Episodes

E330 Braden Kuhlman has managed to get a lot of living in her lifetime. She’s been a personal assistant to the stars and counts legendary songwriters as close friends. She was cyber-stalked before anyone knew that was a thing. She’s traversed the globe several times over. She’s a blogger and a photographer. Trigger Warning: Stalking, […]

E329 Dr. Antonia Grace Glenn, Dr. Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Patrick Glenn are the keepers of their family history. Evelyn is a sociologist and professor emerita of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. At two years old, she was imprisoned with her family in the US concentration camps for Japanese Americans during WWII. Antonia is […]

E328 Julia Verdin is trying to make this world better through her art and advocacy. Her 30+ year career includes; writer, award-winning director, producer, activist and advocate. She is profoundly moved by the horrors of human trafficking, and her mission is to raise awareness on this and other social issues through film, and encourages filmmakers […]

E327 Marcela Pinilla was born in Bogota, Columbia and began touring the world as a performing artist and musician at a young age. She’s speaks several languages and is a music and voice teacher. She’s also a medical interpreter. She’s having her second baby and has been dealing with Hyperemesis Graviadarum – extreme morning sickness, […]

E326 August Dannehl is a US Navy Veteran, chef, and filmmaker. He’s also head of production at We Are The Mighty, a veteran-led media agency producing content for military families. After 9-11 he wanted to be of service to his country, becoming a Naval Nuclear Reactor Electrician. He was born into a show biz family […]

E325 Adriana Trigiani is a New York Times best-selling author, television writer, documentarian, producer, director and playwright. Her most recent novel, “The Good Left Undone,” is a gorgeous, sweeping, multi-generational love (and war) story. We talk about writing, creativity, stretching beyond comfort zones, familial bonds, our love of reading and why it’s important to keep […]

E324 Autumn Ruch is a filmmaker and she is currently working on a documentary called “Stop, Drop and Roll.” It documents the burning of her father and death of her aunt during a family cookout and how her family is the origin story of the phrase nearly all of us have heard, all over the […]

E323 Dov Baron returns and goes into more detail about emotional source codes, how we identify ourselves and why we are drawn to particular groups or ideologies. We also discuss the time he fell of a mountain, the emotional and physical trauma that ensued, the miracle he experienced, and how it was a turning point […]

David Richman’s sister died of brain cancer and he wrote a book called “Cycle of Lives: 15 People’s Stories, 5,000 Miles, and a Journey Through the Emotional Chaos of Cancer.” He interviewed those whose lives had also been irrevocably changed by cancer, either as patients, survivors, loved ones, or caregivers. David is also an ultra-marathoner, […]

E321 Tiensirin is an Akashic Records practitioner and a second-generation intuitive. She’s also an award-winning photographer. We discuss Karma, self-sabotage, doubt, suffering, conditioning, motivation, and more. For more information and links, please visit: HeyHumanpodcast.com

E320 Rachel Rettman returns! As a holistic health practitioner, consciousness explorer, and former opiate addict, Rachel journeyed into the plant medicine of Ayahuasca for her transformative power, along with other entheogens. We discuss her spiritual and health practices, as well as shadow and light work, finding one’s inner voice, and what it was like navigating […]

E319 Bo Roberts, in his time, was the youngest newspaper editor, University of Tennessee Vice President, TN Governor’s Chief of Staff, and president of the 1982 World’s Fair (Knoxville, TN). Bo began his journalism career in the Air Force and has since chronicled some of the nation’s most tumultuous events. We discuss WWII, Dr. King’s […]

E318 Doug Jackson built the SV Seeker, a 74′ steel origami hull, junk-rigged, cargo, motorsailer, in his front yard, from scratch, with the help from volunteers from all over the planet. He’s been a computer programmer and a teacher. He built a submarine with a buddy. He came from a strict, limiting, religious background but […]

E317 Rachel Rettman has one of the most interesting stories. She’s the child of a bitter divorce, was taken from sleep to a “wilderness therapy” camp and subsequent “behavioral therapy” boarding school, became addicted to opiates, became a master Pilates instructor, became a holistic medicine practitioner, and a hypnotist, and she’s just getting started. We […]

316 Bill Persky is a five-time Emmy-winning writer, producer, and director. From The Dick Van Dyke Show, to That Girl (which he co-created), to Kate and Allie and Who’s the Boss, Persky is a tv legend. At 90, he’s still going strong, and he’s currently working on a new project about generations and their history. […]

E315 Victoria Lily Shaffer is the founder of Pup Culture Rescue. She’s an animal welfare advocate and the author of Pup Culture: Stories, Tips, and the Importance of Adopting a Dog. Along with her team and volunteers, she rescues homeless, mistreated, and overlooked animals both locally and internationally. Pupculturerescue.org is devoted to providing proper medical […]

E314 Dedrick Warmack returns to discuss Reconstruction, WWI, The Red Summer, WWII, economics, Civil Rights, economic rights, The Rainbow Coalition, poverty, abortion, education, Queen Victoria and her grandchildren’s wars, who built America, and so much more! For more information and links, please visit: HeyHumanpodcast.com

E313 Sara Schiller is co-founder of Sloomoo Institute, an interactive playground of slime “celebrating joy through sensory play.” She’s the co-founder of Wooster Collective, a website that showcases and celebrates ephemeral art from around the world. She’s a mom of two daughters (one has Angelman’s Syndrome), and in 2015 her husband, Marc, suffered two near-deadly […]

E312 Cooper Shaw is a dialect and performance coach, writer, award-winning actor, playwright, and director. She got her start with Chicago’s Second City Conservatory Program and her MFA in Acting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School in NYC. She was my dialect coach at The Second City (LA) and she’s wickedly smart and funny. There […]

E311 Dedrick Wormack grew up in Chicago, a kid with great potential: smart, savvy, and godly. Navigating the bonds of family, corruption, gang life, church, and tragedy, he watched as the determined and deliberate destruction of the neighborhoods he loved through the open-air drug markets. Now, he’s an author (Unrest in an Eagle’s Nest), social […]

E310 John Lefebvre was arrested, for the second time in his life, for co-founding and operating a business that was dealing in billions of dollars between online gamblers and Internet bookies and casinos. Over night, he went from being a very, very rich man, to being sentenced to, and serving time in, prison (his crime […]

E309 Dr. Jonathan Flint, FRS, is a British behavior geneticist and psychiatrist, and Professor in Residence in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He is co-director of the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge, working to “cut the burden of depression in half by 2050.” Depression is a global health crisis, with a staggering […]

E308 Buck Angel is a porn actor, producer, and documentarian. He tours the world speaking about human sexuality. A trans man, he has strong opinions about what that means, and is adamant in his position against young people irrevocably transitioning. As a result, he has drawn the ire of others in the LGBTQ+ community (and […]

E307 Les Stapleton is the Mayor of Prestonsburg, KY. He is a retired KY State Patrol and former undercover narcotics officer, a former MMA fighter (winning 9 of 11 bouts). He’s interviewed serial killers, busted drug rings, been shot at, stabbed, and has studied interview and interrogation (he knows how to spot a liar) at […]