Conversations on Healing & Growth

In this episode, Martin and Ben dive into the world of reading books and its ability to help us Heal & Grow ourselves and our world. 

As national and international systems of governance disintegrate, Martin and Ben navigate a path of conscious integration in letting go of the Ascension Myth through the inspiring wisdom of Rumi and Tibetan Buddhist monk and author Pema Chodren.  

In today's episode, Martin and Ben dive into the value of being present with our deep feelings rather than redirecting or replacing them with cognition or consumption. 

Ben and Martin wrap up 2025 by exploring what it means to embrace stillness and mystery in a soul-led life.

Ben and Martin revisit an early episode from July 2024, No Longer Riding on the Merry-Go-Round, where they provide a fresh perspective on the inner muse and creating a vibrant life in partnership with the world around us. 

In this episode we dramatically explore the inner voices that are expressed as we Heal & Grow. We encourage you, the listener, to find within yourself your version of how these three voices find union in your being. This union of sorts is how we access our own remarkable life. 

Blazing colors countered by the soft patter of falling leaves, the sounds of birds, crickets, squirrels. We feel the cool dry air enter our bodies... we let ourselves feel an entirely different pace of life... Yes, something begins to shift…

In a world of political and social division, driven by the culture of winning and losing, how do we expand the love we share with our communities through a conscious practice with ourselves? How do we bring kindness and simplicity into the conversation and actively create and nurture community?

In a world whirling with superficiality, Ben and Martin discuss the nature of the sacred and how we access it within ourselves and in connection with the world around us. 

In this episode, Ben interviews Zeke Perkins, a labor organizer with an extensive history over the last 15 years in the protest movement. He shares his experience tracking, recording and interacting with Commander Bovino and his 80 U.S. Border Patrol agents as they moved through Chicago as an occupying army on Sunday, September 28th, 2025. 

In this episode, we talk about about storytelling as a healing modality, and how we can embody our biggest story with authenticity.

In this episode, Ben and Martin offer a recipe for cultivating creativity in life by way of the TV show "The Bear".

In this episode, we focus on worldwide inter-connectivity and what comes when we make conscious choices in our economic caste system. 

In this episode, Ben and Martin speak with Diane Umstead about her lifelong journey advocating for children and what it means to her as she transitions into a new phase of life.

In this episode, Martin and Ben inquire into and explore a correlated journey between the rise of empathy and the technologies that have brought us to an increasingly desensitized and overwhelmed world. 

Returning to our Your Part series, Martin speaks with visionary educator Romey Pittman on resiliency, coming to terms with the dynamics of power, and the foundational importance of connection in the classroom and beyond. 

In this episode Martin and Ben dynamically explore creativity in relation to materials and resources, dance into the realm of the Chakras, and within the flow, bring the tragedy of the commons into consideration within the freedom and responsibility that comes when using technologies such as AI. 

In this episode, Martin and Ben explore the threads and consequences of hyper-rationality and unprocessed emotion. In doing so, we discover an unexpected truth.

In this episode, Martin and Ben explore the fevered aspiration of  generational wealth in American culture. A notion of ascension not seeded in equity or fairness but rather in achieving immortality through material wealth and its accompanying power.