Podcasts by A Peace of My Mind
Stories to bridge divides and build community.
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Derek Thompson from 2022-02-12T09:00
Derek Thompson is an activist in Portland, Oregon and the founder and Executive Director of Voices4Justice, an organization dedicated to bringing together concerned community members...clergy, l...
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Nathan Sheppard from 2022-01-22T21:00
Nathan Sheppard is a Lieutenant in the Portland police bureau. He is a father. Both he and his wife of 21 years are Army veterans who were psychological operation specialists.
Nathan was ...
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Natalie Brewster Nguyen from 2022-01-10T06:00
Natalie Brewster Nguyen is an artist, a mother, a social justice advocate, a business owner, a writer and a sex worker. I met her in Tucson, Arizona.
Because of COVID, I interviewed Nat...
Kate Adair from 2021-11-09T11:00
Kate Adair lives in a women's shelter in Corvalis, Oregon, as she works toward more stable housing.
We spoke of her journey that led to homelessness, her love of singing, and her d...
Sean Davis from 2021-10-25T16:00
Sean Davis is a writer, a veteran and a wildland firefighter. He lives in McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. In the summer of 2020, the McKenzie River Valley was devastated by a forest fire that quickly b...
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Charlene Wicks from 2021-10-19T17:00
Charlene Wicks is a snowbird. Originally from Eugene, Oregon, she has spent the past 23 years at the Gila Mountain RV Resor...
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Francisco Martin from 2021-10-14T21:00
Francisco Olachea "Pancho" Martin is a street nurse in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and works with Voices from the ...
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Paul Kaye from 2021-10-12T18:00
Paul Kaye is the President of Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens and the President of the Movement of Spiritual...
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Noemi Aidee Tungui Aguilar from 2021-10-10T22:00
Noemi Aidee Tungui Aguilar comes from the Purépecha people of Michoacán, Mexico. Sh...
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Zachary Pierce from 2021-10-09T21:00
Zachary Pierce is a member of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. At three weeks old, he was adopted by an English and German mother and an Irish father.
Zachary spent more than a decade ...
Kristen Sandstrom from 2021-09-19T19:00
Kristen Sandstrom is a self-professed word geek. She is an avid reader, writer and seller of books. I interviewed her in Bayfield, Wisconsin. We talked about her love for Lake Superior, her unde...
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Jeff Rennicke from 2021-08-21T15:00
Jeff Rennicke is a writer, a photographer and a storyteller in Bayfield, Wisconsin. He is the Executive Director at Friends of the Apo...
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Lori Schneider from 2021-08-14T13:00
Lori Schneider has climbed the tallest mountain on all seven continents, a feat she accomplished while being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
We talked about finding strength in the f...
Bazile Panek from 2021-08-02T21:00
Bazile Panek is majoring in Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University. He is an enrolled tribal member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Red Cliff, Wisconsin.
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Tania Aubid from 2021-07-28T06:00
Tania Aubid is an Anishinaabe woman involved in the Water Protector movement resisting the Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota.
We talked about her work as a water protector, the need...
Ken Craft from 2021-07-21T19:00
Rev. Andy Bales from 2021-07-15T13:00
Rev. Andy Bales is the president and CEO at Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row in Los Angeles, California.
We talked about his father's experience wit...
Vincent Turner from 2021-07-06T06:00
Vincent Turner once lived on the streets of Los Angeles, in a liquor store parking lot. He tried to build barriers to keep others out because he was disappointed with himself. He knew he was hur...
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Neal Moore from 2021-06-28T00:00
Neal Moore is a journalist, an adventurer and an expatriate. He is in the midst of a two-year journey, paddling 7,500 miles across the United States. I met him in a coffee shop—by chance—in Colu...
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Erica Hernandez from 2021-06-08T12:00
In honor of Pride Month, we are sharing this conversation with Erica Hernandez from Yuma, Arizona. We talked about her work as a youth minister in the church, her journey as an ally for her tran...
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Graham Bodie from 2021-05-28T10:00
Graham Bodie is a Chief Listening Officer of Listen First Project and also a professor of integrated media communications at th...
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Lydia Koltai from 2021-04-29T20:00
Lydia Koltai is a mother, an herbalist and a social justice activist in Oxford, Mississippi.
We talked about her efforts with others to move a Confederate statue from the courthouse law...
Peyton Scott Russell from 2021-04-06T08:00
Peyton Scott Russell is a Minneapolis graffiti artist and street artist who painted a 12' x 12' black and white spray paint portra...
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Will Snowden from 2021-03-06T20:00
Will Snowden received his law degree from Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey and worked as a public defender in New Orleans. Through his work in the justice system, he became concerned with wea...
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Gary Paul Nabhan from 2021-03-01T14:00
Gary Paul Nabhan is an ecumenical Franciscan brother who does cross cultural collaborations for environmental and social justice and caring for creation. He is known as a pioneer in the local fo...
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Sebastian Quinac from 2021-02-24T14:00
Sebastian Quinac immigrated from Guatemala in his 20s to flee the civil war and threats to his life. After time in California and New York, he settled in Tucson, Arizona where he has lived fo...
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Juanita Molina from 2021-02-19T18:00
Juanita Molina is the Executive Director for Border Action Network in Tucson, Arizona. Throughout her career she has advocated for LGBTQ communities and offered support to people with HIV/AID...
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Alvaro Enciso from 2021-02-12T19:00
Alvaro Enciso has been placing crosses in the Sonoran Desert for seven years to mark the sites where migrants have died on their journey into the United States. His goal is make the invisible...
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Teresa Reyes from 2021-02-05T20:00
Teresa Reyes was born in El Salvador and came to the United States in 1999 when she was 17 years old, nine months pregnant and spoke only Spanish. As she established herself in her new home, she...
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Tony Sedgwick from 2021-01-26T19:00
Tony Sedgwick is the President of the Board for the Santa Fe Ranch Foundation, a working cattle ranch near Nogales, Arizona and just a few mi...
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Jonathan Green from 2021-01-15T22:00
Jonathan Green is an acclaimed American painter from Charleston, South Carolina whose work centers on his Gullah tradition and the nearby commu...
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Lee Bennett, Jr. from 2021-01-09T00:00
Lee Bennet, Jr. grew up a few blocks away from Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and is a long-time member of the congregation. A retired Army officer, Lee spent several y...
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Trudy B. Grant from 2021-01-01T19:00
Trudy Grant is the Manager of Religious Affairs and External Relations for the National Action Network. I interviewed her at Charity Mission Bapt...
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Dr. Elijah Heyward III from 2020-12-25T20:00
Dr. Elijah Heyward III is the Chief Operating Officer for the International African American Museum being built in Charleston, South Carolina, and due to open in 2022. The museum is being built ...
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Rev. DeMett Jenkins from 2020-12-18T19:00
Rev. DeMett Jenkins is the granddaughter of businessman, preacher and civil rights activist Esau Jenkins. She works as the Lilly Director of Education and Engagement for Faith-Based Communities ...
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Joseph McGill from 2020-12-11T16:00
Joseph McGill is the founder of The Slave Dwelling Project. I interviewed him at the Magnolia Planta...
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Jillian Peterson from 2020-08-18T21:00
Jillian Peterson teaches Criminology and Criminal Justice at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She co-founded The Violence Project with...
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Michael Brown Sr. and Anthony Shahid from 2020-06-08T07:00
I spoke with Michael Brown Sr. and Anthony Shahid as they were in Minneapolis to support the movement of protests following the police killing of George Floyd. We talk about the 2014 killing of ...
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Episode 40 - Nate Houghton from 2020-06-06T07:00
Nate Houghton is an entrepreneur based in Boston, Massachusetts. We talk about his long-time diagnosis of depression and OCD and how he feels like his history with mental health issues has helpe...
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Episode 39 - Bryn Baertlein from 2020-06-03T13:00
Bryn Baertlein is an elementary school teacher in Winona, Minnesota. She married Matt Baertlein on April 18, 2020. We talk about how they reduced their wedding from 350 guests to a party of 10, ...
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Episode 38 - Andrew Waite from 2020-05-25T13:00
Andrew Waite is the 5th generation of his family to run the Waite & Son Funeral Home in Medina and Brunswick, Ohio. We talk about the ways the...
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Episode 37 - Kristin Schenck from 2020-05-21T16:00
Kristin Schenck is the co-owner of Log Jam, a bar and grill in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Last week when the state's supreme court overturned the the extension of Governor Tony Evers' stay ...
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Episode 36 - David Smith from 2020-05-18T14:00
David Smith is an American living in Moldova, and is one of the founders of Smokehouse, an American BBQ restaurant in the capital city of Chi?in?u. We talk about starting a business without maki...
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Episode 35 - John Noltner from 2020-05-14T09:00
My longtime friend Wade Barry turns the tables and interviews me for How Life Changed. We talk about how COVID-19 has impacted my home and work life, the value of documenting stories of hope and...
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Episode 34 - Christa Goodwin from 2020-05-11T16:00
Christa Goodwin is a middle school teacher and mother of two in Elberta, Alabama. Her husband Nate was diagnosed with cancer on June 4, 2019 and passed away at home April 9, 2020. We talk about...
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Episode 33 - Chica and Sunsets from 2020-05-09T07:00
Jen Beck Seymour and Greg Seymour are long distance hikers who go by their trail names, Chica and Sunsets. For the past year, they had been renovating a hostel in Franklin, North Carolina along ...
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Episode 32 - Ryan Silverman from 2020-05-07T14:00
Ryan Silverman is a Broadway actor who was playing the role of Billy Flynn in the hit production of Chicago when the coronavirus closed down New York City's theater district. We talk about ...
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Episode 31 - Kari Rada from 2020-05-05T19:00
Kari Rada lives in Chetek, Wisconsin. We talk about her weekly trips to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for chemotherapy treatments, her enormous collection of pig figurines and her love...
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Episode 30 - Neal Hagberg from 2020-05-02T09:00
Neal Hagberg is a singer - songwriter in Minneapolis and also the director of Tennis and Life Camps for Gustavus Adolphus College. We talk about the process of deciding whether camps can be held...
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Episode 29 - Joe Davis from 2020-04-29T20:00
Joe Davis is a nationally touring artist, educator and speaker based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We talk about his faith, the creative ways he sees people coming together virtually to build commu...
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Episode 28 - Ambassador James Pettit from 2020-04-27T20:00
Ambassador James Pettit retired in 2018 from 38 years of service with the U. S. Department of State. We talk about the massive effort to repatriate American citizens back to this country during ...
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Episode 27 - Lars Pruitt from 2020-04-25T15:00
Lars Pruitt is the frontman for the Minneapolis-based band Yam Haus. We talk about the momentum the band was building, the upcoming tour they had to cancel and the creative space that opened up ...
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Episode 26 - Deborah Doering from 2020-04-23T15:00
Deborah Doering is an artist and educator in Harlem, New York. We talk about her bike ride through a seemingly empty Manhattan, the nightly 7 pm banging of pots to celebrate the frontline health...
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Episode 25 - Mike Arneson from 2020-04-21T15:00
Mike Arneson lives in Big Sky, Montana, but he is sheltering in place with his aging parents in La Crosse, Wisconsin while his wife Sue helps take care of their grandson Hank in Minneapolis to h...
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Episode 24 - Danny O'Neel from 2020-04-19T14:00
Danny O'Neel is a U.S. Army veteran and a fellow at the Elizabeth Dole Foundation. He lives in Folsom, California. We talk about his work with veterans who suffer from PTSD and how social i...
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Episode 23 - Jennifer Louden from 2020-04-17T16:00
Jennifer Louden is a best-selling author and a leading voice on self-care and creative transformation. Her new book, Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What's Next will be ...
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Episode 22 - Jon Pancost from 2020-04-16T10:00
Jon Pancost is a stone mason in Lucas, Kansas. We talk about the small number of COVID-19 cases in the rural areas of the state, the prevalence of conspiracy theories and the difficulty in craft...
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Episode 21 - Jody Ross from 2020-04-14T11:00
Jody Ross was tested for COVID-19 in Minneapolis on March 18, 2020 and immediately started isolating. Her test came back positive on March 23. She has now been cleared to come out of quarantine ...
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Episode 20 - Gavin Wagner from 2020-04-13T16:00
Gavin Wagner is an Honors College student from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We talk about his quick transition from learning on campus to distance learning from home, the los...
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Episode 19 - Rose McGee from 2020-04-12T14:00
Rose McGee started Sweet Potato Comfort Pie after driving pies to Ferguson, Missouri, as a catalyst for caring and building community. We talked about the pies she is making now, the ways she is...
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Episode 18 - Arno Michaelis from 2020-04-11T19:00
Arno Michaelis is a professional speaker based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We talk about the recent primary vote in his state, his history as a white supremacist, and his belief that love and compa...
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Episode 17 - Kris Cain from 2020-04-10T10:00
Kris Cain is a psychotherapist in Frankfurt, Illinois. We talk about the rise of anxiety in this era of social distancing and uncertainty, our need to maintain human connections and her own disc...
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Episode 16 - Ethan Bender from 2020-04-09T11:00
Ethan Bender is a bass player, husband and father in Milwaukee Wisconsin. We talk about his frustration at having to go out to vote in the state's primary election this week, even as they w...
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Episode 15 - Sandi Wesel from 2020-04-08T18:00
Sandi Wesel's father has been hospitalized since early March. Although his health issues are not related to COVID-19, the virus has impacted Sandi's ability to visit her father as well...
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Episode 14 - Steve Wewerka from 2020-04-07T16:00
Steve Wewerka is a fine art photographer who was in the midst of his art fair season when the changing situation required him to shelter in place in his RV at a Florida panhandle campground. We ...
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Episode 13 - Tracey Erickson from 2020-04-06T19:00
Tracey Erickson is a respiratory therapist in Fullerton, California. We talked about the community support she has seen for healthcare providers, the precautions she is taking to reduce the risk...
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Episode 12 - Zach Berget from 2020-04-06T09:00
Zach Berget is a lighting designer who recently relocated from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. We talked about the difficult timing of his move, what he misses from touring on the road with musician...
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Episode 11 - Jason Kallsen from 2020-04-05T19:00
Jason Kallsen is the owner of Twin Cities Wine Education and The Wine Workshop in Minnesota. We talk about his rapid change from in-person to online wine education, the larger changes he sees in...
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Episode 10 - Steph Roble from 2020-04-04T06:00
Steph Roble is a member of the USA Olympic Sailing Team. We talk about qualifying for the team, weeks of uncertainty, learning the Tokyo games have been postponed for a year and what training lo...
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Episode 9 - Joey Anderson from 2020-04-03T16:00
Joey Anderson is a high school senior from Burnsville, Minnesota.
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Episode 8 - Tina Kunes from 2020-04-03T07:00
Tina Kunes is a high. school math teacher in Morgan Hill, California.
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Episode 7 - Karolyn Hanson-Rathert from 2020-04-02T11:00
Karolyn Hanson-Rathert is an ICU nurse in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Episode 6 - Kane Smego from 2020-04-01T16:00
Kane Smego is a spoken word poet, a hip hop artist and an educator based in Los Angeles, California. You can learn more about Kane's work at https://www...
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Episode 5 - Emma Congelose from 2020-03-31T12:00
Emma Congelose is a nursing student in her senior year at Valparaiso University.
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Episode 4 -Tabitha Turner from 2020-03-29T14:00
Tabitha Turner is the associate director of assisted living at a facility in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
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Episode 3 - Hannah Gullixson from 2020-03-28T20:00
Hannah Gullixson is a musician who lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin. She is the founder of Every Little Thing Project that celebrates all bodies and addresses issues of eating disorders and social ...
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Episode 2 - Barry Yeoman from 2020-03-28T15:00
Barry Yeoman is a freelance journalist and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, The American Prospect and Audubon Magazine, among oth...
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Episode 1 - Cecie Suknaic from 2020-03-27T15:00
Cecie Suknaic is a student at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Illinois.
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Episode 1 - Cecie Suknaic from 2020-03-27T15:00
Cecie Suknaic is a student at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Illinois.
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Episode 1 - Cecie Suknaic from 2020-03-27T15:00
Cecie Suknaic is a student at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Illinois.
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