Cutting For Sign with Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline
By Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline
Cutting For Sign with Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline Jun 05, 2023
102 Jade Oates - On Romanticism - Writer and Editor In Chief of The Mandarin Magazine
Jade Oates, is a writer, poet and the editor in chief of The Mandarin, an online literary magazine based in California. Through the unique, personal and inspired writings shared in The Mandarin she has sought to cultivate and celebrate a New Romanticism, that is, the creative, individual, magically real, and yet naturally grounded landscapes of emotion experienced by humanity.
During her collegiate career she was recognized as Honors Scholar of the Year in 2017, and in 2020 earned her degree from Cal Berkeley. Professionally, she gives herself to opportunities in writing, editing, journalism, and publishing and is also interested in brand storytelling.
Jade believes in our outer selves reflecting and embodying our inner through fashion, color and words, in the light of wisdom, that art itself is the test of the artisan, in giving form to the invisible and invincible summer within us all, and in ever developing one's own personal magical realism manifesto.
101 Dr. Tracey Hunter #2 - On Relationships - Clinical Psychologist and Relationship Coach
Dr. Tracey Hunter is a clinical psychologist, relationship coach and Schema Therapy practitioner based on the Gold Coast of Australia.
She received your PhD in clinical psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast in 2005 and made the Academic Excellence List for her thesis work. She is also author of several publications that dissect the relationships between child development, depression, and peer relationships.
Tracey's aim is to help people get in touch with disconnected parts of the self so that they can create inner harmony and thrive in intimate relationships. Through the experiential techniques of Schema Therapy, her clients are able to bring unconscious patterns and wounds into awareness, to heal, and to gain clarity about core emotional needs and values. She also focuses on women ready to step into their feminine power and create loving and energizing relationships.
Tracey believes humans are fascinating and resilient, that underneath our protective layers, we seek a more satisfying experience of life, and that one of the most important journeys we can take as humans is the exploration of the effects on our lives of the messages we received in childhood about love, connection, self-expression, and worthiness.
100 David Robles, Parker Denae, Mike Lepis - On Cutting For Sign - Listeners and Friends of the Show
To celebrate our 100th episode, we invited three of our listeners to be guests and talk about how they are meeting the physical, cognitive and emotional challenges of life.
David Robles is a program supervisor at the largest therapeutic residential non-profit in Oregon where he provides support to youth in need. He and Daniel have traveled distant lands together, have bled together through both the creation of stories and the living of our own. He has stood by Daniel during the most difficult moments of his life embodying his values of safety, consistency, emotional awareness and abiding presence. David values articulation, heightened cognitive and physical performance, solution based thinking, nuanced and effective trauma therapy, the light, the dark, the shadows between, and that the cat is but isn’t necessarily always both in and not in the box.
Parker Denae is on a journey of growth that is currently both at its beginnings, and has been happening for many years. The journey is one of learning to love and care for herself, including giving her younger self what she didn't have growing up, and at the same time fostering your overall growth into a strong and stable woman that little girl can rely on. She also plays roller derby, works hard, and plays harder. She is one of the most lively and unexpectedly raucous and at the same time intentional and perfectly genuine people we have known. She values speaking what she believes, questioning those beliefs, and in yeses to adventure, whether it be of the body, the mind, or the heart.
Mike Lepis' professional life has been helping large companies connect with their employees. He is an entrepreneur and married to an entrepreneur. He considers himself a work in progress and have recently been processing and recovering from challenging life events via embracing therapy, self-reflection, and movement. You have two children and to help with your parenting challenges, you lead a group for dad’s of neurodiverse kids. Mike, you believe in creating space to support others, in process, togetherness in collaboration and co-creation, insight driven strategy and actionable plans both personally and professionally.
Ron Cecil was born in New Mexico, where he fell in love with rock climbing, the divine, and smoking cigarettes in secret. He has degrees in Biblical Literature and psychology, and though destined to be a cowboy, or preacher, he instead ran large companies both domestically and abroad until in 2015, he started guiding men toward mental, physical and emotional health. Ron's parents were married 13 times, creating in him a devotion to understanding what might make a healthy marriage. He's been partnered since 2009 and father to a daughter and adopted son. In 2020, you completed his dream of speed-climbing Yosemite's Half Dome. Later that year, he co-founded the podcast, Cutting for Sign and doubled down on his passion for writing via a modern western called Midland set in the high desert where he grew up. Ron believes in authenticity, in almost pulling that heist he's been scheming but instead writing it into his book, in caring for our sometimes skittish nervous systems, in long cold showers along warm beaches, in friendship, in bucking shame, in leaning on the world so it can lean back, and in relaxing into the surprising discomfort of living his future now.
99 Sam Lamott #2 - On Story - Host of the How To Human podcast, Creator of the Hello Humans platform, Artist and Writer
Sam Lamott is an artist, writer, and host of the How To Human podcast, which explores how to acquire the psychological skills needed to thrive as an adult. How To Human was featured on Itunes New and Noteworthy as well as Apple’s top 200 podcasts in both Health and Self Help.
Sam is also owner of Square 1 Studio in San Anselmo California and founder of Hello Humans, a platform for storytellers to share their trials and capture the truth of what it means to be human. He is also co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Some Assembly Required.
Sam describes himself as a single dad, college drop-out, and ex-meth head, who, at the age of twenty two, came out of a ten-year bender with severe clinical depression, a two-year-old child, and zero life skills.
He knows that life is more than what we show the world on social media, that it’s often much messier, but that the lessons learned from those messes are as valuable as anything on this adventure and creation of being human.
Additionally, in the time we at Cutting For Sign have known and and collaborated with Sam, he has proven to be dogged in his commitment to both self betterment and the projects that have captured him. He's become a friend, someone we can call for personal or professional support, and a fierce advocate for the transformation of the primordial energies we find ourselves steeped within, into the woven gold we call story.
98 Johnny Boyd - On Artist Process - Musician, Composer, Front Man
Johnny Boyd, Ron and Daniel talk about how an artist's body of work evolves over time, to what extent and the nuance around choices one makes on what to create, how, when and with whom. Johnny is a singer, songwriter, aka crooner, composer as well as a cocktailier, and deep-dish vintage 1940’s bellywarmer necktie collector, 9,700 pieces and counting.
He began singing and performing at the age of eight in the Phoenix Boys Choir and later signed as a major label recording artist. He has recorded dozens of original songs and has licensed many for use in motion pictures, television and gaming.
He is the former Indigo Swing frontman, known for his work ethic (at times 300-plus gigs a year worldwide) with the ability to move an audience from smiles to tears in one sitting. He has been long-acclaimed as one of the most versatile vocal performers of today, a songwriter of genius proportions, butter smooth with assured grace to every note, born to sing and with the vision of a renegade artist.
His music blends swing, jazz, pop, country, gospel, rock, torch, and jump blues into a stage show equal parts joy and musicianship, at some times nostalgic charisma, and at others, irreverent and dynamic.
Jazz Review said of him, “[He] touches on so many musical styles with amazing sincerity…a high plaintive tenor with excellent phrasing and a warm tremol.” Perhaps NPR summed him up best, "If Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash had a love child, it would be Johnny Boyd."
Johnny believes in consistent, long term growth, in acting on what he values despite what others might want or demand of him, and in challenging himself with nuance and subtlety. As one periodical said of him…”like Frank, Johnny does it his way.”
97 Josh Connolly - On Resilience - Mental Health Advocate, 115 Miles Podcast Host
Josh Connolly, Ron and Daniel speak about resilience, emotional sobriety, presence and breathwork.
Josh is one of the UK’s most influential mental health advocates, co-host of the 115 Miles podcast, and co-facilitator of the Uncommon Man group. He regularly speaks on BBC, ITV, Channel 5 news, the House of Commons, contributes to mental health policy and advises the scriptwriting team on Hollyoaks.
He has run resilience workshops for village schools and global brands alike. Additionally, he is an ambassador for Nacoa – a national charity supporting people affected by a parent’s drinking.
Josh values humanizing one’s emotions, creating spaces for people to breath, think, reflect and speak with others. He focuses on resilience and is defining a new perspective on it. He believes resilience is compassion to give oneself what one needs, the strength to accept your flaws, and not just about being tough.
96 Katrin Berndt #2 - Relationship Coach and Podcast Host
Katrin Berndt is a coach and host of the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast and had Ron and Daniel as guests.
Katrin always thought that she would be an independent, confident, secure girlfriend, and that she wanted an independent, confident, secure boyfriend. But within relationship, Katrin experienced jealousy, anxiousness, neediness and that to some extent, she wasn't ready for an independent partner. The advice she received was, “work on self-love,” so she asked herself what that meant.
She was relentless in her pursuit of answers to this question and remedies to the emotional issues she was suffering. She believed in logical, not vague, or “woo,” in change herself, not her partner and in her own ability to execute lasting change.
She realized that she used to think that a person was either born relaxed, happy, and easy-going, or that, if they weren't, then their parents didn't raise them right. But she discovered that being that kind of person is a skill, not a talent. It's something anyone can learn at any stage of life.
On the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast and in her coaching, Katrin makes sense of why people think, feel, and act the way they do even in good relationships. She believes most people are intelligent, successful, and hard-working, but that sometimes these attributes work against us and delay our progress. She values personal accountability, getting specific around goals and requests, and in reprograming how we relate to the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings we experience on a daily basis.
95 - Harlow Robinson - Mountain and Ultra Runner
Harlow Robinson is an accomplished mountain runner and the founding member of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. Since 2006, he worked as direct care staff and board member with Healthy Futures, a statewide program that helps thousands of at risk youth around Alaska build self-esteem and life skills.
He grew up living a subsistence lifestyle in remote Alaska until third grade and in 1973 his family was the subject of the Alaska Family Robinson article in National Geographic. He and his Kiwi wife Gina spend a substantial amount of time in New Zealand and both of their fathers are renowned mountain climbers.
He's raced dozens of Alaskan mountain races and wilderness races and won several, including both the winter and summer Alaska Wilderness Races, an unsupported 100-200 mile point-to-point race through the Alaskan wilderness. Hd also did the Transalpine stage race in Europe, which is about 200 miles over a span of eight days through and over the European Alps.
Additionally, after many years and many attempts, Harlow completed the 12 peak challenge, a 24 hour race that links the twelve 5,000-foot mountains in the Chugach range overlooking Anchorage, Alaska.
In the past five years, Harlow has experienced life passing by quickly, and so in that time, he's changed some of his personal paradigms. This effort required acceptance, commitment, a new level of honesty with yourself, personal vulnerability and has revealed wonderful and surprising layers.
94 Tina Alexis Allen #2 (as Sir John) - Actor, Playwright and Author
Tina Alexis Allen is an actor. In this episode, she plays the character of her father, who she also plays in her one-person play Secrets of a Holy Father.
Sir John was born in England, lied about his age to join the Merchant Marines, was an officer in the British Army stationed in Palestine, moved to the states, and started a Catholic Travel Agency. He also was knighted by the Pope, had a Vatican passport, traveled about 500,000 miles a year from the late 50s through the 70s, and lived most of his adult life in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He also had 13 children and lived at least one double life.
Tina Alexis Allen is also a playwright and author. She grew up the youngest of 13 in a Catholic family in Chevy Chase Maryland. After accepting a basketball scholarship to the University of Maryland, she earned an MBA in marketing and moved to New York, where she spent weekends at Broadway shows and after some soul searching started to pursue acting.
Her break out role was in the 2016 WGN hit series Outsiders, a clash-of-cultures drama rooted in coal mining Kentucky. Now, she is known for playing a diversity of roles, and were nominated for a GLAAD award for her work in The Break-Up Notebook. Celebrated acting coach Susan Batson called her “a true chameleon.” She wrote and performed the critically acclaimed solo show, Secrets of a Holy Father in which she played her own father, Sir John, an Englishman who had been knighted by the Pope. The play explores betrayal, redemption and forgiveness through her father’s secretive double life.
She is also co-founder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry, which turns deconstructed bullets into daring necklaces, rings and bracelets. The company donates proceeds to non-profit organizations that stand for peace.
Lastly, her book, Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception and Double Lives, builds on the story of her play, and further unravels the relationship with her formidable father, this time from her point of view. The book hinges on a moment in which a secret she'd harbored for years is revealed to her father; that she liked girls. But, instead of dragging her to a priest, her father shockingly says that he too, is gay. Through wild, clandestine escapades, her discover that this is not Sir John’s only significant deception.
The Washington Post said of the book, that she packaged grit and grime into glistening prose and that her twisted mystery is a ‘can’t-put-down’ read. And of the book, Tina herself said, “there is no shame in telling the truth.”
93 Pouya Hashemi - Entrepreneur and Entertainer
Pouya Hashemi is an entrepreneur, comedian, magician and Founder and CEO of spinTouch and SIP Awards.
SpinTouch is an interactive application with expertise in development and hardware integration. SIP Awards is a unique spirits competition that puts smaller spirit brands on an even playing field with larger ones. It is the only spirits competition that solely recruits consumers as judges.
Pouya was also one of the first confirmed cases of COVID in the United States. This motivated him to create RapidScreen, a contactless screening scanner that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial scanning and was put into place across the nation.
Pouya believes in problem solving, in being utterly relentless in pursuing goals, and in a balance between confronting problems– including global injustices–and recharging with wonder and laughter.
92- Daniel and Ron On Crush It Lists
Ron and Daniel share habits around list making, organization and accomplishing challenging tasks consistently.
91 Fraya Mortensen - Transformational Mindset Coach
In May 2020, Fraya decided to go global with her mission to empower highly sensitive people. She shot her first video on TikTok and a few months later, left her government job to follow her life mission of helping to elevate the consciousness of those seeking personal transformation.
Fraya values personal evolution, the gift of mindfulness, personal and relationship boundaries, turning empathy into a superpower, identifying limiting beliefs, and being a loving adult to one’s child self.
90 Tim Albaugh - Screenwriter and Producer
Tim Albaugh is a writer and producer. He has taught screenwriting at UCLA, UC Irvine, Hollins University, Pixar Animation Studios, and Walt Disney Feature Animation.
He bad been a featured presenter at numerous film festivals, institutes and private screenwriting groups. He also moderates annual panels at the Austin Film Festival, leads the monthly MetaReads at The Metaphor Club in Los Angeles, and mentors for the CineStory Foundation.
Tim’s students and private clients have sold features to all the major studios and has had films produced including ALL EYEZ ON ME and the Christian Bale film THE MACHINIST. Their work in TV includes THE ROOKIE, TWO DOPE QUEENS, and 13 REASONS WHY.
He is currently a partner and Executive Producer for Royal Viking Entertainment where he discovers talent and works with them to develop material. He also helped create the film and T.V. consultancy PROPATH SCREENWRITING, which offers coverage, script notes, seminars, workshops and ongoing consultations. His clients have won the prestigious Nicholl Screenwriting competition, and optioned or sold scripts to various studios.
Tim splits his time between L.A., San Francisco, Las Vegas and the east coast and somehow still houses an army of rescue cats and lives with the knowledge that any day more rescues may appear.
He believes in writing with intention and purpose, commanding the read from the first word, and in creating not just the stories we know, but the emotional journeys we live.
89 Tina Alexis Allen - Actor
Tina Alexis Allen is an actor, playwright and author. She grew up the youngest of 13 in a Catholic family in Chevy Chase Maryland. After accepting a basketball scholarship to the University of Maryland, she earned an MBA in marketing and moved to New York, where she spent weekends at Broadway shows and after some soul searching started to pursue acting.
Her break out role was in the 2016 WGN hit series Outsiders, a clash-of-cultures drama rooted in coal mining Kentucky. Now, she is known for playing a diversity of roles, and were nominated for a GLAAD award for her work in The Break-Up Notebook. Celebrated acting coach Susan Batson called her “a true chameleon.” She wrote and performed the critically acclaimed solo show, Secrets of a Holy Father in which she played her own father, Sir John, an Englishman who had been knighted by the Pope. The play explores betrayal, redemption and forgiveness through her father’s secretive double life.
She is also co-founder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry, which turns deconstructed bullets into daring necklaces, rings and bracelets. The company donates proceeds to non-profit organizations that stand for peace.
Lastly, her book, Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception and Double Lives, builds on the story of her play, and further unravels the relationship with her formidable father, this time from her point of view. The book hinges on a moment in which a secret she'd harbored for years is revealed to her father; that she liked girls. But, instead of dragging her to a priest, her father shockingly says that he too, is gay. Through wild, clandestine escapades, her discover that this is not Sir John’s only significant deception.
The Washington Post said of the book, that she packaged grit and grime into glistening prose and that her twisted mystery is a ‘can’t-put-down’ read. And of the book, Tina herself said, “there is no shame in telling the truth.”
88 Eddie Colla - Artist
Eddie Colla attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated from the California College of Arts with a BFA in photography and interdisciplinary fine arts. He began your artistic career as a photographer, working first for the New York Times and later, several magazines, record labels and ad agencies. However, over time, he has morphed into an opponent of what he terms, “the all-pervasive nature of commercialism” ie, the advertisements that overwhelm many of our public spaces.
Eddie's street art first garnered national recognition when he began incorporating images of Barack Obama in 2008. His designs have been transformed into stickers, and album and magazine covers and have been featured alongside Hush, Blek Le Rat, Banksy, and Shepard Fairey as well as at art festivals, shows, and public spaces in Miami, Paris, Los Angeles, Thailand and Mexico. In August of 2011, he completed an 80 ft mural in Little Saigon San Francisco chronicling the Vietnamese diaspora. In 2012, he became the curator at LOAKal gallery in Oakland California, and then the Ian Ross Gallery in San Francisco where he guest-curated "Made in China" a group exhibition where contemporary artists had their work hung side by side with counterfeits produced in an oil painting factory in China.
Eddie values death awareness, holding the opposites of personal expression and anonymity, not asking for permission, imperfection, the unordinary, in producing shit, if one has to, to get to something real…and of his work states, “Some people view what I do as vandalism. I assume that their objection is that I alter the landscape without permission. Advertising perpetually alters our environment without the permission of its inhabitants. The only difference is that advertisers pay for the privilege to do so and I don’t. So if you’re going to call me anything…call me a thief.”
87 Katrin Berndt - Coach and Host of Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast
Katrin Berndt is a coach and host of the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast. She always thought that she would be an independent, confident, secure girlfriend, and that she wanted an independent, confident, secure boyfriend. But within relationship, Katrin experienced jealousy, anxiousness, neediness and that to some extent, she wasn't ready for an independent partner. The advice she received was, “work on self-love,” so she asked herself what that meant.
She was relentless in her pursuit of answers to this question and remedies to the emotional issues she was suffering. She believed in logical, not vague, or “woo,” in change herself, not her partner and in her own ability to execute lasting change.
She realized that she used to think that a person was either born relaxed, happy, and easy-going, or that, if they weren't, then their parents didn't raise them right. But she discovered that being that kind of person is a skill, not a talent. It's something anyone can learn at any stage of life.
On the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast and in her coaching, Katrin makes sense of why people think, feel, and act the way they do even in good relationships. She believes most people are intelligent, successful, and hard-working, but that sometimes these attributes work against us and delay our progress. She values personal accountability, getting specific around goals and requests, and in reprograming how we relate to the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings we experience on a daily basis.
86 David Haines (Part 2) - Artist
David Haines is a British/Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. He studied in London and Amsterdam and his mediums include graphite, paint, moving image, text and music. His work was recently showcased at the British Museum, in London and in the past has been shown in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Estonia, Istanbul, HongKong, and New York.
David believes that drawing and painting are media that liberate the image from the dehumanized abstraction of its digital reproducibility, that there are deeply psychological reasons why we return time and again to singular images in our digitally saturated society, and that it is the handmade image, in all its materiality, that offers us the closeness we desire.
He values what he refers to as, the index, the mark we may, if we wish, leave behind, that is to say, our trace, those footprints on the beach, that smoke that signified our fire, the cave paintings, through the whole history of art, the singular experience and pulse of people leaving their trace behind though they are no longer there.
85 Alexis "Bust" Stephens - Artist and Dancer
Alexis Stephens aka Bust, has dedicated much of his life to dance in the Parisian hip hop scene, and has evolved into a painter, having asked himself, “How can I transfer multi-dimentional dance energy into a 2D image?”
He represents the body as a sum of organized waves, and dynamic roiling gestures. Inspired by abstract expressionism and graffiti, he manages to successfully transcribe intense movement into single images.
His works combine acrylic with oil pastel and are extreme, surreal, instinctual and jarring, yet also articulate and objective. His work has been described as “Profound yet subtle, vibrations that animate the form, and the representation of successive states of the self diving into landscape.
Alexis believes in freedom, discovery, reflection, hope, global balance, humanity’s old dream of flying like Icarus, not outwards, but inwards, and exploring the 'I' for a better 'We'.
84 David Robles - Therapeutic Supervisor and Ordinary Original Human
David Robles is a Program Supervisor at the largest therapeutic residential non-profit in Oregon. For the last nine years he has worked with programs in California and Oregon where he has provided moment to moment support and therapeutic intervention to youth in need.
He is also a second degree black belt in American Kenpo, dabbles in Brazilian Jiu-jitzu, is an esteemed member of Fort Liberty, and invests a disproportionate amount of his life in the valued pastimes of meal prep and personal grooming.
David is one of Daniel's closest friends. They have traveled distant lands together–and one trip, it would not be hyperbole to say–was a true quest. They have bled together through both the creation of stories and more so through the living of our own.
He has stood by Daniel during the most difficult moments of Daniel's life, embodying his values of safety, consistency, and not too much nor too little predictability. David's success in the betterment of himself and others has been a slow burn, amateur trending professional, and while he may not yet be the most interesting man in the world, there's still some black in his beard so there’s probably time.
Through sustained immersion within the teachings of great minds, and like Ron and Daniel aspire to do through Cutting For Sign, he has become increasingly articulate and emotionally aware, and yet remains shamelessly, and charmingly flawed. He values the light, the dark, the shadows between, that the cat is both be in and not in the box, the pursuit of mental stability amidst the chaos, heightened cognitive and physical performance, philosophy, religious experience, solution based thinking, nuanced and effective trauma therapy, and a continued drive to embody the truth at the core of the shortest poem in the English Language– "Me, we."
83 Jordan Jonas - Wilderness Living & Self-Reliance Expert & Winner of Season Six of Alone.
Jordan Jonas is a Wilderness Living & Self-Reliance Expert and winner of season six of the show, Alone.
He spent his formative years in the vast nature that is Idaho country. Then as a young adult he spent countless days and nights navigating both rural and urban environments while riding freight trains across the US.
Soon after that adventure, Jordan spent the better part of the next ten years living in Siberian villages in Russia, with fur trappers, and traditional nomadic reindeer herders. There, day in and day out, he learned the art of survival from people whose existence depended on those skills.
These abilities proved effective in helping him win season six of the History Channel's show, Alone. To do so, you spent 77 days in the Arctic. He successfully hunted a bull moose, a wolverine, dozens of rabbits, squirrels, grouse and numerous fish.
Throughout his life, Jordan has learned to hunt, trap, fish, survive, and even thrive in abundant times and lean. He has obviously learned to deal with tremendous adversity but more important than this, has been the development of character and love.
Jordan values ingenuity, adaptability, resilience, gratitude, his heritage, and becoming someone worthy of the incredible sacrifices made by those who came before him.
82 Venerable Robina Courtin - Tibetan Nun
The Venerable Robina Courtin has been A Buddhist nun since the late 70s. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she was educated by Catholic nuns, and studied classical singing. In 1976, she met some Tibetan lamas, and received ordination as a monastic eighteen months later, in Kathmandu. She has worked since then with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, the worldwide network of the Tibetan Buddhist teachers, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She has also served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala magazine, and executive director of Liberation Prison Project, which she founded in 1997 and which helped prisoners with buddhist practices.
Robina's life and work was featured in the documentary film Key to Freedom and the award winning film, Chasing Buddha. Additionally, a recording of her singing prayers and mantras, entitled Devotion, was produced in 2018.
Robina believes in action, in doing things that help one know one’s mind deeply and well, that we need to unpack the mind, to unravel its contents, deconstructing layers of thoughts and feelings, emotions and assumptions, and thereby beginning to reconstruct the cognitive processes at the basis of our emotions. The way to do this is through the, in her own words, brilliant, marvelous, sophisticated psychological techniques that we call meditation.
And of meditation she said, "It is not a relaxation technique, but a training…why? So in our daily life we can see what the hell is going on in this mind of ours. Some people can sit for 30 minutes, very comfortably. They’re just spacing out, feeling good. That ain’t meditation baby.”
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81 Scott Kellett - Influencer
Scott Kellett was arrested at the age of 20 for possession of a controlled substance and two aggravated robberies. He signed a plea bargain for 30 years and served 18 in two of the roughest prisons in Texas before being paroled.
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80 David Haines (Part 1) - Artist
David Haines is a British/Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. He studied in London and Amsterdam and his work spans drawing, painting, moving image, text and music. His work was recently shown at the British Museum, in London and in the past has shown in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Estonia, Istanbul, HongKong, and New York.
David, believes that drawing and painting are media that liberate the image from the dehumanized abstraction of its digital reproducibility, that there are deeply psychological reasons why we return time and again to singular images in our digitally drenched society, and that it is the handmade image, in all its materiality, that offers us the closeness we desire.
CONTACT DAVID HAINES
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79 John Silvestri - Painter and Musician
John Silvestri is a musician and painter. His artistic ability was noticed at the age of eight when he had his first public showing in the St. Louis Art Museum. After studying art in college, he apprenticed in Italy under modern painter and sculptor, Salvatore Leto. His art has been reviewed on international art talk radio as well as in several editorials, including the Herald Tribune, USF Oracle, and The Oregonian. At the age of 12, John began to discover a musical talent as well and in 2011, his original music scored the movie Prime of Your Life which was selected to Cannes Film Festival. Currently, his rock band Audio Orchid is based in Sarasota Florida.
For many years, he drew on the synergy, and at times conflict, between his life as an artist and his devotion to music. The two passions have come to fuel each other and at times harmonize. Ideally, he plays music like he paints, and when he paints, he uses realizations arrived at through music.
John values laughing his ass off, enjoying life every day, and at the same time, not delaying, procrastinating, or beating around the bush of one’s dreams. He believes in doing what he is passionate about, doing it now, as much as possible, as well as he can, and not bullshiting himself along the way.
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78 Abigail Taylor - Neurodivergent Life Coach
Abigail Taylor is a neurodivergent life coach who founded a platform called The Confident ND Community where you help individuals learn to love and work with their unique brain. She teaches working with the brain each of us has been given and how to leave oneself open to living experiences despite what others think.
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77 David Howitt - Author and Founder of the Meriwether Group
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76 Maggie Doyne - Founder BlinkNow Foundation
Maggie Doyne, is founder of the BlinkNow Foundation in Surkhet, Nepal. The story of that organization began in 2005, in northern India. While there and during a cease-fire in the Nepalese Civil War, she met a six year old girl who was barely surviving. She helped pay for her school, and then, using $5,000 she'd saved from babysitting expanded your efforts. Soon funds came from supporters worldwide, she purchased land in Nepal, and in 2007, started The BlinkNow Foundation. This nonprofit now includes a women's center, health clinic, girls' safe house, a Children’s Home that is the legal guardian to more than 45 children, and a 400-student school that is the ‘greenest’ school in Nepal,
In 2013, this school's students took Nepal's District Level Examination for the first time. All students scored within the top 10% nationwide, 50% scored in the top 1% nationwide and the school was ranked first in its region.
Maggie has been a Speaker at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, and the Forbes Women's Summit and have received many awards, including the CNN Hero of the Year, as well as the Unsung Hero of Compassion award, presented by the Dalai Lama. But more importantly, in March 2022, she shared your personal story in your book "Between the Mountain and the Sky, A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing and Hope.”
Maggie believes in operating at the grassroots level of community, in focusing and promoting sustainability and self-reliance within community, and not least of all, getting down with the truth.
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75 Scott Tatum - Founder of UcanOutdoors
Scott Tatum is the founder of UcanOutdoors, a platform through which he delivers daily “Friendly Reminders,” about self-care, taking accountability, and healing.
He is also a nomad, explorer, and outdoor enthusiast who advocates for public lands. Scott utilizes the outdoors for his own healing and while traveling these open spaces, offer the reminders that he also calls “Self-Care Savage Ups.” His message is inclusive and clearly expresses his belief that we could all use more guidance, compassion and heartfelt story. He knows what it’s like to be stuck in a cycle, to self-sabotage and to be close to giving up. But he has discovered that changing one’s surroundings can connect us to who we truly are and undo long ingrained beliefs.
Scott believes that a human is always one decision away from a different life, that self-care and taking accountability for one’s own growth are vital steps to well-being, and that saying things out loud is ten times more powerful than if you think it.
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74 Steven Kuhn - Author
Steven Eugene Kuhn, is co-author of the book, Unleash Your Humble Alpha, as well as a decorated United States army combat veteran, speaker, and consultant who helps individuals improve their quality of life. He runs the platform, Humble Alpha, which helps businesses and individuals Develop Influence, Create Opportunities for More Earnings, Increase Reach and develop Personal Growth.
Steven believes people’s life is about how to fulfill their potential that, all you need to do is decide, and acting through the consistent, conscious application of Honesty, Integrity and Transparency.
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73 MIlena Sidorova - Dancer and Choreographer
Milena Sidorova, is an award-winning Ukrainian-Dutch choreographer, Young Creative Associate at the renowned Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam and in December 2020 became the first dancer in the history of the Dutch National to officially hold positions as both dancer and choreographer.
She has created more than 25 choreographies and has been celebrated for her consistency, originality of voice, playfulness, and “Skin-tingling work.” Some of her recent accomplishments include directing the ballet film Rose, which explores love, and hope through the portrayal of shadows of previous relationships. She's had her work selected by the Royal Opera House in London and the creation of her newest production Regnum, was described as “Brave, and unforgettable”
Her video Hold On, inspired by the lock down and filmed by dancers in their homes, went viral and was adapted by the Dutch rock band Di-rect. Her work Tickle, also known as Kriebel, won an international Young Audience Music award and her choreography The Spider has been performed all over the globe. Milena also played the creepy human spider in the Oscar-winning movie Dune.
Milena believes in, chasing and blooming, in the continuous change toward who we are meant to be, reflecting on our actions and attitudes, and finding the events, environments and communities that disrupt and then shift our sense of selves.
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72 Shoshana Berger - Author and Executive
Shoshana Berger, is an author, founder, as well as executive editor at Ideo. Her book on facing Mortality, A beginner’s Guide to the End, which you co-authored with Dr. BJ Miller, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2019. In support of the book, she also published op-eds and essays in the New York Times, TIME, Fast Company, and other publications.
She was a senior editor at WIRED, and co-founded the DIY design magazine, ReadyMade, which was a finalist for a National Magazine award. In 2006 she turned this into a book, Ready Made: How to Make (Almost) Everything. Through her early work in journalism, starting her own business and a lap in the corporate world, she began to develop what has become a Swiss Army Knife of experience including guiding innovation sprints, helping global organizations use the tools of storytelling to generate ideas, shaping the voice of a brand, and even projects that have helped reimagine Judaism, death, and school lunch. And for those of us didn’t know, she also wrote a book about William Butler Yeats living in New York in the year 2029.
Shoshana, believes in leading with a strong story, bringing everyone within a team along for the ride, and the question, How do you tell a human story that also drives business?
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71 Benjamin Russack - Podcast Host and Therapist
Benjamin Russack is a therapist and host of the podcast, Look, Just Tell Me What To Do which focuses on improved mental health through conversations with health professionals on subjects such as marital conflict, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders and the pitfalls of everyday living.
Benjamin has an MFA in Creative Writing, holds a black belt in Brazilian Jujitsu and for a time, made his living as a chess instructor. Intrigued by how his chess students began to improve their game at the same time as they experienced growth on deeper levels, he returned to school for a second graduate degree, this time in Counseling Psychology emphasizing Jungian archetypal theories and practices. After thousands of hours of work mostly in chemical dependency rehabilitation centers he now has his own offices in and around San Francisco.
Benjamin believes in applying the right philosophy at the right time, helping people live a better life on a day to day basis, that the problems in the world are based on externalized ego wounds and that most people are trying to heal themselves whether they know it or not.
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70 Scott Stabile - Author
Scott Stabile is an author of Big Love: The Power of Living With a Wide Open Heart.
He gives workshops throughout the country about connecting to ourselves through writing and also works one on one as a coach with people committed to looking at their lives honestly. His greatest joy is helping open-hearted humans actively work on their growth and healing. Scotts parents were shot to death when he was fourteen. His brother OD'd on heroin nine years later and he grew up around addiction, dysfunction and tragedy. At that time, Scott hid his pain, and his truth until he decided it was enough. He is currently working on a memoir focused on sexuality and his journey of acceptance of himself as a gay man.
Scott believes Love is the base note for everything good, that choices made from love can only serve the world positively, and that while healing may be somewhat out of our hands, the brave and honest part is certainly within our power.
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69 Megan Febuary - Author of For Women Who Roar
Megan Febuary, is the author of For Women Who Roar as well as a Trauma-Informed Book Coach. She invites new and experienced women who know they have a story, to write and publish it, find their voice and heal in the process.
She received her M.A. from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology with an emphasis on The Body Is A Storyteller. Megan is the creator of Book Year and Founder of For Women Who Roar, through which she has taught embodiment, and helped publish over a 1000 works of women.
Megan's passion for narrative focused trauma care and embodied storytelling began at a young age when through her own creative journey you found that it wasn’t about the end product, but the process of creating as a form of healing trauma. As an entrepreneur, podcaster, curator of multiple print publications, and leader of creative events, retreats and panels, she has grown a global community of over 100,000 women featuring authors such as Elissa Altman, Lisa Taddeo, and Nana Ghana.
Megan, believes in reconciling with the stories we’ve exiled, staying with the parts of ourselves we keep abandoning, and the potentially messy process at the heart of creative recovery.
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68 Michael Poore - Author of Reincarnation Blues
Michael Poore is author of the book Reincarnation Blues, the story of Milo, the oldest and wisest soul on Earth. He also wrote, Up Jumps the Devil, the story of John Scratch, who is really the Devil, and who has been bumming around Earth since he got kicked out of heaven. The New York Review of Books called this book, “an elegiac masterpiece.” Poore's most recent book, Two Girls, a Clock and a Crooked House, published in 2019 is his first for young readers. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Review, and Asimov’s. And his story “The Street of the House of the Sun” was selected for The Year’s Best Nonrequired Reading in 2012.
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67 Ted Alexandro - Comedian
Ted Alexandro is a comedian. He has made multiple appearances on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and The View and have had two half-hour specials on Comedy Central. He also active in several social justice movements and are a co-founder of the New York Comedians Coalition, which raised the pay for comedians in NYC comedy clubs.
Ted also co-created the award-winning comedy web series “Teachers Lounge” with Hollis James. He stars as a music teacher in a NYC elementary school. Each episode stars a different comedian as a faculty member. Teachers Lounge won two Cynopsis Digital Media Awards. He has appeared regularly at the iconic Comedy Cellar in NYC. and is said to be a New York comedy fixture as “firm as bedrock."
Ted believes in equality among his professional peers, and people in general, having a voice in social conversations, and saving your loose change.
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66 Robert Glover - Author and Men's Coach
Dr. Robert Glover is the author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, and Dating Essentials for Men, as well as the director of TPI University, a series of courses that helps people become totally integrated individuals.
For much of his early life he considered himself one of the nicest guy’s one could meet. He wanted to treat people well and be liked. But in his early 30’s, his found yourself frustrated, resentful, confused and, to the people closest to him, not so nice. He had an agenda, no boundaries, was indirect, passive-aggressive and not so honest with himself or others. He heard the same thing from many men around him as well and noticed the road map of these passively pleasing men unconsciously influenced every area of their lives. In the early 90’s he started his first “No More Mr. Nice Guy” group for these men and published the book in 2003.
Robert believes in intention into action, safe spaces to break free from habits, and the transformation from passive, resentful victimhood to empowered, integrated adults.
CONTACT DR. ROBERT GLOVER
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65 Jordan Rogers - Creative Consultant and Entrepreneur
Jordan Rogers is a creative consultant, collaborator and entrepreneur. After recovering from heroin addiction and incarceration, he pent 15 years brand building at Nike, which included two years leading a women’s brand team.
While he has worked with some of the best athletes and artists in the world, he has also had a front row experience of mass incarceration and has shared his story of recovery in hospitals, detoxes & jails for the last 20 years. Having gone through the process of owning his past, he now helps others do the work to recognize their own story, history, what they stand for and perhaps create and share a more fully realized version of their story.
Most recently, Jordan founded Perseus Creative, which helps empower and educate athletes and administrators through the new era of collegiate athletes being paid for their Name Image and Likeness. Creativity is his superpower and through Perseus Creative, he uses the guiding principles of the myth of Perseus the slayer of monsters, to inspire bravery, unique thought, and the celebration of victory.
Jordan believes in going into dark, unknown places, both within ourselves and history, that curiosity is bravery, in looking at challenges with a different perspective, and celebrating victory by serving others.
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64 Steve Lutsk - Fitness Coach
Steve Lutsk is a fitness coach, and creator of the Dad Bod Solution. He was once depressed, self medicating and dependent on excessive use of drugs and alcohol. After years of failing health programs, trying diets, and working out excessively, he began a lengthy period of research which led to the creation of his own program, one that, despite a busy schedule, and his own genetics transformed you into someone living at their physical peak performance.
Steve believes in investing in solutions, leaving one’s comfort zone, unleashing the inner warrior, and living to the fullest.
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63 Loki Miller - Actor
Loki Miller is an actor and musician. He has written, directed, acted or performed in hundreds of shows, and recently finished with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a private performing arts conservatory in New York.
The Loki Miller Band is a trio based in Northern California. He has also played with groups ranging from Power Trios to Broadway Musical Productions and was recipient of the 2017 CAMMIE Award for 'Best Guitarist.’ You pride yourself on your versatility, and ability to transition between several styles while always maintaining a high level of virtuosity, authenticity and raw power.
Despite his accomplishments, he is a man, who in his own words, ‘has done lots of work that most people have never heard of, and who is passionate about art, the creatures who make it, and the way it relates to the world.’ He believes in personal transformation on and off the stage, expressing gratitude, and that meaningful creative work requires potentially difficult self sacrifice.
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62 Beth Anstandig - Author and Therapist
Beth Anstandig is the author of the new book The Human Herd: Awakening Our Natural Leadership. She is also a licensed psychotherapist, cowgirl, and university faculty member who took her education into horse barns, sheepherding fields, meditation circles and rooms of recovery.
She has been featured in the BBC World Service, PBS, and Forbes and have 25 years of experience training people in a model she created called Natural Leadership, which helps people awaken innate awareness. Beth has also, with an ever-growing menagerie of animals at your California ranch, provided leadership, culture, and well-being to human herds through a program called, The Circle Up Experience. This unique approach to development includes experiential learning with horses. Through this, she has helped CEOs, Fortune 1000 companies, universities, and nonprofits, live, lead and connect with that ever present, most trustworthy guide, their own animal self.
Beth says that for her, animals have created a place of psychological safety, and invited her to reclaim the mammalian signal system, that fundamental nature and source of wisdom and health. She is also a poet who believes in awakening our exquisite sensitivity, and wide scale change in the way organizations, leaders, and individuals live their lives personally and use their power professionally.
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61 Sabrina Ward Harrison - Author
Sabrina Ward Harrison published her first book, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself, at 23. This piece was an intimate and moving picture of the contradictions young women face as they are forced into societal norms. She has since published four more books, Brave on the Rocks, Messy Thrilling Life, the true and the questions, and The story is happening.
Sabrina taught creativity worldwide for two decades with a belief that her fellow humans must create what they most need to find. She leads two online experiences, Full Color Life: getting into your deep creative flow, and Liberate, a course about publishing the book that is within you. In the Spring of 2016 she and childhood friend and fellow painter, Trenton Reynolds launched the Podcast, Room in the Trees which focuses on living a creative life.
Sabrina believes in intuition, people continually accepting and becoming themselves, and embracing the pain and pleasure of living,
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60 Gay Hendricks - Psychologist and Bestselling Author
Gay Hendricks is a psychologist and teacher in the field of personal growth and relationship enhancement. He is also the best-selling author of The Genius Zone, The Big Leap, Conscious Loving, and even a series of mystery novels that follows a Tibetan Buddhist private detective.
Together with his wife of 40 years Dr. Katie Hendricks, he has authored dozens of other books and appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including Oprah.His own relationship has been a living laboratory for conscious loving. He and Katie currently run the International Learning Center which helps people open to creativity, love, and vitality through relationships.
Gay has seen people begin the journey of a lifetime in a single moment with one conscious choice. He values breaking through limiting beliefs, exploring boundless creativity, and helping others expand their capacity to love. He believes in a world of deep intimacy, and wild play, where people celebrate each other and spend most of their time expressing genuine appreciation, genius, and creativity.
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59 Monroe Martin III - Comedian
Monroe Martin is a comedian who has appeared on the tonite show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, Netflix, NBC, Amazon Video, MTV, and VH1. He has an honest, open approach to storytelling that comes from his experience of growing up in foster care, bouncing from one dysfunctional family to another.
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58 Sam Lamott - Host of the How To Human Podcast
Sam Lamott is an artist, writer, and host of the How To Human podcast, which explores how to acquire the psychological skills needed to thrive as an adult. How To Human was featured on Itunes New and Noteworthy as well as Apple’s top 200 podcasts in both Health and Self Help.
Sam is also owner of Square 1 Studio in San Anselmo California and founder of Hello Humans, a platform for storytellers to share their trials and capture the truth of what it means to be human. He is also co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Some Assembly Required, which you co-wrote with your mother, author Anne Lamott. Sam describes himself as a single dad, college drop-out, and ex-meth head, who, at the age of twenty two, came out of a ten-year bender with severe clinical depression, a two-year-old child, and zero life skills.
He knows that life is more than what we show the world on social media, that it’s often much messier, but that the lessons learned from those messes are as valuable as anything on this adventure and creation of being human.
CONTACT SAM LAMOTT AND HELLO HUMANS
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57 Ron and Daniel - On Daily Check-Ins
Ron and Daniel share success they have had around the daily shared routine of checking in physically, mentally and emotionally with each other.
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56 Ron and Daniel - On Dreams
Ron and Daniel discuss the potential meaning of dreams and dreaming.
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55 Ron and Daniel - On Habits and Routines
Ron and Daniel discuss their relationship with different habits and routines that have helped them. They dive into the difference between imposing a habit and integrating one.
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54 Ron and Daniel - On Values
Ron and Daniel talk about some of their values and beliefs. They discuss memorizing them and being able to speak about them and how their lives are affected when they stray from them.
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53 Allan Amato - Photographer and Filmmaker
Allan Amato is a Zimbabwe born, L.A. based photographer. He discovered his love for photography after Hurricane Katrina forced him to re-examine life. Since then, he has worked with a variety of clientele including Nick Nolte, Terry Gilliam, Neil Gaiman and director Kevin Smith who said of him, “I can’t stand to look at myself unless I’ve been photographed by Allan Amato.”
Allan also directed a feature-length documentary with creative partner Olga Nunes called Temple of Art, but his lifelong dream is to become an honorary member of Monty Python
His eye has been described as “a cosmic camera that sees through mortal skin to reveal the lambent ideal self beneath,” and it has been said of him,“Where Amato aims his lens, gods and superheroes are conjured. vinyl mythologies are summoned; mere flesh becomes dreamscape and everything, especially the grotesque, is beautiful.”
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