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Nature of Wellness ™️ PodcastEpisode Seventy One-Creativity and Coping with Mental Illness with Artist and Advocate Jeffrey SparrWe'd love to hear from you about this episode.According to 2025 data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1 billion people are living with mental health disorders. US survey data collected in March and April 2025 indicate a substantial portion of adults experienced a mental health crisis in the past year, with many facing barriers to accessing help. The US is experiencing a significant shortage of mental health providers, which has led to a reduction in access to care. We must find proactive ways to manage th...
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Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersSun and SandThe final episode! Remaining questions are answered, and the foursome are united. On a beach that could be anywhere, anywhen they exchange thoughts ... and the opening of Max Quick Book 3: The Bane of the Bondsman is set up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-10-1233 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersTea With Mother"Miss Starry ... Mother ... Living in Connecticut" The mysterious note handed to Max by Dunkirk leads Max up north ... WHERE HIS SECRET IS REVEALED TO HIM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-10-1247 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersMadworth and the Machine, Part 2Final triumph over the Machine and its terrible purpose seems imminent ... or is it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-10-1222 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersMadworth and the Machine, Part 1Max, Ian and the House of Hidden Hand attack the Niburian nest. The showdown with Madworth, and the purpose of the Machine is unveiled at last. Or is it? Part 1 of the 'season finale' of the 1912 storyline! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-10-101h 00
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersBlackthorneAt last: the final showdown between Casey and Blackthorne! The 'season finale' of the Arturo Gyp storyline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-10-101h 01
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersOld FriendsAfter the disaster at the Ball, the House regroups on the Peking. Faliero reminisces on how he met Romani and tells his 'origin story'. The final moments before the ultimate confrontation with Madworth and the Machine ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-10-1031 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersDesert RoseWith the banishment of Blackthorne, Arturo Gyp is completely transformed. But now the townspeople speak of 'the Gypture' which they expect imminently. And that's when Sasha figures nearly everything out and explains it all to Casey. Yet this interpretation also means that Blackthorne is coming back, for a final battle to the death ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-09-2829 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Spring BallRomani summons the dispersed House to the Spring Ball at the Waldorf, where Madworth is meeting a mysterious, pock-marked man with salt-white skin ... the traitor is revealed, and Madworth and Romani square off in a duel to the death. Special Guest Star: Johnny Siren! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-09-2848 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersMartial LawBlackthorne lays the law down hard ... causing Casey and Sasha to do some digging, where they at last discover the secret of Arturo Gyp (yes this is revealed). Logan, Cody, Sasha and Casey get into a gunfight with Blackthorne and Ace ... and one of them dies. A HUGE episode, and they just get more intense from here until the book's end! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-09-2252 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersVadim and Vanya, Part 2Ian is brought before the House ... iron-clad evidence is presented: someone in the House of the Hidden Hand is in league with the Niburians. But who? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-09-2218 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersVadim and Vanya, Part 1Ian discovers two children, Vadim and Vanya, who have escaped Madworth's clutches. The House quizzes them and gains much insight into the Machine. Then Gustav proposes a way to accelerate Max's education, but it is radical and dangerous, and even Romani is kept out of the loop ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-09-1650 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersHill DayA commercial jetliner suddenly appears in the fog over the Gyp; when the fog lifts, it reveals a startling transformation in the surrounding desert. Blackthorne's true gambit is at last revealed when Casey, Sasha, Cody and Logan chase him down, but Blackthorne does something even he didn't intend ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-09-0242 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersCaptain Dunkirk and the PekingIn search of his secret, Max and Ian risk a trip to the lower docks of New York, where Petunia said she and Max used to play in 1912. There, they meet Captain Dunkirk, who knows quite a bit about Max. But first, they must gain his trust ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-08-2541 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersNew Stranger In TownCasey begins the day with a shock: the well from the Books of Jonathan Roseblood Cyranus ... is actually here, in Arturo Gyp. A new stranger appears in town, or is he actually a stranger? Sasha finds out, with a shocker of her own. Finally, Blackthorne confronts Casey, and the Sheriff is clearly rattled about something ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-08-1143 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersMax and Michelle in the ParkMichelle convinces Max to sneak out and spend the day with her in Central Park. They visit Sunpike's Sweets, where their day is interrupted by one Millicent Madworth. Following her, Max gets a huge shock and runs into Marvin Sparkle, who reveals some interesting information about the Machine ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-08-0549 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Dark VictorianBack in the Gyp, Casey breaks into Blackthorne's Victorian. And of course, she finds something very interesting inside ... Later, Sasha tells a tale from the time of the Pocket, when she and Ace were captured with the rest of the Serpents and Mermaids gang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-07-1644 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Education of Master Quick, Part 2Ian must now deal with the consequences of his discovery; Europa Romani tells her 'origin story'. Finally, Ian and Romani meet the enigmatic loner Marvin Sparkle, here to fight the Machine, but who has his own views on who is a friend and foe ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-07-0926 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Education of Master Quick, Part 1Carlos Gustav begins training Max. Feeling left out, Ian explores a secret passage in the House of the Hidden Hand and makes a startling discovery ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-07-0932 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Gunfighter's FortuneSasha gives Casey an earful; then Blackthorne gets his fortune told while Casey sneaks a listen. Then Logan White-Cloud faces down both the Sheridan Brothers and Blackthorne. Finally, Sasha and Casey are taken out to the desert by Logan to learn something that will change them both forever ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-06-2948 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersA Talk of Many ThingsMax and Ian exchange information about the Machine with Romani, Gustav and Sambhava. Max makes a bold request -- which alienates Ian. Sambhava, sensing this, takes Ian on an errand in 1912 New York, where they overhear two Pinkertons discuss the doings of a certain Millicent Madworth ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-06-2243 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersTempest in a TeepeeCasey demands that Cody and Logan explain exactly what happened in the desert to Sasha and herself. Then Cody treats Casey to a night at the Thirteen, all while Casey keeps an eye out for her 'star people' amongst the denizens of the Gyp. Things at the Thirteen don't go exactly as planned, and it seems something of Nibiru is indeed here in the old West after all ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-06-101h 00
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersA Bad BreakfastMax and Ian are eager to begin the hunt for the Machine, but clash with Romani and Gustav, who prefer a more measured approach. Michelle sneaks a sly word with Max, and then a stab of ... something attacks the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-06-0129 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersPerturbations of PerambulationSasha and Casey set out from Arturo Gyp in search of Enki. Across the screeching-white sands beneath a bloody sun, the duo trudges on. But the desert holds many surprises along the way -- and where they end up is the most surprising of all ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-05-1232 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Hidden HandBack in 1912, Max and Ian meet the Hidden Hand, a group consisting of the gypsy Madame Europa Romani, alienist Carlos Gustav, Sambhava the monk, the retired magician Gaspar Faliero and Michelle LeVeux. Are these the Niburians behind the Machine, disguised as humans? Or ... something else? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-05-0449 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersArturo GypCasey and Sasha follow Enki through another Arch and discover the strange town of Arturo Gyp. There, they meet Cody Chance, a too-perfect cowboy with a toothpaste smile, and a blind Indian: Logan White-Cloud. After scant clues of Enki's presence, they also meet Sheriff Blackthorne, who does not seem at all pleased by the presence of the girls ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-04-2940 min
Max Quick 2: The Two Travelers1912Max and Ian go back through an Arch to 1912, the pivotal year that contains 'the Machine', a mysterious device somehow intertwined with Max's secret. Sky Chambers roam strangely unseen by the people of this time. Max and Ian pursue a hooded, child-stealing figure through a series of Book-jumps -- and end up worse off than when they began ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-04-2935 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersThe Whispering StoneThe foursome discuss Ian's recent discoveries. Max rashly attempts the Whispering Stone. He learns much, but is greatly disturbed at the same time. The Niburians attack: the foursome must use the Pyramid of the Arches if they are to escape -- but they must also split apart ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-04-2948 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersHarbingerWe learn what has befallen Max, Casey, Ian and Sasha during the past five years in Starland, California. But an encounter with a crazed old man brings an abrupt end to the lives they have come to know ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-04-2950 min
Max Quick 2: The Two TravelersPreludePrelude: A 12-minute recap of Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2008-04-2913 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant13. Fourteen: Mr. Blister Gets His - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Mr. E. explains a few things to the foursome, and things are returned to normal, thanks to some help arriving from Nibiru itself. Questions are answered, and few new ones emerge. The Pocket is no more, and the foursome, the Serps and the rest of th Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-1329 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant12. Thirteen: 'The Tyranny of the Page' - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Siren has followed the foursome to the Pyramid of the Arches, and holds a dagger at Casey's throat. Max holds the Pendant, but the tyranny of the page shows events conspire to inevitably lead him to hand it to Jadeth - of his own free will. Is he a Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-1251 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant11. Twelve: The Pendant - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Stealing Siren's Sky Chamber, the foursome make their way to the black tarn of Loch Sheil in northern Scotland. There, under its depths, they find a secret cavern containing the Pyramid of the Arches, a grand central station of portals to different Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-1154 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant10. Eleven: Planet Furious - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: After a much-deserved rest, Mr. E gives the foursome several gifts, including the location of the Pendant. But, before Enki can complete his instructions, his Isle is attacked by the mysterious Archons. Enki goes down in a torrent; the magicians d Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-1046 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant9. Ten: The Tale of Enki - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: The enigmatic Mr. E -- Enki -- an ancient Sumerian 'god' who is actually an alien -- reveals a detailed account of the history of his kind on earth, and their interactions with several ancient civilizations. The origin of the Pendant is revealed, as Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-0955 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant8. Nine: The Isle of the Dreamtime - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Escaping via the Book from Johnny Siren's Sky Chamber, the quartet make their way to the legendary Mr. 'E'. There, on his eldritch Isle -- 'an enfoldment of the Dreamtime nearer the true core of reality' -- the mysterious being reveals his origins f Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-081h 01
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant7. Eight: The Singular Eye - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: The Serpents and Mermaids are enslaved. New York is overrun with Jadeth and her Sky Chambers. And Max, Casey and Ian are captured by Johnny Siren. As if things weren't hopeless enough, Siren attempts to break into Max's hidden memories using a g Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-0754 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant6. Seven: Jadeth - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: In this pivotal hour-long episode, Max, Ian and Casey make their way to New York. After agonizing over the contents of the farmhouse diary, they discover a time-frozen Big Apple infested with Sky Chambers. Ian is right again: it is from here that t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-061h 03
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant5. Six: The Mystery of Mr. 'E' - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Max, Casey and Ian encounter a strange farmhouse in Texas that Max dimly remembers in the fog of his amnesia. While they are exploring it, Max inadvertantly trips some esoteric defense mechanism -- which summons a surprise visit from the UFO's Ian h Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-0540 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant4. Five: The Books of Jonathan Roseblood Cyranus - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Max, Casey and Ian use the strange, eldritch Books to escape the Serps, but almost immediately Ian is trapped inside their simulacra reality. Therein, the brainy Brit is pursued by a pack of wild wolves, while Max and Casey can only observe by turn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-0431 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant3. Four: Serpents and Mermaids - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Max and Casey have been captured by a wild kid-gang calling itself the 'Serpents and Mermaids'. After a mock trial, they learn that for 'the Serps' an entire year has gone by in the time-stop of the Pocket. When they are later imprisoned, Ian Keat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-0346 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant2. Three: The Duel In The Mist - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: Max and Casey leave Starland, CA and travel eastward along a desert highway, towards the eclipse. They encounter a town inhabited by a tribe of wild kids - also mysteriously immune to the time-freezing effects of the Pocket - who force Max and Casey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-0222 min
Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant1. One: A Very Strange Little Boy + Two: The Poc - The Pocket and the Pendant-In this episode: A sci-fi adventure steeped in the lore of an ancient civilization that will appeal to children and adults alike.Max Quick's life drastically changes after time suddenly stops. The young man of 12 -- harassed by bullies, living as an orphan in a viol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2005-06-011h 19