Cutting For Sign with Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline
By Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline
Cutting For Sign with Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline Jun 05, 2023
102 Jade Oates - On Romanticism - Writer and Editor In Chief of The Mandarin Magazine
Jade Oates, is a writer, poet and the editor in chief of The Mandarin, an online literary magazine based in California. Through the unique, personal and inspired writings shared in The Mandarin she has sought to cultivate and celebrate a New Romanticism, that is, the creative, individual, magically real, and yet naturally grounded landscapes of emotion experienced by humanity.
During her collegiate career she was recognized as Honors Scholar of the Year in 2017, and in 2020 earned her degree from Cal Berkeley. Professionally, she gives herself to opportunities in writing, editing, journalism, and publishing and is also interested in brand storytelling.
Jade believes in our outer selves reflecting and embodying our inner through fashion, color and words, in the light of wisdom, that art itself is the test of the artisan, in giving form to the invisible and invincible summer within us all, and in ever developing one's own personal magical realism manifesto.
101 Dr. Tracey Hunter #2 - On Relationships - Clinical Psychologist and Relationship Coach
Dr. Tracey Hunter is a clinical psychologist, relationship coach and Schema Therapy practitioner based on the Gold Coast of Australia.
She received your PhD in clinical psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast in 2005 and made the Academic Excellence List for her thesis work. She is also author of several publications that dissect the relationships between child development, depression, and peer relationships.
Tracey's aim is to help people get in touch with disconnected parts of the self so that they can create inner harmony and thrive in intimate relationships. Through the experiential techniques of Schema Therapy, her clients are able to bring unconscious patterns and wounds into awareness, to heal, and to gain clarity about core emotional needs and values. She also focuses on women ready to step into their feminine power and create loving and energizing relationships.
Tracey believes humans are fascinating and resilient, that underneath our protective layers, we seek a more satisfying experience of life, and that one of the most important journeys we can take as humans is the exploration of the effects on our lives of the messages we received in childhood about love, connection, self-expression, and worthiness.
100 David Robles, Parker Denae, Mike Lepis - On Cutting For Sign - Listeners and Friends of the Show
To celebrate our 100th episode, we invited three of our listeners to be guests and talk about how they are meeting the physical, cognitive and emotional challenges of life.
David Robles is a program supervisor at the largest therapeutic residential non-profit in Oregon where he provides support to youth in need. He and Daniel have traveled distant lands together, have bled together through both the creation of stories and the living of our own. He has stood by Daniel during the most difficult moments of his life embodying his values of safety, consistency, emotional awareness and abiding presence. David values articulation, heightened cognitive and physical performance, solution based thinking, nuanced and effective trauma therapy, the light, the dark, the shadows between, and that the cat is but isn’t necessarily always both in and not in the box.
Parker Denae is on a journey of growth that is currently both at its beginnings, and has been happening for many years. The journey is one of learning to love and care for herself, including giving her younger self what she didn't have growing up, and at the same time fostering your overall growth into a strong and stable woman that little girl can rely on. She also plays roller derby, works hard, and plays harder. She is one of the most lively and unexpectedly raucous and at the same time intentional and perfectly genuine people we have known. She values speaking what she believes, questioning those beliefs, and in yeses to adventure, whether it be of the body, the mind, or the heart.
Mike Lepis' professional life has been helping large companies connect with their employees. He is an entrepreneur and married to an entrepreneur. He considers himself a work in progress and have recently been processing and recovering from challenging life events via embracing therapy, self-reflection, and movement. You have two children and to help with your parenting challenges, you lead a group for dad’s of neurodiverse kids. Mike, you believe in creating space to support others, in process, togetherness in collaboration and co-creation, insight driven strategy and actionable plans both personally and professionally.
Ron Cecil was born in New Mexico, where he fell in love with rock climbing, the divine, and smoking cigarettes in secret. He has degrees in Biblical Literature and psychology, and though destined to be a cowboy, or preacher, he instead ran large companies both domestically and abroad until in 2015, he started guiding men toward mental, physical and emotional health. Ron's parents were married 13 times, creating in him a devotion to understanding what might make a healthy marriage. He's been partnered since 2009 and father to a daughter and adopted son. In 2020, you completed his dream of speed-climbing Yosemite's Half Dome. Later that year, he co-founded the podcast, Cutting for Sign and doubled down on his passion for writing via a modern western called Midland set in the high desert where he grew up. Ron believes in authenticity, in almost pulling that heist he's been scheming but instead writing it into his book, in caring for our sometimes skittish nervous systems, in long cold showers along warm beaches, in friendship, in bucking shame, in leaning on the world so it can lean back, and in relaxing into the surprising discomfort of living his future now.
99 Sam Lamott #2 - On Story - Host of the How To Human podcast, Creator of the Hello Humans platform, Artist and Writer
Sam Lamott is an artist, writer, and host of the How To Human podcast, which explores how to acquire the psychological skills needed to thrive as an adult. How To Human was featured on Itunes New and Noteworthy as well as Apple’s top 200 podcasts in both Health and Self Help.
Sam is also owner of Square 1 Studio in San Anselmo California and founder of Hello Humans, a platform for storytellers to share their trials and capture the truth of what it means to be human. He is also co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Some Assembly Required.
Sam describes himself as a single dad, college drop-out, and ex-meth head, who, at the age of twenty two, came out of a ten-year bender with severe clinical depression, a two-year-old child, and zero life skills.
He knows that life is more than what we show the world on social media, that it’s often much messier, but that the lessons learned from those messes are as valuable as anything on this adventure and creation of being human.
Additionally, in the time we at Cutting For Sign have known and and collaborated with Sam, he has proven to be dogged in his commitment to both self betterment and the projects that have captured him. He's become a friend, someone we can call for personal or professional support, and a fierce advocate for the transformation of the primordial energies we find ourselves steeped within, into the woven gold we call story.
98 Johnny Boyd - On Artist Process - Musician, Composer, Front Man
Johnny Boyd, Ron and Daniel talk about how an artist's body of work evolves over time, to what extent and the nuance around choices one makes on what to create, how, when and with whom. Johnny is a singer, songwriter, aka crooner, composer as well as a cocktailier, and deep-dish vintage 1940’s bellywarmer necktie collector, 9,700 pieces and counting.
He began singing and performing at the age of eight in the Phoenix Boys Choir and later signed as a major label recording artist. He has recorded dozens of original songs and has licensed many for use in motion pictures, television and gaming.
He is the former Indigo Swing frontman, known for his work ethic (at times 300-plus gigs a year worldwide) with the ability to move an audience from smiles to tears in one sitting. He has been long-acclaimed as one of the most versatile vocal performers of today, a songwriter of genius proportions, butter smooth with assured grace to every note, born to sing and with the vision of a renegade artist.
His music blends swing, jazz, pop, country, gospel, rock, torch, and jump blues into a stage show equal parts joy and musicianship, at some times nostalgic charisma, and at others, irreverent and dynamic.
Jazz Review said of him, “[He] touches on so many musical styles with amazing sincerity…a high plaintive tenor with excellent phrasing and a warm tremol.” Perhaps NPR summed him up best, "If Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash had a love child, it would be Johnny Boyd."
Johnny believes in consistent, long term growth, in acting on what he values despite what others might want or demand of him, and in challenging himself with nuance and subtlety. As one periodical said of him…”like Frank, Johnny does it his way.”
97 Josh Connolly - On Resilience - Mental Health Advocate, 115 Miles Podcast Host
Josh Connolly, Ron and Daniel speak about resilience, emotional sobriety, presence and breathwork.
Josh is one of the UK’s most influential mental health advocates, co-host of the 115 Miles podcast, and co-facilitator of the Uncommon Man group. He regularly speaks on BBC, ITV, Channel 5 news, the House of Commons, contributes to mental health policy and advises the scriptwriting team on Hollyoaks.
He has run resilience workshops for village schools and global brands alike. Additionally, he is an ambassador for Nacoa – a national charity supporting people affected by a parent’s drinking.
Josh values humanizing one’s emotions, creating spaces for people to breath, think, reflect and speak with others. He focuses on resilience and is defining a new perspective on it. He believes resilience is compassion to give oneself what one needs, the strength to accept your flaws, and not just about being tough.
96 Katrin Berndt #2 - Relationship Coach and Podcast Host
Katrin Berndt is a coach and host of the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast and had Ron and Daniel as guests.
Katrin always thought that she would be an independent, confident, secure girlfriend, and that she wanted an independent, confident, secure boyfriend. But within relationship, Katrin experienced jealousy, anxiousness, neediness and that to some extent, she wasn't ready for an independent partner. The advice she received was, “work on self-love,” so she asked herself what that meant.
She was relentless in her pursuit of answers to this question and remedies to the emotional issues she was suffering. She believed in logical, not vague, or “woo,” in change herself, not her partner and in her own ability to execute lasting change.
She realized that she used to think that a person was either born relaxed, happy, and easy-going, or that, if they weren't, then their parents didn't raise them right. But she discovered that being that kind of person is a skill, not a talent. It's something anyone can learn at any stage of life.
On the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast and in her coaching, Katrin makes sense of why people think, feel, and act the way they do even in good relationships. She believes most people are intelligent, successful, and hard-working, but that sometimes these attributes work against us and delay our progress. She values personal accountability, getting specific around goals and requests, and in reprograming how we relate to the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings we experience on a daily basis.
95 - Harlow Robinson - Mountain and Ultra Runner
Harlow Robinson is an accomplished mountain runner and the founding member of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. Since 2006, he worked as direct care staff and board member with Healthy Futures, a statewide program that helps thousands of at risk youth around Alaska build self-esteem and life skills.
He grew up living a subsistence lifestyle in remote Alaska until third grade and in 1973 his family was the subject of the Alaska Family Robinson article in National Geographic. He and his Kiwi wife Gina spend a substantial amount of time in New Zealand and both of their fathers are renowned mountain climbers.
He's raced dozens of Alaskan mountain races and wilderness races and won several, including both the winter and summer Alaska Wilderness Races, an unsupported 100-200 mile point-to-point race through the Alaskan wilderness. Hd also did the Transalpine stage race in Europe, which is about 200 miles over a span of eight days through and over the European Alps.
Additionally, after many years and many attempts, Harlow completed the 12 peak challenge, a 24 hour race that links the twelve 5,000-foot mountains in the Chugach range overlooking Anchorage, Alaska.
In the past five years, Harlow has experienced life passing by quickly, and so in that time, he's changed some of his personal paradigms. This effort required acceptance, commitment, a new level of honesty with yourself, personal vulnerability and has revealed wonderful and surprising layers.
94 Tina Alexis Allen #2 (as Sir John) - Actor, Playwright and Author
Tina Alexis Allen is an actor. In this episode, she plays the character of her father, who she also plays in her one-person play Secrets of a Holy Father.
Sir John was born in England, lied about his age to join the Merchant Marines, was an officer in the British Army stationed in Palestine, moved to the states, and started a Catholic Travel Agency. He also was knighted by the Pope, had a Vatican passport, traveled about 500,000 miles a year from the late 50s through the 70s, and lived most of his adult life in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He also had 13 children and lived at least one double life.
Tina Alexis Allen is also a playwright and author. She grew up the youngest of 13 in a Catholic family in Chevy Chase Maryland. After accepting a basketball scholarship to the University of Maryland, she earned an MBA in marketing and moved to New York, where she spent weekends at Broadway shows and after some soul searching started to pursue acting.
Her break out role was in the 2016 WGN hit series Outsiders, a clash-of-cultures drama rooted in coal mining Kentucky. Now, she is known for playing a diversity of roles, and were nominated for a GLAAD award for her work in The Break-Up Notebook. Celebrated acting coach Susan Batson called her “a true chameleon.” She wrote and performed the critically acclaimed solo show, Secrets of a Holy Father in which she played her own father, Sir John, an Englishman who had been knighted by the Pope. The play explores betrayal, redemption and forgiveness through her father’s secretive double life.
She is also co-founder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry, which turns deconstructed bullets into daring necklaces, rings and bracelets. The company donates proceeds to non-profit organizations that stand for peace.
Lastly, her book, Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception and Double Lives, builds on the story of her play, and further unravels the relationship with her formidable father, this time from her point of view. The book hinges on a moment in which a secret she'd harbored for years is revealed to her father; that she liked girls. But, instead of dragging her to a priest, her father shockingly says that he too, is gay. Through wild, clandestine escapades, her discover that this is not Sir John’s only significant deception.
The Washington Post said of the book, that she packaged grit and grime into glistening prose and that her twisted mystery is a ‘can’t-put-down’ read. And of the book, Tina herself said, “there is no shame in telling the truth.”
93 Pouya Hashemi - Entrepreneur and Entertainer
Pouya Hashemi is an entrepreneur, comedian, magician and Founder and CEO of spinTouch and SIP Awards.
SpinTouch is an interactive application with expertise in development and hardware integration. SIP Awards is a unique spirits competition that puts smaller spirit brands on an even playing field with larger ones. It is the only spirits competition that solely recruits consumers as judges.
Pouya was also one of the first confirmed cases of COVID in the United States. This motivated him to create RapidScreen, a contactless screening scanner that uses Artificial Intelligence and facial scanning and was put into place across the nation.
Pouya believes in problem solving, in being utterly relentless in pursuing goals, and in a balance between confronting problems– including global injustices–and recharging with wonder and laughter.
92- Daniel and Ron On Crush It Lists
Ron and Daniel share habits around list making, organization and accomplishing challenging tasks consistently.
91 Fraya Mortensen - Transformational Mindset Coach
In May 2020, Fraya decided to go global with her mission to empower highly sensitive people. She shot her first video on TikTok and a few months later, left her government job to follow her life mission of helping to elevate the consciousness of those seeking personal transformation.
Fraya values personal evolution, the gift of mindfulness, personal and relationship boundaries, turning empathy into a superpower, identifying limiting beliefs, and being a loving adult to one’s child self.
90 Tim Albaugh - Screenwriter and Producer
Tim Albaugh is a writer and producer. He has taught screenwriting at UCLA, UC Irvine, Hollins University, Pixar Animation Studios, and Walt Disney Feature Animation.
He bad been a featured presenter at numerous film festivals, institutes and private screenwriting groups. He also moderates annual panels at the Austin Film Festival, leads the monthly MetaReads at The Metaphor Club in Los Angeles, and mentors for the CineStory Foundation.
Tim’s students and private clients have sold features to all the major studios and has had films produced including ALL EYEZ ON ME and the Christian Bale film THE MACHINIST. Their work in TV includes THE ROOKIE, TWO DOPE QUEENS, and 13 REASONS WHY.
He is currently a partner and Executive Producer for Royal Viking Entertainment where he discovers talent and works with them to develop material. He also helped create the film and T.V. consultancy PROPATH SCREENWRITING, which offers coverage, script notes, seminars, workshops and ongoing consultations. His clients have won the prestigious Nicholl Screenwriting competition, and optioned or sold scripts to various studios.
Tim splits his time between L.A., San Francisco, Las Vegas and the east coast and somehow still houses an army of rescue cats and lives with the knowledge that any day more rescues may appear.
He believes in writing with intention and purpose, commanding the read from the first word, and in creating not just the stories we know, but the emotional journeys we live.
89 Tina Alexis Allen - Actor
Tina Alexis Allen is an actor, playwright and author. She grew up the youngest of 13 in a Catholic family in Chevy Chase Maryland. After accepting a basketball scholarship to the University of Maryland, she earned an MBA in marketing and moved to New York, where she spent weekends at Broadway shows and after some soul searching started to pursue acting.
Her break out role was in the 2016 WGN hit series Outsiders, a clash-of-cultures drama rooted in coal mining Kentucky. Now, she is known for playing a diversity of roles, and were nominated for a GLAAD award for her work in The Break-Up Notebook. Celebrated acting coach Susan Batson called her “a true chameleon.” She wrote and performed the critically acclaimed solo show, Secrets of a Holy Father in which she played her own father, Sir John, an Englishman who had been knighted by the Pope. The play explores betrayal, redemption and forgiveness through her father’s secretive double life.
She is also co-founder of Gina Raphaela Jewelry, which turns deconstructed bullets into daring necklaces, rings and bracelets. The company donates proceeds to non-profit organizations that stand for peace.
Lastly, her book, Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception and Double Lives, builds on the story of her play, and further unravels the relationship with her formidable father, this time from her point of view. The book hinges on a moment in which a secret she'd harbored for years is revealed to her father; that she liked girls. But, instead of dragging her to a priest, her father shockingly says that he too, is gay. Through wild, clandestine escapades, her discover that this is not Sir John’s only significant deception.
The Washington Post said of the book, that she packaged grit and grime into glistening prose and that her twisted mystery is a ‘can’t-put-down’ read. And of the book, Tina herself said, “there is no shame in telling the truth.”
88 Eddie Colla - Artist
Eddie Colla attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduated from the California College of Arts with a BFA in photography and interdisciplinary fine arts. He began your artistic career as a photographer, working first for the New York Times and later, several magazines, record labels and ad agencies. However, over time, he has morphed into an opponent of what he terms, “the all-pervasive nature of commercialism” ie, the advertisements that overwhelm many of our public spaces.
Eddie's street art first garnered national recognition when he began incorporating images of Barack Obama in 2008. His designs have been transformed into stickers, and album and magazine covers and have been featured alongside Hush, Blek Le Rat, Banksy, and Shepard Fairey as well as at art festivals, shows, and public spaces in Miami, Paris, Los Angeles, Thailand and Mexico. In August of 2011, he completed an 80 ft mural in Little Saigon San Francisco chronicling the Vietnamese diaspora. In 2012, he became the curator at LOAKal gallery in Oakland California, and then the Ian Ross Gallery in San Francisco where he guest-curated "Made in China" a group exhibition where contemporary artists had their work hung side by side with counterfeits produced in an oil painting factory in China.
Eddie values death awareness, holding the opposites of personal expression and anonymity, not asking for permission, imperfection, the unordinary, in producing shit, if one has to, to get to something real…and of his work states, “Some people view what I do as vandalism. I assume that their objection is that I alter the landscape without permission. Advertising perpetually alters our environment without the permission of its inhabitants. The only difference is that advertisers pay for the privilege to do so and I don’t. So if you’re going to call me anything…call me a thief.”
87 Katrin Berndt - Coach and Host of Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast
Katrin Berndt is a coach and host of the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast. She always thought that she would be an independent, confident, secure girlfriend, and that she wanted an independent, confident, secure boyfriend. But within relationship, Katrin experienced jealousy, anxiousness, neediness and that to some extent, she wasn't ready for an independent partner. The advice she received was, “work on self-love,” so she asked herself what that meant.
She was relentless in her pursuit of answers to this question and remedies to the emotional issues she was suffering. She believed in logical, not vague, or “woo,” in change herself, not her partner and in her own ability to execute lasting change.
She realized that she used to think that a person was either born relaxed, happy, and easy-going, or that, if they weren't, then their parents didn't raise them right. But she discovered that being that kind of person is a skill, not a talent. It's something anyone can learn at any stage of life.
On the Grumpy Girlfriend Podcast and in her coaching, Katrin makes sense of why people think, feel, and act the way they do even in good relationships. She believes most people are intelligent, successful, and hard-working, but that sometimes these attributes work against us and delay our progress. She values personal accountability, getting specific around goals and requests, and in reprograming how we relate to the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings we experience on a daily basis.
86 David Haines (Part 2) - Artist
David Haines is a British/Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. He studied in London and Amsterdam and his mediums include graphite, paint, moving image, text and music. His work was recently showcased at the British Museum, in London and in the past has been shown in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Estonia, Istanbul, HongKong, and New York.
David believes that drawing and painting are media that liberate the image from the dehumanized abstraction of its digital reproducibility, that there are deeply psychological reasons why we return time and again to singular images in our digitally saturated society, and that it is the handmade image, in all its materiality, that offers us the closeness we desire.
He values what he refers to as, the index, the mark we may, if we wish, leave behind, that is to say, our trace, those footprints on the beach, that smoke that signified our fire, the cave paintings, through the whole history of art, the singular experience and pulse of people leaving their trace behind though they are no longer there.
85 Alexis "Bust" Stephens - Artist and Dancer
Alexis Stephens aka Bust, has dedicated much of his life to dance in the Parisian hip hop scene, and has evolved into a painter, having asked himself, “How can I transfer multi-dimentional dance energy into a 2D image?”
He represents the body as a sum of organized waves, and dynamic roiling gestures. Inspired by abstract expressionism and graffiti, he manages to successfully transcribe intense movement into single images.
His works combine acrylic with oil pastel and are extreme, surreal, instinctual and jarring, yet also articulate and objective. His work has been described as “Profound yet subtle, vibrations that animate the form, and the representation of successive states of the self diving into landscape.
Alexis believes in freedom, discovery, reflection, hope, global balance, humanity’s old dream of flying like Icarus, not outwards, but inwards, and exploring the 'I' for a better 'We'.
84 David Robles - Therapeutic Supervisor and Ordinary Original Human
David Robles is a Program Supervisor at the largest therapeutic residential non-profit in Oregon. For the last nine years he has worked with programs in California and Oregon where he has provided moment to moment support and therapeutic intervention to youth in need.
He is also a second degree black belt in American Kenpo, dabbles in Brazilian Jiu-jitzu, is an esteemed member of Fort Liberty, and invests a disproportionate amount of his life in the valued pastimes of meal prep and personal grooming.
David is one of Daniel's closest friends. They have traveled distant lands together–and one trip, it would not be hyperbole to say–was a true quest. They have bled together through both the creation of stories and more so through the living of our own.
He has stood by Daniel during the most difficult moments of Daniel's life, embodying his values of safety, consistency, and not too much nor too little predictability. David's success in the betterment of himself and others has been a slow burn, amateur trending professional, and while he may not yet be the most interesting man in the world, there's still some black in his beard so there’s probably time.
Through sustained immersion within the teachings of great minds, and like Ron and Daniel aspire to do through Cutting For Sign, he has become increasingly articulate and emotionally aware, and yet remains shamelessly, and charmingly flawed. He values the light, the dark, the shadows between, that the cat is both be in and not in the box, the pursuit of mental stability amidst the chaos, heightened cognitive and physical performance, philosophy, religious experience, solution based thinking, nuanced and effective trauma therapy, and a continued drive to embody the truth at the core of the shortest poem in the English Language– "Me, we."
83 Jordan Jonas - Wilderness Living & Self-Reliance Expert & Winner of Season Six of Alone.
Jordan Jonas is a Wilderness Living & Self-Reliance Expert and winner of season six of the show, Alone.
He spent his formative years in the vast nature that is Idaho country. Then as a young adult he spent countless days and nights navigating both rural and urban environments while riding freight trains across the US.
Soon after that adventure, Jordan spent the better part of the next ten years living in Siberian villages in Russia, with fur trappers, and traditional nomadic reindeer herders. There, day in and day out, he learned the art of survival from people whose existence depended on those skills.
These abilities proved effective in helping him win season six of the History Channel's show, Alone. To do so, you spent 77 days in the Arctic. He successfully hunted a bull moose, a wolverine, dozens of rabbits, squirrels, grouse and numerous fish.
Throughout his life, Jordan has learned to hunt, trap, fish, survive, and even thrive in abundant times and lean. He has obviously learned to deal with tremendous adversity but more important than this, has been the development of character and love.
Jordan values ingenuity, adaptability, resilience, gratitude, his heritage, and becoming someone worthy of the incredible sacrifices made by those who came before him.
82 Venerable Robina Courtin - Tibetan Nun
The Venerable Robina Courtin has been A Buddhist nun since the late 70s. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she was educated by Catholic nuns, and studied classical singing. In 1976, she met some Tibetan lamas, and received ordination as a monastic eighteen months later, in Kathmandu. She has worked since then with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, the worldwide network of the Tibetan Buddhist teachers, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She has also served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala magazine, and executive director of Liberation Prison Project, which she founded in 1997 and which helped prisoners with buddhist practices.
Robina's life and work was featured in the documentary film Key to Freedom and the award winning film, Chasing Buddha. Additionally, a recording of her singing prayers and mantras, entitled Devotion, was produced in 2018.
Robina believes in action, in doing things that help one know one’s mind deeply and well, that we need to unpack the mind, to unravel its contents, deconstructing layers of thoughts and feelings, emotions and assumptions, and thereby beginning to reconstruct the cognitive processes at the basis of our emotions. The way to do this is through the, in her own words, brilliant, marvelous, sophisticated psychological techniques that we call meditation.
And of meditation she said, "It is not a relaxation technique, but a training…why? So in our daily life we can see what the hell is going on in this mind of ours. Some people can sit for 30 minutes, very comfortably. They’re just spacing out, feeling good. That ain’t meditation baby.”
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81 Scott Kellett - Influencer
Scott Kellett was arrested at the age of 20 for possession of a controlled substance and two aggravated robberies. He signed a plea bargain for 30 years and served 18 in two of the roughest prisons in Texas before being paroled.
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80 David Haines (Part 1) - Artist
David Haines is a British/Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. He studied in London and Amsterdam and his work spans drawing, painting, moving image, text and music. His work was recently shown at the British Museum, in London and in the past has shown in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Estonia, Istanbul, HongKong, and New York.
David, believes that drawing and painting are media that liberate the image from the dehumanized abstraction of its digital reproducibility, that there are deeply psychological reasons why we return time and again to singular images in our digitally drenched society, and that it is the handmade image, in all its materiality, that offers us the closeness we desire.
CONTACT DAVID HAINES
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79 John Silvestri - Painter and Musician
John Silvestri is a musician and painter. His artistic ability was noticed at the age of eight when he had his first public showing in the St. Louis Art Museum. After studying art in college, he apprenticed in Italy under modern painter and sculptor, Salvatore Leto. His art has been reviewed on international art talk radio as well as in several editorials, including the Herald Tribune, USF Oracle, and The Oregonian. At the age of 12, John began to discover a musical talent as well and in 2011, his original music scored the movie Prime of Your Life which was selected to Cannes Film Festival. Currently, his rock band Audio Orchid is based in Sarasota Florida.
For many years, he drew on the synergy, and at times conflict, between his life as an artist and his devotion to music. The two passions have come to fuel each other and at times harmonize. Ideally, he plays music like he paints, and when he paints, he uses realizations arrived at through music.
John values laughing his ass off, enjoying life every day, and at the same time, not delaying, procrastinating, or beating around the bush of one’s dreams. He believes in doing what he is passionate about, doing it now, as much as possible, as well as he can, and not bullshiting himself along the way.
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78 Abigail Taylor - Neurodivergent Life Coach
Abigail Taylor is a neurodivergent life coach who founded a platform called The Confident ND Community where you help individuals learn to love and work with their unique brain. She teaches working with the brain each of us has been given and how to leave oneself open to living experiences despite what others think.
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77 David Howitt - Author and Founder of the Meriwether Group
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76 Maggie Doyne - Founder BlinkNow Foundation
Maggie Doyne, is founder of the BlinkNow Foundation in Surkhet, Nepal. The story of that organization began in 2005, in northern India. While there and during a cease-fire in the Nepalese Civil War, she met a six year old girl who was barely surviving. She helped pay for her school, and then, using $5,000 she'd saved from babysitting expanded your efforts. Soon funds came from supporters worldwide, she purchased land in Nepal, and in 2007, started The BlinkNow Foundation. This nonprofit now includes a women's center, health clinic, girls' safe house, a Children’s Home that is the legal guardian to more than 45 children, and a 400-student school that is the ‘greenest’ school in Nepal,
In 2013, this school's students took Nepal's District Level Examination for the first time. All students scored within the top 10% nationwide, 50% scored in the top 1% nationwide and the school was ranked first in its region.
Maggie has been a Speaker at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, and the Forbes Women's Summit and have received many awards, including the CNN Hero of the Year, as well as the Unsung Hero of Compassion award, presented by the Dalai Lama. But more importantly, in March 2022, she shared your personal story in your book "Between the Mountain and the Sky, A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing and Hope.”
Maggie believes in operating at the grassroots level of community, in focusing and promoting sustainability and self-reliance within community, and not least of all, getting down with the truth.
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75 Scott Tatum - Founder of UcanOutdoors
Scott Tatum is the founder of UcanOutdoors, a platform through which he delivers daily “Friendly Reminders,” about self-care, taking accountability, and healing.
He is also a nomad, explorer, and outdoor enthusiast who advocates for public lands. Scott utilizes the outdoors for his own healing and while traveling these open spaces, offer the reminders that he also calls “Self-Care Savage Ups.” His message is inclusive and clearly expresses his belief that we could all use more guidance, compassion and heartfelt story. He knows what it’s like to be stuck in a cycle, to self-sabotage and to be close to giving up. But he has discovered that changing one’s surroundings can connect us to who we truly are and undo long ingrained beliefs.
Scott believes that a human is always one decision away from a different life, that self-care and taking accountability for one’s own growth are vital steps to well-being, and that saying things out loud is ten times more powerful than if you think it.
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74 Steven Kuhn - Author
Steven Eugene Kuhn, is co-author of the book, Unleash Your Humble Alpha, as well as a decorated United States army combat veteran, speaker, and consultant who helps individuals improve their quality of life. He runs the platform, Humble Alpha, which helps businesses and individuals Develop Influence, Create Opportunities for More Earnings, Increase Reach and develop Personal Growth.
Steven believes people’s life is about how to fulfill their potential that, all you need to do is decide, and acting through the consistent, conscious application of Honesty, Integrity and Transparency.
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73 MIlena Sidorova - Dancer and Choreographer
Milena Sidorova, is an award-winning Ukrainian-Dutch choreographer, Young Creative Associate at the renowned Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam and in December 2020 became the first dancer in the history of the Dutch National to officially hold positions as both dancer and choreographer.
She has created more than 25 choreographies and has been celebrated for her consistency, originality of voice, playfulness, and “Skin-tingling work.” Some of her recent accomplishments include directing the ballet film Rose, which explores love, and hope through the portrayal of shadows of previous relationships. She's had her work selected by the Royal Opera House in London and the creation of her newest production Regnum, was described as “Brave, and unforgettable”
Her video Hold On, inspired by the lock down and filmed by dancers in their homes, went viral and was adapted by the Dutch rock band Di-rect. Her work Tickle, also known as Kriebel, won an international Young Audience Music award and her choreography The Spider has been performed all over the globe. Milena also played the creepy human spider in the Oscar-winning movie Dune.
Milena believes in, chasing and blooming, in the continuous change toward who we are meant to be, reflecting on our actions and attitudes, and finding the events, environments and communities that disrupt and then shift our sense of selves.
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72 Shoshana Berger - Author and Executive
Shoshana Berger, is an author, founder, as well as executive editor at Ideo. Her book on facing Mortality, A beginner’s Guide to the End, which you co-authored with Dr. BJ Miller, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2019. In support of the book, she also published op-eds and essays in the New York Times, TIME, Fast Company, and other publications.
She was a senior editor at WIRED, and co-founded the DIY design magazine, ReadyMade, which was a finalist for a National Magazine award. In 2006 she turned this into a book, Ready Made: How to Make (Almost) Everything. Through her early work in journalism, starting her own business and a lap in the corporate world, she began to develop what has become a Swiss Army Knife of experience including guiding innovation sprints, helping global organizations use the tools of storytelling to generate ideas, shaping the voice of a brand, and even projects that have helped reimagine Judaism, death, and school lunch. And for those of us didn’t know, she also wrote a book about William Butler Yeats living in New York in the year 2029.
Shoshana, believes in leading with a strong story, bringing everyone within a team along for the ride, and the question, How do you tell a human story that also drives business?
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71 Benjamin Russack - Podcast Host and Therapist
Benjamin Russack is a therapist and host of the podcast, Look, Just Tell Me What To Do which focuses on improved mental health through conversations with health professionals on subjects such as marital conflict, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders and the pitfalls of everyday living.
Benjamin has an MFA in Creative Writing, holds a black belt in Brazilian Jujitsu and for a time, made his living as a chess instructor. Intrigued by how his chess students began to improve their game at the same time as they experienced growth on deeper levels, he returned to school for a second graduate degree, this time in Counseling Psychology emphasizing Jungian archetypal theories and practices. After thousands of hours of work mostly in chemical dependency rehabilitation centers he now has his own offices in and around San Francisco.
Benjamin believes in applying the right philosophy at the right time, helping people live a better life on a day to day basis, that the problems in the world are based on externalized ego wounds and that most people are trying to heal themselves whether they know it or not.
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70 Scott Stabile - Author
Scott Stabile is an author of Big Love: The Power of Living With a Wide Open Heart.
He gives workshops throughout the country about connecting to ourselves through writing and also works one on one as a coach with people committed to looking at their lives honestly. His greatest joy is helping open-hearted humans actively work on their growth and healing. Scotts parents were shot to death when he was fourteen. His brother OD'd on heroin nine years later and he grew up around addiction, dysfunction and tragedy. At that time, Scott hid his pain, and his truth until he decided it was enough. He is currently working on a memoir focused on sexuality and his journey of acceptance of himself as a gay man.
Scott believes Love is the base note for everything good, that choices made from love can only serve the world positively, and that while healing may be somewhat out of our hands, the brave and honest part is certainly within our power.
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69 Megan Febuary - Author of For Women Who Roar
Megan Febuary, is the author of For Women Who Roar as well as a Trauma-Informed Book Coach. She invites new and experienced women who know they have a story, to write and publish it, find their voice and heal in the process.
She received her M.A. from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology with an emphasis on The Body Is A Storyteller. Megan is the creator of Book Year and Founder of For Women Who Roar, through which she has taught embodiment, and helped publish over a 1000 works of women.
Megan's passion for narrative focused trauma care and embodied storytelling began at a young age when through her own creative journey you found that it wasn’t about the end product, but the process of creating as a form of healing trauma. As an entrepreneur, podcaster, curator of multiple print publications, and leader of creative events, retreats and panels, she has grown a global community of over 100,000 women featuring authors such as Elissa Altman, Lisa Taddeo, and Nana Ghana.
Megan, believes in reconciling with the stories we’ve exiled, staying with the parts of ourselves we keep abandoning, and the potentially messy process at the heart of creative recovery.
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68 Michael Poore - Author of Reincarnation Blues
Michael Poore is author of the book Reincarnation Blues, the story of Milo, the oldest and wisest soul on Earth. He also wrote, Up Jumps the Devil, the story of John Scratch, who is really the Devil, and who has been bumming around Earth since he got kicked out of heaven. The New York Review of Books called this book, “an elegiac masterpiece.” Poore's most recent book, Two Girls, a Clock and a Crooked House, published in 2019 is his first for young readers. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Review, and Asimov’s. And his story “The Street of the House of the Sun” was selected for The Year’s Best Nonrequired Reading in 2012.
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67 Ted Alexandro - Comedian
Ted Alexandro is a comedian. He has made multiple appearances on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and The View and have had two half-hour specials on Comedy Central. He also active in several social justice movements and are a co-founder of the New York Comedians Coalition, which raised the pay for comedians in NYC comedy clubs.
Ted also co-created the award-winning comedy web series “Teachers Lounge” with Hollis James. He stars as a music teacher in a NYC elementary school. Each episode stars a different comedian as a faculty member. Teachers Lounge won two Cynopsis Digital Media Awards. He has appeared regularly at the iconic Comedy Cellar in NYC. and is said to be a New York comedy fixture as “firm as bedrock."
Ted believes in equality among his professional peers, and people in general, having a voice in social conversations, and saving your loose change.
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66 Robert Glover - Author and Men's Coach
Dr. Robert Glover is the author of No More Mr. Nice Guy, and Dating Essentials for Men, as well as the director of TPI University, a series of courses that helps people become totally integrated individuals.
For much of his early life he considered himself one of the nicest guy’s one could meet. He wanted to treat people well and be liked. But in his early 30’s, his found yourself frustrated, resentful, confused and, to the people closest to him, not so nice. He had an agenda, no boundaries, was indirect, passive-aggressive and not so honest with himself or others. He heard the same thing from many men around him as well and noticed the road map of these passively pleasing men unconsciously influenced every area of their lives. In the early 90’s he started his first “No More Mr. Nice Guy” group for these men and published the book in 2003.
Robert believes in intention into action, safe spaces to break free from habits, and the transformation from passive, resentful victimhood to empowered, integrated adults.
CONTACT DR. ROBERT GLOVER
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65 Jordan Rogers - Creative Consultant and Entrepreneur
Jordan Rogers is a creative consultant, collaborator and entrepreneur. After recovering from heroin addiction and incarceration, he pent 15 years brand building at Nike, which included two years leading a women’s brand team.
While he has worked with some of the best athletes and artists in the world, he has also had a front row experience of mass incarceration and has shared his story of recovery in hospitals, detoxes & jails for the last 20 years. Having gone through the process of owning his past, he now helps others do the work to recognize their own story, history, what they stand for and perhaps create and share a more fully realized version of their story.
Most recently, Jordan founded Perseus Creative, which helps empower and educate athletes and administrators through the new era of collegiate athletes being paid for their Name Image and Likeness. Creativity is his superpower and through Perseus Creative, he uses the guiding principles of the myth of Perseus the slayer of monsters, to inspire bravery, unique thought, and the celebration of victory.
Jordan believes in going into dark, unknown places, both within ourselves and history, that curiosity is bravery, in looking at challenges with a different perspective, and celebrating victory by serving others.
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64 Steve Lutsk - Fitness Coach
Steve Lutsk is a fitness coach, and creator of the Dad Bod Solution. He was once depressed, self medicating and dependent on excessive use of drugs and alcohol. After years of failing health programs, trying diets, and working out excessively, he began a lengthy period of research which led to the creation of his own program, one that, despite a busy schedule, and his own genetics transformed you into someone living at their physical peak performance.
Steve believes in investing in solutions, leaving one’s comfort zone, unleashing the inner warrior, and living to the fullest.
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63 Loki Miller - Actor
Loki Miller is an actor and musician. He has written, directed, acted or performed in hundreds of shows, and recently finished with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a private performing arts conservatory in New York.
The Loki Miller Band is a trio based in Northern California. He has also played with groups ranging from Power Trios to Broadway Musical Productions and was recipient of the 2017 CAMMIE Award for 'Best Guitarist.’ You pride yourself on your versatility, and ability to transition between several styles while always maintaining a high level of virtuosity, authenticity and raw power.
Despite his accomplishments, he is a man, who in his own words, ‘has done lots of work that most people have never heard of, and who is passionate about art, the creatures who make it, and the way it relates to the world.’ He believes in personal transformation on and off the stage, expressing gratitude, and that meaningful creative work requires potentially difficult self sacrifice.
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62 Beth Anstandig - Author and Therapist
Beth Anstandig is the author of the new book The Human Herd: Awakening Our Natural Leadership. She is also a licensed psychotherapist, cowgirl, and university faculty member who took her education into horse barns, sheepherding fields, meditation circles and rooms of recovery.
She has been featured in the BBC World Service, PBS, and Forbes and have 25 years of experience training people in a model she created called Natural Leadership, which helps people awaken innate awareness. Beth has also, with an ever-growing menagerie of animals at your California ranch, provided leadership, culture, and well-being to human herds through a program called, The Circle Up Experience. This unique approach to development includes experiential learning with horses. Through this, she has helped CEOs, Fortune 1000 companies, universities, and nonprofits, live, lead and connect with that ever present, most trustworthy guide, their own animal self.
Beth says that for her, animals have created a place of psychological safety, and invited her to reclaim the mammalian signal system, that fundamental nature and source of wisdom and health. She is also a poet who believes in awakening our exquisite sensitivity, and wide scale change in the way organizations, leaders, and individuals live their lives personally and use their power professionally.
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61 Sabrina Ward Harrison - Author
Sabrina Ward Harrison published her first book, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself, at 23. This piece was an intimate and moving picture of the contradictions young women face as they are forced into societal norms. She has since published four more books, Brave on the Rocks, Messy Thrilling Life, the true and the questions, and The story is happening.
Sabrina taught creativity worldwide for two decades with a belief that her fellow humans must create what they most need to find. She leads two online experiences, Full Color Life: getting into your deep creative flow, and Liberate, a course about publishing the book that is within you. In the Spring of 2016 she and childhood friend and fellow painter, Trenton Reynolds launched the Podcast, Room in the Trees which focuses on living a creative life.
Sabrina believes in intuition, people continually accepting and becoming themselves, and embracing the pain and pleasure of living,
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60 Gay Hendricks - Psychologist and Bestselling Author
Gay Hendricks is a psychologist and teacher in the field of personal growth and relationship enhancement. He is also the best-selling author of The Genius Zone, The Big Leap, Conscious Loving, and even a series of mystery novels that follows a Tibetan Buddhist private detective.
Together with his wife of 40 years Dr. Katie Hendricks, he has authored dozens of other books and appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including Oprah.His own relationship has been a living laboratory for conscious loving. He and Katie currently run the International Learning Center which helps people open to creativity, love, and vitality through relationships.
Gay has seen people begin the journey of a lifetime in a single moment with one conscious choice. He values breaking through limiting beliefs, exploring boundless creativity, and helping others expand their capacity to love. He believes in a world of deep intimacy, and wild play, where people celebrate each other and spend most of their time expressing genuine appreciation, genius, and creativity.
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59 Monroe Martin III - Comedian
Monroe Martin is a comedian who has appeared on the tonite show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, Netflix, NBC, Amazon Video, MTV, and VH1. He has an honest, open approach to storytelling that comes from his experience of growing up in foster care, bouncing from one dysfunctional family to another.
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58 Sam Lamott - Host of the How To Human Podcast
Sam Lamott is an artist, writer, and host of the How To Human podcast, which explores how to acquire the psychological skills needed to thrive as an adult. How To Human was featured on Itunes New and Noteworthy as well as Apple’s top 200 podcasts in both Health and Self Help.
Sam is also owner of Square 1 Studio in San Anselmo California and founder of Hello Humans, a platform for storytellers to share their trials and capture the truth of what it means to be human. He is also co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Some Assembly Required, which you co-wrote with your mother, author Anne Lamott. Sam describes himself as a single dad, college drop-out, and ex-meth head, who, at the age of twenty two, came out of a ten-year bender with severe clinical depression, a two-year-old child, and zero life skills.
He knows that life is more than what we show the world on social media, that it’s often much messier, but that the lessons learned from those messes are as valuable as anything on this adventure and creation of being human.
CONTACT SAM LAMOTT AND HELLO HUMANS
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57 Ron and Daniel - On Daily Check-Ins
Ron and Daniel share success they have had around the daily shared routine of checking in physically, mentally and emotionally with each other.
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56 Ron and Daniel - On Dreams
Ron and Daniel discuss the potential meaning of dreams and dreaming.
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55 Ron and Daniel - On Habits and Routines
Ron and Daniel discuss their relationship with different habits and routines that have helped them. They dive into the difference between imposing a habit and integrating one.
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54 Ron and Daniel - On Values
Ron and Daniel talk about some of their values and beliefs. They discuss memorizing them and being able to speak about them and how their lives are affected when they stray from them.
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
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CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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53 Allan Amato - Photographer and Filmmaker
Allan Amato is a Zimbabwe born, L.A. based photographer. He discovered his love for photography after Hurricane Katrina forced him to re-examine life. Since then, he has worked with a variety of clientele including Nick Nolte, Terry Gilliam, Neil Gaiman and director Kevin Smith who said of him, “I can’t stand to look at myself unless I’ve been photographed by Allan Amato.”
Allan also directed a feature-length documentary with creative partner Olga Nunes called Temple of Art, but his lifelong dream is to become an honorary member of Monty Python
His eye has been described as “a cosmic camera that sees through mortal skin to reveal the lambent ideal self beneath,” and it has been said of him,“Where Amato aims his lens, gods and superheroes are conjured. vinyl mythologies are summoned; mere flesh becomes dreamscape and everything, especially the grotesque, is beautiful.”
CONTACT ALLAN AMATO
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allanamato/?hl=en
Website: https://allanamato.com/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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52 Liz Lange - Fashion Pioneer and Entrepreneur
Liz Lange is a fashion designer, entrepreneur, CEO of the Figue clothing line and has been called a pioneer in the apparel industry.
In 1997, she founded Liz Lange Maternity, which introduced form-fitting designer pregnancy wear, an innovation that reinvented maternity clothes. In 2001 Nike asked her to partner on workout clothes and introduced a line of athletic wear for pregnant women. The same year, she was invited to unveil both lines at the first ever runway show by a maternity designer during Fashion Week in New York.
She has been recognized with many awards including Crain’s Rising Star Award, Crain’s 40 under 40, Time Magazine’s ;most powerful Entrepreneur and have appeared on Oprah, CNBC, Fox News and Bloomberg. In 2013, she was honored with the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and after being diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 35, is also an advocate and spokesperson for cancer prevention and treatment.
Liz believes in the simplicity of a cary on, the magic of sitting with friends under a blanket of stars, and the power of her current muse, 1970s Cher.
CONTACT LIZ LANGE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizlangeofficial/?hl=en
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
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CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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51 Ryan Michler - Founder of the Order Of Man Podcast
Ryan Michler is a blogger, podcaster, husband, father, Iraqi Combat Veteran, and the Founder of the Order of Man movement and podcast. He grew up without a permanent father figure and has seen first-hand how a lack of strong, ambitious, self-sufficient men has impacted society. Ryan believes many of the world’s most complicated problems could be solved if men everywhere learned how to be better husbands, fathers, businessmen, and community leaders. It has now become his life’s mission to help men across the planet step more fully into their roles as protectors, providers, and presiders over themselves, their families, their businesses, and their communities.
CONTACT RYAN MICHLER
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanmichler/?hl=en
Website: https://www.orderofman.com/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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50 Jason Brick (Part 2) - Author and Podcaster
Jason Brick is an author and podcaster. He has ghostwritten more than 20 books and contributed over 3,000 articles and short stories to print magazines such as Black Belt and Thrillist. All five volumes of his Random Encounters series were simultaneously top ten in their category on Amazon in 2016. He is also host of the Podcast Safest Family On the Block.
CONTACT JASON BRICK AND SAFEST FAMILY ON THE BLOCK PODCAST
Website: http://www.brickcommajason.com/
https://www.safestfamilyontheblock.org/about-us
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdxkenpo/
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/safestfamilyontheblock/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBq-oYxZ0Ug66r6dRygC4Rg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonwbrick
https://www.facebook.com/SafestFamilyontheBlock
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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49 Briana Noble - Equestrian and Social Justice Icon
Brianna Noble is an equestrian, and founder of the Humble project, a program based out of Martinez California for underserved, inner city, and BiPOC youth. The Humble curriculum supports youth who would normally not have access to the life-changing magic of horses due to socioeconomic reasons.
Noble achieved global fame recently when she rode her 17 hand high Appaloosa Gelding, Dapper Dan, at a protest in Oakland, California. Dapper wore a Black Lives Matter sign in honor of George Floyd and this action was featured in major newspapers and news channels around the world.
Noble believes that horses are mirrors of our souls that allow us to view ourselves in a forgiving, non-judgmental way. When she's on a horse’s back she is the closest she comes to being one with nature. And while she aspires to become the first black woman to compete in horse jumping at the Olympics, the most important thing to her is the kids in her Humble project and the lasting impact they will bring in the community.
CONTACT BRIANNA NOBLE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urbancowgirl510/
Website: https://www.urbancowgirlranch.com/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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48 Cheri Anderson - Host of the Podcast Unbreak My Heart
Cheri Anderson is a podcast host, life coach, and corporate wellness coach. She describes herelf as a guide keen to sit with people through personal and professional transitions or pain whether from breakups, trauma or injuries.
She also helps clients discover and affirm their vision, purpose, identity and healing by unbreaking hearts and bodies and rebuilding authentic identities. She rather uniquely believes that the process of changing one’s health, career, relationships or finances includes actual movement, so she works with individuals and teams as a movement coach.
Her podcast, Unbreak My Heart is about navigating the messiness of breakups. The show’s intent has been to facilitate conversations that lead guests and listeners to the keys to what shackles us to our breakup story and experience.
Anderson values becoming aware of stress, managing the mind and emotions, being more deliberate, fully self-expressed, authentic and empowered both independently and in relationships.
CONTACT CHERI ANDERSON
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheri.anderson/
Website: https://www.unbreakmyheartpodcast.com/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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47 Jay Bakker - Author, Speaker
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Jay Bakker is an author, speaker and founder of Revolution Gathering, a community for a more liberal form of Christianity. He was also son of televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, but in his young adulthood became disillusioned with the mainstream Church.
In 2001, he wrote the book Son of a Preacher Man: My Search for Grace in the Shadows which details his youth, relationship with his parents, and the founding of Revolution Church. Bakker's story has been chronicled in Time Magazine, and was retold in the 2006 documentary One Punk Under God: The Prodigal Son of Jim and Tammy Faye. He has appeared with Barbara Walters, on Larry King Live and has been featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Time magazine.
In 2011, he and Martin Edlund wrote the book Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self, and Society, which explores the radical, transformative, and inclusive nature of grace, and also challenges Christians to reassess their understanding of salvation, and the bible. His most recent book, Faith, Doubt, and other Lines I’ve Crossed: Walking With An Unknown God chronicles his doubt about God, the Bible, heaven and hell, church, society, relationships, grace, and love. Bakker has endorsed gay marriage, advocated for the church’s acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community, and is a proponent of an open, inclusive Christianity that embraces alternative lifestyles.
He believes in truth, the process and principles of philosophy, helping people live well and disagree well, reconstructing one’s beliefs, and embracing doubt and uncertainty.
CONTACT JAY BAKKER
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaybakker/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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46 Leila de Bruyne - Humanitarian
Leila de Bruyne is co-founder and U.S. Executive Director of Flying Kites, an organization based out of Kenya, that supports schools as they help raise the level of education and basic services available to children living in poverty.
In 2004, she traveled to Kenya to volunteer to teach economically-disadvantaged students in the capital city of Nairobi. She soon realized that unqualified, short-term volunteer-teachers were part of the problem. Inspired by a growing movement to ignite community-led development, she cofounded Flying Kites, at the center of which is her Teacher Training Center & Academy - an innovation hub for her community of teachers, and a model for her network of schools.
Flying Kites focusses on girls and her approach ensures that every girl has the opportunity to access critical information and resources related to her health as well as how to use any of their new-found skills in a way that is most relevant to her. De Bruyne works in partnership with Kenya’s Ministry of Education, to address critical barriers to learning, by launching School Meals Programs and investing in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene infrastructure.
She believes in inspired collaboration, helping those less privileged, and that “enough,” not just “something” is better than nothing.
CONTACT LEILA DE BRUYNE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leila.debruyne/
Website: https://www.flyingkites.org/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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45 David McRaney - International Best Selling Author, Host of the Podcast You Are Not So Smart
David McRaney, is a science journalist and creator of the blog, podcast and internationally best selling book, You Are Not So Smart.
He cut your teeth as a newspaper reporter in the American South, and since then has been an editor, photographer, voiceover artist, television host, journalism teacher and tornado survivor. His produced The Green Couch Sessions, a TV show about the music of the Deep South. And recently wrote, produced, and recorded a six-hour audio documentary exploring the history of the idea and the word: genius. Before all that, he did a little construction, sold some leather coats, and owned two pet stores.
David's recent work focuses on scientists who study the psychology of reasoning, decision-making, and self-delusion, His second book, You Are Now Less Dumb, was released in 2013, and his third book, How Minds Change comes out in 2022. How Minds Change explores why we believe, how to persuade, the limits of reasoning, the power of groupthink, and demonstrates the rare but transformative circumstances under which minds can change. He is known for your quick sense of humor, compassionate heart, keen curiosity and have been described as a self-delusion expert, and psychology nerd who’s mind is expansive, surprising, and big-hearted.
David believes in rising to the occasion of life with empathy, debunking personal delusions, and challenging your fellow humans to question their motives.
CONTACT DAVID MCRANEY
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidmcraney/?hl=en
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
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CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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44 Brynn Saito - Poet
Brynn Saito is a fourth generation Japanese American and Korean American author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure.
She is also the winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She holds degrees in creative writing, religious studies and philosophy and has been a visiting writer in the MFA programs at several universities.
She co-founded the Yonsei Memory Project, an endeavor which awakens the archives of Japanese American history through arts-based, intergenerational, and intercultural public programming. Brynn's work has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, and the American Poetry Review and she is a two-time recipient of the California State Library’s Civil Liberties Public Education grant.
Her work was recently featured in the opening ceremony for The People’s Inauguration, a 10-day event inspiring collective action led by activist Valarie Kaur. Her third book of poetry will be published in the fall of 2023.
CONTACT BRYNN SAITO
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brynnsaito/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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43 Steve Barnes - Author and Coach
Steven Barnes is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter, winner of the Endeavor and NAACP Image Awards as well as a nominee for both Hugo and Nebula awards.
He has written over three million words of fiction published in seven languages and was the writer for the Emmy-winning “A Stitch In Time” episode of The Outer Limits. He was also the creator of the Lifewriting writing course, which he has taught nationwide.
He has more than 30 years of experience as a life coach, teacher and practitioner of the self-development arts, including hypnosis, yoga and martial arts, in which he holds three black belts. This training has afforded him a unique understanding of the relationship between myth, energy and consciousness, which he has shared with thousands of students and clients since 1980.
His newest course is The Warrior’s Journey: Life Mastery For Modern Men, a program that helps people enhance themselves emotionally, physically and professionally.
CONTACT STEVE BARNES
Website: https://stevenbarneslife.com/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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42 Jo Luehmann - Public Speaker and Writer
Jo Luehmann, is a public speaker and writer who teaches about dismantling systems of oppression, restorative justice, the effects of trauma, and centering the needs of marginalized communities.
She is Colombian born and raised, and moved to the US to get her master's degree in ministry and theology. After 10 years working inside of churches, developing curriculum, and teaching classes on theology and doctrine, she stopped working in the church and started The Living Room, a non-profit that helps faith spaces consider and evaluate issues of racial literacy and equity.
In the summer of 2020, inspired by a group of victims and survivors of church abuse, she started doBetterChurch, an online space for victims of religious mistreatment. The platform invites churches to improve how they conduct themselves, seeks to ensure the safety of marginalized communities, and offers it’s more than 10,000 participants peer support, tools for healing, and a safe space to communicate and be seen.
CONTACT JO LUEHMANN
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/joluehmann/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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41 Monica Rogers - Entrepreneur and Host of The Revelation Project Podcast
Monica Rodgers is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of business development experience. She is also a Certified Professional Coach, with a focus on women who are ready to reveal a new source of creativity, opportunity and insight and experience more perspective and vitality in their lives.
She is founder of The Revelation Project which uses transformative workshops, retreats, personal coaching, and social media as tools for personal myth-busting, exploring edges, bridging gaps, self excavation, and helping women express their individual purpose and soul-work. She has been featured in or on In Style Magazine, The New York Times, The Today Show, and your clients have included Kate Hudson, Tiger Woods, Liv Tyler, and Gwen Stefani.
She describes herself as a Truth Teller, and Soul-Seeker and believes that life is a Revelation Project, that self-awareness is the key to freedom, that personal stories are powerful, that our self image can imprison or empower us and that women everywhere are waking and rising to a new vision of the future and experience of life.
Monica is also an advocate for the full actualization of women. She inspires women to embody the act of saying “YES to the MESS” and believe that this is the missing link to self-love and personal awakening. Through her podcast, The Revelation Project and group coaching programs, she guides women through their inner revolution, from trance to transcendence, revealing the toxic myths of social conditioning and self-doubt and illuminating the magic and magnificence of their imperfect selves.
She believes that there has never been a more important time for women to reveal the truth of who they are and that this is a catalyst for positive change in the world.
CONTACT MONICA ROGERS AND THE REVELATION PROJECT
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revelationwoman/
Website: https://jointherevelation.com/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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40 Jasmin Carman - Feminine Wholeness Coach
Jasmin Carman is an Australian based Feminine Wholeness Coach and creator of Conscious Sexuality, a space of liberation, learning, and enlightenment around sexuality. Her passion is to see women thrive, create abundance, and step into their most authentic life. She helps women hone their sexual energy, particularly those who experience pain during sex, or have been otherwise hindered by purity culture.
She believes that all of a person belongs, in embracing and awakening to one’s sexuality, asking oneself difficult questions and that freedom and a new life direction can come from resolving past traumas.
CONTACT JASMIN CARMAN
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conscioussexuality/
Website: https://www.conscioussexuality.com.au/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasmin.carman/about
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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39 Babsi Zangerl - Climber
Babsi Zangerl is widely regarded as the best female climber in the world, as well as National Geographic’s 2019 Adventurer of the Year. She found climbing as a teenager and soon completed an ascent of Pura Vida, the hardest boulder climbed by a woman at the time.
At age 19, she herniated a disc in her back. A doctor said she's never climb again. However, she quit bouldering and switched her focus to rope climbing. Since then she has become the first woman to complete the famed Alpine Trilogy, and completed five of El Capitan’s hardest big-wall free climbs, including just the second free ascent of Magic Mushroom. On top of that, to balance her life, she works a part-time job as a radiology assistant. Her contemporaries describe her as relentless and tenacious but also humble, low-key and unassuming. Alex Honnold, the famed free soloist said of her “She’s so mellow that it’s hard to think of her as ‘the best.”
Babsi believes in genuinely embracing process and adversity, in holding herself to strict climbing ethics, that it’s more memorable when one has to work extra for a route, and just diving into adventure because people might not know what they’re capable of.
CONTACT BABSI ZANGERL
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babsizangerl/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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38 Daniel Popper - Multidisciplinary Artist
Daniel Popper is an artist from Cape Town, South Africa known globally for his larger-than-life art that blurs the lines between interactive art, sculpture, installation, and stage and interior design.
Many of his projects include collaborations with other artists and technicians to incorporate electronic music, lighting and projection mapping. He is most acclaimed for massive public art installations at places such as the Boom Festival in Portugal, Afrikaburn in the Tankwa Karoo in South Africa, the human nature exhibition at the Morton Arboretum in Chicago, and the Venala Luz sculpture in Talum, He builds both temporary and permanent pieces, including a commission for a sculpture that now stands as a defining feature for the Nelson Mandela School of Science and Technology. He is also founder of Pop Productions, a production company for concept design, innovative advertising, brand activation, and stage design.
Daniel values authentic collaborations, his art having a positive impact in the world, the belief that we are more connected with nature than we often think, and growing together as both a collective and as individuals.
CONTACT DANIEL POPPER
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielpopper/
Website: https://www.danielpopper.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=247664653399222&set=a.247664620065892
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
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CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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37 Colin Daring - Fitness Coach and Kettle Bell Instructor
Colin Daring, is a world renown kettle bell instructor. He fell in love with fitness during his military service and has now been in the fitness industry for over 20 years. Though he teaches a simple at-home workout series, he also has perfected and refined a series of advanced kettle bell sequences. He believes in eating well, smiling more, varying one’s training, investing in oneself, that all you need is less, and in upholding the well being and longevity of the pack.
CONTACT COLIN DARING
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daring101/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colin.daring
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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36 Heather Roddy - Intuitive Soul Coach, Podcaster
Heather Roddy is an Intuitive Soul Coach, creator of The Roddy Method and host of the podcast Coffee Talks with Roddy. She empowers empaths and highly sensitive people to harness their gifts, connect to their authentic voice and step into their power. She has been a Sensitive Empath her entire life, is a certified energy coach, and through her own awakening and the growth of her heart centered business, has helped change the lives of many like her.
CONTACT HEATHER RODDY
Website: https://theroddymethod.thinkific.com/collections
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theroddymethod/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theroddymethod1
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
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SHOW NOTES
5:00 to 6:00 On calming the nervous system
19:30 to 22:20 On marijuana
35:00 to 37:00 On codependence
35 Timmy O'Neill - Professional Climber, Humanitarian and Public Speaker
Timmy O'Neill is a professional rock climber, first ascensionist and public speaker. He has dedicated his life to international exploration and giving back through ‘adventure impact’ - the combination of outdoor adventure and social impact.
He has climbed, without ropes, buildings such as the Chicago Tribune Tower, and in 2001, along with Dean Potter, set the-then world speed record for the "Nose" climb on El Capitan, completing it in three hours and twenty-four minutes. He lead a four-day ascent of El Cap with Warren McDonald, a double above-the-knee leg amputee and is co-founder of Paradox Sports, a non-profit that integrates individuals with disabilities into outdoor recreation. He also volunteers as an ophthalmic tech on the African continent to help cure preventable blindness with CureBlindness.org.
More recently, he founded Joy Merchants, which offers outdoor retreats, with the intention of strengthening personal relationships via curated individual exercises and both trail and fireside conversation. He also produced the award-winning films “Urban Ape, “ and "Return2Sender", and co-wrote the non-fiction comedy "Across the Atlas.”
He believes everybody is radiating love and promise, and has been described by his contemporaries as intelligent, kind and fiercely passionate about the wellbeing of others.
CONTACT TIMMY O'NEILL
Website: https://www.timmyoneill.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/timmyoneill/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timmy.oneill.5074
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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34 Ryan Price - Tik Tok Personality Larry Lexicon
Ryan Price's Tik Tok personality, Larry Lexicon, has accumulated over 17 million likes and almost 800k followers.
CONTACT RYAN PRICE:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_VydGqG74NEaMDzJ09FHA
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@larrylexicon?lang=en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/larrylexicon/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HomebrewedBeer
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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33 Vasilisa Lukyanenka - Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Emotional Intelligence Coach
Vasilisa Lukyanenka arrived to Emotional Intelligence coaching through Zen Buddhism, and the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and John Kabat-Zinn. She is currently exploring Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology and existential psychology, specifically logotherapy, which was created by Viktor Frankl. She believes at the core of most people's problems is the lack of meaning in their life and that each person is 100% in charge of their well-being and happiness.
CONTACT VASILISA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vasilisa_coaching/
Website: https://www.vasilisacoaching.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=vasilisa%20emotional%20intelligence%20%26%20self-leadership%20coach
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
SHOW NOTES
18:10 to 19:40 Negative inner voice
23:10 to 23:50 Re-parenting inner child
28:00 to 28:50 Anxiety, safety, communicating with subconscious
30:30 to Highly sensitive people,
33:48 to 34:40 Emotional work
37:30 to 38:45 Growth, change, Inner Child
52:15 to 52:58 Defining Emotional Intelligence
53:35 to 54:18 Masculine and Feminine and emotions
55:00 to 56:05 De-gendering language
57:20 to 59:05 The nuance of gender roles
100:40 to 101:30 Trust
101:40 to 104:00 Love, poetry
115:25 to 118:25 Not taking things personally
119:40 to 121:40 Emotions, anger, recognizing
122:15 to 1:24:30 Dealing with anger, getting out of your head when in conflict
32 Jason Hanasik - Filmmaker and Journalist
Jason Hanasik is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and journalist. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, presented on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Ace Theater in LA as well as featured on the BBC.
His photography monograph, I Slowly Watched Him Disappear, is in the research collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, and The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. He has a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley, a Master of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, and has taught at both schools.
CONTACT JASON HANASIK
Website: https://www.jasonhanasik.com/about
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonhanasik/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonhanasik
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
31 Steve Maxwell - Strength and Conditioning Coach
Steve Maxwell is recognized as one of today's most creative and innovative strength and conditioning coaches. He was the first American to receive a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from renowned BJJ practitioner Relson Gracie. He has trained people such as Brad Pitt, Joe Rogan and Royce Gracie and was the first American certified to teach Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.
His development of fresh, well-rounded, effective mixed modality and joint mobility workouts is the latest example of how he integrates multiple techniques into an accessible system for regaining and retaining range of motion.
Steve has been featured in Men's Health magazine and has been listed as one of America's top trainers. He has been a guest on podcasts such as London Real and the Joe Rogan Experience. He spent fifteen years traveling the world as a nomad, teaching seminars and owning nothing but what he could carry on his back. He values minimalism, longevity, and coordination between sustainable diet, varied movement and intentional thinking.
In this episode, Steve joins Ronald and Daniel as well as their friend and associate, David Robles, for a conversation from Steve's tiny house in Northern Washington. The conversation primarily focuses on manifestation, self-creation, mindfulness, gratitude and emotional and spiritual growth.
CONTACT STEVE MAXWELL
Website: https://maxwellsc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemaxwellsc/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MaxwellStrengthCond
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevemaxwellsc
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
30 Ross Pino - New York Based Artist
Ross Pino is a Brooklyn based artist. Having grown up with alcohol and drug addicted parents, his main objective in life has become to set people free from destructive mindsets. He is an advocate for mental health awareness through arts and entertainment.
In 2018, Pino began his journey as an artist by painting skulls. His daughter would paint with him. Her free creative spirit began to affect his paintings, eventually combining with his own edginess and skill.
Pino describes his art as shining light into the darkness. His work combines human anatomy, “End of Days” theories, numerical synchronicities and emotionally driven poetry. While at times his work is dark, there is a heavy spiritual underling throughout.
CONTACT ROSS PINO
Website: http://www.rosspino.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosspino88/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
SHOW NOTES
In this episode of Cutting For Sign, artist Ross Pino speaks with us about how to improve mental health. We discuss our struggles and successes with self control and forgiveness and the role psychedelics and religion have played in our lives.8:30 Mental health, breakdown, reliving cycles
10:30 Painting with daughter, innocence, you can have your child self back
21:50 Self control, removing things from your life
24:28 Emotional sobriety, relapsing
27:10 Relapse
32:40 Signs telling you to stop doing something, not repeating mistakes
39:00 Speaking more positively
44:20 Forgiveness from family
51:00 Apologizing to kids
62:55 Choosing the light
70:00 Psychedelics
80:25 His art process and relating it to the writing process
91:30 His child's influence on his painting
94:30 Art process
99:30 Christianity
141:00 Leaning on life
29 Brandon Perkins - Co-host of the Highchurch Podcast
Brandon Perkins is co-host of the podcast Highchurch, in which he and guests explore healthier, more meaningful and helpful ways to practice what he refers to as True Being. It is a platform upon which he integrates pieces of his journey, and seeks ancient, yet fresh ways to express the spiritual, mystical and experiential. Brandon believes that church can be an ever-present community that we can meet in any space. The “high” in his version of the term high church represents the search to uncover that which is truest in our own innermost being.
CONTACT BRANDON PERKINS AND THE HIGH CHURCH PODCAST
Website: https://brandonmichaelperkins.wordpress.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandon__perkins/
https://www.instagram.com/highchurchpod/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
SHOW NOTES
In this episode, Ron, Daniel and Brandon discuss regulating one's nervous system and emotions; the difference between emotions, thoughts, beliefs and how they relate to each other; surrender and acceptance; emotional sobriety; creating new habits and the pitfalls and potential problems of that process; as well as taboos surrounding subjects such as sex and pornography.
We also touch on subjects such as eating disorders as experienced by men and our experiences around emotional sobriety. Brandon also shares a spiritual experience he had at a pivotal point in his life as well as the role ritual plays in his life and how that relationship has changed.
2:00 Porn
10:20 Eating disorders in men.
20:15 Brandon's spiritual experience
25:30 Surrender
28:05 De-tabooing sexuality and porn
47:35 Emotional Intelligence
54:45 Regulating the nervous system
64:00 Emotional sobriety
75:30 Ritual
87:45 Emotional awareness
28 George Kao - Business Coach and Author
George Kao is a coach and mentor who helps his clients create sustainable & joyful businesses through authentic online marketing. He has published four books: Principles of Authentic Business: Create a Sustainable Livelihood from the Heart, Authentic Content Marketing: Build an Engaged Audience for Your Personal Brand through Integrity & Generosity, Joyful Productivity: A Solopreneur's Guide to Creativity & Well-Being, Authentic Selling: How to Gain New Clients through Connection, Caring, and Service
George values remaining conscious and authentic within sales environments, integrating his values and virtues into business and creating a sustainable business that is fulfilling and liberating.
CONTACT GEORGE KAO
Website: https://www.georgekao.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geokao/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GeorgeKaoCommunity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeKao
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
SHOW NOTES
4:00 to 4:35 About the term, "Cutting for Sign"
4:00 to 8:55 George on cutting for his own sign
9:55 How to consciously sell
13:00 to 13:45 Caring and selling
14:55 to 16:10 A great moment about living one's values
16:40 to 17:35 George on aligning with his conscience
22:00 to 22:35 Ron on mystery
30:40 to 31:33 George on discipline
34:40 to 35:00 George on being brought through adversity
27 Ron and Daniel - On Grief
Ron and Daniel share personal thoughts, feelings and processes around grief.
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
26 David Hayward - Cartoonist and Creator of NakedPastor
David Haward is an artist and writer who supports LGBTQ+ people and groups, Black Indigenous People of Color, and women artists, creatives and journalists. He earned a degree in Biblical Studies and received his Masters in New Testament Studies. Being raised Christian, David believed that the Bible was inspired and infallible. However, as life continued, a gradual, painful and radical change in his beliefs began, and he lost a sense of purpose and destiny. Despite this, he served as a pastor for 30 years. During this time, the structure of his faith continued to crumble. He asked himself if he could believe in a compassionate God when billions of people were seemingly excluded from this love.
In 2010, he left the church to pursue art. He created NakedPastor, a platform that uses words and images to create conversations, push boundaries, challenge the status quo and deconstruct dogma. His art acts as a catalyst for critical thinking, questions the confines of religion, and expresses the struggles of spiritual refugees and independent thinkers. David believe everybody deserves to express doubts, and explore their spiritualty, that language seems to divide us, and that we are all deeply connected.
CONTACT DAVID HAYWARD AND NAKED PASTOR
Website: https://nakedpastor.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nakedpastor/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidHaywardNakedpastor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davehayward
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
25 Ron and Daniel - Recollection of the First 25 Episodes of CFS
Ron and Daniel recall moments and highlights of every Cutting For Sign episode so far.
CONTACT RON CECIL:
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
24 Matt Brunk - Host of Better Dad Podcast
Matt Brunk is host of the Better Dad Podcast.
CONTACT MATT BRUNK AND THE BETTER DAD PODCAST
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matt_brunk/
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/betterdadpodcast/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch/theBetterDadPodcast/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
23 Rainier Wylde - Men's Coach
Rainier Wylde helps men discover who they are, what their purpose is, and how to build their tribe. He holds a masters degree in Community Counseling, and has spent decades as a spiritual guide, graduate professor of evolutionary and developmental psychology, and has been a community consultant, counselor, and skills trainer. He believes in the integration of the shadow, and inspiring interaction between the masculine and feminine. in addition to his coaching and writing, he hosts a six-week intensive called Initiation, which explores these and other aspects of masculinity.
Rainier also hosts a podcast called Lost Man Standing which is a platform for dozens of thought leaders and coaches who advocate men that are ready to discover and operate out of their deepest sense of self. He has been a guest on several notable podcasts such as The Uncivilized, The Rising Man, The Holistic Gangster, Man Talks, The Nativist, The Reclamation Project with Julianne Vaccaro, and Wholly Human with LeAnn Rimes.
CONTACT RAINIER WYLDE
Website: https://www.rainierwylde.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rainierwylde/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rainierwylde
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
22 Brenda Marie Davies - Author of On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel
Brenda Marie Davies is author of the book, On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel. The book chronicles a spiritual journey that started when she was 19 years old and moved to Los Angeles. Over the course of the following decade, she experienced marriage, divorce, unlikely friendships, and sexual exploration, and through this, began deconstructing the messages, beliefs, fear and shame of a childhood that was influenced by a conservative Christian church. In addition to her work as author, she is a podcaster and YouTuber. She began this career by speaking to young people about sex and religion. Now her work has blossomed into a YouTube channel with well over a 100 thousand subscribers.
Brenda's platform has become an interactive space for people of all ages, orientations and beliefs to engage, seek guidance and heal. Her banner, God Is Grey is a sex positive, intellectual, faith affirming guide to becoming an inquisitive, fearless free thinking modern Christian. Her story is a story for anyone who wonders if it’s possible to love God without fearing sex, in all its shades of grey.
CONTACT BRENDA MARIE DAVIES
Website: https://www.godisgrey.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godisgrey/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GodisGrey
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brendamariedavies
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
21 Dave Lehl - Photographer
Dave Lehl is a commercial action, adventure, and active lifestyle photographer. He has shot street skaters, triathletes, NBA stars and such companies as Intel, The North Face, Under Armor, Nike, Lamborghiini, ESPN, and Red Bull. He believes when your passion lies in your subject, it’s not hard to capture fantastic moments and connect them to the viewer. Dave's mantra is ‘shoot what you know,’ and after twenty years as a freelance photographer he is still a skate rat at heart.
CONTACT DAVE LEHL
Website: https://www.davelehl.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davelehl/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dave.lehl
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
20 Judi Thomas - Owner Black Butterfly
Judi Thomas is owner of the handmade sign and home decor company, Black Butterfly, which grossed over a million dollars last year. She grew up in Roswell, New Mexico in a family with a very fixed budget. This drove her to graduate high school at the age of 16 and earn a full scholarship to the University of Denver. She started her first corporate job at 17 and left college to pursue success in that world. Judi would spend more than a decade in corporate America before abruptly leaving for a more balanced life. After just a few short years, her store, Black Butterfly now has over 20,000 subscribers on YouTube and has been featured in Buzzfeed, U.S. Weekly, HGTV, Women’s Day and The Real.
CONTACT JUDI THOMAS AND BLACK BUTTERFLY
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/people/judifree
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shop_blackbutterfly/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackbutterflysigns/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
19 Dennis Aydemir (Part 2) - Musician and Filmmaker
Dennis Aydemir is a songwriter and front man in the indie art rock genre band Deniz of The Beez, and director and producer of the three-part documentary trilogy, Time Travels Through Sound. Dennis was born in California and grew up in Istanbul. At two-and-a-half years old, he had favorite artists--REM and Eric Clapton. He started playing keyboard at seven, piano at 11 and when he received a guitar on his twelfth birthday, he decided his music career had begun.
By the age of 15 he was a go-to guitarist, bassist and vocalist in several Istanbul music scenes, and in 2015, graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He had the honor of subbing for one of Turkey’s most influential jazz bassists, and had the pleasure to open for Nick Cave, who he lists as one of his musical influences. He also worked as lyricist and translator for the award-winning band Women of the World in a project discussing the socio-political issues surrounding the 2011 Fukushima power plant disaster.
Aydemir is fluent in Japanese, Spanish, Turkish and English and his current creative impulsions are rooted in his belief that when a language dies, humanity loses wisdom, but also that there is hope, so long as music is still sung. His non-narrative documentary trilogy, Time Travels Through Sound explores music that faces extinction due to language death. The first film of this trilogy, The Elements, was shot over two years in communities throughout Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Japan, China, Turkey, Vietnam and Russia. His films are not stories to be told, but stories to behold. They are not about grasping, or necessarily finding resolution but about letting go and losing oneself in one’s own depths through sound.
CONTACT DENNIS AYDEMIR
Website: https://www.dennisaydemir.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denizofthebees/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/denizaydemirmusic
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
18 Dennis Aydemir (Part 1) - Musician and Filmmaker
Dennis Aydemir is a songwriter and front man in the indie art rock genre band Deniz of The Beez, and director and producer of the three-part documentary trilogy, Time Travels Through Sound. Dennis was born in California and grew up in Istanbul. At two-and-a-half years old, he had favorite artists--REM and Eric Clapton. He started playing keyboard at seven, piano at 11 and when he received a guitar on his twelfth birthday, he decided his music career had begun.
By the age of 15 he was a go-to guitarist, bassist and vocalist in several Istanbul music scenes, and in 2015, graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He had the honor of subbing for one of Turkey’s most influential jazz bassists, and had the pleasure to open for Nick Cave, who he lists as one of his musical influences. He also worked as lyricist and translator for the award-winning band Women of the World in a project discussing the socio-political issues surrounding the 2011 Fukushima power plant disaster.
Aydemir is fluent in Japanese, Spanish, Turkish and English and his current creative impulsions are rooted in his belief that when a language dies, humanity loses wisdom, but also that there is hope, so long as music is still sung. His non-narrative documentary trilogy, Time Travels Through Sound explores music that faces extinction due to language death. The first film of this trilogy, The Elements, was shot over two years in communities throughout Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Japan, China, Turkey, Vietnam and Russia. His films are not stories to be told, but stories to behold. They are not about grasping, or necessarily finding resolution but about letting go and losing oneself in one’s own depths through sound.
CONTACT DENNIS AYDEMIR
Website: https://www.dennisaydemir.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denizofthebees/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/denizaydemirmusic
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
17 Dr. Tracey Hunter - Clinical Psychologist and Relationship Coach
Dr. Tracey Hunter, is a clinical psychologist and relationship coach based on the Gold Coast of Australia. She received her PhD in Clinical psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast in 2005 and made the Academic Excellence List for her thesis work. Dr. Hunter is the author or co-author of several publications that dissect the relationships between topics such as child development, depression, peer relationships and many others.
In 2011, she traveled to New York to undergo advanced training and certification in Schema Therapy. In 2017, Dr. Hunter attended a Schema Therapy School in Barcelona and since 2009 has been providing therapy to clients at a clinic at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast of Australia. Her aim is to bring people back in touch with disconnected parts of the self so that they can achieve inner harmony and thrive in intimate relationships. Through the experiential techniques of Schema Therapy, her clients are able to bring unconscious patterns and wounds into awareness, to heal, and to gain clarity about their core emotional needs and values.
Her work explores the blocks people experience and how they relate to messages we received in childhood about love, connection, self-expression, and worthiness. Dr. Hunter also focuses on women ready to step into their feminine power and create loving and energizing relationships. She believes humans are fascinating and resilient, and that underneath our protective layers we are seeking growth, connection and a more satisfying experience of life.CONTACT DR. TRACEY HUNTER
Website: http://schematherapyqld.com.au/main.html
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtraceyhunter/?hl=en
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
16 Nick Hurndon - Subject of the Film, A Childhood On Fire
Nick Hurndon, is the subject of the short film A Childhood On Fire, which chronicles how he and his two brothers were set on fire by theirstepfather when they were children. It also explores the effects that childhood abuse had on him as an adult, and his purpose of interrupting cycles of violence through generations. The film was an official selection at several film festivals including San Francisco Film Festival, DOC NYC, and Aesthetica. In 2019 he became the World Masters Weightlifting Champion of his division. Hurndon is the owner of Magnus Strength and Conditioning, as well as a certified Hardstyle Kettlebell Instructor, Marine veteran, competitive Judoka and CrossFitter. He is the father of two sons, and believe that transcendental stoicism is the key to a better life.
CONTACT NICK HURNDON
Website: https://www.magnussc.com/nick-hurndon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick.hurndon/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
SHOW NOTES
11:45 to 13:18 About men not facing their emotional issues
15:20 to 16:00 Taking steps to be a mature adult
28:52 to 30:04 Ron about his dad
31:00 to 32:04 Nick about expressing love to his kids
34:48 to 36:40 Daniel about facing grief
40:50 to 41:35 Nick about the notes he writes to his children
45:25 to 49:30 Ron about being a father
1:12:37 to 1:13:15 Pronouns
1:14:30 to 1:17:30 Nick radically supporting his child
1:19:15 to 1:20:47 Accepting homosexuality and transgender identities
1:24:20 to 1:25:45 Nick's definition of "a real man"
1:40:00 to 1:50:35 Daniel tells a story about dance
1:52:00 to 1:54:10 Following your gut
15 Richard Hubbard - Men's Group Leader, Zen practitioner and Writer
Richard Hubbard is a men’s group leader, Zen practitioner, martial artist, writer and independent educator. In 2017, Richard began a journey into men’s work through Inside Circle, a therapeutic men’s group in San Francisco that is led by and attended by incarcerated men, but which is also open to the public. He is a survivor of physical and sexual childhood abuse and struggled with substance abuse through the 1990s. Several turbulent years culminated in a near-death experience that led him to a Zen monastery, where he took up formal practice. He spent 5 years in conservatory theater programs and has applied this training, and training in other modalities to facilitate healing for others. Richard now works with several other organizations based in California, New York, and Massachusetts that assist men and women with empowerment and growth.
CONTACT RICHARD HUBBARD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richardmhubbard/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
14 Joe Gilford (Part 2) - Screenwriter and author
Joe Gilford is an award-nominated screenwriter, screenwriting professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and author of the screenwriting book Why Does The Screenwriter Cross The Road?. He has been a filmmaker for the last 50 years. He writes screenplays, TV scripts and stage plays. He is also the winner of a New York Emmy, and has received two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants. Joe earned his BFA at NYU's Institute of Film & TV and spent a decade as a stage director in New York in the 1980s & '90s.
He is the son of actors Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee and In 2013, adapted their experiences as blacklisted actors in the 1950s into the critically acclaimed stage play Finks. It was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and Best New Play by the Off-Broadway Alliance, and is currently in development as a feature film.
His latest feature screenplay Mob Town, released in theaters in 2019 and stars David Arquette. In 2005 he started StoryRescue.com which helps writers and storytellers at every level in screenwriting, playwriting, TV and fiction. He also teaches screenwriting at NYU’s Tisch school of the arts and recently put all of his experience and knowledge into the book Why Does the Screenwriter Cross the Road?…and other screenwriting secrets.
CONTACT JOE GILFORD AND STORY RESCUE
Website: https://www.storyrescue.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jegilford/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.gilford
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
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SHOW NOTES
In this episode, our second conversation with Joe, we explore other aspects of his story. Joe grew up with parents who were both well known actors and who were eventually blacklisted. He started working in theater and film at a young age and has stayed in that world for a long time. He became a father, and while he kept writing, there came a time when he started focusing more on other aspects of his life. He started teaching, pulled his finances together and eventually got into a healthy romantic relationship. While he has continued selling screenplays, he has now reduced the anxiety in his life and is flourishing in a more full, supported way.
13 Joe Gilford (Part 1) - Screenwriter and Author
Joe Gilford, has been a filmmaker for the last 50 years. He writes screenplays, TV scripts and stage plays. He is also the winner of a New York Emmy, and has received two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants. Joe earned his BFA at NYU's Institute of Film & TV and spent a decade as a stage director in New York in the 1980s & '90s.
He is the son of actors Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee and In 2013, adapted their experiences as blacklisted actors in the 1950s into the critically acclaimed stage play Finks. It was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards and Best New Play by the Off-Broadway Alliance, and is currently in development as a feature film. His latest feature screenplay Mob Town, released in theaters in 2019 and stars David Arquette.
In 2005 he started StoryRescue.com which helps writers and storytellers at every level in screenwriting, playwriting, TV and fiction. He also teaches screenwriting at NYU’s Tisch school of the arts and recently put all of his experience and knowledge into the book Why Does the Screenwriter Cross the Road?…and other screenwriting secrets.
CONTACT JOE GILFORD AND STORY RESCUE
Website: https://www.storyrescue.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jegilford/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joe.gilford
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
12 Tom O'Leary - Actor and Pub Owner
Tom O’Leary, is an actor and owner and operator of the popular Alberta District Irish pub T.C. O’Leary’s in Portland, Oregon. In the early 2000s, O'Leary played Dr. Brendan Daly on Ireland’s popular television show, Fair City, which has been on air since 1989. This is a role that he has continued to play in recent years on a part-time basis while living here in Portland.
After working as an actor in several theaters in Dublin he moved to New York where he was an award-winning stage actor and then to Los Angeles where he continued acting for several years. Eventually, his path led him to his wife’s hometown of Portland Oregon, where he is now a community business leader and eager proponent of pub culture, easy conversation, making friends with strangers, hearty food, a bit of whiskey and the perfectly pulled pint of Guinness.
CONTACT TOM O'LEARY AND T.C. O'LEARY'S
Website: https://www.tcolearys.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tcolearys/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpnVh4eL9BUyq8nrlMv28ZQ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=t.c.%20o%27leary%27s
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
11 Christin Henke - Sex Coach and Co-Host of the Podcast Nothing Confidential
Christin describes herself as a Sex Coach, mama, and multi-passionate creatrix. Her work in the field of embodied sexuality focuses on unraveling the complex tapestry of societal, cultural, and religious conditioning that often hangs heavily between Women and their authentic expression and desire. Christin is also the founder and co-hostess of the top-rated, Nothing Confidential Podcast, where she aims to normalize conversations around sexuality and pleasure in order to lift stigma and shift paradigms. When she’s not busy helping women get their sexy BACK(!), you’ll probably find her crying over her perfect, cosmic, angel-child or making out with her husband, Mike.
CONTACT CHRISTIN HENKE AND THE NOTHING CONFIDENTIAL PODCAST
Website: https://www.christinhenke.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christin.henke/
https://www.instagram.com/nothingconfidential/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christinduncanhenke
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
10 Kenny X. Hamlett - Filmmaker
Kenny Hamlett is a Portland-based filmmaker, Content Creator, photographer and rock climber. His most recent work explores his relationship with and passion for the outdoors. Kenny’s clients include Travel Oregon, Marmot, Vasque Footwear. He has been featured in Mens Journal, Travel Portland, andTravel Oregon.
CONTACT KENNY X. HAMLETT
Website: https://kennyxhamlett.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenny.x.hamlett/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kennyxhamlett
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kenny.hamlett.9
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
SHOW NOTES
1:45 to 2:49 Living your dream life
15:30 to 18:45 Facing fear, people of color in climbing
23:30 to 28:40 Climbing Half Dome, synchronicity
32:30 to 40:35 Taking chances, hustling, cutting your own sign
42:20 to 45:35 Being bold, saying yes to opportunity
46:50 to 48:00 Being led by a higher power
48:35 to 49:30 People of color and the outdoors
56:10 to 57:35 Suffering and experiencing breakthroughs
9 Morgan Day Cecil - Feminine Wholeness Coach and Creator of the Feminine Wholeness Method™
Morgan Day Cecil has spent two decades training in mind-body-spirit methodologies including trauma-release, breathwork, hypnotherapy, deep feminine psychology, and tantra. She has a masters degree in philosophy, and her path has taken her from single mom on food stamps to six-figure breadwinner of her family. She lives what she preaches, which is trust what lights you up.
Morgan and her husband Ron Cecil run Romance and Adventure, a business that hosts retreats all over the world for couples intending to feed their passion for themselves and each other. Morgan is also the creator of the Feminine Wholeness Method and the School of Feminine Wholeness. The school will be a home for women who are transforming, healing, and embodying a new experience of womanhood.
CONTACT MORGAN DAY CECIL
Website: https://morgandaycecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morgandaycecil/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2InnDVZX2OIEO2WV0uLNIw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorganDayCecil
Twitter: https://twitter.com/morgandaycecil?lang=en
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
8 Michael McDonald - International Humanitarian
Michael McDonald is a photographer and international humanitarian. His work has taken him to India, Iraq, Haiti, Cambodia and several countries throughout Africa.
CONTACT MICHAEL MCDONALD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaeldeanmcdonald/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
7 Oscar Merino - Record Executive
Oscar Merino is the founder of the Arts & Entertainment agency 52BLEND. He was a promoter for Columbia records and was the first Salvadoran to work as a music promoter in the United States. He has worked with artists such as Cypress Hill, Mariah Carey, The Fugees, Public Enemy, and Jamiroquai.
CONTACT OSCAR MERINO
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oscarmerino/
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
6 David Abbott - Sailor and Musician
David Abbott is an author and illustrator. In 2020 he completed a circumnavigation of the globe via sailboat. Check out his lifelong music project.
CONTACT DAVID ABBOTT
Website: https://toomanydrummers.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.abbott.520357
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
5 Andy Hung - BJJ Professor and Founder of Dojo Outfitters
Andy Hung is a 3rd Degree Judo Black Belt, First Degree Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt, owner of the martial arts apparel shop Dojo Outfitters and Head Sensei and Professor of Portland Judo and PDXBJJ. Orphaned as a young boy, he and his brother were taken in by their judo sensei. Now all three run Portland Judo, a Portland, Oregon-based judo, and Brazillian jiu-jitsu school. He also competed and medaled at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Trials.
CONTACT ANDY HUNG, PORTLAND JUDO AND DOJO OUTFITTERS
Website: https://www.portlandjudo.com/
https://www.dojooutfitters.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andynewaza/
https://www.instagram.com/portlandjudo/
https://www.instagram.com/dojooutfitters/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY4U1tv8y6pHIqlbQJxWuWg
https://www.youtube.com/c/DojoOutfitters
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PortlandJudo
https://www.facebook.com/DojoOutfitters
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
4 Rick Maderis - Apparel Designer and Creator of Burnside Knives
Rick Maderis is founder of the Portland, Oregon based company Burnside Knives. He has also been a design professional at New Era Cap, Adidas, and Nike, where he was on the Jordan Team.
CONTACT RICK MADERIS AND BURNSIDE KNIVES
Website: http://www.rickmaderis.com/
https://burnsideknives.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maderis/
https://www.instagram.com/burnsideknives/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008599743621
https://www.facebook.com/burnsideknives
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
3 Jason Brick - Writer and Creator of the Safest Family on the Block Youtube channel and Podcast
Jason Brick is an author and podcaster. He has ghostwritten more than 20 books and contributed over 3,000 articles and short stories to print magazines such as Black Belt and Thrillist. All five volumes of his Random Encounters series were simultaneously top ten in their category on Amazon in 2016. He is also host of the Podcast Safest Family On the Block.
CONTACT JASON BRICK AND SAFEST FAMILY ON THE BLOCK PODCAST
Website: http://www.brickcommajason.com/
https://www.safestfamilyontheblock.org/about-us
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pdxkenpo/
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/safestfamilyontheblock/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBq-oYxZ0Ug66r6dRygC4Rg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonwbrick
https://www.facebook.com/SafestFamilyontheBlock
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
2 Brian Brister - Health Coach and Fashion Photographer
Brian Brister is a health coach and fashion photographer. In 2019 he lost 155 pounds and was featured in Men’s Health magazine.
CONTACT BRIAN BRISTER
Website: http://brianbrister.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianbrister/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brianbrister
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianbrister
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
1 Andrew Garrett - Chef
Andrew Garrett is an award-winning Portland, Oregon chef. In 2015, he was a competitor on the Food Network’s show Chopped, and is the current owner and operator of NW Elixirs. He was also one of the youngest tank gunners in the U.S. Army and is now 13 years sober.
CONTACT ANDREW GARRETT
Website: https://www.chefandrewgarrett.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chef_garrett/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_N8NeYxxqsffTC9dHlsdAQ
CONTACT RON CECIL
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dpennercline/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498866808
The Prologue - Ron and Daniel Introduce Cutting for Sign
Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner Cline introduce themselves as hosts. Ron is a masculine wholeness coach, writer and podcaster based out of Portland, Oregon. Daniel an artist, writer and podcaster based out of California.
Ron was born in rural New Mexico, where he fell in love with the Divine, rock climbing, and smoking cigarettes in secret. He has degrees in New Testament Literature and psychology, and though he seemed destined to become either a cowboy or preacher, spent years running large businesses domestically and abroad.
In 2016, he committed to his calling as a Masculine Wholeness coach and now guides men through the journey of resetting their nervous systems and disrupting patterns that have kept them from creating mental, physical and emotional health. Lasting romantic love has also been a vital aspect of Ron's story. His parents were married 13 times, and this has created in him a devotion to understanding what makes a healthy marriage. He has been vibrantly partnered since 2009 and is now father to a daughter and adopted son.
In 2020, Ron completed a lifelong goal by speed-climbing Yosemite's Half Dome. Later that year, he co-founded the podcast, Cutting for Sign and at the same time, doubled down on his lifelong pursuit of writing. He iscurrently working on a modern western inspired by the works of Cormac McCarthy and set in the high desert where he grew up.
Daniel was born in southern Mexico and raised in Northern California by his adoptive parents. He was a collegiate athlete, studied in Australia and Alaska, and earned a degree in journalism. He is now a painter, writer and co-host of the podcast Cutting For Sign, which explores the emotional, physical and cognitive potential expressed through human lives.
He is currently working on a book chronicling the experience of witnessing his mother's murder when he was four and the subsequent confrontation decades later with the emotional effects on himself and others involved. Daniel spends most days painting. To wind down, he partner dances and plays blues piano. He is currently based out of Northern California and keeps an art studio in Portland, Oregon.
CONTACT RON CECIL:
Website: https://www.roncecil.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rcecil/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ron.cecil
CONTACT DANIEL PENNER CLINE:
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