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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…
Feb 14, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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…
May 30, 2023
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…
Mar 25, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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…
Jul 28, 2022 • 
Bowen Dwelle
An Ordinary Disaster in 2024
Prepare yourself, create options—or just walk.
Dec 31, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
Sep 2, 2023
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…
Nov 17, 2022 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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
Jun 10, 2023 • 
Andy Johns
 and 
Bowen Dwelle
"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…
May 20, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
 and 
Lyle McKeany
Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
May 22, 2023
We'd all do well to "grow a spiritual pair"
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Michael Mohr
Aug 26, 2023 • 
Michael Mohr
 and 
Bowen Dwelle
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…
Dec 15, 2022 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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