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The inspiring Nina Turner joins me to talk about the state of the union, what the 4th of July means to her, and so much more. This woman has been a courageous activist on behalf of social justice and an undaunted voice of truth for years.
Here is a link to some of the books we mentioned on the show: Dumbing Us Down, The Underground History of American Education, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, A People’s History.
Throughout her career, State Senator Nina Turner has fought to improve Northeast Ohio and the lives of those who call it home. Continually devoted to the issues of education, employment, and building strong and safe communities, she has embraced a no-nonsense attitude toward confronting the problems that face our cities and state on a daily basis. An outspoken advocate of the disenfranchised and under-represented, Senator Turner believes that if individuals are provided with the means they will craft for themselves their own American dream.
Nina Turner is a self-described democratic socialist whose politics have been variously described as progressive, left-wing, or far-left.
Nina was also the Democratic nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014, losing to incumbent Jon Husted. She supported Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign, and became president of the Sanders-affiliated political action organization Our Revolution in 2017. She served as a national co-chair of Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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An enlightening conversation with renowned filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg on the highly anticipated fourth season of his hit series, Moving Art – a breathtaking documentary experience which uses his slow-motion and time-lapse visual effects to take viewers on an immersive journey through nature. Originally airing on Netflix and streamed by millions worldwide, Moving Art immerses viewers in the beauty of nature. He is also award-winning director of the documentary Fantastic Fungi and the brilliant film, Gratitude Revealed!.
Mr. Schwartzberg is a renowned filmmaker, and award-winning director of the documentary Fantastic Fungi, narrated by Brie Larson, which was rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Louie has spent his notable career providing breathtaking imagery using time-lapse, high-speed, and macro cinematography techniques as seen on The Las Vegas Sphere and The Vatican.
He is a visionary visual artist who breaks barriers, connects with audiences, and tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people, and places.
All of Louie’s work lives on his subscription-based platform, The Moving Art Channel.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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One of the most compelling voices on the current climate challenges joins me to discuss her work and where we find ourselves in this precarious moment. The inspiring Natalie Kyriacou OAM is the Founder and Chair of My Green World, the Creator of World of the Wild mobile game app, and climate and nature Director. We also discuss her brilliant new book, Nature’s Last Dance.
For over ten years, Natalie has been endeavoring to drive positive change worldwide; her approach has been to inspire curiosity. As CEO of My Green World, Natalie created inclusive youth education programs and technologies to increase access to wildlife and environmental conservation and sciences. In addition to this, Natalie is a Board Director at the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, a Board Committee Member at CARE Australia, a Director at a climate and nature advisory firm, the former Australian Director of Sri Lankan-based NGO, Dogstar Foundation, a UNESCO Pathfinder, and a delegate of the W20, the official gender engagement group of the G20.
Natalie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to wildlife and environmental conservation and education in 2018. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018) honouree in recognition of her Social Entrepreneurship and a UNEP Young Champion of the Earth Prize Finalist. She is one of LinkedIn’s 2022 ‘Top Green Voices’ and named as one of The Australian’s 2022 ‘Top Innovators’.
Natalie has represented Australia on a global stage and is particularly passionate about exploring the intersection of climate, nature, and social equity issues.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A wonderful exchange with author and poet Colette Lafia on her latest book, Leaving the Shore: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer.
Colette Lafia is a San Francisco-based blogger, spiritual director, workshop and retreat facilitator, and part‐time school librarian. She is an adjunct faculty member at Mercy Center Burlingame. She is the author of Comfort and Joy: Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others.
Here is her homepage for those who would like to find out more about this beautiful soul.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A beautiful conversation with the great wisdom keeper Gail Straub on her inspiring book, the critically acclaimed memoir, Home Inside the Globe. This show is loaded with goosebump moments and timeless jewels of revelation.
Gail is the author of eight books, including the best-selling Empowerment, coauthored with her husband, David Gershon, and translated into fourteen languages; the highly praised The Rhythm of Compassion; her feminist memoir Returning to My Mother’s House; the fairy tale Réveil . . . and the Old One at the Edge of the World; her award-winning nature writings The Ashokan Way and Solace and Sanctuary in collaboration with the artist Kate McGloughlin. Gail’s books have garnered three Nautilus Silver Medal Awards as well as three Foreword Review Book Awards. Her articles and essays have appeared in various publications including The Chronogram, Foreword Magazine, Huffington Post, Spirituality and Health, Wayfarer, and In Context.
Along with being a writer, Gail co-founded the Empowerment Institute in 1981 and is considered a visionary pioneer in the field of empowerment. One of the world’s leading authorities on women’s empowerment, she co-founded IMAGINE: A Global Initiative for the Empowerment of Women to help women heal from violence, build strong lives, and contribute to their community. IMAGINE initiatives have taken root throughout Africa, India, and the Middle East where they have impacted several million lives. Gail’s white paper entitled “The Missing Piece in the Empowerment Equation” is considered a seminal contribution to the field of human agency. She has contributed to various anthologies on women’s empowerment including Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership. Gail has been a consultant to many organizations furthering women’s empowerment including the Chinese Women’s Federation, the Russian American Initiative, Women for Women International, World Pulse, and the Omega Women’s Leadership Center.
Taking her empowerment work global early in her career, Gail served as the co-founder for the First Earth Run, a historic planet wide initiative cosponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and ABC Television in 1986, during the height of the cold war. As a torch of peace was passed around the world, 25 million people in sixty-two countries participated and the relay garnered recognition from forty-five heads of state. The event raised several million dollars for UNICEF that was distributed to the neediest children in the world.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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This is a lovely conversation with English author Cathy Haynes on her new book, The Fullness of Time. This is a great read for anyone who loved Braiding Sweetgrass, The Hidden Life of Trees, or Wintering. Instead of clocks and calendars, Haynes explores how humans once told time by birdsong, flowers, shadows, and stars and what we’ve lost by surrendering to precision and screens.
Cathy Haynes is a curator, writer, artist, and educator who has been developing a creative practice on aspects of time for more than two decades. Her new book is The Fullness of Time: Marking the Day by Birdsong, Blooms, Shadows, and Stars. She has been Timekeeper in Residence at University of College London’s Petrie Museum, Artist in Residence at the Chisenhale Gallery, a curator for Art on the Underground at Transport for London, and a founding faculty member at Alain de Botton’s School of Life. She has contributed to Cabinet Magazine, The Guardian, The Human Zoo on BBC Radio 4, and Monocle Weekly. She lives in London.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A wonderful conversation with Aaron Poochigian on his new translation of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. I absolutely loved this book and its timeless wisdom from the great Roman philosopher.
Aaron is a is a poet, classics scholar, and translator who lives and writes in New York City. His work has appeared in such newspapers and journals as The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, and Poetry Magazine. He’s the author of Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the Park, and his translations include Sappho’s Stung with Love (Penguin UK).
Learn more at aaronpoochigian.com
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A beautiful and deeply personal conversation with inspired author Ann Tashi Slater I absolutely love her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World (Balance/Hachette), has been named a Next Big Idea Club “Must-Read.”
Ann Tashi Slater has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and many others. In her Darjeeling Journal column for Catapult, she writes about her Tibetan family history and bardo, and she blogged for HuffPost on similar topics. She presents and teaches workshops at Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, Asia Society, and The American University of Paris, among others.
Learn more at anntashislater.com
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A fascinating conversation with Jack El-Hai, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, recently adapted into the major movie Nuremberg, which opened in theaters worldwide in 2025. The film, directed by James Vanderbilt, stars Rami Malek and Russell Crowe. We also talk about the parallels to our current situation here in America.
Jack writes nonfiction books, longform narratives, and the free monthly Damn History newsletter for writers and readers of popular history. He covers history, medicine, science, crime, and anything else that intrigues him and might intrigue you.
His other published books include Face in the Mirror, The Lost Brothers, Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines, and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. His articles have appeared in Smithsonian, The Atlantic, GQ, Wired, Scientific American Mind, The Washington Post Magazine, and many other publications.
Jack’s forthcoming book is The Case of the Autographed Corpse: A Medicine Man and a Mystery Writer in Pursuit of Justice (2026; Pegasus Publishers). It’s an expansion of an article he published in Smithsonian.
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist is just one of several of Jack’s nonfiction stories that have been adapted for the screen, stage, and podcasts. Among other adaptations of his work are the documentary American Experience: The Lobotomist, the Long Lost podcast, the stage play Sense of Decency, and the podcast Time Capsule: The Silver Chain. He enjoys the adventure of bringing adaptations of his works to many media.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A beautiful and free flowing conversation with the great filmmaker and artist Pen Densham on his fascinating creative path. He also shares some wonderful wisdom for anyone in the creative world as timely life notes on how to be more fully yourself.
Pen Densham is a fine art photographer whose work blends realism and abstraction, transforming the natural world into immersive, almost cinematic experiences. Beginning his artistic journey in England, where he captured nature in the New Forest and early portraits for the BBC, Pen has consistently used photography as a way to process emotion and celebrate beauty. After rediscovering his passion through his daughter’s playful use of his old cameras, he developed an intuitive style that treats the camera like a paintbrush, capturing koi as water spirits, streams as sculptural flows, and kaleidoscopic mirrored reflections he calls “Organic Mandalas.” His images—entirely created in-camera—evoke Monet’s lyricism, Pollock’s spontaneity, and Freeman Patterson’s reverence, yet remain wholly original. Exhibited internationally from Los Angeles to Monaco, his art has been praised for its color, rhythm, and spiritual immediacy.
Equally accomplished in film, Pen is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and producer whose career was mentored by Norman Jewison and launched with the global success of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Through Trilogy Entertainment, he produced films such as Backdraft, Larger Than Life, Moll Flanders, and Houdini, and revived both The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. His collaborations include icons like Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Jodie Foster, and he recently executive produced the Oscar-nominated Harriet. Pen also authored the bestselling screenwriting guide Riding the Alligator and is a sought-after speaker on creative authenticity. His archives are being acquired by the University of Toronto, cementing his legacy as a multidisciplinary artist who unites photography and film through a shared vision of intuition, renewal, and reverence for life’s impermanence.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The wonderful Mary Madeiras and I discuss her fascinating new book, The Akashic Way: Living Through the Lens of the Akashic Records plus so much more in this inspiring exchange & dialogue.
Mary Madeiras is an Advanced Akashic Records practitioner, author, and three-time Emmy Award-winning television director whose career bridges the worlds of spiritual transformation and broadcast storytelling. She has opened the Akashic Records for individuals and corporations around the world, offering soul-level guidance, healing, and divine remembrance. Her book, The Akashic Way – Living Through the Lens of the Akashic Records, shares direct transmissions from the Records as a sacred offering for humanity’s evolution.
Mary’s celebrated directing career spans news, talk shows, sports, and seven top-rated daytime dramas—including General Hospital and Another World—earning her three Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award. Her creative life and spiritual practice now exist in a living collaboration, where divine wisdom informs every story she tells.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My scientific hero Dr. Michael E. Mann returns to discuss his essential new book, Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World. We cover the current state of climate change that we are dealing with and the concerted obstacles we are fighting.
Dr. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He also serves as Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM).
Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research interests include the study of Earth’s climate system and the science, impacts and policy implications of human-caused climate change.
Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003. He has received a number of honors and awards including NOAA’s outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and was awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation in 2013.
He made Bloomberg News’ list of fifty most influential people in 2013. In 2014, he was named Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education. He received the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One in 2017, the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019 he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and in 2020 he received the World Sustainability Award of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society in 2021 and was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023.
He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2024. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.
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Writer, journalist, rhetorician, and Teilhardian scholar Christine M. Tracy joins me to talk about her beautiful new book, Just Trust Life: A Journey with Teilhard de Chardin. In this gritty memoir about tackling life’s challenges with the promise of transcendence, Christine illustrates how seemingly chance encounters with Teilhard’s work catalyzed her emotional and spiritual expansion.
Christine holds a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she studied the evolution of media and worked as a founding editor of one of the web’s first e-zines, Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine. Inspired by the “noosphere,” Teilhard’s word for collective thought energy, Tracy coined the term “newsphere” and wrote The Newsphere: Understanding the News and Information Environment (Peter Lang 2012) to explain the paradox of the current news environment. She believes the energy of the noosphere can enhance collective evolution and wrote The Mystic As Everyman (Thought Catalog 2018) to help readers connect their “insides with their outsides.”
She is a member of the Council of Scholar Advisors for The Teilhard Project and has published scholarly essays exploring Teilhard’s relationship to progressive disciplines, including media ecology and integral theory. She has reported for The Ann Magazine, The Albany Times Union, and other news outlets, and her non-fiction work has appeared in the University of Michigan’s Bear River Review. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she skis, swims, hikes, and is engaged with progressive ideas and spiritual communities.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The heroic and inspiring Roger Hallam returns to talk about his work as an environmental activist and his new book, Your Party – Grasping the Enormity of the Moment.
Roger Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, the cooperative federation organization Radical Routes, and the political party Burning Pink.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Author Jodi-Ann Burey joins me to discuss her powerful new book, Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work, as well as several other topics & issues.
Jodi-Ann Burey is a writer, critic, and sought-after speaker on race, culture, and health equity. Her essays appear in various arts, business, and literary publications. Jodi-Ann created and hosts the prose and poetry salon Lit Lounge: The People’s Art and the Black Cancer podcast. She was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica; lives in Seattle, Washington; and will always call New York City home.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Syrian expert and prolific author David W. Lesch joins me to talk about his captivating new biography, “Dodgers to Damascus: David Lesch’s Journey from Baseball to the Middle East,” written by Catherine Nixon Cooke.
David W. Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far. An acclaimed scholar, educator, author, and conflict resolution specialist, he has advised five U.S. presidential administrations at the highest levels about the head-spinning political, religious, and cultural complexities of the Middle East. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including A History of the Middle East since the Rise of Islam, Syria: A Modern History, and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History.
Long before, as the number one draft pick for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980, Lesch followed his American dream, playing with many baseball greats until a shoulder injury sidelined him. He later became a distinguished professor of Middle East studies at Trinity University in San Antonio and was soon tapped by the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, and policy centers and governments internationally.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Science journalist Peter Brannen joins me to discuss his brilliant new book, The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World plus so much more. I am also a huge fan of his earlier book, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions.
Peter Brannen is a science journalist who specializes in planetary science. His stories cover deep time, astrobiology, paleoclimate, paleontology, geology, geochemistry, marine biology, the philosophy of science, and evolutionary biology. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, Slate, The Boston Globe, Aeon, and others. He was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and a 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellow. Peter is a placental mammal, aerobic heterotroph and Boston Celtics fan.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The beautiful and mystical Priyanka Kumar joins me to talk about her inspiring new book The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit has been called “environmental writing at its best.”
Priyanka Kumar is a nationally acclaimed naturalist and the author of Conversations with Birds, praised as “a landmark book” that “could help people around the world rewild their hearts and souls” (Psychology Today). She profoundly re-envisions our place in Nature—and Nature’s place in our hearts—and has been compared _to Rachel Carson. A documentary inspired by Conversations with Birds produced by an Emmy-award-winning team is forthcoming.
Priyanka’s essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Orion, and Sierra magazine, and she has been featured on CBS, Oprah Daily, and Yale Climate Connections, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
She has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Southern California and serves on the Advisory Council of the Leopold Writing Program. Her feature documentary, The Song of the Little Road, is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Her forthcoming book, The Grassland Queen, will be published in Fall 2026. Her awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, an International Center for Jefferson Studies Fellowship, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The inspiring Carole Hopson joins us to talk about her compelling new book, A Pair of Wings: A Novel plus so many other topics.
Carole Hopson is a Boeing 737 Captain for United Airlines, based in Newark, NJ.
After a remarkable 20-year career as a journalist and executive, she followed her dream to become a pilot and share her passion with others as a flight instructor, while raising her family.
Walking away from executive-level positions, she went to flight school with gusto and completed flight training at the peak of her corporate accomplishments.
True to her roots as a writer, Carole published her debut novel: A Pair of Wings, based on the life story of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, the first American to earn a French civilian pilot’s license.
Carole also heads the Jet Black Foundation, dedicated to sending 100 Black women to flight school by the year 2035.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My friend Fred Mollin joins me to talk about his wonderful new memoir, Unplugged: Stories and Secrets from a Life of Making Records, Scoring Film, and Working with the Legends of Music covering his five decades in the entertainment industry. This one was fun because is such an incredible storyteller.
Fred Mollin is a Grammy-nominated and Juno Award-winning record producer and arranger with a diverse career spanning various genres. He has collaborated with renowned artists like Kris Kristofferson, America, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, and many others.
His early success includes producing Dan Hill’s iconic hit “Sometimes When We Touch.” Mollin has also achieved significant success in children’s music, with over three million units sold as a producer and artist for Disney. In addition, he has composed extensively for film and television, including projects like Friday the 13th and Beverly Hills 90210, earning him four SOCAN awards.
Based in Nashville and Los Angeles, Mollin continues to pursue his passion for music production.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Author Megan Greenwell joins me to discuss her riveting new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream―An Exposé of Private Equity’s Devastating Impact on American Lives, Communities, and the Economy plus so much more. This is a topic I have wanted to cover for a couple of years and how private capital is destroying America.
Megan Greenwell is a journalist who has written or edited for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, WIRED, and ESPN. She is also the deputy director of the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, a workshop and college access initiative for students from low-income backgrounds. A California native, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their pug.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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The brilliant Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs returns to talk about her powerful new book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us. I also dedicated this show to my beloved mother, since we taped it on her birthday. All glories to the Divine Feminine and may it rise up into balance for the good of all being.
Anna is a New York Times bestselling author and multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. With a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge in addition to a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University, Anna translates her academic knowledge into stories that are clear and engaging.
Her articles have been published by TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, CNN, Motherly, the Huffington Post, For Harriet, The Guardian, Darling Magazine, and Blavity. Anna’s storytelling also takes form in her talks, including her TED Talk that has been viewed 2 million times, as well as the scripted and unscripted screen projects she has in development. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three kids.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The great political sage and one of my favorite truth tellers Sarah Kendzior (also find her on Substack!) returns to talk about what is unfolding in our country as well as her brilliant new bestselling book, The Last American Road Trip.
Sarah also wrote the bestsellers, Hiding in Plain Site (2020), and They Knew (2022). Sarah was also the co-host of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast which covered corruption in the United States and the rise of authoritarianism around the world. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A fascinating and deep conversation with Addison Witt (find him on TikTok and Instagram, too!) is an accomplished actor, political poet, creative entrepreneur, and social commentator whose work spans entertainment, activism, and human empowerment. Once a renowned Hollywood talent manager and acting coach, Addison now uses his voice and platform to inspire and challenge audiences toward a more conscious, compassionate world.
He is also the author of I STAND WITH THE SOUL OF AMERICA: A belief in the possibility of betterment, justice, and human potential.
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The inspiring Maggie Doyne (find her on X, Instagram, and Facebook!) returns to talk about the documentary, Between the Mountain and the Sky as well as co-founding the Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. The BlinkNow Foundation has also broken ground on the sustainable Children’s Village in Nepal.
For my friends in Martha’s Vineyard, there is the screening there on March 30th!
Maggie is co-founder of the BlinkNow Foundation and Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. At age nineteen, she used her babysitting money and worked with the local community to build a home for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal. In 2010, she and her team opened a school for five hundred of the region’s most impoverished children. Throughout the past decade, BlinkNow and Kopila have worked to deepen and grow the organization through grassroots community development efforts.
Her work has been championed by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Nicholas Kristof and the Dalai Lama, among others. The story of BlinkNow’s beginnings has been featured on The Huffington Post, VH1, MTV, and Fueling Young People to Change the World | DoSomething.org . Maggie was named Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year and was used as an example for her groundbreaking work at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. In 2015, she was named CNN Hero of the Year.
Maggie’s story carries a message of hope, love, and the possibility of how the smallest individual acts can spark huge world change. She believes that poverty, hunger, and violence will be alleviated when children are provided with their most basic needs and human rights—a loving, happy childhood, nutrition, and a quality education. She believes that this can be achieved during her lifetime.
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A fascinating discussion with author and micro-biologist Richard M. Anderson on his new book, Outbound: Islands in the Void plus all kinds of other planetary happenings. We talk about climate change, humanity, the brain, and life across the galaxies.
Richard is an alumnus of San Jose State University, with a Master of Arts degree in microbiology with an emphasis in molecular biology. Throughout his career The Evolution of Life: Big Bang to Space Colonies has been a dream of his that finally came to fruition as his first book. It is backed by years of research to supplement and verify its content.
Richard’s second book, Outbound: Islands in the Void is the first in a series of sci-fi fiction, the second of the series is due out in the spring of 2025, Outbound: Becoming Meta Mars.
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I had a wonderful conversation with author Paul Nugent on the ongoing UFO phenomenon and his brilliant new book, Maya Mire: A Spiritual Journey into Cosmic Truth and the Dawning of a New World.
Paul was brought up in the Church of England, culminating in regular worship and charitable work for the homeless at London’s famous St. Martin’s in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square. Having completed a business degree in 1980, he later embarked on a four-year study of Eastern Philosophy at London’s School of Economic Science, as well as spending two periods at the New Age spiritual community of Findhorn in the north of Scotland.
For the past 23 years he has been a Director of The Aetherius Society, the world’s oldest UFO organization, founded in 1955 by the Western master of yoga, Dr. George King (1919-1997).
The unique story of Dr. King is largely untold. In all, he brought through over 600 “cosmic transmissions” from Intelligences existing upon the higher dimensions of other planets, mainly from within our solar system. In order to bring this about, he would enter a “positive yogic samadhic trance,” an extremely difficult and dangerous condition which he demonstrated on national television both in the United States and the UK.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My dear friend Marianne Williamson returns to the show to talk about the current political landscape and the recent election. We touch on a wide spectrum of issues here with great depth and nuance. Please take a listen with an open mind and heart to this brilliant soul.
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist, and spiritual thought leader.
For over four decades, she has been a leader in spiritually progressive circles. She is the author of 16 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 18 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS.
She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. Williamson ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and 2024.
Marianne Williamson knows firsthand how our current system is failing millions of Americans. She’s had a forty-year career facilitating personal and systems transformation, and has inspired millions of us to overcome in spite of the system.
That’s why Marianne is standing for an America where we can celebrate the places where we have been right and can admit to the places when we have been wrong.
This is not a time for politics as usual, for politics as usual has failed us.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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A beautiful and wide ranging conversation with the inspiring Adam Markel. I love how deep we went here and the life wisdom shared.
Bestselling author, keynote speaker, workplace expert and resilience researcher Adam Markel inspires leaders to master the challenges of massive disruption in his new book, Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience (McGraw-Hill, Feb. 22, 2022).
Adam is author of the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller, Pivot: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life. A leading international keynote speaker, he has reached tens of thousands worldwide with his message of resilience as the competitive edge in today’s complex markets. An attorney, entrepreneur, and transformational trainer, Adam is a sought-after business culture catalyst who inspires, empowers, and guides organizations and individuals to create sustainable, high-performance strategies.
Adam is also the CEO of More Love Media and host of the Change Proof podcast, where he shares his insights on pivoting and resilience in today’s fast-paced market and interviews experts, innovators, and influencers in the areas of business and life.
Adam credits much of his success to the principles he learned during his 8 years as a Jones Beach lifeguard in New York. As a first responder in a life-and-death environment, he learned the importance of cultivating a high-performance capacity and impeccable teamwork. He’s found that the principles of this type of culture and leadership equally apply to any business that wants to build a competitive advantage to win.
After building a multi-million-dollar law firm, Adam pivoted his own career path to become CEO of one of the largest business and personal growth training companies in the world. Here he learned that motivation and inspiration alone are not enough to effectively utilize change; it’s about providing leaders, teams, and audiences with effective takeaways to sustain them over time.
Adam’s keynotes, corporate workshops, and business mentoring combine his “Lessons from the Lifeguard Stand” with practical business strategies, personal development insights, and a unique delivery style to create a high-energy and impactful learning environment.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My favorite political author and the absolute premier speaker of truth Sarah Kendzior returns to discuss what’s been unfolding lately, from the rise of Vice President Harris to the odd circumstances around the attempted shooting of former President Trump.
Sarah Kendzior is the bestselling author of THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY (2018), HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020), and THEY KNEW (2022). her next book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, will come out in 2025.
From 2018 until 2013, she was the co-host of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast which covers corruption in the United States and the rise of authoritarianism around the world.
She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The podcast returns with the glorious Sherry Sidoti discussing her moving new memoir, A Smoke and A Song. We talk about the passing of her mother and other life transitions she is navigating. As always Sherry shares so much wisdom in these treasured encounters.
Sherry Sidoti is an award-winning author and yoga teacher. She is the founder and lead teacher of FLY Yoga, a yoga teacher training program and non-profit that offers yoga and meditation for trauma resilience on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. She leads Embodied Memoir Writing courses, somatic healing workshops, and retreats globally. Her musings, infused by twenty-plus years of practicing and teaching yoga, healing arts, and mysticism have been published in Heart & Soul Magazine, The Martha’s Vineyard Times, Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, The Covey Club, and the She Writes Press Anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis: Women Writers Respond to the Call.
Sidoti’s debut memoir, A Smoke and a Song received the Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir with Living Now Book Awards, was a Finalist for Eric Hoffer Book Awards da Vinci Eye Prize and earned Readers’ Favorites Five Star Prize.
She currently resides on Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (also find her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn!), returns to discuss the climate crisis and her brilliant new book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. She is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Public Administration program of the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. She is also the Chief Scientist for the global conservation organization, The Nature Conservancy.
She has a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Colgate University, Trinity College, and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.
Professor Hayhoe’s research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to evaluate the future impacts of climate change on human society and the natural environment. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed abstracts and publications and co-authored Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections: From Global Change to Local Impacts (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and served as lead author on key reports for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academy of Sciences, including the Second, Third and Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessments. Her TED talk, The Most Important Thing You Can Do About Climate Change: Talk About It has received over 4 million views.
She is an Oxfam Sister of the Planet and currently serves on a number of advisory boards including the science advisory board for the Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University, the advisory board for King Philanthropies, the international advisory board for the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, the sustainability advisory board for Netflix, and the advisory board for the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
In 2019, Dr. Hayhoe was named a United Nations Champion of the Earth in Science and Innovation. In 2022, she received the American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award and was named a Fellow of the AGU, while in 2023 she was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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What Matters Most host Paul Samuel Dolman presents an encore episode with beloved historian David McCullough on this special July 4th episode.
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MIndfulness therapist and author Donald Altman speaks to host Paul Samuel Dolman on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with the author David Gessner.
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Hypnotherapist Drake Eastburn joins host Paul Samuel Dolman on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with the poet David van den Berg.
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Paul Samuel Dolman speaks to political writer and thinker Eli Merritt on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with Wild Yoga practitioner Rebecca Wildbear
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This is an iconic episode with legendary singer, songwriter and activist Peter Yarrow. Known to most through his landmark work with Peter, Paul, and Mary, he’s also been on the forefront of social justice and activism for decades. We take an incredibly deep dive into his remarkable journey as he shares some never before heard stories, songs and lyrics. Peter talks about the group singing “Blowin’ In The Wind” at the March on Washington in 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” Speech. What an honor to spend some time with this beautiful soul.
Check out the beautiful foundation he formed with Linda Carroll, Just One At Time!
Peter Yarrow was born in New York City in 1938. His singing career began after receiving a psychology degree from Cornell University. Upon graduating, he went to Greenwich Village, where he met up with Noel Stookey and Mary Travers. Albert Grossman, the trio’s manager, assembled and encouraged the group. After rehearsing for seven months, the trio was ready to make their public debut. In 1961 they performed in the Greenwich Village coffeehouse Bitter End. This eventually led to other dates in folk clubs in Chicago and San Francisco. After rousing success at the Blue Angel nightclub in New York, the group began a national tour which lasted almost ten years.
While on tour the group recorded many songs and albums. In 1962, Warner Bros. Records released their first album, Peter, Paul & Mary. The album remained in the Top Ten for ten months, in the Top 20 for two years, and sold more than two million copies. One year later, the trio had three albums on the charts which included the hits “Puff the Magic Dragon,” written by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton, and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which was written by Bob Dylan. During 1963, the trio were also living their songs, performing at fund-raisers, demonstrations and teach-ins in the anti-Vietnam War crusade. Peter Yarrow helped organize the March on Washington in 1969 that featured Peter, Paul & Mary.
The group also devoted some of their time seeking out new musicians. In 1970, the group performed Gordon Lightfoot’s “In the Early Morning Rain” and John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” It was also in 1970 that the three disbanded to pursue solo careers. Peter Yarrow concentrated on his songwriting and political convictions. He co-wrote “Torn Between Two Lovers,” a number one hit for Mary McGregor. He produced three CBS television specials based on “Puff the Magic Dragon,” which earned him an Emmy nomination. In 1978, Yarrow organized Survival Sunday, an anti-nuclear, benefit, and was once again joined with his comrades Stookey and Travers.
Although their reunion inspired them to join forces and tour as Peter, Paul & Mary, all three still pursued solo careers and interests. Only 45 touring dates a year command their time as a trio. The group still incorporates new songs on their tours, including “El Salvador,” a song about the sufferings in Central America. Yarrow produced “Light One Candle,” written for the peace process in Israel in 1985.
Peter Yarrow’s ability to write songs about social concerns made him an internationally recognized singer and songwriter. His part in the success of Peter, Paul & Mary has made him a folk legend.
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A fascinating and far-reaching conversation with the brilliant Dutch author Rutger Bregman on the nature of our species and what we can do in the now to create a better future. This encore episode one goes really deep and in some beautiful directions. Rutger is truly one of the great thinkers in the world today.
Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics.
His books Humankind and Utopia for Realists were both New York Times Bestsellers and have been translated in more than 40 languages. Bregman has twice been nominated for the prestigious European Press Prize for his work at The Correspondent. He lives in Holland.
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Renowned author and motivator Mary Morrissey joins me to discuss her compelling new book, Brave Thinking: The Art and Science of Creating a Life You Love.
Mary Morrissey has made it her mission for over four decades to empower people to create lives they LOVE living.
As a sought-after expert on the “Invisible Side of Success,” Mary has created a powerful transformational system that granted her a place within the elite teachers in personal development in the world. Through her books, live events, masterminds and online programs, she has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide achieve new heights of spiritual aliveness, financial prosperity and authentic success.
Mary holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, has spoken three times at the United Nations, facilitated three week-long meetings with His Holiness The Dalai Lama and other world leaders, and met with Nelson Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa to address the most significant issues our world is facing. She’s also the author of two best-selling books, No Less Than Greatness and Building Your Field of Dreams, which became a PBS special.
No matter what you have experienced in the past, or what you are going through right now, Mary is delighted to share her knowledge and guide you towards the achievement of your dreams.
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The awakened and inspired Pastor Ben Cremer (subscribe to his newsletter, or find him on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook) joins me to talk about Christianity in the modern era and share his own compelling insights on what it means to be a Christian in these challenging times.
Ben Cremer is the Amity campus pastor at the Cathedral of the Rockies. He has been serving in ministry since 2005 serving most of that time in Idaho, where he was born and raised. Ben’s academic work has been in the areas of Christian Ministry, Spiritual Formation, and Church History. He has also served in pastoral training in places like the Congo, Rwanda, Myanmar, Thailand, and Myanmar. He and his wife Rebecca have one son Foster, a devoted boxer named Ripley, and six cranky chickens.
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Author Rebecca Fogg joins me to talk about her compelling book Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life, and the magnificent life transformation which has manifested in the beautiful work she is doing in the world.
BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life
In 2008, Rebecca Fogg walked away from her New York life and successful career in financial services to move to London, where she co-founded the Institute of Pre-Hospital Care at London’s Air Ambulance and continues to work, write, and learn Scottish fiddle. A graduate of Yale University and The Harvard Business School, she spent five years (2014-2019) researching and writing about healthcare with renowned Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, author of The Theory of Disruptive Innovation. BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life (Avery, Penguin Random House), is Fogg’s first book. It was awarded the 1029 Royal Society of Literature Giles St. Aubyn Judge’s Special Commendation for work in progress.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The inspiring Senator Charlane Oliver (also find her on Twitter) returns to talk about her first days in office in the Tennessee General Assembly and what drives her activism for social justice.
Tennessee became her home over 20 years ago when she moved to Nashville as a college student bound for Vanderbilt University. There, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Human & Organizational Development and later a Master of Public Administration from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
She had big dreams and goals, but never imagined the depth of her positive and courageous impact on the lives of others. Step by step, she has blazed her own trail as an award-winning servant leader, community organizer, nonprofit founder, and wife and working mother. Charlane is the co-founder and co-executive director of The Equity Alliance, a statewide 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to unapologetically build independent Black political and economic power and keep government in check. Under Charlane’s visionary leadership, she turned $250 of her own money into a $2.5 million-dollar powerhouse organization in just five years, growing currently with 12 employees and three chapters across the state. Her successes through TEA earned her the prestigious recognition of 2020 People of the Year by The Tennessean and numerous accolades.
Her family’s multi-generational lineage of public service spans two centuries. With ancestors who served in the United States Armed Forces during the Civil War, World War II and Vietnam War, she counts civic, governmental, and political advocacy as her divine calling. The daughter of a veteran public school teacher and Air Force military veteran, Charlane grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas reared with her family’s Christian and working class values. Following her parents’ divorce at the age of seven, Charlane was raised by a single mother and had to overcome poverty, battle with depression and survive sexual assault, portions of her background that developed in her a deep passion to advocate for vulnerable communities, especially those overlooked and undervalued.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Nashville, Charlane made sure Black and Brown communities got our fair share of federal C.A.R.E.S. Act resources to combat the pandemic. She led the Our Fair Share Community Needs Assessment where more than 8,500 Nashvillians were surveyed within 65 days, resulting in Metro Council approving a combined $22 million in relief for Black and Latino residents, people experiencing homelessness and food insecurity, and minority small businesses.
As founder and board president of the Power of 10 PAC, she helped to elect Black and Latino candidates for school board, municipal, judicial, and state legislature positions. As owner of OEM Consulting Group, LLC, she has provided community engagement, government affairs, and public relations strategies and solutions for political candidates, nonprofits, universities, and small businesses.
Charlane honed her policy expertise while serving as a congressional aide and communications strategist for U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper, where she advised the congressman on voting rights and criminal justice reform issues. She was tapped to lead Project Register, a bipartisan initiative by Rep. Cooper and former State Sen. Steve Dickerson in which she recruited more than 200 companies to encourage their employees to register to vote online. It proved to be one of the most successful voter registration initiatives in Congress. Charlane was later selected to travel with a U.S. congressional delegation to China to learn about foreign diplomacy and international trade policy.
Charlane is a graduate of Leadership Nashville and Young Leaders Council. She holds current membership with Nashville’s Agenda, Nashville CABLE, NAACP Nashville, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and served on the 2020 Metro C.A.R.E.S. Act Allocation Committee and the Mayor John Cooper C.A.R.E.S. Act Advisory Committee.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Author Reid Mitenbuler joins me to discuss his new book, Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age, the mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of Peter Freuchen, an adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II.
Reid Mitenbuler is the author of Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey (Viking, 2015), Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation (Grove, 2020), and is currently working on this fourth book. His other writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Saveur, The Daily Beast, and Whisky Advocate, among other publications. He lives with his wife and son in Los Angeles.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My dear friend Victoria Hallman from Hee Haw fame joins me to discuss the miraculous story of her new album, From Birmingham to Bakersfield, which was produced by the legendary Buck Owens. This one will give you goosebumps and blow your mind.
Also check out the book she co-wrote with her Hee Haw co-star Diana Goodman, Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights.
Alabama native, born in Mobile, Victoria Hallman has spent virtually her entire life performing in the music business. At age four she was entered in a Shirley Temple look-alike contest on WAPI-TV in Birmingham. The host of the show thought that Victoria’s singing talent was such that he set up an audition at Heart Recording Studio, and within two years Victoria was in Nashville, signed to a record contract. She recorded ‘Send My Daddy Home’ backed with ‘Merry Christmastime,’ which was released on Briar Records in 1961.
While still in grammar school, Victoria performed on The Merv Griffin Show and The Steve Allen Show, and as a high school student, she toured as the female vocalist with popular rock bands — and also sang at the Republican National Convention for Richard Nixon — performing extensively throughout the southeast, notably, at Joe Namath’s in Birmingham, opening for Jerry Lee Lewis, Lou Rawls, and other legends, during which time, she became a finalist in the Miss Alabama Pageant, and later worked as the pageant’s vocal performance coach.
In 1972, while still in her teens, Victoria was invited by the University of Alabama to open for Bob Hope’s Homecoming show at Coleman Coliseum. Hope was so impressed with Victoria’s performance that he gave her his phone number and told her if she ever got to Los Angeles to give him a call. She did just that and became an opening act for Bob Hope.
Another great opportunity appeared when she was offered a chance to be one of Connie Stevens’ backing vocalists, as part of a trio that included the legendary Rolling Stones’ female vocalist, Merry Clayton.
Ultimately, Victoria’s time in California led to a chance meeting with Buck Owens. Before she knew it, she was in a dressing room singing ‘Help Me Make it Through the Night’ for Buck and just as suddenly she was on stage performing the song, backed by Buck and the Buckaroos. Owens hired her as his opening act and later as female vocalist with the Buckaroos.
Then came Hee Haw. Victoria would be a regular as one of the Hee Haw Honeys from 1979-1990. Remember Miss Honeydew? That was Victoria.
Performing with such personalities as Buck Owens, Roy Clark, Grandpa Jones, Lulu Roman and Minnie Pearl provided The years of wonderful memories that have now become Victoria’s best-selling memoir, Hollywood Lights, Nashville Nights: Two Hee Haw Honeys Dish Life, Love, Elvis, Buck and Good Times in the Kornfield.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The great wisdom keeper John Perkins returns to talk about the latest updates to his bestselling masterpiece, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, (3rd Edition). As always John sheds light on highly complex topics.
As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, John Perkins was advisor to the World Bank, UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and leaders of countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and US government agencies. His eleven books, including Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Touching the Jaguar, and Shapeshifting spent over 70 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, are published in more than 35 languages, and sold over 2 million copies. His latest, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition (Feb 2023) describes China’s EHM strategy and the need to transform a failing, degenerative Death Economy into a regenerative Life Economy. He has lectured at more than 50 universities; been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, Time, The New York Times, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many others.
He is a founder of the nonprofits Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The brilliant author Dana Sachs joins me to discuss her new book, All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis.
Dana Sachs is a journalist, novelist, and cofounder of the nonprofit Humanity Now: Direct Refugee Relief, which supports grassroots teams providing aid to displaced people. A former Fulbright Scholar, she is the author of three works of nonfiction, The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam; The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam; and All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis, as well as the novels If You Lived Here and The Secret of the Nightingale Palace. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and Mother Jones.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The inspiring Jared Yates Sexton (also find him on Twitter!) returns to talk about his brilliant new book, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. Jared is one of my go to sources for high quality perspectives both on the present moment and also history.
Jared is a writer, academic, and political correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and literary journals around the world. He’s a regular guest on television, radio, and podcasts, and the author of three collections of short fiction and the political book The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore from Counterpoint Press. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of Writing & Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Documentary filmmaker Ron James joins me to discuss his amazing new project, Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations, where the reality of an advanced intelligence engaging with humanity becomes undeniably clear.
Ron James is The Director of Media Relations for MUFON.
For any media inquiries, licensing questions, appearance / interview requests, Ron James is the person to reach out to. His unique knowledge and skills in the media business make him easy to work with and a valuable partner in your UFO / UAP media needs.
He is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator and entrepreneur.
James is the co-founder of MUFON Television, an online TV channel boasting the world’s largest collection of commercial-free UAP related material.
He has created 7 feature length documentaries and dozens of original independent series episodes. His newest film Accidental Truth will be released April 18 by 1091 Distribution.
James has also been involved at the highest levels of production for musical acts such as Guns & Roses, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Beach Boys, Earth Wind and Fire, Kendrick Lamar, and many more.
He has won 19 national awards, including 4 EBE awards, The Telly Award and the Aegis Award for Excellence in Broadcasting four times.
He currently makes his own shows including Bigger Questions, Spacetime, MUFON Presents and more. He maintains his own independent production studio in Los Angeles.
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Legendary therapists and relationship experts Linda and Charlie Bloom join me to talk about their brilliant and highly practical new book, An End to Arguing: 101 Valuable Lessons for All Relationships.
Linda Bloom, LCSW and Charlie Bloom, MSW have been married since 1972.
Trained as psychotherapists and relationship counselors, they have worked with individuals, couples, groups, and organizations since 1975 and have lectured and taught at learning institutes throughout the USA and internationally, including the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Northern California Mindfulness Institute, The California Institute for Integral Studies, and the World Health Organization.
They have authored five books, including the best seller, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last (over 100,000 sold), Secrets of Great Marriages, Happily Ever After… and 39 Other Myths about Love, That which Doesn’t Kill Us: How One Couple Became Stronger at the Broken Places, and An End to Arguing: 101 Valuable Lessons for All Relationships.
They are founders and co-directors of Bloomwork, based in Santa Cruz, California.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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An uplifting and inspiring conversation with award winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg on his new film Gratitude Revealed. We also talk about his earlier masterpiece Fantastic Fungi plus so much more.
Louie Schwartzberg is a renowned filmmaker, and director of the Award-Winning documentary Fantastic Fungi narrated by Brie Larson, which is featured on Netflix and rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Louie has spent his notable career providing breathtaking imagery using time-lapse, high-speed, and macro cinematography techniques. He is a visual artist who breaks barriers, connects with audiences, and tells stories that celebrate life and reveal the mysteries and wisdom of nature, people, and places.
In Louie’s new film, Gratitude Revealed, he takes the viewer on a transformational cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of gratitude. In Fantastic Fungi, Louie explored the magic of the natural world beneath our feet; in Gratitude Revealed he takes that wisdom above ground, and journeys into the soul to celebrate the human spirit. Through his intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders, and personalities, gratitude is revealed as a proven pathway
back from the disconnection we feel in our lives.
On April 20, 2023, Louie is launching The Louie Channel, a streaming channel dedicated to inspiring mindfulness that will feature all of Louie’s work, as well as an audience engagement platform for live events and conversations.
Louie‘s three TED talks have over 65 million combined views. He was Oprah Winfrey’s guest on Super Soul Sunday, and his Gratitude Revealed programs premiered on the OWN online platform. In 2017 he received the Debra Simon award for Leadership in Mental Wellness from Global Wellness Summit. Additionally, Louie received the 2020 Grand Visionary Award from the American Visionary Art Museum, in addition to many Clio awards and Emmy nominations. Louie has received various awards including Captain Planet, Superhero for the Earth Award, a National Medal for Garden Club of America, The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Eudaimonia Award for Mental Wellness, and an Award from Maui Film Festival for Fantastic Fungi. He is the only artist to be inducted into the Association for the Advancement of Science Foundation’s Invention Ambassadors Program.
His past theatrical releases include the 3D IMAX film Mysteries of the Unseen World with National Geographic; Wings of Life for Disneynature narrated by Meryl Streep, and America’s Heart and Soul
for Walt Disney Studios. Louie has also directed Soarin’ Around the World; the most popular motion simulator ride film now playing at Disney Theme Parks globally. Louie also directed three seasons of Moving Art, which are featured on Netflix.
For Louie, the greatest satisfaction is creating works that inspire audiences to celebrate life and protect what we love. Louie is currently based in Los Angeles, CA, where he continues to push the envelope and set trends for new ways to capture that which is too slow, too fast, too small, and too vast for the human eye.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Author Anuradha Dayal-Gulati joins me to discuss her fascinating new book, Heal Your Ancestral Roots: Release the Family Patterns That Hold You Back.
Anuradha Dayal-Gulati is a certified energy practitioner specializing in ancestral and emotional healing. Anu came to the US to earn her Ph.D. in economics and stayed. After fifteen years in finance and academia, she left it to learn how to help people create the life they want.
Even though she had a resume of accomplishments, degrees, and professional experience, none of these helped her when she entered the “dark night of the soul.” Discovering flower essences—a way to shift emotions—and drawing on her spiritual heritage gave her the power to see her choices with clarity and courage, abandon her career, and craft a life in alignment with what she truly believed. Her training allowed her to see repetitive patterns that appeared in her life and her clients’ lives and learn how to release them.
For over a decade, she has been working with clients to help them release the past, reclaim their power, and tune into their emotional guidance system. In doing so, they find the inner confidence to create the lives they want. For Anu Dayal-Gulati, the work she does is not just another job. She has found her calling.
She lives in Boston, MA, with her husband and two children.
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A powerful conversation with the courageous Sarah Klein, a preeminent sexual abuse attorney, on her own experiences with former Olympic coach Dr. Larry Nassar and her ongoing advocacy for victims everywhere.
Sarah is a sexual abuse attorney at Manly, Stewart & Finaldi. A survivor of sexual abuse herself, Sarah specializes in representing sexual abuse survivors and is a nationally renowned advocate for legal, cultural, and political change for the support for the victims of sexual abuse. A former gymnast, Sarah is the first known victim of former Olympic women’s gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. At the 2018 ESPY Awards, Klein accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of herself and the hundreds of other survivors who spoke out and testified about Nassar’s abuse. She is the host of the podcast Bar Fights: Taking on Issues that Matter, available on Apple iTunes.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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My heart fell in love with Dr. Jim O’Connell as we talked about his work with the homeless in and around Boston. He serves as the President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jim is also the subject of an inspiring new book, Rough Sleepers, written by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tracy Kidder.
Jim O’Connell, MD (he/him), serves as the President of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. O’Connell received his medical degree from Harvard University in 1982 and completed residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1985, he began full-time clinical work with homeless individuals as the founding physician of the program. He established the nation’s first medical respite program in 1985, with 25 beds nested within the Lemuel Shattuck Shelter. Working with the MGH Laboratory of Computer Science, Dr. O’Connell designed and implemented the nation’s first computerized medical record for a homeless program.
Dr. O’Connell served as the National Program Director of the Homeless Families Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. O’Connell is the editor of The Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases and Common Problems in Shelters and on the Streets. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and several other medical journals. His first book, Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor, was published in 2015 and featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My spirit brother Dr. Eddie Glaude returns in this special encore episode to share this thoughts on his inspiring book on the timeless work of James Baldwin. We also talk about what is unfolding in America and how we might imagine a better world for all of us. What an honor to spend a little time with this beautiful man so filled with wisdom and soulful observations. This man is truly one of the great wisdom keepers of our time.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. joined the faculty of Princeton in 2002. He is the author of Democracy In Black, Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism and co-editor of African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, (2004) with Cornel West.
In 2009 he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. His research interests include American pragmatism, specifically the work of John Dewey, and African American religious history and its place in American public life.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The brilliant Heidi Campbell returns to discuss her inspired run for Nashville Mayor. Please listen and support my incredible friend in her quest to serve the greater good and the people of the Music City.
Tennessee state Senator Heidi Campbell is a Nashville native, a Mom, a former music industry executive and was the first female Mayor of the city of Oak Hill. As a child she attended St. Bernard, University School of Nashville and Hume-Fogg High School. She’s a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and earned her MBA at Vanderbilt University. As a songwriter and musician, she toured and recorded with her band, The Keep, for several years shortly after college.
Senator Campbell got involved in politics when she formed an opposition campaign when developers tried to change the residential-only status of her hometown by cutting into a wooded hill and building a large shopping mall. Her group was successful in preventing the project, and she decided to run for office. She was elected Vice Mayor and served on the planning commission. Then subsequently, she was elected Mayor and served two terms prior to winning a seat in the Tennessee Senate
Her areas of focus include fiscal accountability, business, the environment, education, and social health. In the state Senate her trademark is bringing compassionate and data-based leadership to the legislature. Senator Campbell is the Chair of the Davidson County Legislative Delegation and also serves on the Fiscal Review, Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR), Agriculture, Energy, and Environment, Government Operations committees of the Tennessee General Assembly, and the Environment Committee for the Southern Legislative Conference.
Her family lives in Nashville. Her father is a renowned cardiologist, and her mother is a former nurse, teacher actress and poet. Her sister is a doctor and a science teacher, and her brother is a urologist. She lives near Radnor Lake with her husband Andrew, her two children, and a few Goldendoodles.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The time has come for conscious leadership in this country My dear friend Marianne Williamson returns to discuss her inspired run for President as well as her positions on the economy, environmental justice, & other polices in this deep and authentic exchange.
For over three decades, she has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles. She is the author of 15 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times best sellers. A quote from the mega-bestseller A Return to Love, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 14 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supported the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The brilliant Clint Smith is featured in this encore episode to discuss his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America which reached #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. We talk about his pilgrimage across America in search of history and truth. Clint also shares about becoming a new father and how that experience has changed him. I love this man and the beauty he embodies.
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He has previously received fellowships from New America, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation.
His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere. His first full-length collection of poetry, Counting Descent, was published by Write Bloody Publishing in 2016. It won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award, and was selected as the 2017 ‘One Book One New Orleans’ book selection. Clint’s debut nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed, explores how different sites across the country reckon with, or fail to reckon with, their relationship to the history of slavery. It will be published by Little, Brown in June 2021.
Clint is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. He was named to the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list as well as Ebony Magazine‘s 2017 Power 100 list. His two TED Talks, The Danger of Silence and How to Raise a Black Son in America, collectively have been viewed more than 9 million times.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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New York Times bestselling author Susan Verde joins me to talk about her wonderful new book, Say One Kind Thing. We also talk about her process of raising three children and how to find peace in these challenging times through mindfulness.
Susan grew up in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City. Ultimately, she moved to the Hamptons where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s in reading remediation and become an elementary school teacher for many years.
Now, Susan is an author capturing and celebrating the unique experience of children. Her titles include The Museum, The Water Princess, Rock N roll Soul and Hey, Wall a Story of Art and Community and Unstoppable Me. Her instant #1 New York Times bestseller I Am Human: A Book of Empathy is part of a bestselling series including I Am Yoga and I Am Peace and the New York Times bestseller I Am Love: A Book of Compassion. Her most recent books are Tortoise and Hare and The Tossy-Turny Princess, the latest in the Feel-Good Fairytale series, as well as another in the I Am series, I Am Courage: A Book of Resilience and there are many more to come. Susan’s books continue to inspire children, educators, yoga practitioners and mindful humans alike helping to cultivate empathy and kindness in all of us.
In addition to writing Susan teaches yoga and mindfulness to kids of all ages.
Susan is currently living by the ocean in East Hampton, New York with her three children and their menagerie of pets.
For more info about her books, including her New York Times bestselling I Am series click here.
Susan loves to bring her knowledge of writing, yoga, and mindfulness to schools, libraries and yoga studios. She is also available to keynote events and offers workshops for educators, parents and aspiring writers.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A deeply moving conversation with author Michael Schnabel on his touching memoir, Daddy’s Girl, about his daughter’s struggle and triumph over a very rare cancer and the life lessons they gathered along the path.
Michael Schnabel is a graduate of Northern State University. Michael developed his passion for writing and storytelling during his thirty-year career at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Michael lives in Overland Park, Kansas, with his wife, and when not spending time with family, you can find him tending to his 26-acre tree farm. Daddy’s Girl is his first book.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A highly stimulating conversation with intuitive healer Eboni Banks on the nature of her work and transforming trauma.
Eboni is an Intuitive Healer from a lineage of spiritual and wellness practitioners. She has been aware of her intuition since she was a child and is from a lineage of healers and wellness practitioners on both sides of her family. Eboni’s maternal great-grandmother read palms for a living in the 1940s. Her late father was a social worker and hypnotherapist who owned and operated a private practice mental health clinic. Eboni’s inspiration to serve others began as a child while spending time in her dad’s office and observing his healing work.
She is a trauma survivor who used her wealth of inner spiritual resources to thrive during her own healing journey. She is on a mission to serve people by healing the parts of their lives that have been stuck and preventing them from living the life they desire.
Eboni’s primary spiritual gift is Clairtangency, the ability to receive information and impressions through touch. She also offers Reiki services, a Japanese healing modality where the practitioner channels energy to the recipient and helps them heal holistically.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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What an honor to sit with one of the world’s great teachers of love and non-violent communication, Arun Gandhi, in this beautiful encore presentation. We spoke about the current corona virus pandemic and how we might use this to create a more enlightened society. He also spoke eloquently about his grandfather, and related some of the great saints teachings to our current challenges. Arun is a humble and gentle man who has dedicated his life in service to humanity and the greater good. There is so much wisdom in this exchange and I’m sure if you take a few moments and listen, your soul will be forever touched.
Arun Manilal Gandhi is a socio-political activist, and the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi. Although he has followed in the footsteps of his grandfather as an activist, he has eschewed the ascetic lifestyle of his grandfather.
In 2017 he published The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons From My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi.
Arun considers himself to be a Hindu but expresses universalist views and has worked closely with Christian priests and his philosophies are strongly influenced by Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Christian concepts. Like his grandfather, he also believes in the concept of non-violence (Ahimsa).
He founded the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence hosted by the Christian Brothers University, a Catholic academic institution. This institute was dedicated to applying the principles of nonviolence at both local and global scales. For his work at the Institute, Gandhi was presented with the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston.
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The Peaceful Warrior Dan Millman on his inspiring new book, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit. In this encore episode, Dan and I dive in deeply here on a number of topics. As always, he shares with great wisdom and authenticity.
Dan is a former world-champion gymnast, Stanford coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. After half a lifetime exploring the heart of various wisdom traditions, he has dedicated his life to bringing greater clarity, purpose and perspective to men and women from all walks of life. His thirteen books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Life You Were Born to Live, No Ordinary Moments, The Laws of Spirit and The Journeys of Socrates, have inspired millions of readers in 29 languages.
Dan speaks worldwide, presenting practical ways to live with a peaceful heart and warrior spirit, and has influenced leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, sports, and the arts. Married for 30 years, he has three grown daughters and two grandsons.
In March 2007, Dan’s best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, was released nationwide as a major motion picture. The movie, Peaceful Warrior, starring Nick Nolte as “Socrates” and Scott Mechlowicz as “Dan” (Universal/Lionsgate) has opened the hearts and minds of audiences across America and overseas.
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The inspiring Kute Blackson (also find him on Twitter!) returns to discuss his new book The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go. We also talk about love & loss, manifestation and even Africa.
Kute is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. He is author of the national bestselling book You.Are.The.One. and The Magic of Surrender. He is widely considered the next generation leader in the field of personal development and has been featured on Larry King Now, Fox and Friends, Dr. Drew, as well. Inc Magazine calls him “The Mindfulness Guru Billionaires Go To For Advice.”
Kute Blackson offers a fresh, bold look at spiritual awareness for a whole new generation. Born in Ghana, West Africa, Kute’s multi-cultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father has spanned four different continents. His unique lineage lay the foundation for his approach to breaking down barriers and unlocking an individual’s true gifts and greatness.
For over 20 years, Kute Blackson has been inspiring audiences around the world. From the first time he spoke in front of 3000 people at age 8, to speaking in over 300 venues by age 18, to helping organizations develop authentic leadership and achieve extraordinary performance over the last decade.
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A life changing conversation with super nova spiritual teacher Mike Dooley. This is an encore presentation. What an honor to sit down with him for an extended one on one and hear the sheer power of him speaking high-vibrational truth. Also, I want to extend a very special thanks to our mutual friend, Lee Harris, who was gracious enough to bring the two of us together. Lee you were right about this one!
Mike Dooley is a New York Times best-selling author, renowned New Thought leader, and creator of the wildly popular “Notes from the Universe” whose acclaimed books–including Life on Earth, Leveraging the Universe, and Infinite Possibilities–have been published in 27 languages. He was one of the featured teachers in the international phenomenon The Secret and is the founder of a philosophical Adventurers Club that’s now home to over 800,000 online members. He lives what he teaches, traveling and speaking internationally to 156 cities, 42 countries, on 6 continents.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A deeply inspiring conversation with author Kanchan Bhaskar on her new book, Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage. The courage of this woman really touched my heart and soul.
Kanchan Bhaskar an Indian-American, is a first-time author. She holds a Master’s Degree in social work and a certificate in life coaching. She is also a certified Business Coach. Being a successful Human Resource professional, her expertise is in training and mentoring. She is a certified advocate, speaker, and coach for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Kanchan lives in Chicago.
Learn more about Kanchan on her website: http://kanchanbhaskar.com
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The one and only Jack Canfield returns in this brilliant encore experience. What an honor to sit down with one of the legends of the new thought and success movement. This is one of my favorite shows I have ever done.
From his earliest days teaching inner-city high school students how to discover their potential and succeed no matter what their circumstances — to becoming a world-renowned transformational speaker and trainer who has conducted more than 2,500 workshops and events all over the world — Jack Canfield has devoted his life and career to helping others achieve their personal definition of success and create lives of greater joy, meaning, and fulfillment.
- Founder of the billion-dollar Chicken Soup for the Soul™ publishing empire
- Multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Success Principles, The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win, The Key to Living the Law of Attraction, Coaching for Breakthrough Success, and more
- 2.5 million subscribers and followers on social media
- Sold 500+ million books worldwide
- Featured guest on 1,000+ TV and radio shows
- Has trained 2,900+ Canfield Success Principles Trainers in 107 countries
- Founded the Transformational Leadership Council
- Inducted into the National Speakers Associations “Speakers Hall of Fame”
- Is a Harvard graduate with a Master’s degree in Psychological Education
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The brilliant Dr. Francesca T. Royster joins me to discuss her compelling new book, Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance. We also cover a wonderful array of issues facing us both personally and collectively.
Francesca T. Royster is a native of Chicago’s South Side and a professor of English literature at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches classes on African American literature and culture, Shakespeare, and gender and queer theory. She is the author of three academic books, Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon, Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era, and Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions. She received her PhD in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Literati, and Feminist Studies, among others. She lives in Chicago.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A wonderful and free flowing conversation with Dr. Raj Sundar (also find him on Twitter!) on his approach to medicine, community activism, his podcast and raising his precious children.
Dr. Raj Sundar is a family physician and community organizer. His podcast, Healthcare for Humans, is an independent project that he created, to become a better healer to the many different communities of Washington.
In His Own Words…We all have felt those large gaps between our agenda, as clinicians, and the lives of our patients.
These gaps, sometimes an abyss, are exacerbated by our contemporary systems. This show is my creative power restive and uprising to help address this gap. In this podcast, I will explore the history and culture of Washington’s diverse communities so clinicians can be better equipped with the right knowledge to care for all patients, no matter who they are. I hope this podcast re-orients us to what’s important to our patients and how they came to be where they are now.
By better understanding their worldview, we can become better at taking care of those patients we struggle to help, within the context of their own struggle, and thereby, even ameliorate our own struggle.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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An engaging conversation on the environment and the onset of climate disruption with Martin Tye (find him on Twitter and Medium!) a passionate environmentalist with a strong interest in how economic systems impact ecosystems. He has also stood as a political candidate in three Australian elections (2 federal and 1 State) and is currently the Director of the Australian Regional Communities Chapter of the US based, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy and is in charge of social media and promotions for the Australian environmental organization Sustainable Population Australia, which primarily focuses on the ecological impacts of population growth.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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An encore episode featuring DaMaris B. Hill discussing her inspiring book, Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood. We also cover her growing up and serving in the military plus what it is like to live in Kentucky especially after the murder of Breonna Taylor.
DaMaris B. Hill is the author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (2020 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry), The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs(Visible Textures). Hill has studied with writers such as Lucille Clifton, Monifa Love-Asante, Natasha Trethewey, Nikky Finney, David Rivard, Deborah Willis, and others.
Her development as a writer has also been enhanced by the institutional support of MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Key West Literary Seminar/Writers Workshops, Callaloo Literary Writers Workshop, The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, The Project on the History of Black Writing, The Watering Hole Poetry, The Furious Flower Poetry Center, and others. Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The brilliant Dr. Tony Nader joins me to discuss his wonderful book, One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness and so much more.
Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., MARR, is a medical doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic scholar. As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s successor, Dr Nader is head of the international Transcendental Meditation® organisations in over 100 countries. From the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Africa, Dr Nader guides the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced practices, and the practical applications of this technology in all areas of national life – education, health, business, defense, agriculture, and more.
Dr Nader’s vision is to bring happiness, health, and peace to the minds and hearts of the whole world family. His experiences as a teacher, father, leader, scientist, and doctor have inspired his dedication to all global citizens – and his commitment to opening their awareness to the important things in life, from a truly profound perspective. To help remove conflicts in society, so that higher values and beautiful goals become the guiding light of everyone, is his total focus.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The fabulous Isa Watson returns to talk about her brilliant new book, Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life.
Isa Watson is the founder and CEO of Squad, the first social audio app that helps you stay in touch with the people who matter most—bringing you and your people closer than ever. A chemist turned entrepreneur, Isa is on a mission to make the biggest positive impact on as many people as possible around the globe—starting with this book. A true millennial, she knows firsthand the real pain social media can cause on our self-image, mental health, and friendships. After lots of therapy and hard lessons learned, she reflects back on her journey to finding balance—sharing her insight with us along the way.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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An inspiring exchange with One Generation Away co-founder Elaine Whitney. This beautiful organization distributes healthy foods to families throughout Middle Tennessee that currently do not have access to food sources due to economic and physical barriers.
Elaine and her husband Chris moved from St Louis, MO to Franklin, TN in 2004 to start a church. Little did they know that in the process of pastoring a church that One Generation Away would be birthed. In 2013 One Generation Away was established and in the first year distributed 400,000 pounds of food from the back of the Whitney’s car. It has now grown to serve over 4.4 million meals to those in need all over Middle Tennessee and in 4 states with disaster relief. Chris and Elaine have a passion to see churches and organizations come together to serve our neighbors in need.
In November of 2018, Chris stepped down as the pastor of a local church to focus his time with OneGenAway full time. The ministry of OneGen Away has opened many opportunities for Chris and Elaine to serve in the community and beyond.
Chris and Elaine have been married for 34 years and have 3 daughters and 6 grandchildren who all live in Middle Tennessee.
OneGenAway is a non-profit 501(c)3 that works to bring fresh, healthy food directly to people in need. We strive to eliminate food deserts in the low income neighborhoods in America.
Food deserts are defined as parts of the country where citizens lack access to fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthy whole foods due to lack of grocery stores, lack of transportation, and economic hardship.
We serve communities by rescuing food seven days a week from local grocery stores and restaurants such as, Whole Foods, Costco, GFS, Publix, Outback Steakhouse, Aldi, and many others.
Also, each month, OneGenAway, with the help of many volunteers, holds Saturday mobile food distributions in communities throughout Middle Tennessee. Our distributions provide fresh food through the help of local organizations, ministries and volunteers. Mobile pantries are expanding into Alabama and Florida.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A profound deep dive into the nature of poverty and the paradigms that we will need to shift if we are to collectively survive & thrive in the decades to come with global visionary Djaffar Shalchi This beautiful man is one of the most inspiring and loving people I’ve ever had the privilege to interview. He is also the founder of Human Act.
Djaffar Shalchi is the founder and Executive Director of Move Humanity, a global initiative to mobilize at least one percent of the wealth of the world’s super-rich for the Sustainable Development Goals. Originally from Tehran, Iran, Shalchi immigrated to Denmark as a child and went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in constructional engineering from the Copenhagen University College of Engineering.
He started his own construction company, which flourished rapidly and allowed him to successfully build up many property companies. After attaining such prosperity in the property development business, Shalchi decided to dedicate his time and fortune to eradicating extreme poverty.
In His Own Words…My name is Djaffar Shalchi and I have faith in the future of our wonderful world.
Me and my beloved wife started Human Act with a wish to make a difference in the life of the millions of people living in extreme poverty. Grounded in the saying – Poverty is the worst form of violence – by my role model and great spiritual and political leader Mahatma Gandhi, we are determined to end the suffering of millions. The current inequality in wealth results in a few having much more money than they can spend in an entire lifetime, while many live under inhuman conditions, struggling to survive on a day to day basis.
I was born in Tehran, Iran in 1961. When I was 8 years old, my parents decided to seek residency in Austria. Unfortunately, our residency application was rejected after one year, forcing our family – me, my three brothers and a younger sister – to split up. While my mother, my siblings and I had to move back to Iran, my father traveled on to Denmark. Luckily, we were granted residency here. But shortly after my parents got divorced, and my siblings and I were sent to an orphanage.
The Iranian Revolution in 1979 had a huge influence on my family. In Iran, the Shah was forced into exile and the long and deadly war with Iraq began. Both of my brothers returned to Iran to help rebuild the country. Unfortunately, my oldest brother disappeared during his efforts in his birth country, and was never to be found again. My younger brother, who also returned, died due to illness.
When my family returned to Iran, I decided to stay in Denmark and finish my education. Denmark had become my home away from my birth country. I married a lovely Danish girl, Ané Maro, and we had two amazing children. I obtained a degree as constructional engineer in the year of 1988. When the time was ready in 1999 I decided that I would be self-employed, which lead to my great financial success and my private means.
The Danish welfare system, designed to foster social mobility and equality of opportunity, made it feasible for a me as migration to climb the ladder of success. The advanced social tax system financed my free higher education and social security, enabling me to start my own business. My family and I wish that all the world’s children would have the same opportunities as I was given to create a better life, and we are determined to never forget to give back to those who are less fortunate. Therefore, my wife and I have decided to put more than $30 million of our fortune into the foundation. By doing this we want to help make a difference and to inspire others to do the same, in the name of truth, freedom and justice.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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An encore episode with wellness expert Jovanka Ciares (find her on Facebook and Twitter) on her brilliant new book, Reclaiming Wellness. A certified wellness expert, integrative herbalist, nutrition educator, and coach, she offers lectures and workshops in Spanish and English. Ciares studied nutrition with bestselling author T. Colin Campbell, PhD, at his Center for Nutrition Studies (in partnership with Cornell University) and herbalism / plant medicine with Tieraona Low Dog, MD. A native of Puerto Rico, she lives in Los Angeles.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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The brilliant and inspired author Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa returns in this encore presentation to talk about his book, Inner Mastery, Outer Impact: How Your Five Core Energies Hold the Key to Success.
Dr. Wadhwa is the founder of the Mentora Institute, which serves a vast range of organizations globally, ranging from Fortune 500s to social enterprises and educational institutions. He also created the Personal Leadership & Success course at Columbia, an award-winning approach to the pursuit of success in life and leadership.
In INNER MASTERY, OUTER IMPACT, Dr. Wadhwa discusses our pursuit of outer success (i.e., being liked and loved; supported and promoted) and inner success (i.e., being true to oneself in everything we do). He introduces readers to the idea that all success, both inner and outer, arises from one place: our Inner Core. This is the space of highest potential that lies within each and every one of us.
Dr. Wadhwa provides extensive scientific research and masterful storytelling about exemplary figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, masterfully fusing the principles of Inner Mastery from his roots in India with the principles of Outer Impact from his 30 years in the US. He focuses on how we can activate our Five Core Energies — Purpose, Wisdom, Growth, Love and Self-Realization — to create our framework for success in life and leadership.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A highly engaging conversation with the founder of the Happiness Research Institute Denmark’s Meik Wiking. We talk about his beautiful new book, My Hygge Home and how to create an environment that promotes peace.
Meik Wiking is one of today’s most influential happiness researchers. He is the author of several books, including The New York Times bestsellers: The Little Book of Hygge and The Little Book of Lykke. With more than one million copies sold worldwide, in more than 35 languages, he enjoys a wide readership.
Meik is the founder and CEO of the Happiness Research Institute and a highly respected speaker on such topics. He is known for his ability to convey complex ideas and theories to a wide audience and has spoken in more than 40 countries around the world.
Besides his work at the Happiness Research Institute, he is Research Associate for Denmark at the World Database of Happiness, and member of the policy advisory group for the Global Happiness Policy Report.
He has participated in more than 500 interviews with media across the world including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, VICE – HBO, China Daily, Figaro, Freakonomics, Monocle, BBC and CNN.
Meik has been called The Indiana Jones of Smiles and probably the World´s happiest man by The Times.
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This is an encore episode with the inspiring Reverend Jen Bailey as we discuss her beautiful book, To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss and Radical Hope. She also talks about her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, having a son, and finding her way to truth.
Rev. Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Faith Matters Network, a womanist-led organization equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment. An Ashoka Fellow, Aspen Ideas Scholar, On Being Fellow, New Pluralist Field Builder and Truman Scholar, Rev. Jen earned degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School where she was awarded the Wilber F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology.
A sought-after commentator and public speaker on the intersection of religion and public life, Rev. Jen has spoken at the inaugural Obama Foundation Summit, Makers, TEDXSkoll, and the White House. Her work has been featured on On Being with Krista Tippett, CBS This Morning, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and dozens of other publications. Jen currently sits on the boards of The Fetzer Institute, Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and The Healing Trust. She is also ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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This is an encore presentation with one of the great spiritual teachers of the world, Her Holiness Sai Maa. We went very deep and in multiple directions. Speaking with her is profound for me. I always feel changed, altered and lifted after our interactions. May you also be blessed in this way.
What if the power to heal the planet, alleviate suffering, and elevate our world to a state of the highest consciousness was in your hands? That’s exactly what her Holiness Sai Maa, humanitarian and spiritual teacher, wants you to know. The light within us all is the key to this age of global enlightenment.
Sai Maa is like no other teacher, healer, leader, or public figure in the world today. Revered as the embodiment of “Divine Mother” in India, Sai Maa travels the globe as a bright beacon, constantly shining her light to awaken and empower humanity while tirelessly working to alleviate pain and suffering.
Honored as a living saint and the first female Jagadguru in more than 2,700 years of the Vishnuswami lineage, Sai Maa carries a fierce yet tender love for all of humankind.
She’s known for her elegance and grace, and it’s her refreshing candor and piercing vision that often inspires profound personal transformation. Sai Maa holds a PhD in Spirituality from the Open International University of Human Development. Her unique fusion of Eastern spiritual wisdom, Western therapeutic knowledge, and energetic mastery is what makes her teachings unique. Students learn to become masters in their own lives — ushering in an age of compassion, unity, and love.
Sai Maa first demonstrated her gift of being able to see energy as a young girl. As she could easily see beyond this physical world, angels and masters were her everyday friends. Later, as an adult living in France with her husband and two children, she developed a thriving therapy practice by merging her energetic sight and healing powers with her Western training in naturopathic, homeopathic, and osteopathic therapies. During this time, she also helped reform health care in the European Union while serving on the Bordeaux City Council.
After she met and became a life-long devoted disciple of the revered spiritual leader and world teacher, Sathya Sai Baba, her higher purpose was revealed: Dedicating her life to sharing practices and teachings that heal and uplift humanity.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A musical deep dive into the world of Paul McCartney with music critic Allan Kozinn, co-author (with Adrian Sinclair) of the new book, The McCartney Legacy Volume 1: 1969-73, the inaugural volume of the most exhaustive account of Paul McCartney’s life beyond the Beatles ever committed to paper.
Allan Kozinn was a music critic and culture reporter for The New York Times from 1977 to 2014, where he wrote principally about classical music. In that capacity, he interviewed Paul McCartney several times, and saw him perform in a great variety of configurations and venues – from singing with a hand mic at the Lonestar Roadhouse, playing rock oldies at the Cavern, in Liverpool, and performing in small halls like the Ed Sullivan Theater and the Highline Ballroom, to full-scale concerts at Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. He currently contributes regularly to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other publications.
He has taught courses at the Juilliard School and New York University (including a course on the Beatles at the latter), and has written seven books, among them The Beatles – From The Cavern To The Rooftop (1995), Got That Something! How The Beatles’ ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ Changed Everything (2013), The New York Times Essential Guide – Classical Music (2004).
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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Today’s show features a global icon and humble giant working tirelessly on behalf of humanity. This is an encore episode with the brilliant Dr. Vandana Shiva (find her on Twitter) who’s been called the Gandhi of Seed and has written several books, including the masterpiece Oneness Vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom. I feel like this beautiful and luminous soul has rekindled my hope in our collective future.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. She is often referred as “Gandhi of grain” for her activism associated with anti-GMO movement.
Shiva, the daughter of a forestry official and a farmer, grew up in Dehra Dun, near the foothills of the Himalayas. She received a master’s degree in the philosophy of science from Guelph University, Ontario, in 1976. The thesis “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” earned her a doctorate from the department of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in 1978. Shiva developed an interest in environmentalism during a visit home, where she discovered that a favourite childhood forest had been cleared and a stream drained so that an apple orchard could be planted. After completing her degrees, Shiva returned to India, where she worked for the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management. In 1982 she founded RFSTN, later renamed the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), in her mother’s cowshed in Dehra Dun.
Shiva proceeded to work on grassroots campaigns to prevent clear-cut logging and the construction of large dams. She was perhaps best known, however, as a critic of Asia’s Green Revolution, an international effort that began in the 1960s to increase food production in less-developed countries through higher-yielding seed stocks and the increased use of pesticides and fertilizers. The Green Revolution, she maintained, had led to pollution, a loss of indigenous seed diversity and traditional agricultural knowledge, and the troubling dependence of poor farmers on costly chemicals. In response, RFSTE scientists established seed banks throughout India to preserve the country’s agricultural heritage while training farmers in sustainable agricultural practices.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A delightful and deep interview with David Lee Csicsko an award-winning artist and designer whose distinctive artwork, stained glass, and mosaics beautify train stations, hospitals, churches and universities across the Midwest and East Coast. We talk about his latest two books and much more.
His many credits include designing the Obamas’ White House Christmas in 2012. David’s lively illustrations can also be seen in The Skin You Live In from the Chicago Children’s Museum, now in its 16th printing, as well as the books in Trope Publishing Co.’s People Series, LGBTQ+ Icons and Science People. Through his use of color, bold graphics and playful patterns, David Lee Csicsko celebrates the richness and diversity of life.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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I welcome the highly sought-after Hollywood costume designer, Leesa Evans. We talk about the film business and also some wonderful spiritual truths.
Leesa is a true purveyor of style: from her work as a costume designer for film to her dedication as a private stylist for celebrities and professional clients alike. Her personal philosophy and professional inspiration are drawn from a lifelong commitment to fashion, individuality, and the art of storytelling.
Raised in Laguna Beach, the daughter of a couture designer with retail stores in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, Leesa grew up in and around the fashion industry. She spent her formative years at runway shows, mingling with the socialites, politician’s wives and rock stars that her mother designed for. It was here that Leesa experienced firsthand the intricacies of the fashion world. She went on to spend the first part of her career working alongside her mother, gaining extensive experience in clothing design, manufacturing, as well as the retail business.
However, once Leesa was given the opportunity to work with a costume designer in 1989, she found her true calling. Since then, she has dedicated herself to the craft of costume design and styling for film, commercial advertising, and celebrities. Leesa’s work gives her the ability to nurture her own passion for fabric, color and design, while simultaneously instilling a sense of confidence, ownership, and originality in every actor and private client she dresses.
Leesa said, “I love to create the feeling of confidence when dressing someone. Whether it’s a character who needs to exude authority and influence or an individual I’m working with one on one who wants to be more confident. It delights me to know I’ve helped someone feel amazing in their daily life.”
In 2018, Leesa launched, along with actress, friend and client, Amy Schumer, Le Cloud, a ready-to-wear collection of wardrobe essentials for women of all shapes and sizes. 30 percent of net proceeds from sales of the collection will be donated to Community Partners, a not-for-profit organization in support of the STYLEFUND project, the duo’s program that aims to empower women from all economic backgrounds, to use clothing to increase their confidence and their success.
Leesa’s credits include more than 25 films such as I Feel Pretty with Amy Schumer, the Netflix original Always Be My Maybe, Why Him? starring James Franco and Brian Cranston, Zoolander 2, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, for which she was nominated for a Costume Designer Guild Award for Excellence in Contemporary Film; Neighbors, starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Rose Byrne; and 22 Jump Street, starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill as well as Get Him to the Greek; I Love You, Man; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; This is 40; Five Year Engagement; and Scooby-Doo, among many others. She has more than 500 television commercials under her belt, including ones for clients like Coca Cola, AT&T, Verizon, HP, Samsung, GM, Ford, Mastercard, Porsche, and Kelloggs, among countless others.
Leesa’s work with films and celebrities has been seen in such illustrious publications as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People, Nylon and InStyle; as well as on the red carpets of events from the Academy Awards® to the Grammys® and everywhere in between.
Leesa is based in New York and Los Angeles, but leaves clients self-assured and well styled wherever her work may take her.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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Sustainability expert Richard McCarthy joins me to do a deep dive on his and Tsuyoshi Sekihara’s brilliant book. Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection.
The book begins with the Kuni Manifesto, which lays out the nine principles of a kuni community. They include:
- Everyone is equal in a kuni
- A kuni is self-sufficient
- A kuni is equipped with a regional management organization (RMO), a democratic organization that takes care of small public services
- Life in a kuni is circular and forms a beautiful spiral
- Kuni is a link between residents and repeat visitors
- Kuni is a place for young people who seek interconnectedness
Richard McCarthy is the Founder and former Executive Director of Market Umbrella in New Orleans, and the former Executive Director of Slow Food USA. McCarthy grew up in New Orleans. After studying political science at the London School of Economics, he returned to put ideas into action. In 1995 he developed the practitioners’ think tank Market Umbrella to cultivate public markets for public good.
He developed the Crescent City Farmers Market as the organization’s primary base of operations. Innovations include a workers’ cooperative with public housing residents; the nation’s first farmers market health incentive pilots, which led to the development of the USDA GusNIP program; an international research fellowship to measure the human, social, and financial capital in markets; and many critical recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
In all his work, two important themes prevail: To facilitate trusting relations between urban and rural communities, and to instigate lasting social change by creating opportunities for behavior change to come first. Ideas follow. McCarthy’s work became increasingly global through partnerships with the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, Project for Public Spaces, and Slow Food. In 2013 he left New Orleans to direct Slow Food USA for six years. Today, he works with Meatless Monday, Slow Food International, FAO, the World Farmers Markets Coalition, and others to cultivate community through food. He addresses audiences all over the planet, has published chapters in two books, and has produced short films and radio programs.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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My sweet friend Steven Washington (find him on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) joins me to talk about his nourishing new book, Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction. Steven shares his story of growing up around alcoholism and going into recovery for his own drug and alcohol addiction. But the heart and soul of this book is his process of guiding readers through fear, shame, and regret and into community and gratitude. Self-massage, breathing, meditation, and, uniquely, a focus on qigong — the ancient movement practice at the heart of Chinese medicine and Taoist philosophy — liberate, energize, and soothe.
Steven Washington is the author of Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction. As a former professional dancer who performed on Broadway in Disney’s The Lion King, his love of movement inspired him to become the highly acclaimed Qigong and Pilates teacher that he is today. Steven lives a joyful life of recovery and is passionate about helping others as they navigate towards health and happiness. He offers Qigong, Pilates, Dance, Meditation, Laughter, and more through his website.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A beautiful deep dive with author and artist Amy Buetens on her inspiring new book on the great spiritual teacher, the beloved Ram Dass.
Amy Buetens is an artist, illustrator and art educator. She is a certified integrative thanatologist and death educator. Her work includes performing final rites of passage, and she serves as a leader in her Jewish burial society. She has been a dedicated student of Ram Dass for over 20 years, and is a co-leader for the Love Serve Remember Foundation’s International Women’s Satang and leads her local Ram Dass Fellowship.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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This is a show like no other. The courageous Paul de Gelder joins me to discuss his evolution from near fatal shark attack victim to environmental advocate. Paul has chased adventure wherever he could find it, from his wild ride as a hoodlum teen and his whirlwind lifestyle working in the music industry and in a strip club, to hauling his way up to the elite echelons of the Australian Defense Forces as an Army paratrooper and then a Navy bomb disposal diver.
IMPROVISE… ADAPT… OVERCOME…!
These three words – a mantra Paul learnt in the Australian Army as a young Paratrooper – resonated with him the first time he heard them.
But trouble hunted him down in the form of a nine-foot bull shark in February 2009 while diving for the Navy. Paul lost two limbs, and his career as a daredevil diver was flung into jeopardy.
Drawing on everything his eventful life had taught him, Paul left nothing to chance in his recovery. He fought through excruciating pain, smashing challenge after challenge whilst amazing the medical staff and the Australian public with his will to succeed. His inspiring story as detailed in his autobiography Uncaged takes the saying “never say die” to a whole new level.
In the years since the shark attack, Paul’s life has changed in every aspect.
Having left full time Navy Service in August 2012, after continuing to instruct Navy Divers for a further three and a half years, Paul has travelled the world as a top motivational speaker, passionate environmentalist, adventurer and mentor to school kids. He has spoken at venues across the globe, from the United Nations in New York and the US Navy in San Diego to Military celebrations in front of thousands and keynotes for multimillion dollar corporations and charity organizations around Australia and Asia.
Paul speaks candidly and humorously about overcoming adversity, embracing change and turning fears into your greatest strengths to create an amazing life personally and professionally.
He has also been a guest on every major Australian TV talk show and many in the U.S. He starred as a guest trainer on The Biggest Loser Australia, and has hosted 20 documentaries for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, where he learned to hand feed bull sharks, hammerheads, blue sharks, dive with tiger sharks and even great whites without the protection of a cage.
Mega star Will Smith Featured Paul in his Facebook series “Bucket List” as his shark diving mentor and UFC hall of famer and now WWE star Ronda Rousey was taught how to hand feed bull sharks by Paul for a Shark Week special.
Paul also became part of an anti-poaching team in Africa to hunt poachers and film the amazing work done by the Rangers there for FEARLESS, aired on NatGeo.
Paul has been touted as one of the top 15 inspirational Australians and top 10 speakers and now based in Los Angeles he is preparing to film yet more documentaries and even completed an acting role for a 6 part mini series on Australia’s largest cable network.
An incredible life and an incredible story.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A fascinating conversation with the brilliant Professor Khaled A. Beydoun on his new book, The New Crusades Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims. We also talk about soccer, the World Cup, Critical Race Theory, and some other interesting topics.
Professor Khaled A. Beydoun is a law professor, author and public intellectual. He serves as a law professor at Wayne State University, a Scholar-in-Residence at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and Associate Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights in Detroit. Professor Beydoun is author of the critically acclaimed book American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, and co-editor of Islamophobia and the Law – published by University of Cambridge Press.
Professor Beydoun’s academic work has been featured in top academic journals, including the UCLA Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the California Law Review and the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC and ESPN. Professor Beydoun served on the US Commission for Civil Rights for three years, and earned a coveted Open Society Foundations Equality Fellowship.
He has been named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the World, and is currently working on his third book examining Islamophobia as a global phenomenon. In 2021, Professor Beydoun was named “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Western Cape in South Africa, and he joined the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice as a faculty member that very year.
Professor Beydoun in a native of Detroit, Michigan, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, UCLA, and Harvard.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Inspired author and sage Corin Grillo (also find her on Facebook and Instagram!) returns to talk about her wonderful new book, Angel Wealth Magic: Simple Steps to Hire the Divine & Unlock Your Miraculous Financial Flow. I just love the way this woman thinks, feels and shares.
Corin Grillo is the author of Angel Wealth Magic and The Angel Experiment. She is also a a Chicana and Puerto Rican mother, a licensed psychotherapist, visionary leader, inspirational speaker, and proprietor of the Casa Condor retreat center in Mount Shasta, California. Corin offers online trainings in authentic spiritual leadership, nature immersions, intuitive healing arts, in-person trainings. She has dedicated her life to sharing the life-changing gifts she received while learning to work with the angels.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Happy New Year to my beautiful listening family all around the planet. We have reached two milestones: a new trip around the sun and 1100 shows. I am having a hard time wrapping my small mind around both concepts. Feeling deeply grateful for so many things in this moment. This episode is just me reflecting on a few things and giving a few shout outs.
Special thanks to all of the wonderful guests who continue to show up and really show themselves so authentically. I am amazed to bare witness and celebrate the depth of these exchanges.
Shout out to all of the people who reach out and bring these incredible souls to our attention.
Much gratitude to my technical comrade, the great Matthew Wayne Selznick. All of this works because of his expertise and exceptional work ethic.
Love and light to the patreons who donate to this show we can stay commercial free. Your generous ways keep us going and flowing.
Lastly, to the many who listen and are a part of the family. Wherever you are, we are connected forever.
Thank you.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Merry Christmas everyone. In honor of the day and moment I decided to invite one of my dearest friends on the show. Scarlet Keys is one of the most talented and inspiring people I have the privilege to know.
Scarlet Keys has been a full-time professor in the Songwriting department at the Berklee College of music since 2003 teaching songwriting, lyric writing, performance, piano and upper division songwriting courses. Some of her students include Charlie Puth, Betty Who, Charlie Worsham, Liz Longley, Amy Allen, and Ingrid Andress, to name a few. She’s also the author of The Craft of Songwriting: Music, Meaning, & Emotion.
Scarlet is a former staff songwriter for Warner/Chappell music publishing, and has released two c.d.’s as a solo artist and toured and performed with her original band.
She released a new songwriting podcast titled What’s in a Song.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A highly inspiring conversation with author Errol Pierre on his brilliant new book, The Way Up: Climbing the Corporate Mountain as a Professional of Color, which he co-wrote with my friend Jim Jermanok. We also talk about his journey through the corporate world and how an early encounter with the police changed the course of his life.
He is an in-demand speaker on leadership, diversity, and healthcare and has addressed hundreds of audiences including the National Urban League for Young Professionals, 100 Black Men, and Fordham University.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Author and educator Alex Budak talks about his brilliant new book, Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level and how you can transform your life.
Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur and a professional faculty member at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he created and teaches the transformative course, “Becoming a Changemaker.” He previously co‐founded StartSomeGood and held leadership positions at Reach for Change and Change.org. He teaches, speaks, consults, and advises organizations around the world, with the mission of helping people from all walks of life become changemakers.
Budak is driven by the belief that anyone—regardless of title, personality, race, gender, age, or class—can be a changemaker. This inclusive vision of leadership is the beating heart of the “Becoming a Changemaker” course, and is the driving force for the book as well. Tailored to the millennial / Gen Z set who are exiting school and entering the workforce, this book makes the lessons, insights, examples and excitement from class accessible to all.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A beautiful and engaging conversation with poet Chelan Harkin on a wide range of topics and perspectives. She also treats us to a live reading from a few inspired passages from her new book.
Inspired poetry has been flowing through Chelan Harkin for years though her publishing journey is just a little less than two years old. Her launch into sharing her poetry with the world has been mystical, transformational and filled with prayer experiments gone right. She is thrilled to have just released her fourth book, Bouquet of Stars, and is excited to be offering speaking events nationally and internationally.
Chelan is 34 years old and lives in a geographically spectacular region of Washington state with her two young children, Amari and Nahanni. In her poetry and in her life, Chelan continually invites the fumbling, suffering parts of our human nature along with our divinity to meet for tea in the heart, to have a great laugh, celebrate our sacred, transformative grief and share a big hug.
Chelan has authored four books of poetry, Susceptible to Light, Let Us Dance! The Stumble and Whirl with The Beloved, Taste the Sky and Bouquet of Stars. Chelan has an active following on Facebook and Instagram, @chelan-Harkin, and loves to stay in touch with people who have found resonance in her poetry.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A wonderful and illuminating conversation with filmmaker and author Adrian Sinclair on his fascinating new book, The McCartney Legacy: Volume One. This is a good one for all of you Beatle fans and McCartney lovers.
Adrian Sinclair studied film at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and served a traineeship with ITV in Yorkshire, England, where he learned his craft as a documentary film editor. He’s worked for almost every major broadcaster in the world, including the BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4, National Geographic, Discovery and MTV. As well as receiving recognition for his work from the Royal Television Society in England, Adrian’s 2010 documentary Stealing Shakespeare (BBC/Smithsonian) was Emmy nominated for Best Documentary.
THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY: Volume 1: 1969-73, the inaugural volume of the most exhaustive account of Paul McCartney’s life beyond the Beatles ever committed to paper. Kozinn and Sinclair combine stories of McCartney’s personal life with accounts of his musical undertakings to paint a compelling, complex portrait of an often tortured, self-doubting perfectionist. The book has already been praised as “dazzling and definitive” (Rob Sheffield) and an “accurate biography of a universal explorer” (Mark Lewisohn).
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
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A deep exchange with the gifted writer Sophie Strand (also find her on Substack and Instagram!) on her new book, The Flowering Wand, on the ever-evolving state of masculinity. This young woman is brilliant and connected with some profound insights she shares here.
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine was published by Inner Traditions arrive in Fall 2022. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Summer 2023.
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A wonderful and free flowing conversation with author Andrew Lang on his new book Unmasking the Inner Critic. So much of the wisdom he shares here is so practical and easily accessible.
Andrew Lang is an educator in the Pacific Northwest, an alumnus of Richard Rohr’s Living School for Action and Contemplation, and author of Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life. Along with blogging regularly, he facilitates workshops helping people to navigate their inner lives and explore their sense of identity and spirituality.
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A beautiful, heart-centered conversation with author Sande Hart on her new book, The Liminal Odyssey and her inner process that brought her to this awakened place of creation.
Sande is a mother, grandmother, wife, aunt, and sister from the steep seaside cliffs in Southern California. She is an award-winning leader in the fields of women’s empowerment and interfaith community building. She founded the women’s interfaith grassroots international organization S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) the morning of 9/11, an instinct to gather women of diverse faiths to protect all that they consider sacred, now in its 19th year. Sande is actively engaged in leadership in the peace, interfaith, compassion, community building, and women’s empowerment sectors.
Sande serves on the Women’s Task Force for The Parliament of The World’s Religions, and founded and served as Director for the international organization The Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls sector. She served as Chair for the United Religions Initiative for North America and is also the Founder of Compassionate California, which recently became established into law by the governor’s office as the first Compassionate State in the world.
Sande has conducted countless workshops and produced major and smaller events in more than seven countries, presented on panels in universities, global and local organizations, and city and state level institutions. Sande is currently being inducted into the Women’s Oral History Archives for Claremont Colleges in California. Sande will barter for chocolate.
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A powerful and mind opening conversation with Shamanic Teacher and spiritual guide Hamilton Souther on his life changing work in the Peruvian Amazon and beyond. This exchange goes in so many beautiful directions and is exceptionally deep. We also talk about the transformative power of plant medicine and Ayahuasca .
Hamilton focuses his work on Universal Spiritual Philosophy. He is bilingual in English and Spanish, has a Bachelors degree in Anthropology, and has studied shamanism in California, Cusco, and the Amazon. Hamilton was given the title of Master Shaman by Alberto Torres Davila and Julio Llerena Pinedo after completing an apprenticeship under Alberto and Julio. He guides ceremonies and leads shamanic workshops, in which he shares Universal Spiritual Philosophy.
At Blue Morpho traditional Ayahuasca healing shamans (curanderos) practice the ancient and mystical shamanic arts of the jungle. The shamans conduct ceremonies and rituals that are designed to open consciousness and bridge the physical and spiritual worlds. These ceremonies are personally transformational, forever changing the life of the participant in positive ways. Through Ayahuasca ceremonies, guests can experience spiritual and energetic evolution.
Shamanism is a term that originally pertains to spiritual practices by indigenous people of far northern Europe and Siberia, founded in the belief that humans inhabit a multi-world, multi-dimensional universe that is made up of physical beings and spiritual beings as well. This term now applies to all traditions worldwide that share common beliefs in spirits and the ability to contact, journey with and interact with them, through different spiritual practices or ceremonies. In all shamanic cultures there is the appearance of the shaman, who is the spiritual leader or person with the specific capacities or abilities necessary to contact and interact with the spirits.
The Peruvian Amazon is a perfect example of the expansion of the use of the term shamanism. The native traditions in the Amazon now are considered to be practices under the umbrella term shamanism, while in the past they were known solely by their local names. In the last few hundred years there has been an expansion in the shamanistic practices in include not only indigenous shamans, but Mestizo (a person of mixed racial ancestry especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) shamans and now Foreign Shamans (westerners whom have left their home countries to live in the Amazon to learn the traditional practices.)
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A stunningly intimate conversation with the award winning author Anne-Marie Oomen on her powerful new memoir, As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. The winner of the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction.
Anne-Marie Oomen’s forthcoming books: AWP winner of the Sue William Silverman nonfiction prize for As Long as I Know You (University of Georgia Press), and The Long Road (Cornerstone Press). She co-authored Lake Michigan Mermaid: A Tale in Poems (with poet Linda Nemec Foster), a Michigan Notable Book 2019; Love, Sex and 4-H, (Next Generation Indie Award for memoir); Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, (Michigan Notable Books)—all focused on rural culture, water studies, and issues of identity; An American Map: Essays, and collection of poetry, Uncoded Woman (Milkweed Editions).
She is founding editor of Dunes Review, former president of Michigan Writers, Inc., instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University, MA; Interlochen College of Creative Arts; and appears at conferences throughout the country. She advocates for water justice and preservation projects in rural communities. She and her husband, David Early, built their own home on wild acreage near Empire, Michigan, and their beloved Lake Michigan.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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A heart and soul opening exchange with author Dan Chesbro on life beyond the illusion of death and his experiences and book, Tom Sawyer: A Modern-Day Messenger from God: His Extraordinary Life and Near-Death Experiences.
Rev. Dan Chesbro is an American Baptist minister who founded the worldwide Order of Melchizedek, a modern-day school for prophets, in 1986. Teaching internationally, Chesbro is the author of The Order of Melchizedek and lives in Conesus, New York. Rev. James B. Erickson is a therapist with a deep interest in historical and sacred writings. He was ordained into the Order of Melchizedek 30 years ago and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Author and award-winning journalist Justin Gillis joins me to discuss his brilliant new book, The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet. An engaging, accessible citizen’s guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate—and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action.
Justin Gillis is an award-winning journalist with four decades of experience explaining complex issues in simple language for major daily newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. As the lead reporter on climate science at The Times for nearly a decade, he won the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism for a series of front-page articles exploring the basics of the climate crisis. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he is currently a fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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Read the Book That Inspires the ShowPaul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.
This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.
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Host Paul Samuel Dolman talks to the poet and facilitator Jess Janz on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman talks with author, storyteller, and speaker Matthew Dicks.
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Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with attorney and television personality Lisa Bloom on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with addiction and recovery specialist Alison Jones Webb.
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Professor Christopher Wright speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about the intersection of climate change and capitalism.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with educator Brian Jones about the Tuskeegee student uprising.
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Sociologist and author Karen Cerulo speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman on the subject of dreams.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes returning guest the author and psychologist Dr. Bandy Lee.
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Fashion and travel blogger and entrepreneur Mary Lawless Lee joins host Paul Samuel Dolman on the What Matters Most podcast.
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Paul Samuel Dolamn speaks with author Isa Watson about her book Life Beyond Likes on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with author, playwright, and memoirist Mark Olmsted.
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Music photographer Paul Natkin joins What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman to talk about the collection "Moment of Truth."
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Paul Samuel Dolman, host of the What Matters Most podcast, speaks with author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar.
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Paul Samuel Dolman, host of the What Matters Most podcast, speaks with author and climate change expert Hal Harvey.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman talks with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis about her new book Fierce Love.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with author, psychotherapist, and Zen Buddhist Koshin Paley Ellison.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman interviews prolific author and journalist Jess McHugh on her book Americanon.
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Author and authenticity and leadership expert Granddaughter Crow speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about her book Belief, Being, and Beyond.
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Host Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes pediatric neurosurgeon and author Dr, Jay Wellons to discuss the book All That Moves Us.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with author Brittany Muller about her Christian interpretation of the Tarot.
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Entrepreneur and author Christopher Celeste speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman.
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Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with songwriter and composer Marcus Hummon on the What Matters Most podcast.
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Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes multipotentialite and life coach Yvonna Kopacz-Wright to the What Matters Most podcast.
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Host Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes sustainable farmer, author, and historian Craig McNamara to the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with memoirist and life coach Renee Linnell on the release of her second memoir, Still on Fire.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with President Obama's chief speechwriter, Cody Keenan, on Keenan's new book, Grace.
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Former Miami Dolphins football player Larry Csonka joins Paul Samuel Dolman on the What Matters Most podcast to discuss Csonka's new memoir.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes back speaker and author Joel Green to discuss Green's new book "Filtering, The Way to Extract Strength from The Struggle."
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Philanthropist and social justice advocate Lynne Twist speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about her new book, Living a Committed Life.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with climate scientist Bill McGuire about the new book Hothouse Earth.
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Frequent guest Marianne Williamson returns for another conversation with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with progressive advocate and politician Nina Turner, host of Unbossed.
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Author and journalist Sarah Kendzior returns to speak with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about her new book, They Knew.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with author / child welfare advocate David Ambroz about his new book A Place Called Home.
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Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes back channel, author, and musician Lee Harris to the What Matters Most podcast to talk about Harris' new book, Conversations with the Z's, Book One.
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The What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with Vedic holy woman Acharya Shunya about her latest book, Roar Like a Goddess.
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Author and radio host Thom Hartmann returns to speak with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman on American politics.
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Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes back climate activist Anne Therese Gennari to talk about her book The Climate Optimist Handbook on the What Matters Most Podcast.
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What Matters Most host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with novelist and essayist Bárbara Mujica about her latest novel and other works.
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Author, life coach, and psychotherapist Stephanie James returns to the What Matters Most podcast in conversation with host Paul Samuel Dolman.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with Soto Zen priest, author, and musician Brad Warner about his work.
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PETA president Ingrid Newkirk returns to the What Matters Most podcast to discuss animal advocacy with host Paul Samuel Dolman.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with New York-based architectural designer James Stanley.
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Paul Samuel Dolman of the What Matters Most podcast speaks to business guru and philanthropist Dr. Daryl L. Jones of the Conscious Vibe Podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes back guest Stephen Jenkinson, a palliative care authority on death and dying.
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Polymath author, screenwriter, musician and journalist Paula Yoo returns to speak to host Paul Samuel Dolman on the What Matters Most podcast.
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Paul Samuel Dolman, host of the What Matters Most podcast, sits down for a conversation with noted channel, author, and clairvoyant Paul Selig.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with renowned human behavior expert, psychologist, and author John Demartini.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes back political director and organizer Eric Brown.
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Author and economist Lev Menand talks about his book The Fed Unbound with host Paul Samuel Dolman on the What Matters Most podcast.
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The What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks to animal rights advocate and Catskill Animal Sanctuary co-founder Kathy Stevens.
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Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes back author and philosopher Charles Eisenstein to the What Matters Most podcast to discuss the book The Coronation.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman interviews Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa, author of Inner Mastery, Outer Impact.
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Congressional candidate and activist Odessa Kelly speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about her progressive campaign.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with nutritionist Oz Garcia about his new book After COVID.
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Journalist Susan Hartman, author of City of Refugees, speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about immigrant stories.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks to author Joseph Selbie about the intersection of science and mysticism.
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Host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with entrepreneur, philanthropist, and podcaster Charles Mitchell on race, politics, business, and culture.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with author and Tao Calligraphy creator Master Zhi Gang Cha.
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Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes author and marriage and family therapist Rebecca Ward to the What Matters Most Podcast.
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Tennessee state senate candidate Charlane Oliver speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman on state and national politics.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with trauma therapist Nick Carmody about current events through a psychological lens.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with author, intuitive, and clairvoyant Emma Lucy Knowles.
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Host Paul Samuel Dolman talks to former NBA basketball player and current motivational speaker Joel Green on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks again with returning guest Tennessee state Senator Heidi Campbell.
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Paul Samuel Dolman has a conversation with engineer-turned-doctor Anthony Kaveh on the connections between spiritual healing and medicine.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolmans speaks with medium, psychic, and author MaryAnn DiMarco.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman invites author Jahan Khamsehzadeh to discuss consciousness, psychedelics, and psychology.
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Host Paul Samuel Dolman talks with Heather White about her book One Green Thing on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with cardiologist and author Dr. Terry Gordon about life after death.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman invites author and life coach Stephani Grace to discuss her book Creating Real Happiness A to Z.
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Journalist, author, and poet Judith Valente speaks with What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman about her latest book.
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Paul Samuel Dolman welcomes author Diana Kapp to talk about her latest book, Girls Who Green the World, on the What Matters Most podcast.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with shaman and author Johnathan Hammond about his new book The Shaman's Mind.
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Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with Norwegian journalist Charlotte Bergløff about the Ukrainian refugee crisis on the Polish border and the war.
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What Matters Most podcast host Paul Samuel Dolman speaks with drama researcher Cy Wakeman on workplace drama and living a contented life.
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