King Hero's Journey Podcast

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 29: Synergize (with Micah Ellars)

Friday, May 22nd at 2:00 PM CDT

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Synergy is what happens when something new is created through coming together.

In groups, it has a recognizable structure:

• A common aim and shared intention

• Real opportunities for contribution

• Individual purpose remaining intact, and something new is born

James Hillman called this new thing a daimon — a third being or soul that emer…

Beth of Fresh Air — Converge with Dawn Lester

May 15th, 2 PM CDT

This episode comes straight out of a real-life meeting at Confluence.

Something became unmistakably clear to me there — what it looks like when a community forms organically. Not managed. Not engineered. Not pushed into existence.

But something that actually converges.

Confluence itself is a living example of this. You can feel the difference when you’re in it. People aren’t being organized… they’re finding each other.

And th…

Future Man: When Sound Meets the Hero’s Journey

King Hero Interview
Live May 11 at 12 PM CDT

What does it look like when a life of music becomes a path of initiation?

In this King Hero interview, I’m joined by Roy “Future Man” Wooten—five-time Grammy Award-winning musician, composer, and inventor—to explore the intersection of sound, innovation, and the Hero’s Journey.

Future Man is known for creating entirely new instruments, including the Drumitar, which allows him to play a full drum kit w…

The Lie of Safe Supply with Drew Couver [King Hero Interview]

*To be rescheduled*

In this episode of King Hero’s Journey…

What happens when something called “safe”… quietly removes the very thing that makes us human?

Choice. Agency. Will.

Across Canada, so-called safe supply programs are being positioned as compassionate solutions to addiction and homelessness.

But beneath the surface, there are deeper questions most people aren’t asking.

Is this truly help… or is it maintenance?

Is it…

Beth of Fresh Air — Episode 27: Return

May 1st, 2–4 PM CDT

Fresh back from Confluence in Texas, this episode is about returning — coming back with something real.

I’ll share some highlights and adventures from the experience, and what transformation happens when we step out of our usual environments. Patterns loosen, new clarity appears while you’re away, but many people wonder how to hold onto it when they’re back in regular life. In addition, I have a wonderful returning guest…

With Spec…

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode 26: Drop It

Live — Friday, April 17 @ 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, we move to the next phase:

Drop it.

Once you’ve spotted a pattern, tracked it, and recognized its structure… there’s only one thing left to do.

Not fix it.
Not manage it.
Not analyze it further.

But to drop it.

To let it move through you instead of holding it in place.

Life is full of things we cling to — both the “good” and the “bad.”

When something feels good, we try to hold …

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode 25: Interrupt

Catch the patterns in real time. Break mechanical continuity.
Live — Friday, April 10 @ 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I’m getting into one of the most powerful aspects of deprogramming:

The pattern interrupt.

If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been spending time with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff—and for someone who rarely finds great resonance in other systems, I’ve found a surprising amount of common ground.

One of his key…

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode: Name It

Live — Friday, April 3 @ 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I’m exploring something deceptively simple — and incredibly powerful:

Naming.

To name something is not just to describe it.

It is to bring it into form.

It’s one of the first capacities we develop as humans — learning language, learning to differentiate, learning to point to reality and say, this is that.

And from there, everything changes.

Naming is an Alchemist power.

But it al…

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode 23: Spot It

With special guest, Micah Ellars

Live — Friday, March 27 at 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, we're getting into one of the most useful skills you can develop if you want to move through life with any kind of clarity:

Spot it.

Life is not random.

It’s recursive.

Themes repeat.
Patterns cycle.
Spirals move — not in circles, but in layers.

If you’ve ever had the experience of thinking, “Didn’t I already go through this?” — you did. Just no…

Beth of Fresh Air – Episode 22: De-Scent

Live — Friday, March 20 at 2 PM CDT

In this episode of Beth of Fresh Air, I’m turning my attention to something subtle, pervasive, and rarely questioned: scent.

It’s everywhere.

From perfumes and cleaning products to public spaces and travel environments, scent shapes our experience more than we tend to notice — influencing mood, affecting the body, and sometimes overwhelming the senses in ways that are hard to ignore once you start paying attention.