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As a young Jewish teenage boy, Henry Oertelt lived with his mother and brother in Berlin, Germany as the storm clouds of Hitler’s Nazi hatred, discrimination and violence toward Jews grew darker. Henry avoided arrest by the Gestapo until 1943, when at age 22 he began his amazing saga of surviving five Nazi concentration camps. His story of the 18 cliff-hanging events which led to his Nazi death camp survival is told in his book, An Unbroken Chain. In a world premiere podcast here at KVSC, Dr ...
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My friend Kasem joins for a tender, deeply personal conversation about his lifelong dance with the mystic. From a childhood rooted in the Missionary Baptist church to his last 13 years as a practicing buddhist, Kasem has been following the radical meme of self-discovery. We talk about everything from putting Jesus back in context and learning to ex…
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Musician and human laser beam of positive energy Phil Cook comes to the woods in Alabama for an intimate conversation by the creek. We talk everything from space and swing, to dad’s ski tapes, to getting diagnosed with ADHD at 40, and learning to respect the power of plants. It’s been a big time of reflection and setting new direction. Welcome to P…
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My dear friend Chase Bauer returns to the podcast with a deeply personal exploration of the nature of mind. In telling the story of a recent psychedelic ceremony, Chase reveals how a constellation of wisdom including nonviolent communication (NVC), guru yoga, and the witness of LSD helped him understand his relationship to addiction in a radically …
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Kathy Nida is an artist most well known for her quilts, which depict potent visions of the human experience. She describes quilting as a form of meditative practice that is essential to her mental health. She has intentionally prioritized it throughout her life, including while also being a mother and a full-time middle school science teacher. In t…
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Susan Ateh is a breathwork facilitator whose goal is for all people to experience love for themselves. An Irish-Cameroonian living in LA as a working actor for many years, Susan realized that the misogyny, materialism, and judgment inherent to the film industry had worn down her love for her craft, and she found herself paralyzed by depression. She…
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Jeanette Waddell is a storyteller and wise elder based in middle Georgia. She returns to the podcast (catch her on episode 37!) to share her experience as a black woman in America, from confronting racism in intimate relationships to underrepresentation of black bodies in the media to learning to keep her heart open with healthy boundaries through …
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Nick Nail is a musician, painter, gentle soul, and friend of ours in Birmingham. Here Nick explores his lifelong quest for comfort and belonging after experiencing a painful split in his consciousness in the wake of early childhood sexual abuse. At times Nick has found relief in long distance running and creating music and art and at other times in…
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Juliana Mulligan is the founder of Inner Vision Ibogaine, where she coaches people before and after treatment sessions with the powerful entheogen ibogaine. Her call to devote her life to helping others formulate a new healing life structure is deeply personal: after seven years of struggle with opioid dependency, which forced her into the further …
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In honor of the two year anniversary of Unbroken Chain, I took a moment to look back on the journey. In a sweet conversation with my partner Daniel, I share my intentions for starting the podcast and touch on some of the things I’ve learned along the way: deep listening, connecting with the unbroken part of another’s soul, confronting suffering, re…
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Daniel Fox is a filmmaker, music curator, cosmic coordinator, and deep lover of humans who also happens to also be my partner. The son of a Southern Baptist preacher, Daniel grew up deeply formed by evangelical conditioning in the Deep South: toxic masculinity, the eternal threat of hell, overt racism, sports as religion, rabid materialism, sexual …
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Royal Parker is an activist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. On July 18, 2020, he lead a rally of 400 peaceful protestors in support of voting rights and police oversight. The event became the subject of national news when his group was met with hate speech and violence from counter-protestors representing the Duchess County Conservative Party an…
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Samantha Zipporah is an educator and support person for rites of passage related to reproductive and sexual health. She helps people understand the power, pleasure, and magic available in fertility and sexuality, particularly centered on wombs and ovaries. On her website and Patreon, you can find an abundance of resources related to conscious contr…
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Ananda is my housemate and one of the kindest, most beautiful old souls in a young body I’ve ever met. He has spent the last five years teaching himself to play music and channel it into the world as an expression of love and healing. In this hang from my kitchen, we explore what it means to be alive in a human experience in this world, from the na…
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Voice Porter is a poet, muralist, and master gardener, among many other creative roles. He is a founding member of Ensley Alive, a collective movement dedicated to the renaissance of Ensley, a neglected neighborhood where he grew up in Birmingham, Alabama which became synonymous with violence and poverty in the city’s imagination. He heads the Colo…
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Cameron Whetstone is a tarot reader and intuitive based in Brooklyn, NY. In this juicy and expansive conversation, she shares her journey into the work of being human—resolving trauma and honoring her ancestors. From growing up biracial in America, to climbing the corporate fashion ladder and numbing out to reality TV and alcohol until her immune s…
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Jarmel Reitz is a Philly-based artist, font of sunshine and rainbows, and convicted felon. Here she tells the intimate story of her arrest over 16 pounds of cannabis and her subsequent experiences in jail, where she received a radicalizing education in systemic dehumanization and white privilege. This conversation was originally recorded and briefl…
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Jasmyn Elise Story is an international Restorative Justice Facilitator and founder of The People’s Coalition, an organization that aims to provide information, access, and resources to lower the impact of structural violence experienced by historically marginalized groups. Jasmyn recently bought a 15 acre farm in the heart of Alabama, which will be…
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Emma Zeck is a writer, mystic, complex trauma survivor, and recovery coach for womxn. She writes and teaches about self-love, social change, and coming into wholeness by embracing and becoming lovers with the shadow as much as the light. In this conversation, she shares some of the wisdom she has gleaned on her journey to break the generational wou…
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Emily Vino is an artist, Human Design reader, and ex-evangelical Christian now helping women from all walks of life reconnect to their intuition and sensuality. Born out of her personal experiences dealing with sexual repression and shame in the church, Emily is currently developing a project about purity culture. She has started conducting informa…
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Johanna Warren is a musician, artist, and healer. Her newest album, Chaotic Good, came out on May 1. In this sweet and vulnerable conversation, we dive into the shadows and gifts of the creative life, touching on the karmic drives that inform self-expression, and how her understanding of her most challenging experiences has shifted as she has heale…
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Michael Stuart Ani is a farmer, writer, and advocate for the protection of the environment. He has lived and worked intimately with some of the most remote indigenous communities of Central and South America and has been carrying the ritual steps of the Ghost Dance for decades. In the 1960s and 70s, he was the only outsider allowed into Mexico's Si…
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Beth Shelburne is a journalist who specializes in investigative long-form reporting on criminal justice and mass incarceration. Formerly a reporter with WBRC in Birmingham, AL, Beth left television news to focus full-time on amplifying the voices of those who are stuck inside the system and often silenced. Her recent essay on conditions inside the …
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Cindy Milstein is an anarchist organizer and writer long engaged in contemporary social movements and collective spaces. She is the author of “Anarchism and It’s Aspirations”, coauthor of “Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism,” and editor of the new anthology “Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy.” For …
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Astrologer and author Juliana McCarthy returns to the podcast (find her on Episode 2)! We talk from our offices in bed, quarantined 2,000 miles apart. I called Juliana to get some context and grounding for our current situation: to understand more about 2020, an unprecedented year of transformation, and the new age of individual liberation. And she…
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Dave Barnhart is a writer and Methodist pastor who leads a network of house churches as well as a monthly psychedelic integration meet up in Birmingham, AL. In addition to maintaining a beautifully thought-provoking blog, he is the author of two books, What’s in the Bible About Church? (2008) and God Shows No Partiality (2012). This conversation, r…
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Damian Warren is a new Birmingham friend we met in peyote ceremony at the Native American Church of Inner light. A beautiful and kind spirit, Damian has been undergoing a radical year of growth and healing with the help of plant medicine sacraments. He is also a corrections officer at a notoriously violent prison in Alabama that was recently cited …
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Duquette Johnston is a musician and creator based in Birmingham, Alabama. This winter, in addition to new music, he is releasing a reissue of “Etowah,” an album born from a challenging period of his life 13 years ago, which began with an arrest for felony possession of cocaine. In this conversation, Duquette tells the intimate story of that intense…
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Chase is a filmmaker, buddhist practitioner, and dear friend of mine. In this wide open conversation he shares stories from a lifetime of seeking, from an unintentionally massive psychedelic trip at age 16, where an unknown amount of liquid LSD blasted him off into space (and police custody) to several years in the “fucking hell” of severe alcoholi…
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Huey D. Jackson is a veteran of the War in Afghanistan living in Macon, GA. Now a creative on the path of healing and self-knowledge, he generously shares the deeply personal story of how he ended up in combat and what he has learned in the process. From a lonely childhood as a “7-year-old nihilist” raised by his grandmother in post-9/11 America, t…
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Robert Rosenberger is a philosopher of technology, author of “Callous Objects” (2017), and associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A major line of his research and career has been exposing an anti-homeless agenda built into public spaces. In this conversation recorded at his home in Macon, GA, he r…
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Patricia Hurley, also known as Grandmother Red Hawk, is a Pipe Carrier in the Bear Tribe tradition and a Water Pourer for the Stone Peoples Lodge. She also offers Elemental Divinations and Rituals from the Dagara People of West Africa, as well as Plant Spirit Healing, a modality based upon two ancient healing traditions of Classical Chinese Medicin…
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MullyMan is a motivator, infinite student of life, and one of Baltimore’s most recognized hip hop artists, bringing truth and purpose to a time of confusion and emptiness. After first meeting during a Lyft ride, we hung at his place in Atlanta to go deep on waking up to our truth and de-conditioning from the bullshit narratives perpetrated by insti…
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls is a scholar, artist, and writer focusing on Black popular culture in music, film, and the arts. Dr. Smalls’ first scholarly manuscript “Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City” is forthcoming, as well as a podcast called Fantastic Blackness! In addition to teaching at St. John University, Dr. Smalls has been a me…
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Arielle Crawford (Ep 3!) returns to the podcast, this time to talk sustainability, consumerism, and revolution in the streets. Arielle is the founder of ARIELLE, a conscious womenswear collective focused on sustainable textiles, domestic manufacturing, and fair-trade practices. She runs it single-handedly from design and sourcing to production and …
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Tom Patterson has been curating and writing about contemporary folk, visionary, and outsider art for more than 30 years. He is known for his biographies of Georgia visionaries Howard Finster and Eddie Owens Martin, aka St. EOM, as well as “Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” (2001) and countless articles in Ap…
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Morgan Caraway is the founder of the Sustainable Life School alongside his wife Mary Jane. At their off-grid property in rural North Carolina, they’ve build themselves an earth bag home and started an intentional community called Bottom Leaf. Morgan teaches regular workshops on earth based dwellings and is the author of several books including “Eco…
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Maria Benardis is a Gourmand Award winning author, health coach, teacher, chef, and founder of Greekalicious. After a high flying career in tax accounting led Maria into grave illness and western cancer treatments ravaged her body, she left it all behind and poured herself into healing in body, mind, and spirit by following the intuitive wisdom of …
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Ty Fenelus is an intuitive coach and healer. After experiencing a visitation from her grandmother in the days after her death, Ty’s life was forever changed. She now works full time with spiritual guides to channel information from the highest sources, help guide people in their life purpose, and unlock blockages in body, mind, and spirit. In this …
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Megan Baer is a spiritual leader of the Native American Church who lives in Athens, GA. Among many offerings in support of transformation, she hold ceremonies with the sacrament of wachuma (also known as the San Pedro cactus). In this generous conversation, Megan shares how plant medicine has radically changed her relationship to herself, giving he…
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Caroline Yongue is a lay Buddhist minister in the Soto Zen tradition and director of both the Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, a “green” burial ground in Asheville, NC, and the Center for End of Life Transitions. Much of her work involves helping people prepare for the dying process, assisting with home funerals, and holding space for grief. She has tr…
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Tepahteh Hutze, aka Oso, is a medicine man from a lineage of curanderos who carries the wisdom of the Nahuatlakas and the Lakota. Life is a ceremony, he says, and everything we do is prayer. He holds regular sweat lodge and medicine ceremonies for his community, and offers the opportunity for all he meets to return to their earth-based roots and cl…
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Jeanette Waddell is a professional storyteller born and raised in Hancock Co., Georgia. Hancock is a majority black county with a profound sense of community, as well as a history rooted in slavery. She celebrates the radical storytelling that nourished and liberated her enslaved ancestors, and the need to examine how we teach American history toda…
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