Lives Radio Show & Podcast with Stuart Chittenden

Mandy Kubicek is a Life and Business Coach. She talks about what coaching is and is not, and how she helps burned out professionals build energizing work lives. Mandy also shares how she overcame her own limiting beliefs to leave a software career to embark on her coaching business, and talks candidly about the loss of her mother and how that has shaped her life.

Amy Adrion is a film director and writer whose feature debut documentary "Half the Picture" explores the talent and resilience of female directors in an industry that to date sadly under-represents their vision and ability. Adrion discusses her film, her life, her inspirations, and her aspirations.

Justin Kemerling is an independent designer, activist, and collaborator working primarily with community organizations, political campaigns, and changemaking entities. Justin shares his passion for making activism beautiful, moving people to action, and getting good things done.

Dr. Samantha Senda-Cook is a communications professor and recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Japan studying rhetorical questions related to community gardening. In this conversation, she explains environmental communication, everyday tactical acts of resistance, and her experiences from living and researching in Japan.

Barber is an interdisciplinary artist whose work and performances have appeared across America. He uses his art practices to articulate various testimonies within and surrounding Black America, surfacing the questions society should be confronting around the black body and experience.

Theodore Wheeler discusses Omaha Lit Fest, which he co-directs, and the inspiration and joy behind the Dundee Book Company roving book cart, one of the world’s smallest bookstores. Wheeler also talks about his creative writing process and reads an excerpt set in 1919 from one of his novels, “Kings of Broken Things,” which has unsettling relevance in our modern climate of racial tension.

Chris Hochstetler is the Dean of Innovation and Creativity at Hastings College in Nebraska, before which he had a much decorated 20 year career in the Army, including development of special forces operations. Chris shares his veteran experiences, philosophy on creativity, and his formative upbringing of homelessness and foster care that he encountered as a child.

Sylvie Fortin is an independent art curator and critic and the current Curator-in-Residence at the Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts. She discusses her work and inspiration, especially her current artistic exploration of the currencies of hospitality.

Our third annual exploration of MAHA music festival with David Leibowitz, a music promoter, radio show host, record collector, and life-long music fan.

Steve Gordon is a designer, entrepreneur, and all around creative spirit, as well as an international class athlete. He discusses his perspectives on design, his love for sneakers, and how he navigated his life from a more difficult environment to one as an Olympic hopeful and successful designer.

Andrew Bailie is a gifted musician who shares the story of his growth as a singer and guitar player, his creative inspiration and experiences, and some of the thoughts behind his debut album, Wasteland, as well as his personal journey through life so far.

Amy Sandeen loves the outdoors and in this show shares her passion for the natural world, outdoor and agriculture education at Prairie Loft in Hastings, and the pleasures and benefits of being outside.

Jacob Dahlke is a clinical ethicist at Nebraska Medicine. He talks about his primary interests in bioethics, including advance care planning, LGBTQ+ and feminist ethics, and healthcare professional wellness as it relates to moral distress and moral injury, as well as his personal role in guiding people through ethical dilemmas.

Chris Hughes is the quality obsessed entrepreneur and founder of American handmade manufacturer Artifact Bags. He talks about his ethos, appreciation for quality, and life as a musician turned business entrepreneur.

Dusty Davidson, cofounder of Flywheel, talks about entrepreneurship, community, and the benefits and joys of living and working for two months each year in Paris.

Brigitte McQueen shares a roadmap of how her childhood experiences growing up as a bi-racial kid in the 70s suburbs of Detroit led her, via New York to Omaha, through the lows of business failures, near bankruptcy, to founding a thriving cultural institution that uses arts to inspire positive social change.

Nebraska Shakespeare's Sarah Lynn Brown and Katie Becker Colón talk about the continued relevance of Shakespeare's works to our lives and current social issues, the nature of acting and its impact on they own identities, the forthcoming all-female season, and their own personal journeys.

Mary-Beth Muskin leads the Anti-Defamation League's Plains states region and talks about the rise in hate crimes, the work and history of the ADL, and how we might all contribute to the betterment of our communities.

Katja Starkey, founder of Touch the Nations, traveled the world encountering tragedies, natural disasters and civil wars in an effort to contribute to disaster relief and imbue hope. She shares some of her stories, motivation, and efforts since then to continue making a positive impact in the world.

Andrea von Kampen is an independent folk singer-songwriter based in Lincoln, Nebraska, whose effortless vocal delivery has been praised as “soulful and worn-in.” She first appeared in the broader public eye when NPR Music All Songs Considered tweeted her 2016 NPR Tiny Desk Contest entry song "Let Me Down Easy" for their featured artist of the day, saying “we were completely blown away.” Andrea von...

RISE is an innovative reentry program serving in Nebraska prisons and communities. In this show, formerly incarcerated returning citizens share their experiences with RISE programming and some of the stigma and challenges facing them as they return to their communities.

Award winning public radio veteran, history nerd and storyteller Todd Hatton, program director at KIOS, talks about some of his public radio documentaries and his life in public radio and beyond.

Garry Clark shares his transformative journey from a disadvantaged, dangerous childhood in the nation’s capital to the unexpected opportunities of the rural Midwest.

Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason reads some of his poetry and that of others, talks about the role of poetry in our lives, and shares his own journey into poetry and his aspirations as the new state poet.

Musician Jocelyn, recently signed to the global music publisher BMG, has just released “Speak Up,” her first single with that label. Fresh from Steve Harvey’s Showtime at Harlem's world-famous Apollo Theater and Celebrity Undercover Boss with Darius Rucker, 21 year old Jocelyn talks with me about her meteoric rise and aspirations, and performs a few of her songs live in th...