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Catching North Stars
Following the journeys of values-driven professionals who are making a difference in the world
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1. Riding the Sand Worm: Thriving through Tech Disruption with Crystal Street
50:17||Season 2, Ep. 1In the first episode of our second season, we switch our attention to the elephant in the room - AI and other major tech incursions. I have subtitled this season, "Being Cyborgs," borrowing from Donna Haraway's important essay, "the Cyborg Manifesto," which speaks to this moment in ways I am sure Haraway did not anticipate. I sit down with journalist and block-chain innovator, Crystal Street, to discuss the ways she is working with AI to build infrastructure to enable true intellectual sovereignty for those who are losing their careers as AI encroaches on all kinds of thought work. We talk transformation and survival, sand worms, Tantra, and ways of subverting big tech.
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25. Being Alive: Transforming the physical and spiritual using art as an anchor with Nathalie Latham
37:16||Season 1, Ep. 25In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Nathalie Latham, a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work bridges art, healing, and environmental advocacy. Nathalie shares how her creative path took a profound turn after a diagnosis of advanced cancer in 2009. What began as a meditative drawing practice during treatment became a powerful tool for navigating recovery, depression, and PTSD in the years that followed. We talk about the role of art and spiritual practice in healing, the courage it takes to transform suffering into creative expression, and how Nathalie’s work continues to connect storytelling, activism, and the natural world.
24. The transformational power of adaptive skiing with Kevin Wilson
59:35||Season 1, Ep. 24In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Kevin Wilson, Operations Manager at Ignite Adaptive Sports—the organization where I volunteer as an adaptive ski instructor.Kevin shares what it meant to return to skiing after a life-changing car accident in high school, and how that experience now shapes the way he leads, teaches, and builds access for others. We talk candidly about adaptive skiing, including monoskiing (sit skiing), the real challenges of instruction, and what it takes to be part of a nonprofit that treats dignity, agency, and joy as non-negotiable values.
23. Publishing and Living your Purpose with Jenn T Grace
53:27||Season 1, Ep. 23In this episode of Catching North Stars, I sit down with Jenn T. Grace to discuss how she went from self-publishing her own books by trial and error to creating her own hybrid publishing company. She shares about how working brought her through some of her own personal challenges and the importance of making space for a multitude of voices.
22. Reckless Optimism: Resilience, Leadership, and the Climate Fight with Anna Kelly
47:31||Season 1, Ep. 22In this episode of Catching North Starts, I sit down with Anna Kelly and talk about her career as a leader in the fight against climate change, specifically in the energy space. We'll hear talk about: how AI can save the world (I'm not going to spoil it here, but I guarantee it isn't what you are thinking); why she remains recklessly optimistic, in spite of major setbacks in the energy and environment political space; how she persevered after a life-altering injury as a young person and how that has paved her journey into the environmental space in completely unpredictable ways. A super inspiring conversation!
21. New technologies and the profound mysteries of coaching with Sam Isaacson
52:23||Season 1, Ep. 21In this episode of Catching North Stars, I speak with Sam Isaacson - coach, writer, and innovator in the coaching and technology space. Sam talks about his experiments with Virtual Reality and Coaching, the possibilities for democratizing coaching by using AI Chat bots, as well as the specific magic of the coaching process. He also talks about writing, play, and what is coming up next.
20. The Power of language, metaphor, and archetypes to transform your view of yourself and the world with Mary Reynolds Thompson
50:34||Season 1, Ep. 20In this episode, I speak with Mary Reynolds Thompson - author of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman: 5 Archetypes to Unleash Your Full Feminine Power (and other books) about her relationship with nature and the wild. We talk about how she became a facilitator of Journal and Poetry Therapy; her love of language and metaphor as well as the power of archetype to change the ways we see ourselves as well as why archetypes are particularly important for women to work with. Mary shares generously from her own experiences as well as walking us through some exercises she uses with her own clients.