Full Expression

Dan Imhoff
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The Full Expression Podcast: What is Creativity?With host Dan ImhoffFull Expression is a series of one-hour conversations about the creative process with host, Dan Imhoff. Each month, Imhoff brings his lifetime of experience as an author, musician, and small-scale farmer to these enlightening dialogs. What is creativity? Is it problem solving, disciplined practice, unexpected good fortune? Tune in to the Full Expression podcast for explorations into these fundamentally human pursuits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. há 4 h

    Remembering Wendell Berry: An Extraordinary Life of Letters, Land and Community

    Wendell Berry spent more than half a century challenging Americans to reconsider our relationship with the land, our food, our communities, and one another. The celebrated author, poet, farmer, and activist died on August 31, 2026, leaving behind more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including The Unsettling of America, Jayber Crow, and his beloved Mad Farmer poems. In this special episode of Full Expression, we open the archives to revisit Dan Imhoff’s 2009 conversation with Wendell, recorded in San Francisco with radio pioneer Davia Nelson of The Kitchen Sisters. Dan reflects on first meeting Wendell in 1993, visiting his Kentucky farm, and the influence Wendell had on his own life and work. They talk about the transformation of American agriculture after World War II, the loss of farming knowledge and rural communities, the dangers of applying simple solutions to complex ecological problems, and why Wendell believed the health of agriculture could never be separated from the health of human culture. They also explore Amish farming, local food economies, the wisdom of fitting farming to the land, and Wendell’s advice to a new generation hoping to become farmers: start small, learn from your neighbors, and understand that caring for the land requires not just productivity, but attention, patience, and love. We extend our deepest condolences to the Berry family and recommend everyone please visit the Berry Center to learn about and support their essential work.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 2 de set.

    Rebecca Tickell: Regenerative Storytelling

    Rebecca Tickell has spent more than two decades using filmmaking to tell stories about the environment, agriculture, and our relationship with the natural world. A filmmaker, producer, author, farmer, and environmental advocate, Rebecca began her career as a child actor opposite Sam Elliott in Prancer before leaving Hollywood acting behind and finding a new purpose behind the camera. She went on to produce more than 20 environmental films, including Fuel, The Big Fix, Kiss the Ground, Common Ground, and most recently, Groundswell. In this episode, Host Dan Imhoff speaks with Rebecca on how acting taught her the power of storytelling, why she sees filmmaking as a form of advocacy, and how her work led her from Hollywood to regenerative agriculture and her own five-acre farm in Ojai. We talk about the line between journalism and activism, the challenge of communicating across deep divides, what farmers have taught her about listening, the craft of making complicated ideas compelling on screen, and her ambitious goal of helping move one billion acres of land toward regeneration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. 19 de ago.

    Dan Imhoff: A Life in Full Expression

    For the first time on Full Expression, we turn the microphone around. Dan Imhoff has spent his life moving between creative forms—as a writer, musician, songwriter, visual artist, journalist, and, most recently, the host of this podcast. In this episode, Full Expression producer Megan Botel sits down with Dan to explore the creative life behind the conversations he's been having with artists, musicians, writers, craftspeople, and makers on the show. Dan shares how growing up in a creative family in Pennsylvania shaped his earliest ambitions, why his father's advice to live an interesting life sent him west with a backpack and $500, and how a desire to become a novelist eventually led to decades of nonfiction writing, environmental work, music, painting, and an increasingly multidisciplinary creative practice. We talk about the discipline of showing up, why Dan believes it can take a decade to become good at something, the importance of making sloppy first drafts and learning to finish, and why working with people who are better than you can transform the work. Dan also takes us inside his songwriting process, his life between California and Spain, and the origins of Full Expression itself. At the heart of the conversation is a question Dan has spent much of his life exploring: How do we stay creative? His answer is both simple and demanding: keep laying down the bricks, over and over and over again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. 5 de ago.

    Mike Crutcher: Fixing Every Broken Thing

    Mike Crutcher has spent a lifetime fixing things. A mechanic, handyman, sculptor, and longtime hardware store counselor in California's Anderson Valley, Mike has become the person generations of neighbors call when a pump fails, an engine won't start, or a machine everyone else has given up on deserves one more chance. In this episode, Mike shares how a childhood fascination with taking apart toys led to a lifelong career solving mechanical problems, why the best repair often starts by checking the simplest thing first, and what decades of living and working in a rural community have taught him about ingenuity, self-reliance, and the satisfaction of making something work again. We talk about off-grid living, solar power, old machines, the disappearing art of shop class, why YouTube has become the modern repair manual, and what creativity has in common with fixing a broken engine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. 22 de jul.

    Jon Lee Anderson: Che Guevara, Cuba and the Craft of Conflict Journalism

    In this episode of Full Expression, journalist and biographer Jon Lee Anderson reflects on the experiences that shaped one of the most extraordinary reporting careers of our time. Raised across Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, Anderson developed an early fascination with people living at the center of political upheaval and cultural transformation—a curiosity that would eventually take him to the front lines of revolutions, wars, and some of the defining events of the past half century. A staff writer for The New Yorker for more than 25 years, Anderson has written landmark biographies of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro and reported from dozens of countries, always seeking to understand the human stories beneath history's biggest headlines. In this conversation, we explore the adventurous childhood that shaped his worldview, the craft of immersive long-form journalism, the challenge of inhabiting another person's life as a biographer, and why empathy remains one of the most essential tools of a great writer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. 8 de jul.

    Pond Farm Pottery: How the Bauhaus Found a Home in California

    From the revolutionary ideals of the Bauhaus to a remote mountaintop pottery studio in Northern California, the legacy of Marguerite Wildenhain continues to shape artists generations later. In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff travels to Pond Farm Pottery—a National Historic Landmark tucked into the redwood-covered hills of Sonoma County—to explore one of the most remarkable artistic lineages of the 20th century. Historian Leah Halper traces Wildenhain's extraordinary journey from the Bauhaus in Germany through Nazi persecution, exile, and ultimately to California, where she helped establish the visionary Pond Farm artists' colony before dedicating her life to teaching generations of ceramic artists. Dan speaks with master potter James Dahl, one of Wildenhain's former students, who shares firsthand memories of her legendary summer workshops. Through stories of silent studios, relentless discipline, discarded pots, and lessons that extended far beyond ceramics, Dahl reveals why Wildenhain's teachings transformed not only artists, but lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. 16 de jun.

    John Muir Laws: Journaling Will Transform Your Life

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with naturalist, artist, educator, and lifelong journaler John Muir Laws for a conversation about attention, creativity, and the transformative power of keeping a journal. They explore journaling as more than a record of experience, but as an essential tool for observation, reflection, and deeper engagement with the world. Drawing from decades of nature journaling, John Muir Laws explains how sketching, writing, mapping, and asking questions on paper can expand our capacity to notice, learn, and connect. The conversation ranges from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Steinbeck's journals to the neuroscience of learning, creativity, and distributed cognition.  This is an invitation to slow down, cultivate curiosity, and discover how creativity grows through practice, observation, and sustained attention to the world around us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. 3 de jun.

    Ava Mingo and Royer Bockus: The Magic of Repertory Theater

    In this episode of Full Expression, host Dan Imhoff sits down with actresses Ava Mingo and Royer Bockus from the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, one of the largest and longest-running repertory theater companies in the United States. Eva and Royer take us behind the scenes of life at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, from building characters and mastering Shakespeare's language to understudying major roles, sustaining creativity over months-long runs, and finding balance between the characters they play, and their everyday lives. This is a conversation about artistic collaboration, adaptation, and the unique challenges and rewards of repertory theater. Ava and Royer also reflect on the power of performance to build empathy, spark conversation, and create moments of genuine human connection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Full Expression Podcast: What is Creativity?With host Dan ImhoffFull Expression is a series of one-hour conversations about the creative process with host, Dan Imhoff. Each month, Imhoff brings his lifetime of experience as an author, musician, and small-scale farmer to these enlightening dialogs. What is creativity? Is it problem solving, disciplined practice, unexpected good fortune? Tune in to the Full Expression podcast for explorations into these fundamentally human pursuits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Criado por
    Dan Imhoff
  • Anos de atividade
    2022 - 2026
  • Episódios
    54
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © Llama Shed
  • Site do podcast
    Full Expression

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