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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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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…
Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
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E03 / The Blessing of Acceptance and Belonging, with Lucas Krump of EVRYMAN
Listen now (49 mins) | Chapters of life, disconnecting and reconnecting, relational fitness, somatic practice, what "grounded" means, the love of men…
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An Ordinary Disaster in 2024
Prepare yourself, create options—or just walk.
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Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
What I've Learned from Ten Brothers and Teachers
Adam Gayner, Roddy McDowell, Lucas Krump, T Callahan, Bob Conlin, Anthony David Adams, Robert Ellis, Kenyon Phillips, Noah Rainey, and James Brown on…
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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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Andy Johns
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Bowen Dwelle
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
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Lyle McKeany
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Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
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We'd all do well to "grow a spiritual pair"
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Michael Mohr
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Michael Mohr
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Bowen Dwelle
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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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