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The HERE.together Podcast

by Charles Matheus

Can 21st Century humans live together sustainably? If so, how? What can we learn from the past and what solutions are emerging in the future? How will we meet the increasing disruptions of climate change and systemic inequality that will touch all our lives? Come along with us on our journey to find the best possible answers from old wisdom, emerging technology, the social sciences, and design, as we attempt to build a hopeful and actionable model of living for ourselves.

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Episodes

  1. How to Live Your Values (and Not Become a Cyborg!)

    We’re so excited to share talk with Daniel Sih about some of the big problems facing community living and some of the solutions he’s come up with. Daniel Sih is the co-founder of Spacemakers, a productivity consulting group for busy leaders. After experiencing physical symptoms that were the…

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  2. How to Make an Art of Sustainability

    This episode might seem like a bit of a diversion…our guests this time aren’t necessarily living in co-housing but they are both deeply immersed in creating a rich, sustainable community in Santa Barbara, CA. Jill Cloutier is the Public Relations Director of an environmental education and arts...

  3. How to Live in an Eco-Village - Getting Your Human Needs Met with Dr. Kathryn Caldwell

    We know so many people who simultaneously feel blessed and privileged with a good, secure, abundant life, but they know they are missing something. The single-family lifestyle has caused us to trade away too much community, mutual support, and joy for the illusion of autonomy, abundance, and...

  4. How to Do Well by Doing Good - Ethical Property Investing with Dr. Dionne Payn

    This episode we’re excited to talk with someone who is leveraging the inexorable power of capitalism to actually make positive change. Dr. Dionne Payn is the Founder and CEO of High Impact Property Investments. Dionne specializes in raising capital for organizations that create ethical property...

  5. How to Design the Future - Applying Design Thinking to Sustainability with David Johnson

    This episode we’re excited to bring you a conversation with someone who seems able to cultivate a 10,000 foot view of the historical, social, cultural, and technical facets of climate change and sustainability. David Johnson, has been teaching at Stanford Law School since 2008, while doing legal...

  6. How to Make Sustainable Living Sustainable - Let Your Values Do The Driving

    We’re really excited to release this episode featuring Kate Gaertner, a leading sustainability expert and consultant with 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience. Kate is also a personal carbon footprint evangelist on a mission to help individuals align their priorities with their...

  7. How to Make Sustainable Choices - A conversation with Sustainability Coach, Sara Zellner

    Hello, H.tties. In Season 3 of the HERE.together podcast we’re obsessed with the the big question - [fanfare] Can we live together sustainably? And if so, HOW? Over the next year we’re gonna curate conversations with the people who are living in ecovillages, designing new cities, inventing new…

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  8. How to Live Together Sustainably OR How to [not] Watch the World Burn

    Welcome to Season 3 of the HERE.together podcast. This season we are upgrading the podcast so it serves you AND US better. Yeah, we did a sustainability study and realized the pod wasn’t thriving for us. Over the past two years, it’s been beautiful and uplifting to talk with all those amazing,...

  9. How to Live an Epic Life - Leaning into Fear and Service with Claire Louge

    Hello H.tties! Our pod-a-versery is coming up next week. We’re finishing our second full year of podcasting! In recognition of that achievement AND all the support you gorgeous h.tties have given us, we’re re-releasing this early (kind of major) episode with Claire Louge, that we recorded back in...

  10. How to Open Your Heart - A Deeply Connected Conversation with Gestalt Therapist, Tony Himes

    Hello H.tties! We are re-releasing an episode with Tony Himes that we recorded way back in November 2019. Tony is a Gestalt therapist and founder of the Arizona Gestalt Institute. Tony works with youth, adults and couples to help them find more ease and meaning in their lives. This episode is a...

  11. How to Teach Healthy Masculinity - Mark Winkler Explains How He Calls Men IN

    This week on the HERE.together Podcast we are releasing, in full, another of the episodes of the Remaking Manhood Podcast which I co-host and co-produce with Mark Greene. We schedule these cross-promoted episodes in part to give you access to content that we believe will inspire and inform you…

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  12. How to Have a Meltdown - a Real, Raw, Revelatory Session with Integration Coach Tanya Keats

    Are you the kind of person who holds onto stress? Who shoves it down day after day until it explodes in a glorious rain of expletives and recrimination. Or maybe it just comes out a bit sideways and makes things uncomfortable with people you love. Either way, this episode might be just the thing…

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  13. How to Find Your Soul - Cultivating a Relationship with Nature and Our Selves

    Hello H.tties! We are re-releasing an episode with Adam Vellturo that we recorded way back in December 2019. That episode was one of our most popular - it was the first one to hit triple digit downloads. In it, Adam helps us explore and understand nature therapy, deep ecology, the nature of the...

  14. How to Find Your Strengths - Getting Coached Using the Gallup Strengths Assessment

    What if the things you loved to do the most turned out to be the most valuable in your career and your home? What if tendencies that haven’t been recognized as strengths turned out to be the secret to your success? What if we could all see and appreciate each other for our strengths and not worry...

  15. How to Win at Mental Health - A Conversation About How to Conquer Depression with a Full-on Effort

    Dealing with depression and anxiety? Who is winning, you or them? What if you had a playbook full of healing, coping, and life-giving strategies at the ready? Would you feel more supported, more hopeful? Guest Bio: Zack S. Rutledge is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, an ACE Certified Fitness...

  16. How to be Powerfully Peaceful - Developing Conscious Skills, Mindfulness, and Success with Neil Seligman

    Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could take our full, relaxed, connected and authentic selves everywhere, including to work? Wouldn’t it be better if leaders of all kinds could lead from a place of mindfulness, self-awareness, and peaceful power? If Consciousness and Corporateness coexisted wouldn’t…

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  17. How to Start a Fire: Getting Our Sex Life Off the Back Burner

    "Let's talk about sex, baby Let's talk about you and me" If you’re our generation, you probably danced to Salt ‘n’ Pepa at a teen club or when you sneaked into a bar with a fake ID. It was all super-hot back then, but how about now? Have you lost your mojo? Is sex, intimacy, and connection on the...

  18. How to be a Victor, not a Victim

    How do you keep going through the darkest nights of the soul? How do you take the worst things that happened to you and turn them into fuel for good? How do you shift from victim to victor? ​ Guest Bio: Fatima Oliver is devoted to helping others become their best selves. She is a survivor of the...

  19. How to Be an Awesome Dad - A Conversation about Engaged Fatherhood and Social Change

    This week on the HERE.together Podcast - in belated recognition of Father’s Day - we are releasing, in full, another of the episodes of the Remaking Manhood Podcast which I co-host and co-produce with Mark Greene. In this episode, we interview Kevin Shafer, an associate professor of Sociology at...

  20. How to Shatter Glass - An Energizing Conversation with Women's Executive Coach Kate Hutson

    What if you had the confidence and boldness to ask for what you want, go for the promotion, choose to change lanes, or live your way into your biggest goals? Our guest today coaches women in conquering their fear, creating productive habits, and building the roadmaps that take them in the…

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  21. How to Talk Feminism with Men - A Conversation in Which Charles Outs Himself

    How many Feminist men do you know? You know what they say in cosmology - there’s either zero, one, or infinity of something! And given that there's one feminist man on our podcast team, what does that mean? Our guest today had a hard time finding a Feminist man in her dating life, so long story...

  22. How to Take it to the Next Level - Music & Community Enrichment with Candace Devine & Drew Hall

    If you could time-travel, what band would you go back and befriend right before they made it BIG?? Well, we have yet to crack time-travel, but the good news is we all get to be up-close friendly-fans of our guests today and after the rest of the world hears their new single, we’ll be able to say…

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  23. Boysen Hodgson on the Personal Impact of Men's Work

    For generations, our culture has taught us a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result? Epidemic levels of isolation for boys and men and embedded repression and violence for the vast majority of women and children. As a boy and young man, I learned that same set of…

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  24. How to Be the Solution - Asking Questions and Taking Responsibility with Angel Ribo

    Who cares about big business when you’re just trying to get your small business off the ground? What do CEOs have to do with running a successful family? If you just re-watched Wall Street or read the news and need to feel hopeful about business and the world, this is the episode for you. Welcome...

  25. How to Build Soulful Power - Breathing, laughing and learning with Christian de la Huerta

    Is your ego running your show? Are you making choices guided by fear? What would it be like to put your purpose and soul in charge? How would your life be different if you did? Spoiler alert: you’d have more freedom, more real power, and you’d be able to join with others to create the sustainable...

  26. How to Live for Justice - A Vision for Engaged, Spiritual Activism

    A photographer, a Civil Rights Lawyer, and an Episcopal Priest walk into a bar… This week’s show is no joke, though. Our guest, the Reverend Dr. Marcia Ledford, Esquire IS a Civil Rights lawyer, a photographer, and an Episcopal Priest. Stay tuned for a great conversation that encompases journeys...

  27. How to be 88% Happy with Dr. Marissa Pei

    If you want to try out some ideas and actions to push your average happiness up to 88%, we have the conversation for you. Our guest this week is Dr. Marissa Pei. She’s been through the shit and she’s here to tell you that you CAN be happy - at least 88% of the time. Dr. Marissa, as we call her…

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  28. How to Break Out of the Man Box

    For generations, our culture has taught us a narrow and limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result? Epidemic levels of isolation for boys and men and embedded repression and violence for the vast majority of women and children. I learned that same set of rules and I adopted that...

  29. How to Make Your Marriage Happy - One Thousand Years of Relationship Wisdom

    When was the last time you asked a family member for the secrets to their successful relationship? Do you talk about what makes a happy marriage with your friends over dinner? If you don’t have these conversations and access to the wisdom of people who have “figured it out,” then we have the...

  30. How to Make Your Relationship Exceptional - Changing the World, One Relationship at a Time

    What would your relationship look like if you could call it Exceptional? Are you ok with pretty good? What would you change, if you could? How would the world be different if your relationship were exceptional? Guest Bio: It’s relationship month at HERE.together. This episode, we are talking with…

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  31. How to Be Enough - Making Personal Growth Fun and Meaningful

    This podcast seems to all about change and growth. But we’re guessing you listeners have a lot of questions about this focus. “Do we really have to change?” “Why all this pressure to grow and get better?” “Why does Charles book the kinds of guests he does; all these coaches and inspiring…

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  32. How to Walk into Adulthood - Parenting, Adventure & Authenticity

    Our intrepid guest this episode is 13-year-old Georgia Clews who is halfway through her long trail hike adventure with her mom, Charlotte Clews. If Georgia (known by her trail name, Marmot), gets all the way to the Utah border under her own steam, she will likely be the youngest person to hike…

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  33. How to Live Your Purpose - Combining Drive, Acceptance, and Compassion

    Imagine you won the lottery - either literally, or by somehow managing to hit a grand slam in your professional life. You bought the cars, the homes, took the vacations, paid off the debts of some people you love, lived the fantasies. Where do you find real satisfaction and meaning? Being too…

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  34. How to Do the Right Thing, Part II - The Un-episode

    Welcome to the Un-episode… the Un-podcast… the Un-interview… in which your dedicated hosts get the table flipped on them by their crafty guest, end up answering his (deeply personal) questions, and totally love it. It all started so innocently… we were just sharing our favorite podcasts during…

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  35. How to Do the Right Thing - Take the High Road to Raise the Bottom Line

    How do you think of successful businessmen? Selfish and greedy or generous and thoughtful? I’m guessing there have always been both kinds, but overall, I’ve tended to think about people with a LOT of money in less than charitable terms. Pun intended. What if I told you about someone who has...

  36. How to Belong to the Whole World - with Deb Matlock, Wild Connection Guide

    Have you ever felt out of place? Have you been surrounded by people you don’t get and who don’t get you? Do you like spending time in nature or with animals, more than with other humans? Or, do you love humans and the natural world, but feel concerned about how that relationship is going? We...

  37. How to Turn a Conversation into Community - Featuring Tara Jackson from Arizona Town Hall

    In times of division and discord like we’ve been experiencing, how do we come back together? How do we heal our communities and move forward into healthier ways of living together? How do we do justice and grow the economy? Opposing viewpoints and civil strife have always been with us, even in...

  38. How to Get a Heart in Business - Building a Brand with Passion and Commitment to Community

    How long do you have to be in business before you start thinking about your legacy, before you start giving back and building a better future for others? How big is big enough to help the community? State Forty-Eight is an apparel company run by people who realized early on that they wanted more...

  39. How To Be Purposeful and Fulfilled - Life by the Bucketful

    Why should you make a bucket list? Our guest, The Bucket List Guy, Travis Bell, would suggest that making and realizing your own true list of desires - no matter how small or how odd, will bring energy and purpose flooding into your life. Do we have to say what a bucket list is? I assume most...

  40. How to Step Aside - MLK Day Special Non-episode

    Happy and consequential Martin Luther King/Civil Rights Day to you. After the 2020 we had, I can’t think of an MLK day more poised between worlds than this one. So much of the racism and white supremacy that had long been conveniently ignorable to us white folks finally became completely...

  41. How to Get Attention - Use the Media for Good, not Evil

    If you think publicists are just for celebs and big business, you haven’t met today’s guest. In the middle of a 20-year campaign to free an innocent man from death row, she woke up to the value of using media for causes like justice and civil rights. She also realized she was really good at it…

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  42. How to Cook a BIGGER Moose - the Full, Lightly Edited Episode

    We can’t even imagine cooking a moose - why would we want to do that? If that’s what you’re thinking, don’t worry, today’s episode is all about writing and being human and the ongoing struggle to live in community. A moose does get cooked in our guest Kate Christensen’s second memoir of the same...

  43. How to Cook a Moose - Lessons in Place and Belonging

    I can’t even imagine cooking a moose - why would I want to do that? If that’s what you’re thinking, don’t worry, today’s episode is all about writing and being human and the ongoing struggle to live in community. A moose does get cooked in our guest Kate Christensen’s second memoir of the same...

  44. How to Get Coached - Witness Change in Real Time!

    What would you change if you had your very own coach? Someone who would tell you honestly and clearly how to meet your goals? What would you work on? Your business? Your health? Your relationship? Personal growth - along with healthy relationships and community engagement is part of the troika we...

  45. How to Be Resilient - Building Community Sustainability

    This week, we bring you Laird Christensen, someone who has thought deeply about how we can move ourselves and our communities forward through overlapping crises. This episode covers a LOT of ground: Anarchy, literature, activism, guitar playing, fatherhood, hope, despair, and potlucks as…

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  46. How to Have Crazy Ideas (And Make Them Work)

    What’s it like combating an entrenched problem like homelessness during a pandemic? What skills and mindset make the difference in good times and bad? How does one get selected Prescott Woman of the Year? Find out from Coalition for Compassion and Justice Executive Director, Jessi Hans. In 2018,...

  47. How to Pandemic - Advice from Two Community Health Professionals

    Whether you are an obsessed Pandemic Watcher like Charles or just want to know how to stay un-infected until the vaccines arrive, this episode is for you. We bring you interviews with two people who have unique knowledge about the Covid pandemic. Find out what’s going on with vaccine trials, what...

  48. How to Feed a Wolf - Two Stories and Four Tips for Better Leadership

    So We’ve been thinking about the parable of The Two Wolves in the aftermath of the national election. Given how much anger, xenophobia and racism has risen, will a new president make a difference? Were we always this awful and now it’s just visible? Or have we become more awful under the…

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  49. How to Not Know - Balancing Contemplation and Action

    If you think of Buddhists as quiet, gentle people who meditate all the time, think again. Our guest this week is a proponent of engaged Buddhism, a movement within the philosophy that turns contemplation into action, practice into purpose. We learn from Pete that it’s not enough to acknowledge…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Can 21st Century humans live together sustainably? If so, how? What can we learn from the past and what solutions are emerging in the future? How will we meet the increasing disruptions of climate change and systemic inequality that will touch all our lives? Come along with us on our journey to find the best possible answers from old wisdom, emerging technology, the social sciences, and design, as we attempt to build a hopeful and actionable model of living for ourselves.

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Charles Matheus

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