The Ten Thousand (10,000) Heroes Show
10,000 Heroes is a show about Purpose. We interview people we admire about their journey with Purpose. Which is a journey we’re all on – whether we like it, or acknowledge it, or not. And then we share their insights, tools, and struggles with you. 10,000 Heroes (10kh) provides inspiration, intimacy, and maybe even a little bit of guidance, as to what it means to live a truly purposeful life, and how we each can get there in our own unique way. In my mind, it’s not just a podcast, it’s a hero generation machine. Because a World on Fire needs People with Purpose.
Episodes
Yesterday, I delivered my first sermon in an actual house of worship.
It was an exciting and bizarre moment for me, and turned out to be quite beautiful.
Exciting because I see myself as a priest, and giving a sermon is a very priestly honor.
Bizarre because I never thought I’d ever write a sentence like that last one!
I’ve been marrying people for the last eighteen years. My first chaplaincy assignment was fifteen years ago. I’ve...
Earlier this week I spoke with renowned mediator Ken Cloke.
Ken is a living breathing apostle of the philosophy of practical nonviolence that Gandhi and MLK took to such a high level.
Because we were on a call with a group of professional mediators, I asked Ken what the recent US election might mean for mediators in the US. I'm sharing his answer more publicly because I see the philosophy behind mediation as being appropriate to an...
Happy USA Election Day 2024, denizens of the world.
May it be, in fact, happy and harmless.
I have an election-day message for you.
We Too Must Grow.
It's a combination of my thoughts on the opportunities the election presents us with "It's Worse Than You Think" and my explication of a song that I think is INCREDIBLY RELEVANT to this moment.
The song is called "We Too Must Grow". It was written and recorded by my friend Joe Bridge...
This episode is based on a speech/sermon I wrote in October 2024 and delivered at a March for Democracy in a small town.
I used the opportunity to share what conflict mediation has taught me about winning.
Part I: Definitions of winning and losing
Part II: What's really standing in our way
Part III: The pearl of wisdom and what we can do about it
There's also some bonus material -- concrete guidelines based on 2200 years of human e...
This episode is about Muslim-Jewish relations. It's about whats been going on in Israel and Palestine for the last year. It's about what's possible in the next year. It's about what happens when we expand the circle of concern.
And it's about what is happening, all over the world, in small communities, unreported by most of the news, when people open their hearts, right now.
I interviewed Aziza Hassan and Andrea Hodos from New Grou...
Two years ago I overheard a conversation at a local farmers' market about Clam Gardens.
Being a nosy podcast host, I eavesdropped, eventually inserted myself, and got some contact information.
Today I caught up with Ala̱g̱a̱mił Nicole Norris, of Halalt First Nation on what's now known as Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Nicole is a Shellfish Aquaculture Specialist, Intergovernmental Communicator, Cult...
In this episode I present what I learned from William Ury's The Third Side.
The basic idea is that our communities and societies are the most important element in developing an effective conflict management system, and that the essence of being effect is to exert peer pressure on resolving the conflict instead of taking the "side" of any of the parties.
Hence, the 3rd side...
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For the last few months I've been reflecting on How to Prevent a Civil War.
Here's why I think we need to act:
- It is in the avowed interests of multiple powerful actors -- both inside and outside of the US -- to foment widespread discord, confusion, and animosity.
- The logical conclusion of widespread discord, confusion, and animosity is civil war.
- The people working on this have lots of resources and effective technology (ie ...
The concept I want to present today is the Six Dimensions of Conflict, which comes up in Chapters 2 and 3 of The Crossroads of Conflict by Ken Cloke.
Ken has a model where he breaks down conflict and how we approach it into six areas, and then looks at that sextet from 4 different angles:
- Orders of Resolution
- Math/Geometry
- Location in the body
- Mediation style
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As part of my journey towards understanding what brings us together and what keeps us apart, today I want to share three examples of social dialogue I learned about in the past couple of weeks. I will resist the temptation to draw conclusions prematurely, but just let us all ruminate together with these three examples.
The first is from Nelson Mandela's autobiography -- Long Walk to Freedom (PDF) -- which I'm currently reading.
The...
As Lao Tzu used to say:
"Do the hard thing while it is still easy."
According to my guest, Ward Hayes Wilson, it's a pretty good time to work on nuclear disarmament.
This is precisely the opposite of all my reflections on the issues, which usually end in hopeless shrugging and attempts to resign myself towards guaranteed nuclear annihilation.
(Much harder when you have kids!)
Ward has a very different take, which is rooted in 30 ye...
Casper ter Kuile is like a better version of myself.
He's on a mission to rescue spiritual truths from religious dogma to fill the voids in modern life.
We talk about what atheism and spirituality mean to us, gain inspiration from a John O'Donahue essay on "The Priestliness of the Human Heart," discuss the current struggles in El Salvador (and how to handle it), and finally, I broach the topic of:
How To Prevent A Civil War.
If you...
Wolf Sherman has dealt with excruciating pain 24/7 since being hit by a car a couple of years ago.
The relationships he has developed between pain, drugs, and gratitude struck me as something every single one of us can learn from.
We also get into modern masculinity and communication with whales.
Yeah, You heard me right.
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In this episode, I talk with one of my greatest mentors, John Giuliano, about how the Régimen de excepción is affecting his small community. Specifically, we discuss the situation of the co-director of the Tamarindo Foundation, Santos, who was arrested 54 days ago (as of March 6, 2024).
The second half of the show (@ 16:02) covers John's response to the arrests, the difference between revenge and justice, and the unhealed wounds fr...
Here’s a gratitude-forward recipe for Sourdough Bread. I go through the 4 main ingredients that go into the bread, and then go into the ingredients that go into those, and then the ingredients that go into those…
It’s a gratitude practice. Try it out on literally anything in your life and see where you end up.
If you’re actually looking for my recipe for sourdough bread, it’s here: https:/...
Jason Taylor runs deep.
He’s an ecologist and Five Elements acupuncturist with a lot to share about living a healthy and balanced life.
But what I liked best is how deeply he engaged with the questions.
That’s part of what I love about this show – it’s not just Information handed down from On High, but a mutual exploration, where we’re all learning about our paths, through ...
Crystal Beasley is a trip. She’s a high priestess of the heart and listening to her journey is the auditory equivalent of getting tickled (for me) at least.
At one point she tells me she is here to protect the place of women.
Then she mentions a finishing school she runs, to turn Men into Gentlemen.
And then she reveals the How: Teaching them to Ask for what they Need.
Walter Faro sees himself as a protector and creator of refuge.
His father (and mentor) was a trained assassin and mercenary, and Walter has spent his life trying to understand and integrate the skills and worldview he learned in his formative years.
Incredibly, he brings this history and presence to his work as a DEI facilitator.
Naturally, his vision for how to...
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