ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
How did you become who you are? We all have our persistent obsessions, projects, and ideas that seize our attention and drive us throughout our lives. For some, these callings become hobbies, for others, part of their professional life. On this podcast, I talk with people about where their personal interests have taken them. We are all kind of winging it as we find our path. If you're like me and find personal stories inspiring and interesting, this podcast might be for you.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
83 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
9 episodes
since March 16, 2024
episodic
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Dan is back. We talk about the role of libraries in education, teaching kids to drive, my job in publishing (he turns the tables and interviews me), what it was like to grow up in the information dark ages, what you can get from a conversation that you can’t from the internet, book clubs, Gabor Mat…
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Is it better to practice difficult things by making them easier, or by reducing the consequences of failure?
Stephan Kesting is known among jiujitsu practitioners as a prolific creator of video instructionals. However, he is also a firefighter and an avid outdoorsman who has completed numerous sol…
In this episode I talk with Chris Kuszmaul, a robotics coach and aikido instructor. I discover that there are things called sailbots. He describes his various incarnations as a robotics teacher, including how his son’s interest led to his first such position. We discuss what it is that robots actua…
In this episode I talk with Curt Fukuda and Ralph Pearce, the authors of the book San Jose Japantown: A Journey. We look at how they each grew up in the San Jose area, becoming interested in local history in different ways, until after crossing paths a few times, they ended up working together on t…
In this episode I talk with Heather Lane, a friend from high school who ran several small businesses, including a landmark ice cream shop, for more than two decades. Heather has taught business and entrepreneurship, and is an avid hiker. We talk about Purity Ice Cream, which began in 1936 and conti…
In this podcast I chat with Sergio Trejo, a psychotherapist and mental performance coach. We talk about how his interests in psychology and coaching developed over time, what motivates people to engage in sports, learning from winning vs learning from losing, the role of breath work in mental perfo…
In this conversation with Michele Korb, we talk about teaching, jazz, and martial arts. Michele gives her perspective on finding mentors, leaping into the unknown, teaching from a cookbook vs encouraging open inquiry, the effects of hands-on learning, sudden shifts in one's life, jazz performance, …
In this episode I talk with my friend Ariel Mendez about the concept of advocacy and what it's like to be active in city politics. We talk transportation infrastructure, the value of thinking local, electric bikes, having an improv mindset, and the challenge of communicating complex ideas. We also …
In this episode I talk with my friend Dan McConnell about what predisposed him to become a teacher, what he finds rewarding in teaching, his improvisational, collaborative approach to fostering curious minds, the return to the classroom after Covid, enrichment, role playing games, measuring student…
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