I Love You Anyway (formerly Outspoken)

Early punk shows in Scotland, art school, discovering photography, first time in N.Y., breaking negative loops, addiction and recovery, making amends, and much more…

Avoiding the news, The U.S. is a spoiled toddler, humanity in The Netherlands, gender roles, grammar relevancy, intersectionality, and much more…

Discovering California, being close to art, skyping doctors, yelp whiners, female painter bias, gatekeepers, hindsight, Doc Marten’s as creep defense, and much more…

Family amends, relationship patterns, making mistakes, pursuit of purpose, modeling alternatives, and much, much more…

Individuation, groups come apart, cults, ideology, the deep state, voter suppression, sell outs, media white-wash, antifa, Hitler & meth, and so much more…

Jungian psychology, individuation, what the psyche does, Jordan Peterson, crisis of consciousness, corruption in politics, perfect process, Bernie Sanders, living your ethics, vibration, and much, much more…

Keeping schools integrated, growing up in San Francisco, passing on values, accelerating consciousness, friends in spite of differences, confidence, saying no to prima donnas, choppy water, and much, much more…

Path to photography, alternative learning styles, human creativity, love and relationships, balancing karma, hot lava, partner is a therapist, space drink, and much, much more…

Early intro to Chinese cuisine, head injury at 19, learning to walk and talk again, the power of optimism, living with a disability, solitude not chosen, the math remains in tact, and much, much more…

Previously unreleased material from episodes 16, 17, 18 & 19.

Skateboarding & punk music, everyone is creative, self-absorption is the new rule, saved by a cell phone, nepotism, impacts of early choices, safety in numbers, doing what you love, and much, much more…

Old stuff, the desert, California born, San Francisco speakeasies, acting out of anger, diseased thinking, need for animals, spiritual callings, happiness, work, stop buying stuff, and much, much more…

Come with me, as I reflect on a brief sampling of shame-inducing behaviors. It’ll be fun!

Toxic masculinity, vulnerability, empathy, commitment, the triangle, using privilege for good, new father of a son, last of the revolutions?, spreading love, global reckoning, parenting advice, Mr. Rogers, and much, much more…

Bonus material from episodes 13 & 14.

Growing up in Vegas, Dad’s in a band or two, The Rat Pack & Elvis, 15 year-old girl punk drummer, dust bowl grandpa, Trail of Tears great great grandma, lesbian cab drivers in Tucson, real Las Vegas, meth and the Mint 400, diversifying the next generation of programmers, manipulating consciousness, and much, much more…

Living in an airplane, the folly of war, rural friendliness, learning Japanese, the insight of children, tabula rasa, company vs. solitude, and much, much more…

Brains in your hands, the strong men of Venice Beach, climbing trees, a lifetime of animation, working with Zappa, the process, finding time, the Green River killer, switching mediums, obsessing, graphic novels, and much, much more…   https://brucebickfordestate.com/   www.patreon.com/outspokenpodcast

Bonus material from Ep. 10, 11 & 12.

Being true to oneself, working for good, we are emotional beings, following in crappy footsteps, circumcision, taboos, first pregnancy, modeling behavior, truth, breaking patterns, and much, much more…

Can we experience true empathy?, change is hard, how we focus, phone phobia, Detroit techno, love at first sight, where we are in history, Denmark, religion, hypocrisy, and much, much more…

Technology as slave, Fb friend conditions, quitting smoking, chocolate problems, applying standards, loving others as you love your cat, human behavior, becoming a U.S. citizen, empathy, lust for life, near death experiences, and much, much more…

Intense music teachers, cultural customs, bad cabby, empathy through self-reflection, both ends of the cycle of life, letting kids be, and much, much more…

Walking & wandering, executive function disorder, food service work, escaping the burbs, movies, lost in music, Haight Street, fate or circumstance, Benjamin Button, acceptance, pros and cons of conformity, the happiness gene, hat dependency, and much, much more…

A collection of conversation remnants from prior episodes, with music. This volume includes previously unreleased content from episodes 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.