Friendship Episodes
July 5, 2021
Blockchain and the Kingdom of Bling - Dirty Big Secrets Talk with Lisa Calkins
Lisa Calkins of Halfblast Studios joins our blockchain talk, but we get very human with it and talk about such things as fraud and the fact that it doesn't always just happen the way that you think it happens . Lisa explains credit card fraud and fraud in general.
Also, why you will never forget y…
June 4, 2021
The Family We Create - Families of All Kinds - Interview w/ Jenn Cleary and Dorje Dolma
The Family We Create – Families of All Kinds: this episode is the perfect example of family, the family that we create and showing that it really entails families of all kinds. And interestingly enough, it's also the song title (“Families of All Kinds”) of one of the songs on Jen Cleary's new albu…
May 25, 2021
Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings -#3 Social Responsibility
Blockchain #3 - Social Responsibility.
Our series on Blockchain and how it will empower people, with Prodessor Mostafa Purmehdi continues. This episode defines social responsibility and talks about how companies and countries have behaved (the good, the bad, and the really horrifying like King L…
May 23, 2021
Hope
We're waiting on something.
Faith and hope are complimentary. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Faith is grounded in the reality of the past. Hope is looking to the reality of the future.
While everybody is really trying to live their best lives, you can't, you don't always, you can tr…
May 19, 2021
CONNECTED – Roundtable #4 , The Reemergence
This roundtable is about the physiological feat that’s necessary for survival; hibernation, and the various forms we go within and “slumber” to regain not only life, but understanding. And then we discuss the ways in which we reemerge and blossom.
How do we come out of our slumber spiritually, emo…
May 18, 2021
Blockchain - How Tech Can Empower and Change Human Beings - Blockchain, ART, MUSIC, and NFTs with Mostafa Purmehdi
Have you all noticed how change seems to be occurring more and more often and happening faster and bigger than ever before?
The thing about change is that it is never comfortable; there is a period of growth and adjustment. What we may forget is that we can’t be complacent and say to ourselves “I’…
May 9, 2021
Laughter is Medicine with Maz Jobrani, Tehran, and Mostafa Purmehdi
Two brilliant comics and a wise professor join our talk. Comics (and fellow hanvatans) Maz Jobrani and Tehran help us to explore the healing that happens in our society when we have levity.
The principle function of laughter is the creation and the deepening of our social bonds. Laughter is a soci…
March 8, 2021
Unseen Forces w/ special guest Rachel Chevalier
Episode 31 “Unseen Forces”
Perceive those things, which cannot be seen. Understand what cannot be seen by the eye.
How do we access this information undetectable to the human eye?
How do we access information beyond the five senses? That's because we have a six tenths and everybody, every human …
Oct. 12, 2020
Play
PLAY – We begin to find out why Fawn’s nick name is “The Wookie” and why she struggles with playing all the great games: Pictionary, Scrabble, cards, music… We know all the great things friendship does for us spiritually, physically, emotionally, and the same, same is true about play. Play is a so…
Oct. 5, 2020
Survival of the Fittest and the Unlikely Friendship
We begin with Rumi as food for thought and get right into it. Fawn challenges Darwin’s theory and uses the unlikely friendships as an example of how wrong Darwin’s theory is. Nature relies on cooperation and mutual aid, not competition. It's not about competing for survival. We're here to help each…
Aug. 31, 2020
All In the Family
Could the loneliness epidemic have been rooted initially from the family unit, where we learned how to treat each other? As the family dynamic has changed over the last few generations, so now have friendships. Fawn and Matt also discuss the role of the corporate/job world and how that has influenc…
Aug. 31, 2020
Being A Good Host In the World
Fawn and Matt talk about treating the outer world (and your inner world) as your home and everyone in it as your special guest.Treating strangers, people you know, to people you work with and even advisaries as if they are your guests and assuming the role of a party host and creating a space to ha…
Aug. 31, 2020
People Along the Way
Fawn and Matt share stories of friends along the way that shifted everything in their lives for the better. Fawn gets emotional about her friend "Subculture Joe" (Jason) and how he made a profound impact on her and on the city of Seattle. Fawn and Matt also debate free will as Fawn shares her thoug…
Aug. 26, 2020
The Mentor
Fawn describes how "Be Friendly World" and this podcast began and the mentor who was the catalyst. She describes Santa Monica, the kind of utopia that existed within a community in Los Angeles and how after traveling around the world as a documentary photographer she noticed the growing disconnect …