The Depths

Hey listeners, I've got another episode for you today, courtesy of my good friend Nikita (Instagram @nikita.muromcew). In the episode, we talk about trauma, the way we talk about trauma, and the way we move through some of the most difficult things life throws at us. I couldn't be more grateful for the talk we had, and I hope you, listeners, get something out of it too. Peace and Love. 

Hey friends. It's me, Hugo Solomon - and I know it's been a while. I'm... imperfect, too. But I'm always looking for things to add to this ongoing project, and I was lucky enough to spend some time with some new friends (Ela and Claire) and together we made this segment. We talk about change, sitting with our shit, and becoming more aware of the ways we all cope - and I hope you'll listen. See ya...

Hey listener, it's me, Hugo Solomon, back from The Depths. Today, my good friend Sydney and I get to talk about some of the real shit, the shit that hurts, and the kind of shit that forces us to reevaluate relationships we've held sacred all our lives. In the episode, Sydney and I address what can happen when our sexualities begin to uncomfortably fall under the scope of the ones we love, as well...

Dearest friends, listeners, and all sorts of individuals, I’m here for you, again, and always. In the middle of this chaos, I am a voice, one to listen to or ignore, sometimes solitary and sometimes uncertain, but always looking for the next story to hear, to tell, or to live through. And so. Today, I have an interview and conversation with my good friend Izzy Poros - an artistic and delightful so...

Hi friends. I wanted to start off today with an acknowledgment of the love I've been getting recently, both from this podcast and the other art I've created recently - I cannot express the gratitude I feel towards those who have accompanied me on this incredible journey of creativity and transformation. My heart is filled with all of you. So today, continuing this journey, I have an interview I re...

Hey guys - thanks for sticking around on this one. I'll admit, it's hard, trying to balance so many things at once, but I'm doing my best. Every day, I'm doing my best to continue existing - and I'm so so thankful for those of you who have helped me get through this strenuous time. Y'all are incredible. But, for today, I have something different, or something more like the same. Today, I have an i...

Dear listeners. Today, we're coming back. Back from the journey I've been on, from the stories we've all been living through, to the present. To now. And to mark that transition, I'm going to begin the second season of The Depths. To bring you all up to speed, I decided to compile a series of audio clips I recorded from my recent trip from Massachusetts to Connecticut to Canada to Connecticut to V...

Dear listeners. Who are you? What brought you here, and how are you both the pieces of who you are and more than the sum of those parts? Today, my friend Ariel Landa (instagram @ariel1000) and I unpack these feelings of who we are through the lens of queerness as well as trauma, reflecting on what makes us, us. Enjoy. Today's music includes “Claire de Lune” by Debussy and “Land of Dreams" by Langh...

Dear listeners. How do we tell our stories? How do we look in the face of those telling us of our flaws and choose to follow our own paths? Today I unpack stories of agency and change with my dear friend Zoe Staples (instagram @zoe.staples), and I couldn't be more proud of the conclusions we arrived at. Music includes "Cape Dory" by Tennis. All audio was obtained through a creative commons license...

Dear listeners. Today I interview the first legitimate member of my biological family, my father, Jonathan Solomon. Over the course of the conversation, recorded in the middle of our last outdoor adventure of the summer, we discuss the origins of what I've tried so hard to describe through this podcast, and where one can find the courage to keep going even in the middle of anger, abandonment, and...

Dear listeners. Today we get into what I like to call the nitty-gritty. The disastrous moments and relationships that have brought us to our knees and nearly broken us. Or sometimes, that’s just family. I invite to the podcast my dear friend and fellow searcher Grace Hitchcock, and I couldn’t be more proud of the results. Music includes "Houdini" by Foster the People. All audio was obtained throug...

Dear friends, welcome back to The Depths. In today’s episode, I talk with my dear friend Elena Vinton about some of the focal points of why I started The Depths in the first place - narratives of transformation, hurt, and acceptance through the story arches of our past years of life. Even though it might not be fun in the moment, rock bottom, we explain, is sometimes the best place to be, and it c...

Dear listeners. This is the fourth episode of The Depths - and it marks a transition for me. I’m leaving, finally. Months after I came back home expecting two weeks my ticket is booked, and I’m finally seeing a path to my future. It’s right in front of me. But now I’m grieving. All of the trees and the beauty and the friends and the moments, those little transformative moments that have helped me...

Dear listeners, thanks again for returning to The Depths. Today I'm going to be discussing the life-changing power of love, how it feels when it's there, and the chasms it creates upon scarcity of it - a love famine. People live entire existences dedicated - known or unknown - to the pursuit of love, and all of its abstractions can create beautiful, or dangerous things. I'm also excited to announc...

Welcome back, listeners, to The Depths. Today I'm diving into the abstract concept of [capital-M] Magic and thinking about the ways I've seen that concept materialize, both in my childhood and in my present quasi-quarantined state. Science and Nature provide the impetus for today's self-reflection... but don't expect that I have all of the answers either way. The smallest leaf, the roar of existen...

Welcome, listeners, to a seat at the table of my mind. Over the course of the show, I'm going to highlight some of the most transformative moments, individuals, and decisions I've made in my life in the context of an omnipresent, or rather an omni-un-present force in my life, that being the force of absence and vacancy. These holes, man-made or borne by nature, are some of the most important facto...