I’ve decided to begin releasing a series of podcasts alongside my published books as a way of widening the conversation. The written work will always be the spine of what I do, but I’m increasingly aware that many people who are deeply curious about these ideas simply aren’t engaging through books anymore. Rather than resist that shift, I’m choosing to work with it.
The podcast format allows me to think out loud in real time. It creates space for nuance, hesitation, and intellectual risk in a way that feels different from the fixed architecture of a printed page. These episodes draw directly from my doctoral research in Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, where I’m examining how mortality awareness shapes culture, creativity, and ethical consciousness. My work, grounded in Ernest Becker, Otto Rank, and Terror Management Theory, asks a difficult but necessary question: what happens when we stop denying death and begin metabolizing it?
This series is an extension of that inquiry. It sits at the intersection of art, psychology, and existential philosophy. It’s also practical in a quiet way. If culture functions as a defense against mortality anxiety, then creativity may be one of the few ways we can face that anxiety without collapsing into illusion or violence.
I’m not abandoning the book. I’m expanding the conversation around it.
If you’ve been following my work through Glass Bones, Rupture, or In the Shadow of Sun Mountain, this podcast offers another doorway in. If you’re new, it may be an easier entry point into ideas that are often intellectually dense but psychologically urgent.
However you engage, the aim remains the same: to look directly at what we usually avoid—and to see what kind of art, meaning, and responsibility might emerge from that honesty.