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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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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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Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
E19 / Meditation and Intuition with Scott Britton
Listen now (42 mins) | Meditation as a sport, presenting a question to intuition, movement and wayfinding, and the Book of Nature.
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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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What is Intuition? A Whole and Open Mind
An inner voice, guardian within, embodied cognition, pattern recognition, knowing without knowing how, understanding through the senses, bone knowledge…
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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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E16 / Sky Racing and Self Expression with Galen Kirkpatrick
Listen now (77 mins) | Free flight as self-expression and as a higher project. Managing risk. Gender euphoria and the responsibility of coming out…
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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…
Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
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What I'm Reading, Nov 2022
Maia Szalavitz, Liz Goldwyn, John Paul Brammer, Tim Kreider, Holly Whitaker, Connor Beaton / Mantalks, Bill Maeda, Jamie Wheal, and Bill McKibben on why…
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