Common Thread
I am an artist and I created the podcast Common Thread in the spirit of: if I see something, say something. What I see is everyday people with solutions to social injustice, economic inequality, and climate change. The key is hidden in answers to four personal questions: What is most important to me? Why is it vital I respond? What have been the challenges when I put this purpose first? What wisdom do I have to share from my experiences? The podcasts are conversations with family, friends, and neighbors who will answer the questions. The sum of answers reveals a missing humanizing value system and unifying wisdom of the heart. Love has no objective other than to create wholeness, build trust, cultivate empathy, and see unity in diversity. These are a few examples of how different people express love. My guests will describe how they combine two, traditionally opposing bottom lines. One is physically surviving while the other is following the common thread of love with its unifying purpose. The practical and spiritual focuses are not exclusive of the other when both are needed to heal and stabilize a deeply divided world. Come join the conversation!
- Update frequency
- every 66 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 18
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Unknown Rhymes with Time
Discover how staying in the ebb and flow of following your thread is not only what life is about but also, how to become a stabilizing force of nature.
Show notes:
Poems:
Keeping Quiet, by Pablo Nerud…
The 4 x 4 UNKNOWN
Follow your thread into the 4 x 4 UNKNOWN and reemerge a world where we all fit in.
The Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Book of Life; A New Translation From the Ancient Chinese, Based on the Latest Archeologica…
The Threshold of the Unknown
The first episode of season three of the podcast Common Thread introduces the topic of conversation for the season. I am curious about what we are responding to when it is an innate desire to follow …
A Conversation with IM: For the Sake of Human-kindness
Inga-Mette (IM) Stenseth believes creativity is a human life-force. Her life moves to the rhythm of intersecting fields such as the fashion industry, technology, economics, culture, the Alexandria Li…
A Conversation with Shauna James Ahern: Create Your Kind Life
Shauna gives us a heart-warming compass of joy. “We are so ingrained with shoulds we no longer hear our inner voice.” For many of us the idea of having more joy is a fearful thought. Why? It doesn’t …
There is So Much Going Right, Right Below Our Feet: A Conversation with Kathy Sipple
Kathy learned the rules of economics but through the lens of Earth. Her thread is to remember ourselves to the garden in her lifetime. Kathy’s background covers the economics of the environment; sust…
Women Hold the Key: A Conversation with Tina Shattuck
The “key” is to see, hear, and value the human thread which connects us with others and the natural world. Caring about and for relationships reflects a uniquely feminine concern like hierarchical sy…
Your Brand is Your Authenticity: A Conversation with Sheila Cash
Sheila’s question: Is the world ready for peace inspired the theme for season 2 of the podcast. She turns a proclamation into a personal question when she observes, there is no condition that we face…
Small Beings Carrying Hidden Stories: A Conversation with Renée Marceau
Renée is a farmer and artist who intuits we are Nature. Her assemblages of natural objects symbolically carry her hidden story out into the open. Its theme belongs to a special category when a defini…
When Someone is Dying, We Get Really Honest. A Conversation with Tess Clark
Tess takes an honest look at what is most important to her and discovered it is not a dream-job but a realm where we all meet. She was sexually abused by her grandfather and when her mother would not…
Find the Essence of Your Desire: A Conversation with Petia Kolibova
We need the experiences of spaciousness and feeling good about ourselves before we can become who we truly are. This is not pie-in-the-sky advice from someone who has lived through hell and kept goin…
Music can Unify while Words Create Divisions: A Conversation with Joseph Panzetta
Singer songwriter, Joseph Panzetta, embraces vulnerability as part of his creative process. Showing kindness exposes the fragility and beauty of our relationships. It is how to experience connections…
If We are Eating Right and Exercising Right Why are We Still Having Pain?: A Conversation with Michelle Reed
Michelle teaches the Melt Method at Core Centric Training on Vashon Island in Washington. Our body’s inner web of life, called the facia, is also what connects people to each other and humans to the …
Making History in Synchronicity: A Conversation with Alison Goldwyn
What is most important to Alison Goldwyn is knowing and growing her true nature with love and caring and inspiring and nurturing this in others. Alison asks the question: Why must catastrophe be hum…
Joshua Barwick's Common Thread: Paying My Life Forward with Love and Kindness
If stones could speak is never a question for Joshua Barwick. For 22 years he has worked with stones in creating walls, walkways, and architectural structures. Suzanne and Josh have a lively convers…
The Common Thread Where Your Heart Breaks Some of Your Best Work Will Come: A Conversation with Reverend Carla Pryne
During a time when there is so much suffering the common thread of love reveals its vital spirit of renewal. Reverend Carla Pryne and podcast host, Suzanne Hubbard, discuss the challenges of navigati…
The Common Thread of Listening: A Conversation with Travis Tuchak
What is most important to Travis is the climate crisis. It is a huge problem we all feel helpless to stop its far reaching effects. The conversation about the common human thread, however, begins to …
Welcome to the Common Thread Podcast
Discover answers to a deeply divided world and climate change hidden in our answers to: What is most important to me? Why is it vital I respond? What have been the challenges when I put this purpose …