65 episodes
Happy When Curious Brady Ryan
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 14 Ratings
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My name is Brady Ryan and I am a sea salt farmer on San Juan Island in Washington State. Ever since I was a child I have felt like my main skill was not that I was smarter or stronger or harder working or braver than anyone else, I was just a little more curious than the average cat. Since becoming a parent and trying to be a good husband and small business owner have taken so much of my energy and attention, I feel like this one superpower I have has fallen by the wayside. This podcast is my attempt to rediscover curiosity through conversation and contemplation. I will be alternating conversations with guests one episode with a short musing of my own the next. The musing episodes will allow me to try to explore ideas that I've heard or that I've come up with in an open ended way. My theory is that exploration is worth much more than answers and hopefully the interviews and the musings can live up to that principle.
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Musing: FOMOJOMOJFOP
What is the most life giving way to deal with the timeless feeling of missing out?
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Maria Hines: Cuisine, Career Change and Keeping Your Spirit Alive
What role does curiosity play in a restaurant? What is the connection between mountain climbing and cuisine? How do you maintain a throughline of values during a major career change later in life?
Join me as I ask these questions and more of the amazing Maria Hines!
Maria Hines was a Seattle restaurateur and Award-winning chef for many years, being recognized with the 2009 James Beard Award Best Chef Northwest. She is also the co-author of the cook book Peak Nutrition: Smart Fuel for Outdoor Adventure.
Maria cooked professionally since age 17, opening only the 2nd certified organic restaurant in the nation in 2006-which wasTilth in Seattle WA. Tilth which was quickly recognized as one of the top 10 new restaurants in the nation by the new york times. Since moving on from running restaurants she has been using her entrepreneurial experience to work with a variety of food and beverage operations, consulting, developing retail products and building storytelling content for companies aligned with her values.
You can learn more about Maria and her work at her website and support her non profit Blue Sky Minds here. -
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Amber Edwards: Finding Meaning Through Life Coaching
Amber Edwards is a Platinum Results Coach and Business Results Trainer and I personally have had the privilege of working with her as my life coach for a year and a half now. Join me as we explore how she approaches coaching and how she integrates it into the meaning of her life!
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Musing: I'm on a News Fast. Am I a bad person?
Some questions/dichotomies I'm thinking through around my news fast...
Am I burying my head in the sand or aiming my attention where my agency lies? Is it privileged selfishness to ignore the news or is it wise self care? Is news anxiety producing only because we don’t act on it and through organizing and action we reduce our anxiety, or is the fundamental business model of the news industry giving us a distorted sense of the nature of reality by taking advantage of our evolutionary predilection towards negative information? -
Jesse Visciglia: A Passion For Fermentation
Jesse Visciglia is the Head Brewer and part owner at San Juan Island Brewery in Friday Harbor Washington. Join me as we discuss all things beer and brewing like...
-How to taste a new beer
-The role curiosity plays in brewing
-How a former middle school science teacher found his way into commercial brewing
-The relationship between inebriation and the art of fermentation
-Are expensive beers better?
-The hegemony of the IPA
And more!
And I make an embarrassing confession to Jesse at the end of the interview :)
I hope you enjoy this conversation about beers as much as I did!
Learn all about the beers Jesse makes for San Juan Island Brewery here.
Customer Reviews
Loved this!
I loved listening to Brady and brother Tyler explore the idea behind this new podcast. Looking so forward to see where these curious conversations roam!
A fresh dose of curiosity and wonder!
Brady invites us to get curious about life, and with that invites one to challenge preconceived notions about ourselves, others and life. Looking forward to more episodes!