We talk about change, god, flow states, and art.

An audio version of an essay I wrote on Substack.

Brooks and I discuss their journey with grief and OCD.

Charlie James is a comedian and writer living in Los Angeles. Best known for his TikToks (@nonbinarycowboy), he's made videos for Funny Or Die and written humor pieces for Slackjaw and Points in Case. His day job is tweeting from the perspective of a 67 million-year-old fossil. His night job is saying what he thinks into a microphone. His work is popular with gay daughters and their exotic pets.

Aaron Leven is the associate rabbi at Nefesh, an open-hearted spiritual community serving the east side neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in May of 2023, he is a native Angeleno who is thrilled to be back home where he is in walking distance to both Nefesh, as well as to Dodger Stadium.

Sam Sundius is a visual artist, writer, translator, opinion-haver, advocate, drinks specialist, sourdough starter starver, and person with too many houseplants. A Sam of many hats, to be sure. Through their practice Art of Undiscipline, they coach on money, success, grief, disability, neurodivergence, abolition, family, and---through it all---fostering a resilient af creative practice. You can find their artwork at samsundius.com and the home of their coaching practice at artofundiscipline.com. They currently live in New York with their cat and spouse. (Two separate mammals, tbc. Not a cat that they're married to, but a cat and, separately, a human they're married to. It's weird to make me explain all this.)

Kiana Gabrielle (she/they) is a Black queer feminist scholar and community steward helping people change their relationship to conflict. Drawing on their background in youth mentoring, community organizing, and leadership development, Kiana facilitates a peer learning community and publishes writing about cultivating connection and belonging in communities. Their work is a collaboration between Spirit, community, and self, guided by deep introspection and a desire to create a more connected and compassionate world.

Hannah Said (she/her) is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practitioner and community organizer. She has an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that is fueled by her passion for social justice, art, and authentic community building. She uses creativity and humor to bring diverse people together, to create inclusive spaces, and talk about social justice and intersectionality. Her drive for equity comes from her lived experience of being a biracial, queer, Muslim, woman.  She has a Queer and Middle Eastern mobile coffee shop called Saffron Cowboy Coffee (@saffroncowboy). Catch her at the next pop up!

Josie Alexandra (they/them) is an award winning experimental multi-dimensional artist, fascinated by the potential of intra-personal relationships as sites for reclamation and transformation in world-making processes. Their work offers critiques and envisionings to plausible futurisms [for trans and neurodiverse communities and beyond] in the current global crisis. Josie’s artistic work spans across film, sound, painting and writing. They’re also an educator, consultant, and assistant with a drive to learn the latest skills that they are fixated on.

Louisa Pillot (she/her) is a musician, DJ, and consent educator based in France. You can find her on IG @louisahhh.

Brookes Herr (they/them) is a practitioner & educator of emotional-spiritual care work. You can find them on Instagram @veils.veils.veils.

I’ve been teaching consent for several years now and I’ve seen some patterns emerge early on in reaction to this sudden upload of consent information.

Beginning with the origins of Mia's awareness of consent and ending with a paradigm shift, this episode touches on themes of sexual assault, blame, abolition, and shared responsibility.

Ari Simon (they/them) leads workshops, trainings, coaching, and consulting around grief, resilience, values-driven outcomes, and wellbeing. Through a practice that’s uniquely Ari, they equip people to best thrive in the face of loss, increasing wellbeing, psychological safety, and sense of fulfillment in identity-honoring ways.

Kitty Stryker is one of the people who pushed the term "consent culture" into mainstream conversations, as well as being an anarchist activist, queer femme, and leftist doomsday prepper located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of "Ask Yourself: The Consent Culture Workbook," a board member of Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services, and enjoys playing TTRPGs in her free time! kittystryker.com

We talk about our upcoming retreat that will have yoga and art class using consent principles, nature walks, mindfulness practices, and consent education. In Los Angeles in July.

Part I of a short intro series on consent.

We talk about seeing the vibrancy of gender, the benefits of limitations in art, and genderless fashion.

Meenadchi and I talk about their journey with consent, kink, and Doritos.