Interesting Humans
There are 330 million Americans. Social scientists tell us we know on average 600 people. All around us are interesting humans. People who in their everyday lives create, solve, move, teach, and love. The Interesting Humans podcast is a deep dive into the mindset, the philosophy and the achievements of the people around us who have fascinating narratives to share. Join me as I explore the challenges they've faced and overcome, how creativity drives them and how ordinary people are not so ordinary.
Episodes
36 episodes
ALLIE LARKIN STAYS TRUE TO HER WORDS
April Sawicki is a 19 year old woman from New York who lived during high school in a broken down motor home in a vacant lot at the edge of town her father won in a poker game. Her mother left her father when she was young, then her father left ...
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Episode 37
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1:26:09
REESE MAYFIELD: SINGER SONGWRITER ASCENDING
I met singer-songwriter Reese Mayfield here in Raleigh last fall. Friends had invited me to what has become known as the Five Points Music Festival. It's a gathering of local musicia...
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Episode 36
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1:40:22
Gordon Darr: How Sexual Trauma Became A Boulder Blocking My Life
What I know about trauma is that nearly all of us carry something in our psyches. Almost everyone you know has some part of their past that overwhelmed their emotional capacity to understand and process it and became trauma. Not all trauma is t...
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Episode 35
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1:37:41
Gordon Darr: How a Sexual Predator Transformed My Life (TRAILER)
Trailer for Gordon Darr, a victim of Dr. Robert Anderson, the doctor at the University of Michigan who allegedly sexually molested hundreds of students and student-athletes as head of the UM's University Health Services. Anderson was never pros...
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Episode 34
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1:34
ANDREW LAFFERTY: ON BEING FUNNY
Andrew Lafferty is a 20-year-old stand-up comedian learning the craft. He wants to become a comedy writer. After graduating from high school during the pandemic, he now the University of Pittsburgh, where he studies political scien...
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Episode 33
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1:18:00
KASSONDRA LAMBERT: ETHAN AND THE MEDICAL MAZE
When Kassondra and Will Lambert’s son Ethan was about two he was diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic disorder referred to as KAND. The couple h...
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Episode 32
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1:20:31
MARK WILLIS CHALLENGES YOU TO BANK ON YOURSELF
When I was a kid I would often accompany my parents on Saturdays to a store that was both a grocery and department store, a bit like Costco is today. Sometimes my father would give me some cash and I would hotfoot it to the toy section to grab ...
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Episode 31
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HAVEN TUNIN: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARTIST
Pablo Picasso said, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” I was thinking about Picasso’s words during my conversation with today’s guest, Haven Tunin, a young potter I met at a show in Ann Arbor las...
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Episode 30
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52:01
CLINT ROE: What makes a good man today?
What, really, are the qualities of a good man today? Toughness? Grit? Courage? The reliability of the one who comes home after a long day at the office, even if that office down the hall or in the basement, and earns the money that pays b...
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Episode 29
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DR. TANNER WALLACE: CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND THE JOURNEY TO SELF
We’ve all heard about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, often referred to — and even minimized in today’s lexicon -- as PTSD. It is a psychiatric disorder that sometimes occurs in people who have experienced or witnessed a horrific event, s...
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Episode 28
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1:37:46
LISA HESSE: REDISCOVERING THE ATHLETE IN US
I've known Lisa Hesse for decades. When you live in a community like Ann Arbor for as long as I have and also are part of a smaller, tighter community--the running community--one is bound to bump into the sa...
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Episode 27
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1:25:36
ABBY ROSENBAUM: THE ART AND PIVOT OF A PHOTOGRAPHER
Abby Rosenbaum is as passionate as any artist about her craft. What I noticed Abby possesses better than some artists is a sense of the practical side of her photography. The opposite of th...
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Episode 26
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52:40
JANE SLADE: STARVING FOR DARKNESS
We are currently in the throes of August here in North America. The days are lazy, hot and long. Light is plentiful. In fact we still bask in more than 14 hours of daylight. And for some that still is not enough. Today's guest,
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Episode 25
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1:23:11
ALETHA VANDERMAAS: Design soul sister and Midcentury Preservationist
ALETHA VANDERMAAS is friendly, approachable and funny. She laughs easily. but don't let that easygoing style fool you. Aletha is a significant player in the trend in midcentury...
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Episode 24
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HELEN NEWMAN: Holocaust child and Grand Dame of the Fitness Apparel Industry
I first met today’s guest, Helen Newman, about 10 years ago. I was traveling to Chicago with my wife Elin who was the buyer for a local fitness studio and she was meeting Helen for the to see the fi...
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Episode 23
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1:25:40
KRISSTINA WISE: 'WELLTH' AND MONEY
As New Year’s Eve turned to 2021, for the first time in a while I felt a real energy and excitement for a big period of growth. How about you? Are there things you are looking forward to? And speaking of, how are you doing on those New Year’s r...
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Episode 22
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1:34:22
LIZ CROWE: ROMANCING THE ROMANCE NOVEL
"I love relationships. I like observing them. I like thinking about them. I like back in the olden days going to the coffee shop and sitting there with my coffee and my laptop pretending to write and watching people around me," today's gu...
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Episode 21
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1:41:05
DIANN WINGERT: OPERATING ON ALL CHANNELS
Hey everybody. How‘s it going out there? I truly mean that. It’s not just a rhetorical question. How is your health, particularly your mental health? Let’s be honest. These have been times for which there is no context. To date, the...
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Episode 20
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1:46:45
MIA RISBERG: THE TENSION BETWEEN HUMANS AND NATURE IN ACRYLICS, OILS AND WAX
So we had a pretty big event called over this past weekend. The US Presidential election was called on Saturday in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. I don't know about you but the sense of relief and joy in our home was palpable. It's a...
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Episode 19
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1:24:30
SANDY RIGUZZI: The Blog as a Window to Understanding Life
On the surface, today’s guest, blogger Sandy Riguzzi, seems like a perfectly ordinary mom and grand mother from suburban New York. Yet the depth of her experience, which she mines as the source of her writing on
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Episode 18
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1:11:39
MAIJA WALTERS STUTSMAN & ALEAH DECHANT ARE SHELFRIGHTEOUS
Autumn has come alive here in the midwest. It's my favorite time of the year. For most of three months -- from about September 1 to December 1 -- I feel productive and energized by the cooler temps and the color. I've appreciated the colo...
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Episode 17
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1:12:12
VERONICA AIMEE CENTENO-CRUZ: GRACE, HUMILITY AND OPTIMISM IN THE FACE OF BIG CHALLENGES
I have to admit to being a bit bouncy right now. It happens every year around this time. It’s as if I emerge from the doldrums of late summer with a renewed sense of purpose and, yes, even optimism. The change of the calendar from August to Sep...
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Episode 15
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1:18:08
HAKIM NATHANIEL CRAMPTON: FROM PRISON TO REDEMPTION
One of the great gifts of curiosity is that it takes you places you can’t foresee. That was the case for Elin and me July 4th when we slid over to downtown Ypsilanti to see the
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Episode 14
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