090 Artist Chad Koeplinger

This episode’s guest is an artist, tattoo artist, and owner of a tattoo shop in Nashville TN, Adventure Tattoo. Chad grew up in the Midwest of the United States, He left school and home as a teenager and started to make his way out in the world pretty young. My conversation with him was really great and he shared some lessons he has learned along the way that I think we can all learn from.

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089 Chef Zachary Shine

Chef Zachary Shine takes the comfort of east coast Italian food, adds a fine-dining flair, and offers it to the mountain community of Longmont, CO. We speak about his journey, challenges he has faced, and current creative experience.

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088 Poet Frederick Speers

Born and raised in Blacksburg, Virginia poet Frederick Speers has studied, lived, and worked around the world, including Washington D.C., Boston, Amsterdam, New York City, and the Bay Area. He currently lives, works, and hikes outside Denver, Colorado with his husband Chase, a data scientist, and their three dogs.

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088 Poet Frederick Speers

Born and raised in Blacksburg, Virginia poet Frederick Speers has studied, lived, and worked around the world, including Washington D.C., Boston, Amsterdam, New York City, and the Bay Area. He currently lives, works, and hikes outside Denver, Colorado with his husband Chase, a data scientist, and their three dogs.

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086 Audrey Niffenegger

If you are familiar with the bestselling novel, The Time Travelers Wife, are familiar with this episode’s guest. Artist and author Audrey Niffenegger has a perspective on our creative selves, practices, and minds; all of the things Eager To Know listeners love to hear about.

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084 Lifecoach Roy Grant

Roy Grant is a life coach who lives in Milwaukee WI. His honesty about his past experiences is great and his views on healing and the value of life is really inspiring, This episode has some gems, lots of them, and they are the sparkly ones that people will find valuable and beautiful.

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083 Painter William Conger

William Conger is an accomplished Chicago painter. This conversation with William focuses on the common elements we all share; seeing the world as a child, expectations set on us by parents, expectations we set for ourselves, and making our way in the world. The unique thing about William is that much of this is revealed for all of the world to see - in his art.

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081 MCLYCO

The MCLYCO art show is 3 artists, over 2 days and everyone is invited. On this episode of Eager to know, my conversation with MCLYCO co-artists Marlon Lyes and Jeff Cote.

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078 Screen Love

Tom Roach and I met many years ago in Provincetown MA. He is a professor of Philosophy and Cultural studies at Bryant University. He is also a musician and author. His latest book is titled Screen Love, Queer Intimacies in the Grindr Era. On this episode on Eager To Know, we speak about his latest book and his music.

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076 John Rais

This episode’s guest grew up in the same town as me, Burlington, Massachusetts. John is a bit younger so we didn’t know each other as kids. However, we definitely were incubated, so to speak, in a similar manner. While I went to engineering school, John went to art school and has been involved in metalsmithing and applied design all of his adult life.

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075 Underpinnings

Josh and I worked together at a digital agency in Boston. I was in Project management, which meant I was responsible for delivering what had been determined needed for our client. Josh, on the other hand, was responsible fo figuring out what need to be done. What problem needed to solved?

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074 Coming Out

Sometimes, a significant life event can cause a paradigm shift. In an instant, you see the world differently, you see your relationship to the rest of the world differently. If your are an artist, these types of events will change your creative output. My conversation with Chicago Artist, Alex Proulx.

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073 Johnny Abbate

Where we grow up, and what we are exposed to growing up, can have big impact on on our view of the world as adults. With artists, these views usually shine thorough; sometimes brightly and sometimes subtly.

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