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Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Change always creates resistance and fear. As we move through this crisis, let us take the chance to re-align our focus to what's important and to what we each can do to create change, empathy, and community.

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S3E97 David Abel - The point of maximum fear is the point of minimum danger.

Dec 29, 2025 1h 12m

Two very different and almost identical travelers, David Abel and I. We both explore and breathe curiosity. David is demonstrably ambitious, I more demonstrably gestalt. His childhood Dickensian,…

S3E96 Lauri Smith - Actors learn about intimacy in a room full of strangers.

Dec 01, 2025 1h 3m

As Lauri Smith and I traveled together for about an hour, I watched in my mind's eye a slide show of my childhood. We both were fine playing alone, we loved acting out stories and episodes. Both…

S3E95 Laurie Gardner - Wildly Curious

Oct 21, 2025 1h 13m

Laurie Gardner and I share the dearth of a concept: career. We could be politely described as peripatetic, by others taken with sarcasm as short attention-spanned. Laurie has tended bar around the…

S4E94 Eyra and Mathieu - You were whole, you just forgot.

Sep 14, 2025 1h 15m

Eyra and Mathieu collided with me in a conversation at The Friendship Bench. I have misplaced the topic, but not the experience. So I asked them to talk and listen for a bit and off we went - the…

S3E93 Michelle Caryn Paul - On the Rogue Again

Jun 29, 2025 1h 13m

Smoothly, professionally, I approach with "I really enjoyed your presentation on AI." Luckily, it's true, and Michelle gets that, so we had a great introduction, which led to lunch, a ping-pongy…

S3E92 Heather Hansen O'Neill - Of Course It's Non-Linear!

Apr 15, 2025 1h 3m

"Doesn't work up to expectations" was inscribed repeatedly on my report card. Heather's too. She's danced professionally, I coincidentally, and we both love it. We talk about raising thinkers, loving…

S3E91 Jenlyn UNBN - Curiosity Becomes Audacity

Mar 31, 2025 1h 7m

"You may have to wait to talk, but you never have to wait to listen." Every back2different podcast starts with a 5-10 minute story - the guest's answer to "How did you get here?" That's all we need…

S3E90 Sarah Elkins - "Land the plane, Sarah!"

Mar 06, 2025 1h 11m

We had a wonderful journey together, Sarah and I, as we shared her blossoming, awakening, I guess, as an adult. As she says, "I found my voice at 40." A classically trained singer, she was invited to…

S3E89 Amy Gallie - Principals and Principles

Jan 07, 2025 1h 1m

I was never diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Of course, the label didn't exist until 1980, so I simply received more than one report card that said, 'Seems to have difficulties following…

S3E88 Victor Acquista - Globs of Energy

Dec 03, 2024 1h 5m

I have always suspected that lots of planets lined up identically for Victor's and my births. We don't finish each other's sentences, but we do finish each other's paragraphs.Contemplatives, dogma,…

S3E87 Gina Mazza - We're Not here to Be Stagnant

Nov 11, 2024 1h 10m

I met Gina Mazza during an online conversation about creativity. Took us a bit of back-and-forth to get to recording, and then a few delays to mix and load. With every minute.She's had a variegated…

S3E86 Maggie Jackson - The Islands of our Knowledge

Oct 17, 2024 59m

Via my wonderful friend Craig James arrived Maggie Jackson. So here's a tiny sample of our journey together:The unease of uncertainty is actually a gift.Ambivalent CEOs are actually better…

S3E85 Carey Corr - I Thought a Lot Older

Sep 24, 2024 1h 12m

Carey Corr has a marvelous story. He is a film-maker and carries a boundless sense of curiosity and adventure. He's fearless and we share the excitement of new ideas alongside a deep suspicion of…

S3E84 Clarabelle Miray Fields - It Has to be Raw

Aug 31, 2024 52m

I met Clarabelle Miray Fields on a forum about creativity and knew I'd need to listen more to what she had to explore. She was self-publishing when she was four, binding her own books using her…

S3E83 Glenn Behenna - Distinctly Average

Jun 23, 2024 58m

We gathered each other through a mutual friend, Colin Smith. Glenn Behenna worked in the steel industry, as a member of the constabulary (a cop), went back to school, and now he is a Senior Lecturer…

S4E82 Peter Cook - Bring Their Brains to Work

May 30, 2024 49m

Music, toxic HR culture, confounded with structure, 'I cycled through the pandemic,' moral hazard and money to be made, exam strategies and rock songs, and then our conversation took off. How can you…

S4E81 Michael Padurano - Showering in the Dark

Apr 22, 2024 1h 10m

We can be successful in business, outwardly merry, envied and admired. At the same time, we may be carrying a corrosive load of trauma, unhealed emotional and spiritual bruises that can lead to…

S3E80 Tamsin Astor - A Pillar of Pleasure

Mar 06, 2024 1h 3m

No stone left unturned in this one. Tamsin Astor is fearless, peripatetic (as in she's been all over the place geographically and educationally), and embracing. I would love to get together with all…

S3E79 Jim Burke - Be Careful Not to Should All over Yourself

Feb 06, 2024 59m

Jim Burke appeared through my connection with Craig James, and each connection enriches the other. I finally got some time with Jim and off we went, looking carefully into kinds of questions, since…

S3E78 Phil Williams - Sit in the Dining Car with Total Strangers

Dec 29, 2023 1h 22m

I hate scratching my head with "I wonder what s/he meant by that?" First of all, I'm an inept fill-in-the-unspoken-part practitioner. Hence my pleasure at getting together with Phil Williams. He…

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