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Humans on the VergeKelly's Ponderama Episode - ChangeIn this month’s Ponderama, I dive into change. Leaping off from my last episode with Rich Logis conversation where we talked about what it takes to make a big scary change in our lives, I share a story from my life when I had to take a big leap. If this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topics I covered in more depth, I invite you to join me in my monthly online call where I and others dig into things more deeply - The Humans on the...
2025-10-3049 minHumans on the VergeCoversation with Rich Logis: Leaving MAGAI am thrilled for you to learn more about my guest for this episode, Rich Logis, founder of the non-profit Leaving MAGA. As you know, I am fascinated with change – individual and collective change. What does it take to really change our direction in life? How do we learn to see the beliefs and sense of identity that keeps us from changing? How are we living into our values, what we truly find meaningful in life, when we change? Are our values preserved, refined or do they evolve? Why is it so hard to chan...
2025-09-261h 05
Broccoli and Ice Cream with Myq KaplanKelly Carlin-McCall and Humans on the VergeKelly Carlin-McCall! Author! Podcaster! Producer! More! Kelly is an author, depth psychologist, podcaster, Emmy Award winning TV producer, and founder of Humans on the Verge, an online community that supports creatives in their writing projects, and others who are seeking deep and long lasting personal transformation. Her memoir, A Carlin Home Companion, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2015. She is a founding member of the Advisory Board of the National Comedy Center that preserves and honors the people and story of comedy. Her podcast is here. My podcast is also here, in a di...
2025-08-0744 minHumans on the VergeConversation with Craig ChalquistMy guest on this episode is Craig Chalquist PhD, is a former psychotherapist, professor, scholar, and lecturer, who teaches and writes at the intersection of consciousness, place, story, and imagination. He’s published multiple non-fiction books mostly focusing on Terrapsychology, Ecotherapy and exploring ones’ personal myth, but he’s also a fiction writer and has a series of speculative fiction books including his Lamplighter series. He currently is the Academic Program Director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University, and has taught at both the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Pacifica Graduate Ins...
2025-07-161h 06
Beach Vibes, Healing LivesComing Out of Your ShellSend us a textCheers! Celebrate our one-year anniversary of BVHL by opening season two with an episode on the medicine of creativity and imagination. Dr. Minter reflects on her personal journey of retreat and re-emergence, exploring the importance of creativity for healing and self-discovery. She shares insights into creativity as a tool for processing life's challenges and traumas. The episode includes a thoughtful shell meditation exercise designed to inspire listeners to embrace their creative side and find new perspectives. Drawing on the poetry of David Whyte and inspiration from mentors like Kelly Carlin McCall, Dr. Minter...
2025-07-0730 minHumans on the VergeKelly's Ponderama - The Deep ImaginationIf this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topics I covered in more depth, I invite you to join me in my monthly online call where I and others dig into things more deeply. We call this space The Humans on the Verge Podcast Soul Tribe. JOIN HERE In the Soul Tribe, we have a 90-minute monthly call where I contextualize the topic further, answer your questions, and personally help you apply the concepts to your own life. Helping folks...
2025-07-0251 minHumans on the VergeConversation with Kim HermansonI am thrilled about my guest today, Kim Hermanson, Ph.D., who is known for her ability to shift people out of the thinking mind and into the right hemisphere of the brain, where they can access what she calls the Knowing Field—an intelligence that offers clarity, creativity, and deep guidance. Her work opens powerful portals of transformation through metaphoric images, helping people tap into a sacred source of wisdom beyond words. She is a respected author and educator, having taught at UC Berkeley, the Esalen Institute, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Check out her work...
2025-06-161h 18Humans on the VergeKelly's Ponderama Episode - An Identity "Crisis"If this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topics I covered in more depth, I invite you to join me in my monthly online call where I and others dig into things more deeply. We call this space The Humans on the Verge Podcast Soul Tribe. JOIN HERE In the Soul Tribe, we have a 90-minute monthly call where I contextualize the topic further, answer your questions, and personally help you apply the concepts to your own life. Helping folks...
2025-06-091h 00Humans on the VergeConversation with Anne-Laure Le CunffIf these days you feel like a Human on the Verge and are wondering how to stay focused on living a meaningful/purposeful life in a world that borders on a shit show? I invite you to join my private, online community, The Village HERE. The Village is a haven (no trolls or doom scrolling) with access to The Daily Practice - a M-F, hour long online co-creating session you can use to stay accountable to your creative, spiritual, self-development and personal goals. But that’s not all! You also get 4 FREE Half-day virtual retreats throughout the year; and discounts on o...
2025-05-071h 03Humans on the VergeKelly's Ponderama Episode - The DigIn this episode, Kelly deepens the discussion started in ep. 5 with Stephen Aizenstat about the deep imagination, and the process known as The Dig. She explores the metaphor of the horizontal and vertical planes of living, knowing and consciousness, and shares what she discovered in her own Dig recently that helped her bring forward a new perspective about how to stay present during the current chaos in our collective lives. Some things she mentioned during the show: Kelly’s Substack Story/No Story: https://kellycarlin.substack.comJoin Kelly’s online...
2025-04-3053 min
I Played, TooKelly Carlin-McCall (daughter of George Carlin)This week podcast host and writer Kelly Carlin-McCall, whose father George Carlin is an legendary stand-up comedian, joins the show. Kelly talks about her Humans on the Verge podcast, working with director Judd Apatow, being at Summerfest in Milwaukee with her parents, donating her dad's archives to the National Comedy Center, her memoir "A Carlin Home Companion," how she met comedian Paul Provenza which led her to talent produce "The Green Room," George telling her the sun has exploded, and much more. Tune in now! If you would like to support the podcast monetarily, g...
2025-04-0954 minHumans on the VergeConversation with Stephen Aizenstat - The Imagination MatrixEpisode 5 Stephen Aizenstat -The Imagination MatrixMy guest today, Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute, center for the study of the human experience through depth psychology, mythology, and the humanities, and the pioneer of the revolutionary, process Dream Tending that allows access to limitless creativity and innovation, improved relationships, and ultimately our human potential. He is the author of the book Dream Tending and has a new book out called The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection and Purpose.
2025-04-021h 06Humans on the VergeKelly's Ponderama Episode - The Political ShadowIn this episode, Kelly unpacks the developmental politics concepts from her conversation with her guest in episode three - Steve McIntosh, the author of Developmental Politics. With the chaos of the moment we are living in, she points all of to stay focused on what we can control while remaining vigilant about what we need to protect. And because the personal, and now the collective shadow, has been brought forward in her first few episodes, she talks about how essential it is for all of us to look within to do our shadow work around our own tribalism. This i...
2025-03-1947 minHumans on the VergeConversation with Steve McIntoshMy guest today, Steve McIntosh, has a way of looking at what looks like the current chaotic mess of American Politics and unpacking it so that you can actually understand what the hell is going on in this country. If you too are confused, frustrated and in disbelief, my and Steve’s hope is that we can give you a very unique, and for me a satisfying big picture perspective. On my former podcast, Waking from the American Dream, I had Steve and few other folks on whose work is deeply informed by what is called...
2025-03-051h 13Humans on the VergeKelly's Ponderama Episode - The ShadowKelly’s Ponderama episode - The ShadowIn this month’s Ponderama, I take the themes from my conversation with Genpo Roshi in my last episode (ep.1), and unpack the concept of the psychological shadow, what lives in my personal shadow, and how you can work with yours. And if you are curious about working on your personal shadow, I recommend Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind or the book Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz. And of course, as you know, I do this work with clients too, in my courses...
2025-02-1939 minHumans on the VergeConversation with Genpo RoshiMy first guest is Genpo Roshi. The reason I wanted to have Roshi as a guest today is twofold - he was my first guest of my old podcast Waking from the American Dream - I love full circle things like that, but also I wanted my first three guests to be folks that have helped me build the foundation of my world view and my daily practice for the last twenty years. Genpo Roshi was born in California as Dennis Paul Merzel, began studying Zen Buddhism in 1973 with renowned Japanese Zen Master Taizan Maezumi Roshi a...
2025-02-0556 minHumans on the VergeHumans on the Verge Podcast PreviewHumans on the Verge with Kelly Carlin-McCall explores how individuals and American culture change, evolve, move from one stage of life, or one state of mind, to another. It is born from Kelly’s curiosity about the strange and miraculous opportunity to be conscious, sentient beings, aka humans, in these interesting times we find ourselves in at the beginning of the 21st century. Each month two episodes will drop. The first one will be a conversation with someone from the world of psychology, philosophy, politics, spirituality, science, the arts,or entertainment industry to unpack their life...
2025-01-2701 min
Don't Be Alone with Jay KogenKelly Carlin-McCall Says Her Dad Is Better than Jay’sJay and Kelly talk about what we got from our fathers, both good and bad. We also talk about the genius of George Carlin, living in the shadow of your parents, Crossroads School, Judd Apatow, taking care of you parents, the Emmy Awards, defining yourself, fans, wanting to make people laugh, and how pity sex is just fine. Kelly Carlin-McCall is an author, storyteller, depth psychologist, transformational coach and television producer. Her solo show, A Carlin Home Companion, was expanded and then published as a memoir by St. Martin’s Press in 2015. Her television work includes being a...
2024-12-2448 min
Blue Medicine Journal : A Jungian PodcastGathering the Gifts with Kelly Carlin McCallJoin us in rich conversation with Kelly Carlin McCall,
and enjoy 50% off her forthcoming workshop on Winter Solstice: "Gather the Gifts." Link below!
Kelly is an author, storyteller, depth psychologist, podcaster, transformational coach and television producer. Her 20+ years of study and practice in Zen Buddhism, Co-Active Coaching and Imaginal Psychology are the foundation for her creative work and for her transformational programs through her Humans on the Verge community. Her solo show, A Carlin Home Companion, was published as a memoir by St. Martin’s Press in 2015. And in 2023, she won an Emmy as executive pr...
2024-12-061h 03
The Matter of the HeartThe Matter of the Heart - Kelly Carlin - daughter of George Carlin - Synchronicity and Kelly's MissionThe Matter of the Heart - Kelly Carlin - daughter of George Carlin, screenwriter, actress, radio host, producer, author of "A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up With George - Kelly's Creative Journey. Her Home Life with the late George Carlin, Synchronicity and Kelly's Mission
How did Kelly Carlin embrace her creativity? Was it manifested from her home or her heart? How much was it shaped by her father George Carlin, the obstacles, the difficulties, the joys and the privileges. Kelly discusses with Carol Olivia why she felt the burden of perfection, and what was the shadow of her father? Did...
2019-09-2536 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Kelly CarlinKelly Carlin has always been curious about the big questions of life. Watching her father, George Carlin, be an iconoclastic comedy legend certainly didn’t hurt too. Like him she loves to use humor to question the status quo, and she loves to seek out the unique angle into any subject she tackles. But unlike him, she brings a more personal and emotional tone to her work. With her personal story, pathos, emotion and psychological insight she reveals the joy and challenges that comes with trying to live an authentic life. As a child, Kelly explored her own creativity by wr...
2016-07-291h 55
Last Week on Earth with Ben GleibLast Week On Earth with Ben Gleib 130: LWOTR: Polymind Firepit with Feldman, Provenza & McCallLast Week on the Road Gleib was at one of Kelly Carlin's legendary Polymind hangs, and around the fire was Emmy winner David Feldman, Director Paul Provenza, Kelly Carlin, (3 past LWOE guests in one recording!) and her husband Director of Photograph Bob McCall. They discuss everything from political movements to net neutrality, optimism vs nihilism, and if paradigms can truly ever be shifted. They are also joined by comedian Chris Bonno, musician Gary Stockdale, Richard Green, and daughter of legendary comedian Lord Buckley, Laurie Buckley.
2014-08-1852 minLast Week on Earth with Ben GleibLast Week On Earth with Ben Gleib 130: LWOTR: Polymind Firepit with Feldman, Provenza & McCallLast Week on the Road Gleib was at one of Kelly Carlin's legendary Polymind hangs, and around the fire was Emmy winner David Feldman, Director Paul Provenza, Kelly Carlin, (3 past LWOE guests in one recording!) and her husband Director of Photograph Bob McCall. They discuss everything from political movements to net neutrality, optimism vs nihilism, and if paradigms can truly ever be shifted. They are also joined by comedian Chris Bonno, musician Gary Stockdale, Richard Green, and daughter of legendary comedian Lord Buckley, Laurie Buckley.
2014-08-1852 min
Listen to New Releases of Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & MusiciansDirty Laundry Audiobook by Maggie Rowe, Anderson Gabrych, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson, Richard BelzerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Dirty Laundry
Subtitle: Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny
Author: Maggie Rowe, Anderson Gabrych, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson, Richard Belzer
Narrator: Maggie Rowe, Anderson Gabrych, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson, Laura Silverman, Mary Birdsong, Richard Belzer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 01-19-10
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
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The full list of authors includes: Maggie Rowe, Anderson Gabrych, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson, Laura Silverman, Mary Birdsong, Richard Belzer, Amy Stiller...
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