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E12 / Finding Connection with Bill Maeda
Listen now (52 mins) | Physicality and identity, depression and isolation, finding connection through invitation, challenge and social media, the value…
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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E20 / Pilates for Men with Sean Vigue
Listen now (58 mins) | Health and fitness in our fifties, being yourself, flow, fitness for kids, getting outside, joy through movement, and... those…
"We get good at what we do."
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Donna McArthur of The Bright Life
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Inspiration from Dec 2022
Corinna Cohn, Connor Beaton, Alexander Bard, Bill Maeda, Shana James, Zoë Kors, Juliet Allen, Chris Ryan, Wilfred Reilly, Phil Stutz, David Katznelson…
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Fifty definitive memoirs
Nothing inspires more than the truth of another person's experience, transmitted directly.
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Chapter 3 — Starting a business at the age of nine to sell D&D books
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 03 — North Dallas Forty
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E10 / Everyday Flow with James Brown
Listen now (52 mins) | Flow, presence, Vedic meditation, intuition, fatherhood, adoption, giving things up, moving past alcohol, freedom, discipline…
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Chapter 11 — Lycos the wolf spider, and meeting Jane in Boston
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 11 — Hunger Awakened
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Chapter 15 — Saved by a climbing gym, two real friends, kitesurfing, and a half-naked haircut.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 15 — Meeting the Mentor
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How physical fitness supports my creativity and my work as a writer
How physical fitness at age 53 supports my creativity and my work as a writer—with pilates, body weight conditioning, calisthenics, trail running…
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E14 / Wayfinding with Kim Stanley Robinson
Listen now (64 mins) | How he became a writer, the "Cardboard Set Problem," the deep pleasure of wayfinding, the erotic charge of being in the…
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