The podcast using the imagination to rediscover the heart of our country
Once upon a time, The United States of America was nothing more than an idea floating around in the
imagination. An idea that was brought to life by people who found a way to look beyond the frustrating world
as it was
and focus on
the dream of what it could be.
But we forget that throughout American history, our founders and the ordinary people who came after them and
built on their dream—people like Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B Anthony—at first found themselves powerless against their
existing circumstances. Their freedom came after they decided to reimagine their place in the world.
This podcast is an imaginative journey designed to help us all follow in this
tradition, so that we too may be who we
want to be and create the world we want to live in.
Genesis
In 2024 I was exploring ways to use new technology to address social challenges, like the use of capital
punishment, and reached out to one of my old college professors, the leading expert in the space. Little did I
know, his primary concern was and continues to be increasing civic disengagement and disconnection in our
country—a pattern he and other researchers could trace back over forty years.
After meeting with him in a small socratic group over the course of two months, his advice to all of us was
quite simple: we can't possibly know what will work, just commit to consistently doing something that
serves our nation.
This podcast is me doing something, but more importantly it serves as a way for us to explore the
freedom and reconnection that comes from questioning our relationship to the world around us—a
realization initially sparked by accepting a seemingly random invitation to train in the world of shamanic
practice and journeying years earlier.