growth.
And it’s super important that you, that if you recognize something within yourself, that, there’s a part of you that is trying to help.
So this antagonist throughout human history, his job was to keep us safe, to keep us away from the mountain lions and you know keep us keep us away from snakes whatever is bad.
[7:40] Tribes you know when tribal I mean we still have tribes today but you know what I mean like when the people that lived five miles away we’re trying to kill you, and your job was to keep your clan safe and kill them if they came into your clan.
That’s super simplistic to say that, but that part has served us well.
So what about now in modern times?
What do we do with that part of us? Well, unfortunately, it does go off the rails. It sends us into wars. It sends us into calling people the other, and You know that.
[8:20] It doesn’t serve us. It doesn’t push humanity forward very well in the way.
[8:28] That it used to. But if we can recognize that part of ourselves, and if we can say, hey, is this trying to help me out?
Like, why does this voice say, Dave, this project’s taking too much time? Well, sometimes it does. Let’s tell them the truth.
Sometimes it takes too much time, and I don’t want to give it that much time, which is why I’m pulling back on the web page of this podcast.
I’m not gonna put as much time into that because that’s where most of the time goes. It’s pretty, quick for me to record something, send it to the server, and you know press the publish button.
All that’s quick. What’s not quick is me putting in a transcript, writing down a summary, linking to other stuff
So I’m pulling back a bit on that side of things, at least for now, to say, okay, Critical Self, you got a point, and thank you for, thank you for pointing that out, but this project’s still going forward.
I’m still gonna publish six days a week, every day but Sunday, and I’m still gonna go outside and hope that something cool happens like this crested flycatcher and I gotta look it up.
[9:53] Is it the great crested flycatcher? (Does that imply that there’s a lesser crested flycatcher?)
[10:01] Something cool is going to happen in nature, which is going to get you talking about something else that’s been on your mind.
So that antagonist could be a good thing.
And it can also help you, you can tap into that fighting energy when you want to get something done.
Like, I want to get this project done, I want to get my ideas out into the world, and I can tap into that part of myself to get the energy to do that.
That. It’s just a little bit of a mind shift and recognize that at times I’m, gonna need that and at times I’m gonna have that kick in.
And so I think that’s all I want to say about the antagonist right now, but in the future I will be talking more about the protagonist, the antagonist, the artist / lover, and the guide, and also talking about how those four characters are within us all.
A lot of these ideas are connected to some ideas I’ve gotten from Jill Bolte-Taylor and the four parts of the brain, but also from Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey.
And also from just so many stories, the narrative of the protagonist, the hero, fighting against some antagonistic force or person or group.
[11:30] And then those artists, the people that come together and create something new, so that that new thing can then benefit the community, and that hero can become the guide for the community.
So this is David Bourne signing off for now with the frog voice, which hopefully will be going away pretty soon.
You can find out more at DavidBourne.com, hope to see you there.
Cheers.
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