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The Art of Asking Everything Podcast

One day in my early forties I looked around and realized that I occupied a very strange social space: I was good friends with both doctors and porn activists, climate scientists and avant-garde writers and musicians. When I began recording these conversations, I realized that I'd accidentally created what I've always yearned for: an excuse to randomly call up really creative and compassionate people, dispense with the superficial chat, and get to the core heart-to-heart discussion about what's important in this life. Being able to create this podcast using patronage also means that I don't have to answer to a boss, rely on advertisement, or otherwise dilute the content of the conversation. This podcast is produced purely by me and my home-team, for my community, with no added artificial ingredients.

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Introducing... Everything

Amanda Palmer Presents: An intimate conversation with Elizabeth Lesser. Recorded Aug 14, 2019 in Woodstock, NY. 

Elizabeth Lesser is an author and healer who co-founded Omega Institute in 1977.

She is the author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, Marrow: Love, Loss & What Matters Most, The Seekers Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure and, most recently, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes.
 
In 2008 she helped Oprah Winfrey produce a ten-week online seminar based on Eckhart Tolle’s book, "A New Earth." The webinar has been viewed by over 40 million people worldwide.

She has two TED Talks - “Take The Other to Lunch” and “Say Your Truths and Seek them in Others.”

In this episode we talk about memoirs, Elizabeth’s books, telling other people’s stories, The Omega Institute, patriarchy and leading an examined life.

www.elizabethlesser.org

www.eomega.org

@ElizabethLesser on Twitter

TED:
https://www.ted.com/speakers/elizabeth_lesser

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Elizabeth Lesser: Bullshit is Everywhere

Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Lenny Henry, recorded December 17, 2019 in London.

Lenny Henry is one of the most successful British stand-up comedians of all time. In 1975, at just 17, his career took off when he was a repeat winner on the weekly TV talent show, "New Faces.” He went on to host his own sketch comedy program, "The Lenny Henry Show," starting in 1984. Later, Lenny stared in the 90’s BBC sitcom, “Chef!"  Lenny is a founder, front-man and a creative force behind the charity Comic Relief.

In this episode we talk about the paradoxes of celebrity and social media, how the internet is a buffet, starting a career in entertainment in Working Mans’ Clubs, using humor as armor against racism, the history of minstrelsy in the UK, making your work the structure of your life, giving your loved ones fair warning when you publish a memoir, the beautiful meld of words and images in comic books, the power of masks and fiction and why giving advice to younger artists is so important. 

@LennyHenry

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Lenny Henry: Humor, Trauma, and Flipping the Cosmic Spatula

Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with BJ Miller. Recorded May 9th, 2019 in Marin, CA.

BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at UCSF Medical Center. At the age of 19, BJ was electrocuted and lost 3 of his limbs. This accident led him down a path of studying art history and eventually towards his career of palliative care, comforting the dying.

His 2015 TED Talk, entitled “What Really Matters at the End of Life” presented BJ’s perspective on death.

BJ is also the subject of the 2018 Netflix documentary, “End Game.”

His book, “A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death,” was released last year. The Washington Post called it, “a gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.”

BJ currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability.

We talked about art history as therapy, living life as an art composition, the relationship between limitations and creativity, making the best of your situation and the allusion of independence.

@bjmillermd on Twitter

TED:
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bj_miller

A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Beginners-Guide-to-the-End/BJ-Miller/9781501157165

http://www.mettlehealth.com/

http://www.cdl.health/

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BJ Miller: An Expert on Death Talks About Life

Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Laura Jane Grace. Recorded March 15, 2019 in Austin, TX.

Laura Jane Grace is the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me! They’ve come out with 7 studio albums. Grace is one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to come out as transgender and has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. Her column Mandatory Happiness was published by Vice for years.

Her autobiography is entitled, "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout."

Her debut solo album “Bought to Rot” was released in 2018. Her new album “Stay Alive” is out now on Polyvinyl Records.

We talk about enjoying music as an individual, musicians working in cycles, the relationship between speed and creativity, and punk guilt.

@LauraJaneGrace

www.laurajanegracemusic.com

Stay Alive:
https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/product/stay_alive

Bought to Rot:
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/bought-rot

Against Me!:
https://www.againstme.net

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout:
https://againstme.myshopify.com/collections/everything/products/laura-jane-grace-tranny-hardcover-book

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Laura Jane Grace: Punk Guilt

Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Jamil Zaki, recorded remotely on April 11, 2019 in Woodstock, NY and Stanford, CA.

Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory. By combining psychology and neuroscience, Jamil and his colleagues study how empathy works, and ultimately how we can empathize with each other more effectively.

Jamil is the author of "The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World."

Jamil’s 2017 TEDxMarin Talk is entitled “BUILDING EMPATHY: How to hack empathy and get others to care more.”

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

We talked about how to flex your empathy, art as a performance enhancing drug for empathy, post traumatic growth, and the high wire act of having empathy for those who cause us harm.

@zakijam

The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
https://www.warforkindness.com

TED:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DspKSYxYDM

Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab:
http://ssnl.stanford.edu

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