This is the final episode of The Enlightened Omnivore Podcast — Season Two.
I’m taking a short break, but I’ll be back later this year with Season Three. In the meantime, there are more than 25 episodes waiting for you wherever you listen—so if you’ve been enjoying the show, please follow, subscribe, and leave a quick review wherever you download your podcasts. It would truly mean a lot.
Now, the real reason this episode matters.
My guest is Kurt Beardsley—one of my closest friends of more than three decades. And I don’t say that lightly. Kurt is the kind of friend who doesn’t just know my stories… he helped shape many of them.
Kurt is a photographer, an artist, a maker. He’s spent decades in music and entertainment—technical theater, production work, building sets, solving problems, getting impossible things done on impossible timelines. He has that rugged competence a lot of men quietly envy.
And somehow, alongside all that, he’s also one of the most emotionally grounded men I’ve ever known.
That combination—capable and tender—might be the most “sustainable” form of masculinity out there.
