The Path

Casey Moninghoff
The Path

The Path podcast features interviews with anyone doing interesting and important work. I speak with military leaders, business professionals, scientists, researchers, start-up founders, and more. The conversations promote knowledge-sharing, proactive curiosity, and self-development to help you stay on your path. Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify. If you enjoy the show, please consider leaving a comment and rating. This helps others to find the show. I appreciate all feedback and suggestions for guests or topics. Thank you! https://soundcloud.com/thepathpodcast https://open.spotify.com/show/72t4TROpwUt89DlQVZMUgq I am grateful for any support of my work via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepathpodcast

  1. 09/17/2023

    18: Sheril Mathews

    1:00 Books, Reading, the Anti-Library 10:30 Zettelkasten 13:00 Originality 18:00 Paying attention to your own attention 26:00 Imbalance, Balance, Minimum Standards 40:00 Lenses 49:00 Losing power by “keeping your options open” 58:00 Uncertainty and admitting we don’t have the answer 1:06:00 Money, Identity, Time 1:18:00 Choice, Thought, Goal Setting 1:41:00 The Valley of Frustration 1:54:00 Democracy was never a guarantee

    2h 3m

  2. 08/01/2023

    17: Joe Whittaker

    1:00 Nutritional Therapy 3:30 Joe’s story 6:15 Massive decline in male reproductive health and fertility (lower sperm count/quality; lower testosterone, increased reproductive pathologies) 12:00 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC’s) in personal products and in food 17:00 Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Free Radicals, Antioxidants, Nutritional Co-Factors 22:30 Testosterone, Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG), Androgen Receptors 29:00 Testosterone Optimization: Body weight; Nutrients (Vit A, Vit D, Magnesium, Selenium, Zinc); Sleep; Exercise; EDC’s; Textile choice and loose vs. tight clothing 36:30 Types of dietary fat, evolutionary biology, food intolerances, immune reactions, nutritional ketosis 43:00 Joe’s Routine 46:00 Clinical Results

    54 min

  3. 07/23/2023

    16: Kathleen Kiker

    Kathleen Kiker is a software engineer at B612. B612 is a company that develops tools to understand, map, and navigate our solar system and protect our planet from asteroid impacts. She has a BS and MS in physics. 0:00 Asteroid Day 3:30 Board Games 6:00 B612 Foundation 10:00 Asteroid Discovery and Mapping (ADAM) 16:00 Tracket-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR) 21:00 Discovery & Precovery 27:00 1.3 million asteroids and planetary defense 40:00 Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Beauty 47:00 How much do we care about life that does not resemble us?

    53 min

  4. 05/01/2023

    #15: Arno Koch

    Arno Koch is a relationship coach based in Malibu, CA. 00:00 – triggered by a 2 year old asking “Why” – relationship advice should go full circle. “why” is a triggering word because it reminds us of other things. Replace with a “How” or “What” question – all advice goes both ways 3:30 – empathy while balancing authenticity and learned skills 7:30 – move perceptions away from your personality: “it seems/looks/sounds like” – have the chance to be wrong and not fixed to your perceptions – assign the issue to a behavior, not to a person 13:00 – “I can’t make you feel anything” & feelings are immediate and unconscious 18:00 – gratitude, kindness, presence, cortisol, adrenaline, creating safe and nurturing environments 30:00 – two or three sides to a story? “Set and enforce your boundaries, with love” 38:00 – a refusal of the call to adventure is a refusal to give up one’s own preferences/routines – in the hero’s journey and in love / state your preference and offer a true choice is the most powerful thing you can do 43:00 – the difference between justifiable things to do and say and the right things to do and say 49:00 – the fear may be real, but the danger is not 51:00 – books “the happiest toddler on the block” “never split the difference” “seven principles for making marriage work “ “nonviolent communication” 54:00 – if you don’t feel heard, you need to listen better / comparisons can be one of the biggest source of growth and learning, just don’t take it personally 59:00 – choices based on empathy

    1h 2m

  5. 08/05/2022

    #14: Anna Bruffy

    Anna Bruffy is the founder of Sea Side Fiber Arts in Virginia Beach, VA. Sea Side Fiber Arts focuses on sustainable natural dyeing of animal and plant fibers (such as sheep wool and banana tree fiber) with tree wood, plants and insects. She collaborates with the Iwokrama rainforest research center in Guyana, South America [0:30] Sustainable dyeing using insects (cochineal and lac) and plants (osage orange, sequoia wood) [4:00] Environmental consciousness and the history/process of dyeing [10:00] Waste products and water use [14:30] Guyana and the humble banana (1,000+ types of bananas in the world!) [22:00] Banana: Medicinal use, Pseudo-stems, Carbon Sequestration, Insulation, Rhizomes [31:30] NIH Study: “An experimental study on the effects of different type of textiles on conception” [34:00] Microplastics, PFAS, Abaca Tree, Styrofoam, Banana Paper [46:30] Fair Trade, Circular Economies, Surama Eco-Lodge, Iwokrama Research Center [52:30] Dyeing yarn [57:00] There are no shortcuts to the mountain top [58:00] Physiology and aesthetics of natural dyes vs. synthetic dyes [1:04:00] Waste: a cultural creation?

    1h 8m

  6. 05/08/2022

    #13 : Randy Swaty

    Randy Swaty is an ecologist at The Nature Conservancy with an interest in conservation science, landscape ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, and LANDFIRE state and transition modeling. [1:00] Defining wildlife habitat and how to protect it [7:15] Complexity [10:45] Beavers, Woodpeckers, and Mistletoe [18:30] The Landfire Project: Satellite mapping of vegetation and the terrestrial environment [30:45] Soil, Fungi, Biomimicry [36:15] Ecosystem change [42:15] Climate change [46:30] Measures of ecosystem health [50:45] Plantations and problems of scale [55:15] Landfire’s challenges [1:03:45] Landfire’s priorities [1:05:15] Crowdsourcing, citizen science, and “gamify-ing” nature [1:08:45] Two cliffhangers: Conservation Data Lab and working with students/young professionals [1:09:45] Randy’s current enthusiasm

    1h 12m

  7. 04/05/2022

    #12: Elaine Ingham, PhD

    Elaine Ingham is a microbiologist and soil biology researcher and founder of Soil Foodweb Inc. She has a PhD in microbiology, was previously chief scientist for the Rodale Institute, worked as a postdoc at the Natural Resource Ecology Lab at Colorado State University, and was a research fellow at the University of Georgia. Timestamps [1:00] Early years: falling out of trees and examining E. coli [3:30] Starting a company [6:00] There are no minerals lacking in the soil: it’s lacking microorganisms [14:30] Plants send signals to microorganisms for food and nutrients [16:30] How could I have a conversation without talking about sauerkraut? [20:30] Getting nutrients into plants [25:30] Bacteria/Fungi have been around over 3.5 billion years yet we’ve only started to understand them [27:30] The silica bilayer [31:30] Lava Fungi: Microbes exist 16 miles under the Earth [35:00] Biomass of microorganisms in soil vs. minerals [40:30] Nitrogen [44:30] Where else could microorganisms be used? [47:00] Enough phosphorus in one grain of sand for an acre of crop species [50:30] Soil illness destroys civilizations [56:30] A theory on why humans exist [1:00:30] Eating soil and soil foodweb benefits [1:06:30] Next time: decomposition of toxic materials [1:10:00] Visit www.soilfoodweb.com to learn more! Cliffhanger for part two: Decomposition of toxic materials

    1h 16m

  8. 03/23/2022

    #11: Chuck Watts

    Chuck Watts is a retired limited partner with Edward Jones Investments, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and founded the Empathy Surplus Network. Our conversation is centered around linguistics, empathy vs. cruelty, vision, values, and how to be a leader. Timestamps [1:45] Social entrepreneurship [3:15] A clean healthy environment is a human right [8:45] The Empathy Surplus Network [12:15] Reframing around empathy is a form of social change (unconscious talking to conscious framing) [16:15] When you have empathy, there is no room for cruelty. Like sauerkraut. [20:15] Raise the level of moral and political dialogue via relationships and framing [23:45] Progressivism, “To promote the progress of science and useful arts” [27:15] All policies have two components: empathy and implementation [29:45] Measuring success and seeing results [33:15] Inwardly digest, Invest, Implement, Invite [38:45] Facts don’t move people. What does? [44:15] United Nations pocketbook - how do we learn empathy? [54:15] Stronger America, Progressive Markets, Better Futures, Effective Government, Mutual Responsibility [1:06:45] Cliffhanger! The Carbon Pollution Blanket

    1h 7m
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The Path podcast features interviews with anyone doing interesting and important work. I speak with military leaders, business professionals, scientists, researchers, start-up founders, and more. The conversations promote knowledge-sharing, proactive curiosity, and self-development to help you stay on your path. Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify. If you enjoy the show, please consider leaving a comment and rating. This helps others to find the show. I appreciate all feedback and suggestions for guests or topics. Thank you! https://soundcloud.com/thepathpodcast https://open.spotify.com/show/72t4TROpwUt89DlQVZMUgq I am grateful for any support of my work via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepathpodcast

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  • Creator
    Casey Moninghoff
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Clean
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  • Show Website
    The Path

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