Best Khoi Nguyen Podcasts (2025)

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Ada Limón 54:14

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Ada Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Aw…

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Madeleine Morlet 1:07:15

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Madeleine Morlet is an Australian-born British-American artist. She is particularly interested in the concept of the female gaze, especially as it relates to motherhood and sexuality. Working primarily in medium format and 35mm film, she often combines portraits, landscapes, and close crops to explore character and place. Her photographic practice …

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7 — Poet Talk about Trees featuring Farah Ghafoor 1:00:16

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In episode seven of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna are joined by award-winning Toronto poet, Farah Ghafoor, to talk about trees. Together, the trio explores photos of snails after the rain; the ethos of commas; power and prestige as barriers to poetry; and the practice one creates the feeling of time in a poem. Against the backdrop of the magic and fact…

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Darius Atefat-Peckham 1:04:30

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Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian American poet and essayist. He is the author of Book of Kin, which won the 2023 Autumn House Poetry Prize, and the chapbook How Many Love Poems (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021). He is also the editor of his mother Susan Atefat-Peckham’s posthumous poetry collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Pres…

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Do Hard Things (5 am Beach Run Thoughts) 2:38

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Just some early morning thoughts on doing hard things as I ran along the beach in Bali.

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Odette England 55:12

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Odette England is an artist, photographer and writer. She has published five award-winning books and has two books coming out in 2025 including her first novella Isn’t X Beautiful. Odette received her Ph.D. in 2018 and was a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. She teaches at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is working on h…

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Gabrielle Bates and Patrycja Humienik 1:02:10

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Gabrielle Bates is a poet, visual artist, and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. She is the author of the poetry collection, Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023). Patrycja Humienik is a Polish-American writer, editor, and performance artist. Her poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025) is out now. This was such a deep, nourishing conver…

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6 — Poet Talk about Swimming featuring Diana Khoi Nguyen 1:15:23

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In the sixth episode of Poet Talk, we’re joined by one of our favourite poets: Diana Khoi Nguyen. Together, we explore swimming as both a poetic and life practice. A master class on the body's inherent abilities as well as the legacy of inherited sound, this episode dives deep into what it means to sculpt language like water. What does learning to …

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Anne Eder 46:01

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Anne Eder is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Much of her work is experimental and research based, combining historic processes, science, and contemporary conceptual thinking. She is well known for her sustainable photographic practice, and for innovative discoveries regarding both photographic chemistry and integrating media. Throughout h…

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Kaveh Akbar 47:33

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Kaveh Akbar is a poet, novelist and editor. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, along with the chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. His novel Martyr!, is a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.…

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5 — Poet Talk about a Poem: "God is an American" by Terrance Hayes 58:01

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In the last episode of 2024, Jody and Sanna reflect on the first year of the podcast and their own places in writing community. They also do a close reading of one of their favourite poems: “God is an American” by Terrance Hayes. Together, they investigate beauty’s difficulty and longing’s limits, informed by the wisdom of Audre Lorde, Heather Chri…

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Matthew Zapruder 48:44

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Matthew Zapruder is a poet, editor, and teacher. He is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner 2024), as well as two books of prose: Why Poetry (Ecco, 2017) and Story of a Poem (Unnamed, 2023). He is editor at large at Wave Books, and from 2016-7 he held the annually rotating position of Editor of…

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4 — Poet Talk about Law featuring Chimwemwe Undi 1:07:41

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In the fourth episode of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna talk to poet, linguist and lawyer Chim Undi about language. Why do adults tell certain kids to become lawyers? How do people find themselves in the world of spoken word poetry? From erasure poetry to text trajectory, Canadian court cases to poetry's penchant for uncertainty, the trio traverse inter…

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Amina Cain 51:29

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Amina Cain is Los Angeles based writer. She is the author of the novel Indelicacy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020), and two collections of short stories, Creature (Dorothy, 2013) and I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Her latest book is A Horse at Night: On Writing (Dorothy, 2022). In this conversation we discuss friendship, writing, clas…

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3 — Poet Talk about Dogs 1:14:18

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In this episode of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna dive into one of our favourite topics: dogs. What kind of poems would a dog write? How do they see (or smell) the world? The duo share their favourite dog poems and earliest dog memories. From protest dogs to canine colonial history, Eileen Myles to Mary Oliver, join us as we talk play, mastery, grief, d…

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2 — Poet Talk about the Parasocial featuring Summer Farah 1:12:47

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Welcome to the second episode of Poet Talk! In this episode, Jody and Sanna talk to Palestinian poet, critic and editor Summer Farah about the parasocial. Together, they delve into all things online: video games, prose poems and Tumblr as a critical space. The trio defines the parasocial by analyzing pop culture, like Chappell Roan and Mitski's “so…

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Keep Going | The Business of Blogging Pt. 6 2:21

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This is part 6 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as a creator. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and how yo…

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1 — Poet Talk about Beginnings 1:05:12

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Join us for the pilot episode of Poet Talk, a podcast where poets talk. In this episode, future cohosts Jody Chan and Sanna Wani delve into beginnings with questions like, "How does a poem begin?" and "What is the beginning of poetry?" Chan and Wani share some of their favourite poem beginnings, etymologies and more. From politics to gossip to lore…

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Sue William Silverman 42:08

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Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of eight works of nonfiction and poetry and her most recent book is Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. This conversation, just like her book, is centered around writing personal narratives. We discuss putting our most vulnerable selves on the page, the fluidity of memory,…

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Ross Gay 49:58

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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights (a New York Times bestseller), Inciting Joy, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights. This conversation,…

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Gregory Orr 1:04:30

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Gregory Orr is a poet who is known to be a master of the short, personal lyric. About Gregory, Mary Oliver wrote “He speaks now, in these many short poems, which in their entirety are really one long poem, of mysteries, of those things –emotions, situations, mind and heart states–which are beyond the definitive.” Gregory is the author of more than …

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Tomás Q. Morín and Philip Metres 45:32

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Philip Metres is a poet, translator and director of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps, The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance, Pictures at an Exhibition, and Sand Opera. Tomás Q. Morin is a poet, translator, and editor. His books include th…

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Laura Warrell 1:12:47

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Laura Warrell is a writer based in Los Angeles. "Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm" is her first novel. The story follows a 40-year-old jazz musician and womanizer Circus Palmer–but this book centers the women in his life. It is a telling of their stories, not only his. Laura and I talk about her wonderful debut and her path to publication which is an ins…

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Ama Codjoe 59:43

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Ama Codjoe is a poet based in New York City. She is the author of Bluest Nude and Blood of the Air. Her poems and essays have been published in many outlets and her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry. Her poems often engage with visual art—especially art by Black women artists. This conversation is much about the body. On how we re…

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Diana Khoi Nguyen 1:00:33

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Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet and multimedia artist. She is the author of the poetry collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing, 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. In this episode we talk about grief, complex emotions, silence, and breaking that silence through art. Note: There is a bit of static in the b…

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras 52:55

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a writer who was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia and now lives in San Francisco, California. Her first book was the novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree and her most recent book is a family memoir called The Man Who Could Move Clouds. In this episode we chat all about language. On writing between two languages and cultures,…

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Elinor Carucci 57:23

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Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer based in New York City. Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, W, Aperture, and many other public…

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Victoria Chang 50:16

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Victoria Chang is a poet, writer and editor. Her new book of poetry is The Trees Witness Everything (2022). Her other books include Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief (2021) and OBIT (2020). In this episode, we chat about collaboration in art, her wonderful and varied use of form in her writing, and her current role as poetry editor…

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Advice on Outsourcing and Delegation | The Business of Blogging Pt. 5 3:04

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This is part 5 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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Monetizing Your Work and Influence | The Business of Blogging Pt. 4 7:10

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This is part 4 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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Advice on Authenticity | The Business of Blogging Pt. 3 4:28

3+ y ago4:28

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This is part 3 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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What Differentiates You? | The Business of Blogging Pt. 2 1:55

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This is part 2 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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What's Your Edge? | The Business of Blogging Pt. 1 3:00

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This is part 1 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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Advice to Those Who are Just Starting Out | My Content Creator Journey (so far) Pt. 6 2:44

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This is part 6 of a 6 part series on My Content Creator Journey (so far) where you'll get tips and insight on finding your voice & the importance of consistent practice along with struggles I've gone through and am currently going through. Furthermore, you'll learn my best tips and strategies for breaking out of the funk when it ultimately does hit…

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Breaking Out of the Funk | My Content Creator Journey (so far) Pt. 5 1:50

3+ y ago1:50

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This is part 5 of a 6 part series on My Content Creator Journey (so far) where you'll get tips and insight on finding your voice & the importance of consistent practice along with struggles I've gone through and am currently going through. Furthermore, you'll learn my best tips and strategies for breaking out of the funk when it ultimately does hit…

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Melissa Febos 56:52

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Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, and the essay collections, Abandon Me and Girlhood. Her craft book, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, will be published on March 15th. In this episode, Melissa and I chat about her wonderful book Body Work. We talk about writing as a spiritual practice (an…

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Struggles I've Gone and Am Going Through | My Content Creator Journey (so far) Pt. 4 5:38

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This is part 4 of a 6 part series on My Content Creator Journey (so far) where you'll get tips and insight on finding your voice & the importance of consistent practice along with struggles I've gone through and am currently going through. Furthermore, you'll learn my best tips and strategies for breaking out of the funk when it ultimately does hit…

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Finding Your Voice and Consistent Practice | My Content Creator Journey (so far) Pt. 3 3:16

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This is part 3 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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Becoming a Digital Creator | My Content Creator Journey (so far) Pt. 2 2:41

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This is part 2 of a 6 part series on The Business of Blogging where you'll discover the importance of finding your edge and what makes you different, knowing your worth and how to be your authentic self as an 'influencer'. Furthermore, you'll learn some of my best tactics on how to monetize your influence, advice on outsourcing, recalibrating, and …

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David Hilliard 1:11:40

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David Hilliard is a fine art photographer based in Boston. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and his MFA from Yale University. Through the use of diptychs and triptychs, his beautiful work documents his life and the lives of those around him. In this episode, David talks about his life in photography and how his love of theater…

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Leaving the Advertising Industry | My Content Creator Journey (so far) Pt. 1 1:38

4y ago1:38

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This is part 1 of a 6 part series on My Content Creator Journey (so far) where you'll get tips and insight on finding your voice & the importance of consistent practice along with struggles I've gone through and am currently going through. Furthermore, you'll learn my best tips and strategies for breaking out of the funk when it ultimately does hit…

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My Content Creator Journey (so far): Transitioning from Advertising Creative to Making a Living as a Digital Creator 1:27

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This is My Content Creator Journey (so far)... In this 6-part series I talk about leaving the ad industry to becoming a digital creator. I'll touch on finding your voice & the importance of consistent practice along with struggles I've gone through and am currently going through. I'll also provide my best tips and strategies for breaking out of the…

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Grooming Yourself to Be Great (On Self-Improvement & Building Self-Confidence) 10:41

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This is an interview from The Irreverent Gent's Profiles in Confidence Series. The series is designed to let you learn from their struggles, and provide a reminder that you’re not the only guy out there working to improve himself. Quite the opposite, actually: you’re surrounded by like-minded friends and brothers in arms.In this episode I share my …

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Fernando A. Flores 1:18:12

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Fernando A. Flores is a writer based in Austin, TX. His books include the collection Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, the novel Tears of the Trufflepig, and his upcoming book is Valleyesque. In this episode, Fernando and I talked all about the ups and downs of the creative life, on living between cultures, the difference between writin…

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Speed vs. Perfection 1:53

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Perfect is what some people see when they feel inspired. Perfect is beauty in the details. The perfect shot, perfect landing, a perfect 10. But who's the judge? Defined as having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. But who decides what is or isn't perfect? The only judge that matte…

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Michael Kleber-Diggs 1:05:50

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Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection Worldly Things was published last year and he is also a contributor to the book There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Michael teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and at colleges and high schools in Mi…

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Who Are You Becoming? 1:12

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Instead of asking yourself who am I? ask, "who am I becoming?" Are you becoming a better version of yourself? Are you on the path of self-betterment or spiraling down a dangerous road? Are you becoming someone you can be proud of? Again, it's not about who you currently are — instead, ask yourself who are you becoming. I have a post it note in my b…

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Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (Read Aloud) 5:12

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President Barack Obama once said, “pretty much all the stuff you need to know is in Dr. Seuss.”Oh, The Places You'll Go is great for kids, but as an adult, I'm inspired by it to no end.In this podcast episode, I recite the classic poem from start to finish.Hope you enjoy!

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Jill Andrews 1:00:56

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Jill Andrews is a musician and songwriter living in Nashville. Her EP "Ellen" was released this fall. In this episode Jill and I chat about the perils and gifts of being highly sensitive, moving out of our 30s, art-making, and more. Plus, find out the book Jill would like to put in people’s stockings! This episode was audio produced by Aaron Moring…

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Daisy Hernández 1:04:32

4y ago1:04:32

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Daisy Hernández is a writer and cultural activist. She is the author of the award-winning memoir "A Cup of Water Under My Bed" and coeditor of "Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism". Her latest book is "The Kissing Bug: A True Story of an Insect, a Family and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease". In this episode, we have a wid…