We’re so excited to share talk with Daniel Sih about some of the big problems facing community living and some of the solutions he’s come up with. Daniel Sih is the co-founder of Spacemakers, a productivity consulting group for busy leaders. After experiencing physical symptoms that were the result of working in the “always on” culture of internet connectivity, Daniel became passionate about helping people make space in their world for the things that really matter - like family, reflection, res...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 102
This episode might seem like a bit of a diversion…our guests this time aren’t necessarily living in co-housing but they are both deeply immersed in creating a rich, sustainable community in Santa Barbara, CA. Jill Cloutier is the Public Relations Director of an environmental education and arts nonprofit called Explore Ecology (EE for short). EE works with over 30,000 children a year with a focus on Watershed Education, School Gardens, Waste Reduction, and Creative Exploration. Their work inspire...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 101
We know so many people who simultaneously feel blessed and privileged with a good, secure, abundant life, but they know they are missing something. The single-family lifestyle has caused us to trade away too much community, mutual support, and joy for the illusion of autonomy, abundance, and safety. There is an ache in our bones for a life that is more connected and meaningful, a life that sees us giving more of our gifts, and that leaves more and less of an impact on our world. If you feel that...
Mar 14, 2022•59 min•Season 3Ep. 100
This episode we’re excited to talk with someone who is leveraging the inexorable power of capitalism to actually make positive change. Dr. Dionne Payn is the Founder and CEO of High Impact Property Investments. Dionne specializes in raising capital for organizations that create ethical property developments in Australia and the USA. Dionne is a speaker, author and property coach who loves creating win-win outcomes for as many people as possible. Her goals include: Socially responsible investment...
Feb 14, 2022•58 min•Season 3Ep. 99
This episode we’re excited to bring you a conversation with someone who seems able to cultivate a 10,000 foot view of the historical, social, cultural, and technical facets of climate change and sustainability. David Johnson, has been teaching at Stanford Law School since 2008, while doing legal work for tech and biotech firms in Silicon Valley. His recent work on sustainability, though, explores the application of design thinking to the big problems we face today, whether it’s micro plastics in...
Jan 10, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 98
We’re really excited to release this episode featuring Kate Gaertner, a leading sustainability expert and consultant with 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience. Kate is also a personal carbon footprint evangelist on a mission to help individuals align their priorities with their values to create positive change. The level of her involvement in the forefront of women’s business, sustainable fashion and reforming manufacturing toward zero waste make her a real thought leader and we’...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 97
Hello, H.tties. In Season 3 of the HERE.together podcast we’re obsessed with the the big question - [fanfare] Can we live together sustainably? And if so, HOW? Over the next year we’re gonna curate conversations with the people who are living in ecovillages, designing new cities, inventing new (or unearthing old) household tech, and who are at the forefront of sustainability science to get answers for ourselves and for you. That’s why we’re really excited to interview Sara Zellner early in the s...
Nov 16, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 96
Welcome to Season 3 of the HERE.together podcast. This season we are upgrading the podcast so it serves you AND US better. Yeah, we did a sustainability study and realized the pod wasn’t thriving for us. Over the past two years, it’s been beautiful and uplifting to talk with all those amazing, smart people, and learn about personal growth, art, relationships, and even sex. But we were quite frankly getting burned out creating weekly content. We love the topic and could talk about personal growth...
Nov 08, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 95
Oct 31, 2021•59 sec
Hello H.tties! Our pod-a-versery is coming up next week. We’re finishing our second full year of podcasting! In recognition of that achievement AND all the support you gorgeous h.tties have given us, we’re re-releasing this early (kind of major) episode with Claire Louge, that we recorded back in February 2020 before the world changed. This episode is our most downloaded ever … and for good reason. Claire is brilliant, inspiring, and tells important stories about her personal growth and what dri...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 94
Hello H.tties! We are re-releasing an episode with Tony Himes that we recorded way back in November 2019. Tony is a Gestalt therapist and founder of the Arizona Gestalt Institute. Tony works with youth, adults and couples to help them find more ease and meaning in their lives. This episode is a worthwhile re-issue for several reasons. One, we believe that Tony’s message of contact and interpersonal connection is a really important one in the era of Covid separation and alienation. And, two, this...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 93
This week on the HERE.together Podcast we are releasing, in full, another of the episodes of the Remaking Manhood Podcast which I co-host and co-produce with Mark Greene. We schedule these cross-promoted episodes in part to give you access to content that we believe will inspire and inform you and this interview with Mark Winkler definitely meets that purpose. This content re-purposing strategy also, frankly, saves a little energy for other projects like planting the fall garden and writing more...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 92
Are you the kind of person who holds onto stress? Who shoves it down day after day until it explodes in a glorious rain of expletives and recrimination. Or maybe it just comes out a bit sideways and makes things uncomfortable with people you love. Either way, this episode might be just the thing to encourage you to let it all out, but in a healthier way. Your intrepid HERE.together team learns how from our own experience and from the expertise of our guest, Tanya Keats, a coach who helps her cli...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 91
Hello H.tties! We are re-releasing an episode with Adam Vellturo that we recorded way back in December 2019. That episode was one of our most popular - it was the first one to hit triple digit downloads. In it, Adam helps us explore and understand nature therapy, deep ecology, the nature of the soul, and whether or not we're going to survive and thrive in the 21st century. You know, fluffy stuff like that. That’s how we roll on the HTP… inspiring, hopeful conversations with smart guests who can ...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 90
What if the things you loved to do the most turned out to be the most valuable in your career and your home? What if tendencies that haven’t been recognized as strengths turned out to be the secret to your success? What if we could all see and appreciate each other for our strengths and not worry so much about our weaknesses? Guest Bio: Micah Lorenc is a corporate management dropout turned leadership / relationship / team development coach. Based in Austin, Texas, Micah is a Gallup-Certified Cli...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Dealing with depression and anxiety? Who is winning, you or them? What if you had a playbook full of healing, coping, and life-giving strategies at the ready? Would you feel more supported, more hopeful? Guest Bio: Zack S. Rutledge is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, an ACE Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and a Certified Brain Health Trainer through the Functional Aging Institute. He has a black belt in karate, has practiced yoga for almost a decade, and has played in punk bands for ye...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 88
Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could take our full, relaxed, connected and authentic selves everywhere, including to work? Wouldn’t it be better if leaders of all kinds could lead from a place of mindfulness, self-awareness, and peaceful power? If Consciousness and Corporateness coexisted wouldn’t they create something new and revolutionary? Guest Bio: Our guest today is Neil Seligman. He was a trial lawyer - or Barrister - in England for 8 years, but his interest in Consciousness and meditation pre...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 87
"Let's talk about sex, baby Let's talk about you and me" If you’re our generation, you probably danced to Salt ‘n’ Pepa at a teen club or when you sneaked into a bar with a fake ID. It was all super-hot back then, but how about now? Have you lost your mojo? Is sex, intimacy, and connection on the back burner or worse, a distant memory? Well, it doesn’t have to be. In fact, today’s guest makes shared pleasure, a richer relationship, and a fuller life seem not just possible, but totally worth the ...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 86
How do you keep going through the darkest nights of the soul? How do you take the worst things that happened to you and turn them into fuel for good? How do you shift from victim to victor? Guest Bio: Fatima Oliver is devoted to helping others become their best selves. She is a survivor of the kinds of trauma, abuse, and personal tragedy that would break most people, but she found a way to keep going, heal, and thrive. Now she wants to reach back and help others find their way out. Fatima has ...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 85
This week on the HERE.together Podcast - in belated recognition of Father’s Day - we are releasing, in full, another of the episodes of the Remaking Manhood Podcast which I co-host and co-produce with Mark Greene. In this episode, we interview Kevin Shafer, an associate professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University, who is conducting ongoing research around the surprising impact of engaged fathers and how that engagement later shows up in the adult lives of their sons. Hint: It's really goo...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 84
What if you had the confidence and boldness to ask for what you want, go for the promotion, choose to change lanes, or live your way into your biggest goals? Our guest today coaches women in conquering their fear, creating productive habits, and building the roadmaps that take them in the direction they want to go. She reminds us that we will never feel ready and that taking action will lead to confidence, rather than the other way around. Guest Bio: Kate Hutson is an Executive Life Coach, Publi...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 79
How many Feminist men do you know? You know what they say in cosmology - there’s either zero, one, or infinity of something! And given that there's one feminist man on our podcast team, what does that mean? Our guest today had a hard time finding a Feminist man in her dating life, so long story short, she created a website where men identifying as Feminists can share, connect, and get inspired to take action. So far she’s identified at least 33 Feminist men, which guarantees there are more to di...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 82
If you could time-travel, what band would you go back and befriend right before they made it BIG?? Well, we have yet to crack time-travel, but the good news is we all get to be up-close friendly-fans of our guests today and after the rest of the world hears their new single, we’ll be able to say we knew them when. Guest Bios: If you’ve been a HERE.together listener for a while, you already know Candace Devine and Drew Hall, local music powerhouses and all-around good eggs. They have ridiculous m...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 81
For generations, our culture has taught us a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result? Epidemic levels of isolation for boys and men and embedded repression and violence for the vast majority of women and children. As a boy and young man, I learned that same set of rules and I adopted that stoic, suppressed, and sometimes emotionally violent version of manhood. It took me years to find a way back to the real authentic version of myself that is open, loving, curious, v...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Who cares about big business when you’re just trying to get your small business off the ground? What do CEOs have to do with running a successful family? If you just re-watched Wall Street or read the news and need to feel hopeful about business and the world, this is the episode for you. Welcome to Part IV of our Spiritual Warrior series. Guest Bio: Angel Ribo is a contender for the most energized, positive guest award. We are so excited to introduce you to this glowing, powerful man who has ...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 79
Is your ego running your show? Are you making choices guided by fear? What would it be like to put your purpose and soul in charge? How would your life be different if you did? Spoiler alert: you’d have more freedom, more real power, and you’d be able to join with others to create the sustainable world we need... It’s all hands on DECK time. Guest Bio: Our guest this week is Christian de la Huerta, a spiritual teacher, personal transformation coach, and leading voice in the soulful breathwork co...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 78
A photographer, a Civil Rights Lawyer, and an Episcopal Priest walk into a bar… This week’s show is no joke, though. Our guest, the Reverend Dr. Marcia Ledford, Esquire IS a Civil Rights lawyer, a photographer, and an Episcopal Priest. Stay tuned for a great conversation that encompases journeys both personal and cultural, the third rails of politics and religion, and where all those things come together in Dr. Marcia’s ongoing work for social justice. Neither one of your podcasts hosts grew up ...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 77
If you want to try out some ideas and actions to push your average happiness up to 88%, we have the conversation for you. Our guest this week is Dr. Marissa Pei. She’s been through the shit and she’s here to tell you that you CAN be happy - at least 88% of the time. Dr. Marissa, as we call her, or the Asian Oprah as Dr. Bernard Beckwith of Secret fame called her - to Oprah’s face - has a Ph.D in organizational psychology. Dr. Marissa literally wrote the book on Organization Development & Con...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 72
For generations, our culture has taught us a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result? Epidemic levels of isolation for boys and men and embedded repression and violence for the vast majority of women and children. I learned that same set of rules and I adopted that stoic, suppressed, and sometime emotionally violent version of manhood. it took me years to find a way back to the real authentic version of myself that is open, loving, curious, vulnerable, bold, and crea...
Apr 26, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 75
When was the last time you asked a family member for the secrets to their successful relationship? Do you talk about what makes a happy marriage with your friends over dinner? If you don’t have these conversations and access to the wisdom of people who have “figured it out,” then we have the resource for you. It’s Relationship Month here at HERE.together and our guest has 1000 years of relationship wisdom cued up for YOU. Guest Bio: Our guest this week is Claire Vande Polder, a journalist and pr...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 74
