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Johnny Bowman shares about..- Men’s work with formerly incarcerated men and white collar millennial–and the unique medicine the former can gift- Going from feeling like an emotional child in his early 30s, lapped by his peers, to finding and creating beautiful examples of community- The usefulness and uselessness of shame- The missing lessons from Harvard Business School that shaped what he pursued in work- Trying to understand who he was after his dream didn’t pan out, without money as a buffer from facing his emotions- What is missing from a secular justice system that we once had in religious community- Becoming a man who can help create safety for other men- Why he considers early Christian saints to be the biggest punks of their time- Expanding the definition of strength so it works better for more men- How dads are an especially lonely species, especially those who were trained not to be “The Angry Dad”Chapters00:59 Creating Safety and Community15:00 "I felt like an emotional child."18:58 Restaurant owner energy: a male archetype23:47 The missing lessons from Harvard Business School27:54 From my core wound to my central focus on behalf of others35:32 "That was the most energizing feeling I could get."38:06 "My dream did not pan out, so who am I?"48:03 From economics and politics to emotional states54:34 "What am I really avoiding by telling myself I'm not a good leader?"59:38 With conflict avoidance, there is no safety01:07:08 "Shame is a paralyzing emotion that doesn't make anyone change."01:14:49 The Gray Area Between Spirituality, Religion, and Justice01:29:27 Helping men feel safe01:37:27 A credible messenger; service over domination01:52:25 "Every dude responds well to that."01:54:47 Finding the right words and terms for Men's Work01:59:29 Expanding the definition of strength02:02:30 "When people say the truth to each other, things are more interesting."02:05:41 "Dads are an especially lonely species."02:11:16 "Anger is the #1 emotion white collar men are afraid to express."02:17:33 "Everyone is more similar to me than different."02:24:04 Debrief and Behind-the-ScenesShow Notes20:45 - Restaurant owner energy https://newsletter.amanswork.com/p/how-to-prescribe-manhood27:25 - All Kings, a Men’s Group for formerly incarcerated https://www.allkings.org/01:07:15 - Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, an Inuit film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanarjuat:_The_Fast_Runner01:08:15 - robert wolff’s Original Wisdom https://www.amazon.com/Original-Wisdom-Stories-Ancient-Knowing/dp/089281866201:15:40 - Johnny’s blog post on the Rabbi who visited a prisoner https://newsletter.amanswork.com/p/who-are-your-people01:22:30 - ManKind Project https://mankindproject.org/01:25:45 - Freedom and getting your balls back https://newsletter.amanswork.com/p/the-primary-question02:23:40 - The Mark of Cain (Russian prison tattoo documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-fccwTjuI02:25:45 - All Kings coverage in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/style/all-kings-mens-work-retreat-masculinity.html or https://archive.is/fWfXbFind Johnny Bowman everywhereSubstack newsletter: A Man's Work: Hot takes and tools for modern manhood https://newsletter.amanswork.com/ X: https://x.com/johnnyfbowmanGive Feedbackhttps://forms.gle/t7WucZyUKvu12tN8AMusic credits:Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Get full access to The Inner Landscape Travel Agency at tilta.substack.com/subscribe

Anita Tatlow shares about..* How 432hz can send a fussy 18-month-old to sleep* Naming a song-in-progress to convey its essence with collaborators* Writing music from darker places, joyous ones, and also the okay ones in between* How an international community of friends can come together for each other during preterm births and other hard times* Releasing music under a moniker vs under one’s own name* Pioneering with the ambient Christian music space* The inspiration of a geographical region through its little known sides* The musical identity of a cosmopolitan church in Sweden with congregants from 70+ countriesChapters00:00 "When you're creating, everything else is silence."10:53 Collaborating on a song through the essence of its title14:27 432hz: The frequency of the universe..and restless toddlers?19:43 Sounds of the night: Aurora Borealis in Sweden and gritty city lights of Hong Kong21:41 Finding silence with children and, despite distance, international friends30:39 The Value of Chosen Family and Close Relationships36:25 Exploring emotions poetically and spiritually43:11 Writing music in the dark spaces, the light ones, and the moments in between47:44 Creating behind a moniker and under my own name57:30 Realizing the reciprocal nature of the human experience01:03:14 2008: Meeting over music and bonding over faith01:06:36 Pioneering a niche with ambient Christian music01:14:31 The space ambient music can give us01:23:27 Art should be adding to the human experience01:30:51 Inspiration and amazement through London, Sweden, Hong Kong, and the world01:40:35 A cosmopolitan church in Sweden with 70+ nationalities 01:49:56 Faith through questions, doubt, and challengesShow Notes13:24 - Anita Tatlow’s Nocturnae https://youtu.be/9yj_DIotJdM 14:24 - 432hz https://www.calm.com/blog/432-hertz 18:05 - Organist Jameson Nathan Jones https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesonNathanJones 36:58 - Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Heart-Meaningful-Connection-Experience/dp/0593207246/ 48:50 - Anita’s Lights EP https://open.spotify.com/album/2XpmTqJLaXDu9CGLs7P0Xz#login49:15 - Anita and Ben’s Salt of the Sound https://www.youtube.com/saltofthesound 49:16 - Anita and Ben’s Narrow Skies https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-BypgjGf27pwbsvO-owbTA 01:11:14 17 minute co-created journey, the In Prayer EP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd18QH97LpQ01:18:10 - Kyrie Eleison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O05FVWIuavc01:29:14 - Sarah Groves’s Add to the Beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqoxH2J1pLgFind Anita Tatlow everywhereInstagram: https://instagram.com/anita_tatlow Facebook: https://facebook.com/anitatatlowmusic Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4hjXUEgdALesVBGGDx1hKB?si=jxPZikydQB672POslweA1ASalt of the SoundInstagram: https://instagram.com/saltofthesound Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0S3L6vtzNN4ArFWH2709SB?si=fKpbjWyPRB2Y5WTUdRWJ8wGive Feedbackhttps://forms.gle/t7WucZyUKvu12tN8AMusic credits:Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Get full access to The Inner Landscape Travel Agency at tilta.substack.com/subscribe

Neseret Bemient shares about..- Fearing the conscription of her brothers as child soldiers while in Ethiopia, navigating a Kenyan refugee camp, and emigrating to Canada - Becoming a mental health practitioner—and patient- Recovering from antidepressant-induced bipolar disorder across ten different medications over 13 years (now zero)- Living too quietly most of her and life and now opening up to speaking and being seen- Not knowing what it meant to be a mother at 22 and finding new hope through instinct- Racing to raise her wounded inner child and intergenerational trauma to raise her daughter- How sorting yourself out is the best gift you can give your child and being of service—and hope—to so many globallyChapters00:00 "How can I overcome--and help others do the same?"13:37 Unlearning an Ethiopian bond with animals18:07 A compassion for others from my experience34:40 Finding hope and instinct at 22 with my daughter42:12 "The first patient on the operating table is yourself"46:39 Growing up in a different tradition of mutual care53:15 Healing and wholeness is an an inner journey, not a "next pill" one58:11 Narrative Psychiatry01:08:54 A person who is sick has just one dream01:13:57 Becoming a psych nurse chose me01:21:57 Becoming the mother I wanted to be01:37:09 The thousand dreams I've dreamt since recovery01:49:07 Tracing the generations of women in my family01:54:33 Living through a civil war02:01:35 Away from mass graves and into a Kenyan refugee camp02:16:11 Finding a new family in Canada02:27:52 Shifting from thinking in Amharic to English; refuge through my ESL teacher02:34:41 Finding unconditional love and commonality with a former hockey player from Alberta02:41:01 The questions I hope to ask and the ones I hope to answer02:47:14 Communing with my inner need to create02:52:04 Creativity and mental illness: pathology and the normal range of human experiences03:12:44 Debrief and Behind the ScenesShow Notes- Neville Goddard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Goddard- Og Mandino’s The Greatest Miracle in the World https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Miracle-World-Og-Mandino/dp/0553279726- 59:04 - Lewis Mehl-Madrona’s Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Medicine-History-Healing-Process/dp/15914306581:14:04 - Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/08070142732:35:15 - David Hawkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hawkins_(philosopher)Find Neseret Bemient everywhereX: https://twitter.com/JourneyofHope4UYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NeseretBemientWebsite: https://www.mentalhealthreset.org/Give Feedbackhttps://forms.gle/t7WucZyUKvu12tN8AMusic credits:Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Get full access to The Inner Landscape Travel Agency at tilta.substack.com/subscribe

Anya Ruvinskaya shares about.. - The lifelong search for home within the overlap of many communities - Connecting connect to the spiritual in any culture - Finding creativity after living through communism and atheism - When the answers aren’t the answers and won’t give you what you think you want - Generational values of living for oneself and living for others, and how financial freedom can obscure community ties - The development of the individual (and AI) within different cultural valuesChapters 00:00 The Power of Curiosity 00:52 Numbing Silence, Reflective Silence, and Going inward 09:02 Curiosity in Namibia 14:51 Assimilating and Finding the Culturally Universal 24:25 Searching for Home and Feeling Estranged 45:48 Exploring From a Wound 56:36 Giving Myself Permission to Explore Making Art (While Navigating Death) 01:02:31 The Questions I'm Still Holding 01:08:44 Material Success and Letting Myself Feel Free 01:10:44 Do I Want the Answers to My Questions? 01:14:47 Running Away From My Intuition 01:22:40 The (Im)possibility of Belonging 01:30:43 Finding Creativity After Communism and Atheism 01:41:11 Alone, Not Lonely 01:46:44 Encountering the Sacred in Any Religion 01:56:18 Feeling Understood by AI (and People) 02:04:52 Personal Sabbaticals and Communal Roles 02:10:09 Unsuccessfully Filling Social Needs With TV (and AI) 02:21:52 The Development of the Individual (and AI) Within Cultural Values 02:38:43 Fostering Understanding and Connection through ConversationShow Notes Gentle high pitch sounds that’s pleasant from Tiesto’s Walking on Clouds, especially around 5:42): https://youtu.be/K2CeXZlSZak47:34 Laurie Santos’ Coursera offering The Science of Wellbeing https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being 48:40 The Artist’s Way https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252/ 59:25 The Five Whys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys 01:25:15 - The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky https://www.amazon.com/How-Happiness-Approach-Getting-Life/dp/0143114956 01:29:01 - Thich Nhat Hanh’s book on anger https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Cooling-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1573229377 01:56:01 - Pi, the emotionally intelligent AI https://pi.ai/onboarding 02:43:15 - James Finley on a Meditation for Two https://youtu.be/E17l20-j8hkFind Anya Ruvinskaya everywhere LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anya-ruvinskaya/Give Feedback https://forms.gle/t7WucZyUKvu12tN8A Music credits: Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Get full access to The Inner Landscape Travel Agency at tilta.substack.com/subscribe

Bethany Ranes shares about.. - Becoming maternal as a stepmother, letting failure guide development - How growing up in an era of shame helped her become a more attuned neuroscientist - A quirky neuroscientist's intuition, interoception, and instinct - Appalachian Granny Magick - Rolling into a police station with derby gear and a mohawk–-for professional reasons - Seeing the soul as the energy between the neuronsChapters 00:00 "Sensations of the Past With the Thoughts of the Present" 07:48 Aha Moments and a Continuous State of Awe 12:46 Parenting and Learning from Mistakes 18:53 Rebelling In Favor of Boredom 21:15 Becoming Step-Maternal and Nurturing the Ability to Fail 26:29 Taking Things Apart But Not Putting Them Back Together 32:28 Growing Up in an Era of Shame..While Helping Those In Need 35:30 Depression as a Condition of Being 38:51 Your Body is Working as it Should 42:35 Being a Perennial Misunderstood 49:45 A Neuroscientist's Intuition, Interoception, and Instinct 01:15:56 Living in a Place, As What the Place Is 01:22:06 The Quirky People Who Let Me Embrace My Quirk 01:33:14 Being Loved Because I'm Like This 01:39:45 Continuity With My Family's Culture: From Other-ness to Us-ness 01:52:01 Exploring Abnormal Psychology (Because It's All Abnormal) 01:55:47 The Soul as the Energy Between the Neurons 02:05:10 The Symbols Only Available to Us Through Other Religions--Including Appalachian Granny Magic 02:11:20 Making Rules That Aren't "'Cuz I Said So" 02:20:00 Imagination, Creativity, and Solving SQL Challenges in a Dream 02:41:37 Embracing Curiosity and Self-Discovery 02:48:15 Debrief and Behind the ScenesShow Notes ~14:40 Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe image (the J that is actually a U) https://www.organism.earth/library/docs/john-archibald-wheeler/participatory-universe.jpg 02:04:00 - Lisa Feldman Barrett and untranslatable foreign words: https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Emotion_concepts_from_non-English_languages 02:08:41 - Appalachian Granny Magick https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/appalachian-folk-magic More on it here: https://youtu.be/ex_4tgyzWZ8Find Bethany Ranes everywhere Blog:  https://medium.com/firing-and-wiringLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-bethany-ranes/IG: https://www.instagram.com/firingandwiringGive Feedback https://forms.gle/t7WucZyUKvu12tN8A Music credits: Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Get full access to The Inner Landscape Travel Agency at tilta.substack.com/subscribe

IJ Makan, deeply connected to the Tangkhul tribe in India, shares powerful insights on identity and acceptance. He reflects on embodying his beliefs amid skepticism from previous communities. IJ navigates the profound intertwining of mourning, fatherhood, and martial arts, finding beauty in unexpected places. The discussion touches on the challenge of maintaining silence for personal growth, the complexities of friendship during hardship, and how daily practices can cultivate virtue in life.

Kelly Wilde-Miller, an author celebrated for her best-selling book on creativity and emotional regulation, shares an inspiring journey of self-discovery. She discusses writing her book in just seven days and navigating the emotional complexities of helping her father through his final days. Delving into the balance of creativity and rest, she emphasizes the importance of silence in relationships and personal growth. Kelly also reflects on the transformative power of grief and love, highlighting how these experiences enrich our lives and nurture authenticity.

Dive into the depths of introspection and human connection, where curiosity reigns. The host reflects on personal struggles and the importance of honesty in conversations. Engaging dialogues with diverse guests promise to enrich your understanding of the inner landscape. Discover how to deepen your relationships and spark meaningful discussions!