Back2Different
Episodes
98 episodes
Noemi Beres - Up 'til Denmark
Noemi and I travel well together. Liable to laughter, a couple of people who love to listen and reflect rather than talk at. We have a ball - she lives in Cyprus, via a life spent growing exponentially as sh...
David Abel - The point of maximum fear is the point of minimum danger.
Two very different and almost identical travelers, David Abel and I. We both explore and breathe curiosity. David is demonstrably ambitious, I more demonstrably gestalt. His childh...
Lauri Smith - Actors learn about intimacy in a room full of strangers.
As Lauri Smith and I traveled together for about an hour, I watched in my mind's eye a slide show of my childhood. We both were fine playing alone, we loved acting out stories and ...
Laurie Gardner - Wildly Curious
Laurie Gardner and I share the dearth of a concept: career. We could be politely described as peripatetic, by others taken with sarcasm as short attention-spanned. Laurie...
Eyra and Mathieu - You were whole, you just forgot.
Eyra and Mathieu collided with me in a conversation at The Friendship Bench. I have misplaced the topic, but not the experience. So I asked them to talk and listen for a bit and off we went - the quant...
Michelle Caryn Paul - On the Rogue Again
Smoothly, professionally, I approach with "I really enjoyed your presentation on AI." Luckily, it's true, and Michelle gets that, so we had a great introduction, which led to lu...
Heather Hansen O'Neill - Of Course It's Non-Linear!
"Doesn't work up to expectations" was inscribed repeatedly on my report card. Heather's too. She's danced professionally, I coincidentally, and we both love it. We talk about raising thin...
Jenlyn UNBN - Curiosity Becomes Audacity
"You may have to wait to talk, but you never have to wait to listen." Every back2different podcast starts with a 5-10 minute story - the guest's answer to "How did you get here?" That's all we need to move forward together. Just not...
Sarah Elkins - "Land the plane, Sarah!"
We had a wonderful journey together, Sarah and I, as we shared her blossoming, awakening, I guess, as an adult. As she says, "I found my voice at 40." A classically trained singer,...
Amy Gallie - Principals and Principles
I was never diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. Of course, the label didn't exist until 1980, so I simply received more than one report card that said, 'Seems to have difficulties following direction." As a lifelong teacher, I...
Victor Acquista - Globs of Energy
I have always suspected that lots of planets lined up identically for Victor's and my births. We don't finish each other's sentences, but we do finish each other's paragraphs....
Gina Mazza - We're Not here to Be Stagnant
I met Gina Mazza during an online conversation about creativity. Took us a bit of back-and-forth to get to recording, and then a few delays to mix and load. With every minute.She's had a varieg...
Maggie Jackson - The Islands of our Knowledge
Via my wonderful friend Craig James arrived Maggie Jackson. So here's a tiny sample of our journey together:The unease of uncertainty is ...
Carey Corr - I Thought a Lot Older
Carey Corr has a marvelous story. He is a film-maker and carries a boundless sense of curiosity and adventure. He's fearless and we share the excitement of new ideas alongside a deep suspicion of knowing<...
Clarabelle Miray Fields - It Has to be Raw
I met Clarabelle Miray Fields on a forum about creativity and knew I'd need to listen more to what she had to explore. She was self-publishing when she was four, binding her own books using her mother'...
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Glenn Behenna - Distinctly Average
We gathered each other through a mutual friend, Colin Smith. Glenn Behenna worke...
Peter Cook - Bring Their Brains to Work
Music, toxic HR culture, confounded with structure, 'I cycled through the pandemic,' moral hazard and money to be made, exam strategies and rock songs, and then our conversation took off. How can you not like listening in on a conversation ...
Michael Padurano - Showering in the Dark
We can be successful in business, outwardly merry, envied and admired. At the same time, we may be carrying a corrosive load of trauma, unhealed emotional and spiritual bruises that can lead to broken relationships, thoughts of suicide, and add...
Tamsin Astor - A Pillar of Pleasure
No stone left unturned in this one. Tamsin Astor is fearless, peripatetic (as in she's been all over the place geographically and educationally), and embracing. I would love to get together with...
Jim Burke - Be Careful Not to Should All over Yourself
Jim Burke appeared through my connection with Craig James, and each connection enriches the other. I finally got some time with Ji...
Phil Williams - Sit in the Dining Car with Total Strangers
I hate scratching my head with "I wonder what s/he meant by that?" First of all, I'm an inept fill-in-the-unspoken-part practitioner. Hence my pleasure at getting together with Phil Wi...
Ileana Ferber - This is Your Hummingbird
So Ileana and I explore trees, quiet, burls, pushing less and being more, Cra-Cra, chickens, naps, a sky with no airplanes, and "the moment you start laughing at yourself, that's when you're free."Ileana grew up in Venezuela, worked 24 ...
Ozlem Brooke Erol - Everybody is Waiting for Friday
Brooke left behind her home country - Turkey - and her successful career at IBM to find a new home - San Diego - and to start her own consulting businesses:purposeful.business is a sit...
