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Reflections on Living Well
by Broderick Rodell
Want to explore what it means to live well? Join Broderick Rodell to survey perspectives on the good life through candid conversations with folks from various social, cultural, and professional walks of life. We hope that these dialogues engage you, spark questions, and give you the opportunity to learn from the personal philosophy of others and reflect on your own views in the process. For more information visit podcastonlivingwell.com broderickrodell.substack.com
Episodes
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Episode 93 | Mary Volmer
Mary Volmer, the author of two novels – Crown of Dust and Reliance, Illinois – is the Mission Fellow for Athletics at Saint Mary’s College (CA). In this interfaith, lay-chaplaincy position, she counsels and attends to the spiritual well-being of NCAA D-I athletes and coaches. Her essays, reviews,...
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Episode 92 | David Tucker
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with David Tucker. Dr. David Tucker is the owner of The Zen of Healing and co-owner of Northwest Healing Collective in Seattle. In his practice he utilizes powerful systems of medicine such as Classical Five-Element Acupuncture and Traditional...
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Episode 91 | Dawn Constantine
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Dawn Constantine. Dawn is a recently retired Registered Nurse, serving 37 years in critical care across the lifespan and most recently, in hospice. She now volunteers with some local organizations facilitating grief circles for youth and...
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Episode 90 | Andrew Interviews Broderick #2
In this week's episode Broderick is interviewed by his dear friend Andrew Murphy-Rouse for a 2nd installment. In this conversation Broderick shares some of his experiences and what he has learned over the past two years of hosting the podcast. In the process he reveals more of his life philosophy...
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Episode 89 | Jourdan Johnson
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Jourdan Johnson. Jourdan is a former college athlete, author of The Sports Tunnel: Every Athlete Dies Twice, and a young curator of narrative for those navigating life beyond the scoreboard. His work confronts the deeply embedded stories…
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Episode 88 | Rachel Anticoli
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Rachel Anticoli. Rachel is a Registered Nurse, currently working in Hospice and Palliative Care with pediatrics, diagnosed with a variety of life-limiting illnesses. She is a Certified Pediatric Palliative Care Clinician, working in the…
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Episode 87 | Bryan Kachel
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Bryan Kachel. Seattle-born and raised, Bryan Kachel has been a tattoo artist and painter for 25 years. Well-traveled yet committed to his roots in the Northwest, Bryan owns Moonlight Tattoo with his wife, Mary, and is raising two children....
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Episode 86 | Chris Pearson
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Chris Pearson. Chris is a licensed acupuncturist specializing in biomechanical efficiency and sports medicine. Chris remains a student of life, a parent, and profoundly inspired community member. For more information about Chris visit:...
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Episode 85 | Alan Weisser
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Dr. Alan Weisser. Alan, a clinical psychologist, chronic pain mastery expert, and former trial lawyer, has dedicated his career to helping people navigate the complexities of suffering. His innovative methods empower individuals to reclaim...
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Episode 84 | Deborah Zucker
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Dr. Deborah Zucker. Deborah is a compassionate and experienced naturopathic physician, mental health counselor, health coach, and award-winning author of The Vitality Map. She supports individuals through life’s major transitions with...
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Episode 83 | Jami Sieber
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Jami Sieber. Jami as an electric cellist and vocalist, reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Her style of performance has been recognized internationally. An innovative...
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Episode 82 | Pato Banton
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Pato Banton. Pato aka “BrotherFriend” is an internationally renowned Reggae Legend that has recorded and toured the world with The English Beat, Stephen Marley, Steel Pulse, UB40 & STING! (to name just a few). Not only has Pato topped the...
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Episode 81 | Jason Medina
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Jason Medina. Jason is the son of David and Leta Medina, brother to Charles and Daniel, husband to Dr. Nesreen Medina and father of Naomi and Camila. For over 30 years Jason has worked in health and human services. He has been a Licensed...
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Episode 80 | Amy Eva
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Amy L. Eva, PhD. Amy is the Associate Education Director at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. As an educational psychologist and teacher educator with over 30 years in classrooms, she currently writes, presents, and leads…
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Episode 79 | Susane Smiroldo
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Susane Smiroldo. Susane is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate student committed to a multicultural, integrative approach to healing. Her work weaves together evidence-based counseling with embodied practices rooted in mindfulness,...
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Episode 78 | Dawn Sumner
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Dawn Sumner. Dawn is a Geobiologist who studies how Earth and life have co-evolved over billions of years. She completed degrees at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a…
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Episode 77 | Broderick's Solo Reflection
In this episode Broderick reflects on the question of what it means to live well and our current sociopolitical moment. Here he lays out a framework for thinking about the question of what it means to living well or have a good life and how it relates to our current sociopolitical moment. So…
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Replay of Episode 2 | Jeff Snipes
In this Episode I speak with Jeff Snipes. Jeff has served on the boards of Greenhouse E3, Education Superhighway, Mindful Schools, Challenge Success, and Marin Montessori in addition to several for-profit HR Technology firms. Over the past twenty years he has led multiple education-related...
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Replay of Episode 8 | Bhavani Siegel
In this Episode I speak with Bhavani Siegel. Bhavani is a founding member of Mount Madonna Center, where she lives. She is a senior teacher in MMC’s Yoga Faculty where she teaches many aspects of Yoga, including Meditation, Prāṇāyāma & Yoga Philosophy. Among these, her specialties are…
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Episode 76 | Laura Chandler
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Laura Chandler. Laura is a writer, teacher, podcast host, and award-winning songwriter. She has worked in publishing, music and video production, and alternative therapies. As the co-founder and Executive Director of the Foundation of the...
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Episode 75 | Diane Musho Hamilton
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Diane Musho Hamilton. Diane is an award-winning mediator and a teacher of Zen meditation. She received dharma transmission from Genpo Merzel Roshi in 2006. Diane served as the Director of Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary from 1994…
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Episode 74 | Jennifer Meek
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Jennifer Meek. Jen is an Embodiment Coach, Trauma Informed Yoga Therapist and Somatic Dance Instructor with over a decade of professional experience in dance, yoga and mindfulness. She is certified through the International Association of...
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Episode 73 | Rita Bozi
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Rita Bozi. Rita is a multidisciplinary Somatic Relational trauma-informed Facilitator, Psychedelic Therapist, Somatic Transformation Educator, author, and podcast co-host. With thirty years’ experience in the healing arts, she is the…
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Episode 72 | Gary Peterson
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Gary Peterson. Gary is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST ®) who has been teaching and practicing energy therapies for over 40 years. He teaches Craniosacral Therapy trainings, Polarity Therapy trainings, and other therapeutic work…
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Replay of Episode 22 | Paul T. P. Wong
In this episode I speak with Paul T. P. Wong. Paul passed away in October 2024 at the age of 87. He was Professor Emeritus of Trent University and Trinity Western University. He was a Fellow of various psychology associations such as the APA, APS, and CPA, and the founding President of the...
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Episode 71 | Ginger (Kamalesh) Hooven
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Ginger (Kamalesh) Hooven. As director of Mount Madonna Institute’s Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy program and chair of the organization’s School of Yoga, Ginger has been integrating the sister sciences for decades. She began her yoga journey in...
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Episode 70 | Premdās Rohan
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Premdās Rohan. Premdās is a retired educator and teaches as a substitute teacher in the public schools. He has taught all ages of students from 2 years to the elderly. He combined his love of science and mathematics in the classroom with...
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Episode 69 | Petra Hanson
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Petra Hanson. Petra is the founder of Aerapy and a radical believer in aerial movement as medicine. A former pop singer-in-Japan from New York City, Petra's obsession with aerial, came after decades of dancing and singing on stages with her...
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Episode 68 | Rabbi Rami Shapiro
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Rabbi Rami Shapiro. Rabbi Rami is an award-winning author of over thirty-six books on religion and spirituality. Rami received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and holds a Ph.D. from Union...
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Episode 67 | Isa Gucciardi
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Isa Gucciardi, PhD. Isa has spent over 30 years studying spiritual, therapeutic, and meditative techniques from around the world. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis, a groundbreaking therapeutic model that has won rave reviews from...
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Episode 66 | Keith Witt
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Dr. Keith Witt. Keith is a Licensed Psychologist, teacher, and author who has lived and worked in Santa Barbara since 1973. He has conducted over 75,000 therapy sessions and published eight books, including Loving Completely, Shadow Light,...
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Episode 65 | Brett Hill
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Brett Hill. Brett, known as "The Mindful Coach®", is a seasoned coach, speaker, and trainer with expertise in mindfulness-based somatic practices, career coaching, and technology. As the founder of the Mindful Coach Association and host of...
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Episode 64 | Sky Bergman
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with Sky Bergman. Sky is Professor Emeritus of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is in her third act after a 30-year teaching career. Her artwork is in prestigious museum collections, and her commercial work has appeared in...
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Episode 63 | David Heppard
In this week's episode Broderick is in conversation with David Heppard. As the Director of Vision and Values for The Black Rose Collective, which he co-founded, David continues to champion community empowerment and systemic change. He believes that love is the most potent tool for dismantling...
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Episode 62 | Rae Johnson
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Rae Johnson PhD, RSW, RSMT, BCC (they/them). Rae is a board-certified coach, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working at the intersections of embodiment and social justice. Rae is a professor of somatic psychology at the...
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Episode 61 | Barry Johnson
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Barry Johnson. Barry created the first Polarity Map® and set of principles in 1975. Since then he has been learning And applying Polarity Thinking® with people and organizations all over the world. He continues to explore and promote...
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Episode 60 | Lorea Martinez
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez. Lorea is the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind, a company dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities. She has…
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Episode 59 | Gregg Levoy
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Gregg Levoy. Gregg is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin), and the bestseller Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House)----rated among the "Top 20 Career Publications" by the…
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Episode 58 | Rob Lieblein
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Rob Lieblein. Rob is a certified holistic life coach who specializes in helping clients recover from chronic pain and other symptoms not due to disease, injury, or infection. He brings over two decades of experience as a yoga teacher and...
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Episode 57 | Sidian M.S. Jones
In this episode Broderick is in conversation with Sidian Morning Star Jones. Sidian is an award winning author and personal mythologist, someone who works with belief, meaning, and story to enrich, inspire, and help others pursue meaningful direction in their lives. Jones has spoken to audiences...
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Episode 56 | Tom Shelby
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Tom Shelby. Tom is an expert dog trainer with a specialty in search and rescue dogs and nearly four decades of experience and over 800 training appointments a year. He was a dog handler at the Westminster Dog Show, trained a dog for an...
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Episode 55 | Victor Kazanjian
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Victor Kazanjian. Victor is a mentor, coach and consultant helping individuals and organizations to achieve their goals and actualize their aspirations through a holistic approach to leadership, life and learning. He teaches that integrated...
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Episode 54 | Andrew Interviews Broderick
In this week's episode Broderick is interviewed by his dear friend Andrew Murphy-Rouse. In this conversation Broderick reveals some of his life story and philosophy, his reason for hosting the podcast and what his objectives are moving forward with the podcast. Get full access to Broderick Rodell...
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Episode 53 | Kevin Carroll
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Kevin Carroll. A native of San Francisco, Kevin has lived in the Santa Clara Valley since 1972. He completed his undergraduate studies at Santa Clara University and earned his Master’s degree at the University of San Francisco. Kevin…
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Episode 52 | Martin Kachuck (Sampad)
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Martin Kachuck (Sampad). Sampad is a recently retired Middle School Teacher, Stage Director, Actor in and around the South Bay area, Writer, and residential community member of Mt. Madonna Center. Sampad and his wife, Kalpana, moved to Mt...
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Episode 51 | Louisa Peck
In this week’s episode Broderick is in conversation with Louisa Peck. Raised a staunch atheist, Louisa Peck rejected her 1982 Near-Death Experience (NDE) as a hallucination in order to continue her alcoholic, ego-driven lifestyle – until the same voice that had been present in her NDE broke into...
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Episode 50 | Laura Uplinger
In this episode I speak with Laura Uplinger. Laura is a student and educator in the field of conscious conception, pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding. Since the late 1970s, she has been a proponent of the powerful influence a mother’s inner life has on the formation of her baby during pregnancy…
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Episode 49 | Charles Holmes
In this episode I speak with Charles Holmes. Charles is a skilled facilitator and educator whose 30 years of experience has honed a passion for creating meaningful dialogue among groups whose diverse opinions would otherwise work against a common understanding of desired outcomes. Charles has...
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Episode 48 | Sharon Robinson
In this episode I speak with Sharon Robinson. Sharon is originally from the US where she lived mostly in the Southeast. She was a physical therapist living in Georgia when she had her 2 birth children with midwives in South Carolina. A few years after they were born, she felt called to study...
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Episode 47 | Wendy Baron
In this episode I speak with Wendy Baron. Wendy is a teacher, author, coach, researcher, and leader in the field of social, emotional, and academic development. She co-founded the Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project and New Teacher Center—a national non-profit dedicated to improving...
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Want to explore what it means to live well? Join Broderick Rodell to survey perspectives on the good life through candid conversations with folks from various social, cultural, and professional walks of life. We hope that these dialogues engage you, spark questions, and give you the opportunity to learn from the personal philosophy of others and reflect on your own views in the process. For more information visit podcastonlivingwell.com
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