Walk Talk Listen Podcast

Walk Talk Listen, an attempt to connect people and make this world a bit better by sharing opinions and experiences based on the belief that everyone’s perspective is true albeit partial. It is also an effort to create awareness and to inspire a growing group of listeners to be engaged with the Global Goals (SDGs) and their attainment. A spin-off of the 100 mile walk. #gotheextra100mile

Episodes

Crossing Thresholds: “The Land Is Life” with Biswash Chepang – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 5)

February 11, 2026 • 56 mins

Welcome to Episode 5 of Crossing Thresholds: Religion, Resilience & Migration, a special mini-series of Walk Talk Listen produced in connection with research by the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) and Christian Aid on faith and climate migration. In this episode, Maurice Bloem speaks with Biswash Chepang, an Indigenous rights advocate from Nepal, about what climate change, displacement, and fa...

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Spirituality Was a Lifeline: Creating Conditions for Awakening” with Rich Havard – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 226)

February 4, 2026 • 54 mins

Rich Havard is the Director of the Youth Mental Health Fund at the Decolonizing Wealth Project and in Episode 226, he shares his journey from growing up in a small town in rural Mississippi to becoming a leader at the intersection of spirituality, justice, and philanthropy. Reflecting on his upbringing, he speaks honestly about how experiences of difference, exclusion, and faith shaped his early sense of vocation and empathy for ot...

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Crossing Thresholds: From Violence to Healing with Nidia Bustillos Rodriguez (Episode 4)

January 28, 2026 • 66 mins

Welcome to Episode 4 of Crossing Thresholds: Religion, Resilience & Migration, a special mini-series of Walk Talk Listen produced in connection with new research by the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) and Christian Aid on faith and climate migration. In this episode, Maurice Bloem speaks with Nidia Rosmery Bustillos Rodríguez, a Bolivian traditional healer and herbalist born in Cochabamba, whose...

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Freedom of Belief, Lived with Filip Buff Pedersen - Walk Talk Listen (Episode 225)

January 21, 2026 • 52 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen Filip Pedersen, senior political advisor at the Centre for Church-Based Development (CKU) in Denmark reflects on a life shaped by movement, service, and encounters across cultures — and how those experiences led him to work at the intersection of development, human rights, and freedom of religion or belief. The conversation explores why freedom of belief is often misunderstood, how it shows up ...

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Crossing Thresholds: Nonviolence Became My Resistance: Calling for a New Social Contract with Binalakshmi Nepram (Episode 3)

January 14, 2026 • 59 mins

In this episode of Crossing Thresholds, Maurice Bloem speaks with Binalakshmi Nepram, an Indigenous scholar, poet, and peacebuilder from Manipur in Northeast India. Bina’s life and work sit at the intersection of climate disruption, armed conflict, and Indigenous spirituality — a place where survival is not abstract, but lived every day. Bina reflects on growing up in a deeply land-connected Indigenous community under martial law...

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Engaging, Not Retreating with Lucy Plummer – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 224)

January 7, 2026 • 65 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, Lucy Plummer, a youth advocate, doctoral researcher, and UN representative with Soka Gakkai International reflects on a deeply personal journey—from seeking peace through retreat, to discovering that real transformation happens through engagement, responsibility, and relationship. Drawing on her experiences in India and her Buddhist practice, she shares how her understanding of happiness shifted...

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Crossing Thresholds: Restoring Balance — Indigenous Teachings on Land, Spirit & Responsibility with Lewis Cardinal (Episode 2)

December 31, 2025 • 56 mins

In this episode of a special series of the podcastWalk Talk Listen, Maurice Bloem is joined by Lewis Cardinal, an Indigenous leader, teacher, and bridge-builder whose work centers on relationship—to land, to spirit, and to one another. This conversation is part of Crossing Thresholds: Religion, Resilience & Climate Migration, a special series that brings research on climate, faith, and human mobility into dialogue with lived ...

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Curiosity, Belonging, and the Practice of Dialogue with Brian Adams – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 223)

December 24, 2025 • 71 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, Maurice Bloem speaks with Brian Adams, who has spent nearly three decades building bridges of respect and understanding across more than 40 countries in Africa, Europe, North America, and the Asia–Pacific. Brian reflects on curiosity as a defining thread in his life — a habit of asking questions that began in childhood, often driving his mother to distraction, and later shaped his work across cu...

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Crossing Thresholds: Three Worlds of Resilience — Indigenous Cosmology from Sakha with Vera Solovyeva (Episode 1)

December 18, 2025 • 60 mins

Welcome to Episode 1 of Crossing Thresholds: Religion, Resilience & Migration, a special mini-series of Walk Talk Listen produced by the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI). This series brings to life new research on climate change, faith, and human mobility from JLI’s recently published Climate, Faith & Migration report, developed in collaboration with Christian Aid. In this opening conversat...

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Learning to Receive: Humility, Burning Man, and the Spaces Between Us with Lorenz Sell – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 222)

December 17, 2025 • 62 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, Maurice Bloem is joined by Lorenz Sell, co-founder of Sutra, for a reflective conversation about humility, receiving, and what it means to create spaces—both digital and human—where genuine connection can emerge. Lorenz shares how experiences such as Burning Man became unexpected teachers in his life, challenging deeply ingrained habits of control, self-sufficiency, and productivity. In those ...

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Where Belonging Begins with Sara Rahim — Walk Talk Listen (Episode 221)

December 10, 2025 • 55 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, Maurice Bloem speaks with Sara Rahim, a global interfaith practitioner and youth leader working at the intersection of belonging, inclusion, and social transformation. Sara is part of the Programming Team of ACWAY, supporting young leaders across regions who are building bridges across difference through interfaith cooperation and grassroots leadership. With a decade of experience in network cul...

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Being in the Moment with Benny Rietveld - Walk Talk Listen (episode 220)

December 3, 2025 • 65 mins

Benny Rietveld — bassist, composer, arranger, musical director for Santana, and former member of Miles Davis’ band — joins Walk Talk Listen for a deeply reflective, funny, and generous conversation about music, presence, heritage, and healing. Born in Utrecht and raised in Honolulu, Benny grew up in a multicultural mix of Dutch-Indonesian roots, Hawaiian upbringing, family parties full of guitars, and the irresistible pull of a p...

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It’s Decreed the People Rule with Adam Nicholas Phillips – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 219)

November 26, 2025 • 54 mins

Adam Nicholas Phillips is Chief Executive Officer of Interfaith America, the nation’s largest bridge-building organization working across campus, corporate, and civic settings. With two decades at the intersection of faith and public life, Adam previously served in the Biden–Harris Administration at USAID, where he led Faith-based and Localization efforts, shaped development policy, and supported democracy initiatives in nearly 100...

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Travel That Changes You with Sibu Szymanowska — Walk Talk Listen (Episode 218)

November 19, 2025 • 56 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, our guest is Sibu Szymanowska, a human rights advocate, entrepreneur, traveler, and global citizen with nearly two decades of experience living and working across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Sibu is the co-founder of The Hybrid Tours, a social enterprise that blends sustainable, intentional travel with storytelling to challenge stereotypes and foster real connection. With a background in e...

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Resilience Isn’t an Outcome — It’s a Practice with Åsa Jarskog — Walk Talk Listen (Episode 217)

November 12, 2025 • 64 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, host Maurice Bloem speaks with Åsa Jarskog, a key leader in the global Inner Development Goals (IDG) movement. Åsa has spent more than 35 years working in leadership, strategy, and sustainability across 67 countries — coaching executive teams, governments, development banks, and global organizations including IKEA, Ericsson, Lufthansa, Vodaphone, and the World Economic Forum. Åsa reflects on w...

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Going Against the Norm with Hira Aftab – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 216)

November 7, 2025 • 62 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, Hira Aftab — founder of Our World Too, a platform dedicated to re-humanizing narratives around refugees and displaced communities, and co-founder of The Hybrid Tours, a social enterprise blending travel and social impact, is our guest. Hira reflects on her journey as a “third-culture kid” growing up between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the UK, and how her lived experiences shaped her commitment...

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Finding Joy Against the Odds with Sarah Rehman – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 215)

October 30, 2025 • 65 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, host Maurice Bloem speaks with Sarah Rehman, Membership and Administrative Specialist for the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers. Holding four master’s degrees — in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Mediterranean Security, Theology, and Women’s and Gender Studies — Sarah combines intellectual depth with the compassion of a peacebuilder who has seen both struggle and hope up close....

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The Courage to Hope with Fadi Daou – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 214)

October 22, 2025 • 65 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, host Maurice Bloem talks with Fadi Daou, Executive Director of Globethics and one of today’s most thoughtful voices on ethics, spirituality, and leadership. Fadi shares his journey from leading the Adyan Foundation to his current work promoting ethical governance and human fraternity. He speaks about what it means to act from conviction rather than ambition, and how quitting—when done in integ...

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This Is Not a Xylophone: Finding Voice Through the Vibraphone with Drew Tucker – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 213)

October 15, 2025 • 72 mins

In this episode of Walk Talk Listen, I speak with Drew Tucker, vibraphonist, educator, and Director of the Jazz Road program at South Arts. Known for his wit, creativity, and signature reminder that “It’s not a xylophone,” Drew has spent his career reshaping how people listen — not only to instruments, but to one another. Drew shares stories of his early musical influences, his lifelong love of rhythm, and the turning points that...

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Faith, Education, and Human Flourishing with Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 212)

October 8, 2025 • 65 mins

In this episode, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon joins Maurice for a deep and thoughtful conversation about the intersections of faith, education, and human flourishing. Martha, a researcher and educator at Uppsala University’s Faculty of Theology, reflects on her work exploring how religious and worldview education can foster understanding, empathy, and coexistence in plural societies. Together, they discuss what it means to teach and ...

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Episodes

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Crossing Thresholds: From Violence to Healing with Nidia Bustillos Rodriguez (Episode 4)

Freedom of Belief, Lived with Filip Buff Pedersen - Walk Talk Listen (Episode 225)

Crossing Thresholds: Nonviolence Became My Resistance: Calling for a New Social Contract with Binalakshmi Nepram (Episode 3)

Engaging, Not Retreating with Lucy Plummer – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 224)

Crossing Thresholds: Restoring Balance — Indigenous Teachings on Land, Spirit & Responsibility with Lewis Cardinal (Episode 2)

Curiosity, Belonging, and the Practice of Dialogue with Brian Adams – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 223)

Crossing Thresholds: Three Worlds of Resilience — Indigenous Cosmology from Sakha with Vera Solovyeva (Episode 1)

Learning to Receive: Humility, Burning Man, and the Spaces Between Us with Lorenz Sell – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 222)

Where Belonging Begins with Sara Rahim — Walk Talk Listen (Episode 221)

Being in the Moment with Benny Rietveld - Walk Talk Listen (episode 220)

It’s Decreed the People Rule with Adam Nicholas Phillips – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 219)

Travel That Changes You with Sibu Szymanowska — Walk Talk Listen (Episode 218)

Resilience Isn’t an Outcome — It’s a Practice with Åsa Jarskog — Walk Talk Listen (Episode 217)

Going Against the Norm with Hira Aftab – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 216)

Finding Joy Against the Odds with Sarah Rehman – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 215)

The Courage to Hope with Fadi Daou – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 214)

This Is Not a Xylophone: Finding Voice Through the Vibraphone with Drew Tucker – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 213)

Faith, Education, and Human Flourishing with Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 212)

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Crossing Thresholds: “The Land Is Life” with Biswash Chepang – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 5)

Spirituality Was a Lifeline: Creating Conditions for Awakening” with Rich Havard – Walk Talk Listen (Episode 226)