Episode 128 – Bliss(ters) – Gail Francis – 2700 miles – Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
 
Gail spent 5 months hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. 2700 miles. Her book, Bliss(ters), tells the story of her lone journey, the challenges, the appreciation and the motley crew of characters she met along the way! 5 months of hiking, away from regular life, often on her own and away from civilization, for the most… Read more »
Episode 127 Podcast Extra – Suspected Confirmed Coronavirus – Mitchel’s Experience
 
Mitchel Howell, a fellow podcaster, shares his experience diagnosed “suspected confirmed” with Covid-19/CoronaVirus. The first 15 minutes, or so, of our discussion – Mitchel talks about his symptoms, diagnosis, his child’s experience with testing and how his family is doing now and dealing with quarantine. The testing, the numbers and why we’ll never really know how far it has spread…. Read more »
Episode 126 – Small Business Challenges and Optimism During Coronavirus with Adeline Wright
 
Adeline has been doing hair in Duluth for 20 years. She has also been a very active part of the community as well. That is clear if you are in her shop for a new do or to just stop in and say hello. I had the chance to talk to her about her perspective as a small business owner… Read more »
Episode 125 – Corona COVID-19 – So, this is new. How do we DO this. Some suggestions
 
The cheerful music bringing us into today’s episode… Earworms to help us remember to wash our hands… make us smile and have some good chemical releases if we follow suit and do as these fine folks do for us… even if in our own head. (Time spent on a cruise produced this lovely memory I had recorded to share with… Read more »
Episode 124 – EMDR with Dina Clabaugh – Insight Counseling
 
Dina is the founder of Insight Counseling. I think her team bio actually says it really well… ”Dina opened Insight Counseling with the intent of creating exactly the type of space where she could go to experience insightful healing, growth, and enhanced health; a place where all people are warmly welcomed, and staff are interested in and committed to their care. Insight… Read more »
Episode 123 – Dying Out Loud – Dave Warnock
 
About a year ago Dave was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is an incurable disease. We all have a ticking clock – his diagnosis is forcing him to face his in a very real way. As he says… his clock is sitting on the table in front of him. “Suddenly for me this precious and brief life became infinitely more precious… Read more »
Episode 122 – A Journey of Healing Himself, PTSD and CBD-THC – John Moder
 
Imagine… you have been trained to assess every single person for threat level… are they trying to kill me? Do I need to protect myself and my team? My family?? Then, be sent back home into “real” life… John speaks openly about his journey and experience going from a very active, positive, take-on-the-world teenager – to hating his life, anxious… Read more »
Episode 121 – LA Land Reflections – Our thoughts on the Podcast Movement Evolution Conference
 
This week’s episode is a somewhat rough cut, on the fly episode with “special” guest, the Silent Tech Guy. We apologize for the slightly less-than-par audio, as we were wanting to get this one out quick and some of it was traveling audio. This week we are releasing a somewhat abbreviated podcast with some of our reflections on our recent… Read more »
Episode 120 – Eco-Anxiety – We can’t do it all – Finding Peace in what we CAN do. With Naomi Bartley
 
Naomi is a grief and trauma therapist out of Northfield, MN and a member of the North America Climate Psychology Alliance. She finds herself spending increasing focus working with Eco-anxiety, climate change organizations and climate resilience work. Eco-anxiety… what it is and the many ways and places it can show up! As we learn more about the changing climate and… Read more »
Episode 119 – Jean Sumner – Many Ways to Find Health and Healing – Be Open to Your Own Path
 
Jean’s journey from an “incurable” cancer diagnosis in 2007 to living in a state of thriving health is impressive! From a banking background; living on a standard American diet, she found herself being lead by her gut and intuition as she opened up to ways of dealing with the diagnosis on her own. Her actions, much different than her normal… Read more »