Adam Williams

Humanitou: Exploring Humanness + Creativity

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[Archived] The Humanitou podcast dives into what it means to be human, creative and authentic. In this podcast, the writer, poet, artist and photographer Adam Williams explores creative and big life questions, the things he thinks he knows, and where those ideas fall apart, too. The podcast features short solo episodes by Adam and longer conversations he has with fellow creatives and thinkers.

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Adam Williams

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83: Cody Oldham, professional artist, on his precocious start in art, living with mountain lions, and his preference for wingtips and ties even while painting 22.03.2020 43:51

Cody Oldham is a professional wildlife and landscape painter who lives with his family -- and mountain lions that Cody’s dad rehabilitates for return to the wild -- on 20 acres in the mountains of Colorado. Cody also is a rather precocious and self-motivated 15-year-old who has a penchant for stylish men's wear, preferring to wear a tie and pocket watch even while he paints in his studio. More at...

82: Gregg Deal, multidisciplinary artist, on identity and stereotypes, resilience, impermanence and fatherhood 12.03.2020 1:10:09

He’s appeared in National Geographic magazine, the Washington Post , Huffington Post and on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , among other places in the media. Not to mention his work in visual and performance arts, public speaking and in other creative disciplines. In galleries, museums, at universities and other venues -- and on the street. We talk about his work and how it addresses identity an...

81: Becca Williams, on marriage, miscarriage and kids, yoga and tech consulting 02.03.2020 55:17

In this inaugural Humanitou Podcast episode, I talk with my amazing wife, Becca Williams. I reveal a secret I’ve been holding throughout our 17-year relationship, something I’d been playing it cool with since our beginning and just decided now’s the time to ’fess up. We get into some intimate experiences we’ve shared along the way but haven’t talked about for many years: the decision to have kid...

Introducing Humanitou in Podcast Form 02.03.2020 1:44

Humanitou is about humanness and creativity. These podcast conversations are a continuation of three years of Humanitou conversations with 80 artists, spiritual practitioners, leaders and thinkers, in which the conversations were published as text Q&As at humanitou.com. Now, as a podcast, Humanitou continues to be about cultivating a space for vulnerable, courageous dialogue and sharing. And...