Interesting Humans

Christian Ward
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Interesting Humans Podcast

There are 330 million Americans. Social scientists tell us we know on average 600 people. All around us are interesting humans. People who in their everyday lives create, solve, move, teach, and love. The Interesting Humans podcast is a deep dive into the mindset, the philosophy and the achievements of the people around us who have fascinating narratives to share. Join me as I explore the challenges they've faced and overcome, how creativity drives them and how ordinary people are not so ordinary. 

  1. ALLIE LARKIN STAYS TRUE TO HER WORDS

    20 MAR

    ALLIE LARKIN STAYS TRUE TO HER WORDS

    April Sawicki is a 19 year old woman from New York who lived during high school in a broken down motor home in a vacant lot at the edge of town her father won in a poker game. Her mother left her father when she was young, then her father left April at 16 to fend for herself when he went to live with his girlfriend and the woman’s son. April, a budding singer-songwriter, ran away by stealing a neighbor’s car, and went on adventures up and down the east coast playing in bars and coffee sh...

    1h 26m
  2. REESE MAYFIELD: SINGER SONGWRITER ASCENDING

    14 JAN

    REESE MAYFIELD: SINGER SONGWRITER ASCENDING

    I met singer-songwriter Reese Mayfield here in Raleigh last fall. Friends had invited me to what has become known as the Five Points Music Festival. It's a gathering of local musicians performing on an impromptu stage set up in the driveway of someone's garage. it's a fundraiser for a local school.Reese was one of the musicians performing that day. As the various musicians worked through their sets of covers and original music, I became intrigued by Reese, the youngest of the musicians.She's ...

    1h 40m
  3. Gordon Darr: How Sexual Trauma Became A Boulder Blocking My Life

    14/10/2022

    Gordon Darr: How Sexual Trauma Became A Boulder Blocking My Life

    What I know about trauma is that nearly all of us carry something in our psyches. Almost everyone you know has some part of their past that overwhelmed their emotional capacity to understand and process it and became trauma. Not all trauma is the horrific kind of rape or shooting or a tragic accident. These are the kinds of events plastered across the news that garner the most public attention. Sometimes the experiences are more subtle but no less hurtful. I've known today's guest,...

    1h 38m
  4. Gordon Darr: How a Sexual Predator Transformed My Life (TRAILER)

    01/10/2022

    Gordon Darr: How a Sexual Predator Transformed My Life (TRAILER)

    Trailer for Gordon Darr, a victim of Dr. Robert Anderson, the doctor at the University of Michigan who allegedly sexually molested hundreds of students and student-athletes as head of the UM's University Health Services. Anderson was never prosecuted but the University has proposed a $490 million settlement to more than 1,000 alleged victims of Anderson, who died in 2008. Gordon tells his complete story and weaves the thread of how his experience of being sexually molested affected his e...

    2 min

  5. 14/08/2022

    ANDREW LAFFERTY: ON BEING FUNNY

    Andrew Lafferty is a 20-year-old stand-up comedian learning the craft. He wants to become a comedy writer. After graduating from high school during the pandemic, he now the University of Pittsburgh, where he studies political science. Now three years into his journey as a comedian, Andrew has made people laugh everywhere from basements in the dorms at Pitt to tents, to clubs from Ann Arbor to Maine to LA. He has appeared at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan and at improvs and Jazz...

    1h 18m
  6. KASSONDRA LAMBERT: ETHAN AND THE MEDICAL MAZE

    06/05/2022

    KASSONDRA LAMBERT: ETHAN AND THE MEDICAL MAZE

    When Kassondra and Will Lambert’s son Ethan was about two he was diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic disorder referred to as KAND. The couple had noticed early in their son’s life that he wasn’t progressing physically as expected. Ethan was unable to hold a bottle himself and wasn’t starting to verbalize took them more than two years to finally get a diagnosis of this disease so rare only about 300 people worldwide are affected. Uncovering Ethan’s condition set the couple on a nearl...

    1h 21m
  7. MARK WILLIS CHALLENGES YOU TO BANK ON YOURSELF

    28/03/2022

    MARK WILLIS CHALLENGES YOU TO BANK ON YOURSELF

    When I was a kid I would often accompany my parents on Saturdays to a store that was both a grocery and department store, a bit like Costco is today. Sometimes my father would give me some cash and I would hotfoot it to the toy section to grab one of the latest models of these miniature cars called Hot Wheels. I was obsessed with building my collection. I would make my purchase and then was faced with the immediate question that I realize now was a precursor to similar questions I would ask a...

    1h 7m
  8. HAVEN TUNIN: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARTIST

    03/01/2022

    HAVEN TUNIN: PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARTIST

    Pablo Picasso said, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” I was thinking about Picasso’s words during my conversation with today’s guest, Haven Tunin, a young potter I met at a show in Ann Arbor last fall. Haven comes to pottery by way of discovering a gift for art, specifically painting and drawing, during high school. In college, she fell in love with pottery. She recently decided that her passion for pottery is so great she intends it to b...

    52 min
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There are 330 million Americans. Social scientists tell us we know on average 600 people. All around us are interesting humans. People who in their everyday lives create, solve, move, teach, and love. The Interesting Humans podcast is a deep dive into the mindset, the philosophy and the achievements of the people around us who have fascinating narratives to share. Join me as I explore the challenges they've faced and overcome, how creativity drives them and how ordinary people are not so ordinary. 

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  • Creator
    Christian Ward
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Interesting Humans
  • Show Website
    Interesting Humans

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