Friendly Savages makes their music out of the Austin, TX cauldron of rock, blues, and secret sauce. The group's characteristic music style and the energy, joy, and musicality they bring to live shows have helped to establish them as "one of the best groups working in Austin today" (The Horn). Their sophomore album, East in the Morning, was released in April of 2015.
Episode #20 Inefficiency Live: A Christmas Carol
Host Matt Inman with Inefficiency Live guests Jeremy Ezell and Jess Worthington, 2015.
For our twentieth episode we went live! We had some fun with A Christmas Carol and different perspectives in hopes of going home for the holidays healthier people. We all have family that we find difficult and just maybe, they find us difficult too. Have a listen to the episode done live in a crowded Stouthaus Coffee Pub in Austin, Texas.
Three Therapists (Matt Inman, Jeremy Ezell and Jess Worthington)
Two Christmas Beers (Deschutes Jubeale and Anchor Christmas Ale)
One Holiday Conversation (Scrooge, Christmas Ghosts and Healthy Relationships)
Episode #19 Tim Schurrer Living A Great Story
Tim Schurrer is on a mission to connect people to a more meaningful life. As the right-hand man to Donald Miller, he is gifted at turning lofty goals and world-changing vision into practical, daily actions. Tim set out 10 years ago to live a life that he could love. This pursuit took him on a journey across the country with TOMS Shoes before working with Apple Inc. for several years. Beyond Tim’s magnetic personality is a contagious sense of purpose and an inspiring zeal for life. Tim lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Katie, and the world's cutest dog, Watson.
Website - http://timschurrer.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/timschurrer
Instagram - https://instagram.com/timschurrer/
Episode #18 Gena Minnix Gratitude & The Moment to Moment
Gena Minnix, PhD is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in systemic therapies, trauma and spiritual discernment. She is a professor at the Seminary of the Southwest, an Episcopal school. She also co-founded the non-profit The Empathy Project. She resides with her family in Austin, Texas.
Episode #17 Brad Strawn Subjectivity & Relationality
Brad D. Strawn (M.A. Theology, PhD Clinical Psychology) is the Evelyn and Frank Freed Professor for the Integration of Psychology and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Graduate School of Psychology. He has edited or co-authored three books including The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology & the Church (Cambridge: with Warren Brown) and Christianity and Psychoanalysis: A New Conversation (IVP: with Earl Bland). He also regularly publishes in integrative journals focusing on the dialogue between Christianity and Psychology. Brad’s research interests include embodied cognition, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, the integration of psychology and theology, and psychology and ecclesiology. Brad is an ordained Elder in the Church of the Nazarene and a licensed psychologist who maintains a private practice in Pasadena, California where he works with individuals, couples and families.
Twitter: @Bdstrawn
Episode #16 Erin Inman Long-Term Grief and Motherhood
Erin Inman is a dynamic woman who has a knack for creativity, expression and loving. She works at home as a mother and is also a part time preschool teacher. She has been a reluctant artist over the past 10 years and has recently leaned into her writing, doodling and illustrating. Erin opens up about the evolution of her grief over her mother's death when she was 14.
Episode #15 David Salinas The Art & Science of Handcrafted Coffee
David Salinas is the founder and curator of the Department of Brewology based out of Austin, Texas. For the last 15 years David has been dedicated to create better design and better coffee. Just recently his two passions merged in the culmination of the Department of Brewology; a typographic exploration of the art & science of handcrafted coffee.
instagram: flatteryleadstoruin website: www.departmentofbrewology.com
Episode #14 Jonnie Russell Cold War Kids, Transition and Skid Row
Jonathan Russell is a chaplain working for urban justice at the Union Rescue Mission on skid row in Downtown Los Angeles, a contributing fellow at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and an adjunct professor of philosophy and religion at Chaffey College. He hold a Masters degree in theology and philosophy of religion from Fuller Theological Seminary, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University. He was formerly a young adult and college minister and prior to that he spent nearly a decade as a professional musician in the music industry as a founding member of the band Cold War Kids, in which he was a songwriter and the lead guitarist.
Episode #13 Paul Hurckman Venture Expeditions & Unregretting
Paul has spent time working in higher education, the church, and the non-profit sector. The common thread with each of these has been a passion for advocating on behalf of those affected by injustices happening in the world, as well as educating and mobilizing communities as to their responsibility and opportunity to change these situations. Paul holds a MA in Organizational Leadership from Bethel University. He is pursuing his PhD in International Relief and Development from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Together with his wife Candace, and their two children, Lola and Justus, they are committed as a family to engage in the story of justice and hope. Paul loves both camping in the wilderness and drinking coffee in the city.
Twitter: @paulhurckman
Episode #12 Christina Lee Kim Our Development & Intersectionality
Dr. Kim is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Biola University. She regularly teaches in the undergraduate psychology department and supervises doctoral research at Rosemead School of Psychology. Her research interests include multiculturalism and gender issues, racial and cultural identity formation, Asian-American psychology, and the use of qualitative research methods.
Episode #11 Sleeping At Last Music & Waiting for the Bus
Sleeping At Last is the moniker of Chicago-based singer-songwriter, producer and composer, Ryan O’Neal.
You may know Sleeping At Last from various Films and TV Shows such as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn- Part 1, The Fault in Our Stars, Grey's Anatomy, So You Think You Can Dance, Criminal Minds, Bones, Believe, Vampire Diaries and many more.
He has collaborated or sang with many artists including Jon Foreman, Billy Corgan, Van Dyke Parks, Paul Von Merens, John Goodmanson, Alanis Morissette and many more.
Ryan recently scored the upcoming feature documentary film, “Many Beautiful Things” which will release in 2015, along with an official motion picture soundtrack.
Web: www.sleepingatlast.com Twitter: @sleepingatlast Instagram: sleepatlast
Episode #10 Angie Gray Grief, Loss and Will Gray
Angie Gray is a daughter, sister, friend, massage therapist, non-profit head and something she never anticipated, a widow. As a couple, Will and Angie were loved by many and looked up to by many. It has been two years since Will's passing and she was courageous enough to sit down and talk about her experience of grief.
Episode #9 Leah Foster Guerrero The Disappearing Artist
Leah Foster is an artist from the small rural town of Dilley, Texas. With little exposure to the arts in her rural community, it wasn’t until college that Leah discovered a passion for art and its potential for shaping the world she wanted to live in. For Leah, art is simply a tool to bring about change within the world; art as a means to an end, not the end in itself.
“I do have a very clear agenda, and that is to make this place a better place. I am an artist and that is the position where I speak from.”— Felix Gonzalez Torres
Episode #8 Pablo Mendoza Systemic Racism and Constructive Engagement
Dr. Pablo B. Mendoza has been a student affairs professional since 1989, a career in which he has served in a number of disciplines within the field. Over the last two decades, he has served at four universities, including the University of Missouri, and the University of California-San Diego. From the beginning of his career in residential life to his last position as Director of the Multicultural Center at MU, he has supervised different functions in the areas of multicultural affairs, LGBTQ programs, leadership development conferences, parent orientation and experiential education. Dr. Mendoza began his tenure as Assistant to the President for Social Equity at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2013.
Episode #7 Nathan Yoder Inspiration and Expression of the Self
Nathan Yoder is an illustrator and designer currently based in Portland, Oregon. Growing up in Oklahoma, Nathan pulls inspiration from the blue collar, hands on, middle American lifestyle that was such a big part of his upbringing. After university, Nathan worked as a graphic designer at a small agency in Tulsa, Oklahoma before reconnecting with his first love of hand drawn art. What began as quick sketches to pass the time eventually evolved into the pursuit of illustration and lettering as a full time job. Fast forward four years to today; Nathan is now self employed working under the name Yondr Studio for clients such as Nike, Field And Stream, Popular Science, Element, and Miller Coors while also juggling the constant flow of self initiated projects.
Instagram: @nathanyoder / Twitter: @nathanyoder yondrstudio.com / darkwater.com yondrflash.com
(Due to sound issues this episode is best listened to with headphones)
Episode #6 Roy Barsness Love and Psychoanalysis
Dr. Barsness holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology – Los Angeles, a Masters Degree (M.A.) in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, a Postgraduate Certificate in Family Studies from the Los Angeles Family Institute and has completed an intensive training program in Psychoanalytic Theory from the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Barsness also holds a Clinical Associate Professor appointment at the University of Washington in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences. Prior to coming to The Seattle School, Dr. Barsness was Director of Clinical Training at Seattle Pacific University. He has also taught at Fuller Theological Seminary and Antioch University. His primary interest is in the intersection of psychoanalytic thought and theology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Christian Association of Psychology, the Center for Object Relations and the NW Center for Psychoanalytic Study.
Episode #5 Michael Leach Grace, Perspective and Bloody Empathy
My guest today is Dr. Michael Leach. He is a clinical psychologist who received his training at Rosemead School of Psychology in La Mirada, California. He is the founder of the non-profit community mental health and teaching clinic, Richland Oaks Counseling Center, and has taught at the Texas School of Professional Counseling for 9 years. He is fiercely inept (his words) at administrative responsibilities and passionately in love with clinical work, and spiritually curious about a broad many things. He is married with three children who have showered him with grace for his many shortcomings (once again, his words).
Episode #4 Joseph Barkley Good & Bad Comfort
Joseph Barkley is my guest today. He is the pastor of Radius Church, a church for those who are convinced church is irrelevant. Joseph describes himself as a "husband, dad, talker, lover of new ideas, and purveyor of indiscriminate grace." He has spent the last few years pastoring Ecclesia Church in Hollywood and prior to that, he spent 10 years as a professional musician. Joseph is a dynamic speaker and writer. For more on Joseph Barkley: www.josephbarkley.com
Twitter: @mrjosephbarkley
Episode #3 Jason Minnix True and False Self
Jason Minnix is a spiritual director living in Austin, Texas. He studied Philosophy at the University of Texas and Spiritual Formation at George Fox Seminary. When he isn't leading individuals he is leading groups during a contemplative service at Vox Veniae.
Episode #2 Una Mulale Race & The 7 Billion Expressions of God
Una Mulale is the Director of Pediatric Critical Care at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. he is about to transition out of her current position and into a fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Pediatric Global Health. She is the co-founder of Barona, an organization promoting the value of all human beings and aims to create Botswana’s first Children’s Hospital.
Twitter: @unamulale