Life is a Festival
By Eamon Armstrong
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Episodes: 180
Description
Through intimate, long-form interviews, Life is a Festival unlocks the wisdom of cultural pioneers to help listeners integrate transformational experiences and create more joy and adventure in their daily lives.
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Josh Shrei (The Emerald): Only Myth Can Save Us Now
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Benjamin: Why I Returned to Ibogaine
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Alex Ebert: Aspirational Masculinity for the Left
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Megan Miller: Why Burners Must Participate in this Election
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Atish: Beats, Breaks, and Balance, a DJ Unplugs
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Will Chase: How Burning Man Stays Relevant
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Burning Man Isn't Cool Anymore
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Live From Burning Man Information Radio (Encore)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Chip Conley: Midlife is also a Festival
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual
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May 16, 2024 |
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Tina Nance: Beyond the "Divine" Feminine
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Lizz Larouge & Guinevere Rhonwen: Love's Many Colors
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Sami Awad & Sharon Avraham: A Lighthouse for the Middle East
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Gillian Reid: Sexual Kung Fu (Yin)
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Mantak Chia: Sexual Kung Fu (Yang)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Ilana Gilovich-Wave: Requiem for Sleep No More
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Darragh Stewart: The Indigenous Medicine of Ireland
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Natalie Sanandaji: Surviving the Nova Festival
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Sharon Avraham & Sami Awad: The Prayers of an Israeli and a Palestinian Burner
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Tyler Hanson: Shenanigans! The Art of Immersive Experience Design
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Marian Goodell et al: Inside Burning Man’s Worst Case Scenario
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Caveat Magister - At Burning Man, We're All Amateurs
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Eviatar Frankel: Facing Death with Grace
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Dennis Walker (Mycopreneur): The Court Jester of the Psychedelic Renaissance
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Phil Wolfson: Is Recreational Ketamine Therapeutic?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Sophie Strand: A Mythic Probiotic for Masculinity
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Jetta Blaine: The Marvelous Peptides of Kambo
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Nick Powers: The Revolution Will Be a Carnival
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May 22, 2023 |
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Mitchell Gomez: How to Stop Fentanyl Deaths (Encore)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Snow Raven: The Unexpected Sweetness of Darkness
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Victorien Mulliez: The Path of Joy
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Stephen Jenkinson: Personal Growth Won't Save Us
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Ian MacKenzie: The Masculine Longing for Mythic Imagination
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#144 - Android Jones: The Transformative Vulnerability of Loss
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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#143 - Monique Shiess, Co-founder of AfrikaBurn: The Catalytic Potential of Burning Man in South Africa
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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#142 - How to Earn a Secure Attachment Style | George Haas (Mettagroup)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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#141 - To Escape the Tyranny of the Self | Benjamin
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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#140 - Iboga Part 2: Initiating with Iboga in Africa | Apollon (Bwiti Initiations)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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#139 - Iboga Part 1: Ibogaine Clinical Treatment | Dr. Felipe Malacara, & Vianey Ariadna Perez (Beond Ibogaine)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#138 - The Art of Interviewing | Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#137 - The Queer Muslim Hero of Psychedelic Legalization | Ismail Lourido Ali (MAPS)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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#136 - The Gift of Mayan Warrior | Pablo González Vargas (Mayan Warrior)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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#135 - The Primal Movement of the Smuggler Yogi | Nick Brewer (Primal Moves)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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#134 - Pleasure is Medicine | Chloe Macintosh (Kama: Sex & Pleasure Education)
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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#133 - The Neverending Healing Journey | Adam Andros Aronovich (Healing From Healing)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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#132 - Every Daddy Needs a Daddy | Eamon Armstrong with Chloe Macintosh (Live from Burning Man)
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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#131 - The Best of Black Rock City | Burning Man Compilation
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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#130 - Flow States and Festival Consciousness | Jason Silva (Shots of Awe)
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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#129 - Dunking on the New Age is Boring Now | Alex Ebert (Bad Guru)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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#128 - Festivals Create Lasting Transformation | Dr. Molly Crockett (Crockett Lab)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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#127 - Building an Ethical & Sustainable Healing Practice | Laura Mae Northrup (Radical Healership)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#126 - The Poetry of Gender | Janne Robinson
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#125 - Worldbuilding for a Better World | Lak Mitchell (Boomtown Fair)
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May 26, 2022 |
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#124 - Art and Irresolvable Contradictions (Live) | Tao Ruspoli (Bombay Beach Biennale)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#123 - Welcome Refugees with a Festival | Mike Zuckerman (Borders Without Borders)
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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#122 - California Lucid Dreaming | Jonah Gabriel Haas (Lucidity Festival)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#121 - ...Because You're Going to Die | Ned Buskirk (YG2D)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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#120 - In the Age of Fentanyl, Test Your Drugs! | Mitchell Gomez (DanceSafe)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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#119 - I Kink, Therefore I Am: The Art of Liberating Desire | Cat Meyer (Sex, Love, Yoga)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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#118 - How Conspiracy Thinking Hijacked the Psychedelic Community | Jules Evans
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#117 - The Mycelial Way to Psychedelic Decriminalization | Matthew Duffy (SPORE)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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#116 - A Prison is the Shadow of a Festival | Sonya Shah (Ahimsa Collective)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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#115 - The Small Self on a Big Stage | Nick Mulvey
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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#114 - Visions of an Indigenous Refugee DJ | Chabeli Chain
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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#113 - How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip | Solocast
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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#112 - Sex and Shamanic Shadow Hunting | Ohad Pele & Jasmeen Hana (ISTA)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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#111 - Queer is Questioning | From Spaces Between Podcast with Al Jeffery
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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#110 - A Superhero Team of Indigenous Elders | Vivien Vilela & Rudy Randa (Aniwa Gathering)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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#109 - Voices of the Renegade Burn
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#108 - Healing Veterans with Plant Medicine | Jesse Gould (Heroic Hearts)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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#107 - Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond | Sutton King (Journey Colab)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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#106 - Brotherhood is the Medicine | Adam Jackson (Sacred Sons)
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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#105 - Ayahuasca for Healing Ancestral Racial Trauma | Tony Moss
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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#104 - An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture | Jamie Wheal
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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#103 - From Boy Prince to Embodied Man | Adrian Grenier
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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#102 - Reconnecting After Covid | Radha Agrawal (Daybreaker)
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May 15, 2021 |
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#100 - The Yang Container | Benjamin
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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#99 - Love All Your Parts | Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems)
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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#98 - The Play of Creative Work | Autumn Skye
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#97 - Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 | Alex Ebert (Clubhouse Show)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#96 - Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 | Jamie Wheal (Clubhouse Show)
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#95 - Building Big Art with the Cape's Creator | Daniel Popper
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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#94 - Stay Safe, Psychonauts | Dr. Molly (Clubhouse Show)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#93 - Medicine or Meds? How to Manage a Spiritual Emergence | Dr. Joseph Barsuglia
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#92 - A Vaccine for Conspirituality | Erik Davis
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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#91 - The Transformative Power of Folktales | Jan Blake
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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#90 - Yes, Psychedelics Can Help Heal Attachment Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk (Body Keeps the Score)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#89 - Masters of Steam | Sasha Baibarin and Boris Ryabov (Steamology Institute)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#88 - Don't Flail The Derp | Brad Rhadwood
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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#87 - Build a Little Ashram in Your Soul | Shiv Charan Singh (Karam Kriya)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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#86 - Love Free From Fear | Sabine Lichtenfels (Tamera)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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#85 - Decolonize Your Body | Camille Barton
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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#84 - Musings on Mental Health | Eamon Armstrong
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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#83 - Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities | Ashoka Finley
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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#82 - Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World | Jordan Hall
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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#81 - Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Communities | Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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#80 - Live From the Infinite Playa | Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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#79 - That One Time We Saved Burning Man | Marian Goodell (The Burning Man Project)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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#78b - Into the Burning Man Multiverse (Clubhouse Recording) | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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#78a - Into the Burning Man Multiverse | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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#77 - Making a Magic City | Tony Cho (Metro 1)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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#76 - Film Festivals, VHS, & Collaborating with Chance | Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills Movie)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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#75 - Founding Everland | Jonny Jenkins (Everland)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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#74 - Wrestling with the Predator | Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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#73 - Trip Sitting America | The Teafaerie (Erowid)
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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#72 - Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence | Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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#71 - Collective Liberation for Drug Users | Mohawk the Educator (DanceSafe)
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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#70 - Grandmother, Teach Me Patience | Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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#68 - Visions of an Afropunk Futurist | Adah Parris (-ism)
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May 31, 2020 |
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#67 - Skeptical Thinking for Spiritual People | Anna Zakrisson (Doctor Anna's Imaginarium)
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May 21, 2020 |
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#66 - Embodiment Practices for Healing Trauma I Tina Nance (Yoga Barn)
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May 18, 2020 |
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#65 - A North Star for Psychedelic Ethics | Liana Sananda (Auryn Project)
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May 07, 2020 |
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#64 - The Mad Scientist of House, Techno, & Love | Lee Reynolds (Desert Hearts)
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May 02, 2020 |
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#63 - The Way of the Metamodern Burner | Hanzi Freinacht (Metamoderna)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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#62 - Financial Resilience for Creatives | Nick Farr, CPA (The Long Disaster)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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#61 - Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past | Behind the Mynd with David Colón
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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#60 - From Crisis to Coronation | Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics)
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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#59 - Is Life Still a Festival? | World of Wisdom Podcast with Nils von Heijne
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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#58 - Festival Medicine on the Frontlines | Richard "Wolverine" Gottlieb (RGX Medical)
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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#57 - Turn Isolation into a Spiritual Playground | Nino Mendes (Nino Yoga - China)
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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#56 - My Sacred Morning Ritual | Solocast
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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#55 - A Love Letter to Earnestness | Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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#54 - The Acid Countess and the Art of Consciousness | Amanda Feilding (Beckley Foundation)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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#53 - Wilderness First Responder | Ryland Gardner (NOLS)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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#52 - The Marvelous Mother Shucker of Mardi Gras | Katrina Brees (The Bearded Oysters)
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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#51 - How to Help Someone Having a "Bad Trip" | Sara Gael (The Zendo Project)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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#50 - Serve in the Way that Feeds You Most | Christopher Breedlove (Burners Without Borders)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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#49 - Party to Escape or Celebrate to Connect? | Live at Spotify Stockholm with Gustaf Tadaa
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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#48 - The Boy Hero Must Die | The Mythic Masculine Podcast with Ian MacKenzie
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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#47 - The Work of Art | Amanda Sage
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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#46 - Tales of an English Folk Hero | Jay McAllister (Beans on Toast)
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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#45 - Top 10 of 2019
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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#44 - The Terrifying Delight of Self-Surpassing | Michael Murphy (Esalen):
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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#43 - A Brief History of British Festivals | Live from Spotify London with Marcus Barnes
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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#42 - Work, Wealth, and Self-Worth | Tim Chang (Mayfield)
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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#41 - Iboga, the Mount Everest of Psychedelics | Tricia Eastman & Dr. Joseph Barsuglia
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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#40 - Living Yoga Off the Mat | Janet Stone
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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#39 - Bye Bye Plastic, Hello Vibes | Vivie-Ann Bakos (BLOND:ISH)
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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#38 - Make Sustainability Sexy | Pete Phornprapha (Wonderfruit)
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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#37 - How to Celebrate Death | Klaudia Oliver (La Calaca)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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#36 - We Can All Be Babes | Andrea Graham (The Librarian)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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#35 - Depression & Psychedelics: Dancing with the Black Dog | Dr. David Rabin (Apollo Neuroscience)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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#34 - The Ripple Effect of Claiming Your Space | Lizzie Rose (Lizzie Rose Media)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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#33 - A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance | Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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#32 - Fumbling Towards Inclusivity | JR Nexus Russ (Catharsis on the Mall)
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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#31 - Regenerate the Earth 1000 Hectares at a Time | Stephen Brooks (Punta Mona)
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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#30 - The Wizard of Awe Goes to Burning Man | Jason Silva
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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#29 - It’s Better With You Here | Live From BMIR (Burning Man Information Radio)
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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#28 - What's the Point of Burning Man? | Caveat Magister (Burning Man Philosophical Center))
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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#27 - Can Free Love Save the World? | Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie (Love School Film)
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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#26 - The Business of Building a Psychedelic Disneyland | Vince Kadlubek (Meow Wolf)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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#25 - Dance Music's Woke Girl Gang | Abi Getto & Liz Garard (Nap Girls)
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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#24 - The Spiritual Side of Failure | Mauricio Boogieloop (Heart Ibiza)
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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#23 - Keep Psychedelics Weird | Erik Davis (Techgnosis)
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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#22 - Authenticity, Anxiety, & the Artist | Atish Mehta (DJ atish)
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May 30, 2019 |
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#21 - Demystifying Fly Ranch, Burning Man’s Perennial Oasis | Zac Cirivello (Fly Ranch)
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May 25, 2019 |
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#20 - Cultivating Cultural Curiosity | Yasmine El Baggari (Voyaj)
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May 10, 2019 |
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#19 - From Activist to Ayahuasca Advocate | Tony Moss (Bird Tribe)
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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#18 - Find Your Rite of Passage | Life Rites with Max Carver & Ari Andersen
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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#17 - Build Community Like a Social Alchemist | Bear Kittay (Good Money)
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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#16 - Modern Mentorship is Mutual | Chip Conley (Modern Elder Academy)
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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#15 - Dress Yourself as a Work of Art | Ash & Tessla (Glitter Spies)
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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#14 - How to Party Without Breaking Your Brain | Dr. Molly
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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#13 - A Masterclass in Consent | Romi Elan (SoulPlay Festivals)
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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#12 - Family is the Headliner | Android Jones
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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#11 - The Master Builder of Extraordinary Experiences | Benja Juster (Rubbermaid Parties)
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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#10 - The Verdant World of a Village Witch | Sarah Wu (Envision Festival)
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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#9 - The Sun Never Rises on the Elrow Party Empire | Vicenç Marti (elrow)
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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#8 - Planting Seeds for a Legacy | Marcus Golden Barnes (Mixmag)
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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#7 - The Mythopoetic Antidote for Pornography Addiction | Zhenzan Dao (The MogaDao Institute)
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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#6 - Beware the Life of an Artist | David Block (The Human Experience)
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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#5 - Hope for Spaceship Earth | Amanda Joy Ravenhill (Buckminster Fuller Institute)
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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#4 - The Secret to a Perfect Festival Body | Rebecca Jean (Nourish Inc.)
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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#3 - Just Say Know: The State of Psychedelics | Brad Burge (MAPS)
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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#2 - Leaderless Leadership at the Nordic Burn | Gustaf Tadaa (The Borderland)
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Introducing the Life is a Festival Podcast
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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#1 - The Hunt for Sober October | Mikey Lion (Desert Hearts)
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Nov 17, 2018 |