The New Design for Living
by Camille Conte
The New Design for Living reimagines how we live, love and treat each other so we can build a new infrastructure for our personal lives, our communities, our country and our world. The new society is being built in real time and this podcast shows you how. Tune in. Feel better.
Episodes
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The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Have you ever noticed that when something isn't happening fast enough, the instinct is to push? I've spent the past week learning a powerful lesson about divine timing, manifestation, and what we're actually meant to do when the thing we're waiting for isn't ready yet. On this episode, we'll...
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Coming Home to Your Own Authority
The old design model had us convinced that our authority, permission and worth (just to name a few!) were all outside of ourselves, held by those in white jackets, white collars and titles. The Great Awakening is our realization of that distorted programming. This episode shows us the way home....
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Special Guest Shu Shumelda - Grounded Parenting for Today's Family
Shu is an extraordinary individual whose life story and circumstances prepared him at an early age to know what children need yet often do not receive and how that impacts them as adults trying to parent their own children. Also, how the child is impacted as well and how that affects their...
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Special Guest Nellie Clay - Singer, Songwriter, Survivor
Nellie Clay is an extraordinary storyteller, lyricist, singer, artist and soon to be author. Her story is nothing short of movie level inspirational. Nellie talks candidly about her recent health diagnosis and how it has affected her craft and performances, what it was like to be on stage in...
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Special Guest Carrie Jean Shephard - AK Women's Business Center Advisor
The data is clear: women are leaving the workforce that doesn't honor their lives and moving into the growing field of owning their own business as well as becoming entrepreneur. Carrie Jean Shephard is a master business woman whose career path has covered all corners. She brings her insight and...
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Special Guest LeeAnna Chronister - The Workshop Community Center
Imagine a place for parents and their children, where everyone is welcome. A safe place for kids to explore, play and create while parents meet other parents and everyone feels like the space is theirs. This is exactly what The Workshop Community Center is all about and it's ED, LeeAnna…
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Special Guest Rhiana Gay - The New Design for Education
The Anchorage School District, like so many others, is struggling to keep up with the speed of technology and it's impact on the system. Rhiana Gay has been in the district for fourteen years, twelve as a teacher and now two years as a counselor. We take a fabulous deep dive into why the system…
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Special Guest Patty Ginsburg - League of Women Voters Anchorage
A MUST LISTEN TO EPISODE! Patty Ginsburg gives us an education in the League's neutrality when it comes to politics, why she's been fighting for democracy for decades now and why voting is more important than ever. She also explains open primaries and rank choice voting, gives us an update on...
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Special Guest Jessie Lavoie CEO YWCA Alaska
We begin our celebration and acknowledgment of Women's History Month with the CEO of YWCA Alaska, Jessie Lavoie. The YWCA history is fascinating as is its evolution. The funding cuts from this administration has left our non-profits scrambling. Today we learn how that's affecting this important...
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Special Guest Cal Williams - Historian, Activist and So Much More! Celebrating Black History Month
What a conversation with the legendary Cal Williams! If there's just one show you listen to, let it be this one! From The March on Washington to Hollywood to an epiphany while stopped by police during the Civil Rights Movement, you will be inspired, entertained and moved by Cal's life story and...
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Special Guests Celeste Hodge Growden & Ouida Morrison AK Black Caucus
Continuing our celebration of Black History Month with a focus on the history and activism of African American here in Alaska and Anchorage. Today I have the pleasure of specking with Celeste Hodge Growden, CEO and President of the Alaska Black Caucus and Ouida Morrison, the Economics Chair. An...
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Special Guest Ed Wesley - The History of African Americans in Alaska
February is Black History Month and we kick things off with the incredible historian, archivist and community leader, Ed Wesley who offers us an astonishing history lesson in the role of African Americans in the building of the ALCAN Highway, the AK Railroad and the arrival of the Buffalo…
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Special Guest Theresa Brown - Permaculture and the Power of Community Gardens
Theresa Brown is a powerhouse in this community! We cover everything from what permaculture is, how it fits into the new design model, creating community gardens for those in need of food support and so much more! Absolutely fabulous conversation. Theresa has been gardening in Alaska for 20…
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Special Guest Tom Begich and The New Design for Politics
At a time when most of us are done with politics, including myself, Tom Begich brings a refreshing and much needed reimagined way of empowering all of us in his vision for Alaska. His consciousness is mature, inclusive and truly the new way! I highly recommend a good listen to this conversation....
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Celebrating the 37th Annual Folk Festival with Marianne See and Lucy Peckham
The 37th Annual Folk Festival happens every January just when we need it! Veteran musician, Marianne See has been with the Anchorage Folk Festival from the beginning and brings her rich history of those early days through now in this fabulous discussion. Lucy Peckham has been the festival's sound...
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Special Guest Bob Curtis-Johnson - The Importance of Media and Cultural Preservation
Bob and I have an intensely lively and passionate discussion about something we both care deeply about; the importance of preserving this particular kind of cultural and societal history because of it's unique capturing of the human spirit and evolution. So good! Bob Curtis-Johnson has a rich...
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A Year of Unimaginable Change - 2025 - The Year We Shed Everything
We are not going into a new year. We're going into "The In-Between." 2025 was the year of the snake and we shed everything! But what we're becoming is still ahead of us. We have another phase of transformation to go through first. The chrysalis. We know the caterpillar and we love the butterfly…
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Special Guest Emma Hill, Co-Owner, Rage City Vintage
I love Emma Hill. Her passion is so deeply rooted in community and her vision in sync with the new design model. We pay homage to her business venture, Rage City Vintage which closed on Christmas Eve. We discuss many aspects of opening and running a local business including the economy, the...
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Special Guest Laura Oden of Pandere Shoes
The New Design for Shoes?! Yes! Did you know shoes have been the same for 10,000 years? That's until visionary Laura Oden realized that the answer to her own problem was literally in her hands. A remarkable, inspiring story for any business owner or entrepreneur as Laura charts her journey with...
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Special Guest Austin Holland - AK Earthquake Center
Get ready for the best eduction lesson you ever had on earthquakes in Alaska! Austin Holland's passion and knowledge takes us deep into the earth's layers for a fascinating conversation about seismic activity, tsunami's and the best ways to stay safe during a big earthquake! Share with everyone…
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On Death and Dying - Honoring the Life of Jeff Young
My friend, Jeff Young went into a rapid and shocking descent off the mountain of life and in just seventeen days left his body. The experience brought me face to face with the dying process and death itself. It was shocking and devastating to my best friend, whose husband was a well known runner…
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Food Insecurity in Alaska with Special Guest Rachael Miller, Food Bank of AK
There's much more to the Food Bank of Alaska than feeding Alaskans. They also feed a network of organizations that also feed Alaskans. But food security is different than our food system. Rachael Miller, who has been studying food systems for 20 years, brings her incredible insight and knowledge...
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The Power of Anger
In the new design model, we no longer sweep anger under the rug or pretend like we don't feel it or believe it's not "lady like" to express it. We're angry, some are enraged and we all understand why! Once we feel it in a way that's healthy, once we learn how to express it in a way that…
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Feeding Alaskans - Simone Stewart of Triple A's Soulfood Leads the Way
This week we focus on the positive vibe that is spreading love throughout the Anchorage bowl and beyond in response to the SNAP gap and the growing number of Alaskans going without food. Simone Stewart, owner of Triple A's Soulfood in Wasilla is showing us the way!
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Special Guest Lu-Anne Haukaas Lopez - DED of ACLU Alaska
Lu-Anne Haukaas Lopez is one of the most extraordinary women I've ever met. Born in Colombia, South America, Lu-Anne's family was displaced from her birth country because of war, and moved to Interior Alaska where she grew up living a rural, subsistence, communal lifestyle on Ahtna Athabascan...
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Special Guest Kaleem Nuriddin
Kaleem is a mentor, spiritual colleague and the person I go to for perspective and insight when my own isn't brining me home. Today on the show, we get into a conversation that runs the gamut from the civil rights movement and how it reminds us that this moment is not new to MLK and the courage…
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Special Guest Duke Russell - Can homelessness be solved?
Duke Russell returns to the studio today for another radically honest conversation about homelessness and the unconscious biases that can keep us in a fantasy about this growing problem. Duke was contracted to be the artist at the 2025 Project Homeless Connect, a position that gave him an...
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Are we becoming "The Divided States of America?"
A passionate discussion about the state of our country and the division that is moving us towards becoming "The Divided States of America." The good news is that the new design model shows us how to heal the divide first within ourselves and then with each other. The choice is ours.
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Special. Guest Astrologer Lynn Lockner
Lynn Lockner's passion for Astrology can be heard immediately in this fascinating conversation that covers a lot of ground from the wholly science of astrology whose language includes numbers, symbols, letters, and sacred geometry. Fascinating information about Washington D.C. as a chosen spot…
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Special Guest Chase Rowan and the Healing Power of Ibogaine
Chase Rowan is a former Army Ranger who was addicted to opioids due to a brain injury sustained during a night time exercise. For seventeen years he struggled with addiction which included heroin and fetanyl, two car accidents and the loss of his family. At his darkest time when he believed...
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Special Guest Chris Devlin Director of Advocacy & Outreach Balneology Association of North America
Chris Devlin is one of the most extraordinary men I've ever known! Today we talk about his passion for hot springs and mineral soaks and the work he's doing with the Balneology Association. Chris also shares his near death experience that happened in the 1970's before it was named as such and how...
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Special Guest Composer Kurt Reimann and "MARS"
Lifelong Alaskan, Kurt Riemann has produced some of Alaska's most iconic music. Today Kurt talks about the Alaska Music Archives and the culmination of a ten year project that is now showing at the Anchorage Museum. "MARS" is a six-screen visual and surround sound interplanetary experience that's...
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Special Guest Shane Russell, AK Ambassador for Into the Dark Blue
This is one of those conversations that everyone needs to hear. Shane is an extraordinary young man who is creating a space in Anchorage for men to gather and talk about their lives. Shane's honestly was inspiring and together we had a deep and meaningful conversation that left us both more…
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Special Guest Blaze Bell - Living An Authentic Life
Blaze Bell is a podcaster, singer, keynote speaker and so much more. She's also collaborating with me in a new monthly circle called "Women Gathering." In this episode, we talk about what it takes to be your authentic self in a fast changing world and what happens when you say, "Yes!" to being a...
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Special Guests Sandy Harper and Dick Reichman - The Role of Art in a Societal Collapse
Oh what a show!! I am thrilled to have Sandy Harper in the studio today to talk about the role of art during a societal collapse. Sandy (who just turned 85!) is a legend in Alaska. Along with her husband Jerry, Sanday started Cyrano's Theatre, a landmark for decades that gave a stage to local...
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Stand Up Alaska with OD, Ryan Anderson and ED, Erin Jackson Hill
Stand Up Alaska has been leading the way for the peaceful protests happening in Anchorage. Today we find out what it really takes to organize multiple, state-wide protests while setting the record for the largest crowd ever to assemble in Anchorage with the "No Kings" rally.
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Special Guest Anchorage's Mayor LaFrance - Reimagining Local Government!
I am so excited to have Anchorage's first elected female mayor on the show today! Mayor LaFrance engages in a fantastic conversation about the new design for local government and what she would do in the new design model to change things up! Her willingness to engage in such a conversation is…
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Stepping Out of the Matrix of War
In The New Design for Living war is obsolete. It can only exist in a society that believes in duality and separation and of course in the new design model we live in unity consciousness and the principle of oneness. But what does it really take to step out of the matrix of war and can it be done…
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The Power of Somatic Healing with Catherine Nicholas
The old design for personal healing has run its course as new modalities and energy medicine take us to the next level of experiencing our own wholeness. Excited to talk about the power of somatic healing with Catherine Nicholas after my own experience of this powerful therapy!
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A Revolution of Consciousness
This administration just sent the National Guard to Los Angeles and ignites a revolution of consciousness.
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The New Design for Religion with Lance Howard
Lance Howard is an author, a musician, a coach and one of the collaborators of The New Design for Living. His new book, "Bible Redefined" is our starting point in today's conversation about the new model for religion. This is a model that moves from a God outside of us to our own divinity at the...
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The New Design for Non-Profits with Shirley Mae Springer Staten
Shirley Mae Springer Staten is one of the most incredible women I have ever met! Her bio, background and experience is an episode unto itself! As the founder of the non-profit, Keys to Life which fosters and empowers rich communities through the arts and cross cultural events, Shirley is a...
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Evolving Into a New You
In The New Design for Living we want to become our best selves. We want to grow, mature and evolve into a fresh version of ourselves that matches our new set of values and principles and the future we're imagining. To do this, we must die to the old version in the exact way that the caterpillar...
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Celebrating National Poetry Month with Poet Brian Hutton
Brian Hutton is an extraordinary poet whose work throughout the state has inspired hundreds of people to write a poem! Whether it's a senior through his Senior Poetry Workshop or senior in school, Brian's talent as a facilitator and poet is meaningful and life changing. Today on the show we talk...
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Harnessing the Power of Your Immune System
When it comes to nutrition and supplementation for optimal performance of the immune system, NOBODY knows more than Louie Plante. Formerly known as Chef Steve, owner of Organic Oasis Restaurant and founder of Anchorage's first juice bar, "The Enzyme Express," Louie is my go-to when it comes to...
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Modernizing Your Change Toolbox
You can't build a new life with old tools! These days of massive evolutionary change require us to get rid of what doesn't work anymore and replace it with what does. Outdated definitions, old, limiting beliefs, patriarchal programming and everything else that comes out of the current collapsing...
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The Healing Power of Sound
Sound Practitioner and Astrologer, Todd Lance talks about the ever growing popularity of "sound baths, a meditative experience where participants experience deep relaxation while emersed in the sounds of gongs, chimes and crystal bowls. These sounds reduce stress and promote emotional well-being…
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The Power of Community with Duke Russell
Duke Russell is a world reknowned artist whose recent transformation of the self led him to answer the call to feed the homeless here in Anchorage. He does it his way and it works. He also hosts a quarterly community dinner for eighty people! In this episode, we talk about the power of community...
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Building Community
In this episode, we continue our focus on local communities and the need for us to become more engaged in what's happening in our own backyard. We also realize that when we do bring our passion for change and even our anger for the outrageous steps being taken by this administration to our own...
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Local Matters
In The New Design for Living, we go move our attention from global to local and find ourselves more deeply committed to our own communities. No doubt the internet has created a global society unlike anything we've ever known before. However, the old system effectively limits just how much change…
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About this show
The New Design for Living reimagines how we live, love and treat each other so we can build a new infrastructure for our personal lives, our communities, our country and our world. The new society is being built in real time and this podcast shows you how. Tune in. Feel better.
Hosted by
Camille Conte