Lives Radio Show With Stuart Chittenden

[Note: Trigger Warning for this episode] Angie Lauritsen is the Council President for the City of Gretna and an original board member for Survivors Rising, a working group dedicated to advocacy, education, and support for survivors of sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, and stalking. Angie discusses the need for the work of Survivors Rising and shares her own sexual assault trauma and emergence into her success today. Angie also speaks to her experiences as an elected official and the need for women to run for office.

Diana Martinez in an expert in film: its meaning, messaging, social impact and relevance, and the business of it all. In this conversation she shares some of her insights, passions, and personal story.

Beth Culross, Assistant Professor for the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Steve Langan, poet and, among other roles, Director & Community Liaison of Medical Humanities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha discuss the Ted Kooser Health Humanities Center and the powerful possibilities of the humanities in the field of medical education and healthcare practice.

Mandy Kubicek is a Life and Business Coach. She talks about what coaching is and is not, and how she helps burned out professionals build energizing work lives. Mandy also shares how she overcame her own limiting beliefs to leave a software career to embark on her coaching business, and talks candidly about the loss of her mother and how that has shaped her life.

Amy Adrion is a film director and writer whose feature debut documentary "Half the Picture" explores the talent and resilience of female directors in an industry that to date sadly under-represents their vision and ability. Adrion discusses her film, her life, her inspirations, and her aspirations.

Justin Kemerling is an independent designer, activist, and collaborator working primarily with community organizations, political campaigns, and changemaking entities. Justin shares his passion for making activism beautiful, moving people to action, and getting good things done.

Dr. Samantha Senda-Cook is a communications professor and recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Japan studying rhetorical questions related to community gardening. In this conversation, she explains environmental communication, everyday tactical acts of resistance, and her experiences from living and researching in Japan.

Barber is an interdisciplinary artist whose work and performances have appeared across America. He uses his art practices to articulate various testimonies within and surrounding Black America, surfacing the questions society should be confronting around the black body and experience.

Theodore Wheeler discusses Omaha Lit Fest, which he co-directs, and the inspiration and joy behind the Dundee Book Company roving book cart, one of the world’s smallest bookstores. Wheeler also talks about his creative writing process and reads an excerpt set in 1919 from one of his novels, “Kings of Broken Things,” which has unsettling relevance in our modern climate of racial tension.

Chris Hochstetler is the Dean of Innovation and Creativity at Hastings College in Nebraska, before which he had a much decorated 20 year career in the Army, including development of special forces operations. Chris shares his veteran experiences, philosophy on creativity, and his formative upbringing of homelessness and foster care that he encountered as a child.

Sylvie Fortin is an independent art curator and critic and the current Curator-in-Residence at the Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts. She discusses her work and inspiration, especially her current artistic exploration of the currencies of hospitality.

Our third annual exploration of MAHA music festival with David Leibowitz, a music promoter, radio show host, record collector, and life-long music fan.

Steve Gordon is a designer, entrepreneur, and all around creative spirit, as well as an international class athlete. He discusses his perspectives on design, his love for sneakers, and how he navigated his life from a more difficult environment to one as an Olympic hopeful and successful designer.

Andrew Bailie is a gifted musician who shares the story of his growth as a singer and guitar player, his creative inspiration and experiences, and some of the thoughts behind his debut album, Wasteland, as well as his personal journey through life so far.

Amy Sandeen loves the outdoors and in this show shares her passion for the natural world, outdoor and agriculture education at Prairie Loft in Hastings, and the pleasures and benefits of being outside.

Jacob Dahlke is a clinical ethicist at Nebraska Medicine. He talks about his primary interests in bioethics, including advance care planning, LGBTQ+ and feminist ethics, and healthcare professional wellness as it relates to moral distress and moral injury, as well as his personal role in guiding people through ethical dilemmas.

Chris Hughes is the quality obsessed entrepreneur and founder of American handmade manufacturer Artifact Bags. He talks about his ethos, appreciation for quality, and life as a musician turned business entrepreneur.

Dusty Davidson, cofounder of Flywheel, talks about entrepreneurship, community, and the benefits and joys of living and working for two months each year in Paris.

Brigitte McQueen Shew shares a roadmap of how her childhood experiences growing up as a bi-racial kid in the 70s suburbs of Detroit led her, via New York to Omaha, through the lows of business failures, near bankruptcy, to founding a thriving cultural institution that uses arts to inspire positive social change.

Nebraska Shakespeare's Sarah Lynn Brown and Katie Becker Colón talk about the continued relevance of Shakespeare's works to our lives and current social issues, the nature of acting and its impact on they own identities, the forthcoming all-female season, and their own personal journeys.