Trace Bell joins me for a second time with his partner Tina Olson. We ended up talking a lot about relationships including: steelmanning and boundaries. We talked about the trends we're seeing in the collective and in our own lives. Some of those trends include not getting stuck in the ditches of seeing life as purely positive or negative. Another trend is recognizing the messiness of life and people (including ourselves). You can find Trace on his website here.

Hannah joins me to talk about her life, growing up with addiction to substances and then to healing. She explains the difference between addiction to healing and actual healing and growing. We explore how everything is relationships whether that is with other people, God, the world, or ourselves.

You can find Hannah on her website here.

Join Brandy and me for a Halloween special discussing ghosts, demons, and death. We share how our modern culture pushes the natural cycle of death to the margins and how Halloween can be an invitation to contemplate and prepare ourselves for the inevitability of death. We talk about how to view the afterlife and celebrate the holiday appropriately, and not simplify it in a dualistic good or bad category.

Gavin joins me to explain the psychological/sociological model of Spiral Dynamics. We explore how the model can be helpful and ways in which it can be distorted. We connect periods of history and people groups with different stages while acknowledging all the stages are within us and can be activated individually.

You can find Gavin and his integral alchemy course here.

My friend joins me to talk about her journey growing up as a Christian with parents who fostered many kids. She discovered that she was homosexual and began deconstructing Christianity. She now identifies as bi and has found a much more curious, expansive, exploratory phase of discovery in her belief journey.

My long-time friend Taylor joins me to talk about how we form beliefs have some confidence about their accuracy. We explore truth formation through the lens of the Bible and Christianity before broadening our scope through the conversation of philosophy as a whole. I bring in my perspective through the lens of the Mystics, Buddhism and Hinduism.

You can find Taylor on Instagram here.