Some Random Thoughts

Ryan Mulkowsky

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“Some Random Thoughts” is a casual podcast discussing important topics. Ryan Mulkowsky, your host and privileged straight white male, will tackle the significant issues with open-mindedness, clarity, and humility as he seeks to share his views but more importantly listen those who know more than him.

AUG 15

All Good Things

Welcome to the series finale of the “Some Random Thoughts” podcast. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. In this episode I reflect on the past five years of this podcast, touch on why the podcast is ending, and end with an appreciation for everyone and everything that made this podcast a wonderful creative outlet for me. I hope you have enjoyed this podcast and if you have I would love to hear about it! Send me a message on Facebook or Instagram @ryanmulkowsky. Remember, you only have one life, make the most of it. Many thanks to these wonderful humans: Season 2 Guests: @existentializzy Elisabeth Bojang Meghan Crozier Brittany Bruton Cameron Bishop Danielle Southwick Cortland Coffey Teel Short Jan Owen Season 3 Guests: Robbie Hurlocker Em Torres Janice Selbie Erin Green Brady Hardin Dr. Katie Blake Mandy Capehart Laura Isabel Perez-Cernuda Jazz Robertson Season 5 Guests: Chance Calloway James Prescott Shelley Henry Meg Cowan Scott Okamoto Judah Kreinbrook Sara Robb-Scott Emily Herrick Dorie Griggs

20 min
06/17/2024

Where To Go From Here

Welcome to the season ending episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focused on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. It’s been a tremendous series with some amazing individuals. In this episode, I talk about what’s going on with me and the future direction of the program. A sincere thanks to my guests from this season: Chance Calloway James Prescott Shelley Henry Meg Cowan Scott Okamoto Judah Kreinbrook Sara Robb-Scott Emily Herrick Dorie Griggs And remember, you have one life… make the most of it. Goodbye. Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/

14 min
06/10/2024

The Practical & Spiritual Expression of Love & Acceptance with Dorie Griggs

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focus on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. We continue this season with Dorie Griggs: first responder & healthcare chaplain and sports enthusiast. In this episode, we discuss Griggs’ background as an avid sports enthusiast having had statistician, marketing and coordinating jobs in various levels of sports management. We discuss her later shift into the world of ministry and her creative, original work ministering to those in the industry of journalism. A discussion of her pastoral identity continues as she expounds on entering seminary, her work in interfaith relations, clinical pastoral education, and her work as a first responder and hospital chaplain. We talk about our identities and approaches to chaplaincy and what we see chaplaincy being in the future in a growing secularized society. Bio: Dorie Griggs is a first responder chaplain with the Roswell Fire Department and registry chaplain with Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital. She is a commissioned and endorsed minister with the Federation of Christian Ministries. Dorie is also an avid sports enthusiast still involved in volunteering for major sporting events such as the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. Check out her full bio and work at dorielgriggs.com Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/

1h 26m
06/03/2024

An Unconventional Journey Toward Mental Wellbeing with Emily Herrick

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focus on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. We continue this season with Emily Herrick: an outspoken advocate for seeking alternative methods to treating mental and physical illness through better understanding of how diet and other indicators can impact our health outcomes. In this episode, we discuss Emily’s background as someone who struggled with a host of mental health disorders through childhood all the way to adulthood and utilized conventional interventions such as therapy and medication management to little avail: leading her to worsening mental health outcomes which led to multiple hospitalizations and rehabilitations. Emily continued to struggle until she started seeking alternative health interventions found in integrative and functional medicine. She soon discovered that her diet needed vast adjustment which led to significant breakthrough and new found freedom from mental and physical health struggles. She discusses the complications and victories along the way and also advocates for greater access to alternative medicine and better treatment in our healthcare system overall. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions of this guest should not be construed in any way, shape, or form as medical advice. If you are in need of professional medical advice, please consult a licensed physician. In the United States, if you are in a physical health emergency, please call 911. If you are in a mental health emergency, please call or text 988. Bio: Emily Herrick is a social worker by background with a passion to share her story about her mental health journey and the freedom she found by seeking alternative treatments to her care when conventional treatments failed. You can find her on X (Twitter) at @iam_emilyanne Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/

56 min
05/27/2024

Nourishment as a Spiritual Practice with Sara Robb-Scott

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focus on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. We continue this season with Sara Robb-Scott: pastor, chaplain, & avid cook. In this episode, we discuss Robb-Scott’s background being an adopted child, the emotional complexities that come with being adopted and wanting to discover your familial roots, her professional work as a chaplain bereavement coordinator in the hospital setting, the intersections that came with leading Spanish speaking grief support groups and the reminders of her ethnicity being a Latina woman, her discovering food as a tool for connecting with her ethnicity, body, and mind along with understanding the concept of nourishment not only as a physical necessity but a spiritual practice. We conclude our conversation with discussing her doctoral work studying whiteness has impacted biblical interpretation and how we can reimagine sacred text in more full, live-giving, liberating ways. Bio: Sara Robb-Scott is Director of Spiritual Care at Eaton Senior Communities and Pastor of The Church @Eaton. In her free time, Sara loves to cook and read mystery thrillers. She is an avid fan of the North Carolina Courage. Sara lives in Aurora, CO with her husband, Andrew and cat, Reesee. Sara blogs at sararobbscott.substack.com Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/ PROGRAMMING NOTE: I incorrectly referred to this guest by the incorrect name (“Sara Robb”) at the beginning of the program. Her actual name is Sara Robb-Scott. I deeply regret this error.

47 min
05/20/2024

Deconstructing Ideology in Medicine with Judah Kreinbrook

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focus on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. We continue this season with Judah Kreinbrook: medical student and researcher. In this episode, we discuss Kreinbrook’s background with his family practicing chiropractic medicine and some of the problematic roots and beliefs attached to this methodological approach. This leads us to a conversation of his eventual deconstruction of his faith and his pursuit for truth which led him to science and the field of medicine currently engaging as a medical student and researcher. Kreinbrook goes into detail about his beliefs about valid research, bias and conflict in interest in much of medical research funding, creeping ideology affecting the field of science and research, the problems found in unconventional and alternative medicine, and more. Bio: Judah Kreinbrook is a current 2nd year medical student at Duke University who is passionate about making medicine more scientific while retaining its humanism. Growing up in the world of alternative medicine & fundamentalist Christianity he brings a unique perspective to our modern issues with medical misinformation. Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/

1h 16m
04/02/2024

The Correlation of Meaning & Melody with Scott Okamoto

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focus on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. We continue this season with Scott Okamoto: author, podcaster, and musician. In this episode, we discuss Okamoto’s background growing up with a passion for listening to music and how his parents fostered this passion. He talks about his family and how music informed his life before Christianity, while he was a Christian, and now as a post-Christian. Lots of discussions on both mainstream and CCM and our musings on both genres. He discusses the power of music and how evangelical Christianity can manipulate music to make people feel that supernatural happenings are occurring but in reality are not. Okamoto reflects on how earnest he was in his Christian beliefs and becoming a worship pastor but how ultimately those beliefs collapsed and new beliefs formed. We wrap the discussion about his many endeavors, his growing creativity as a musician, writing a book, assisting in podcast production and hosting, and many other fun and engaging topics. Bio: Scott Okamoto is a former English professor, author of Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University, the creator and host of the Chapel Probation podcast, and the editor and music supervisor for Axis Mundi Media. -Asian American Apostate: Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University from Lake Drive Books -Creator of the Chapel Probation Podcast -rscottokamoto.com You can connect with Scott @rsokamoto on Instagram, Threads, and X (Twitter). Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/

56 min
03/25/2024

A Liberation of Sex with Meg Cowan

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Some Random Thoughts. I am your host, Ryan Mulkowsky. This season, we focus on our guests in the “What’s Your Passion” series. We continue this season with Meg Cowan: sex and relationship coach with a specialized focus on recovery from shame-based religious views on sexuality. In this episode, we discuss Meg’s background as someone who deconstructed from her faith and with that the complexities of her evolving relationship with her husband along with changing views and practices on sex and intimacy. She discovered that there were women in her situation and subsequently facilitated gatherings on this subject along with pursuing formal training as a sex & relationship coach and obtaining other certifications. She became a content creator continuing to help others in their journey to better, shame-free sex and intimacy. We round out the episode with discussing lots of “hot topics” that I’m sure will be enlightening to you! Bio: Meg Cowan is a Sex and Relationship Coach specialising in helping people recovering from the shame-based religious teachings of purity culture and the deconstruction of their faith. She has trained in Clinical Sexology, Trauma Informed Care, is a Certified Advanced Sex and Relationship Coach and Integrated Intimacy Practitioner. She supports people to explore personal agency and intimate connection. Meg is also a Protect Accredited Trainer (New Zealands leading protection and self defense agency). For more than 14 years she's worked with clients to help them identify the behavioral and psychological signs of abuse and practical strategies for staying safe. In all these areas her work focuses on the mind-body connections that help people recover from trauma and find freedom in their bodies. As the creator of the couples guide to Hotter Sex in 10 Days, and The Shame-free Sex Course she delivers empowering practical skills to people all around the world on these subjects. Find Meg on Instagram here: @megccowan Book a free Inquiry call here: www.megcowan.com/book-a-call You can connect with Meg @megccowan on Instagram and her work at megcowan.com Where to find Ryan: @ryanmulkowsky on most social media platforms and at www.ryanmulkowsky.com Select episodes of the podcast are available in video form on YouTube.com/ryanmulkowsky Music Courtesy: AlisiaBeats on Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-titanium-170190/

48 min

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Ryan’s guests and questions are REAL as it gets. Grateful for these conversations!

“Some Random Thoughts” is a casual podcast discussing important topics. Ryan Mulkowsky, your host and privileged straight white male, will tackle the significant issues with open-mindedness, clarity, and humility as he seeks to share his views but more importantly listen those who know more than him.

Creator

Ryan Mulkowsky
Years Active

2020 - 2025
Episodes

54
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Ryan Mulkowsky
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Some Random Thoughts