Kip Dooley is a writer, editor, and educator who highlights solutions to our world’s most pressing challenges. He cowrites Bare Bones, a weekly(ish) newsletter about food, family, and what nourishes us, with award-winning cookbook author Beth Dooley, his mother. They also teach a quarterly online class, showing home cooks how to make delicious home meals with seasonal, local produce.

As a journalist, he’s written about food, theatre, and unlikely Trump voters. He taught communications studies at American University in Washington, D.C., and began his career teaching high school English and social studies while earning an M.S. in Education at The University of Pennsylvania. He brings an educator’s eye to all he does.

In this episode we discuss being in the middle of internal transformation while being ok with not having everything figured out, faith-based communities whether religious or not, sports, learning, and Kip does live poetry reading. 

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Eric Schneider is a third generation entrepreneur working at Huron Paper Stock, a family business operating since 1955. He’s collected a wild variety of life experiences and despite knowing each other for a short time, I consider him to be a wise mentor. Eric has been deep into personal growth from his high school days in peer couseling, to the Landmark Forum, creating a men’s circle in Hawaii and facilitating for years, working with the Mankind Project, and translating much of this work to his personal and professional life. When Covid hit, Eric’s life took a turn and he drastically shifted his business and his family began a nomadic lifestyle, and he’s currently in New Mexico. In this conversation, we get into the weeds about Eric’s various adventures while keeping things real and playful.

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Amanda Vestri is my wife, and producer of this show, in addition to tons of behind the scenes work for all of my creative projects. She was born and raised in a small town in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil. After teaching herself English, she came to the USA in 2018 via a cultural exchange program. We met in the summer of 2019 and have been together since, getting married this July. Amanda has been interested in occult and spiritual practices from a young age and participated in the Candomblé religion, and been trained in Reiki, Theta Healing, the Akashic Records, and Astrology.

In this convo we talk about how she made her way to the United States, despite being from a family where no one speaks English, no one has been to the US, and few if any people from her town have either. We get into her background with spiritual practices and talk about our relationship, and believing in your dreams.

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