Twice 5 Miles Radio with James Navé

Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio, a podcast sponsored by the Imaginative Storm Writing Project titled Write What You Don't Know. I'm your host James Navé. Unlike my other guest-driven shows, today you'll hear my solo report from an early fall morning terrace in Paris, France. This podcast opens with the sun rising over the Paris rooftops and backdropping the useless TV antennas dangling on chimneys....

Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes poet and journalist JuanIsidro Concha. I'm your host James Navé. This show aired first on WPVMF-Asheville and is titled The Power of Words, Dreams, and Courage. I first met JuanIsidro in the late 90s when he was a sophomore and an aspiring poet at Taos High School. Taos has always been a creativity hotbed for poets, writers, visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and m...

Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes actor, theater director, and writer Charline Su to the microphone. I'm your host James Navé. About three months ago, Charlene and I were on a Zoom call talking about creativity, acting, and poetry. I mentioned that I'd memorized T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which is a 140-line, heavy-lifting poem with lines like, "I should have been a pair of ragge...

Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host James Navé. Today, please welcome poet, activist, and storyteller Robert McDowell to the microphone. You’ll get the sense you’re eavesdropping when you listen to this conversation. Who are you? Robert and I dive into the role writers and poets play in modern culture. Robert points out that Emily Dickinson tells us to tell the truth and tell it slant. R...

James Navé welcomes agriculturalists Marvin Ani to the Twice 5 Miles microphone. I met Marvin when I recently visited Lolo Doc Farm Resort / Casitas de Victoria Batangas, Philippines. My partner Tish Vallés and I had driven down from Manila for the weekend. We arrived around noon on Friday. We went to the café and ordered lunch right away. When our salads arrived, they looked so fresh I thought th...

How Imaginative Storm Writing Was Born with poet and Twice 5 Miles host James Navé. by James Navé On this Twice 5 Miles show, I'm going solo on our subject of How Imaginative Storm Writing Was Born. When you listen to this show, you will learn that Imaginative Storm writing emerged in the early 90s, when I was performing poetry and teaching writing in the public school systems throughout America. ...

ONCE A PILGRIM, ALWAYS A COACH by James Navé James Navé (www.jamesnave.com) welcomes Paris-based executive coach Lynne Burney (www. LKB-Coaching.com) to the Twice 5 Milers Microphone. In this interview, Once a Pilgrim, Always a Coach, Lynne recounts how her intended instructional coaching book morphed into a journey memoir about walking the Way of St. James through France and Spain (Santiago de Co...

James Navé here welcoming poet Christy Ferrato to the Twice 5 Miles Radio. Christie and I have known each other for many years. She has been a guest on Twice 5 Miles radio two additional times. I invited her back for another visit because she has completed a compelling art project that allows deep emotional access to the terrible issues around school shootings. Christy has reconstructed an old woo...

A Woman Goes to Sea by James Navé Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes sailing captain and photographer Cassidy Wayant to the Microphone. If you've ever looked at the sea and wondered about the big water, you'll appreciate why I titled this piece A Woman Goes to Sea. When you listen to Cassidy's interview, she'll explain why some people go to sea while others stick to dry land. You'll learn that life at s...

Twice 5 Miles welcomes sculptor and photographer Paul O'Connor to the microphone, www.pauloconnorart.com. Paul's range as a visual artist expands like the sky above his home on the Taos Mesa. As a photographer, Paul's focus starts with the eyes and extends to the faces. As a sculptor, Paul's exquisite smooth surfaces always contain a small circle that hints of an endless void. During this thoughtf...

Twice 5 Miles Radio, hosted by James Navé (www.jamesnave.com) welcomes poet and singer-songwriter Keith Flynn to the microphone, https://keithflynn.net. When I first met Keith in the early 90s, he was already well established as a prolific poet and a frontman for his rock band Crystal Zoo. Even though Keith had ravel the world performing his songs and poems, he had a knack for taking his global pe...

Twice 5 Miles Radio, hosted by James Navé, welcomes two-time Grammy Award nominee singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson to the microphone. Songs From the River Wind is the title of this show and the title of Eliza’s latest record.   Eliza has twenty-five records to her credit, starting in 1969 with Eliza '69 and continuing with Songs From the River Wind in 2022. Since Eliza and I live in Taos, I recent...

Appreciating Vintage Guitars with singer-songwriter and vintage guitar collector Walter Parks by James Navé (www.jamesnave.com). Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes Walter Parks (www.walterparks.com)to the microphone. In this conversation, which Walter and I had in his basement studio in Saint Louis, Walter talks, with great joy, about his love for vintage guitars. When you listen to this show, you’ll le...

Unlike most Twice 5 Miles Radio podcasts, which offer you long-form interview conversations with people from all creative areas, this show titled Reimagining Writer's Blocks gives you a blend of James Navé's commentary framed around a discussion that James Navé and Allegra Huston had about reimagining writer's blocks. When you listen to this show, you'll also get plenty of insight into how you can...

Twice 5 Miles Radio, hosted by James Navé (www.jamesnave.com), welcomes singer-songwriter and Artist's Way creativity facilitator Jeremiah Hill to the microphone. Email Jeremiah: music@jeremiahhill.com. See more of his work: https://www.tappy.tech/JM39759. The title of this show is Why The Artist's Way Matters. In this compelling conversation, Jeremiah Hill reflects on the philosophical concepts J...

Twice 5 Miles Radio and James Navé (www.jamesnave.com) welcomes writer and founder of KN Literary Arts Kelly Notaras to the microphone (https://knliterary.com). The title of this show is YOUR BOOK STARTS HERE. Kelly’s business KN Literary Arts is a full service premium publishing company that has the expertise you need to turn your ideas into a world-changing book. In this informative conversation...

Twice 5 Miles Radio, hosted by James Navé (www.jamesnave.com) welcomes master musicians Julia Thornton and Don Kirkpatrick (www.yoursacredunion.com) to the microphone. The title of this show is Love In the Time of Play.  
 A few months ago, Julia and Don crossed my path when we were guests panelists at a (Zoom) storytelling conference. We’d been invited to discuss how the power dynamics between me...

Twice 5 Miles Radio, hosted by James Navé (www.jamesnave.com), welcomes PEN/Faulkner Award novelist Kate Christensen (www.katechristensen.com) to the microphone. The title of this show is Writing While Walking. I first met Kate while I was participating in a fiction writing workshop she was facilitating at a writer’s conference in Taos, New Mexico. I liked Kate from the start because she had a lig...

Twice 5 Miles Radio, hosted by James Navé, welcomes TEDxAsheville Director Barrie Barton to the microphone. This show is titled How to Make a Speech which is fitting since Barrie's successful business Stand and Deliver Asheville helps people worldwide learn how to make speeches. Barrie's teaching style combines highly developed and insightful perspectives of body language, presentation mastery, an...

Twice 5 Miles welcomes renaissance thinker Conor Kennedy to the microphone. This show, which I recorded in the spring of 2019, is titled Dublin Defines Me. If you find yourself defined by place or closely identified with the land you call home, you’ll vibe with this conversation, and you’ll quickly understand why I titled this show Dublin Defines Me. Sadly, cancer took Conor from this world in 201...

James Navé here (www.jamesnave.com), your host for Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm pleased to welcome storyteller, author, and community activist Gareth Higgins (www.garethhiggins.net) to the microphone for this week's Twice 5 Miles show titled How Not to Be Afraid, which is the name of his current book: https://amzn.to/3J527gp.  I met Gareth a few years ago, soon after, I learned he was one of the produ...

Twice 5 Miles Radio hosted by yours truly James Navé welcomes photographer, healing artist, and fashion model Bill Curry to the mic. When I first met Bill over twenty years ago, he invited me over to his modest well-appointed adobe cottage in Taos. His living room expressed an elegant simplicity. I admired his paintings, art photographs he'd taken around the world, ritual masks, and memorabilia fr...

Hi, James Navé here (www.jamesnave.com), your host for Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm pleased to welcome singer-songwriter Martha Bassett to the microphone for this week's Twice 5 Miles show is Making Music on the Big Stage.  Recently, a friend mentioned that I might enjoy getting to know Martha Bassett because Martha was building a podcast series called The Martha Bassett Show. When I checked out Marth...

Yours truly James Navé (www.jamesnave.com)welcomes Magdalene Smith to the Twice 5 Miles Radio microphone. When I first asked Magdalene to join me under the gazebo in the courtyard of The Mabel Dodge Luhan House, I thought we were going to talk about writing. Imagine my surprise when she shifted from the notion of blank pages to a compelling story about how she first went to Europe in her early twe...

Hi, James Navé here (www.jamesnave.com), your host for Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm pleased to welcome diversity and inclusion consultant Justin Jones Fous, www.workmeaningful.com. The title of this Twice 5 Miles show is Which Exit Will You Take?  
 In this conversation, Justin discusses his observations about how many people tend to exit situations at the first sign of difficulty. With that in mind,...