Want to Know Podcast

One day, I’ll officially, formally, figure out how and what I want to write about Chani Nicholas and why I love her astrological readings and think they are a force for good in our current conditions. I’m shameless in sharing that I do make some decisions based on Chani’s insights around what’s happening in the skies (like the decision to record his update because June 8-10, 2026 were described as...

This week I’ve become increasingly convinced that I did jump timelines at some point even though I’m not exactly sure what that means (I’m not well-versed in quantum physics beyond Instagram-level discourse). My best guess is that it probably happened back in March when I gave that sermon at a local Unitarian church, six years to the day after I was supposed to do the same in California back in 20...

The work of becoming more intimate gets clearer to me every day. Always already there, I’m fully in it. After weeks thinking about what it could look like to pursue my philosophical project of developing an epistemology of intimacy with someone strange to me (such as a famous celebrity), it was inevitable that I would also track what the process itself was fueling. The quest was to break through t...

This update is to share the story of May 8th, 2026, the day printed copies of my pages remarkably - and hopefully - got to Mae. For several weeks leading up to the late show in Denver for The Possum tour, I saturated my focus and social interactions with all things philosophical project and page-making. In turn, I received what practically amounts to a community-sourced dossier on Mae and why peop...

“And then? What happens next?” It’s a funny thing going step by step, week by week, in this process of becoming a meta philosophical performance artist. In some very real ways, it really comes down to a simple matter of doing. You have to do the thing. But where this becoming intersects with the project of developing an epistemology of intimacy, well…that’s where it gets interesting. How does beco...

In just a matter of weeks, I’ve been really changing. The main theme continues to be around confronting my vulnerabilities, but I know the most valuable thing about that work is in discovering what happens as a result of the process. Through the weeks of April, while I was creating and compiling pages for Romancing the Revolution, I found myself including pages that, well, in the end, felt quite v...

Not everything is a performance. Sometimes, we’re just in it, actually showing up and doing the thing. That, I believe, is how we become who we are. Yes, it’s an open-ended process, but it doesn’t have to take forever. As I’ve recently been finding out, marked changes can unfurl in a matter of weeks, especially when you, like me, live by the phrase, “Everything is meta if you want it to be.” When...

For the past several years, I’ve become fixated on the nature of work. More and more, I’m basically consumed with ideas around what I can, want, and will do (though that is something I think about for all of us, really). Even this week’s live update was inspired by swirling notions that preoccupied my mind for the entirety of a very long afternoon walk. It wasn’t a bunch of new ideas; more like a...

* …awkward pause… * I was waiting to publish this live weekly update from April 1st, 2026 because it was all about vulnerability and an entire process I went through around sharing the most vulnerable thing for me, which quickly became the anchoring theme of my week. At the end of this 75 minute recording, I had a hunch it would be worth writing a good deal more about. “Wow,” I thought, “this has...

This, the shortest weekly update (just 20 minutes?!?!), was also the most unhinged. Plus, it features the first cameo of my beloved cat, Perry (a truly majestic beast). Nevertheless, it was, in a pretty straightforward way, also the one where I share something I am most excited about. Maybe even a little proud. At the end of March, rounding out the first month of Romancing the Revolution, I finall...

I often think about how so many people report feeling like time shifted in weird ways during 2020 and how, six years later (?!?), we’re all still kind of processing. Did pieces of us get stuck back there? Or, in some strange way, do you also feel like maybe we are returning? I don’t know much about how to jump or skip timelines. The most I can offer I gleaned from watching “Everything Everywhere A...

Since 2020, one of my leading questions has been, “What does learning feel like?” How do you know when you’re learning? When we pursue learning as a project of our own will and intention, I think it actually shares a lot of similarities with loving, especially if you, like me, define love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of one’s own or another’s healing, transformation, and liberatio...

I’ll start with the briefest note about this week’s live update: It was just me. No one watched as I talked to a camera by myself for an hour. At first, you can tell my energy is low, which may have had something to do with being alone. About ten minutes in, I begin to warm up a bit. (The way my inhibition lingers is palpable to me. If you knew the landscape of my personal life this week, you’d un...

Everything about this weekly update was unexpected! To be fair, how could one anticipate what one does not remember? After recovering forgotten notebooks and letters, I was genuinely surprised to rediscover familiar parts of myself from 2001, 2007, and 2013. Through reading and writing during this particular update, my voice across those multiple selves is brought forth and blurred between what ma...

There are meaningful threads that follow through and wind around again and again and again. You’ll probably recognize some of them here. There are familiar sentiments, repeated names, and call backs to weeks passed. And if you pay close attention to the process, perhaps you’ll also land in a space where you can trust and know that something is (already) happening . It’s called processing the proce...

This week, I intended to go through my five-page packet, “Reflections for Moving Through: Messages and Reminders for Staying Grounded as the World Changes (and You Do, Too!)” I only managed to get through the first page about staying human and not making monsters out of people because, well, people are committing pretty monstrous acts and I ended up talking a lot about all of that. If you need som...

Normalize Gathering Community in Radially Strategic, Meaningful, and Fun Ways As an introvert who hates small talk and superficiality, I am very turned off by “typical” ways of socializing. Even a house party among friends of friends is about as appealing to me as a happy hour mixer or networking at a professional conference. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still show up with my warm and bubbly personali...

Heated Rivalry is giving a whole new way to think about Romancing the Revolution! My goal here is to take what we can learn from the experience of being part of an inspired fandom and use all that creative power and enthusiasm to build power for our collective movements. If the passionate cultural phenomenon that is Heated Rivalry has demonstrated anything, it’s that we are capable of so much when...

This week’s live was rife with technical difficulties. As I write this now, I’m realizing that there were even more than I was initially aware of, and then even more on top of that. It just keeps getting more odd. You don’t need to know this, but here’s some of what happened and why the things I usually share have been missing this week - no page, no chat, no clips posted as reels, and no full-rec...

On our 86th Sunday, I decided it is time to take a pause from Liberation is Local. We met every week to learn together, in community, about liberation. It’s what inspired my pages to morph three times over into what I’ve been sharing since August in the chat (and so much more). Personally, it was the most transformative space for me for the more than a year and half. And that’s precisely why I nee...

Friends! This one was a full near-90-minute download of my thoughts and process over the past two weeks. A heart-full share-out fit to close out such a massive year. After technical difficulties that prevented me from sharing last week’s update, my gears finally started clicking in better alignment and I’m feeling very excited about what’s on the horizon for 2026. And you can tell! Just look at th...

This week was a big one! “For the Love of Strangers” materialized from an idea into a public community experience that ran for 11 months! I share more about the finale in particular, which was THE MOST META OF THEM ALL, and themed “Love, an Artist.” I also go over the page from this week’s Liberation is Local. Since I’m focusing on Working Relationships at the moment, the theme was really about ho...

Working Relationships, yes, but starting with some mentions of Brené Brown , Marina Abramovic , and Maria Bamford . Also touching on vulnerability, performance art, what’s in store around an epistemology of intimacy, and the interconnected themes of what’s personally, politically, professionally, and philosophically significant. Get the page in the Want to Know chat on Substack! Support me by upgr...

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